1 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:11,280 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So 2 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:26,880 Speaker 1: Michael Arry Show is on the air. I asked the 3 00:00:26,920 --> 00:00:30,520 Speaker 1: people to call in and share their stories if they're 4 00:00:30,520 --> 00:00:33,519 Speaker 1: working more than one job because of this economy, and 5 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:35,880 Speaker 1: all the lines lit up and everybody was on the line, 6 00:00:35,880 --> 00:00:37,199 Speaker 1: and then they hung up. I guess they had to 7 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:41,120 Speaker 1: get back to work. Is that how that works? So 8 00:00:42,760 --> 00:00:49,640 Speaker 1: my buddy is I said, well, how much do you 9 00:00:49,720 --> 00:00:53,400 Speaker 1: make by day? And m mess you make it the plant. 10 00:00:53,760 --> 00:00:55,960 Speaker 1: And because he's a contractor, no an employees to make 11 00:00:55,960 --> 00:00:58,480 Speaker 1: twenty eight bucks an hour doing that, why don't you 12 00:00:58,560 --> 00:01:01,800 Speaker 1: just work more overtime? Because at AutoZone he gets twelve 13 00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:05,240 Speaker 1: dollars an hour, So why don't you work more overtime 14 00:01:05,760 --> 00:01:08,160 Speaker 1: and do that? He said, I would literally never see 15 00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:12,400 Speaker 1: my wife and kids. He's got two teenage sons that 16 00:01:12,440 --> 00:01:15,400 Speaker 1: are still at home. He said, I just made Ason. 17 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:18,320 Speaker 1: And this is a guy who's been willing over the years. 18 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:21,520 Speaker 1: We keep up by text and he'll tell me where 19 00:01:21,520 --> 00:01:25,920 Speaker 1: he's working. He's going to Louisiana to work. He's going 20 00:01:26,160 --> 00:01:33,520 Speaker 1: to Midland a lot. He's gone to Odessa a lot. 21 00:01:34,640 --> 00:01:38,440 Speaker 1: He's gone out West Texas to various places. And the 22 00:01:38,520 --> 00:01:43,840 Speaker 1: thing about it is when we were young, he dated 23 00:01:43,880 --> 00:01:47,320 Speaker 1: a girl from Mexico, ended up marrying her, and he 24 00:01:48,640 --> 00:01:51,960 Speaker 1: learned to speak Spanish. And I'm proud of my Spanish, 25 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:56,040 Speaker 1: his Spanish. If you're not, if you're on the phone 26 00:01:56,040 --> 00:01:59,920 Speaker 1: with him, you would be certain. This is a war 27 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:03,800 Speaker 1: working class Mexican. Because he learned to speak Spanish on 28 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:07,200 Speaker 1: concrete cruise, which was when we got out of school. 29 00:02:07,240 --> 00:02:09,440 Speaker 1: That's what he did for years, and then he ran 30 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:12,240 Speaker 1: concrete cruise and then that business went out of that 31 00:02:12,280 --> 00:02:16,359 Speaker 1: company went out of business. He speaks the best Spanish 32 00:02:16,880 --> 00:02:20,880 Speaker 1: you can possibly imagine for a white dude, and I 33 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:24,160 Speaker 1: mean I mean street Spanish. The kind of Spanish that 34 00:02:24,960 --> 00:02:31,760 Speaker 1: he learns. He learns the vernacular, he learns the lingo. 35 00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:35,880 Speaker 1: He was asking him last night because he said, the 36 00:02:35,880 --> 00:02:40,320 Speaker 1: manager loves at the AutoZone in Willis. The manager loves 37 00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:42,840 Speaker 1: when somebody comes in and doesn't speak good English, or 38 00:02:42,880 --> 00:02:46,800 Speaker 1: English at all, and he'll say, hold on Espanol, hold 39 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:50,280 Speaker 1: on moment, titoe or momento and he goes and gets Ben, 40 00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:53,600 Speaker 1: and Ben comes over and then Ben starts into him 41 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:57,280 Speaker 1: with Spanish. And I said, damn, Ben, that's impressive. He said, 42 00:02:57,320 --> 00:02:59,000 Speaker 1: you could do it. Your Spanish is just as good. 43 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:01,320 Speaker 1: And I said, no, I couldn't because I don't have 44 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:04,359 Speaker 1: the vocabulary, Like I don't know what filter is. I mean, 45 00:03:04,360 --> 00:03:08,799 Speaker 1: I do, but there are certain words that unless they're 46 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:11,280 Speaker 1: a cognate, which is just a word that is the 47 00:03:11,320 --> 00:03:13,799 Speaker 1: same in English or Spanish, like chocolate or choko lot 48 00:03:13,919 --> 00:03:16,160 Speaker 1: it's the same word, you just pronounce it. You pronounce 49 00:03:16,240 --> 00:03:20,239 Speaker 1: the vowels differently, or pronounce the vowels purely. I don't 50 00:03:20,280 --> 00:03:23,960 Speaker 1: know all the all the vocabulary. And he said his 51 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:26,360 Speaker 1: manager gets a real kick because he loves to watch 52 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:29,160 Speaker 1: this white dude's you know, blow blow people's mind because 53 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:32,639 Speaker 1: you he looks like a redneck and he speaks perfect, 54 00:03:33,400 --> 00:03:37,800 Speaker 1: perfect Spanish. So anyway, I'm getting him hired in Willis 55 00:03:37,880 --> 00:03:42,120 Speaker 1: one way or another for for more than he's making. 56 00:03:42,280 --> 00:03:45,240 Speaker 1: Now that's at least that's that's the plan. Ramon. All right, 57 00:03:45,280 --> 00:03:47,200 Speaker 1: So we got the folks. Oh, Stephen was on in 58 00:03:47,280 --> 00:03:50,040 Speaker 1: need to Drop, but he's back. He must be calling 59 00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:52,720 Speaker 1: in during his breaks. Steven, you're on the Michael Berry Show. 60 00:03:53,880 --> 00:03:54,960 Speaker 2: So what is Michael? 