1 00:00:03,880 --> 00:00:09,399 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, Luck and load. 2 00:00:11,240 --> 00:00:12,880 Speaker 2: The Michael Verie Show. 3 00:00:13,039 --> 00:00:13,880 Speaker 3: Is on the air. 4 00:00:17,720 --> 00:00:20,000 Speaker 4: The following feature has been rated R. 5 00:00:20,400 --> 00:00:22,440 Speaker 2: It is intended for mature audiences. 6 00:00:22,600 --> 00:00:24,360 Speaker 4: I just wanted to say to everyone out there, I'm 7 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:26,960 Speaker 4: no longer mainlining acid or smoking PCP. 8 00:00:27,240 --> 00:00:27,880 Speaker 2: It's official. 9 00:00:28,080 --> 00:00:30,760 Speaker 3: Now you know the rest of the story. 10 00:00:31,400 --> 00:00:33,920 Speaker 5: Joy, You like movies about gladiators. 11 00:00:34,120 --> 00:00:36,800 Speaker 4: What if your child get amoonia fu shoes? 12 00:00:37,760 --> 00:00:50,199 Speaker 3: Take me on, Take me on. 13 00:00:52,479 --> 00:00:57,320 Speaker 5: Your mother was a hamster and your father snake off elaberry. 14 00:00:57,880 --> 00:00:58,920 Speaker 5: How much you want to make a bet? 15 00:00:58,920 --> 00:01:03,760 Speaker 6: I can throw football over the mountain. 16 00:01:07,760 --> 00:01:08,880 Speaker 3: Don't need food? 17 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:10,160 Speaker 1: What are you kidding? 18 00:01:10,160 --> 00:01:12,360 Speaker 3: We got some family here, not. 19 00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:26,160 Speaker 5: Allry well, well so lovely until tonight, then one or 20 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:31,560 Speaker 5: more bye. 21 00:01:33,720 --> 00:01:36,000 Speaker 2: On this day. In nineteen eighty one, Nolan Ryan set 22 00:01:36,040 --> 00:01:41,399 Speaker 2: a Major League record by throwing his fifth or if 23 00:01:41,400 --> 00:01:47,600 Speaker 2: you prefer the f B pronounced fifth no hitter, fifth 24 00:01:47,920 --> 00:01:53,680 Speaker 2: no hitter, and the final out in that game a 25 00:01:53,800 --> 00:01:59,520 Speaker 2: ground out to third by Dusty Baker. You know I'd 26 00:01:59,520 --> 00:02:02,960 Speaker 2: be curiou is by folks who are bigger Astros fans 27 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:07,040 Speaker 2: than I am. The most tormented fan is the fan 28 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:11,200 Speaker 2: who watches every game, the fan who can't wait for 29 00:02:11,240 --> 00:02:14,119 Speaker 2: the season to start. The fan who goes down to Cassimi. 30 00:02:14,440 --> 00:02:16,720 Speaker 2: Are they still in Kassemi? Why did I? I think I 31 00:02:16,760 --> 00:02:27,639 Speaker 2: think Crane moved right. I don't think they're in Kassimi anymore. No, no, no, yeah, 32 00:02:27,680 --> 00:02:29,600 Speaker 2: we can say they are, but I want to say 33 00:02:30,200 --> 00:02:34,280 Speaker 2: he moved them because he's got a facility. Uh, he's 34 00:02:34,280 --> 00:02:40,000 Speaker 2: got a really really high end club in another Florida town, 35 00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:44,840 Speaker 2: and I want to say he moved it there to that, 36 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:47,800 Speaker 2: to that community, and I can't remember what it was. 37 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:57,280 Speaker 2: But anyway, the the worst is the fan who loves 38 00:02:57,800 --> 00:03:03,280 Speaker 2: a team, and let's take baseball, the guy who he 39 00:03:03,880 --> 00:03:06,280 Speaker 2: no matter what happened last year, if they won the 40 00:03:06,320 --> 00:03:10,920 Speaker 2: World Series, he's ready to win another one. If however, 41 00:03:10,960 --> 00:03:13,680 Speaker 2: they lost that he can't sleep over it. He's got 42 00:03:13,680 --> 00:03:15,519 Speaker 2: to We've got to get back and win the World 43 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:18,840 Speaker 2: Series so he can avenge what happened last year. And 44 00:03:18,919 --> 00:03:25,799 Speaker 2: this isn't all encompassing in thralling emotion. You don't want 45 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:27,919 Speaker 2: to go to a game with that guy because they're 46 00:03:27,960 --> 00:03:31,840 Speaker 2: not fun to watch the game with. They are mad 47 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:35,560 Speaker 2: about everything and they're blowing a gasket in the second 48 00:03:35,760 --> 00:03:40,640 Speaker 2: inning on on a on a close call at first, 49 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:44,760 Speaker 2: they're lowing, blowing a gasket when we've got two outs 50 00:03:45,160 --> 00:03:49,640 Speaker 2: and the runner gets thrown out at first, I mean, 51 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:53,040 Speaker 2: it's it's a rough it's a rough deal. It's a 52 00:03:53,160 --> 00:03:57,600 Speaker 2: very very rough deal that person. And even when we win, 53 00:03:58,400 --> 00:04:03,800 Speaker 2: or even when his team wins, say the World Series, 54 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:09,360 Speaker 2: the immediate concern is, how do we you know what 55 00:04:09,480 --> 00:04:11,480 Speaker 2: changes we have to make to get back next year 56 00:04:11,480 --> 00:04:14,440 Speaker 2: and win it again? Because I want this, so they 57 00:04:14,480 --> 00:04:17,560 Speaker 2: hate losing far more than they love winning. But I 58 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:22,240 Speaker 2: would be curious, and I didn't watch the Dusty era 59 00:04:22,400 --> 00:04:25,560 Speaker 2: closely enough, but I was always interested in how much 60 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:31,280 Speaker 2: people disliked Dusty. But they seemed to be winning during Dusty, 61 00:04:32,279 --> 00:04:35,800 Speaker 2: so I don't know, I don't know what it was. 62 00:04:37,200 --> 00:04:41,400 Speaker 2: I would be interested to see what people are saying 63 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:47,040 Speaker 2: who hated Dusty as to this season, because I saw 64 00:04:47,080 --> 00:04:51,279 Speaker 2: the matrix of what it would take for the Astros 65 00:04:51,320 --> 00:04:57,000 Speaker 2: to win with three games left, and every wild card 66 00:04:57,160 --> 00:05:02,599 Speaker 2: contender has the tie break over them, so you've got 67 00:05:02,640 --> 00:05:07,000 Speaker 2: to win it outright by a game, so it makes 68 00:05:07,040 --> 00:05:10,719 Speaker 2: it very hard. You basically you basically got to go 69 00:05:10,880 --> 00:05:12,760 Speaker 2: You can't go oh and three if you go one 70 00:05:12,800 --> 00:05:14,719 Speaker 2: and two. A bunch of crazy stuff has to happen. 