1 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:09,840 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. 2 00:00:11,240 --> 00:00:18,640 Speaker 2: So Michael Arry Show is on the airy Little Lady 3 00:00:19,120 --> 00:00:20,800 Speaker 2: I was coming to bred Christians. 4 00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:40,960 Speaker 3: We're all gonna be like three little fanzies here and 5 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:41,839 Speaker 3: what's fanzie like? 6 00:00:42,320 --> 00:00:43,960 Speaker 2: Hell on y Linda, what's body like? 7 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:45,040 Speaker 3: What? 8 00:00:45,640 --> 00:00:47,159 Speaker 4: Who wrecked the mundo? 9 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:49,159 Speaker 2: And that's what we're gonna be. 10 00:00:49,360 --> 00:00:50,360 Speaker 4: You selling pictures? 11 00:00:50,400 --> 00:00:53,640 Speaker 2: Couldn't close an umbrella? What's happening in my special partner? 12 00:00:53,960 --> 00:01:27,560 Speaker 5: I'm dank now we are in trump. 13 00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:16,200 Speaker 2: Woman emailed me to tell me that she had a 14 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:21,320 Speaker 2: great experience with Aztec Rentols, dealing with a manager planning 15 00:01:21,319 --> 00:01:23,520 Speaker 2: a big party, a lot of money, and those sorts 16 00:01:23,560 --> 00:01:27,360 Speaker 2: of things, and she said she commented to the woman 17 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:33,920 Speaker 2: that your customer service skills are phenomenal. And the lady said, 18 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:36,399 Speaker 2: I used to work at a restaurant called Gringos for 19 00:01:36,520 --> 00:01:43,280 Speaker 2: years and that's where I learned it. Never underestimate the 20 00:01:43,480 --> 00:01:48,840 Speaker 2: influence you have in this world. The children you're raising 21 00:01:48,960 --> 00:01:51,680 Speaker 2: under your roof, what they're going to go off and be. 22 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:56,480 Speaker 2: If a teacher says your son got an a or 23 00:01:56,520 --> 00:01:59,360 Speaker 2: a coach says your son made a great tackle, or 24 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:02,800 Speaker 2: for Crockett, If a coach says your son scored a goal, 25 00:02:05,160 --> 00:02:09,040 Speaker 2: I'd say, well, that's weird because he's a defensive midfielder. 26 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:13,200 Speaker 2: He's not scoring goals. That's not his role. But if 27 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:18,240 Speaker 2: someone says that they have impressed with prowess in academics 28 00:02:18,280 --> 00:02:25,520 Speaker 2: or sports, Okay, I'm not jumping over the moon. But 29 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:28,760 Speaker 2: if you tell me there was a bully picking on 30 00:02:28,880 --> 00:02:31,160 Speaker 2: a weak kid in class and my kid stepped in 31 00:02:31,240 --> 00:02:37,600 Speaker 2: and made it stop, decisively, definitively, that makes me proud. 32 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:42,440 Speaker 2: If you tell me that three kids were being disrespectful 33 00:02:42,480 --> 00:02:45,800 Speaker 2: to an adult and my kid was not only respectful 34 00:02:45,880 --> 00:02:49,920 Speaker 2: but made it stop the other kid, that matters to me. 35 00:02:52,040 --> 00:02:54,200 Speaker 2: I was an all a student, top of my class. 36 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:56,959 Speaker 2: I got that out of my system. There were people, 37 00:02:57,040 --> 00:02:59,120 Speaker 2: there were parents who told their kids that I was 38 00:02:59,160 --> 00:03:02,799 Speaker 2: the best. I was great, be like Michael, and I 39 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:05,920 Speaker 2: ate it up. Of course I did. Why wouldn't you? 40 00:03:06,639 --> 00:03:09,200 Speaker 2: But I now realize that's not the sign of a 41 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:15,799 Speaker 2: good person. That's not a sign of your worth. That's 42 00:03:15,880 --> 00:03:20,880 Speaker 2: not a ranking in society, and by the way, neither 43 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:23,440 Speaker 2: is your bank account. I commit this situation having had 44 00:03:23,440 --> 00:03:25,720 Speaker 2: a great deal of success in a lot of different things, 