61 00:03:55,040 --> 00:03:55,440 Speaker 3: First time? 62 00:03:55,520 --> 00:03:56,040 Speaker 4: Long time? 63 00:03:56,240 --> 00:03:58,920 Speaker 2: Yes, sir, thank you first time, long time. Really enjoy 64 00:03:58,960 --> 00:04:01,280 Speaker 2: your show. I had to hang up because, like you said, 65 00:04:01,400 --> 00:04:05,360 Speaker 2: I'm working. I work for a company, national company, but 66 00:04:05,440 --> 00:04:09,040 Speaker 2: we're based here. We're regional, regionally operated here in Houston, 67 00:04:09,160 --> 00:04:11,520 Speaker 2: and they rhyme with y'all, I'll put it that way. 68 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:13,600 Speaker 2: And I drive a service truck around all day long. 69 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:15,720 Speaker 2: And after I do this for about eight or ten 70 00:04:15,760 --> 00:04:18,080 Speaker 2: hours a day, I usually pull up long enough to 71 00:04:18,080 --> 00:04:19,560 Speaker 2: fill up my water cup. And then I got to 72 00:04:19,560 --> 00:04:22,440 Speaker 2: go cut grass every night, which is my side gig, 73 00:04:22,480 --> 00:04:25,040 Speaker 2: which is hard work and I have to, but I 74 00:04:25,160 --> 00:04:28,360 Speaker 2: got to do it to make ends meet. My wife 75 00:04:28,440 --> 00:04:31,040 Speaker 2: cuts hair, and she has people left and right well 76 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:34,120 Speaker 2: with the last year or so, they're calling in, Hey, Courtney, 77 00:04:34,160 --> 00:04:36,240 Speaker 2: I can't come. I just can't afford it. Can we 78 00:04:36,440 --> 00:04:38,680 Speaker 2: send it out a few more weeks or something? But 79 00:04:38,960 --> 00:04:40,800 Speaker 2: we are very much people that are not We're not 80 00:04:40,880 --> 00:04:42,800 Speaker 2: living paycheck to paycheck. But we had a tree go 81 00:04:42,960 --> 00:04:45,800 Speaker 2: through our home back in July. So we're living in 82 00:04:45,839 --> 00:04:48,480 Speaker 2: a you know, in a camper and a driveway, arguing 83 00:04:48,520 --> 00:04:50,599 Speaker 2: with the insurance company over what they say it needs 84 00:04:50,600 --> 00:04:53,000 Speaker 2: to cost to fix versus what somebody's telling us. And 85 00:04:53,839 --> 00:04:55,720 Speaker 2: we're just out here like everybody else, man, you know, 86 00:04:55,720 --> 00:04:57,520 Speaker 2: we're just you know, the same money that we're making 87 00:04:57,520 --> 00:04:59,680 Speaker 2: two years ago, just not getting it done. And that's why, 88 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:02,160 Speaker 2: you know, my daughter even laughs, you know, daddy, you 89 00:05:02,160 --> 00:05:04,200 Speaker 2: got to cut grass. Then I'm like, yeah, dude, you know. 90 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:06,800 Speaker 2: So last night's first time I played volleyball with her, 91 00:05:06,839 --> 00:05:08,400 Speaker 2: and you know, since the beginning of the year. So 92 00:05:08,640 --> 00:05:10,160 Speaker 2: we're just out here trying to make ends me. But 93 00:05:10,200 --> 00:05:11,680 Speaker 2: we appreciate everything you do on the show. 94 00:05:11,720 --> 00:05:15,920 Speaker 1: Okay, thank you, buddy, Ryan, you're on the Michael Berry Show. 95 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:20,480 Speaker 3: Go ahead, sir. So I work three jobs. 96 00:05:21,120 --> 00:05:24,720 Speaker 4: I'm a teacher. I coach gymnastics on the side. I 97 00:05:24,760 --> 00:05:27,400 Speaker 4: also do gutter cleaning and Christmas lights. 98 00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:33,320 Speaker 1: When you're a teacher, at what grade do you teach? 99 00:05:34,920 --> 00:05:37,800 Speaker 4: I teach high school, all grades, high school English. I'm 100 00:05:37,839 --> 00:05:39,680 Speaker 4: in northeast Texas, okay. 101 00:05:39,960 --> 00:05:43,560 Speaker 1: And then you do the volleyball at a like at 102 00:05:43,560 --> 00:05:44,520 Speaker 1: a separate facility. 103 00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:49,640 Speaker 4: Well, I do cheerleading in gymnastics at a separate private 104 00:05:49,640 --> 00:05:50,360 Speaker 4: club facility. 105 00:05:50,440 --> 00:05:53,240 Speaker 1: Yes, sir, did you have a background in gymnastics? 106 00:05:54,600 --> 00:05:58,159 Speaker 4: Yes, sir, I cheered, are they This is twenty four, 107 00:05:58,240 --> 00:06:00,799 Speaker 4: twenty five years and the sport cheered, and middle school 108 00:06:00,880 --> 00:06:02,880 Speaker 4: cheer and high school cheered in college and just coached 109 00:06:02,920 --> 00:06:03,440 Speaker 4: ever since. 110 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:07,440 Speaker 1: And then your third job is what. 111 00:06:09,080 --> 00:06:11,320 Speaker 4: I do, Christmas lights and the clean gutters. 112 00:06:11,640 --> 00:06:13,800 Speaker 1: And I guess you can do that. So how do 113 00:06:13,880 --> 00:06:14,920 Speaker 1: you get those jobs? 114 00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:20,599 Speaker 4: Word of mouth, a little bit of advertising on social media. 115 00:06:20,720 --> 00:06:23,719 Speaker 4: But I've got to turn business away with Christmas lights 116 00:06:23,720 --> 00:06:29,560 Speaker 4: this year. It's just nine up hours of the day. 117 00:06:29,960 --> 00:06:33,640 Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I get it. I've got a buddy named 118 00:06:33,680 --> 00:06:37,560 Speaker 1: Art de Trinaltis and he had a mosquito company, and 119 00:06:38,320 --> 00:06:43,279 Speaker 1: he's a friend of mine and he's built the mosquito business. 120 00:06:43,880 --> 00:06:47,160 Speaker 1: And he said, you know, Michael, my biggest problem is 121 00:06:47,360 --> 00:06:49,800 Speaker 1: once it gets cold, I got several months, I got 122 00:06:49,800 --> 00:06:52,400 Speaker 1: a crew. I can't keep them busy. I wish I 123 00:06:52,400 --> 00:06:55,719 Speaker 1: could figure something out. And on a whim, I said, 124 00:06:56,160 --> 00:06:59,000 Speaker 1: what about Christmas tree lights? And he thought I was 125 00:06:59,080 --> 00:07:02,160 Speaker 1: joking talking about it. And a week later he came back. 126 00:07:02,200 --> 00:07:04,560 Speaker 1: He had a business plan. Now he makes more money 127 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:07,800 Speaker 1: on the Christmas tree lights, which is three months or yeah, 128 00:07:07,839 --> 00:07:09,800 Speaker 1: three months of his business, because's two months putting it up, 129 00:07:09,800 --> 00:07:11,320 Speaker 1: in one month taking it down. 130 00:07:11,840 --> 00:07:11,960 Speaker 2: Uh. 131 00:07:12,400 --> 00:07:14,920 Speaker 1: And he stores them with the whole thing, and he's 132 00:07:15,120 --> 00:07:18,360 Speaker 1: you know, he's reached a certain scale where that that 133 00:07:18,480 --> 00:07:20,520 Speaker 1: part of his business is actually making more than the 134 00:07:20,520 --> 00:07:22,480 Speaker 1: business that was that was the core business. But that's 135 00:07:22,480 --> 00:07:25,720 Speaker 1: hard work, dude, that is hard. 136 00:07:25,960 --> 00:07:27,720 Speaker 4: If I just I can't find people that will work 137 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:29,200 Speaker 4: the way I want him to work, or I was 138 00:07:29,280 --> 00:07:29,800 Speaker 4: staying work. 139 00:07:29,880 --> 00:07:36,680 Speaker 1: So you know, it's interesting you say that when you 140 00:07:36,760 --> 00:07:40,640 Speaker 1: find a hand a guy that can that ken and 141 00:07:40,680 --> 00:07:44,960 Speaker 1: will work. Ben was telling me about the manager at 142 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:49,680 Speaker 1: the Auto Zone in Willis and he said, Michael, this 143 00:07:49,720 --> 00:07:55,160 Speaker 1: guy makes probably twenty bucks an hour. And no, no, no, 144 00:07:55,400 --> 00:07:58,280 Speaker 1: this guy makes about one thousand dollars a week and 145 00:07:58,320 --> 00:08:03,240 Speaker 1: he works between fifty and six hours every week, never 146 00:08:03,320 --> 00:08:10,280 Speaker 1: takes time off, cheerful, hard working, knowledgeable about our products. 