71 00:05:15,240 --> 00:05:17,880 Speaker 2: If you go three and oh, you still have to 72 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:21,240 Speaker 2: have the other teams. Some of them go oh and three, 73 00:05:21,240 --> 00:05:23,200 Speaker 2: and some of them go one and two, and you 74 00:05:23,279 --> 00:05:25,599 Speaker 2: got Detroit and Boston, so they can't both lose at 75 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:28,440 Speaker 2: the same time. But I would be curious by email 76 00:05:29,320 --> 00:05:33,640 Speaker 2: if you hated Dusty or his leadership anyway, and you 77 00:05:33,680 --> 00:05:37,720 Speaker 2: wanted Dusty gone, If you think this team this year 78 00:05:38,520 --> 00:05:43,839 Speaker 2: was better without him, or this this manager was better 79 00:05:44,920 --> 00:05:47,400 Speaker 2: than Dusty, I'd be curious to know. I am well 80 00:05:47,440 --> 00:05:50,280 Speaker 2: aware that they had a lot of injuries this season, 81 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:55,559 Speaker 2: and that does add up. It adds up, It adds 82 00:05:55,640 --> 00:05:59,280 Speaker 2: up in a big way. So you know what, I'll 83 00:05:59,320 --> 00:06:01,080 Speaker 2: do that in the next thing. I wanted to talk 84 00:06:01,080 --> 00:06:04,120 Speaker 2: about the shooting of the Ice agents, and I will 85 00:06:04,200 --> 00:06:07,600 Speaker 2: get to that, uh in just a moment. Seven one 86 00:06:07,640 --> 00:06:10,560 Speaker 2: three nine nine nine one thousand, seven one three nine 87 00:06:10,680 --> 00:06:18,520 Speaker 2: nine nine one thousand. Yesterday, Trump humiliated the leader of Turkey, Erdigon, 88 00:06:19,480 --> 00:06:24,159 Speaker 2: right to his face by saying Erdigon knows about rigged 89 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:27,960 Speaker 2: elections better than anybody else, and then turns his head 90 00:06:28,120 --> 00:06:33,480 Speaker 2: pivots his head because the man won by fraud I mean, 91 00:06:33,520 --> 00:06:37,480 Speaker 2: he has no fear and he does not mind making 92 00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:40,960 Speaker 2: an awkward situation. Turning point. USA will be giving away 93 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:46,039 Speaker 2: five thousand Charlie Kirk t shirts this weekend. They say freedom. 94 00:06:46,080 --> 00:06:48,640 Speaker 2: You've probably seen these shirts by now. They're white shirts 95 00:06:48,960 --> 00:06:53,040 Speaker 2: with black lettering that says freedom at the Oregon versus 96 00:06:53,080 --> 00:06:57,479 Speaker 2: Penn State game this Saturday. A part of the reasoning there, 97 00:06:57,920 --> 00:07:01,200 Speaker 2: Charlie Kirk was a big Oregon fan and he was 98 00:07:01,279 --> 00:07:04,680 Speaker 2: expected he had planned to be at that game. So 99 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:10,000 Speaker 2: TPUSA is setting up a tent and a voter registration 100 00:07:11,720 --> 00:07:16,080 Speaker 2: and obviously celebrating Charlie Kirk. I think it is wise 101 00:07:16,840 --> 00:07:22,440 Speaker 2: to put yourself, expose yourself, make yourself available to young 102 00:07:22,480 --> 00:07:26,600 Speaker 2: people at a time where they are really moved to action. 103 00:07:27,480 --> 00:07:30,760 Speaker 2: Because if you can lock in some of these kids 104 00:07:31,280 --> 00:07:35,480 Speaker 2: with TPUSA chapters and with political involvement and leadership position 105 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:41,920 Speaker 2: and involvement and and and give them tasks, then you'll 106 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:46,120 Speaker 2: you'll have a higher stickiness, you'll have a higher residual 107 00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:50,360 Speaker 2: rate of involvement over a long period of time, and 108 00:07:50,480 --> 00:07:53,800 Speaker 2: you will have other Charlie Kirks who will will come 109 00:07:53,880 --> 00:07:57,120 Speaker 2: up through the ranks that you did not recognize that 110 00:07:57,240 --> 00:07:59,960 Speaker 2: butt for you reaching out, but for you meeting them 111 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:05,040 Speaker 2: where they are at a football game, then we might 112 00:08:05,080 --> 00:08:07,320 Speaker 2: have lost that person. We might have lost that person 113 00:08:07,400 --> 00:08:11,400 Speaker 2: to just doing a nine to five, you know, forty 114 00:08:11,400 --> 00:08:14,040 Speaker 2: hours a week, or we might have lost that person 115 00:08:14,080 --> 00:08:16,559 Speaker 2: to something else, or we might have lost that person 116 00:08:16,560 --> 00:08:19,040 Speaker 2: to the other side. I think it's important to go 117 00:08:19,080 --> 00:08:21,680 Speaker 2: out and meet young people where they are, and the 118 00:08:21,720 --> 00:08:24,520 Speaker 2: people who are doing that, which is TPUSA, I think 119 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:26,560 Speaker 2: deserve a lot of credit and I'm glad to see 120 00:08:26,560 --> 00:08:29,080 Speaker 2: money funnel toward then because they're doing the work, the 121 00:08:29,120 --> 00:08:39,079 Speaker 2: party and nobody else's the deal. Seven one three one thousands, 122 00:08:39,120 --> 00:08:41,439 Speaker 2: seven one three nine nine one thousand. You can email 123 00:08:41,520 --> 00:08:44,200 Speaker 2: me through the website at Michael Berryshow dot com. While 124 00:08:44,200 --> 00:08:46,600 Speaker 2: you're there, you can sign up our daily Blast. It's free. 125 00:08:46,640 --> 00:08:52,160 Speaker 2: Will never share or sell your information. Ever. You can 126 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:55,520 Speaker 2: also buy our merch and probably do some other stuff. 127 00:08:55,559 --> 00:08:57,160 Speaker 2: I just can't think of what it would be right now. 128 00:08:57,600 --> 00:09:02,439 Speaker 2: What you do sell the emails? Huh how much? Quarter? 