1 00:00:06,680 --> 00:00:07,640 Speaker 1: It's that time. 2 00:00:07,840 --> 00:00:12,200 Speaker 2: Time time, time, luck and load. 3 00:00:14,040 --> 00:00:47,960 Speaker 1: The Michael Verie Show is on the air. At least 4 00:00:47,960 --> 00:00:49,080 Speaker 1: be a patient of your own hold. 5 00:00:49,120 --> 00:00:49,800 Speaker 3: I will get to. 6 00:00:52,920 --> 00:00:56,640 Speaker 1: This is why I read emails. Sometimes people drive me 7 00:00:56,680 --> 00:00:58,440 Speaker 1: crazy and I realize I need to leave that off 8 00:00:58,480 --> 00:01:00,440 Speaker 1: the air. It doesn't make good show count when I 9 00:01:00,480 --> 00:01:03,080 Speaker 1: get mad at things I get. I'm working on it. 10 00:01:03,120 --> 00:01:05,959 Speaker 1: Trust me, I know it's annoying. I'm working on it. 11 00:01:07,160 --> 00:01:10,080 Speaker 1: I should take the good and leave the bad. I've 12 00:01:10,160 --> 00:01:12,080 Speaker 1: not done a good job of that lately, and I'll 13 00:01:12,080 --> 00:01:14,760 Speaker 1: tell you why. It's not an excuse, it's an explanation. 14 00:01:16,440 --> 00:01:19,959 Speaker 1: Our show, you may have noticed, has been very, very serious, 15 00:01:21,040 --> 00:01:24,240 Speaker 1: and I don't like doing serious shows five hours a day. 16 00:01:24,920 --> 00:01:32,080 Speaker 1: It exhausts me mentally and emotionally. Hannity can do it 17 00:01:32,160 --> 00:01:37,759 Speaker 1: all day, every day, and it's his dispositions. I'm not criticizing. 18 00:01:38,360 --> 00:01:40,840 Speaker 1: Sean has been nothing but nice to me. But Hannity 19 00:01:40,880 --> 00:01:43,319 Speaker 1: can do that show all day every day. He can 20 00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:46,240 Speaker 1: do three hours of radio and then march over to 21 00:01:46,280 --> 00:01:49,720 Speaker 1: the TV studio and do it again. I can't. It'll 22 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:52,920 Speaker 1: make me crazy. And I'm not joking when I say 23 00:01:52,920 --> 00:01:54,920 Speaker 1: I would blow my brains out. I know I would, 24 00:01:55,080 --> 00:01:58,800 Speaker 1: I'd go crazy, and it's why I resisted it from 25 00:01:58,840 --> 00:02:02,560 Speaker 1: the very beginning. That is a lot of talk shows 26 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:05,560 Speaker 1: and talk show hosts, and that's how they that's not me. 27 00:02:07,440 --> 00:02:12,240 Speaker 1: I am very very aware of my limitations and my 28 00:02:12,400 --> 00:02:17,040 Speaker 1: personal needs mental health wise, to stay positive in order 29 00:02:17,080 --> 00:02:19,000 Speaker 1: to be the full person I need to be, and 30 00:02:19,040 --> 00:02:25,320 Speaker 1: that means being a husband and a father and coddling Ramone. Chad. 31 00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:28,840 Speaker 1: If everybody was Chad, life would be great. The whole 32 00:02:28,840 --> 00:02:32,880 Speaker 1: world was Chad Nakanishi, life would be great. Like literally 33 00:02:33,520 --> 00:02:37,480 Speaker 1: never people say you never talk about Chad. Yeah, because 34 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:41,800 Speaker 1: Chad doesn't cause me problems. Ramone and now his sidekick, 35 00:02:41,840 --> 00:02:45,760 Speaker 1: our creative director, Jim Mudd, who by the way, is 36 00:02:45,840 --> 00:02:49,639 Speaker 1: working on the show from the grounds of Graceland. He 37 00:02:50,919 --> 00:02:56,040 Speaker 1: is in Memphis, I'm sorry, not Graceland. He's at Johnny 38 00:02:56,080 --> 00:02:59,079 Speaker 1: cash Is home. This afternoon sent me a picture of 39 00:02:59,080 --> 00:03:01,760 Speaker 1: the Highwayman yesterday and it was a poster that they 40 00:03:01,760 --> 00:03:06,400 Speaker 1: had signed and wanted to know if he wanted me 41 00:03:06,480 --> 00:03:08,480 Speaker 1: to buy it and get reimbursed when he came back 42 00:03:08,560 --> 00:03:13,760 Speaker 1: and I said, absolutely how much was it ten thousand? 43 00:03:14,360 --> 00:03:18,560 Speaker 1: Absolutely not. I'll make my own and forge their signatures. 44 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:22,959 Speaker 1: But back to the point, hang with me cars. This 45 00:03:23,040 --> 00:03:26,000 Speaker 1: is why I read mamails because we have seventy five 46 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:28,520 Speaker 1: show sponsors, and this is the kind of stuff I 47 00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:30,639 Speaker 1: get every day. This is from JD. Pettigo, he owns 48 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:34,640 Speaker 1: Velocity Business Products. Good mornings are. I know you're on 49 00:03:34,680 --> 00:03:36,880 Speaker 1: the air, so I didn't text you didn't want to 50 00:03:36,920 --> 00:03:39,000 Speaker 1: bother you. You can read this when you get off 51 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:44,200 Speaker 1: the air. I have about forty really nice and really 52 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:48,400 Speaker 1: expensive round cafeteria tables, with a couple of them being 53 00:03:48,440 --> 00:03:52,600 Speaker 1: Ada because we do have some guys in wheelchairs at 54 00:03:52,680 --> 00:03:55,480 Speaker 1: Camp Hope. I had to eat these from a big 55 00:03:55,560 --> 00:03:58,360 Speaker 1: job about a year ago, and I need to move 56 00:03:58,400 --> 00:04:02,280 Speaker 1: them out to bring in new furniture. I contacted my 57 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:05,640 Speaker 1: church they didn't need them, and listening to you, I thought, 58 00:04:06,280 --> 00:04:09,840 Speaker 1: of course you would want them for Camp Hope. I'm 59 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:13,720 Speaker 1: not sure how they all eat together, group sessions or individually, 60 00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:21,040 Speaker 1: but I would be happy to deliver them myself. I 61 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:27,520 Speaker 1: just I get emotional thinking about that's my pick me up, 62 00:04:27,640 --> 00:04:33,919 Speaker 1: that's my drug, that's my that's my joy is that 63 00:04:34,200 --> 00:04:38,360 Speaker 1: every day I get something like this. I had a 64 00:04:38,400 --> 00:04:43,000 Speaker 1: guy email me yesterday and he said they do a 65 00:04:43,040 --> 00:04:47,080 Speaker 1: shooting competition in a group he's in, and he said 66 00:04:47,120 --> 00:04:50,040 Speaker 1: they raised eleven thousand dollars for Camp Hope last year. 67 00:04:51,080 --> 00:04:56,280 Speaker 1: Eleven thousand dollars. I'll bet you there are. I don't 68 00:04:56,279 --> 00:04:58,520 Speaker 1: want to exaggerate. There are probably two hundred and fifty 69 00:04:58,560 --> 00:05:03,200 Speaker 1: events benefiting Camp Hope every year, each one individually organically, 70 00:05:03,360 --> 00:05:07,359 Speaker 1: they pop up. If they hand over one thousand dollars, 71 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:12,039 Speaker 1: that's a win. Eleven thousand dollars, that's incredible. I'll find 72 00:05:12,040 --> 00:05:16,400 Speaker 1: that email. It's in the pile somewhere. That's incredible. But anyway, 73 00:05:16,839 --> 00:05:21,760 Speaker 1: so VELOCITYBP dot com they're the They provide all your 74 00:05:21,760 --> 00:05:25,560 Speaker 1: furniture stuff, all your office supplies. Jenitory