147 00:08:10,840 --> 00:08:14,960 Speaker 1: He making the schedule, making sure everybody's there, somebody's not there. 148 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:16,720 Speaker 1: He does it work. He said, I've never seen anything 149 00:08:16,720 --> 00:08:19,440 Speaker 1: like it. But Ben works like that too. You know, 150 00:08:21,160 --> 00:08:26,440 Speaker 1: companies are eventually going to when the owner, when their 151 00:08:26,480 --> 00:08:30,080 Speaker 1: owner operated, they're eventually going to get out of hiring 152 00:08:30,120 --> 00:08:35,080 Speaker 1: DEI and they're going to hire guys whatever they look like, black, white, 153 00:08:35,160 --> 00:08:40,600 Speaker 1: Hispanic male, female that have that kind of pluck like you, 154 00:08:40,679 --> 00:08:43,600 Speaker 1: like the earlier caller. You get you a guy like 155 00:08:43,640 --> 00:08:47,640 Speaker 1: that that's working three jobs, you hire that guy, and 156 00:08:47,679 --> 00:08:49,480 Speaker 1: you say, look, I'll pay you more than you're making 157 00:08:49,520 --> 00:08:51,560 Speaker 1: for those three jobs, and you won't have to drive 158 00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:54,000 Speaker 1: back and forth to those jobs. That guy's worth his 159 00:08:54,040 --> 00:08:57,200 Speaker 1: waiting gold. You get good employees. 160 00:08:56,720 --> 00:09:00,280 Speaker 5: Like that in the history of our christ called. 161 00:09:00,640 --> 00:09:03,000 Speaker 1: We can't afford four more years of this. 162 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:15,800 Speaker 5: But life goes on, and this old world we'll keep 163 00:09:15,880 --> 00:09:16,840 Speaker 5: on turning. 164 00:09:18,559 --> 00:09:21,760 Speaker 1: Clint, you're on the Michael Berry shows. We're talking to 165 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:26,319 Speaker 1: people who are working multiple jobs to make ends meet 166 00:09:26,480 --> 00:09:31,120 Speaker 1: because Kamala Harris's economy is killing us. What you got, sir? 167 00:09:32,480 --> 00:09:34,920 Speaker 3: Oh? Yeah, yeah. So I have a couple of jobs. 168 00:09:34,960 --> 00:09:38,600 Speaker 3: One is I do like a reverse logistical business, you know, 169 00:09:38,760 --> 00:09:42,960 Speaker 3: forty fifty hours a week. Then I also have a teach. 170 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:45,560 Speaker 3: I do some teaching, but it's probably not too many, 171 00:09:45,720 --> 00:09:48,839 Speaker 3: you know, I do this, but I teach mining. You're 172 00:09:48,840 --> 00:09:52,920 Speaker 3: familiar with mimes, hello. 173 00:09:53,080 --> 00:09:55,560 Speaker 1: Like Charlie Chaplin or down under the Earth? 174 00:09:55,640 --> 00:09:59,439 Speaker 3: Well, yeah, but it's more yeah mining. Yeah, I teach mimes, 175 00:09:59,480 --> 00:10:02,000 Speaker 3: and so we've been doing that and then he went 176 00:10:02,040 --> 00:10:04,040 Speaker 3: over there with them and then just didn't know if 177 00:10:04,360 --> 00:10:06,040 Speaker 3: Craig can do that. So it's you know, it's eighty 178 00:10:06,080 --> 00:10:10,200 Speaker 3: hours a week. So that's what we're doing. 179 00:10:11,280 --> 00:10:14,400 Speaker 1: And I have no idea where we are here. So 180 00:10:14,559 --> 00:10:17,160 Speaker 1: are we talking about a mom like a wall that 181 00:10:17,240 --> 00:10:20,200 Speaker 1: doesn't exist Charlie Chaplin style? Are we talking about a 182 00:10:20,200 --> 00:10:21,760 Speaker 1: place to go down and dig for coal? 183 00:10:23,160 --> 00:10:26,280 Speaker 3: Oh? No, I'm sorry, mine am? I am as in 184 00:10:26,400 --> 00:10:29,120 Speaker 3: Mary mining. Yeah, that's just a part time job of 185 00:10:29,880 --> 00:10:36,120 Speaker 3: main jobstical do that, you know? So that's se what is? 186 00:10:39,840 --> 00:10:42,840 Speaker 3: What's a logistical company? And we do back in reversing 187 00:10:43,600 --> 00:10:47,200 Speaker 3: and so it's just you know, it's not that difficult, but. 188 00:10:47,640 --> 00:10:49,880 Speaker 1: I literally have no idea what it is. Can you 189 00:10:49,880 --> 00:10:50,720 Speaker 1: help me understand that? 190 00:10:50,760 --> 00:10:54,520 Speaker 3: Okay, Well, put the supply chain. Usually you just back 191 00:10:54,600 --> 00:10:56,640 Speaker 3: into it and if you reverse it, it comes back 192 00:10:56,679 --> 00:11:00,360 Speaker 3: to its fruition. So that's that's kind of how works. 193 00:11:00,400 --> 00:11:03,360 Speaker 3: I've just been trained on it for several years. But 194 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:05,520 Speaker 3: you know, if he had. 195 00:11:09,120 --> 00:11:12,400 Speaker 1: Tom, Hello Tom, this is Michael. 196 00:11:13,559 --> 00:11:22,600 Speaker 3: Oh sorry, Mike ye good, sorry, nervous that's okay. 197 00:11:23,640 --> 00:11:31,439 Speaker 1: So okay, let's the reverse logistics. So let's say you 198 00:11:31,480 --> 00:11:35,160 Speaker 1: walked into a kindergarten class. You have kids? 199 00:11:36,600 --> 00:11:38,040 Speaker 3: Uh no, we have. 200 00:11:42,080 --> 00:11:42,400 Speaker 6: You have what? 201 00:11:43,880 --> 00:11:45,640 Speaker 3: Oh no, no, no kids for them? 202 00:11:45,920 --> 00:11:47,959 Speaker 1: No they don't are you? Did you just switch to 203 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:49,760 Speaker 1: bluetooth or something, because now I can't really hear you 204 00:11:49,840 --> 00:11:50,200 Speaker 1: very well. 205 00:11:50,960 --> 00:11:53,800 Speaker 3: Oh no, no, I'm here. Yeah. But it's you know, 206 00:11:53,800 --> 00:11:56,920 Speaker 3: it's reverse logistics. It's the same thing as regular logistics. 207 00:11:56,920 --> 00:12:04,240 Speaker 3: They just reverse double up. Yeah, that's it. Didn't the 208 00:12:04,240 --> 00:12:08,720 Speaker 3: way to go to lunch. It's Italian? 209 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:11,160 Speaker 1: What time isner? 210 00:12:13,320 --> 00:12:17,559 Speaker 3: Who's lot toner? Yeah, judge. 