129 00:09:02,720 --> 00:09:04,760 Speaker 2: Oh that's a lot, Yeah, because we got a lot. 130 00:09:04,840 --> 00:09:07,280 Speaker 2: Oh well, okay, well, Ramon might say your email, but 131 00:09:07,400 --> 00:09:10,480 Speaker 2: we never would. Steve. You're on the Michael Berry Show. 132 00:09:10,520 --> 00:09:15,480 Speaker 6: Go ahead, good morning. A couple of things. First off, Michael, 133 00:09:15,559 --> 00:09:19,880 Speaker 6: I live in the Stratford attendance Zone. I grew up 134 00:09:19,960 --> 00:09:22,679 Speaker 6: out here. I went to a different high school. It's 135 00:09:22,800 --> 00:09:27,240 Speaker 6: closed now, but I want to thank you for bringing 136 00:09:27,320 --> 00:09:31,920 Speaker 6: attention to what has transpired this week for those kids 137 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:36,520 Speaker 6: at Strafford High School. It was just a travesty what 138 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:42,240 Speaker 6: this woman did and attacking teachers, potential sponsors, and I 139 00:09:42,320 --> 00:09:45,319 Speaker 6: just want to say thank you for stepping up and 140 00:09:45,360 --> 00:09:48,920 Speaker 6: doing the right thing. That's first. The second thing I 141 00:09:48,960 --> 00:09:51,640 Speaker 6: wanted to talk about you were talking about earlier about 142 00:09:52,120 --> 00:09:55,880 Speaker 6: you know, growing up in a home with two dads, 143 00:09:56,520 --> 00:09:59,559 Speaker 6: with a dad and mom, which I did, and mom 144 00:09:59,679 --> 00:10:03,440 Speaker 6: was laid these auxiliary at literally my dad coached two 145 00:10:03,520 --> 00:10:07,240 Speaker 6: teams and that's all we did, you know. And I 146 00:10:07,280 --> 00:10:11,319 Speaker 6: had a great childhood here in Houston, Texas. And when 147 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:15,120 Speaker 6: I was growing up, my mom had take que on 148 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:20,480 Speaker 6: the radio in the kitchen all the time, all the time, 149 00:10:20,880 --> 00:10:24,640 Speaker 6: listened to Paul Berlin in the morning and Scott Archer 150 00:10:24,760 --> 00:10:28,000 Speaker 6: in the afternoon, and so you know, I grew up 151 00:10:29,480 --> 00:10:34,080 Speaker 6: learning to love that genre, which is the music of 152 00:10:34,120 --> 00:10:38,320 Speaker 6: your life, the standards, And even though you know I'm 153 00:10:38,360 --> 00:10:40,520 Speaker 6: lik in rhythm and blues and rock and roll and 154 00:10:40,640 --> 00:10:43,160 Speaker 6: country music and all of it. But I learned to 155 00:10:43,320 --> 00:10:47,000 Speaker 6: love the standards because I listened to them all the time, 156 00:10:48,360 --> 00:10:55,440 Speaker 6: and so that was just amazing how our country has 157 00:10:55,480 --> 00:11:03,720 Speaker 6: transformed because of no two parents in the home. And 158 00:11:03,760 --> 00:11:07,160 Speaker 6: for me, I'm a substitute teacher here at Spring Ratch iopy, 159 00:11:07,679 --> 00:11:10,280 Speaker 6: and what I have witnessed over the last few years, 160 00:11:10,280 --> 00:11:17,400 Speaker 6: it's just nothing short of unbelievable. The way the kids 161 00:11:18,120 --> 00:11:24,960 Speaker 6: don't respect teachers. They don't even teach how to teach 162 00:11:25,080 --> 00:11:29,080 Speaker 6: kids to my cursive, not even on the radar screen. 163 00:11:29,840 --> 00:11:32,800 Speaker 6: So I you know, I just want to say thank you. 164 00:11:33,080 --> 00:11:35,560 Speaker 6: I listen to you every day and listen to you 165 00:11:35,679 --> 00:11:38,240 Speaker 6: for years and years and years. Now I just want 166 00:11:38,280 --> 00:11:43,920 Speaker 6: to say thank you for continuing to teach some younger 167 00:11:43,960 --> 00:11:48,160 Speaker 6: people on what it means to have a family with 168 00:11:48,200 --> 00:11:50,320 Speaker 6: a mom and a dad and you work hard and 169 00:11:50,840 --> 00:11:52,719 Speaker 6: you live the American dream. Thank you, sir. 170 00:11:54,240 --> 00:11:56,360 Speaker 2: Well, that's very kind of you to say it is 171 00:11:56,400 --> 00:12:02,360 Speaker 2: hard work. It is hard work. It's hard work to 172 00:12:02,400 --> 00:12:07,080 Speaker 2: marry and have children and stay married and provide for 173 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:13,280 Speaker 2: them and live some sort of godly life and be 174 00:12:13,800 --> 00:12:20,920 Speaker 2: an actual mentor to your children. Be someone that they 175 00:12:21,440 --> 00:12:24,240 Speaker 2: would look up to for the way you live your life, 176 00:12:24,320 --> 00:12:28,840 Speaker 2: because we all have the life we project outside our home, 177 00:12:30,440 --> 00:12:36,679 Speaker 2: at work, on the air, at church. But you let 178 00:12:36,720 --> 00:12:39,680 Speaker 2: your guard down with your kids, and that is where 179 00:12:39,679 --> 00:12:43,520 Speaker 2: it is important that as things happen to you as 180 00:12:43,520 --> 00:12:48,120 Speaker 2: a family and individually, that you respond in such a 181 00:12:48,160 --> 00:12:52,200 Speaker 2: way that is a teachable moment rather than the knee jerk, 182 00:12:53,400 --> 00:13:00,959 Speaker 2: you know, selfish, self centered, self aggrandizing respond And that 183 00:13:01,440 --> 00:13:06,120 Speaker 2: is important, and that is how you raise generations of 184 00:13:06,120 --> 00:13:09,760 Speaker 2: young people who are ready to take over and take 185 00:13:09,840 --> 00:13:13,240 Speaker 2: your place. Which is going to happen. There was going 186 00:13:13,320 --> 00:13:15,520 Speaker 2: to be a moment Charlie Kirk was going to step 187 00:13:15,559 --> 00:13:20,080 Speaker 2: down from leading TPUSA. It just wasn't supposed to be. Now, 188 00:13:21,400 --> 00:13:23,960 Speaker 2: there was going to be a moment that Rush Limbaugh 189 00:13:24,400 --> 00:13:27,520 Speaker 2: was going to step away from the Golden microphone, just 190 00:13:27,880 --> 00:13:31,160 Speaker 2: wouldn't have been when cancer took him. It would have 191 00:13:31,240 --> 00:13:36,800 Speaker 2: taken some time longer. So it's hard work to do 192 00:13:36,840 --> 00:13:39,959 Speaker 2: those things. But I think we should also be careful 193 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:45,120 Speaker 2: to recognize that you get what you reward if you 194 00:13:45,200 --> 00:13:52,240 Speaker 2: reward your employees for being in on time in whatever way, financial, 195 00:13:52,559 --> 