supplies all of it. 75 00:05:25,600 --> 00:05:28,039 Speaker 1: He's an aggie local guy joined the show about four 76 00:05:28,080 --> 00:05:32,360 Speaker 1: months ago. Wonderful, wonderful guy. But it's just that stuff 77 00:05:32,640 --> 00:05:37,480 Speaker 1: every day. Mac Hey, Michael, I got some mattresses I 78 00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:40,240 Speaker 1: need to move out. Could Camp Hope you yet? You 79 00:05:40,279 --> 00:05:43,440 Speaker 1: don't even need to Yes, Yes, Camp Hope could use 80 00:05:43,480 --> 00:05:47,599 Speaker 1: them every day. I remember our suit drive now long ago. 81 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:50,760 Speaker 1: Our suit drive was ten years and I get people, 82 00:05:50,839 --> 00:05:52,200 Speaker 1: I don't know if it's ten years, and I'm off 83 00:05:52,240 --> 00:05:53,680 Speaker 1: on all my numbers today, so it might not be ten. 84 00:05:53,800 --> 00:05:56,040 Speaker 1: This a long time ago. We ended up with over 85 00:05:56,120 --> 00:06:00,040 Speaker 1: seven thousand full suits, not to mention shoes, and he 86 00:06:00,080 --> 00:06:03,799 Speaker 1: will still email me. And I got one this weekend. 87 00:06:04,360 --> 00:06:06,760 Speaker 1: Ley said, my husband passed away and he has some 88 00:06:06,839 --> 00:06:10,200 Speaker 1: really nice, expensive suits, some of which have never been born. 89 00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:15,279 Speaker 1: And I said, unfortunately, we ran out of space a 90 00:06:15,320 --> 00:06:17,240 Speaker 1: long time ago. But how sweet of you to do that. 91 00:06:17,480 --> 00:06:20,520 Speaker 1: I wish we could accept them, book, but we can't wheelchairs. 92 00:06:20,520 --> 00:06:23,400 Speaker 1: We can't accept wheelchairs because we don't need anymore. But 93 00:06:23,520 --> 00:06:30,480 Speaker 1: the point is just the kindness and generosity that I see. 94 00:06:31,240 --> 00:06:34,560 Speaker 1: Ramon tells a story that he heard Tony Robbins tell 95 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:37,680 Speaker 1: and there was a group of people in a room 96 00:06:38,520 --> 00:06:41,840 Speaker 1: to which to whom he's speaking, and he said, I 97 00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:45,960 Speaker 1: want you to look around the room, and I want 98 00:06:46,040 --> 00:06:50,120 Speaker 1: you to count how many items you see that have 99 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:55,760 Speaker 1: read in them in some way or another. All right, now, 100 00:06:56,040 --> 00:06:59,479 Speaker 1: close your eyes, and I want you to tell me 101 00:06:59,640 --> 00:07:01,880 Speaker 1: all the things you saw that have brown in them. 102 00:07:03,760 --> 00:07:07,880 Speaker 1: And nobody could name anything, because when you're focused on 103 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:13,000 Speaker 1: the red, you don't notice the brown. When you're focused 104 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:17,920 Speaker 1: on the good, when you choose to wake up and 105 00:07:18,040 --> 00:07:21,280 Speaker 1: do something for other people, who are not as lucky, 106 00:07:21,400 --> 00:07:24,440 Speaker 1: not as healthy, not as young, not as rich, not 107 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:27,000 Speaker 1: as and we're all rich one way or another. We 108 00:07:27,040 --> 00:07:30,720 Speaker 1: are all rich. Then you see the good and you 109 00:07:30,760 --> 00:07:33,760 Speaker 1: don't see the brown. You don't have to be in 110 00:07:33,760 --> 00:07:37,200 Speaker 1: a bad mood all day to vote for Trump. You 111 00:07:37,240 --> 00:07:38,880 Speaker 1: don't have to be in a bad mood all day 112 00:07:39,880 --> 00:07:43,320 Speaker 1: to be focused on fixing the woes of this country. 113 00:07:43,760 --> 00:07:45,320 Speaker 1: You don't have to be in a bad mood all 114 00:07:45,400 --> 00:07:50,760 Speaker 1: day to avoid being called naive or sheep. You can 115 00:07:50,800 --> 00:07:54,280 Speaker 1: be extremely positive. You can smile all day long. In fact, 116 00:07:54,320 --> 00:07:58,600 Speaker 1: it might do some good, might win over some more people. 117 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:01,800 Speaker 1: All Right, I did not get to the calls this segment. 118 00:08:01,840 --> 00:08:03,920 Speaker 1: Please be patient. I will get to you. I have 119 00:08:03,960 --> 00:08:07,160 Speaker 1: a favor to ask, just straight up favor. I'm just 120 00:08:07,240 --> 00:08:09,400 Speaker 1: be honest with me. We have a new show sponsor. 121 00:08:10,160 --> 00:08:14,560 Speaker 1: It's a national show sponsor. They started in Houston. It 122 00:08:14,640 --> 00:08:16,840 Speaker 1: came from our national office. It was a big deal 123 00:08:16,880 --> 00:08:19,600 Speaker 1: that they chose to start in Houston. And I want 124 00:08:19,640 --> 00:08:21,120 Speaker 1: to blow the doors out for them. I don't want 125 00:08:21,160 --> 00:08:24,560 Speaker 1: anybody to buy anything you don't already need. It's called 126 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:28,280 Speaker 1: Acorn stairlifts, and what it is is it's exactly what 127 00:08:28,320 --> 00:08:29,960 Speaker 1: it is, and you know, you might chuckle if you're 128 00:08:29,960 --> 00:08:31,360 Speaker 1: a young person, but we're all going to get there. 129 00:08:31,400 --> 00:08:33,640 Speaker 1: My parents are there. They're in a one story home though, 130 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:37,600 Speaker 1: and it is the largest I believe it's the largest 131 00:08:37,640 --> 00:08:41,120 Speaker 1: stairlift company. The owners came to me directly. If you 132 00:08:41,240 --> 00:08:44,600 Speaker 1: know somebody that needs mobility and dignity that's older, maybe 133 00:08:44,600 --> 00:08:48,320 Speaker 1: it's your parent, email me directly. The first person that 134 00:08:48,400 --> 00:08:51,600 Speaker 1: has one of these installed Ramon will come out during 135 00:08:51,640 --> 00:08:55,640 Speaker 1: the installation. Okay, I'll come with you the first one, 136 00:08:56,559 --> 00:08:58,280 Speaker 1: just because I want to show these guys I appreciate 137 00:08:58,280 --> 00:09:00,760 Speaker 1: them splay. Email me directly and I'll connection. 138 00:09:00,480 --> 00:09:03,600 Speaker 2: With make Macaberry's show. 139 00:09:10,200 --> 00:09:15,240 Speaker 1: All right, let's head to your call, Jackson. You're on 140 00:09:15,240 --> 00:09:20,679 Speaker 1: the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, Jackson, Sir, Sir, can 141 00:09:20,679 --> 00:09:23,280 Speaker 1: you hear me? Yeah? Hold on second, do you spell 142 00:09:23,320 --> 00:09:32,920 Speaker 1: your name like Mississippi or Reggie. 143 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:32,840 Speaker 4: For purposes of this conversation is yes, it's j A 144 00:09:32,960 --> 00:09:34,079 Speaker 4: C K S O N. 145 00:09:34,320 --> 00:09:37,840 Speaker 1: Okay, all right, ramone spelled at J A X O N. 146 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:42,480 Speaker 1: And I didn't know. Now I can't think about anything 147 00:09:42,520 --> 00:09:44,320 Speaker 1: but that, but anyway, iPods go ahead, sir? 148 00:09:44,559 --> 00:09:46,520 Speaker 4: That okay? 149 00:09:46,760 --> 00:09:46,880 Speaker 1: Uh? 150 00:09:47,160 --> 00:09:49,920 Speaker 4: I want to touch on the cabal in Aris County 151 00:09:49,960 --> 00:09:53,679 Speaker 4: and City of Houston. Do you know who the insurance 152 00:09:54,200 --> 00:09:59,839 Speaker 4: who insures every UH employee at Houston, Houston City and 153 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:00,680 Speaker 4: Aris County? 