211 00:12:18,320 --> 00:12:22,480 Speaker 1: So let's say you walk into a kindergarten class and 212 00:12:23,360 --> 00:12:25,839 Speaker 1: you they ask you what you do for a living. 213 00:12:26,240 --> 00:12:30,400 Speaker 1: Explain to kindergarteners what you differently kindergarten. 214 00:12:30,520 --> 00:12:33,040 Speaker 3: That's a good way to say it. So we have 215 00:12:33,240 --> 00:12:35,080 Speaker 3: products that need to be get out. It's called just 216 00:12:35,160 --> 00:12:38,520 Speaker 3: in time, right, or FIFO first in for out. So 217 00:12:38,559 --> 00:12:41,080 Speaker 3: when you have FIFO and you've got to get the 218 00:12:41,120 --> 00:12:44,880 Speaker 3: products to a customer, say in Asia, you have to 219 00:12:44,960 --> 00:12:47,920 Speaker 3: kind of reverse engineer to make sure the supply chain 220 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:50,840 Speaker 3: goes the right way and the products on time. Because 221 00:12:51,480 --> 00:12:54,520 Speaker 3: Walmart was famous for that when they built their uh, 222 00:12:54,920 --> 00:12:58,040 Speaker 3: you know, their just in time product systems, so they 223 00:12:58,200 --> 00:13:02,760 Speaker 3: they kind of pioneered the double reverse logistical scene. 224 00:13:03,720 --> 00:13:08,520 Speaker 1: Okay, you lost, you lost the kindergartener. You know, a 225 00:13:08,559 --> 00:13:12,600 Speaker 1: great lawyer is not good for using words that nobody 226 00:13:12,640 --> 00:13:16,240 Speaker 1: knows that that creates a boundary in between people. No 227 00:13:16,280 --> 00:13:20,880 Speaker 1: matter how complicated something is, if you fully understand it, 228 00:13:20,960 --> 00:13:23,160 Speaker 1: you can explain it in terms of the kindergartener. So 229 00:13:23,200 --> 00:13:24,120 Speaker 1: help me understand what. 230 00:13:26,040 --> 00:13:28,760 Speaker 3: What if I didn't know, but then he didn't tell me, 231 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:30,640 Speaker 3: then how would I know to you know, kind of 232 00:13:30,640 --> 00:13:34,560 Speaker 3: explain it. That's how reverse goes. Yeah, it's like a 233 00:13:34,600 --> 00:13:39,200 Speaker 3: reverse mortgage. Have you heard of that? Yeah, it's yeah, 234 00:13:39,280 --> 00:13:39,920 Speaker 3: so it's kind of. 235 00:13:39,920 --> 00:13:42,520 Speaker 1: A right, So let me explain to Clinton. I'm going 236 00:13:42,559 --> 00:13:45,600 Speaker 1: to explain a reverse mortgage to you. Okay, So first, 237 00:13:45,679 --> 00:13:49,200 Speaker 1: let's understand what a mortgage is. A mortgage is where 238 00:13:49,240 --> 00:13:53,720 Speaker 1: a borrower goes to a lender and borrows money from 239 00:13:53,720 --> 00:13:56,959 Speaker 1: the lender for the home, and he pays back the 240 00:13:57,080 --> 00:14:01,120 Speaker 1: lender who technically owns the house while he paying it 241 00:14:01,160 --> 00:14:04,600 Speaker 1: off until finally he pays it off and now he 242 00:14:04,679 --> 00:14:07,760 Speaker 1: takes title. He has a deed, he owns that property, 243 00:14:07,880 --> 00:14:11,280 Speaker 1: and he owes no money. Now the guy who owns 244 00:14:11,320 --> 00:14:13,640 Speaker 1: the home because he took out a mortgage, now he 245 00:14:13,679 --> 00:14:16,520 Speaker 1: paid off that mortgage, he has the equity in his home, 246 00:14:16,559 --> 00:14:20,320 Speaker 1: in the ownership of his home. A reverse mortgage is 247 00:14:20,400 --> 00:14:24,600 Speaker 1: where the owner who has the equity, now sells that 248 00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:27,640 Speaker 1: equity back to a bank who buys it from him 249 00:14:28,160 --> 00:14:31,120 Speaker 1: in the form of a loan. So they loan him 250 00:14:31,160 --> 00:14:35,040 Speaker 1: a home that he already owned. So that's why they reverse. 251 00:14:35,360 --> 00:14:38,960 Speaker 1: That's a reverse mortgage. It's the exact opposite of what 252 00:14:39,040 --> 00:14:42,880 Speaker 1: he did on the first time. Now here is what 253 00:14:42,960 --> 00:14:47,200 Speaker 1: you explained. Reverse logistics is logistics in reverse. You take 254 00:14:47,280 --> 00:14:50,800 Speaker 1: what you do and you do it backwards. Okay, but 255 00:14:50,840 --> 00:14:54,120 Speaker 1: that doesn't tell me why it's reversed. I don't understand 256 00:14:54,120 --> 00:14:56,560 Speaker 1: whether it's just in time, first in, first out. I 257 00:14:56,680 --> 00:15:00,960 Speaker 1: have no idea how y'all do what you do or 258 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:03,720 Speaker 1: for what kind of client you do it, and why 259 00:15:03,760 --> 00:15:07,640 Speaker 1: you would need reverse logistics for that. I actually genuinely 260 00:15:07,640 --> 00:15:09,600 Speaker 1: want to know. I'm just curious why you can't tell. 261 00:15:09,400 --> 00:15:13,320 Speaker 3: Me, because I don't even know how to explain it. Okay, 262 00:15:14,640 --> 00:15:16,040 Speaker 3: it's bad training, you know. 263 00:15:16,160 --> 00:15:18,600 Speaker 1: It's just like, okay, well, let's let's work here, let's 264 00:15:18,600 --> 00:15:20,960 Speaker 1: work through this. This is an exercise. I enjoy this, 265 00:15:21,280 --> 00:15:23,760 Speaker 1: all right. So what is your title? 266 00:15:25,800 --> 00:15:27,400 Speaker 3: A logistical trainer LT? 267 00:15:28,160 --> 00:15:33,120 Speaker 1: Okay, and when you're brought in on a project, give 268 00:15:33,160 --> 00:15:35,640 Speaker 1: me without giving the company name. If you don't feel comfortable. 269 00:15:36,040 --> 00:15:38,720 Speaker 1: Give me a project that you're brought in on a solution. 270 00:15:38,920 --> 00:15:41,160 Speaker 1: You have to provide. What is the challenge. 271 00:15:42,440 --> 00:15:44,720 Speaker 3: I mean right now we have in order for two 272 00:15:44,800 --> 00:15:49,800 Speaker 3: million of emits, so it's getting those out all over 273 00:15:49,800 --> 00:15:52,280 Speaker 3: the world of emits. I mean, it's a cheap product, 274 00:15:52,320 --> 00:15:56,320 Speaker 3: but getting those out and making sure you have you know, 275 00:15:56,680 --> 00:16:00,600 Speaker 3: you don't have one. I mean if you had fifteen 276 00:16:00,760 --> 00:16:03,360 Speaker 3: extra right hand ones then you'd be true. So it 277 00:16:03,400 --> 00:16:06,360 Speaker 3: all has to be the same. So it's that's oh, 278 00:16:06,480 --> 00:16:11,480 Speaker 3: that's what a logistical this is more or less this 279 00:16:11,600 --> 00:16:15,440 Speaker 3: is fright, Yeah, it could be or freight it could 280 00:16:15,480 --> 00:16:15,920 Speaker 3: be great. 281 00:16:16,320 --> 00:16:19,800 Speaker 1: Is the thing that makes this reverse logistics the fact 282 00:16:19,800 --> 00:16:22,440 Speaker 1: that instead of it coming from China to the United States, 283 00:16:22,440 --> 00:16:23,920 Speaker 1: it's going from the United States to China. 