45 00:03:26,480 --> 00:03:28,280 Speaker 2: and I'm grateful for that I'm grateful for the God 46 00:03:28,320 --> 00:03:31,239 Speaker 2: given abilities. I'm really grateful for all the people who 47 00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:34,720 Speaker 2: help me get there, a lot of people, including you. 48 00:03:36,760 --> 00:03:39,880 Speaker 2: But it's also made me step back and realize, wait 49 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:43,880 Speaker 2: a second, that doesn't make you any different than anybody else. 50 00:03:44,640 --> 00:03:46,680 Speaker 2: The people who don't get the credit is to stay 51 00:03:46,680 --> 00:03:49,800 Speaker 2: at home mom. They don't have a gala this year. 52 00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:53,560 Speaker 2: Naming her Mom of the Year used to bother me. 53 00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:57,360 Speaker 2: Every year they have black tie galas in downtown Houston 54 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:03,119 Speaker 2: for we call them the Disease Ball Cancer Leukemia MSMD, 55 00:04:04,160 --> 00:04:09,000 Speaker 2: and they're supposed to be raising money for some charitable function. 56 00:04:09,720 --> 00:04:11,720 Speaker 2: And they have a black tie event and everybody goes 57 00:04:11,760 --> 00:04:13,760 Speaker 2: and they're all excited, and they sell tables and it's 58 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:18,680 Speaker 2: ten twenty five thousand dollars a table, and they'll name 59 00:04:18,720 --> 00:04:22,200 Speaker 2: someone father of the year. Well, it turns out the 60 00:04:22,200 --> 00:04:24,359 Speaker 2: guy they named father of the Year is the head 61 00:04:24,480 --> 00:04:30,599 Speaker 2: of the biggest bank in town. Now let me ask 62 00:04:30,640 --> 00:04:34,240 Speaker 2: you this. You think the guy that's the head of 63 00:04:34,240 --> 00:04:37,800 Speaker 2: the biggest bank in town is the best dad in town? 64 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:40,680 Speaker 2: Because I can almost assure you he's not. 65 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:44,280 Speaker 3: It is. 66 00:04:45,880 --> 00:04:48,600 Speaker 2: Easier for a camel to pass through the eye of 67 00:04:48,640 --> 00:04:52,400 Speaker 2: a needle than for that fella to be the best 68 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:58,599 Speaker 2: dad in town. But the best dad in town, he's 69 00:04:58,600 --> 00:05:02,600 Speaker 2: pulling a paycheck over in dear part and getting in 70 00:05:02,640 --> 00:05:06,440 Speaker 2: early that day to turn wrenches so he can rush 71 00:05:06,480 --> 00:05:11,480 Speaker 2: home in his fifteen year old car, changing out of 72 00:05:11,520 --> 00:05:19,440 Speaker 2: his overalls to put to put his Eagles or Tigers 73 00:05:19,520 --> 00:05:22,719 Speaker 2: or whatever their team is t shirt on, and his 74 00:05:22,760 --> 00:05:25,640 Speaker 2: tennis shoes. And he brought his glove to work with 75 00:05:25,760 --> 00:05:29,640 Speaker 2: him because he's swooping by the house to pick up 76 00:05:29,640 --> 00:05:32,120 Speaker 2: his kid, or maybe because he can't get there early enough. 77 00:05:32,720 --> 00:05:36,640 Speaker 2: Mom's dropping his kid off at the ballpark, and he's 78 00:05:36,760 --> 00:05:41,159 Speaker 2: the coach or assistant coach, and he's that rare breed 79 00:05:41,200 --> 00:05:44,240 Speaker 2: of coach or assistant coach who's not there to make 80 00:05:44,279 --> 00:05:46,480 Speaker 2: sure that his son is pitching the maximum number of 81 00:05:46,560 --> 00:05:51,200 Speaker 2: innings and being the leadoff batter. That's you, David Crook, 82 00:05:51,720 --> 00:05:57,279 Speaker 2: and that guy's actually trying to coach twelve kids into 83 00:05:57,360 --> 00:06:02,520 Speaker 2: young men. You think about the influence you have. This 84 00:06:02,600 --> 00:06:05,279 Speaker 2: is beyond even this election, but by god, it is 85 00:06:05,520 --> 00:06:13,359 Speaker 2: relevant to this election. You don't realize teachers, the kids 86 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:18,680 Speaker 2: in your school, Sunday school teachers, the people in your 87 00:06:18,680 --> 00:06:26,800 Speaker 2: Sunday school class pastors. Some pastors get so caught up 88 00:06:26,839 --> 00:06:30,440 Speaker 2: in how they can squeeze more money out of their 89 00:06:30,440 --> 00:06:35,560 Speaker 2: congregants that they forget that is a flock you are tending. 