154 00:10:00,840 --> 00:10:02,520 Speaker 1: I do not a flat. 155 00:10:04,720 --> 00:10:09,720 Speaker 4: Kelsey Seabot did not know that. Okay, yeah, they even 156 00:10:09,760 --> 00:10:12,120 Speaker 4: have their own Medicare plan now, so when the people 157 00:10:12,200 --> 00:10:16,160 Speaker 4: retire from you know, Harris County or City of Houston, 158 00:10:16,280 --> 00:10:18,240 Speaker 4: But why do you get them on their healthchair system. 159 00:10:20,200 --> 00:10:23,080 Speaker 4: It's just take a look at the money. Follow the money, bickle. 160 00:10:23,559 --> 00:10:26,720 Speaker 4: They're breaking the ground all over the city. When I 161 00:10:26,800 --> 00:10:28,760 Speaker 4: got five years ago, there might have been a half 162 00:10:28,800 --> 00:10:32,040 Speaker 4: dozen of those big three story clinics. Now there's probably 163 00:10:32,080 --> 00:10:34,360 Speaker 4: twenty five, and they're building more every day. 164 00:10:34,760 --> 00:10:37,000 Speaker 1: When people tell me, go do my own tell me 165 00:10:37,040 --> 00:10:39,280 Speaker 1: what I'm supposed to know, finish the loop for me. 166 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:43,840 Speaker 4: Well, just like you said, the money, there's a lot 167 00:10:43,880 --> 00:10:45,600 Speaker 4: of money in that, and you always touching on like 168 00:10:45,679 --> 00:10:48,880 Speaker 4: the airport things and stuff like that. I'm just saying 169 00:10:48,880 --> 00:10:51,400 Speaker 4: to get one of your investigative reporter buddies to look 170 00:10:51,440 --> 00:10:53,520 Speaker 4: into it, because I bet you there's a lot of 171 00:10:53,520 --> 00:10:56,600 Speaker 4: money going back to Rodney and his career. I'm sure 172 00:10:56,600 --> 00:10:56,920 Speaker 4: of it. 173 00:10:57,120 --> 00:11:01,280 Speaker 1: I mean, okay, I don't doubt, and I'm very skeptical 174 00:11:01,360 --> 00:11:04,079 Speaker 1: and cynical about these sorts of things, and I think 175 00:11:04,080 --> 00:11:05,960 Speaker 1: there's a lot of money changing hands that would shock 176 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:08,280 Speaker 1: people when it comes to these big contracts with the county. 177 00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:13,000 Speaker 1: I just I think we lose credibility if we say, well, 178 00:11:13,559 --> 00:11:19,520 Speaker 1: Kelsey Seabowl is building new clinics, therefore and they are 179 00:11:19,760 --> 00:11:25,360 Speaker 1: the PPO, or whatever the relationship with the city in 180 00:11:25,440 --> 00:11:29,840 Speaker 1: county is. I have spent a lot of time in 181 00:11:29,880 --> 00:11:35,080 Speaker 1: the last ten years studying the issue of public policy 182 00:11:35,559 --> 00:11:39,040 Speaker 1: or policy as it relates to the provision of healthcare, 183 00:11:40,080 --> 00:11:43,680 Speaker 1: and I think that there is a big role for 184 00:11:43,760 --> 00:11:48,280 Speaker 1: a Kelsey Seabold in that process. I'm not saying the 185 00:11:48,400 --> 00:11:53,320 Speaker 1: personalities involved. I'm not endorsing every one of their decisions 186 00:11:53,440 --> 00:11:59,559 Speaker 1: or initiatives. I'm saying that type of health care facility 187 00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:04,000 Speaker 1: there is a big place for that, and I believe 188 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:09,000 Speaker 1: in that. Now, I will tell you my research and 189 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:12,520 Speaker 1: in my experience, in my conversations, which is a lot, 190 00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:17,120 Speaker 1: and that's I guess I'm trying to build credibility artificially. 191 00:12:17,160 --> 00:12:22,079 Speaker 1: That's dumb. I'll just tell you what I think. I 192 00:12:22,120 --> 00:12:28,240 Speaker 1: think we need more. Next level MD. I think that 193 00:12:28,240 --> 00:12:35,600 Speaker 1: that is a they're a former show sponsor, but before 194 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:40,120 Speaker 1: they were a show sponsor, I was a patient and 195 00:12:40,320 --> 00:12:44,400 Speaker 1: I am a big, big, big believer in what they do. 196 00:12:44,480 --> 00:12:47,920 Speaker 1: They're not a show sponsor now, so full disclosure. But 197 00:12:48,040 --> 00:12:50,760 Speaker 1: what they do is they're these you know, you see 198 00:12:50,760 --> 00:12:54,000 Speaker 1: these emergency care clinics and urgent care clinics and they're 199 00:12:54,040 --> 00:12:57,800 Speaker 1: they're popping up everywhere. That's for when your kid gets 200 00:12:57,800 --> 00:13:00,559 Speaker 1: sick or has an injury on the base ball field 201 00:13:01,160 --> 00:13:02,880 Speaker 1: and you rush there because you don't want to go 202 00:13:02,880 --> 00:13:06,040 Speaker 1: to the emergency room anymore. But what ends up happening 203 00:13:06,120 --> 00:13:09,840 Speaker 1: that the next level MD model is you got all 204 00:13:09,880 --> 00:13:14,480 Speaker 1: this equipment, you got X rays and you know, all 205 00:13:14,559 --> 00:13:18,440 Speaker 1: this stuff, and a nurse, probably a nurse practitioner, which 206 00:13:18,640 --> 00:13:20,600 Speaker 1: ninety five percent of the time that's all you need, 207 00:13:21,840 --> 00:13:24,720 Speaker 1: and maybe there's a doctor there I don't know, twenty 208 00:13:24,720 --> 00:13:27,240 Speaker 1: four hours a day, but you've got a sunk cost. 209 00:13:27,600 --> 00:13:30,360 Speaker 1: You got to be sitting there waiting. So it's just 210 00:13:30,480 --> 00:13:34,720 Speaker 1: like the bakery that sells common bond does this next 211 00:13:34,800 --> 00:13:39,280 Speaker 1: day half off at five o'clock on cupcakes and bagels 212 00:13:39,360 --> 00:13:43,839 Speaker 1: or whatever. It's a spoilage problem airlines have this problem. 213 00:13:44,240 --> 00:13:46,520 Speaker 1: You want to get maximum dollar for every seat, but 214 00:13:46,920 --> 00:13:49,840 Speaker 1: a seat their most expensive seat to the airline is 215 00:13:49,880 --> 00:13:53,000 Speaker 1: the one for which you get nothing. That's a problem. 216 00:13:53,559 --> 00:14:00,200 Speaker 1: So all most, no, a lot of companies are battling 217 00:14:00,960 --> 00:14:08,959 Speaker 1: the spoilage problem inventory management, especially for things that go bad. 218 00:14:09,880 --> 00:14:13,400 Speaker 1: That's why there's a daily special at the restaurant. It's 219 00:14:13,440 --> 00:14:16,160 Speaker 1: not because the chef fell in love with this particular fish. 220 00:14:16,520 --> 00:14:19,640 Speaker 1: It's because they got to move that fish today. That 221 00:14:19,720 --> 00:14:23,920 Speaker 1: doesn't mean don't order it, it's just that's what they're 222 00:14:23,920 --> 00:14:27,480 Speaker 1: trying to do. They've got a revolving door, and you've 223 00:14:27,480 --> 00:14:30,400 Speaker 1: got to move that stuff. And the same is true 224 00:14:30,440 --> 00:14:35,080 Speaker 1: for anything that goes bad, from milk to bread to bakeries, 225 00:14:35,960 --> 00:14:39,680 Speaker 1: all of those things. Automobiles. What are we at now, 226 00:14:39,800 --> 00:14:45,200 Speaker 1: August twenty seventh. Any dealership sitting on a twenty twenty 227 00:14:45,200 --> 00:14:48,560 Speaker 1: four needs to move them to make room for the 228 00:14:48,560 --> 00:14:51,960 Speaker 1: twenty twenty fives. Not that they don't have space on 229 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:55,760 Speaker 1: their lot for that, but they don't want to. They 230 00:14:55,760 --> 00:14:57,880 Speaker 1: don't want to drag down the price of the twenty 231 00:14:57,920 --> 00:15:00,800 Speaker 1: twenty five model because they I'm still sitting on a 232 00:15:00,840 --> 00:15:03,240 Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, which you're thinking you should give me 233 00:15:03,280 --> 00:15:05,120 Speaker 1: a better deal on that. Get those out of there. 