284 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:29,920 Speaker 3: But well anywhere in the Far East it could be cambody. 285 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:32,400 Speaker 3: I mean, it's these countries. It could be different. It 286 00:16:32,400 --> 00:16:34,880 Speaker 3: depends if it's if you knew it's fright. Some people 287 00:16:34,920 --> 00:16:37,400 Speaker 3: don't know, and if you don't know, then they just 288 00:16:37,480 --> 00:16:40,000 Speaker 3: have to tell you this is great, or you just 289 00:16:40,040 --> 00:16:42,400 Speaker 3: be in the dark. And that's that's the problem with 290 00:16:42,480 --> 00:16:45,040 Speaker 3: most of it. It's just most of the time people 291 00:16:45,040 --> 00:16:46,960 Speaker 3: are in the dark and they don't know, so they 292 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:48,640 Speaker 3: make mistakes. If I don't know, it's freight. 293 00:16:49,240 --> 00:16:50,840 Speaker 1: How much do you get paid for miming? 294 00:16:53,320 --> 00:16:53,840 Speaker 3: For miming? 295 00:16:54,560 --> 00:17:02,200 Speaker 1: Thirty dollars thirty dollars for an hour, yup per hour 296 00:17:02,400 --> 00:17:04,520 Speaker 1: per hour? Okay, and who hires you to do that? 297 00:17:06,280 --> 00:17:12,000 Speaker 3: Usually schools, school systems. 298 00:17:10,200 --> 00:17:14,240 Speaker 1: For our right and you come in and do you 299 00:17:14,280 --> 00:17:15,399 Speaker 1: come in in character? 300 00:17:17,240 --> 00:17:21,400 Speaker 3: But if we want to, you can. But it didn't 301 00:17:21,760 --> 00:17:24,600 Speaker 3: if they knew, if they didn't know us, then you'd 302 00:17:24,600 --> 00:17:28,360 Speaker 3: have to come in character. If Craig said that, yeah, yeah, 303 00:17:28,600 --> 00:17:30,400 Speaker 3: I'm sorry. I'm wasting a lot of your time. 304 00:17:30,359 --> 00:17:34,080 Speaker 1: Now, And so you get paid thirty dollars an hour 305 00:17:35,480 --> 00:17:36,640 Speaker 1: for how long are you there? 306 00:17:42,520 --> 00:17:45,160 Speaker 3: I'm sorry? I rated this interesting. 307 00:17:45,280 --> 00:17:47,440 Speaker 6: I'm gonna lay in bed tonight thinking about that call. 308 00:17:49,640 --> 00:17:58,600 Speaker 6: So now, huh, you're gonna have nightmares. I I'm fascinated 309 00:17:58,640 --> 00:18:01,760 Speaker 6: by that, truly fascinating. 310 00:18:04,359 --> 00:18:08,840 Speaker 1: M I feel like I learned a lot, but not 311 00:18:08,960 --> 00:18:14,680 Speaker 1: about the things that he called about. Some don't want 312 00:18:14,680 --> 00:18:15,080 Speaker 1: to hear it. 313 00:18:15,720 --> 00:18:18,479 Speaker 3: He'll just go ahead and say it. I'm sorry. 314 00:18:18,960 --> 00:18:27,960 Speaker 1: The Michael Barry Show, I'm the swarm keeps on turning. 315 00:18:28,200 --> 00:18:30,200 Speaker 1: Maybe you think of this as an al Green song, 316 00:18:30,280 --> 00:18:33,359 Speaker 1: or maybe you're thinking, no, Michael, that's a rave Price song. 317 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:35,640 Speaker 7: Let's just be glad. 318 00:18:36,160 --> 00:18:38,679 Speaker 1: It's a Chris Christophers song. He wrote it. 319 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:40,560 Speaker 3: We had this time. 320 00:18:42,359 --> 00:18:44,120 Speaker 5: To spend together. 321 00:18:50,080 --> 00:18:57,280 Speaker 1: There is no need to what the bridge is. 322 00:18:59,640 --> 00:19:00,600 Speaker 5: That we're that. 323 00:19:03,920 --> 00:19:08,200 Speaker 8: M the You're. 324 00:19:15,119 --> 00:19:32,360 Speaker 9: Warm mine, a cul sweet Oh, the w inching rolls 325 00:19:32,680 --> 00:19:47,679 Speaker 9: ste here, the whisper, Oh, all the rain drops in. 326 00:19:49,760 --> 00:19:50,000 Speaker 3: Law. 327 00:19:50,800 --> 00:19:56,200 Speaker 4: So I guess my note. 328 00:19:56,240 --> 00:20:00,280 Speaker 1: Talk about a story, the turn of Fray. He's a 329 00:20:00,520 --> 00:20:08,360 Speaker 1: beautiful phrasing. Chris Christofferson a lifelong love of the English 330 00:20:08,520 --> 00:20:15,080 Speaker 1: language and how to use it to convey emotions, sentiment, 331 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:24,320 Speaker 1: paint a picture. Eric Stoltz turns sixty three today. Eric 332 00:20:24,320 --> 00:20:29,640 Speaker 1: stolts actor, director, and producer. The first role I remember 333 00:20:29,760 --> 00:20:33,639 Speaker 1: him playing was in the movie Mask, where he played 334 00:20:33,640 --> 00:20:37,159 Speaker 1: the role of Rocky Dennis. If you remember the very smart, 335 00:20:38,359 --> 00:20:46,560 Speaker 1: likable teenager who had a spatial a facial deformity called lionidis, 336 00:20:47,560 --> 00:20:52,080 Speaker 1: and he's already outlived his life expectancy at this point, 337 00:20:52,160 --> 00:20:54,399 Speaker 1: but he has such a positive attitude. Do you remember 338 00:20:54,400 --> 00:20:57,280 Speaker 1: the blind girl. He's talking to the blind girl and 339 00:20:57,320 --> 00:20:58,959 Speaker 1: this is the closest thing he's ever going to get 340 00:20:58,960 --> 00:21:02,960 Speaker 1: to a girlfriend because he's face is so deformed, and 341 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:07,600 Speaker 1: he's describing the clouds, remember, and he got that what 342 00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:10,920 Speaker 1: do you call those little cotton ball cutton ball type things, 343 00:21:11,440 --> 00:21:14,280 Speaker 1: and he's he's describing what they look like, and he's 344 00:21:14,320 --> 00:21:16,439 Speaker 1: having her touch it and feel it. I thought that 345 00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:22,160 Speaker 1: was such a well done scene, just perfect. And then 346 00:21:22,240 --> 00:21:25,360 Speaker 1: he's afraid. You know, she wants to touch his skin, 347 00:21:25,480 --> 00:21:27,600 Speaker 1: she wants to feel what he what he feels like, 348 00:21:28,119 --> 00:21:30,520 Speaker 1: and he's afraid when she goes to touch his face, 349 00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:33,919 Speaker 1: but of course she probably hasn't touched enough faces that 350 00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:38,400 Speaker 1: she would know that he is deformed. Anyway, his mom. 351 00:21:39,840 --> 00:21:42,679 Speaker 1: I think that is one of Cher's best roles, and 352 00:21:42,720 --> 00:21:46,560 Speaker 1: nobody would ever say that, but that role she played, 353 00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:52,760 Speaker 1: I knew so many women like that, kind of fast women, 354 00:21:53,080 --> 00:21:57,720 Speaker 1: not bad women who loved their child, had terrible taste 355 00:21:57,760 --> 00:22:02,960 Speaker 1: in men still kind of wanting to be sexy because 356 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:06,679 Speaker 1: they are single and they're trying to keep it all together, 357 00:22:07,320 --> 00:22:09,399 Speaker 1: and they always smoke. Back then. Nobody smokes anymore. They 358 00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:14,800 Speaker 1: always smoke back then. Anyway, in this scene, he and 359 00:22:14,920 --> 00:22:18,600 Speaker 1: his mother, who goes by name Rusty, that share are 360 00:22:19,760 --> 00:22:22,560 Speaker 1: She's trying to get him she's fighting for her kid, right, 361 00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:25,640 Speaker 1: She's got this kid and he's got the problems, and 362 00:22:25,680 --> 00:22:29,440 Speaker 1: he's a very good student academically. But this is when 363 00:22:29,480 --> 00:22:32,920 Speaker 1: they get the test results from yet another doctor. 