00:13:55,840 Speaker 2: pat on the back days off, whatever that is you 196 00:13:55,880 --> 00:14:01,439 Speaker 2: will get more of that. If you disincentifize things, then 197 00:14:01,480 --> 00:14:06,120 Speaker 2: you will prevent that behavior. But if you leave things 198 00:14:06,160 --> 00:14:08,840 Speaker 2: to a state of nature and hope, that's not a 199 00:14:08,880 --> 00:14:12,640 Speaker 2: strategy and that's not how you end up with young 200 00:14:12,720 --> 00:14:19,200 Speaker 2: people who are leaders and providers that you would like 201 00:14:19,280 --> 00:14:26,920 Speaker 2: to see. There's a great story recently Javier Bracamonte, who 202 00:14:27,200 --> 00:14:30,960 Speaker 2: is the bullpen catcher for the Astros and has been 203 00:14:30,960 --> 00:14:34,240 Speaker 2: for well over twenty years now. I admit I have 204 00:14:34,560 --> 00:14:37,360 Speaker 2: a saft spot for Javier Bracamonte because he went and 205 00:14:37,400 --> 00:14:39,640 Speaker 2: visited my dad a few months ago and it was 206 00:14:39,640 --> 00:14:42,160 Speaker 2: his first day off that he had had off, and 207 00:14:42,240 --> 00:14:45,320 Speaker 2: I think ten days at that time. I want nine 208 00:14:45,360 --> 00:14:49,880 Speaker 2: or ten days. And he lives down south like Friendswood area, 209 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:54,040 Speaker 2: and even though it was his first day off, he 210 00:14:54,440 --> 00:14:58,360 Speaker 2: was actually he was actually the following day going to 211 00:14:58,400 --> 00:15:02,280 Speaker 2: be receiving an award for continuity not having missed a 212 00:15:02,320 --> 00:15:06,360 Speaker 2: day of work in some long period of time that 213 00:15:06,480 --> 00:15:08,760 Speaker 2: I don't think had ever been done with the Astros organization. 214 00:15:09,680 --> 00:15:12,200 Speaker 2: And so the day before that is his day off, 215 00:15:12,240 --> 00:15:14,400 Speaker 2: so he doesn't have to go to work, but he 216 00:15:15,760 --> 00:15:19,160 Speaker 2: comes to see my dad and then goes from there 217 00:15:19,360 --> 00:15:24,640 Speaker 2: to the ballpark to catch somebody who's coming off of 218 00:15:24,680 --> 00:15:27,240 Speaker 2: an injury who needed to put some work in and 219 00:15:27,280 --> 00:15:31,160 Speaker 2: Bracamonte goes in to work even on his day off 220 00:15:31,680 --> 00:15:34,080 Speaker 2: and goes and visits my dad on his day off. 221 00:15:35,200 --> 00:15:37,960 Speaker 2: Most people would be curled up on the couch eating 222 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:43,240 Speaker 2: bond bonds. Not this guy. Well, cal Rawley hit a 223 00:15:43,360 --> 00:15:49,320 Speaker 2: franchise record, franchise breaking fifty seventh home run ball that 224 00:15:49,480 --> 00:15:52,880 Speaker 2: landed in the Astros bullpen, which broke Ken Griffy Junior's 225 00:15:52,880 --> 00:15:56,400 Speaker 2: Mariner's home run record. Rocamonte waited till after the game 226 00:15:56,520 --> 00:16:00,600 Speaker 2: went across the field found cal Riley rally gave him 227 00:16:00,640 --> 00:16:06,320 Speaker 2: that ball. If you don't have the audio, he still 228 00:16:06,320 --> 00:16:09,720 Speaker 2: want to play it right here. Leave. What do I 229 00:16:09,720 --> 00:16:14,200 Speaker 2: do you say? Michael Berry's taken from us far too soon. 230 00:16:20,240 --> 00:16:27,120 Speaker 3: I've in turned and turned down. When the bars clues that. 231 00:16:28,640 --> 00:16:37,600 Speaker 2: The Astros butring training is now in Palm Beach, West 232 00:16:37,680 --> 00:16:43,840 Speaker 2: Palm Beach to specific bezel Poonawala, our friend who owns 233 00:16:43,880 --> 00:16:50,080 Speaker 2: Spring Branch Medical Supply, asks the question serious question about 234 00:16:50,160 --> 00:16:54,000 Speaker 2: Uncle Jared's pinky toe. Is the pinky toe preserved in 235 00:16:54,040 --> 00:16:57,440 Speaker 2: a jar or something on his shelf? Or did those 236 00:16:57,520 --> 00:17:01,160 Speaker 2: mean doctors and nurses throw it away. The mean doctors 237 00:17:01,160 --> 00:17:05,399 Speaker 2: and nurses throw it away, is the short answer. And 238 00:17:05,480 --> 00:17:09,280 Speaker 2: I don't understand that. I don't feel like you have 239 00:17:09,440 --> 00:17:16,400 Speaker 2: the right to just throw something away that you decide 240 00:17:17,240 --> 00:17:21,040 Speaker 2: you're done with that belonged to a human being. You know, 241 00:17:21,320 --> 00:17:25,679 Speaker 2: if you're walking into a surgery for the underside of 242 00:17:25,720 --> 00:17:32,879 Speaker 2: your foot because the bone keeps sticking through the skin 243 00:17:33,880 --> 00:17:36,600 Speaker 2: and your foot has cost you probably you've been in 244 00:17:36,640 --> 00:17:40,240 Speaker 2: a boot effectively for five years, and you go in 245 00:17:40,600 --> 00:17:46,080 Speaker 2: to have the underside of your foot, you know, cut apart. 246 00:17:46,280 --> 00:17:49,399 Speaker 2: They're gonna lay this thing open and grind down on 247 00:17:49,440 --> 00:17:52,920 Speaker 2: the bones. You're so focused on how long your recovery 248 00:17:52,920 --> 00:17:55,960 Speaker 2: from that is going to be, that you don't stop 249 00:17:56,000 --> 00:18:01,040 Speaker 2: and go, well, there is an inherent danger that she 250 00:18:01,119 --> 00:18:07,199 Speaker 2: could lop off my pinky toe while I'm here. So 251 00:18:07,359 --> 00:18:10,439 Speaker 2: you wake up and you look down, and all you 252 00:18:10,480 --> 00:18:13,159 Speaker 2: can think about is you don't have a pinky toe. 253 00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:15,800 Speaker 2: Forget the underside of your foot, you don't have a 254 00:18:15,840 --> 00:18:20,600 Speaker 2: pinky toe. And the reasoning was apparently the bones had 255 00:18:20,640 --> 00:18:25,320 Speaker 2: splintered such that they had to remove a bone under 256 00:18:25,359 --> 00:18:27,560 Speaker 2: the top right. If you're looking at the at your 257 00:18:27,600 --> 00:18:31,679 Speaker 2: foot from the top view. They had. Let's take your 258 00:18:31,720 --> 00:18:35,080 Speaker 2: right foot if you look from the top, and obviously 259 00:18:35,119 --> 00:18:37,200 Speaker 2: this was under the underside, but let's work from the top, 260 00:18:37,800 --> 00:18:41,320 Speaker 2: and you drilled into the middle of your foot over 261 00:18:41,359 --> 00:18:43,480 Speaker 2: at the top right there was a spur that came 262 00:18:43,520 --> 00:18:45,920 Speaker 2: off there that had to be removed. There was no option. 