234 00:15:05,560 --> 00:15:08,200 Speaker 1: If you want this vehicle, you got to buy this one. 235 00:15:08,440 --> 00:15:11,560 Speaker 1: And that's really true when they do a model change, 236 00:15:12,160 --> 00:15:15,120 Speaker 1: because now I remember when the Tahoe changed. I've driven 237 00:15:15,160 --> 00:15:18,320 Speaker 1: a Tahoe for twenty five years, three of them, not 238 00:15:18,680 --> 00:15:21,040 Speaker 1: the same one. I would drive the same one. But anyway, 239 00:15:23,040 --> 00:15:27,760 Speaker 1: what ends up happening is I remember when they went 240 00:15:27,800 --> 00:15:30,280 Speaker 1: from the big Tahoe, which I liked, at big clunker, 241 00:15:30,640 --> 00:15:34,520 Speaker 1: big tank, and they went to the more streamlined, and 242 00:15:34,560 --> 00:15:37,200 Speaker 1: then from there they went to a more streamlined that 243 00:15:37,280 --> 00:15:41,960 Speaker 1: looks like a sprinter van. It's taller and narrower. And 244 00:15:41,960 --> 00:15:43,960 Speaker 1: that was because a lot of women were buying them 245 00:15:43,960 --> 00:15:49,920 Speaker 1: as people movers, soccer and volleyball, kid delivery mechanisms, so 246 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:57,000 Speaker 1: the moms needed a narrower vehicle. But anyway, I got distracted. Heather, 247 00:15:57,240 --> 00:16:02,560 Speaker 1: you're on the Michael Berry Show. Welcome sweetheart, Thank you 248 00:16:02,800 --> 00:16:03,360 Speaker 1: taking you off. 249 00:16:03,360 --> 00:16:07,760 Speaker 3: A speaker was waiting for you to finish talking not 250 00:16:07,840 --> 00:16:09,320 Speaker 3: about the Harvey. 251 00:16:11,040 --> 00:16:12,920 Speaker 1: But I'm sorry you were cutting out. I mean, can 252 00:16:12,960 --> 00:16:13,600 Speaker 1: you start that over? 253 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:19,040 Speaker 3: I said, I'm calling. We were calling about the hurricane. 254 00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:21,160 Speaker 1: That's what we were yes. 255 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:25,600 Speaker 3: Yeah, I was like, okay, well hospitals. I got all 256 00:16:25,640 --> 00:16:29,960 Speaker 3: confused too. But my Katrina experience, I was recently divorced. 257 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:32,880 Speaker 3: I had two girls with me. One was four and 258 00:16:32,920 --> 00:16:37,240 Speaker 3: one was in sixth grade. She was twelve. We of 259 00:16:37,280 --> 00:16:41,200 Speaker 3: course no, I was actually born in Long Island, but 260 00:16:41,760 --> 00:16:43,320 Speaker 3: originally Long Island, New York. 261 00:16:43,800 --> 00:16:48,520 Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, well you know this. But there is a 262 00:16:48,600 --> 00:16:51,800 Speaker 1: parallel from the Brooklyn accent to the New Orleans accent, 263 00:16:51,880 --> 00:16:55,560 Speaker 1: and they've linguists have traced it from that. That was 264 00:16:55,560 --> 00:16:58,480 Speaker 1: a very common port transfer. That's why you can put 265 00:16:58,480 --> 00:17:00,680 Speaker 1: somebody from Brooklyn somebody from New yor work together and 266 00:17:00,720 --> 00:17:03,760 Speaker 1: hear some of the same sounds in the way they're pronounced. 267 00:17:03,840 --> 00:17:11,240 Speaker 5: Hold on a second, hill, I don't know what's happening 268 00:17:11,320 --> 00:17:13,480 Speaker 5: to her, Heather. 269 00:17:13,280 --> 00:17:13,960 Speaker 1: Are you in danger? 270 00:17:13,960 --> 00:17:17,320 Speaker 3: Sorry? My phone's no, not at all. I had a 271 00:17:17,400 --> 00:17:19,159 Speaker 3: bluetooth on while I was waiting for you, so I 272 00:17:19,200 --> 00:17:21,240 Speaker 3: was putting it away so I wouldn't lose it. 273 00:17:23,320 --> 00:17:25,920 Speaker 1: And I don't normally like Long Island accents, but yours 274 00:17:25,960 --> 00:17:26,639 Speaker 1: is adorable. 275 00:17:28,560 --> 00:17:30,400 Speaker 3: Well, thank you, I appreciate that. 276 00:17:30,680 --> 00:17:33,919 Speaker 1: All right. So you you came here recently divorced, You 277 00:17:33,960 --> 00:17:35,280 Speaker 1: had a four year old and how. 278 00:17:35,160 --> 00:17:39,280 Speaker 3: Old a twelve year old I was. I was living 279 00:17:39,320 --> 00:17:41,720 Speaker 3: in New Orleans for a while. I went to Tulane, 280 00:17:41,800 --> 00:17:45,920 Speaker 3: so I graduated from college and stayed because I liked it. 281 00:17:46,400 --> 00:17:48,040 Speaker 3: And then thank you about my accent. 282 00:17:47,720 --> 00:17:48,360 Speaker 4: By the way. 283 00:17:48,560 --> 00:17:50,080 Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, now yeah. 284 00:17:49,880 --> 00:17:56,480 Speaker 3: And good, I'm sorry. Okay, So so we evacuated. 285 00:17:56,520 --> 00:17:59,640 Speaker 1: When I get so interested in accents in people's history 286 00:17:59,680 --> 00:18:01,760 Speaker 1: and how we arrived at this day and the things 287 00:18:01,760 --> 00:18:04,639 Speaker 1: we've been through and all that, so it sometimes can 288 00:18:04,680 --> 00:18:07,119 Speaker 1: be bad radio. If you were a cross from me 289 00:18:07,160 --> 00:18:09,800 Speaker 1: and we were filming this, I would would be able 290 00:18:09,840 --> 00:18:12,560 Speaker 1: to know when we're interrupting the other one. So my apologies. 291 00:18:12,840 --> 00:18:15,359 Speaker 1: I'm I'm gonna come back, and I'm gonna introduce you, 292 00:18:15,400 --> 00:18:17,520 Speaker 1: and I'm gonna give you two minutes and you tell 293 00:18:17,560 --> 00:18:19,640 Speaker 1: your story and I'll turn off my microphone. I think 294 00:18:19,640 --> 00:18:24,240 Speaker 1: that would be better. Hold on the Border is Secure 295 00:18:24,359 --> 00:18:25,440 Speaker 1: The Michael Verry Show. 296 00:18:25,520 --> 00:18:26,400 Speaker 4: Border is secure. 