1 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:11,200 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, Luck and load. The 2 00:00:11,320 --> 00:00:13,720 Speaker 1: Michael Verie Show is on the air. 3 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:15,120 Speaker 2: This is. 4 00:00:17,720 --> 00:00:20,319 Speaker 1: But chief also checks another box when it comes to. 5 00:00:20,320 --> 00:00:24,120 Speaker 3: Inclusivity and diversity and this department. She's a proud member 6 00:00:24,239 --> 00:00:26,280 Speaker 3: of the LGBTQ community. 7 00:00:26,720 --> 00:00:29,320 Speaker 4: That just kind of opens the door of people that thought, Oh, 8 00:00:29,360 --> 00:00:32,120 Speaker 4: I didn't even know that that was an opportunity for me. 9 00:00:37,920 --> 00:00:45,760 Speaker 1: Nobody got time for it. I'm super inspired. 10 00:00:46,080 --> 00:00:48,519 Speaker 3: She took time out of her already busy schedule to 11 00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:51,600 Speaker 3: tell us about her vision for the department's future, one 12 00:00:51,600 --> 00:00:55,360 Speaker 3: that includes a three year strategic plan to increase diversity. 13 00:00:55,520 --> 00:00:57,640 Speaker 4: People ask me, what number are you looking for us, 14 00:00:57,680 --> 00:00:59,720 Speaker 4: I'm looking for a number is never enough. 15 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:03,600 Speaker 3: Thirty three hundred city firefighters. Only one hundred and fifteen 16 00:01:03,760 --> 00:01:06,440 Speaker 3: are women. Right now, She's already looking at ways to 17 00:01:06,560 --> 00:01:09,120 Speaker 3: change that. She's quick to point out that doing so 18 00:01:09,319 --> 00:01:12,520 Speaker 3: has a greater purpose attracting the best and brightest for 19 00:01:12,600 --> 00:01:13,000 Speaker 3: the job. 20 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:16,240 Speaker 4: They feel included, they feel valued, and they feel part 21 00:01:16,280 --> 00:01:17,360 Speaker 4: of a cohesive team. 22 00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:19,960 Speaker 5: You might have recall a new story from last year. 23 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:22,520 Speaker 5: There was some interest in the fire departments and the 24 00:01:22,520 --> 00:01:25,680 Speaker 5: firefighters in California, and the interest was there were too 25 00:01:25,720 --> 00:01:28,000 Speaker 5: many white men who were firefighters, and we need to 26 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:29,800 Speaker 5: have a program in California to make sure we don't 27 00:01:29,800 --> 00:01:32,440 Speaker 5: have enough white men as firefighters. 28 00:01:48,280 --> 00:01:50,800 Speaker 6: They said, we have no water. I said, do you 29 00:01:50,840 --> 00:01:53,080 Speaker 6: have a drought. No, we don't have a drought. I said, 30 00:01:53,080 --> 00:01:55,680 Speaker 6: why don't you have no water? Because the water isn't 31 00:01:55,720 --> 00:01:58,200 Speaker 6: allowed to flow down. It's got a natural flow from 32 00:01:58,240 --> 00:02:01,040 Speaker 6: Canada all the way up north, more water than they 33 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:04,400 Speaker 6: could have a use. And in order to protect a 34 00:02:04,480 --> 00:02:09,880 Speaker 6: tiny little fish, the water up north gets routed into 35 00:02:09,919 --> 00:02:13,280 Speaker 6: the Pacific Ocean. Millions and millions of gallons of water 36 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:17,080 Speaker 6: gets poured. I could have water for all of that land, 37 00:02:17,720 --> 00:02:19,799 Speaker 6: water for your forests. You know your forests are dry 38 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:22,920 Speaker 6: as a bone. Okay, dangerous that water could be routed. 39 00:02:23,160 --> 00:02:24,440 Speaker 6: You know, you could have everything. 40 00:02:42,360 --> 00:02:45,280 Speaker 1: What is restitution with water? Obviously in the al sage 41 00:02:45,320 --> 00:02:46,880 Speaker 1: ran out last night and the hydrants. I turned the 42 00:02:46,880 --> 00:02:47,880 Speaker 1: firefighter in this block. 43 00:02:48,120 --> 00:02:51,120 Speaker 3: They left because there were no water in the hydrants here. 44 00:02:51,440 --> 00:02:53,160 Speaker 2: Local folks are going to figure that out. 45 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:56,480 Speaker 7: Do you go citizens an apology for being absent while 46 00:02:56,480 --> 00:03:00,120 Speaker 7: their homes were burning? Do you regret coming the our 47 00:03:00,160 --> 00:03:02,080 Speaker 7: department budget by millions of dollars? 