263 00:18:46,240 --> 00:18:49,520 Speaker 2: Supposedly when that happened, that gave no support for the 264 00:18:49,520 --> 00:18:52,560 Speaker 2: pinky toe. So the pinky toe was literally just going 265 00:18:52,640 --> 00:18:56,640 Speaker 2: to just sit there with no purpose, and it was 266 00:18:57,080 --> 00:19:00,520 Speaker 2: it was just going to be like a flop of skin. Okay, 267 00:19:00,520 --> 00:19:06,400 Speaker 2: I'm fine with that because it was going to cause problems. 268 00:19:06,800 --> 00:19:10,119 Speaker 2: But give the man the dignity of putting the pinky 269 00:19:10,160 --> 00:19:13,400 Speaker 2: toe in a jar with fromaldehyde in case he wanted 270 00:19:13,440 --> 00:19:17,119 Speaker 2: to preserve this. I'm not trying to take any credit 271 00:19:17,160 --> 00:19:19,760 Speaker 2: for this, but I dare say it's the most famous 272 00:19:20,560 --> 00:19:24,240 Speaker 2: amputated appendage in the state of Texas in the last 273 00:19:24,240 --> 00:19:29,399 Speaker 2: ten years. You've got the song. Well, I don't know 274 00:19:29,440 --> 00:19:31,719 Speaker 2: when the time, proper time and place to play it is, 275 00:19:32,080 --> 00:19:34,560 Speaker 2: but I just know that how long is the song? 276 00:19:35,520 --> 00:19:38,560 Speaker 2: Three minutes? All right, Well, let's time it out where 277 00:19:38,560 --> 00:19:40,639 Speaker 2: we go to break with it? I just feel like 278 00:19:40,720 --> 00:19:43,359 Speaker 2: that's kind of a you know, patience bill of right 279 00:19:43,520 --> 00:19:46,640 Speaker 2: sort of thing. If you're going to take my appendage 280 00:19:46,640 --> 00:19:52,760 Speaker 2: off while I'm under you know, anesthesia or whatever they use. 281 00:19:52,880 --> 00:19:56,840 Speaker 2: Now that okay, all right, we'll agree that I'll trust 282 00:19:56,880 --> 00:19:59,360 Speaker 2: you to do that, but you have got to preserve 283 00:19:59,400 --> 00:20:01,480 Speaker 2: it and give me the choice to either chuck it 284 00:20:01,480 --> 00:20:06,720 Speaker 2: out the window on the drive home or to preserve 285 00:20:06,800 --> 00:20:09,280 Speaker 2: it and put it on my desk. I've had more 286 00:20:09,320 --> 00:20:12,520 Speaker 2: people ask me of this question, where is the pinky 287 00:20:12,560 --> 00:20:16,720 Speaker 2: toe now? And the sad reality is it's probably ground 288 00:20:16,840 --> 00:20:22,440 Speaker 2: up as bologna somewhere or wherever else they put. What's 289 00:20:22,480 --> 00:20:27,640 Speaker 2: that movie that you're not supposed to talk about? Fight Club? Yeah? Yeah, 290 00:20:27,680 --> 00:20:33,240 Speaker 2: it's you know that movie? Really that'll test your tolerance 291 00:20:33,359 --> 00:20:36,800 Speaker 2: right there, That one will. Yesterday a cop knocked on 292 00:20:36,840 --> 00:20:38,600 Speaker 2: my door. They said they were looking for a man 293 00:20:38,640 --> 00:20:40,399 Speaker 2: with just one eye. I told him it'd be more 294 00:20:40,440 --> 00:20:50,040 Speaker 2: effective to use both eyes. Michael Brown writes, I've said 295 00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:52,320 Speaker 2: it before and I'll say it again. Why has Texas 296 00:20:52,320 --> 00:20:55,720 Speaker 2: and its infinite wisdom decided to perform road construction and 297 00:20:55,760 --> 00:20:59,840 Speaker 2: destruction on every road in or leaving the Houston area 298 00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:03,520 Speaker 2: the same damn time. If we have another hurricane evacuation, 299 00:21:03,640 --> 00:21:06,560 Speaker 2: we are screwed. They should work on fewer roads at 300 00:21:06,560 --> 00:21:09,240 Speaker 2: a time and work twenty four seven, three sixty five 301 00:21:09,320 --> 00:21:13,639 Speaker 2: until the road is complete. Well, you're absolutely right, but 302 00:21:13,720 --> 00:21:17,760 Speaker 2: when you've got governmental entities overseeing this, you don't exactly 303 00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:22,160 Speaker 2: have a profit motive. They have in the past created 304 00:21:23,440 --> 00:21:27,720 Speaker 2: a bonus if you finish a project early. I don't 305 00:21:27,720 --> 00:21:30,359 Speaker 2: know what happened to that process, but I know people 306 00:21:30,359 --> 00:21:34,040 Speaker 2: are frustrated that it does feel like every road going 307 00:21:34,080 --> 00:21:37,760 Speaker 2: out of Houston is under construction right now at the 308 00:21:37,880 --> 00:21:41,359 Speaker 2: exact same time, and nothing makes people matter, and I 309 00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:45,880 Speaker 2: think reasonably so. Then you're driving along, they've got lanes 310 00:21:45,920 --> 00:21:49,879 Speaker 2: shut down, which adds to your delay time, and there's 311 00:21:49,920 --> 00:21:54,199 Speaker 2: nobody working, and seemingly never anybody working. Even when the 312 00:21:54,240 --> 00:21:57,680 Speaker 2: cruis are working, it's one guy looking over about eight 313 00:21:57,720 --> 00:22:00,399 Speaker 2: Mexicans and they're all standing around just looking over whelmed. 314 00:22:01,560 --> 00:22:05,160 Speaker 2: Oh it's time, it's time for Uncle Jerry's pinky toe. 315 00:22:05,160 --> 00:22:05,600 Speaker 4: Here we go. 316 00:22:09,680 --> 00:22:10,919 Speaker 2: This is just a little tune. 317 00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:13,080 Speaker 7: Little Biggie went to market. 318 00:22:13,040 --> 00:22:15,000 Speaker 2: About things lost fot too soon. 319 00:22:15,119 --> 00:22:16,600 Speaker 8: These little piggie stayed at home. 320 00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:21,560 Speaker 5: So join me as we remem and roast bee about 321 00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:23,640 Speaker 5: those women. 322 00:22:27,359 --> 00:22:32,000 Speaker 7: Kurt Cobain left us in nineteen ninety four. Jimmy Hendrix 323 00:22:32,160 --> 00:22:35,000 Speaker 7: changed the world that set fire to the score. Janice 324 00:22:35,080 --> 00:22:38,760 Speaker 7: Joplin left a little piece of her heart at Heaven's door. 325 00:22:42,720 --> 00:22:48,520 Speaker 8: They're gammin with the angels now and Uncle Jerry's pinky toe. 326 00:22:50,720 --> 00:22:54,600 Speaker 7: Trupot climbed and Biggie rose. They no longer standing. The 327 00:22:54,680 --> 00:22:58,000 Speaker 7: day the music died still hurts like John Denver's landing. 