1 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:06,080 Speaker 1: It's that time time, time. 2 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:13,360 Speaker 2: Time, luck and load. So Michael Arry Show is on 3 00:00:13,480 --> 00:00:31,240 Speaker 2: the air, all right, before. 4 00:00:30,920 --> 00:00:32,879 Speaker 1: We get back to the calls, if somebody can assist 5 00:00:32,920 --> 00:00:34,839 Speaker 1: with this, just send an email and now forward it 6 00:00:35,760 --> 00:00:40,800 Speaker 1: Ian writes Zor, I have a predicament. A year ago, 7 00:00:40,840 --> 00:00:42,479 Speaker 1: we're gonna pay attention. You might be the one that 8 00:00:42,479 --> 00:00:44,279 Speaker 1: could help with this. You tend to be pretty good 9 00:00:44,280 --> 00:00:47,440 Speaker 1: with this kind of stuff. A year ago, we installed 10 00:00:47,479 --> 00:00:53,040 Speaker 1: turf in our backyard. It is beautiful. Kids love it. 11 00:00:53,720 --> 00:00:57,240 Speaker 1: I love it, very peaceful. Six months ago we started 12 00:00:57,280 --> 00:00:58,400 Speaker 1: seeing holes in the turf. 13 00:01:01,240 --> 00:01:01,520 Speaker 3: All right. 14 00:01:01,560 --> 00:01:06,039 Speaker 1: You see, we've established our characters, we've set the location, 15 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:09,920 Speaker 1: we're all invested in what's going on. Now we have 16 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:13,600 Speaker 1: presented the problem. Okay, this is where this is where 17 00:01:13,600 --> 00:01:19,039 Speaker 1: the novel takes off. Unfortunately I thought it was my dogs, 18 00:01:19,240 --> 00:01:22,440 Speaker 1: so they were wrongfully convicted. Okay, so now we have 19 00:01:22,520 --> 00:01:25,399 Speaker 1: the moral dilemma. We've made the mistake. All right, how 20 00:01:25,440 --> 00:01:27,640 Speaker 1: are we going to fix this? Okay? I like I like, 21 00:01:28,080 --> 00:01:32,679 Speaker 1: I like the storytelling technique. More recently, I've seen a 22 00:01:32,720 --> 00:01:36,440 Speaker 1: growth in the amount of holes we have. Okay, the 23 00:01:36,480 --> 00:01:41,080 Speaker 1: problems getting worse. So that's creating this this this uh 24 00:01:41,360 --> 00:01:46,880 Speaker 1: need to fix it. This artificial uh, you know, advancement 25 00:01:46,959 --> 00:01:49,560 Speaker 1: of the narrative, liking that you know, like when they 26 00:01:49,600 --> 00:01:51,680 Speaker 1: got to go that the ticking time bomb and you 27 00:01:51,720 --> 00:01:54,520 Speaker 1: see how many seconds are left. That creates this artificial 28 00:01:54,600 --> 00:01:59,920 Speaker 1: sense of urgency, like an abnormal growth. Subsequently, I noticed 29 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:06,040 Speaker 1: squirrels digging and looking for acorns. I have apologized profusely 30 00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:08,640 Speaker 1: to my dogs. But now here's the problem. I am 31 00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:11,160 Speaker 1: staging an Alamo type of resistance to the squirrels that 32 00:02:11,160 --> 00:02:14,880 Speaker 1: I'm killing many per day. I honestly can't keep count. 33 00:02:16,040 --> 00:02:19,680 Speaker 1: I've called pest control companies, lawn companies. None of them 34 00:02:19,720 --> 00:02:22,679 Speaker 1: have any guidance. I know you're from Orange, which is 35 00:02:22,720 --> 00:02:25,680 Speaker 1: pretty near Louisiana. Can you point me in the right direction, 36 00:02:25,919 --> 00:02:29,360 Speaker 1: as I really don't want to kill squirrels anymore. Save 37 00:02:29,400 --> 00:02:34,639 Speaker 1: the squirrels, but also save the turf. What should I do? Well? 38 00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:37,839 Speaker 1: The short answer is go to wild Birds Unlimited, call over, 39 00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:41,800 Speaker 1: go to the location on the northwest side, ask for 40 00:02:41,880 --> 00:02:44,880 Speaker 1: rich edie E. He's the owner, he and his wife. 41 00:02:45,480 --> 00:02:48,280 Speaker 1: Tell him what you're coming for, and he's got some 42 00:02:48,400 --> 00:02:53,040 Speaker 1: things that you can use to keep the squirrels away. 43 00:02:53,200 --> 00:02:59,119 Speaker 1: But he told me years ago. Rich is my Rich 44 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:03,680 Speaker 1: is my wild bird guru for peacocks, squirrels. My wife 45 00:03:03,960 --> 00:03:06,600 Speaker 1: loves to look at the birds. But he told me 46 00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:11,359 Speaker 1: years ago that half, he said, when you look at 47 00:03:11,360 --> 00:03:17,880 Speaker 1: my cells of squirrel related items, ramon, half are to 48 00:03:18,080 --> 00:03:22,560 Speaker 1: keep squirrels away and half are to attract them. It's 49 00:03:22,600 --> 00:03:26,080 Speaker 1: like speed bumps. People want them or they want them 50 00:03:26,120 --> 00:03:31,280 Speaker 1: out of there. It's kind of fifty to fifty. But 51 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:35,640 Speaker 1: I don't want you to judge me for this. I 52 00:03:35,680 --> 00:03:38,280 Speaker 1: try not to pander. I don't alter what I say 53 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:41,000 Speaker 1: to win your favor. I know that some things I 54 00:03:41,040 --> 00:03:43,880 Speaker 1: say upset people. I don't care. I have to do 55 00:03:43,920 --> 00:03:46,640 Speaker 1: the show that I do, and I think it's I 56 00:03:46,640 --> 00:03:49,000 Speaker 1: think it's more authentic to be honest, even when you 57 00:03:49,040 --> 00:03:52,080 Speaker 1: know you upset people. I realize this is not going 58 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:53,800 Speaker 1: to win me any friends, and it may cause me 59 00:03:53,840 --> 00:04:01,480 Speaker 1: some discomfort. But I like squirrels. I really enjoy watching squirrels, 60 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:04,360 Speaker 1: and I already know what I'm gonna hear. Yeah, you 61 00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:06,920 Speaker 1: wait till one ambassads end up in your attic. You 62 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:09,120 Speaker 1: won't one of them gets in your attic. You won't 63 00:04:09,240 --> 00:04:10,960 Speaker 1: wait till one of them gets in your feet. No, 64 00:04:11,280 --> 00:04:16,680 Speaker 1: I understand, right. I like dogs too well, you wait 65 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:19,680 Speaker 1: till one of them bite you. But the squirrels are 66 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:24,719 Speaker 1: not perfect. I get that part of it. I really 67 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:28,480 Speaker 1: I grasp that part of the concept. But I just 68 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:31,640 Speaker 1: I like squirrels. I don't know what else to say. 69 00:04:31,760 --> 00:04:40,800 Speaker 1: I like squirrels. Burna would be a great option. I 70 00:04:40,800 --> 00:04:43,320 Speaker 1: I do not shoot the squirrels with my burner gum 71 00:04:43,480 --> 00:04:46,280 Speaker 1: that I'm willing to admit. But I do shoot squirrels. 