48 00:03:02,080 --> 00:03:03,040 Speaker 2: Not a there. 49 00:03:04,880 --> 00:03:12,000 Speaker 7: Have you nothing to say today? Elon Mosk says that 50 00:03:12,040 --> 00:03:13,519 Speaker 7: you're utterly incompetent. 51 00:03:13,600 --> 00:03:15,320 Speaker 1: Are you considering your position. 52 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:20,080 Speaker 7: Ada mayor have you absolutely nothing to say to the 53 00:03:20,120 --> 00:03:20,919 Speaker 7: citizens today? 54 00:03:21,040 --> 00:03:22,600 Speaker 1: You're dealing with this disaster. 55 00:03:42,640 --> 00:03:46,880 Speaker 8: When listener writes your remarks about comparing volunteer firefighters with 56 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:50,040 Speaker 8: the idiot in Galveston pretending to be an ice agent, 57 00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:55,480 Speaker 8: we're very disparaging. We do the same job putting our 58 00:03:55,520 --> 00:03:58,200 Speaker 8: lives on the line. We do it for the community. 59 00:03:58,400 --> 00:04:06,080 Speaker 8: Good grief, folks. If you're on your period, please wait 60 00:04:06,160 --> 00:04:08,000 Speaker 8: till you're off to send me an email. 61 00:04:09,560 --> 00:04:10,600 Speaker 1: Good grief. 62 00:04:11,960 --> 00:04:15,720 Speaker 8: I said that that idiot pretending to be an ice 63 00:04:15,760 --> 00:04:20,880 Speaker 8: agent must have thought to himself, well, if there's volunteer 64 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:26,120 Speaker 8: firefighters and I'm just being a volunteer ice agent, that 65 00:04:26,320 --> 00:04:30,360 Speaker 8: was an insult of that dude. That is not an 66 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:34,800 Speaker 8: insult to volunteer firefighters. But I'll tell you what happened there. 67 00:04:36,520 --> 00:04:39,480 Speaker 8: This dude doesn't think he gets enough respect for being 68 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:44,160 Speaker 8: a volunteer firefighter, so he's running around looking for people 69 00:04:44,520 --> 00:04:47,599 Speaker 8: who are showing a lack of respect to volunteer firefighters, 70 00:04:47,640 --> 00:04:49,600 Speaker 8: and he thinks he just trapped one. 71 00:04:50,200 --> 00:04:50,279 Speaker 9: Me. 72 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:54,920 Speaker 8: You know, we have to be careful because remember, he's 73 00:04:54,960 --> 00:04:56,719 Speaker 8: listening to our show, so you can have a pretty 74 00:04:56,720 --> 00:05:02,320 Speaker 8: good idea how he thinks his politics and are just 75 00:05:02,440 --> 00:05:08,680 Speaker 8: be careful that you're not so obsessed or so influenced 76 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:12,760 Speaker 8: by the idiocy of the left that you adopt their principles. 77 00:05:14,839 --> 00:05:16,159 Speaker 1: If you think I'm out. 78 00:05:15,960 --> 00:05:23,160 Speaker 8: Here insulting volunteer firefighters, maybe you need a perspective check 79 00:05:25,240 --> 00:05:29,680 Speaker 8: because everyone knows I'm not. So why would you think 80 00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:34,200 Speaker 8: I am. Let's dig deeper into that. Do you need 81 00:05:34,240 --> 00:05:34,920 Speaker 8: to be a victim? 82 00:05:34,920 --> 00:05:35,760 Speaker 1: Today? Is today? 83 00:05:35,839 --> 00:05:39,800 Speaker 8: Victim Day for you is today? Pay more attention to 84 00:05:39,880 --> 00:05:44,280 Speaker 8: be day for you is today? You know I go 85 00:05:44,400 --> 00:05:47,160 Speaker 8: up there and volunteer and then you know people bring 86 00:05:47,200 --> 00:05:50,640 Speaker 8: donuts those fire stations and we don't even get paid, 87 00:05:50,720 --> 00:05:53,600 Speaker 8: and we do it because we love the community, and 88 00:05:53,640 --> 00:05:54,880 Speaker 8: no one ever tells. 