297 00:18:26,680 --> 00:18:29,760 Speaker 1: The only reason the border is not secure is Donald Trumper, 298 00:18:29,880 --> 00:18:37,920 Speaker 1: who is my Republican friends writes that caller is not right, 299 00:18:38,080 --> 00:18:42,760 Speaker 1: but about the county insurance. Kelsey Sea Bowl is a 300 00:18:43,280 --> 00:18:46,760 Speaker 1: vendor you can select, but you're not forced to select them. 301 00:18:47,440 --> 00:18:53,600 Speaker 1: You can select any in network doctor or clinic. I 302 00:18:53,720 --> 00:18:57,119 Speaker 1: retired from the county and I still have my county insurance, 303 00:18:57,119 --> 00:19:03,359 Speaker 1: which just switched this year from SIGNA to no. Look, 304 00:19:03,960 --> 00:19:07,320 Speaker 1: I think it's very good to be skeptical. I think 305 00:19:07,359 --> 00:19:13,200 Speaker 1: it's very good to be looking for. We know that 306 00:19:13,240 --> 00:19:16,280 Speaker 1: there is massive corruption at the county. We see it 307 00:19:16,320 --> 00:19:21,080 Speaker 1: in the elections. Well, they're not corrupt and cheating in 308 00:19:21,119 --> 00:19:26,600 Speaker 1: the elections for no reason. They're cheating in the elections 309 00:19:26,640 --> 00:19:30,280 Speaker 1: to hold the positions where they can enrich themselves. And 310 00:19:30,359 --> 00:19:33,320 Speaker 1: they are enriching themselves. If you look at how many 311 00:19:33,400 --> 00:19:36,440 Speaker 1: billion dollars are now flowing through the county, that's another 312 00:19:36,440 --> 00:19:38,879 Speaker 1: four hundred and fifty million they're about to hit you for. 313 00:19:40,920 --> 00:19:44,119 Speaker 1: And they've got the Democrats. They kicked Cagel off and 314 00:19:44,160 --> 00:19:48,000 Speaker 1: put Leslie Brioni's on, and they they rig the election 315 00:19:48,080 --> 00:19:50,640 Speaker 1: to win the county judge seat. And they're pulling it off. 316 00:19:50,960 --> 00:19:53,280 Speaker 1: I mean, it's happening before our very eyes, and everyone 317 00:19:53,320 --> 00:19:55,000 Speaker 1: is standing back on they're not really doing this. I 318 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:57,320 Speaker 1: can't believe they're doing it. And they're going, yeah, I'm 319 00:19:57,359 --> 00:20:00,160 Speaker 1: real sorry that you're upset. Have all the right, that's 320 00:20:00,160 --> 00:20:02,280 Speaker 1: just indignation you want, We're still going to win it. 321 00:20:03,440 --> 00:20:07,560 Speaker 1: But anyway, you can't just assume that because Kelsey Sea 322 00:20:07,560 --> 00:20:11,000 Speaker 1: Bowl clinics are popping up that somehow that is corruption, 323 00:20:11,119 --> 00:20:13,439 Speaker 1: because it's not. I think Kelsey Seabolt has a good model. 324 00:20:13,480 --> 00:20:18,040 Speaker 1: I used to do their executive assessment executive I forget 325 00:20:18,040 --> 00:20:22,359 Speaker 1: what it was. I'd go once a year and what 326 00:20:22,480 --> 00:20:25,880 Speaker 1: was the doctor's named, Brian Rnari, I think, great guy. 327 00:20:26,520 --> 00:20:29,760 Speaker 1: I would go once a year and you would they 328 00:20:29,800 --> 00:20:33,880 Speaker 1: would do all your male tests or your prostate they'd 329 00:20:33,920 --> 00:20:36,080 Speaker 1: take they do a whole blood panel and they make 330 00:20:36,119 --> 00:20:38,920 Speaker 1: a binder out of it. And I do this through 331 00:20:38,960 --> 00:20:41,399 Speaker 1: Low T Center now and I do it more often, 332 00:20:41,440 --> 00:20:42,920 Speaker 1: but at the time, this is what I was doing 333 00:20:42,960 --> 00:20:46,800 Speaker 1: fifteen twenty years ago. And you would have the same 334 00:20:46,840 --> 00:20:49,160 Speaker 1: doctor and he would pull your chart out and they'd 335 00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:52,280 Speaker 1: take all your blood numbers and then you would review them. 336 00:20:52,359 --> 00:20:54,720 Speaker 1: We look at everyone. You know, here's here's this number, 337 00:20:54,720 --> 00:20:56,320 Speaker 1: and this number and this number and this number. And 338 00:20:56,920 --> 00:20:58,800 Speaker 1: it was I thought it was a good way to 339 00:20:58,840 --> 00:21:01,919 Speaker 1: do an annual checkup. I try to use January to 340 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:04,440 Speaker 1: do that, and I did that for years over there. 341 00:21:05,800 --> 00:21:09,359 Speaker 1: But anyway, the next level MD I think is a 342 00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:14,240 Speaker 1: great model because you've got these emergency centers that already 343 00:21:14,280 --> 00:21:16,280 Speaker 1: have a doctor, a nurse and all the equipment. And 344 00:21:16,320 --> 00:21:18,760 Speaker 1: so what they did they went to companies because a 345 00:21:18,800 --> 00:21:22,840 Speaker 1: lot of companies don't provide health insurance, and so they 346 00:21:22,920 --> 00:21:25,520 Speaker 1: kind of self insure. And it's not very much, I 347 00:21:25,520 --> 00:21:28,400 Speaker 1: don't know, sixty sixty bucks an employee something like that 348 00:21:28,600 --> 00:21:31,920 Speaker 1: not a great cost for a company in the grand 349 00:21:31,920 --> 00:21:34,040 Speaker 1: scheme of things. And so what you do is you 350 00:21:34,080 --> 00:21:37,199 Speaker 1: get that policy which gets you all your tests and 351 00:21:37,280 --> 00:21:38,760 Speaker 1: all the stuff you can go in and do, so 352 00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:42,560 Speaker 1: the employee never has to pay extra for it. And 353 00:21:42,600 --> 00:21:46,000 Speaker 1: then you buy a catastrophic plan. And so this is 354 00:21:46,040 --> 00:21:50,399 Speaker 1: what I tell everybody to do. Buy catastrophic insurance at 355 00:21:50,440 --> 00:21:53,640 Speaker 1: a minimum that means everything. I think it's at fifteen 356 00:21:53,680 --> 00:21:58,960 Speaker 1: thousand and up and everything else. Pay cash because if 357 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:01,720 Speaker 1: you walk in and pay cash, should get a discount everywhere, 358 00:22:01,760 --> 00:22:03,640 Speaker 1: if you're willing to do it, if you're not ashamed 359 00:22:03,640 --> 00:22:07,080 Speaker 1: to say, is there a cash discount? Because doctor's office, 360 00:22:07,119 --> 00:22:10,800 Speaker 1: the bane of doctor's existence is dealing with insurance companies. 361 00:22:11,119 --> 00:22:13,800 Speaker 1: They will give you pennies on the dollar to pay cash. 362 00:22:14,280 --> 00:22:17,440 Speaker 1: And so pay cash for everything all the way. People 363 00:22:17,480 --> 00:22:19,280 Speaker 1: don't want to pay for a doctor's visit, but they 364 00:22:19,320 --> 00:22:23,720 Speaker 1: don't understand you're paying through the premiums. You pay every month, 365 00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:27,399 Speaker 1: and if you're healthy, you make good decisions and you 366 00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:31,040 Speaker 1: stay healthy, which most people under sixty are going to do. 367 00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:36,000 Speaker 1: You shouldn't have hardly any health care expenses. Which, by 368 00:22:36,040 --> 00:22:39,720 Speaker 1: the way, doctor Mary Tally Boden, who came on our 369 00:22:39,760 --> 00:22:42,760 Speaker 1: show to talk about sinus issues, how quaint to look 370 00:22:42,760 --> 00:22:45,920 Speaker 1: back sinus and sleep issues before COVID. Then COVID hit 371 00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:49,880 Speaker 1: and she became nationally famous for her work speaking out 372 00:22:50,080 --> 00:22:53,560 Speaker 1: against all the lockdowns and the COVID vaccine, and she 373 00:22:53,640 --> 00:22:57,320 Speaker 1: continued to treat patients, including using ivermectin, which had won 374 00:22:57,320 --> 00:23:01,040 Speaker 1: a Nobel Prize for the founder of it. Throughout all 375 00:23:01,080 --> 00:23:03,880 Speaker 1: of that. She is a show sponsor. I wouldn't let 376 00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:06,200 