90 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:45,719 Speaker 2: You got such a wonderful opportunity every week to truly 91 00:06:45,800 --> 00:06:48,840 Speaker 2: minister to these people, and not just during church service. 92 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:53,320 Speaker 2: Our pastor would come when one of us was in 93 00:06:53,360 --> 00:06:57,680 Speaker 2: the hospital. That's a big deal. Hospital visits are a 94 00:06:57,680 --> 00:07:01,560 Speaker 2: big deal. I can't do it anymore. I know too 95 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:07,719 Speaker 2: many people, which makes life more complicated. But I do 96 00:07:07,839 --> 00:07:11,440 Speaker 2: go when an officer's shot, and it always means something 97 00:07:11,440 --> 00:07:14,880 Speaker 2: to somebody. At that moment, it means something to somebody. 98 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:18,960 Speaker 2: Somebody close to you dies. You notice who shows up 99 00:07:19,160 --> 00:07:23,200 Speaker 2: at the funeral. You know that, and that's a person 100 00:07:23,240 --> 00:07:25,320 Speaker 2: you've seen two hundred times in the last ten years. 101 00:07:25,320 --> 00:07:34,040 Speaker 2: But at that moment, it mattered to you to know 102 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:38,920 Speaker 2: that you trained a waiter server who took the skills 103 00:07:38,960 --> 00:07:45,280 Speaker 2: you learned in pleasing customers, fulfilling their needs, anticipating their needs, 104 00:07:45,840 --> 00:07:50,360 Speaker 2: providing a good experience. Where are people learning that? Do 105 00:07:50,400 --> 00:07:55,880 Speaker 2: you realize how few people ever learn that? We should 106 00:07:55,920 --> 00:07:57,640 Speaker 2: teach that in school, we should teach it at home, 107 00:07:57,680 --> 00:08:01,640 Speaker 2: We should teach it first. They of every job, every 108 00:08:01,720 --> 00:08:05,920 Speaker 2: single person is a customer service specialist or should be. 109 00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:09,440 Speaker 2: You walk into businesses, even in the hospitality industry, and 110 00:08:09,480 --> 00:08:11,760 Speaker 2: you can tell that person hasn't been trained one bit. 111 00:08:12,720 --> 00:08:16,280 Speaker 2: You see some people who are the trainers, the manager 112 00:08:16,360 --> 00:08:19,000 Speaker 2: or assistant manager, and they don't have any skills either. 113 00:08:19,280 --> 00:08:25,040 Speaker 2: What could they teach? Your job is to wave your 114 00:08:25,080 --> 00:08:27,600 Speaker 2: hand over your face when you walk into the doors 115 00:08:27,760 --> 00:08:32,079 Speaker 2: of that workplace and put on a smile. No matter 116 00:08:32,160 --> 00:08:36,920 Speaker 2: your mood, no matter your finances, no matter your home life. 117 00:08:37,600 --> 00:08:40,640 Speaker 2: Your job is to present an experience, to provide an 118 00:08:40,720 --> 00:08:44,960 Speaker 2: experience for those people period industory. Like Officer Fikes said 119 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:48,160 Speaker 2: at the HPD event this week, when you're at work, 120 00:08:48,320 --> 00:08:50,360 Speaker 2: your mind should only be at work, But when you 121 00:08:50,440 --> 00:08:53,240 Speaker 2: get home, your mind should only be at home on 122 00:08:53,280 --> 00:08:57,840 Speaker 2: those kids and your spouse. Marco Berry's shop vile. 123 00:08:57,920 --> 00:09:08,400 Speaker 1: Omahall, Pete, you are on the Michael Berry Show, Sir. 124 00:09:09,360 --> 00:09:13,000 Speaker 3: Good morning, Michael. I just wanted to add to think 125 00:09:13,080 --> 00:09:16,320 Speaker 3: to what you're talking about as far as the uh 126 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:18,680 Speaker 3: the fact that not everybody has to go to college, 127 00:09:20,040 --> 00:09:24,960 Speaker 3: but I think where like us. I'm I'm Mexican, so 128 00:09:25,080 --> 00:09:28,680 Speaker 3: the minority group we don't mentor each other to be 129 00:09:28,760 --> 00:09:33,880 Speaker 3: able to to guide them to be able to better themselves. 130 00:09:34,520 --> 00:09:36,920 Speaker 3: I don't know if I'm making myself a little bit, 131 00:09:37,360 --> 00:09:38,560 Speaker 3: you know, a little. 