89 00:05:54,640 --> 00:05:59,839 Speaker 1: Me thank you. Is that what this is? Because it's. 90 00:06:02,320 --> 00:06:04,080 Speaker 8: Won't you just ask for a pat on the back 91 00:06:04,120 --> 00:06:06,400 Speaker 8: and I'll give it to you. I think being a 92 00:06:06,440 --> 00:06:07,839 Speaker 8: volunteer firefighters cool. 93 00:06:08,480 --> 00:06:09,080 Speaker 1: I really do. 94 00:06:10,960 --> 00:06:13,760 Speaker 8: In communities where they can't afford a full time firefighter 95 00:06:14,560 --> 00:06:17,920 Speaker 8: fire department, the fact that people in the community did 96 00:06:18,120 --> 00:06:18,520 Speaker 8: that's what. 97 00:06:18,440 --> 00:06:19,760 Speaker 1: Public service is. Supposed to be. 98 00:06:19,960 --> 00:06:22,719 Speaker 8: That's what serving the legislature or Congress is supposed to be. 99 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:27,800 Speaker 8: That's what a reserve deputy is all about. Our government 100 00:06:27,880 --> 00:06:30,359 Speaker 8: wasn't meant to be full time professionals at every level 101 00:06:30,400 --> 00:06:36,000 Speaker 8: all the time, with fat pensions and union contracts and 102 00:06:36,120 --> 00:06:39,200 Speaker 8: breaking the backs of taxpayers to fund these things. It 103 00:06:39,320 --> 00:06:43,080 Speaker 8: was supposed to be everybody pitching in as parents and 104 00:06:43,120 --> 00:06:49,480 Speaker 8: school teachers and volunteer firefighters. But if you find yourself 105 00:06:49,600 --> 00:06:53,320 Speaker 8: during that time of the month getting butt hurt or 106 00:06:53,360 --> 00:06:58,400 Speaker 8: worse over something I've said, just stop for a second 107 00:06:59,080 --> 00:07:02,919 Speaker 8: and ask yourself. I got a nice message from a 108 00:07:02,960 --> 00:07:08,760 Speaker 8: fellow named Jason Pontratrain, and he said that he appreciated 109 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:12,960 Speaker 8: the fact that I had spoken nicely about Walmart readers. 110 00:07:13,440 --> 00:07:16,640 Speaker 8: And I did so for one reason because I always 111 00:07:16,680 --> 00:07:18,720 Speaker 8: thought it was the sweetest concept. I thought it was 112 00:07:18,760 --> 00:07:24,080 Speaker 8: a brilliant business idea brilliant business idea, because you have 113 00:07:24,120 --> 00:07:28,280 Speaker 8: this faceless corporation, and this is how you put a 114 00:07:28,320 --> 00:07:32,360 Speaker 8: face on it. If you're a company in Arkansas and 115 00:07:32,440 --> 00:07:38,280 Speaker 8: you've got a Walmart in Lobock or Alabama, and it's 116 00:07:38,280 --> 00:07:41,560 Speaker 8: this cold, clinical four wall stores, and you've just put 117 00:07:41,600 --> 00:07:43,720 Speaker 8: the local business out of business that was owned by 118 00:07:43,800 --> 00:07:44,960 Speaker 8: Bob and Jane had been there. 119 00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:45,520 Speaker 1: For thirty years. 120 00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:50,120 Speaker 8: You've got to figure out a way, some way to 121 00:07:50,200 --> 00:07:53,360 Speaker 8: make just feel like a local company, to give a 122 00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:55,440 Speaker 8: local flavor to it. You're not going to let somebody 123 00:07:55,520 --> 00:07:59,760 Speaker 8: run it because you're Walmart. So you find usually an 124 00:07:59,760 --> 00:08:02,360 Speaker 8: old person in the community. You put them into front 125 00:08:02,640 --> 00:08:04,560 Speaker 8: and the only job they have so they can never 126 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:06,560 Speaker 8: get distracted by it. They don't they don't keep the 127 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:10,440 Speaker 8: bathrooms clean, they don't take returns, and only job they 128 00:08:10,480 --> 00:08:11,080 Speaker 8: have is. 129 00:08:11,080 --> 00:08:12,840 Speaker 1: To greet you as you come in and it improves 130 00:08:12,840 --> 00:08:13,520 Speaker 1: the experience. 131 00:08:14,280 --> 00:08:17,880 Speaker 8: And we have Jason poncer Train one such Walmart reader 132 00:08:17,920 --> 00:08:19,680 Speaker 8: who will be our guest coming up. If you have 133 00:08:19,720 --> 00:08:22,560 Speaker 8: a question you've always wanted to ask a Walmart reader, 134 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:24,880 Speaker 8: send me an email through the website Michael Berryshow. 135 00:08:24,520 --> 00:08:26,800 Speaker 1: Dot com and or list. So I dropped and then 136 00:08:26,840 --> 00:08:29,960 Speaker 1: I tell you, Michael very I recommend it, and you. 137 00:08:32,559 --> 00:08:36,720 Speaker 8: Jason poncer Train was the aforementioned person who emailed us 138 00:08:36,760 --> 00:08:39,880 Speaker 8: who had experience as a Walmart reader and appreciated our 139 00:08:40,360 --> 00:08:40,959 Speaker 8: respect and. 140 00:08:40,920 --> 00:08:42,760 Speaker 1: Appreciation for them, And we do. 141 00:08:43,520 --> 00:08:43,800 Speaker 2: We do. 142 00:08:43,960 --> 00:08:44,240 Speaker 1: Jason. 