328 00:22:58,320 --> 00:23:02,360 Speaker 7: Selena's dreams were stolen by a fan's obsessive woes. 329 00:23:06,119 --> 00:23:12,160 Speaker 8: They're shining up in gold were with Uncle Jerry's pinky toe. 330 00:23:14,119 --> 00:23:17,080 Speaker 1: Bruce Lee kicked the bucket a dragon in the night, 331 00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:21,240 Speaker 1: sharing Tate so young and sweet that Helter skelter fight. 332 00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:24,800 Speaker 1: Chris Harley went too hard, too fast with all they 333 00:23:24,920 --> 00:23:25,680 Speaker 1: went into. 334 00:23:29,040 --> 00:23:33,400 Speaker 8: They're in Avn, down by the river with Uncle Jerry's 335 00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:40,960 Speaker 8: spinky toe. Otis Sweet, Otis on the duck of the bay. 336 00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:45,360 Speaker 7: Imagine a world where John Lennon never went away. 337 00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:48,760 Speaker 8: River Phoenix, Amy Winehouse. 338 00:23:48,359 --> 00:23:49,720 Speaker 2: Marilyn Monroe. 339 00:23:52,960 --> 00:23:57,520 Speaker 8: They're dancing in the cosmos with Uncle Jerry's pinky toe. 340 00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:16,639 Speaker 8: In You were just anobe and now you're all alone. 341 00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:20,760 Speaker 1: You went, we we we. 342 00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:20,200 Speaker 3: All the way. 343 00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:21,560 Speaker 7: Hall Home. 344 00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:28,040 Speaker 1: You went, we we we all the way. 345 00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:38,359 Speaker 8: Peggy went to market, This little biggy stay at home. 346 00:24:40,080 --> 00:24:41,840 Speaker 8: This little piggy. 347 00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:48,159 Speaker 5: Had today to the Colonial House Apartments and received a 348 00:24:48,359 --> 00:24:49,560 Speaker 5: free to more recorded. 349 00:24:56,960 --> 00:25:02,280 Speaker 2: So this weekend, if you have a conversation with your 350 00:25:02,359 --> 00:25:08,439 Speaker 2: spouse or your grown kids about things you need to 351 00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:14,480 Speaker 2: get done from you need real tax advice for your company, 352 00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:17,720 Speaker 2: or if you're a high net worth individual, or maybe 353 00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:21,000 Speaker 2: you just need a rue for citing, or any number 354 00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:24,119 Speaker 2: of other things, a new vehicle. I do love to 355 00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:26,280 Speaker 2: hear from you, and I do love to connect you 356 00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:29,880 Speaker 2: with my show sponsors and folks who are always surprised. 357 00:25:30,080 --> 00:25:33,560 Speaker 2: But I do check my phone over the weekend to 358 00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:37,000 Speaker 2: forward you on when you need a cell phone number 359 00:25:37,119 --> 00:25:42,359 Speaker 2: or email connection with someone who does some service that 360 00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:45,320 Speaker 2: our show sponsor does. And there's almost nothing you could 361 00:25:45,400 --> 00:25:48,239 Speaker 2: possibly need that we don't have a show sponsor that 362 00:25:48,320 --> 00:25:51,760 Speaker 2: can help you with. And in many cases, if I 363 00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:54,680 Speaker 2: don't have a show sponsor, I will know of someone 364 00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:58,520 Speaker 2: who performs that and be happy to connect you with them, 365 00:25:58,840 --> 00:26:01,600 Speaker 2: so you can email me anytime over the weekend. I 366 00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:04,159 Speaker 2: do not mind, In fact, I enjoy it through the 367 00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:08,720 Speaker 2: website Michael Berryshow dot com. The screen for the caller's 368 00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:14,159 Speaker 2: name says Rooster maybe Ruben. I asked two times, and 369 00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:16,359 Speaker 2: by the third time I didn't want to ask a 370 00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:21,600 Speaker 2: third time. So I would normally say that's on the caller. 371 00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:23,800 Speaker 2: But for whatever, I don't know if we need to 372 00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:27,680 Speaker 2: get remote hearing age remedial spelling. I don't know what 373 00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:30,639 Speaker 2: it is. But somewhere between people saying their name is 374 00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:35,160 Speaker 2: Bob or Tom, I get Tulsa and Permian basin as 375 00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:38,000 Speaker 2: the phone numbers, I mean, as the name. So and 376 00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:40,359 Speaker 2: I don't know how that happens. I really don't. I 377 00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:45,320 Speaker 2: really really don't. Ruben, Rooster or whatever your name is. 378 00:26:45,359 --> 00:26:51,080 Speaker 4: Go ahead, yeah, Michael is it's rufous? Are u f us? 379 00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:52,120 Speaker 6: Oh? 380 00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:57,080 Speaker 2: It's rufous? Okay. When he asked the second time, did 381 00:26:57,119 --> 00:26:59,800 Speaker 2: you say are you f us? Or did you just 382 00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:02,800 Speaker 2: because some people if they say you say, all right, 383 00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:06,439 Speaker 2: call her, what's your name? Okay? Can you give me 384 00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:09,320 Speaker 2: that again? Whereas I would say, M I C H 385 00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:11,399 Speaker 2: A E L. I'm just trying to get to the 386 00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:12,040 Speaker 2: root of this. 387 00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:15,760 Speaker 4: Right. No, I just said it again. 