364 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:37,720 Speaker 10: Please, doctor, I'm missus Dennis. 365 00:22:37,760 --> 00:22:39,560 Speaker 5: What I'm missus Dennis? 366 00:22:39,560 --> 00:22:41,400 Speaker 10: Signed doctor Vinton, I need to talk to you about 367 00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:46,240 Speaker 10: the test results. Hey, mom, why doesn't he wait outside? 368 00:22:46,440 --> 00:22:51,000 Speaker 10: What's for so we can talk? It's about the test 369 00:22:51,040 --> 00:22:54,240 Speaker 10: results on him? 370 00:22:54,400 --> 00:22:54,560 Speaker 1: Oh? 371 00:22:54,640 --> 00:22:56,120 Speaker 3: Him? 372 00:22:56,359 --> 00:22:56,600 Speaker 5: Him? 373 00:22:56,640 --> 00:22:58,040 Speaker 11: By the way, he's got a name. So if you've 374 00:22:58,040 --> 00:23:00,359 Speaker 11: got some information for him, I suggest you give it 375 00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:00,800 Speaker 11: to him. 376 00:23:01,080 --> 00:23:02,880 Speaker 10: And you don't understand, No, you don't understand. 377 00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:04,879 Speaker 11: You see, he's got a cheeseburger waiting out there with 378 00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:06,720 Speaker 11: his name on it. So I suggest you just hurry 379 00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:07,240 Speaker 11: this along. 380 00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:09,200 Speaker 3: Well. 381 00:23:09,240 --> 00:23:12,160 Speaker 10: As you know, plastic surgery is not an option until 382 00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:14,480 Speaker 10: the skull stops thickening, and there's no evidence that it will. 383 00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:17,240 Speaker 10: In fact, the cranium is growing at such an accelerated rate, 384 00:23:17,320 --> 00:23:19,639 Speaker 10: creating pressure on the spinal cord to such an extent 385 00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:21,520 Speaker 10: that the prognosis is not good. 386 00:23:22,359 --> 00:23:27,360 Speaker 1: We feel that life expectancy is three to six. 387 00:23:27,520 --> 00:23:31,600 Speaker 11: Mon, we're not going to really give us that life 388 00:23:31,640 --> 00:23:34,800 Speaker 11: expectancy number again. Are you. You know for twelve years, 389 00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:35,880 Speaker 11: I've been listening to you guys. 390 00:23:35,920 --> 00:23:36,320 Speaker 2: Believe. 391 00:23:36,880 --> 00:23:38,560 Speaker 11: First you told me that he was retarded. Then you 392 00:23:38,560 --> 00:23:40,920 Speaker 11: said he was going to be blind and deaf. Then 393 00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:42,399 Speaker 11: you told me he'd never be able to do anything 394 00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:44,040 Speaker 11: that regular kids could do. You know, if I had 395 00:23:44,119 --> 00:23:46,199 Speaker 11: dug his grave every time one of you geniuses told 396 00:23:46,240 --> 00:23:48,240 Speaker 11: me he was going to die, I'd be in Chop 397 00:23:48,320 --> 00:23:49,480 Speaker 11: Suey in China by now. 398 00:23:51,240 --> 00:24:00,920 Speaker 1: Anything else Matthew writes my favorite Chris christopht or some quote, 399 00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:05,040 Speaker 1: and it echoed through the canyons like the disappearing dreams 400 00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:10,760 Speaker 1: of yesterday. It's a line right there, that is a 401 00:24:11,040 --> 00:24:17,359 Speaker 1: that is a line al rights for the good times 402 00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:20,280 Speaker 1: and help me make it through the night. Two of 403 00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:27,399 Speaker 1: the greatest love songs, A lot of a lot of 404 00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:32,960 Speaker 1: lot a lot of messages about our friend the mine. 405 00:24:34,119 --> 00:24:36,320 Speaker 1: Jim Mudd was trying to get me to to get 406 00:24:36,359 --> 00:24:40,760 Speaker 1: him to mind wow wow while we were in the 407 00:24:40,760 --> 00:24:45,119 Speaker 1: middle of our conversation, Well, I thought was kind of funny, 408 00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:48,440 Speaker 1: are you mommy? Oh yeah, yeah, Oh I can tell 409 00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:52,240 Speaker 1: your mommy. I don't think the miming was a serious 410 00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:55,040 Speaker 1: part of his second job, right, I don't I think 411 00:24:55,040 --> 00:24:59,560 Speaker 1: he's probably doing okay on his first job. I U 412 00:25:01,040 --> 00:25:07,320 Speaker 1: I call Mueller Ink Mueller ink it. They fabricate steel buildings, 413 00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:11,639 Speaker 1: metal buildings, and they're a show sponsor. And so I 414 00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:15,480 Speaker 1: try to as everybody should do. I try to stay 415 00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:18,360 Speaker 1: in touch with my bosses, and they are my bosses. 416 00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:22,440 Speaker 1: You are my bosses. They are my bosses. And iHeart 417 00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:25,360 Speaker 1: now Premier are my bosses. And at home, I have bosses. 