143 00:08:44,240 --> 00:08:47,320 Speaker 8: Welcome to the program, Sir him Michael. Now you were 144 00:08:47,320 --> 00:08:49,400 Speaker 8: in the state of Michigan. 145 00:08:49,040 --> 00:08:49,439 Speaker 3: Is that right? 146 00:08:50,240 --> 00:08:50,320 Speaker 9: Uh? 147 00:08:50,480 --> 00:08:53,800 Speaker 1: No, sir, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania. They're all the same. To me. 148 00:08:54,320 --> 00:08:56,559 Speaker 8: It's like if somebody says they're from Guatemala, I just 149 00:08:56,559 --> 00:08:57,360 Speaker 8: say they're Mexican. 150 00:08:58,320 --> 00:09:00,839 Speaker 1: Gotcha? So how long did you work at Walmart? 151 00:09:01,760 --> 00:09:02,640 Speaker 9: About two years? 152 00:09:02,920 --> 00:09:07,000 Speaker 1: Okay? And what occasioned you applying to Walmart? 153 00:09:07,040 --> 00:09:09,120 Speaker 8: Did you go there as a greeter or did you 154 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:10,880 Speaker 8: go there just looking for a job. 155 00:09:12,400 --> 00:09:13,960 Speaker 1: I just went there looking for a job. 156 00:09:14,040 --> 00:09:18,000 Speaker 9: But because of my cerebral palsy and the electric wheelchair 157 00:09:18,040 --> 00:09:20,160 Speaker 9: that I use, it just worked out best. 158 00:09:20,040 --> 00:09:22,160 Speaker 1: That i'd be a greeter. Are you full time in 159 00:09:22,160 --> 00:09:29,680 Speaker 1: an electric wheelchair? Yes? What brand? What brand would be? 160 00:09:29,800 --> 00:09:33,480 Speaker 1: Quickie to Q seven hundred? What your model? And horsepower 161 00:09:34,600 --> 00:09:35,400 Speaker 1: of a wheelchair? 162 00:09:35,440 --> 00:09:35,600 Speaker 2: Well? 163 00:09:36,880 --> 00:09:37,560 Speaker 1: Was an honor? 164 00:09:37,800 --> 00:09:38,720 Speaker 2: These things can fly? 165 00:09:39,040 --> 00:09:40,920 Speaker 8: Well, I would want to know if I'm getting a 166 00:09:40,920 --> 00:09:43,800 Speaker 8: wheelchair that I'm not getting, you know, the toilet of 167 00:09:43,920 --> 00:09:48,480 Speaker 8: tersell of wheelchairs. I want something. I want the Hennessy model. 168 00:09:49,240 --> 00:09:49,760 Speaker 1: There you go. 169 00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:50,920 Speaker 2: We can raise sometime. 170 00:09:51,960 --> 00:09:55,920 Speaker 8: So does cerebral palsy help me understand? Because I mean 171 00:09:55,960 --> 00:09:57,880 Speaker 8: I just know of it. I can't tell you much 172 00:09:57,880 --> 00:10:01,080 Speaker 8: about it. Are you able to walk at all ever? 173 00:10:01,400 --> 00:10:02,040 Speaker 9: Or not at all? 174 00:10:02,160 --> 00:10:06,120 Speaker 1: My body is very gnarled. Okay, and tell me exactly 175 00:10:06,840 --> 00:10:07,800 Speaker 1: what happens there. 176 00:10:10,040 --> 00:10:15,720 Speaker 9: Well, I was born nine weeks premature in nineteen seventy four, 177 00:10:16,400 --> 00:10:21,400 Speaker 9: and without oxygen the brain dies and so I stopped 178 00:10:21,440 --> 00:10:24,960 Speaker 9: breathing as an infant and the damage was done, you know. 179 00:10:26,440 --> 00:10:30,400 Speaker 8: Okay, So help me understand how the lack of oxygen 180 00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:34,040 Speaker 8: manifests itself in the condition you have that do you know? 181 00:10:34,360 --> 00:10:36,000 Speaker 1: You may not know. I'm just curious. 182 00:10:36,080 --> 00:10:39,240 Speaker 8: Usually people know their conditions inside and out. 183 00:10:39,760 --> 00:10:39,960 Speaker 1: Well. 184 00:10:39,960 --> 00:10:44,400 Speaker 9: Cerebrabopalsy is a neurological condition, so it's a very wide 185 00:10:44,559 --> 00:10:48,880 Speaker 9: ranging condition. So for example, if you see somebody who 186 00:10:49,160 --> 00:10:55,480 Speaker 9: walks with kind of a clumsy walk and can't speak so, well, 187 00:10:56,160 --> 00:10:58,960 Speaker 9: that could be a cerebral palsy or someone like me. 188 00:10:59,080 --> 00:11:01,880 Speaker 9: I can talk just but I can't walk at all, 189 00:11:01,960 --> 00:11:03,439 Speaker 9: and my body is really stiff. 