72 00:04:46,320 --> 00:04:50,159 Speaker 1: I do shoot possums and armadilla's And the reason is 73 00:04:51,440 --> 00:04:53,560 Speaker 1: I don't want to kill them because I don't want 74 00:04:53,600 --> 00:04:55,719 Speaker 1: them dead in my yard. And Georgia go try to 75 00:04:55,720 --> 00:05:01,120 Speaker 1: eat them, she just will. Nicole from BA Tom Rouge, 76 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:03,080 Speaker 1: you're up, sweetheart, go ahead. 77 00:05:04,960 --> 00:05:08,640 Speaker 4: Hey nervous, But how old are you? 78 00:05:08,680 --> 00:05:09,320 Speaker 1: Don't be nervous. 79 00:05:09,520 --> 00:05:13,359 Speaker 4: I'm I'm thirty, okay. 80 00:05:13,080 --> 00:05:13,320 Speaker 3: So. 81 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:18,360 Speaker 1: Thirty. So you were born in ninety four. So there 82 00:05:18,520 --> 00:05:21,760 Speaker 1: is a point at which there were a bunch of 83 00:05:21,839 --> 00:05:24,480 Speaker 1: Nicoles coming out every day, and then all of a 84 00:05:24,480 --> 00:05:29,279 Speaker 1: sudden somebody issued an edict, don't name them Nicole. Girls, y'all, 85 00:05:29,320 --> 00:05:32,800 Speaker 1: don't name your children Nicole anymore. They don't name babies Nicole. 86 00:05:33,040 --> 00:05:35,039 Speaker 1: Have you ever met a Nicole under twenty. 87 00:05:37,640 --> 00:05:40,279 Speaker 4: I don't think so, but it's actually my middle name, 88 00:05:40,360 --> 00:05:42,760 Speaker 4: and a lot of people have Nicole as their middle name. 89 00:05:43,400 --> 00:05:48,200 Speaker 1: Really, Oh, like Anna Nicole. Yeah you know who Ana 90 00:05:48,240 --> 00:05:49,080 Speaker 1: Nicole Smith was? 91 00:05:50,920 --> 00:05:51,600 Speaker 4: Yeah? 92 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:52,320 Speaker 1: Do you really? 93 00:05:55,200 --> 00:05:56,240 Speaker 4: I mean, I've heard of her. 94 00:05:56,600 --> 00:06:00,200 Speaker 1: It's so weird for me, being fifty three, Nicole, that 95 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:02,800 Speaker 1: I will have conversations with people like you, and in 96 00:06:02,839 --> 00:06:05,200 Speaker 1: my mind we're about the same age, but we're not. 97 00:06:05,560 --> 00:06:08,640 Speaker 1: I'm old enough to be your parents plus five years. 98 00:06:09,080 --> 00:06:11,280 Speaker 1: And it's so weird for me because I'll make a 99 00:06:11,279 --> 00:06:15,080 Speaker 1: cultural reference to something in the nineties, and it's like 100 00:06:15,160 --> 00:06:17,599 Speaker 1: when my kids, I expect that because they're seventeen and eighteen. 101 00:06:17,960 --> 00:06:20,960 Speaker 1: But I'll make a cultural reference to somebody that's thirty. 102 00:06:20,960 --> 00:06:23,920 Speaker 1: Our assistant is thirty, and sometimes I'll say things and 103 00:06:23,960 --> 00:06:26,000 Speaker 1: she has no idea who someone like, how could you 104 00:06:26,080 --> 00:06:28,880 Speaker 1: not know who? And Nicoles math has But of course 105 00:06:28,880 --> 00:06:32,279 Speaker 1: you wouldn't because you're thirty. But anyway, go ahead. 106 00:06:32,279 --> 00:06:37,880 Speaker 4: It wasn't my time, right, So I heard you talking 107 00:06:37,880 --> 00:06:41,679 Speaker 4: about the Harvey floods. And I actually live in Houston 108 00:06:41,760 --> 00:06:44,760 Speaker 4: now while I live in Humble, but I was born 109 00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:47,279 Speaker 4: and raised in Baton Ridge and so we moved here 110 00:06:47,360 --> 00:06:50,719 Speaker 4: in twenty nineteen, so of course we weren't here for 111 00:06:50,760 --> 00:06:53,480 Speaker 4: the flood. They're Harvey floods, but we hear about it, 112 00:06:53,600 --> 00:06:55,280 Speaker 4: you know, it's the first thing you hear about when 113 00:06:55,320 --> 00:06:57,279 Speaker 4: you're looking at a house. Did it flood in Harvey 114 00:06:57,400 --> 00:07:00,640 Speaker 4: or not. But what a lot of people from here 115 00:07:00,680 --> 00:07:05,760 Speaker 4: don't realize is that a year earlier, almost to the date, 116 00:07:06,440 --> 00:07:10,040 Speaker 4: we had a thousand year flood in Baton Rouge and 117 00:07:10,600 --> 00:07:14,600 Speaker 4: that was really what started the Cajun Navy to where 118 00:07:14,640 --> 00:07:17,320 Speaker 4: they were able to work through that and get their 119 00:07:17,400 --> 00:07:22,040 Speaker 4: whole process, you know, fine tuned to where whenever you 120 00:07:22,080 --> 00:07:25,560 Speaker 4: guys had the Harvey flood a year later, they were 121 00:07:25,640 --> 00:07:28,520 Speaker 4: ready to go, activated, ready to be here, and knew 122 00:07:28,560 --> 00:07:29,000 Speaker 4: what to do. 123 00:07:29,600 --> 00:07:31,600 Speaker 1: And there were a lot of people from Houston, because 124 00:07:31,600 --> 00:07:33,920 Speaker 1: there were listeners of mine sending me photos who went 125 00:07:33,960 --> 00:07:36,680 Speaker 1: to Baton Rouge to help. And then a lot of 126 00:07:36,720 --> 00:07:39,880 Speaker 1: those folks who were helped a year later came here 127 00:07:40,920 --> 00:07:43,120 Speaker 1: and and that was I remember Edimitt was a county 128 00:07:43,160 --> 00:07:47,480 Speaker 1: judge at the time, and he said, hey, Cajun Navy, 129 00:07:47,520 --> 00:07:50,560 Speaker 1: Redneck Navy, we need y'all to stay out. We're trying 130 00:07:50,560 --> 00:07:52,960 Speaker 1: to fix this, y'all are getting in the way. And 131 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:55,760 Speaker 1: within a day he said, hey, Michael, can you put 132 00:07:55,800 --> 00:07:57,520 Speaker 1: the word out? And I appreciated that he did that 133 00:07:57,520 --> 00:08:00,000 Speaker 1: he put his privacyte He said, those guys are saving lives. 