418 00:25:25,960 --> 00:25:28,600 Speaker 1: And that's the way I look at that. And so 419 00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:31,640 Speaker 1: I called Mark Jones, who runs the North location, which 420 00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:32,960 Speaker 1: is the bigger of the two they have won and 421 00:25:32,960 --> 00:25:35,720 Speaker 1: down in Rosenberg and one up North, and I asked 422 00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:38,919 Speaker 1: him how business is, and he said, we are so 423 00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:42,640 Speaker 1: busy you wouldn't believe it. And it turns out that 424 00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:46,600 Speaker 1: it had been slow and now business is picking up. 425 00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:49,879 Speaker 1: But I'm hearing this from everybody. If Trump wins, this 426 00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:52,600 Speaker 1: economy is gonna there's a lot of pent up demand 427 00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:54,080 Speaker 1: that people are scared to spend their money. 428 00:25:54,320 --> 00:26:00,280 Speaker 8: Trump using you try. 429 00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:08,840 Speaker 7: We're stealing water to col a place called Bolder on 430 00:26:09,119 --> 00:26:15,480 Speaker 7: little mild called I slept and fell to the west 431 00:26:15,560 --> 00:26:16,720 Speaker 7: com cree Flora. 432 00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:21,199 Speaker 3: They buried me and not greater. 433 00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:26,120 Speaker 7: These food sun but I'm still around. 434 00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:32,800 Speaker 1: Hello, how you learn this is shridy q liquor. 435 00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:36,960 Speaker 8: With today's birthday in Anna versari Ai, I want to 436 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:41,080 Speaker 8: wish a very happy birthday this morning to Phenelope and Arrhythmia. 437 00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:44,320 Speaker 8: They are twins and this is day fifth birthday. Then 438 00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:46,520 Speaker 8: mama supposed to take them down to MacDonald get them 439 00:26:46,520 --> 00:26:51,120 Speaker 8: a happy MEAs that clock successively. She turned eight today 440 00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:54,080 Speaker 8: and she getting her first ear rings, pierced it up 441 00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:57,600 Speaker 8: in her head and absorbing Junior. His mama say he 442 00:26:57,680 --> 00:27:00,600 Speaker 8: turned at thirteen as far as she know, and crazy 443 00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:06,800 Speaker 8: in hell okay, as far as anniversary, Demonia and Claren's 444 00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:09,440 Speaker 8: been married for twenty some years. They said they gonna 445 00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:11,800 Speaker 8: go ahead and celebrate tonight down there at the club. 446 00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:14,720 Speaker 8: They forgot their certificate, but she remembered it was some 447 00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:17,719 Speaker 8: time when it was hot, so it's probably about this time. 448 00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:19,480 Speaker 8: Ooh ooh. 449 00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:21,120 Speaker 1: And you know what I had heard. 450 00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:24,960 Speaker 8: Sharona Quishi Knellica. They said she have done eloped to 451 00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:29,440 Speaker 8: it with Devon Champlain and they were disappearing since last night, 452 00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:33,640 Speaker 8: but his Cadillac was spotted at the motel. I give 453 00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:35,760 Speaker 8: that one two weeks, honey, as soon as they both 454 00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:38,440 Speaker 8: sow up. They gonna realize that was ignorant, and they're 455 00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:41,080 Speaker 8: gonna have to get it a nud did it? And 456 00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:45,000 Speaker 8: let's stay on this day in history. Oh, five years 457 00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:48,480 Speaker 8: ago today, Shanelda Jenkins moved in upstairs with her five 458 00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:51,879 Speaker 8: hundred pounds. But lord, my ceiling ain't never been the 459 00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:54,080 Speaker 8: same since me then got cracked it all up in here. 460 00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:56,879 Speaker 8: Nobody had even saw that woman. But every time she 461 00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:59,960 Speaker 8: take a bath, I get nervous. Well all right there 462 00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:02,720 Speaker 8: and half a happy day, and tell you Mama asks 463 00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:03,240 Speaker 8: her how she. 464 00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:09,560 Speaker 5: Dre Perhaps I may become a highway men again all 465 00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:15,040 Speaker 5: I may simply be a single rhyme O ray, but 466 00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:16,320 Speaker 5: I will remain. 467 00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:25,840 Speaker 1: I'll be back in sad again, say again again again. 468 00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:37,400 Speaker 1: Heard from a guy who has moved off from Houston 469 00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:43,680 Speaker 1: years ago, hadn't talked to in probably eight years, with 470 00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:47,000 Speaker 1: a message thank you. I just want to thank you 471 00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:50,760 Speaker 1: again for the opportunity to see Chris Christofferson. It was 472 00:28:50,800 --> 00:28:54,040 Speaker 1: about eight years ago, he says, And it was It's 473 00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:57,719 Speaker 1: October nineth, twenty sixteen. First time I've heard from him 474 00:28:57,720 --> 00:28:59,720 Speaker 1: in eight years, So pretty cool. I like to hear 475 00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:03,400 Speaker 1: from people haven't heard from him some time. So I 476 00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:05,760 Speaker 1: got an email from a listener. I don't feel like 477 00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:10,680 Speaker 1: I should say his name. He says, hellos are longtime fan. 478 00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:14,880 Speaker 1: This is about the strike that is expected at the 479 00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:19,600 Speaker 1: ports across the country. I've been with the ILA, it's 480 00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:24,880 Speaker 1: international longshoreman. I believe for over thirty years. This strike 481 00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:28,000 Speaker 1: is going to hurt me and many like me have 482 00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:32,440 Speaker 1: been stretching our budget in this economy. This economy hurts 483 00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:35,440 Speaker 1: top to bottom. Many of us cannot afford to strike. 