132 00:09:38,960 --> 00:09:44,600 Speaker 2: You're very clear. Why don't you explain that further, because 133 00:09:44,760 --> 00:09:47,959 Speaker 2: I think you're on a very good point, Pete. 134 00:09:48,800 --> 00:09:54,160 Speaker 3: So a perfect example is like my son. We he 135 00:09:54,280 --> 00:09:58,800 Speaker 3: did well in high school and he ended up joining 136 00:09:58,800 --> 00:10:01,960 Speaker 3: the military. But we gave him the option. We said, 137 00:10:02,040 --> 00:10:04,880 Speaker 3: you can go to you can go to college, but 138 00:10:05,040 --> 00:10:06,800 Speaker 3: he was dead said he did not want to go 139 00:10:06,840 --> 00:10:10,880 Speaker 3: to college. And at the beginning when he told us 140 00:10:10,920 --> 00:10:14,079 Speaker 3: that he wanted to go into the military, my wife 141 00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:18,560 Speaker 3: and I kind of both buck the idea. But that's 142 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:22,320 Speaker 3: what he wanted to do. And after a while I said, okay, 143 00:10:22,360 --> 00:10:25,719 Speaker 3: well that's fine. I don't want to spend money on 144 00:10:25,840 --> 00:10:31,080 Speaker 3: the college education that he's not one hundred. I don't 145 00:10:31,080 --> 00:10:32,719 Speaker 3: want to invest in that because he's not going to 146 00:10:32,720 --> 00:10:35,839 Speaker 3: be invested. So he went to the military. He's doing 147 00:10:35,920 --> 00:10:40,319 Speaker 3: quite well. Whereas my nephew. I try to tell him, 148 00:10:40,320 --> 00:10:43,840 Speaker 3: why don't you go to why don't you go to 149 00:10:43,880 --> 00:10:47,200 Speaker 3: the military, But my sister doesn't support that, and he 150 00:10:47,280 --> 00:10:50,080 Speaker 3: doesn't have a role model A male role model to 151 00:10:50,280 --> 00:10:56,480 Speaker 3: guide him. He's doing well, but not that well if 152 00:10:56,720 --> 00:11:01,599 Speaker 3: he doesn't have a mentor to guide him in the 153 00:11:01,679 --> 00:11:02,200 Speaker 3: right direction. 154 00:11:02,880 --> 00:11:07,240 Speaker 2: Could you be that mentor, Pete, I can. 155 00:11:07,440 --> 00:11:13,160 Speaker 3: I should have been hindsight, but I wasn't. So. But 156 00:11:13,400 --> 00:11:16,360 Speaker 3: now that he's my nephew is a little bit older. 157 00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:19,960 Speaker 3: He's he's right around twenty six. He's the same age 158 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:24,720 Speaker 3: as my son. But I talked to him more and 159 00:11:24,840 --> 00:11:28,679 Speaker 3: try to because he did go to welding school. But 160 00:11:28,840 --> 00:11:33,960 Speaker 3: I tried to encourage him to to expand and do 161 00:11:34,040 --> 00:11:37,280 Speaker 3: things instead of, you know, just coming home after a 162 00:11:37,280 --> 00:11:39,640 Speaker 3: hard day's work, you know, kind of push him a 163 00:11:39,640 --> 00:11:43,000 Speaker 3: little bit. Where at home he doesn't. You know, his 164 00:11:43,480 --> 00:11:46,840 Speaker 3: mom does the same thing. She works hard, she's he 165 00:11:46,960 --> 00:11:50,640 Speaker 3: inherited her work ethic, which she's a very hard worker. 166 00:11:52,360 --> 00:11:55,199 Speaker 3: But he does want nicer thinking, and I'm like, well, 167 00:11:55,240 --> 00:11:58,679 Speaker 3: you have to work for that. You know. I live 168 00:11:58,760 --> 00:12:00,920 Speaker 3: in the Hill Country and they live in Houston, so 169 00:12:00,960 --> 00:12:03,160 Speaker 3: it's kind of hard for me to be there and 170 00:12:03,480 --> 00:12:03,760 Speaker 3: have that. 171 00:12:04,640 --> 00:12:06,040 Speaker 2: You can do it by firs. How do you do 172 00:12:06,040 --> 00:12:07,040 Speaker 2: in the Hill Country? 173 00:12:07,320 --> 00:12:12,079 Speaker 3: Yeah, I Well, we moved here from Houston about four 174 00:12:12,120 --> 00:12:13,760 Speaker 3: years ago because I got fed up with it, but 175 00:12:13,880 --> 00:12:14,680 Speaker 3: I work off shore. 176 00:12:15,520 --> 00:12:17,840 Speaker 2: Oh okay, where do you fly out of. 177 00:12:19,480 --> 00:12:22,120 Speaker 3: Homa? So home? 178 00:12:22,120 --> 00:12:24,200 Speaker 2: You fly Houston to Homa or do you drive to Homo? 179 00:12:25,960 --> 00:12:28,320 Speaker 3: No? I it's about a seven and a half hour 180 00:12:28,559 --> 00:12:30,680 Speaker 3: drive for me to drive down there, so they fly me. 181 00:12:30,880 --> 00:12:31,880 Speaker 3: How is your schedule? 182 00:12:32,720 --> 00:12:33,760 Speaker 2: Three on? And how many on? 183 00:12:33,840 --> 00:12:36,760 Speaker 3: Twenty eight and twenty now twenty eight and twenty eight, 184 00:12:37,160 --> 00:12:42,280 Speaker 3: twenty eight and twenty twenty eight? Twenty eight day rotations? 