134 00:08:00,720 --> 00:08:03,040 Speaker 1: And I was so delighted because people like the guy 135 00:08:03,080 --> 00:08:04,520 Speaker 1: that called in earlier, they just wanted to jump in 136 00:08:04,560 --> 00:08:07,280 Speaker 1: their job. My wife and kids were rescued. I couldn't 137 00:08:07,320 --> 00:08:09,400 Speaker 1: get back into town because the town was cut off 138 00:08:09,440 --> 00:08:11,679 Speaker 1: that we couldn't get cars in, and I was literally 139 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:14,040 Speaker 1: I was driving back from Baton Rouge. I would m 140 00:08:14,120 --> 00:08:16,920 Speaker 1: see an event every year, uh there for the Louisiana 141 00:08:16,920 --> 00:08:23,480 Speaker 1: Pediatric uh cardiology practice and uh uncle Jerry and I 142 00:08:23,480 --> 00:08:26,600 Speaker 1: could not get back and it was traumatic because I 143 00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:28,680 Speaker 1: couldn't for several hours. I couldn't speak. I couldn't get 144 00:08:28,680 --> 00:08:31,040 Speaker 1: ahold of my wife, and I was scared. They waded 145 00:08:31,120 --> 00:08:35,439 Speaker 1: out in chest high water and my boys were so 146 00:08:35,480 --> 00:08:38,760 Speaker 1: brave and I was just so incredibly proud of them. 147 00:08:38,960 --> 00:08:43,200 Speaker 1: Did I hear a little baby in the background, Yeah, 148 00:08:43,240 --> 00:08:44,680 Speaker 1: what's that baby's name? 149 00:08:45,120 --> 00:08:48,240 Speaker 4: Leanne mi Row? 150 00:08:49,520 --> 00:08:49,960 Speaker 1: You say it? 151 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:52,520 Speaker 4: Louder mir Row? 152 00:08:53,960 --> 00:08:54,559 Speaker 3: Pretty name? 153 00:08:55,240 --> 00:08:55,720 Speaker 1: I love that. 154 00:08:56,679 --> 00:09:11,920 Speaker 3: Radio Michael Berry. 155 00:09:04,800 --> 00:09:09,400 Speaker 1: Nicole, Yes, is Mia Rose your first base. 156 00:09:09,440 --> 00:09:13,520 Speaker 4: I appreciate the song. No, she's actually my third. 157 00:09:13,800 --> 00:09:15,120 Speaker 1: Okay, what are the other names? 158 00:09:15,280 --> 00:09:17,040 Speaker 4: Have a nine year old and a four year old? 159 00:09:17,880 --> 00:09:19,000 Speaker 4: William and Mason. 160 00:09:19,280 --> 00:09:21,120 Speaker 1: Oh so now you have. 161 00:09:21,080 --> 00:09:21,679 Speaker 3: A little girl. 162 00:09:23,640 --> 00:09:25,880 Speaker 4: Yeah, I finally got my girl, So I'm done. 163 00:09:26,080 --> 00:09:32,120 Speaker 1: You know, I know so many people who there's either 164 00:09:32,440 --> 00:09:36,240 Speaker 1: four girls or four boys. Sometimes it'll be five, and 165 00:09:36,320 --> 00:09:39,840 Speaker 1: you know, their parents we're trying. They're like, do we 166 00:09:39,920 --> 00:09:42,640 Speaker 1: really need another kid? But they want to have the 167 00:09:42,679 --> 00:09:46,200 Speaker 1: other sex and they keep trying, and danged if they can't, 168 00:09:46,520 --> 00:09:51,280 Speaker 1: they are they just cannot get there. Well, good for you. 169 00:09:51,440 --> 00:09:52,000 Speaker 1: Was that the goal? 170 00:09:52,240 --> 00:09:57,080 Speaker 4: Well she's actually yeah, she's actually the first girl granddaughter 171 00:09:57,160 --> 00:09:58,480 Speaker 4: on both sides of the family. 172 00:09:59,160 --> 00:10:01,959 Speaker 1: God, she's going to be so spoiled. 173 00:10:03,800 --> 00:10:06,000 Speaker 4: Yeah, she's already spoiled. 174 00:10:07,520 --> 00:10:13,000 Speaker 1: Nicole. We have had a just deluge of blessings by 175 00:10:13,080 --> 00:10:19,000 Speaker 1: baby in our family. So a little over two years ago, 176 00:10:19,679 --> 00:10:23,280 Speaker 1: we wouldn't have thought that we would have any because 177 00:10:23,320 --> 00:10:25,760 Speaker 1: we didn't have any, and then all of a sudden, 178 00:10:25,760 --> 00:10:30,359 Speaker 1: they started. My nephew Michael Berry, who lives in Who's 179 00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:33,480 Speaker 1: on the Humble Fire Department, He and his wife had 180 00:10:33,480 --> 00:10:38,240 Speaker 1: a baby. My niece Meghan, who works at insperity. She 181 00:10:39,040 --> 00:10:42,000 Speaker 1: had a baby and they are brother and Michael and 182 00:10:42,040 --> 00:10:45,520 Speaker 1: Meghan are brother and sister, and they are a couple 183 00:10:45,520 --> 00:10:49,880 Speaker 1: of years apart, and they had their babies within weeks. 184 00:10:50,559 --> 00:10:55,080 Speaker 1: So my brother Steve went from no grandkids to two 185 00:10:55,120 --> 00:10:58,760 Speaker 1: grandkids just like that, just overnight. It just and he 186 00:10:58,840 --> 00:11:01,440 Speaker 1: couldn't be happier. He and his Laura could not be happy. 187 00:11:01,600 --> 00:11:07,200 Speaker 1: So we had those two born. And then just before that, 188 00:11:07,320 --> 00:11:09,719 Speaker 1: my niece Ruchie, who's more like our daughter. She came 189 00:11:09,760 --> 00:11:11,640 Speaker 1: here when she was eighteen, went to u age and 190 00:11:11,640 --> 00:11:15,160 Speaker 1: went off to New York law school. And so we 191 00:11:15,200 --> 00:11:17,040 Speaker 1: feel like like I got to walk her down the 192 00:11:17,080 --> 00:11:19,240 Speaker 1: aisle along with her dad. That's how close we are 193 00:11:19,280 --> 00:11:23,280 Speaker 1: to her. And so she had a baby two years 194 00:11:23,320 --> 00:11:28,120 Speaker 1: ago orn. And then her sister Shilpy, she's the one 195 00:11:28,200 --> 00:11:30,400 Speaker 1: married to Kyle, and they're the ones that get up 196 00:11:30,440 --> 00:11:33,600 Speaker 1: and sing. I make them at our events. They're both 197 00:11:33,640 --> 00:11:37,240 Speaker 1: at Occidental Petroleum. They're both engineers. He's a PhD. She's 198 00:11:37,240 --> 00:11:42,560 Speaker 1: a geologist. And they had their daughter. What's it been, 199 00:11:43,160 --> 00:11:46,959 Speaker 1: I guess may So each of the sisters there had 200 00:11:46,960 --> 00:11:50,240 Speaker 1: a child within a year and a half. And then 201 00:11:50,960 --> 00:11:56,040 Speaker 1: Rouchie gets pregnant while Sheilpy is giving birth. So we're 202 00:11:56,080 --> 00:11:58,240 Speaker 1: not even paying attention because we got this other baby 203 00:11:58,240 --> 00:12:00,000 Speaker 1: coming in, which is shell Bey and Kyle's first bay. 204 00:12:00,800 --> 00:12:03,240 Speaker 1: And then the baby's born and we're all in the 205 00:12:03,280 --> 00:12:05,920 Speaker 1: new baby swaddling, and all of a sudden we look 206 00:12:06,040 --> 00:12:08,800 Speaker 1: up and last week or it has been last week, 207 00:12:08,920 --> 00:12:13,559 Speaker 1: and yeah, last week, last Monday, Ruchie goes in and 208 00:12:13,640 --> 00:12:18,280 Speaker 1: she has her baby. So three five, five babies in 209 00:12:18,320 --> 00:12:21,880 Speaker 1: our immediate family within two years, and I'd have fifty. 210 00:12:21,960 --> 00:12:22,400 Speaker 5: I love it. 211 00:12:22,520 --> 00:12:25,080 Speaker 1: I love everything about I'm not the new baby person 212 00:12:25,080 --> 00:12:27,400 Speaker 1: that women are. I like them when they get to 213 00:12:27,440 --> 00:12:29,440 Speaker 1: be about two, and especially when they get to be five. 214 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:33,559 Speaker 1: But our culture has become such a culture of death 215 00:12:34,160 --> 00:12:38,440 Speaker 1: and reading the news and analyzing and commenting all day 216 00:12:38,840 --> 00:12:42,240 Speaker 1: it just feels so gloomy and dark, and then just 217 00:12:42,240 --> 00:12:49,760 Speaker 1: just this burst of new born babies and life and optimism. 