190 00:11:03,559 --> 00:11:07,560 Speaker 1: You know, have you never walked? That's correct? I have 191 00:11:07,640 --> 00:11:08,760 Speaker 1: never walked? Oh wow? 192 00:11:08,880 --> 00:11:14,479 Speaker 8: Okay, yeah, so growing up, I'm assuming an electric wheelchair 193 00:11:14,600 --> 00:11:15,280 Speaker 8: was not an option. 194 00:11:16,920 --> 00:11:17,520 Speaker 1: That's correct. 195 00:11:17,520 --> 00:11:21,000 Speaker 9: I did not get an electric wheelchair until I was fifteen. 196 00:11:21,400 --> 00:11:27,000 Speaker 8: Yeah, all right, and then so what is your upper 197 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:28,439 Speaker 8: body dexterity? 198 00:11:28,520 --> 00:11:33,640 Speaker 2: And I have good use I should. 199 00:11:33,320 --> 00:11:36,760 Speaker 9: Say better use of my arms, no use of my legs. 200 00:11:37,840 --> 00:11:40,600 Speaker 9: I am left handed, my right hand can't do a 201 00:11:40,640 --> 00:11:42,880 Speaker 9: whole lot. 202 00:11:42,960 --> 00:11:48,120 Speaker 1: But yeah, but you can fully function using the remote 203 00:11:48,120 --> 00:11:49,600 Speaker 1: control in your hand. 204 00:11:51,360 --> 00:11:54,200 Speaker 9: Yes, so I'm holding the cell phone in my left 205 00:11:54,200 --> 00:11:56,160 Speaker 9: hand right now. I could not hold it in my 206 00:11:56,240 --> 00:11:57,080 Speaker 9: right hand. 207 00:11:56,720 --> 00:11:58,080 Speaker 2: If that helps you it at all? 208 00:11:58,160 --> 00:12:02,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, it does. So at what age do you decide? So? 209 00:12:02,400 --> 00:12:07,079 Speaker 1: Had you worked as an adult your entire life. 210 00:12:06,640 --> 00:12:10,079 Speaker 9: I had struggled to find employment. I was able to 211 00:12:10,160 --> 00:12:15,760 Speaker 9: go to college. Edinburgh University in Erie, Pennsylvania has special 212 00:12:15,800 --> 00:12:19,640 Speaker 9: programs for the disabled, and so that's how I was 213 00:12:19,679 --> 00:12:23,880 Speaker 9: able to go to college. Yeah, so yes, yeah, And 214 00:12:24,480 --> 00:12:25,400 Speaker 9: what are those programs? 215 00:12:25,440 --> 00:12:27,840 Speaker 1: What do people primarily do coming out of that program? 216 00:12:28,960 --> 00:12:31,760 Speaker 9: Coming out of that program? Well, I'll tell you about 217 00:12:31,800 --> 00:12:34,440 Speaker 9: my experience. I have a degree in speech communication. It 218 00:12:34,559 --> 00:12:40,200 Speaker 9: was my desire to go into radio, really, but telling 219 00:12:40,240 --> 00:12:43,360 Speaker 9: you about some of those neurological issues. I have some 220 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:48,520 Speaker 9: of those difficulties that make some other aspects of life 221 00:12:48,960 --> 00:12:52,800 Speaker 9: very difficult, which is why I enjoyed working at Walmart 222 00:12:53,200 --> 00:12:57,360 Speaker 9: because I could focus on one thing at a time 223 00:12:57,440 --> 00:12:59,400 Speaker 9: just talking to people, just interacting. 224 00:12:59,480 --> 00:13:00,760 Speaker 2: You know that makes sense? 225 00:13:00,800 --> 00:13:04,400 Speaker 1: You know, well, what makes sense is my suspicion. 226 00:13:04,640 --> 00:13:07,079 Speaker 8: I can't know what I don't know, and the difficulties 227 00:13:07,120 --> 00:13:09,240 Speaker 8: you go through we take for granted. 228 00:13:09,280 --> 00:13:09,400 Speaker 9: All. 229 00:13:09,440 --> 00:13:10,599 Speaker 8: You don't know how you go to the restroom. I 230 00:13:10,640 --> 00:13:12,199 Speaker 8: don't know how you feed yourself. I don't know how 231 00:13:12,240 --> 00:13:14,920 Speaker 8: you get to the grocery store. You know, all those 232 00:13:14,920 --> 00:13:16,640 Speaker 8: things that we just kind of take for granted. But 233 00:13:16,760 --> 00:13:21,040 Speaker 8: I would imagine that there would be a sense of 234 00:13:21,200 --> 00:13:24,720 Speaker 8: purpose to being useful because you're the face of the 235 00:13:24,760 --> 00:13:28,480 Speaker 8: company and somebody walks in the door and your elocution 236 00:13:28,880 --> 00:13:31,760 Speaker 8: is amazing. I would assume that you enjoy the process 237 00:13:31,760 --> 00:13:33,000 Speaker 8: of interacting verbally. 