185 00:12:42,559 --> 00:12:44,440 Speaker 2: Okay, but I didn't hear if the next number was 186 00:12:44,440 --> 00:12:48,559 Speaker 2: twenty eight or twenty. 187 00:12:46,880 --> 00:12:49,360 Speaker 3: Yes, sir, yes, sir, twenty eight. 188 00:12:49,400 --> 00:12:51,480 Speaker 2: Oh, twenty eight and twenty eight. How do you like that? 189 00:12:51,960 --> 00:12:55,800 Speaker 3: Yes? I love it. I wouldn't have any any other way. 190 00:12:57,200 --> 00:13:01,360 Speaker 2: What is the hardest part about twenty eight on, twenty 191 00:13:01,360 --> 00:13:03,640 Speaker 2: eight off? Twenty eight off's easy? But the twenty eight 192 00:13:03,679 --> 00:13:06,480 Speaker 2: on what's something that you that the rest of us 193 00:13:06,520 --> 00:13:07,400 Speaker 2: would take for granted? 194 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:16,240 Speaker 3: I think I think that once, once you get on 195 00:13:16,240 --> 00:13:19,640 Speaker 3: the rig and you fall into a routine, that's the 196 00:13:19,679 --> 00:13:22,719 Speaker 3: easy part. The hardest party is trying to get there 197 00:13:22,720 --> 00:13:23,880 Speaker 3: and get home out of your mind. 198 00:13:24,280 --> 00:13:28,600 Speaker 2: Yeah. I could see etereo the butterflies with the maclary. 199 00:13:28,840 --> 00:13:32,080 Speaker 3: They're all duncans and you know, duncan means yo yo. 200 00:13:32,679 --> 00:13:36,640 Speaker 4: His father on restoring classic cars a lot of times, 201 00:13:36,640 --> 00:13:38,000 Speaker 4: and he just likes motors, so he. 202 00:13:37,960 --> 00:13:39,400 Speaker 3: Thought he'd give Diesel a shot. 203 00:13:40,920 --> 00:13:42,560 Speaker 4: I love They had a seat open when it was 204 00:13:42,559 --> 00:13:43,240 Speaker 4: time to register. 205 00:13:43,840 --> 00:13:46,360 Speaker 2: All right, I've got his email popped up. Somebody out 206 00:13:46,400 --> 00:13:48,200 Speaker 2: there is going to hire him as a favorite to 207 00:13:48,240 --> 00:13:50,520 Speaker 2: me in the afternoons. What hours is he available? 208 00:13:52,679 --> 00:13:53,160 Speaker 3: Immune to? 209 00:13:53,240 --> 00:13:56,520 Speaker 4: Five? Might be twelve thirty by the time he drives 210 00:13:56,559 --> 00:13:59,439 Speaker 4: back from the college. It's out at North Paris that campus. 211 00:13:59,800 --> 00:14:00,959 Speaker 2: Was he have to quit it five? 212 00:14:02,480 --> 00:14:03,160 Speaker 4: Oh? He doesn't. 213 00:14:03,360 --> 00:14:05,560 Speaker 3: He doesn't, and the lady it goes. It's fun. 214 00:14:05,840 --> 00:14:08,400 Speaker 2: I love it. I love it. Did you write this 215 00:14:08,480 --> 00:14:10,200 Speaker 2: email for him? Pam? Don't you lie to me? 216 00:14:11,960 --> 00:14:13,400 Speaker 3: No, we work together on it. 217 00:14:13,480 --> 00:14:18,120 Speaker 2: Okay, all right, I'll go with that was the proficiency word? 218 00:14:18,240 --> 00:14:19,080 Speaker 2: Your choice or his? 219 00:14:21,040 --> 00:14:21,720 Speaker 3: That was mine? 220 00:14:21,880 --> 00:14:23,400 Speaker 2: Would he ever say proficiency? 221 00:14:24,840 --> 00:14:25,320 Speaker 5: He would? 222 00:14:25,560 --> 00:14:25,960 Speaker 3: He would. 223 00:14:26,160 --> 00:14:31,200 Speaker 4: He's articulate, okay, and he. 224 00:14:34,360 --> 00:14:34,520 Speaker 3: Is. 225 00:14:34,760 --> 00:14:37,680 Speaker 2: You can't say a white person is articulate. The only 226 00:14:37,720 --> 00:14:40,000 Speaker 2: time the word articulate is ever used is for a 227 00:14:40,040 --> 00:14:43,320 Speaker 2: black person who speaks like this. So white people, when 228 00:14:43,320 --> 00:14:45,520 Speaker 2: they're trying to tell you he doesn't drop his g's 229 00:14:45,560 --> 00:14:48,680 Speaker 2: and mis conjugate the beaverb They'll say, oh, yes, you 230 00:14:48,760 --> 00:14:53,400 Speaker 2: must meet this this man. He dresses well. He he's 231 00:14:53,520 --> 00:14:57,600 Speaker 2: very articulate. That's how people describe a black person who 232 00:14:57,640 --> 00:15:03,840 Speaker 2: doesn't speak, doesn't speak ghetto articulate white person. We're gonna 233 00:15:03,880 --> 00:15:05,840 Speaker 2: find him something, Pam. I like it. He's on a 234 00:15:05,840 --> 00:15:08,040 Speaker 2: good course. I love it. I wish more kids would do. 235 00:15:08,080 --> 00:15:09,800 Speaker 3: This because I got nothing going on down there. 236 00:15:09,920 --> 00:15:22,120 Speaker 6: Probably friend Aggie plumber Michael Robinson sent me an emails 237 00:15:22,680 --> 00:15:24,520 Speaker 6: subject line, are you from Cornwall? 