218 00:12:50,320 --> 00:12:53,199 Speaker 1: It is the greatest thing ever. I love it. So 219 00:12:53,960 --> 00:12:56,840 Speaker 1: I hope that helps your postpartum depression, not being able 220 00:12:56,840 --> 00:13:00,400 Speaker 1: to sleep being stuck home all day. Maybe I helped 221 00:13:00,400 --> 00:13:01,480 Speaker 1: you a little bit in that way. 222 00:13:03,160 --> 00:13:07,360 Speaker 4: Oh, I love the babies. And she's actually so she's 223 00:13:07,480 --> 00:13:11,480 Speaker 4: named after my grandmother. Like I said, and it's amazing 224 00:13:11,559 --> 00:13:16,360 Speaker 4: because my grandmother died about a year or less than 225 00:13:16,360 --> 00:13:20,320 Speaker 4: a year ago, and when we went through her house 226 00:13:20,760 --> 00:13:23,160 Speaker 4: to you know, get some stuff that we wanted to 227 00:13:23,280 --> 00:13:26,560 Speaker 4: keep to remember her by, it was really hard because 228 00:13:26,840 --> 00:13:30,079 Speaker 4: her house flooded in that flood and she had about 229 00:13:30,120 --> 00:13:33,840 Speaker 4: seven feet of water, and so everything from the last 230 00:13:34,040 --> 00:13:38,480 Speaker 4: fifty sixty years was destroyed. But I have my daughter, 231 00:13:38,559 --> 00:13:40,760 Speaker 4: and so I always get to remember her when I 232 00:13:40,760 --> 00:13:41,360 Speaker 4: see my daughter. 233 00:13:42,960 --> 00:13:52,800 Speaker 1: You know, I'm a deeply religious person, and I also 234 00:13:54,040 --> 00:14:01,080 Speaker 1: believe that some things that are seeming coincidences are God's hand. 235 00:14:01,840 --> 00:14:06,000 Speaker 1: And I see this cycle of life. I cannot tell you, Nicole, 236 00:14:06,600 --> 00:14:11,040 Speaker 1: how many times I have seen this happen where a 237 00:14:11,120 --> 00:14:14,800 Speaker 1: grandparent dies and then a baby comes into the life 238 00:14:14,880 --> 00:14:19,080 Speaker 1: in very short order, and it just it balances life 239 00:14:19,120 --> 00:14:21,400 Speaker 1: because we're not meant to live forever. We're not supposed 240 00:14:21,480 --> 00:14:25,200 Speaker 1: to uh. And it's just it's just this completion of 241 00:14:25,240 --> 00:14:27,360 Speaker 1: the circle of life. It is a it is a 242 00:14:27,400 --> 00:14:30,640 Speaker 1: beautiful thing and it really does. It helps, It helps 243 00:14:30,680 --> 00:14:34,200 Speaker 1: a lot, it does. What does your husband do? 244 00:14:36,680 --> 00:14:39,400 Speaker 4: He is a data analyst at Chevron? 245 00:14:39,880 --> 00:14:41,200 Speaker 1: Oh well do you work? 246 00:14:43,560 --> 00:14:43,720 Speaker 2: Uh? 247 00:14:43,960 --> 00:14:50,680 Speaker 1: No outside though? Oh good for you. Yeah, Uh, you 248 00:14:50,720 --> 00:14:53,280 Speaker 1: are a great co host, Nicole. I got an email. 249 00:14:53,440 --> 00:14:55,600 Speaker 1: Maybe somebody out there can help me, email me if 250 00:14:55,640 --> 00:15:00,960 Speaker 1: you can. A lady emailed me and said, if anybody 251 00:15:01,040 --> 00:15:07,360 Speaker 1: out there has a has a Texas history book, let 252 00:15:07,400 --> 00:15:11,760 Speaker 1: me see if I can find it for a fourth 253 00:15:11,840 --> 00:15:16,280 Speaker 1: grader for someone who is homeschooling. I don't know. If 254 00:15:16,440 --> 00:15:21,320 Speaker 1: here we go yep, Kate said, are there any Texas 255 00:15:21,360 --> 00:15:24,560 Speaker 1: history books you could recommend for my homeschool fourth grader? 256 00:15:24,680 --> 00:15:27,240 Speaker 1: Or point me in the direction of someone who could 257 00:15:27,240 --> 00:15:29,520 Speaker 1: recommend some Oh, I think she just wants some books. 258 00:15:29,560 --> 00:15:29,680 Speaker 4: Oh. 259 00:15:29,680 --> 00:15:33,280 Speaker 1: I can recommend Texas history books all day long, but 260 00:15:34,280 --> 00:15:41,160 Speaker 1: just thinking about resources for homeschoolers. Yeah, never mind, my 261 00:15:41,240 --> 00:15:45,520 Speaker 1: brain tends to make connections where it gets weird anyway. 262 00:15:45,560 --> 00:15:47,520 Speaker 1: Good for you. So you your homeschooling your four year 263 00:15:47,520 --> 00:15:54,760 Speaker 1: old and your nine year old? Now, yes, how's that going? Oh? 264 00:15:54,800 --> 00:15:58,040 Speaker 4: It's fun? I love it. We get to have, you know, 265 00:15:58,200 --> 00:16:00,840 Speaker 4: lots of fun conversations all day. You get to see 266 00:16:00,920 --> 00:16:04,560 Speaker 4: how their brain works. I don't I love the baby 267 00:16:04,600 --> 00:16:09,240 Speaker 4: phase and the kid phase. I don't love the toddler phase. 268 00:16:09,600 --> 00:16:13,560 Speaker 4: So once they're able to have a hold of conversation 269 00:16:13,680 --> 00:16:16,400 Speaker 4: with me, I love it. We just we go and 270 00:16:16,480 --> 00:16:20,520 Speaker 4: learn about life all day. He makes me happy. 271 00:16:23,280 --> 00:16:27,760 Speaker 1: That's really cool. You know. I admire women who do 272 00:16:27,800 --> 00:16:33,440 Speaker 1: that because I think it's my impression that it's a 273 00:16:33,480 --> 00:16:37,800 Speaker 1: lot harder than we would imagine. This is just my impression. 274 00:16:38,120 --> 00:16:40,240 Speaker 1: It's a lot harder than we would imagine, but also 275 00:16:40,280 --> 00:16:43,160 Speaker 1: a lot more rewarding than we would imagine. 276 00:16:43,760 --> 00:16:48,120 Speaker 4: Oh yeah, definitely. If I could send them to public school, 277 00:16:48,200 --> 00:16:51,440 Speaker 4: it would be easier, but I wouldn't get to help 278 00:16:51,480 --> 00:16:53,600 Speaker 4: shape him into who he's going to be. 279 00:16:53,760 --> 00:16:57,000 Speaker 1: So please tell me that y'all go on field trips. 280 00:16:58,960 --> 00:17:03,480 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, because the mommies email me who are homeschoolers. 281 00:17:04,320 --> 00:17:06,560 Speaker 1: They'll talk about, you know, Michael, if you send a 282 00:17:06,640 --> 00:17:09,560 Speaker 1: kid to public school and they're at the school for 283 00:17:09,720 --> 00:17:11,760 Speaker 1: seven hours in a day, which is kind of standard. 284 00:17:12,520 --> 00:17:16,080 Speaker 1: When you take out the meals and the recesses and 285 00:17:16,160 --> 00:17:19,360 Speaker 1: the grab ass and all the things that you know 286 00:17:19,560 --> 00:17:23,720 Speaker 1: are being done, the actual amount of education is about 287 00:17:23,760 --> 00:17:25,760 Speaker 1: an hour and a half a day if you're lucky. 