484 00:29:35,680 --> 00:29:38,000 Speaker 1: Just so you know, in the event of a long 485 00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:40,640 Speaker 1: term strike, I have a job lined out at a 486 00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:43,160 Speaker 1: car wash. I'll do what it takes to keep feeding 487 00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:46,520 Speaker 1: my family and provide for their well being. Whatever you 488 00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:49,320 Speaker 1: use the most of in your household, stock up on 489 00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:53,160 Speaker 1: at least a forty day supply. If the strike even 490 00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:55,760 Speaker 1: goes a week, the supply chain will take up to 491 00:29:55,840 --> 00:30:00,320 Speaker 1: three months to correct. Stay safe and then his which 492 00:30:00,360 --> 00:30:04,280 Speaker 1: I'm not going to read. You know, these last few 493 00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:10,680 Speaker 1: years have made me think very hard about things that 494 00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:15,800 Speaker 1: we tend to take for granted. The most immediate is 495 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:26,400 Speaker 1: food and fuel, obviously, and then there is security and safety. 496 00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:29,080 Speaker 1: At a time like that, there tends to be a 497 00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:35,240 Speaker 1: breakdown of it, communication systems and the like. It's amazing 498 00:30:35,320 --> 00:30:40,080 Speaker 1: how easy it is for us to fall from the 499 00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:46,160 Speaker 1: comforts of our daily life to scrounging around when just 500 00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:52,800 Speaker 1: the power, just the power goes out, when the supply 501 00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:56,880 Speaker 1: chain goes down, that's when it gets scary because people panic, 502 00:30:57,720 --> 00:31:03,480 Speaker 1: and when people panic, they hoard, and the hoarding creates 503 00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:08,760 Speaker 1: its own set of problems. I do wonder, though, there 504 00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:11,520 Speaker 1: is I don't know if this is because people say 505 00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:15,520 Speaker 1: it or if they're really tapping into the worst fears 506 00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:20,920 Speaker 1: of people, but it would appear that people's greatest concern 507 00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:27,560 Speaker 1: is not having toilet paper. And my wife always laughs 508 00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:30,280 Speaker 1: and she says, why are people so obsessed with toilet paper? 509 00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:33,760 Speaker 1: Do you realize most people in India don't use toilet 510 00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:38,800 Speaker 1: paper in India because toilet paper was so expensive. That's 511 00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:41,840 Speaker 1: just the kind of thing you couldn't afford. People would 512 00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:45,680 Speaker 1: splash water on the bunghole with their left hand, and 513 00:31:45,720 --> 00:31:49,720 Speaker 1: this goes back. This goes back before anyone had toilet paper. 514 00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:54,280 Speaker 1: Your left hand was to wash your bunghole, and so 515 00:31:54,360 --> 00:31:56,280 Speaker 1: your right hand was the hand You pick your nose 516 00:31:57,320 --> 00:32:01,080 Speaker 1: each booger's and shake hands, slap somebody on the back 517 00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:02,880 Speaker 1: or whatever else. But you wouldn't do that with your 518 00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:05,600 Speaker 1: left hand. It was sinister. You just didn't do that. 519 00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:11,000 Speaker 1: And so she always laughs and say, you don't understand 520 00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:14,080 Speaker 1: when people have you used toilet paper their entire life. 521 00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:17,440 Speaker 1: That is there. But I really am worried because I 522 00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:20,160 Speaker 1: think some people would say, you know, we don't have 523 00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:22,120 Speaker 1: to have food in our household, but we've got to 524 00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:25,600 Speaker 1: have that toilet paper. And you watch people at that 525 00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:29,440 Speaker 1: time and you realize what sheep they are because they 526 00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:34,000 Speaker 1: just go grabbing for the toilet paper. If toilet paper 527 00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:38,120 Speaker 1: was that important, get you some in storied away. But 528 00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:42,040 Speaker 1: I can assure you when things are really bad, it's 529 00:32:42,160 --> 00:32:46,440 Speaker 1: not going to be toilet paper you're pining for. It's 530 00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:51,200 Speaker 1: also a good It's also a good reminder people are 531 00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:53,800 Speaker 1: taking extra jobs to make more money. It's a good 532 00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:56,040 Speaker 1: reminder to figure out what's important in life and what 533 00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:58,760 Speaker 1: you can do without if you still if you still 534 00:32:58,800 --> 00:33:02,240 Speaker 1: do it fine. But the ability to prioritize is a 535 00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:05,160 Speaker 1: higher level of thinking that some people never achieve.