Speaker 1: her be a show sponsor for years because she was 377 00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:09,439 Speaker 1: already so busy from COVID, and I said, when you 378 00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:14,439 Speaker 1: add another doctor to your practice, because you're a mommy first, 379 00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:16,840 Speaker 1: and I don't want you overwhelmed, because you're going to 380 00:23:16,840 --> 00:23:19,680 Speaker 1: be overwhelmed by our listeners. And so she emailed, I 381 00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:21,359 Speaker 1: don't know a couple months back and said, I've added 382 00:23:21,359 --> 00:23:23,480 Speaker 1: another doctor, and I think you were right. It's a 383 00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:25,240 Speaker 1: good judgment. She wasn't happy with me at the time, 384 00:23:26,840 --> 00:23:29,719 Speaker 1: and she said, I got doctor Lou. She's fantastic. It's 385 00:23:29,760 --> 00:23:32,719 Speaker 1: amazing story and anyway, and I said, well, let's give 386 00:23:32,760 --> 00:23:35,639 Speaker 1: her a few months to get caught up and integrated 387 00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:37,800 Speaker 1: into your practice. And now that's what she's doing. So 388 00:23:38,160 --> 00:23:43,320 Speaker 1: if anybody needs a great doctor that is an advocate 389 00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:47,439 Speaker 1: for you the patient, email me and I'll connect you 390 00:23:47,480 --> 00:23:50,160 Speaker 1: directly with them, or just go to breathemd dot org. 391 00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:52,960 Speaker 1: But I am happy to have her as a show sponsor. 392 00:23:53,040 --> 00:23:57,720 Speaker 1: If you can't tell, we don't accept advertising on the 393 00:23:57,720 --> 00:24:01,760 Speaker 1: Michael Berry Show. We partner with people who are going 394 00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:04,120 Speaker 1: to take care of you to give you the best 395 00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:06,240 Speaker 1: experience we possibly can do. They get it right one 396 00:24:06,280 --> 00:24:08,720 Speaker 1: hundred percent of the time. No, neither do I. Neither 397 00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:11,959 Speaker 1: do you. But they make every effort to fix it 398 00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:14,679 Speaker 1: if they fail, and they give you a lot better 399 00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:17,760 Speaker 1: care than you're going to get whatever the service is 400 00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:21,560 Speaker 1: anywhere else. And that part is true. All right, let's 401 00:24:21,560 --> 00:24:25,400 Speaker 1: go to Kim. Kim, You're on the Michael Berry Show. 402 00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:29,440 Speaker 1: Go ahead, sweetie. Oh, we have to go back to Heather. Okay, Heather, 403 00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:35,920 Speaker 1: what happened with Heather? Oh? Man, I completely forgot. 404 00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:36,760 Speaker 5: Oh. 405 00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:40,840 Speaker 1: I do this all the time, Heather. I absolutely blew it. 406 00:24:43,520 --> 00:24:44,640 Speaker 3: That's all right, I'm here. 407 00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:46,840 Speaker 1: All right, you got one minute and I'll come back 408 00:24:46,840 --> 00:24:49,000 Speaker 1: out of the break. You gotta remind me of stuff. 409 00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:50,800 Speaker 1: You just sit there and look at me and let 410 00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:56,639 Speaker 1: me make a fool of myself, all right, go ahead, hello, yeah, 411 00:24:56,640 --> 00:24:57,080 Speaker 1: go ahead? 412 00:24:58,840 --> 00:25:04,280 Speaker 3: Okay. Yeah. Well, we evacuated from Araby, Louisiana to Birmingham, 413 00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:08,800 Speaker 3: and I had two daughters, two dogs, one of my daughters. 414 00:25:08,800 --> 00:25:11,040 Speaker 3: We lost the house and Araby never went back, lost 415 00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:14,439 Speaker 3: the whole community because nobody went back to Araby for 416 00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:18,480 Speaker 3: the longest time. But now they're building houses. Went to Birmingham. 417 00:25:18,520 --> 00:25:21,080 Speaker 3: That was our first stay, and I remember the first 418 00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:22,600 Speaker 3: night we were there. You're gonna hate me for this, 419 00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:25,440 Speaker 3: Please don't, though, But I remember we were all sitting 420 00:25:25,480 --> 00:25:27,320 Speaker 3: it was like an embassy suite, and we're all sitting 421 00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:30,520 Speaker 3: in the lobby eating and watching the news about what 422 00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:33,360 Speaker 3: was going on with the hurricane. And then Houston came 423 00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:36,480 Speaker 3: on and said, we're going to open the people from 424 00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:39,600 Speaker 3: New Orleans with open arms and half of the people. 425 00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:42,359 Speaker 3: Half of us said, Oh, they're gonna be sorry. And 426 00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:44,800 Speaker 3: the people that wasn't some New Orleans just couldn't understand 427 00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:50,440 Speaker 3: what we were talking about. Yes, you didn't remember. And 428 00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:52,680 Speaker 3: the girls all get pretty at closing time. 429 00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:54,920 Speaker 2: When you're listening to the Michael Berry. 430 00:25:54,640 --> 00:26:05,960 Speaker 5: Show documentary on William on Netflix or Prime. 