288 00:17:26,160 --> 00:17:28,159 Speaker 1: So what they do is they knock that out and 289 00:17:28,200 --> 00:17:30,080 Speaker 1: then they go on a field trip. So they go 290 00:17:30,119 --> 00:17:33,080 Speaker 1: see Joel BArch at the Houston Museum of Natural Science, 291 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:35,000 Speaker 1: or they go to the zoo, or they go to 292 00:17:35,040 --> 00:17:37,400 Speaker 1: the park, or they go for a walk, or they 293 00:17:37,440 --> 00:17:40,359 Speaker 1: go you know, do whatever. I think that would be cool. 294 00:17:41,040 --> 00:17:41,240 Speaker 3: Yeah. 295 00:17:41,760 --> 00:17:43,720 Speaker 1: So what is the nine year old doing right now? 296 00:17:43,800 --> 00:17:45,600 Speaker 1: What is a nine year old doing at this moment? 297 00:17:47,600 --> 00:17:50,920 Speaker 4: He is keeping his one year old sister happy because 298 00:17:50,920 --> 00:17:51,560 Speaker 4: we're in the car. 299 00:17:51,960 --> 00:17:55,439 Speaker 1: Oh okay, you are a great caller, Nicole. Thank you, 300 00:17:56,040 --> 00:17:56,840 Speaker 1: thanks for calling me. 301 00:17:57,080 --> 00:17:57,680 Speaker 4: You're welcome. 302 00:17:57,680 --> 00:18:03,760 Speaker 1: You call it their Oh Nicole, hold on, Nicole, I 303 00:18:03,920 --> 00:18:06,479 Speaker 1: don't wait right there. I have Gringo's gift card for you. 304 00:18:06,840 --> 00:18:08,680 Speaker 1: Russell Lebara said, I sent you all those gift cards. 305 00:18:08,720 --> 00:18:10,159 Speaker 1: You never give them away. I'm going to send you one. 306 00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:14,640 Speaker 1: Hold on, So my trainer, my treasures came over last night. 307 00:18:15,160 --> 00:18:19,439 Speaker 1: We had our workout. And by the way, I'm not 308 00:18:19,560 --> 00:18:24,040 Speaker 1: in any way bragging about my workout. I am the 309 00:18:24,080 --> 00:18:28,359 Speaker 1: weakest man of anybody in our audience. I'm not some 310 00:18:28,520 --> 00:18:32,920 Speaker 1: big the hell. I will whip you right now. I 311 00:18:32,960 --> 00:18:37,760 Speaker 1: will meet me halfway between our studios. I will kick 312 00:18:37,800 --> 00:18:43,119 Speaker 1: you in them. That is not a flex, literally and figuratively. 313 00:18:43,400 --> 00:18:48,640 Speaker 1: That is not a flex. I ain't outlifting anybody noodle arms, 314 00:18:49,440 --> 00:18:55,840 Speaker 1: no strength, never have, never will just Hey, look, we 315 00:18:55,920 --> 00:19:00,000 Speaker 1: all have our pluses and minuses. I was not blessed 316 00:19:00,480 --> 00:19:05,840 Speaker 1: with great muscularity. Now I can starve myself better than 317 00:19:05,840 --> 00:19:09,960 Speaker 1: an anorexit woman. And that's a I'm gonna tell you something. 318 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:13,720 Speaker 1: If you've listened to me for very long, I lost 319 00:19:13,720 --> 00:19:16,919 Speaker 1: fifteen pounds this summer. Just decided to be a summer. 320 00:19:16,960 --> 00:19:19,360 Speaker 1: You know what you're putting on a pound pound there, 321 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:23,080 Speaker 1: it's time you drop fifteen boom, And I did. And 322 00:19:23,080 --> 00:19:25,159 Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you something that is harder for me 323 00:19:25,280 --> 00:19:29,440 Speaker 1: than you, because I like to eat more than anybody anyway. 324 00:19:29,560 --> 00:19:31,640 Speaker 1: Back to it. So when I say I'm working out, 325 00:19:31,880 --> 00:19:36,960 Speaker 1: I don't mean to in any way. Dudes, you don't. No, no, no, 326 00:19:37,280 --> 00:19:41,119 Speaker 1: I defer to you. There is no muscularity here and 327 00:19:41,160 --> 00:19:44,520 Speaker 1: there's no desire for it. I look better lean. My 328 00:19:44,640 --> 00:19:48,040 Speaker 1: working out is to strengthen my core. If you read 329 00:19:48,080 --> 00:19:51,520 Speaker 1: Peter Attia, who our research director Sandy Peterson got me 330 00:19:51,560 --> 00:19:56,800 Speaker 1: into Attia. I subscribe to his newsletter. I read and 331 00:19:56,920 --> 00:20:00,720 Speaker 1: think a lot about physical and mental health. And you 332 00:20:00,760 --> 00:20:03,040 Speaker 1: know what I eat and how much I sleep, and 333 00:20:03,080 --> 00:20:05,120 Speaker 1: how much water I drink, and what foods I eat 334 00:20:05,160 --> 00:20:08,120 Speaker 1: and what combinations and what time I eat, I find 335 00:20:08,119 --> 00:20:10,399 Speaker 1: that stuff to be very interesting. You may not, and 336 00:20:10,760 --> 00:20:14,400 Speaker 1: I try not to overshare, but that's interesting to me anyway. 337 00:20:14,960 --> 00:20:20,320 Speaker 1: So Petrick was over last night and we were talking 338 00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:31,560 Speaker 1: about family in these sorts of things, and I use 339 00:20:31,600 --> 00:20:35,240 Speaker 1: a highlighter. So if you were to take a transcript 340 00:20:35,240 --> 00:20:37,359 Speaker 1: of today's show, which, by the way, if you listen 341 00:20:37,400 --> 00:20:40,159 Speaker 1: to our podcast and you go online, they now create 342 00:20:40,200 --> 00:20:43,240 Speaker 1: an AI transcript, they'll get a few of the words wrong. 343 00:20:43,320 --> 00:20:45,800 Speaker 1: They spell my last name b A r Ry on occasion. 344 00:20:45,840 --> 00:20:47,920 Speaker 1: But if you can get over that, if you're a 345 00:20:47,960 --> 00:20:49,920 Speaker 1: person who wants to read the show instead of listen, 346 00:20:50,560 --> 00:20:52,679 Speaker 1: you can do that on your screen. If you go 347 00:20:52,720 --> 00:20:56,040 Speaker 1: to our podcast, you go to Michael Berryshow dot com 348 00:20:56,080 --> 00:21:00,440 Speaker 1: and I'll take you through there. Michael's talk about the 349 00:21:00,440 --> 00:21:06,639 Speaker 1: circle of life and Petru's daughter El got married earlier 350 00:21:06,680 --> 00:21:11,800 Speaker 1: this year in the spring, and two weeks before her wedding, 351 00:21:12,920 --> 00:21:16,600 Speaker 1: his only child, his daughter, she just graduated text A 352 00:21:16,600 --> 00:21:21,720 Speaker 1: and m she's marrying her bow. Everything's going great, and 353 00:21:21,760 --> 00:21:25,800 Speaker 1: his mom gets ovarian cancer. Because that's how it works, 354 00:21:25,840 --> 00:21:28,840 Speaker 1: isn't it. Everything in your life is great. God says, 355 00:21:28,880 --> 00:21:32,000 Speaker 1: wait a second, don't get too prideful. I'm going to 356 00:21:32,080 --> 00:21:34,440 Speaker 1: put some challenges in front of you. I'm going to 357 00:21:34,520 --> 00:21:39,960 Speaker 1: test you. And so anyway, so that was lingering in 358 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:42,920 Speaker 1: their mind, and he was telling me about his mother 359 00:21:43,040 --> 00:21:47,320 Speaker 1: going in, and I am told ovarian and cervical cancer. 360 00:21:48,440 --> 00:21:51,439 Speaker 1: I don't really know the difference, to be honest with you, 361 00:21:51,480 --> 00:21:54,480 Speaker 1: it's all kind of down in that magic zone. And 362 00:21:54,520 --> 00:21:56,800 Speaker 1: I don't study that. I like to keep it wonderful. 