388 00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:18,840 Speaker 2: You just said it again. See, this is a moment 389 00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:21,600 Speaker 2: where relations between my wife and I will break down 390 00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:26,000 Speaker 2: because she'll say it's Rufous. It's yeah, you know the name. 391 00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:28,399 Speaker 2: Now it's fine, let's move on. And I'll say, no, 392 00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:33,480 Speaker 2: let's not move on, because this problem will will arise again. 393 00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:36,919 Speaker 2: It won't be with Rufus, It'll be with Tommy or 394 00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:39,399 Speaker 2: Bobby or something else, and Ramon will have screwed this 395 00:27:39,440 --> 00:27:41,840 Speaker 2: thing up. I need to figure out what happens so 396 00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:44,120 Speaker 2: we can figure out a solution. And she'll say, does 397 00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:46,600 Speaker 2: it matter? Why are you so worried about Rufus? And 398 00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:50,359 Speaker 2: I have to say, it's not about Rufus, it's about 399 00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:54,040 Speaker 2: understanding why this problem keeps happening, and let's figure that out. 400 00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:57,400 Speaker 2: And at that point I am being mean and won't 401 00:27:57,440 --> 00:28:00,320 Speaker 2: let it go, and I hang on things and it's 402 00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:03,119 Speaker 2: just horrible and why is this so important? Yes, So 403 00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:06,640 Speaker 2: welcome to my world anyway, Ruthless, you're up. 404 00:28:08,760 --> 00:28:11,320 Speaker 4: Well, you know it's like Lester, you know, Oh my god, 405 00:28:11,359 --> 00:28:13,960 Speaker 4: I think it's Chester. You know, things that nature. But 406 00:28:14,560 --> 00:28:18,440 Speaker 4: you grew up over in Orange. That first thirty miles 407 00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:22,200 Speaker 4: coming into Texas has been under construction since I moved 408 00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:25,480 Speaker 4: here in nineteen seventy five. What are they going to 409 00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:28,560 Speaker 4: finish it. 410 00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:33,159 Speaker 2: It's it's like a punchline. I mean, it really is. 411 00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:37,240 Speaker 2: It's like a punchline. And it's one of those things, 412 00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:40,120 Speaker 2: you know, we don't need government to do very much 413 00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:43,360 Speaker 2: for us, but the few things that government we can't 414 00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:47,719 Speaker 2: pave the road ourselves, right, that is something that we 415 00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:50,200 Speaker 2: agree we will allow a governmental entity and then they 416 00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:56,840 Speaker 2: outsource it. But it just seems anecdotally to be the 417 00:28:56,880 --> 00:29:01,479 Speaker 2: most inefficiently applied set of rules and guidelines and business 418 00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:05,080 Speaker 2: practices of anything you ever see being done. It just 419 00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:08,120 Speaker 2: it defies the mind. And I think part of that 420 00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:12,080 Speaker 2: is nobody has a real incentive to get this thing done, 421 00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:15,440 Speaker 2: you know, most I think it used to be the case. 422 00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:19,200 Speaker 2: When I really dug into this two decades ago. The 423 00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:23,960 Speaker 2: state highway work was done on low bid. And so 424 00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:27,000 Speaker 2: what happens is you get companies that come in under 425 00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:30,560 Speaker 2: low they win the contract with low bid, and nobody 426 00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:35,480 Speaker 2: believes they're going to deliver they're going to provide deliverables 427 00:29:35,520 --> 00:29:38,680 Speaker 2: at that bid. So once they come in at you know, 428 00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:40,800 Speaker 2: it's like a price is right game, and it just 429 00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:43,479 Speaker 2: gets more and more absurd, and so they come in 430 00:29:43,520 --> 00:29:46,040 Speaker 2: as the lowest low bid. You could possibly imagine they 431 00:29:46,040 --> 00:29:48,720 Speaker 2: couldn't do this project for that amount in a third 432 00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:51,960 Speaker 2: world country, much less with American wages. And they get it, 433 00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:56,240 Speaker 2: and then immediately you start getting change orders. But they've 434 00:29:56,280 --> 00:29:58,640 Speaker 2: been selected for the contract. And it's all a game. 435 00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:01,520 Speaker 2: It's like the Encore and with the Eagles or anybody else. 436 00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:03,360 Speaker 2: They tell you we're going to perform for two hours, 437 00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:05,760 Speaker 2: and in a minute twenty eight they walk off the stage. 