238 00:15:26,400 --> 00:15:35,480 Speaker 2: And then he said, what does he say? You pronounce it? 239 00:15:36,040 --> 00:15:40,440 Speaker 2: And no, he says it's pronounced diesel. So I said, well, 240 00:15:40,480 --> 00:15:44,200 Speaker 2: how did I say it is a diesel? How do 241 00:15:44,280 --> 00:15:48,600 Speaker 2: you say it? Ramon? You say it with an S 242 00:15:48,680 --> 00:15:51,920 Speaker 2: ra z? Yeah, you say it with a Z Diesel. 243 00:15:52,920 --> 00:15:53,160 Speaker 3: Yeah. 244 00:15:54,040 --> 00:15:56,920 Speaker 2: Just because you drive a diesel truck doesn't mean that 245 00:15:57,080 --> 00:15:59,840 Speaker 2: you get to decide how it's pronounced. And you know what, 246 00:15:59,880 --> 00:16:03,840 Speaker 2: I was going to leave that alone, but I don't 247 00:16:03,840 --> 00:16:09,480 Speaker 2: fight fair. So my buddy called me the other day 248 00:16:10,520 --> 00:16:12,600 Speaker 2: and he had to make a run to Houston to 249 00:16:12,640 --> 00:16:15,640 Speaker 2: pick up some parts. He works out in College. Station's 250 00:16:15,640 --> 00:16:19,680 Speaker 2: got a plumbing air conditioning shop and He said, what 251 00:16:19,720 --> 00:16:22,640 Speaker 2: you got going on today and grab a beer this evening? 252 00:16:23,520 --> 00:16:29,360 Speaker 2: And I said, well, my sweet wife. He knows her 253 00:16:29,480 --> 00:16:32,680 Speaker 2: very well. She adores him. He adores her, He said, 254 00:16:32,960 --> 00:16:37,880 Speaker 2: I said, she spoke to my mom this morning, and 255 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:41,200 Speaker 2: she's just worried about my mom. She's just she's her 256 00:16:41,240 --> 00:16:43,760 Speaker 2: lung capacity is way down, which means she's tired. She's 257 00:16:43,800 --> 00:16:46,240 Speaker 2: not able to leave, she's not able to drive, not 258 00:16:46,280 --> 00:16:48,600 Speaker 2: able to get her hair dead, not able to get 259 00:16:48,600 --> 00:16:51,320 Speaker 2: her nails dead. And you know, you're sitting in the 260 00:16:51,320 --> 00:16:54,000 Speaker 2: living room with your husband of one hundred years. You 261 00:16:54,080 --> 00:16:57,840 Speaker 2: start getting on each other's nerves. And she said, my 262 00:16:57,920 --> 00:16:59,720 Speaker 2: wife would never ask me, could she? 263 00:16:59,720 --> 00:16:59,960 Speaker 3: Alway? 264 00:17:00,160 --> 00:17:02,760 Speaker 2: He thinks I keep too long of hours anyway, And 265 00:17:02,800 --> 00:17:05,639 Speaker 2: she said, I hate to ask you this, but I 266 00:17:05,680 --> 00:17:09,679 Speaker 2: think you need to go see your mom. And I said, well, 267 00:17:10,240 --> 00:17:13,800 Speaker 2: if you say that, then I do. That's just that's 268 00:17:14,240 --> 00:17:17,360 Speaker 2: there's no doubt. So he asked what I was doing 269 00:17:17,400 --> 00:17:19,680 Speaker 2: that day, and I totally him. I said, I need 270 00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:22,360 Speaker 2: to go see my parents, and it's the right thing 271 00:17:22,400 --> 00:17:24,080 Speaker 2: to do, and I need to do it for them, 272 00:17:24,119 --> 00:17:25,639 Speaker 2: but I also need to do it for me. I 273 00:17:25,720 --> 00:17:31,320 Speaker 2: just need to lay eyes on them and so he said, well, 274 00:17:31,359 --> 00:17:34,000 Speaker 2: I got to come into Houston get some parts. I 275 00:17:34,040 --> 00:17:37,199 Speaker 2: could rearrange my schedule. You want me to drive you, 276 00:17:38,320 --> 00:17:44,080 Speaker 2: I would love that, but but I was really looking 277 00:17:44,080 --> 00:17:47,120 Speaker 2: forward to smoking a cigar on the way and back, 278 00:17:48,440 --> 00:17:51,120 Speaker 2: and he said, you can smoke a cigar in my vehicle. 279 00:17:52,280 --> 00:17:55,159 Speaker 2: And little did I know, I didn't think about him 280 00:17:55,200 --> 00:17:56,919 Speaker 2: being a plumber with a bunch of parts in this 281 00:17:57,000 --> 00:17:59,479 Speaker 2: filthy truck of his. It's when big old diesel trucks. 