363 00:21:56,840 --> 00:21:58,840 Speaker 1: It's why I don't want to know the ingredients in 364 00:21:58,920 --> 00:22:01,800 Speaker 1: a meal. I just like some things to be fairy dust. 365 00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:04,919 Speaker 1: I don't want to be an expert on it, so 366 00:22:04,960 --> 00:22:08,359 Speaker 1: I don't. But I'm told cervical and ovarian cancer is 367 00:22:08,560 --> 00:22:12,640 Speaker 1: very painful, very you don't want any cancer. I'm told 368 00:22:12,680 --> 00:22:16,399 Speaker 1: you don't want that. So anyway, his mom goes in, 369 00:22:16,520 --> 00:22:20,359 Speaker 1: she has this procedure, and the doctor comes out and 370 00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:24,200 Speaker 1: tells his dad, I can honestly tell you that today, 371 00:22:24,359 --> 00:22:26,720 Speaker 1: right now, at this moment, I can't make any promises 372 00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:32,119 Speaker 1: in the future. Your wife is cancer free. Man. She 373 00:22:32,280 --> 00:22:37,960 Speaker 1: comes out of her procedure. Ramon older people, she's eighty 374 00:22:38,040 --> 00:22:40,520 Speaker 1: years old. Older people don't do as well with anesthesia, 375 00:22:40,520 --> 00:22:43,040 Speaker 1: and it was it wasn't proba feels old fashioned anesthesia. 376 00:22:44,520 --> 00:22:48,760 Speaker 1: She comes out of the anesthesia. There's the pain, there's 377 00:22:48,760 --> 00:22:54,480 Speaker 1: a wooziness. First thing she says to her husband, I'm sorry. 378 00:22:56,320 --> 00:22:57,159 Speaker 1: Have you eaten. 379 00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:00,159 Speaker 3: Me? 380 00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:04,800 Speaker 1: Some music? In case I can't continue. Let me tell 381 00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:12,600 Speaker 1: you something. Woo fellas the love of a wife and 382 00:23:12,640 --> 00:23:17,840 Speaker 1: a mother. There is nothing. There is nothing. If you 383 00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:20,359 Speaker 1: are not in touch with the love of your wife 384 00:23:20,359 --> 00:23:25,359 Speaker 1: and your mother, you are missing out on life. Anyway. 385 00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:28,360 Speaker 1: He tells me that story. I'm serious. Put some music 386 00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:31,720 Speaker 1: under me just in case I gotta go quiet. He 387 00:23:31,800 --> 00:23:37,439 Speaker 1: tells me that story, and he says, tomorrow is their 388 00:23:37,520 --> 00:23:42,840 Speaker 1: fiftieth wedding anniversary. I said, I'm sorry, fifty eighth. Fifty eighth. 389 00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:49,440 Speaker 1: Wow man so Ed and Dorothy Petru, happy wedding anniversary. 390 00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:53,040 Speaker 1: And he said, oh, by the way, it's also my 391 00:23:53,160 --> 00:23:57,080 Speaker 1: thirtieth wedding anniversary same day. They didn't plan it that way. 392 00:23:57,480 --> 00:24:00,080 Speaker 1: He didn't even know what his parents wedding anniverse t 393 00:24:00,359 --> 00:24:05,959 Speaker 1: was when they planned his wedding, and they didn't tell him. Laffwards. So, 394 00:24:06,280 --> 00:24:12,480 Speaker 1: Michael and Julie Petrue of Manville, Texas, Happy thirtieth wedding anniversary. 395 00:24:13,480 --> 00:24:17,160 Speaker 1: So I tell you all that to tell you this, 396 00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:26,720 Speaker 1: whatever it is that you're chasing cars, money, vacation homes, 397 00:24:27,560 --> 00:24:34,879 Speaker 1: social prestige, country club membership, a new truck, whatever it 398 00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:39,920 Speaker 1: is that you are chasing, whatever it is out there 399 00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:51,080 Speaker 1: that is your false idol, retreat into the comfort of 400 00:24:51,720 --> 00:24:59,080 Speaker 1: the love of those around you, because that's what matters. 401 00:25:10,560 --> 00:25:13,840 Speaker 1: Coming up, I'll tell you what a turn Ramon was 402 00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:18,879 Speaker 1: to his wife yesterday and how awful he felt about 403 00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:22,240 Speaker 1: it afterwards. And I'm not letting it go. I'm not 404 00:25:22,280 --> 00:25:28,439 Speaker 1: even kidding awful. He was so ashamed and embarrassed of himself, 405 00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:29,760 Speaker 1: and I'm going to tell you the story. He is 406 00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:32,440 Speaker 1: optimized about how awful he was. 407 00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:33,240 Speaker 3: To any old. 408 00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:35,080 Speaker 1: Man. 409 00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:40,280 Speaker 2: Yes, I just put that on Michael Barris Michael Barry Show. 410 00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:55,600 Speaker 1: Sneaking alonga man, I apologize. I'm gonna be honest with you. 411 00:25:57,680 --> 00:26:00,360 Speaker 1: Glenn Beck used to I don't listen to Glenn Back anymore. 412 00:26:00,520 --> 00:26:05,840 Speaker 1: Nothing against Glenn, but he's on when we're on. And 413 00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:10,040 Speaker 1: I used to spend a lot of time listening to 414 00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:15,600 Speaker 1: other talk shows for ideas inspiration, to see what I 415 00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:19,199 Speaker 1: liked and didn't like about what people did. And he 416 00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:22,680 Speaker 1: would start crying and I didn't like that. Because it 417 00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:25,560 Speaker 1: would affect my mood and I didn't need that. And 418 00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:27,560 Speaker 1: instead of doing what I tell everybody else to do, 419 00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:31,480 Speaker 1: which is turn the dang down if you don't like it, 420 00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:36,000 Speaker 1: it would annoy me. And I look back now and think, well, 421 00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:39,600 Speaker 1: that's dumb. That's on me. Why am I bothered with what? 422 00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:41,400 Speaker 1: He Why don't I just turned it off? Only there's 423 00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:45,840 