431 00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:09,320 Speaker 1: I never know, just check them both. That's out right now. 432 00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:12,879 Speaker 1: And I appreciate the fact that they didn't focus on 433 00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:18,359 Speaker 1: his awful politics at all, and that made it. That 434 00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:20,720 Speaker 1: made it wonderful. I thought it was very, very well done. 435 00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:23,080 Speaker 1: It just came out seven one three nine nine, nine 436 00:26:23,119 --> 00:26:27,679 Speaker 1: one thousand. Did we go to kim Seven years ago today, 437 00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:31,879 Speaker 1: we were in the throes of Harvey. It's hard to 438 00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:35,760 Speaker 1: say on this day because it lasted for multiple days. 439 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:38,159 Speaker 1: Depends on where you are. I had friends out in 440 00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:44,680 Speaker 1: the Energy corridor. They were having hurricane survivor parties out 441 00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:48,880 Speaker 1: on the driveway. Nobody was going to work, and they're 442 00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:53,280 Speaker 1: all sitting out taking photos, posting them on Facebook, and 443 00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:56,480 Speaker 1: you know, relieved, and they're sitting out in their lawn 444 00:26:56,560 --> 00:27:02,120 Speaker 1: chairs and drinking their rosees or froze or bourbons or beers, 445 00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:05,119 Speaker 1: and you know, having a little block party, and they 446 00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:09,639 Speaker 1: they missed Harvey, they didn't have the flooding that some 447 00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:12,080 Speaker 1: of their friends, and they're all telling stories and so relieved, 448 00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:20,679 Speaker 1: and then they release the levee the reservoir and that 449 00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:26,480 Speaker 1: really upset people. It's understandable there are things that should 450 00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:32,480 Speaker 1: have been done differently to increase capacity. There are things 451 00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:36,040 Speaker 1: that could have been done that would have affected how 452 00:27:36,119 --> 00:27:38,800 Speaker 1: much they had to release. But there does come a 453 00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:43,359 Speaker 1: point where it's bursting at the seams, and is it 454 00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:48,960 Speaker 1: bursting or busting? Is it bursting bursting and busting and 455 00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:52,159 Speaker 1: further and farther or the two. I know the answer. 456 00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:55,040 Speaker 1: Don't please don't email me. I'll have every English mavin 457 00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:58,919 Speaker 1: out there will be sending me the but anyway, but 458 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:01,520 Speaker 1: at some point you do have to I get the 459 00:28:01,560 --> 00:28:03,639 Speaker 1: science behind it. I've talked to a lot of people 460 00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:09,240 Speaker 1: that aren't involved and aren't protecting their own defense, and 461 00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:12,159 Speaker 1: they tell me, yes, there comes a point like that 462 00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:14,960 Speaker 1: in Harris County, that was the case where you had 463 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:18,120 Speaker 1: to release the levee or you could collapse the entire 464 00:28:18,119 --> 00:28:20,720 Speaker 1: system and then we're all in trouble. So those people 465 00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:23,600 Speaker 1: that weren't hit in the first band the first round 466 00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:29,240 Speaker 1: of it later or hit in it seemingly by choice. 467 00:28:29,520 --> 00:28:33,960 Speaker 1: There was a there was a story in New Orleans. 468 00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:36,320 Speaker 1: I think it was nineteen twenty seven. I'm pretty sure 469 00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:42,480 Speaker 1: it was nineteen twenties, and the parish that New Orleans 470 00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:47,400 Speaker 1: sits in was spared the big flood because I think 471 00:28:47,440 --> 00:28:51,320 Speaker 1: it was Sam Bernard. I think it was Bernard Parish. 472 00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:54,600 Speaker 1: I may get this wrong, but what they did is 473 00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:59,760 Speaker 1: they decided to release the levee upstream and basically bypass 474 00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:04,560 Speaker 1: New Orleans, which, if you're king, that's what you would do. 475 00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:08,440 Speaker 1: But if you're a local resident, you don't appreciate that 476 00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:11,880 Speaker 1: you were chosen as the ones to take the beating 477 00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:17,160 Speaker 1: so that New Orleans, with its commerce and culture and 478 00:29:17,280 --> 00:29:20,520 Speaker 1: great architecture, could be spared. You don't appreciate that one bit. 479 00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:24,520 Speaker 1: But it kind of reminded me of that whole story. 480 00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:27,720 Speaker 1: Ben Gentle, Ben, you're on Michael Berry Show. 481 00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:30,840 Speaker 2: Go ahead, Yes, yes, sir, Yes, sir? How are you? 482 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:31,320 Speaker 3: It was? 483 00:29:32,280 --> 00:29:34,360 Speaker 2: I guess a little bit after the storm, when the 484 00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:37,840 Speaker 2: you know, the storm had blown through, I grabbed my 485 00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:41,960 Speaker 2: john boat and headed up forty five and started pulling 486 00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:44,640 Speaker 2: people out of Dickinson off of roofs and getting them 487 00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:48,720 Speaker 2: to high ground. And it was there was a bunch 488 00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:51,640 Speaker 2: of good old boys doing the same thing. And you know, 489 00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:54,560 Speaker 2: there wasn't really a plan in place, but it seemed 490 00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:59,240 Speaker 2: that everybody just worked together in a really cool, cool 491 00:29:59,280 --> 00:30:01,920 Speaker 2: thing to be experience and be a part of you know. 492 00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:02,880 Speaker 1: And where you from? 493 00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:06,400 Speaker 2: Ben, I guess I think it was two. I'm from Galveston, Texas. 494 00:30:06,840 --> 00:30:08,640 Speaker 1: Where do you oh? Okay, so not one of the 495 00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:09,440 Speaker 1: other Galveston's. 496 00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:12,640 Speaker 2: Oh no, sir, not the other one. 497 00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:14,560 Speaker 1: What do you do? Form just kidding you, Ben, what 498 00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:15,400 Speaker 1: do you do for a living? 499 00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:22,560 Speaker 2: I'm a building maintenance contractor where I'm all over the place. 500 00:30:22,680 --> 00:30:26,680 Speaker 2: I'm Galveston all the way up to Katie Jackson, all around. 