238 00:13:33,280 --> 00:13:35,840 Speaker 9: So it's kind of a wind well, yes, and let 239 00:13:35,920 --> 00:13:38,280 Speaker 9: me tell you kind of a little scenario when I 240 00:13:38,320 --> 00:13:42,200 Speaker 9: go out in public, Sometimes children especially, but other times 241 00:13:42,240 --> 00:13:45,200 Speaker 9: other people also will just stare because it look so 242 00:13:45,280 --> 00:13:47,080 Speaker 9: differently from everybody else, you know. 243 00:13:47,480 --> 00:13:50,520 Speaker 2: And so it's nice to be able to be at a. 244 00:13:50,520 --> 00:13:54,199 Speaker 9: Place like Walmart where the interaction is positive and all 245 00:13:54,280 --> 00:13:57,200 Speaker 9: I have to do really is say hi and just 246 00:13:57,360 --> 00:13:58,720 Speaker 9: kind of make conversation. 247 00:13:58,840 --> 00:13:59,680 Speaker 1: That's great, you know. 248 00:14:01,760 --> 00:14:06,880 Speaker 8: Interesting, So when you went to apply did you have 249 00:14:06,960 --> 00:14:10,080 Speaker 8: any idea? So sorry, let me go back when you 250 00:14:10,120 --> 00:14:12,280 Speaker 8: come out of the school in Erie that has a 251 00:14:12,320 --> 00:14:15,439 Speaker 8: special program for disabilities. What were some of the jobs 252 00:14:15,480 --> 00:14:16,559 Speaker 8: you did over the years. 253 00:14:18,120 --> 00:14:21,920 Speaker 9: Well, I tried it in radio, I tried customer service. 254 00:14:22,280 --> 00:14:23,840 Speaker 1: I tried being. 255 00:14:23,600 --> 00:14:27,920 Speaker 9: A receptionist in local government. 256 00:14:28,040 --> 00:14:32,080 Speaker 1: Actually, but just focus a little bit on that. 257 00:14:32,360 --> 00:14:36,280 Speaker 9: There were too many other responsibilities that I had that 258 00:14:36,400 --> 00:14:41,440 Speaker 9: I couldn't quite couldn't quite pull off or execute the 259 00:14:41,480 --> 00:14:43,960 Speaker 9: way I would want to or the way that my 260 00:14:44,160 --> 00:14:47,600 Speaker 9: supervisors would want to because of the neurological issues. 261 00:14:48,800 --> 00:14:49,800 Speaker 2: Let's see what else. 262 00:14:50,080 --> 00:14:55,080 Speaker 9: I've worked at amusement parks and Walmart. Honestly, was really 263 00:14:55,080 --> 00:14:58,480 Speaker 9: the best fit because of some of those other issues. 264 00:14:58,800 --> 00:15:01,480 Speaker 8: So did you know they had kind of a special 265 00:15:02,080 --> 00:15:05,400 Speaker 8: affinity for disabled folks that were more than you had 266 00:15:05,440 --> 00:15:07,760 Speaker 8: a shot at get in the greeter's position, Because I'm 267 00:15:07,760 --> 00:15:09,720 Speaker 8: guessing you just don't apply to some jobs. 268 00:15:09,720 --> 00:15:11,720 Speaker 2: That's exactly right, Okay, all. 269 00:15:11,680 --> 00:15:14,760 Speaker 8: Right, so you go in and you know their receptive 270 00:15:14,840 --> 00:15:17,320 Speaker 8: to this, and do they give you any special training? 271 00:15:19,400 --> 00:15:25,800 Speaker 9: Uh, just to look to see. Another part of the 272 00:15:25,880 --> 00:15:29,840 Speaker 9: job was asset protection, basically making sure that shoplifting does 273 00:15:29,880 --> 00:15:32,440 Speaker 9: not happen. So I just kind of look around and 274 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:35,720 Speaker 9: see what's going on and check receipts and so forth. 275 00:15:36,280 --> 00:15:38,800 Speaker 1: But you didn't like ram somebody if they tried to run. 276 00:15:39,120 --> 00:15:40,600 Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no, no, that would be. 277 00:15:40,600 --> 00:15:44,480 Speaker 8: Cool at all, Okay, So you would check receipts on 278 00:15:44,480 --> 00:15:48,160 Speaker 8: their way out. And my brother before he was a 279 00:15:48,160 --> 00:15:50,880 Speaker 8: police officer, he was going to college and he worked 280 00:15:50,920 --> 00:15:53,760 Speaker 8: as asset protection as you called it, for Walmart. In fact, 281 00:15:53,920 --> 00:15:55,720 Speaker 8: this weekend, I was cleaning out some stuff from my 282 00:15:55,800 --> 00:15:57,880 Speaker 8: parents and I came across his what my mom had 283 00:15:57,920 --> 00:15:58,320 Speaker 8: held on. 284 00:15:58,280 --> 00:15:59,360 Speaker 1: To his Walmart badges? 