Speaker 1: sixty two stations in Houston alone. But because of that, 424 00:26:47,080 --> 00:26:51,919 Speaker 1: I tried not to cry. You might be saying, Michael, 425 00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:54,480 Speaker 1: you cry all the time. Yeah, but I cry less 426 00:26:54,520 --> 00:26:58,240 Speaker 1: than I would. My wife never cries. My kids never cry. 427 00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:02,000 Speaker 1: I mean ever. I don't think I've seen my kids cry. 428 00:27:02,080 --> 00:27:05,159 Speaker 1: I'm not even kidding. They take after their mom. And 429 00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:07,239 Speaker 1: I've seen her cry one time in my life, and 430 00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:09,800 Speaker 1: that was the death of her mother figure. Her mom 431 00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:12,040 Speaker 1: died when she was young, the death of her mother figure, 432 00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:16,119 Speaker 1: who was murdered, and she cried because she felt for 433 00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:18,639 Speaker 1: her dad because she was here and her dad was 434 00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:22,719 Speaker 1: there alone, and that was the reason she cried. So 435 00:27:23,119 --> 00:27:25,119 Speaker 1: you realize what I'm dealing with is a bunch of 436 00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:31,880 Speaker 1: non criers. But we are poor white people from East Texas. 437 00:27:32,359 --> 00:27:37,920 Speaker 1: We hug, we kiss on the cheek, we cry. We 438 00:27:38,119 --> 00:27:42,040 Speaker 1: are very emotional. And you know one thing I will 439 00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:46,720 Speaker 1: say about the Bush family. Somebody made a statement to 440 00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:50,760 Speaker 1: George H. W. Bush, the dad, at one point, and 441 00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:52,840 Speaker 1: he said, hey, I'm a crier, just some people are. 442 00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:57,080 Speaker 1: Some people aren't. And Barbara was not. Barbara was stiff, 443 00:27:57,160 --> 00:28:02,680 Speaker 1: upper lip, stern, tough, ruddy. She didn't cry. So anyway, 444 00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:06,280 Speaker 1: I apologize because it's not intended to be a croy fest. 445 00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:11,280 Speaker 1: I get very emotional about the things that matter most 446 00:28:11,359 --> 00:28:14,920 Speaker 1: in life, and that is our mothers and our wives, 447 00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:17,959 Speaker 1: and our children, and our brothers and our fathers, and 448 00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:23,480 Speaker 1: our close friends and our veterans and people who do 449 00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:28,320 Speaker 1: for us. And so that is something that I probably 450 00:28:28,359 --> 00:28:39,520 Speaker 1: get too emotional over. I was telling you the story 451 00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:43,760 Speaker 1: about Ramon, and I wasn't kidding you. And I will 452 00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:46,240 Speaker 1: end the show with this story because I don't want 453 00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:48,280 Speaker 1: to start bawling again. That's the last thing you need 454 00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:52,080 Speaker 1: to hear. So let me get one more quick call 455 00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:57,800 Speaker 1: on here. Rick, You're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, Are. 456 00:28:57,640 --> 00:28:59,080 Speaker 3: We still talking about Harvey? 457 00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:01,240 Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah? Seven years ago? 458 00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:07,240 Speaker 3: Oh, seven years ago. Actually tomorrow was the day that 459 00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:10,360 Speaker 3: those of us in Kingwood were affected by the water. 460 00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:12,760 Speaker 3: We had been preparing for a foot and a half, 461 00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:16,440 Speaker 3: put everything up on counters on the islands, and then 462 00:29:16,480 --> 00:29:19,160 Speaker 3: got a phone call late that afternoon that the water 463 00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:22,160 Speaker 3: was coming. It was going to be at least six 464 00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:25,920 Speaker 3: foot probably, and uh so we just we just got out. 465 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:28,479 Speaker 3: I flowed up an air mattress and put two dogs 466 00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:31,840 Speaker 3: on its suitcase and floated this side of the neighborhood 467 00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:34,720 Speaker 3: and left town for a couple of days and came back. 468 00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:38,800 Speaker 3: And let me tell you about the what the amazing 469 00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:43,760 Speaker 3: results of water. Where we had put dining room chairs 470 00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:47,000 Speaker 3: on the on the counter, and when I came home, 471 00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:51,960 Speaker 3: those chairs had floated and were balanced on the back 472 00:29:52,120 --> 00:29:56,680 Speaker 3: legs against each other. I had cat food that spread 473 00:29:56,720 --> 00:30:01,160 Speaker 3: out through the house and had jig in to clumps 474 00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:05,200 Speaker 3: of cat food on the chair rails and anything that 475 00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:06,040 Speaker 3: was flat. 476 00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:06,600 Speaker 1: It was. 477 00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:12,920 Speaker 3: It was incredible what water waters can do. But we 478 00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:19,000 Speaker 3: got everything put back together, rebuilt the house everything in 479 00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:21,840 Speaker 3: February that year, and then we ended up selling and 480 00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:24,280 Speaker 3: getting out of there for fear of it coming