438 00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:07,640 Speaker 2: We all know they're coming back. So it's just this 439 00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:10,080 Speaker 2: kind of ritual we all go through. And that's what 440 00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:13,640 Speaker 2: our highway system has become. And I wonder if we 441 00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:16,320 Speaker 2: wouldn't be better just not rebuilding the highways. I think 442 00:30:16,360 --> 00:30:21,160 Speaker 2: I might prefer some pockmarked highways like Louisiana, then constantly 443 00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:26,000 Speaker 2: be narrowing down into this funnel on our highways every 444 00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:28,440 Speaker 2: different direction. So if you try to go to ways 445 00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:33,040 Speaker 2: or some alternate site app it doesn't matter, because every 446 00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:37,720 Speaker 2: major highway is under construction at the same time. It 447 00:30:37,880 --> 00:30:38,880 Speaker 2: defies logic. 448 00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:45,680 Speaker 4: Rufleus Michael. They just got through with about ten years 449 00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:49,440 Speaker 4: ago or so, and they moved like ten or fifteen 450 00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:52,720 Speaker 4: miles into Texas constructing, and then they backed up build 451 00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:55,440 Speaker 4: a new damn bridge, and I would you gotta be 452 00:30:55,520 --> 00:30:57,840 Speaker 4: kidding me. So now they tore it all up, put 453 00:30:57,840 --> 00:31:00,680 Speaker 4: a new bridge in. Well what it is? Well they 454 00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:03,520 Speaker 4: tore up right, there's a business center again, and I went, 455 00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:06,959 Speaker 4: oh my god, this is getting crazy. It's like they 456 00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:09,200 Speaker 4: get fifteen miles down road and they back up and 457 00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:17,080 Speaker 4: they do it again. It's crazy, it is, But that's 458 00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:17,720 Speaker 4: all I got. 459 00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:22,840 Speaker 2: It is truly crazy, Thank you, rufus. It's crazy, but 460 00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:27,080 Speaker 2: it's infuriating because it costs a lot of money. 461 00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:27,320 Speaker 4: You know. 462 00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:33,400 Speaker 2: One of the things economists try to do is capture 463 00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:37,400 Speaker 2: soft costs, and capture hidden costs, and capture things that 464 00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:45,040 Speaker 2: are not obvious. We can measure rather easily the outlay 465 00:31:45,080 --> 00:31:49,920 Speaker 2: of expenses from the government, which is you to companies 466 00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:54,200 Speaker 2: that are doing road paving or road rebuilding. We can 467 00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:58,840 Speaker 2: measure that, and we can alter that number. What we 468 00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:03,920 Speaker 2: don't measure, but can be loosely measured is for every 469 00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:09,200 Speaker 2: extra hour that a project is not is closing a 470 00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:13,360 Speaker 2: lane if there are normally you know, ten lanes, five 471 00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:18,120 Speaker 2: on each side, and you narrow one lane one direction 472 00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:22,640 Speaker 2: down to two lanes for x number of hours x 473 00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:26,600 Speaker 2: number of days, and the variables would be weekdays and 474 00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:30,920 Speaker 2: week weekends. Friday evening and Monday morning would perhaps be 475 00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:34,280 Speaker 2: more than Wednesday late afternoon, but you could you can 476 00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:37,400 Speaker 2: calculate these things. Texas A and M has a transportation 477 00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:40,720 Speaker 2: institute that can calculate these things, and so you can 478 00:32:40,760 --> 00:32:45,120 Speaker 2: calculate the cost to a society of what this lost 479 00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:48,760 Speaker 2: time in your car is. There is lost time in 480 00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:52,120 Speaker 2: economic activity, and then there is the harder to put 481 00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:55,040 Speaker 2: a dollar sign on, but you would value it the 482 00:32:55,400 --> 00:33:03,360 Speaker 2: lost time with family, lost enjoyment, sense of sanity. And 483 00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:07,600 Speaker 2: so there is a cost imposed upon a community by 484 00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:11,440 Speaker 2: these projects that drag on. For this, I mean there's 485 00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:14,920 Speaker 2: a cost imposed whether the con whether the project is 486 00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:19,000 Speaker 2: done on time or not. Right, there's still a cost 487 00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:21,760 Speaker 2: of the shutdown, but every extra day is a real 488 00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:23,920 Speaker 2: cost to you when people start thinking of it that 489 00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:25,160 Speaker 2: way