501 00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:27,160 Speaker 4: Houston for whom. 502 00:30:27,520 --> 00:30:31,680 Speaker 2: For myself, I own my business. I own a business. 503 00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:33,560 Speaker 1: Okay. So how many employees do you have. 504 00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:37,480 Speaker 2: A little over eighty? 505 00:30:38,520 --> 00:30:39,720 Speaker 1: Did you start the business? 506 00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:42,480 Speaker 2: Depending on the yes, sir, Yes, sir, me and my 507 00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:43,240 Speaker 2: wife did? 508 00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:44,240 Speaker 1: How long ago? 509 00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:47,920 Speaker 4: Uh? Old one? 510 00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:50,160 Speaker 1: What? Oh? Oh? 511 00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:50,360 Speaker 3: One? 512 00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:54,960 Speaker 1: Okay? So you have contracts to maintain buildings and you 513 00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:57,320 Speaker 1: handle from janitorial to repair. 514 00:30:58,200 --> 00:30:58,560 Speaker 3: A c. 515 00:31:00,560 --> 00:31:04,440 Speaker 2: Change. Yeah, preventive maintenance, change light bulbs, filters. I mean 516 00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:06,760 Speaker 2: you can customize it to whatever you want. You know 517 00:31:06,760 --> 00:31:09,040 Speaker 2: what I mean, like, we'll do We'll do anything. 518 00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:13,920 Speaker 1: What do you do day by day? Are you the 519 00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:17,040 Speaker 1: primary client contact? Are you doing the business development? You 520 00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:18,640 Speaker 1: only have so many hours a day. What do you 521 00:31:18,760 --> 00:31:20,120 Speaker 1: personally spend your day doing. 522 00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:24,200 Speaker 2: I'm on my way to winning to change light bulbs 523 00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:26,520 Speaker 2: at a bank right now. But I'll do whatever. 524 00:31:27,040 --> 00:31:27,640 Speaker 5: I do it all. 525 00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:30,080 Speaker 2: I mean, I wear all the hats. I have a 526 00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:33,240 Speaker 2: couple of people that work underneath me. I guess you 527 00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:35,880 Speaker 2: can call a management that kind of manage crews and 528 00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:41,240 Speaker 2: manage jobs. But I answer the phone when my customers call. 529 00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:45,000 Speaker 1: How do you build a building? How do you price 530 00:31:45,080 --> 00:31:47,360 Speaker 1: that by square footage? By mechanicals? 531 00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:51,760 Speaker 2: Yeah, well, well not always square footage, because if it's 532 00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:55,960 Speaker 2: down on the port, you know, a sulfur doc or 533 00:31:56,360 --> 00:31:58,960 Speaker 2: something that's industrial, it's definitely going to be more. It's 534 00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:03,000 Speaker 2: more about time time spent on the property, more about 535 00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:04,080 Speaker 2: labor hours. 536 00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:06,560 Speaker 1: Really, and how many labor hours are built into the 537 00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:10,000 Speaker 1: contract before you then build marginal hours above that. 538 00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:14,880 Speaker 2: Uh, well, we give them a proposal of what it's 539 00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:17,120 Speaker 2: going to cost them, so they don't really know. I 540 00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:18,880 Speaker 2: just go in and look at it and talk to 541 00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:21,440 Speaker 2: them and find out what their needs are. And I 542 00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:23,360 Speaker 2: go home and figured it out. 543 00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:27,840 Speaker 1: What were you doing before one? 544 00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:33,120 Speaker 2: Let's see, I was working for a labor company in Houston. 545 00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:38,520 Speaker 2: Uh was selling labor like two commercial contractors. 546 00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:42,120 Speaker 1: How did you learn? Do you have a background in 547 00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:47,080 Speaker 1: in the mechanical systems and the contracting and and engineering 548 00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:48,480 Speaker 1: and all that or do you just learn it on 549 00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:49,040 Speaker 1: the on the fly? 550 00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:52,920 Speaker 2: Nah? Just a jack of all trades master and I Michael, 551 00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:54,320 Speaker 2: I bet you're. 552 00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:56,840 Speaker 1: A master of a lot of things. That that is. Uh. 553 00:32:57,480 --> 00:33:02,200 Speaker 1: You know, guys like you I admire because I don't 554 00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:06,320 Speaker 1: have any technical proficiency at anything. I mean, I can 555 00:33:06,360 --> 00:33:08,480 Speaker 1: about change the bull, but I might smash it because 556 00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:11,360 Speaker 1: I hold it too tight, screw it up. I'm serious. 557 00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:16,920 Speaker 1: I admire people who can fix problems, solutions finders. My 558 00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:19,440 Speaker 1: dad didn't go to college, but he was a maintenance 559 00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:22,239 Speaker 1: worker at DuPont and if something went down, he had 560 00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:25,040 Speaker 1: to fix it, so around the house we never had 561 00:33:25,120 --> 00:33:27,200 Speaker 1: repair men come to our house. He figured out how 562 00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:28,840 Speaker 1: to fix it. Did he screw some stuff up? Yeah, 563 00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:30,120 Speaker 1: and then he had to figure out how to fix that. 564 00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:32,880 Speaker 1: But I admire that. I really do, and I admire 565 00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:35,000 Speaker 1: your entrepreneurial spirit. That's not an easy thing to do. 566 00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:36,120 Speaker 1: You're selling yourself short