285 00:15:59,440 --> 00:16:03,600 Speaker 8: Can you believe this from from thirty five years ago? 286 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:07,440 Speaker 1: But he he chased the guy. He didn't think you 287 00:16:07,440 --> 00:16:09,680 Speaker 1: should steal. He chased the guy, chased the. 288 00:16:09,640 --> 00:16:12,600 Speaker 8: Guy out and tackled him and brought it and he 289 00:16:12,640 --> 00:16:14,640 Speaker 8: got fired. They rehired him, but he got fired because 290 00:16:14,640 --> 00:16:16,800 Speaker 8: they didn't they din't want him actually stopping people from 291 00:16:16,840 --> 00:16:19,520 Speaker 8: firing stuff. Jason Pontree trains with Walmart feeder. He's going 292 00:16:19,560 --> 00:16:27,720 Speaker 8: to tell his stories coming up. Drew writes, today, I 293 00:16:27,800 --> 00:16:31,480 Speaker 8: heard your conversation with the caller who has cerebral palsy. 294 00:16:31,520 --> 00:16:35,280 Speaker 8: It sounded as though you have an interest in electric wheelchairs. 295 00:16:35,320 --> 00:16:37,480 Speaker 8: I would draw your attention to an annual trade show 296 00:16:38,600 --> 00:16:41,240 Speaker 8: in Houston that caters to people who have a disability. 297 00:16:41,240 --> 00:16:44,720 Speaker 8: The focus is largely on mobility issues, but other disabilities 298 00:16:44,720 --> 00:16:48,520 Speaker 8: such as blindness and hearing are also addressed by the industry. 299 00:16:48,920 --> 00:16:51,200 Speaker 1: Well, who gets the barking spot? 300 00:16:53,400 --> 00:16:57,120 Speaker 8: Really, that's your question, ramon, while I'm gonna you know what, 301 00:16:57,160 --> 00:16:58,920 Speaker 8: I'm not even I'm not No, you're not taking me 302 00:16:58,960 --> 00:17:02,040 Speaker 8: off my game today. While commercial vendors carry the show, 303 00:17:02,240 --> 00:17:07,320 Speaker 8: there are both with social service providers and nonprofit support outfits. 304 00:17:08,040 --> 00:17:11,000 Speaker 8: Several years ago, I participated as a vendor with a disability. 305 00:17:11,440 --> 00:17:13,119 Speaker 8: If you have a serious need in your family for 306 00:17:13,200 --> 00:17:16,280 Speaker 8: mobility assistance, I recommend an afternoon walk through at the 307 00:17:16,320 --> 00:17:20,200 Speaker 8: next Abilities Expo this summer. I have posted a link 308 00:17:20,280 --> 00:17:25,640 Speaker 8: to their website below, Abilities dot Com Forward Slash Houston. 309 00:17:26,720 --> 00:17:29,679 Speaker 1: You know, this is such a great country. 310 00:17:30,400 --> 00:17:35,640 Speaker 8: Whatever you can think of, there's a trade show an 311 00:17:35,800 --> 00:17:43,800 Speaker 8: entire industry. There are people focused yes on selling things. 312 00:17:44,119 --> 00:17:48,080 Speaker 8: Go listen to the Whole Foods founder talk about capitalism 313 00:17:48,160 --> 00:17:50,359 Speaker 8: and how capitalism is a great thing that leads to 314 00:17:50,400 --> 00:17:52,280 Speaker 8: innovation and if you want to see the difference between 315 00:17:52,320 --> 00:17:55,879 Speaker 8: capitalism and socialism. Go look at the grocery stores in Bulgaria. 316 00:17:57,480 --> 00:18:01,639 Speaker 8: My son was taking an entrepreneurism class year and each 317 00:18:02,800 --> 00:18:05,800 Speaker 8: they did groups of four and they had to come 318 00:18:05,880 --> 00:18:08,400 Speaker 8: up with a company that they're going to start a startup, 319 00:18:09,160 --> 00:18:12,800 Speaker 8: and they would if you agreed, then you would be 320 00:18:12,800 --> 00:18:15,240 Speaker 8: a person who was a potential user or investor, and 321 00:18:15,280 --> 00:18:18,000 Speaker 8: they would send you an email and they would first 322 00:18:18,040 --> 00:18:22,800 Speaker 8: identify the problem, let's say a mobility a particular mobility issue, 323 00:18:22,920 --> 00:18:25,719 Speaker 8: and then a solution, and then would you pay this 324 00:18:25,800 --> 00:18:28,320 Speaker 8: amount for this? Is this something you would use? Would 325 00:18:28,320 --> 00:18:29,679 Speaker 8: you be willing to pay this amount for it? How 326 00:18:29,720 --> 00:18:33,120 Speaker 8: often would you use it? That's how entrepreneurism, that's how 327 00:18:33,240 --> 00:18:40,960 Speaker 8: capitalism thinks, is solution providing solutions to problems. Sure, companies 328 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:44,600 Speaker 8: can drive us crazy, but if I'm disabled, I want 329 00:18:44,640 --> 00:18:46,560 Speaker 8: to know that there are companies out there competing for 330 00:18:46,680 --> 00:18:50,439 Speaker 8: my dollar to make me a wheelchair that can go 331 00:18:50,560 --> 00:18:52,800 Speaker 8: up the ramps or go around the corners. Or Now 332 00:18:52,800 --> 00:18:56,080 Speaker 8: you've got these exoskeletons, that's a pretty amazing thing. I'll 333 00:18:56,080 --> 00:18:59,719 Speaker 8: tell you that you see those exoskeletons, Ramon and Neuralink 334 00:19:00,280 --> 00:19:03,240 Speaker 8: and Elon and their involvement. 