282 00:17:59,840 --> 00:18:02,960 Speaker 2: I mean it's a regular truck, but it's a diesel 283 00:18:03,040 --> 00:18:07,679 Speaker 2: powered truck, should I say? And little did I know, 284 00:18:07,720 --> 00:18:09,639 Speaker 2: he's got pro paine and everything in the back, and 285 00:18:09,680 --> 00:18:11,400 Speaker 2: there I am fire and stuff up, but he said 286 00:18:11,400 --> 00:18:12,960 Speaker 2: it wasn't gonna blow up, and it didn't blow up, 287 00:18:13,080 --> 00:18:16,680 Speaker 2: so it must be safe. So anyway, he very kindly 288 00:18:16,720 --> 00:18:18,440 Speaker 2: shows up, and he even cleaned it up a little 289 00:18:18,440 --> 00:18:20,560 Speaker 2: bit like by which I mean he took all the 290 00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:23,000 Speaker 2: boxes in his passenger seat and threw them in the back. 291 00:18:24,680 --> 00:18:30,080 Speaker 2: And his wife texted and said, oh my god, y'all 292 00:18:30,080 --> 00:18:33,320 Speaker 2: are going to see your mom in his filthy truck. 293 00:18:34,240 --> 00:18:38,560 Speaker 2: And I said, her name's Olivia, but he calls her 294 00:18:38,640 --> 00:18:44,400 Speaker 2: Live Live. It's worse than that. So one night they 295 00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:46,320 Speaker 2: had called me on their way back from Houston to 296 00:18:46,320 --> 00:18:50,560 Speaker 2: College station, and it took him about four hours to 297 00:18:50,560 --> 00:18:55,679 Speaker 2: get home because these son of a bitches in the 298 00:18:56,080 --> 00:19:01,200 Speaker 2: environmental movement have caused you know, your air conditioning costs 299 00:19:01,200 --> 00:19:04,679 Speaker 2: more and delivers less. There's so many aspects of your 300 00:19:04,720 --> 00:19:08,000 Speaker 2: life that are wrecked by these green people. Oh, you 301 00:19:08,160 --> 00:19:11,800 Speaker 2: teach the children and every ded you don't realize they're 302 00:19:11,840 --> 00:19:15,399 Speaker 2: having a profound impact on American manufacturing, on your quality 303 00:19:15,400 --> 00:19:17,680 Speaker 2: of life, on the cost of living, all of it, 304 00:19:18,800 --> 00:19:22,720 Speaker 2: and none of it makes a difference. So she and 305 00:19:22,800 --> 00:19:24,919 Speaker 2: I are texting while he's sitting beside me, and I'm laughing, 306 00:19:24,960 --> 00:19:27,600 Speaker 2: and because I do voice to text and he's having 307 00:19:27,600 --> 00:19:30,800 Speaker 2: to listen to me text his wife insulting him. Well, 308 00:19:31,640 --> 00:19:35,719 Speaker 2: they got some environmental regulation that there's a filter in 309 00:19:35,760 --> 00:19:38,520 Speaker 2: your vehicle. This is to save the earth that when 310 00:19:38,560 --> 00:19:44,240 Speaker 2: a particular particulate ends up in that filter, your truck 311 00:19:44,280 --> 00:19:48,840 Speaker 2: decides that you've destroyed the earth. So your truck, it'd 312 00:19:48,840 --> 00:19:50,560 Speaker 2: be better off of the truck would just shut down, 313 00:19:50,760 --> 00:19:53,120 Speaker 2: because then I get out and call nuber. Oh no, no, no, no, 314 00:19:53,160 --> 00:19:57,680 Speaker 2: truck doesn't do that. It torments you somewhere we're all 315 00:19:57,680 --> 00:20:01,120 Speaker 2: in a simulation and there's some do watching up there, 316 00:20:01,160 --> 00:20:03,680 Speaker 2: and he's like, hey, hey, what we watch his little 317 00:20:03,680 --> 00:20:05,560 Speaker 2: cat and mouse I'm to do. See this guy right here. 318 00:20:06,160 --> 00:20:08,720 Speaker 2: Let's get Let's let them get good out of Houston. 319 00:20:09,320 --> 00:20:11,800 Speaker 2: Let's get them through chambers. Let's get you know about 320 00:20:11,800 --> 00:20:16,520 Speaker 2: where the alligators are on the left right there. Uh 321 00:20:16,600 --> 00:20:19,399 Speaker 2: an a whack. Let's just shut that thing down, but 322 00:20:19,480 --> 00:20:22,600 Speaker 2: not completely. Let's drop it down to about thirty miles 323 00:20:22,600 --> 00:20:29,800 Speaker 2: an hour. Oh no, So it goes thing ing and 324 00:20:29,840 --> 00:20:31,280 Speaker 2: I said, oh, we're out of gas. I run out 325 00:20:31,280 --> 00:20:33,480 Speaker 2: of gas in seven countries. I've running out of gas. 326 00:20:33,520 --> 00:20:36,120 Speaker 2: It's not a problem for me. So I said, oh 327 00:20:36,320 --> 00:20:38,520 Speaker 2: we out of gas. You're as bad as I am. 328 00:20:38,840 --> 00:20:42,399 Speaker 2: And he goes, no, so what does that mean? And 329 00:20:42,440 --> 00:20:45,480 Speaker 2: he he does that thing we do. We don't realize 330 00:20:45,480 --> 00:20:47,159 Speaker 2: we're doing. It's kind of like the Flintstones when they 331 00:20:47,160 --> 00:20:49,840 Speaker 2: got to ramp the feet up to get to get going, 332 00:20:51,080 --> 00:20:53,760 Speaker 2: and Barney would have to help. He does that thing 333 00:20:53,800 --> 00:20:56,880 Speaker 2: where you lean in on the steering wheel as if 334 00:20:56,920 --> 