back 481 00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:31,040 Speaker 3: to us again. The funny, funny story, we after moving 482 00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:34,560 Speaker 3: furniture and everything out of the house and everything stacked 483 00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:37,880 Speaker 3: up in the middle of the street. I'm walking down 484 00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:40,360 Speaker 3: the driveway and a van pulls up and a lady 485 00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:43,240 Speaker 3: gets out and she says that Mike Lindell was giving 486 00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:47,040 Speaker 3: away ten thousand my pillows and she gave us two. 487 00:30:47,120 --> 00:30:50,000 Speaker 3: And I was so excited about it. And I read 488 00:30:50,040 --> 00:30:51,840 Speaker 3: on the end of it that it was you had 489 00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:54,360 Speaker 3: to put them in the dryer. As I looked over 490 00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:57,080 Speaker 3: in my front yard and saw my dryer laying on 491 00:30:57,120 --> 00:31:00,400 Speaker 3: the side, the disappointment set in. But I knew I 492 00:31:00,440 --> 00:31:02,400 Speaker 3: was going to wait at some point and I would 493 00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:04,640 Speaker 3: have a dryer, and that's when we were able to 494 00:31:04,760 --> 00:31:08,560 Speaker 3: use those pillows. I love it, absolutely love it. 495 00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:12,719 Speaker 1: Rick, Thank you for that story. I love those stories. 496 00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:15,760 Speaker 1: That we made it through all that. We're going to 497 00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:19,239 Speaker 1: make it through a lot more before it's over. So 498 00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:21,200 Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you this story about Ramon because 499 00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:25,680 Speaker 1: he authorized it, and let it be a learning lesson 500 00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:29,360 Speaker 1: to all of us to be kinder and more patient 501 00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:33,560 Speaker 1: to the people around us. And I don't want you 502 00:31:33,640 --> 00:31:36,120 Speaker 1: to think less of Ramon because he could have said, no, 503 00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:38,680 Speaker 1: don't tell the story, or he could have edited the 504 00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:40,800 Speaker 1: email that he had sent me yesterday and said, don't 505 00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:43,520 Speaker 1: tell that. But he said, no, no, full disclosure. I 506 00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:47,440 Speaker 1: got to be transparent. That's authenticity is what we preach. 507 00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:51,520 Speaker 1: So here we go. He sends me an email yesterday 508 00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:53,040 Speaker 1: morning and by the way, he was a cranky butt 509 00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:55,320 Speaker 1: to me too, but the subject line was this morning, 510 00:31:55,360 --> 00:32:00,600 Speaker 1: I was a cranky butt, probably a little hungover, piled 511 00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:05,760 Speaker 1: up bad mood. Amy didn't clean up after dinner last night. 512 00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:09,520 Speaker 1: Food was left out, perfect conditions for me being a 513 00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:12,720 Speaker 1: jerk toward her this morning. I did still kiss her 514 00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:15,320 Speaker 1: when I left. I felt like I owed that to her. 515 00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:22,520 Speaker 1: Then she posted this this morning on the Facebook machine, 516 00:32:23,280 --> 00:32:28,040 Speaker 1: lesson always be nice to your wife. This is what 517 00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:30,880 Speaker 1: his wife posted, and he had completely forgotten. 518 00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:35,480 Speaker 5: Amy writes, today marks ten years since my mom passed away. 519 00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:38,920 Speaker 5: She was my best friend. I would call her immediately 520 00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:41,040 Speaker 5: when I had something to tell her, and I still 521 00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:44,000 Speaker 5: get that urge to pick up the phone. I always 522 00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:47,560 Speaker 5: wonder how much the boys would have her laughing. My 523 00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:51,000 Speaker 5: mom was hilarious. For example, she wanted Raymond and I 524 00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:53,800 Speaker 5: to have kids so badly. For our birthdays in June 525 00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:56,680 Speaker 5: and July, right before she passed, her and my dad 526 00:32:56,720 --> 00:33:00,120 Speaker 5: bought us a frame cocopelly, which is a fertility deity 527 00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:04,560 Speaker 5: and told us to put it under our bed. Yeah okay, Mom, 528 00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:05,800 Speaker 5: Well wouldn't you know it? 529 00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:06,680 Speaker 1: Jokes on us. 530 00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:10,000 Speaker 5: July was born one year, one month, and one day 531 00:33:10,040 --> 00:33:13,800 Speaker 5: after my mom left us. Thanks Mom, you would love 532 00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:14,800 Speaker 5: these boys so much. 533 00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:22,080 Speaker 1: You just don't know right from raw and in your 534 00:33:22,120 --> 00:33:26,360 Speaker 1: eyes I see heartaches for me. 535 00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:30,400 Speaker 3: Right from the start. 536 00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:33,320 Speaker 5: Who stole my heart? 537 00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:35,040 Speaker 3: Ruby? 538 00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:47,360 Speaker 1: It's you, I hear, your boy, and I must come 539 00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:47,920 Speaker 1: to you.