00:21:00,359 Speaker 2: somehow you're assisting you know, you know, you're in the 335 00:21:00,760 --> 00:21:03,360 Speaker 2: stands and Carlton Fisk hits that home run and he's 336 00:21:03,359 --> 00:21:07,440 Speaker 2: trying to trying to wield the ball fair, so he's 337 00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:10,960 Speaker 2: trying to wheel the truck forward. And I knew that 338 00:21:11,119 --> 00:21:14,400 Speaker 2: is not a good sign. But he's a very technical guy. 339 00:21:14,440 --> 00:21:16,840 Speaker 2: He's a plumber, erictor. He's like my dad. He can 340 00:21:16,880 --> 00:21:22,639 Speaker 2: solve physical problems that I can't. And I said, Michael, 341 00:21:22,640 --> 00:21:24,280 Speaker 2: I don't want to be a distraction like a child 342 00:21:24,320 --> 00:21:27,760 Speaker 2: when his dad's doing work. But what's our situation here? 343 00:21:28,280 --> 00:21:32,119 Speaker 2: There's a hot outside and he said, well, that's that 344 00:21:32,240 --> 00:21:36,679 Speaker 2: environmental thing. Remember I said, oh no, oh, we're not 345 00:21:36,840 --> 00:21:41,920 Speaker 2: coming back. We're going to Orange. Oh no. This was 346 00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:43,840 Speaker 2: when I wish I had Uncle Jerry. But Uncle Jerry 347 00:21:43,880 --> 00:21:47,359 Speaker 2: was in College Station, oddly enough, because he was selling 348 00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:49,800 Speaker 2: the house that his mom had lived in before she passed. 349 00:21:50,720 --> 00:21:54,160 Speaker 2: So I got no Uncle Jerry. I got my dear friend, 350 00:21:54,160 --> 00:21:56,880 Speaker 2: Michael Robinson in a truck that's shut down to about 351 00:21:56,920 --> 00:22:00,439 Speaker 2: thirty miles an hour. So worst parties were old in 352 00:22:00,480 --> 00:22:03,440 Speaker 2: the far right lane like we're Chinese. So there we go, 353 00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:06,560 Speaker 2: and I said, just I got my hands over my head. 354 00:22:06,600 --> 00:22:09,880 Speaker 2: I said, just just for my own sanity. It doesn't 355 00:22:09,920 --> 00:22:12,520 Speaker 2: matter when we're another are we driving with our blinkers on, 356 00:22:13,440 --> 00:22:16,200 Speaker 2: and he said, no, I don't do that. Well, why 357 00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:19,359 Speaker 2: would you were? Are you pumping the brain? How do 358 00:22:19,400 --> 00:22:22,679 Speaker 2: we keep somebod just running over us? So we go 359 00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:25,520 Speaker 2: see my parents, and the entire time that we are there, 360 00:22:25,600 --> 00:22:28,960 Speaker 2: I'm giving him hell, and my mother, I'm just like her. 361 00:22:29,359 --> 00:22:31,600 Speaker 2: She knows what I'm doing, so she's taking up for him. 362 00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:35,240 Speaker 2: And then we come back and his wife is just 363 00:22:35,720 --> 00:22:38,480 Speaker 2: cackling that this has happened to us in this truck. 364 00:22:38,920 --> 00:22:40,800 Speaker 2: And so his answer to me the whole next day 365 00:22:40,840 --> 00:22:43,679 Speaker 2: is he said, you have bitched so much about us 366 00:22:43,760 --> 00:22:45,920 Speaker 2: driving thirty miles an hour in the right hand lane. 367 00:22:46,040 --> 00:22:47,679 Speaker 2: I mean, you've bitched so much of us being in 368 00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:49,600 Speaker 2: the you know, because you're three lanes, and then you 369 00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:53,040 Speaker 2: got Chinese people over there, you got white people in 370 00:22:53,040 --> 00:22:55,640 Speaker 2: the middle, and you got black people driving like maniacs 371 00:22:55,640 --> 00:22:57,199 Speaker 2: in the left lane. And I don't know what the 372 00:22:57,240 --> 00:22:59,920 Speaker 2: Mexicans do, but we'll focus on what we got here. 373 00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:04,160 Speaker 2: So he said, we were driving twelve feet from where 374 00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:07,800 Speaker 2: we normally drive. I said, it's not the twelve feet 375 00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:09,800 Speaker 2: that bothered me, even though I never drive in the 376 00:23:09,840 --> 00:23:12,679 Speaker 2: far right lane. That's the shoulder almost it was the 377 00:23:12,720 --> 00:23:13,919 Speaker 2: thirty miles an hour got me