335 00:19:02,800 --> 00:19:03,439 Speaker 1: In this space. 336 00:19:04,160 --> 00:19:07,760 Speaker 8: That man should win a Nobel prize for what they're doing. Jason, 337 00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:09,520 Speaker 8: I have some questions for you from listeners. 338 00:19:09,520 --> 00:19:10,560 Speaker 1: Are you are you? 339 00:19:11,200 --> 00:19:13,080 Speaker 8: This wasn't in your contract, but are you willing to 340 00:19:13,080 --> 00:19:14,280 Speaker 8: take questions? 341 00:19:15,200 --> 00:19:17,720 Speaker 1: I can stay till about a quarter till the hour? 342 00:19:17,880 --> 00:19:21,600 Speaker 8: Yes, okay, all right, Linda writes, do greeters ever transition 343 00:19:21,680 --> 00:19:26,080 Speaker 8: to the Walmart receipt checker when you leave Walmart? You said, yes, 344 00:19:26,560 --> 00:19:28,439 Speaker 8: but have you ever checked a receipt and saw that 345 00:19:28,520 --> 00:19:29,960 Speaker 8: the person is a crook? 346 00:19:30,359 --> 00:19:32,439 Speaker 1: Is a thief? How did you confront the crook? 347 00:19:34,840 --> 00:19:38,920 Speaker 9: Well, there are others in the asset protection department who 348 00:19:39,040 --> 00:19:43,600 Speaker 9: are looking at the cameras back in the back, who 349 00:19:43,680 --> 00:19:46,879 Speaker 9: would chip us off to a to a situation and 350 00:19:47,720 --> 00:19:52,720 Speaker 9: how to handle the given situation. So it is really 351 00:19:52,720 --> 00:19:54,199 Speaker 9: a collaborative kind of effort. 352 00:19:54,440 --> 00:19:56,040 Speaker 1: Okay, that makes me feel better, Jason. 353 00:19:56,080 --> 00:19:58,080 Speaker 8: I still think it would have been awesome if you random 354 00:19:58,600 --> 00:20:01,000 Speaker 8: we could have put a cattleguardland. 355 00:20:01,320 --> 00:20:04,239 Speaker 9: But yeah, it would have been fun to do that, 356 00:20:04,400 --> 00:20:06,520 Speaker 9: but it would have caused it would. 357 00:20:06,280 --> 00:20:08,280 Speaker 1: Be rewarding for you. 358 00:20:07,359 --> 00:20:10,520 Speaker 8: You probably didn't get to play tackle football, so you 359 00:20:10,600 --> 00:20:13,359 Speaker 8: never got to hit someone nor get the snot knocked 360 00:20:13,359 --> 00:20:13,679 Speaker 8: out of you. 361 00:20:13,760 --> 00:20:14,640 Speaker 1: It'd be good. 362 00:20:15,040 --> 00:20:16,320 Speaker 2: That's correct, all right. 363 00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:19,119 Speaker 8: Cindy writes, when all the government debit cards were on hold, 364 00:20:19,160 --> 00:20:21,560 Speaker 8: did people really go as crazy as it was portrayed 365 00:20:21,600 --> 00:20:22,399 Speaker 8: on social media? 366 00:20:24,440 --> 00:20:29,639 Speaker 9: Uh? Probably not that crazy, but it's all on camera. 367 00:20:29,840 --> 00:20:31,720 Speaker 9: So I mean, if you want to try it sometime 368 00:20:31,760 --> 00:20:34,880 Speaker 9: and go crazy, big brother is. 369 00:20:34,840 --> 00:20:36,159 Speaker 1: Watching you, as they say. 370 00:20:36,640 --> 00:20:38,680 Speaker 8: She says, Are you a spiritual person? Do you pray 371 00:20:38,720 --> 00:20:41,040 Speaker 8: for the people you encounter? Thank you for your smile? 372 00:20:41,119 --> 00:20:42,800 Speaker 8: You make people's day by being kind? 373 00:20:44,119 --> 00:20:45,240 Speaker 2: Well, thank you very much. 374 00:20:45,320 --> 00:20:45,560 Speaker 1: Yes. 375 00:20:45,640 --> 00:20:47,760 Speaker 2: I believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and he gives 376 00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:49,800 Speaker 2: me the strength to go from day to day. Yes. 377 00:20:50,320 --> 00:20:53,879 Speaker 8: Blake writes, if he was retired and already collecting Social 378 00:20:53,920 --> 00:20:57,960 Speaker 8: Security or Social Security disability, did working for Walmart as 379 00:20:57,960 --> 00:21:00,639 Speaker 8: a greeter having any effect on your mind monthly social 380 00:21:00,680 --> 00:21:01,440 Speaker 8: Security rate? 381 00:21:03,760 --> 00:21:04,040 Speaker 1: No? 382 00:21:04,359 --> 00:21:09,800 Speaker 9: I did not receive any kind of government financial support 383 00:21:09,840 --> 00:21:12,560 Speaker 9: that way. I was a full time employee and blessed 384 00:21:12,560 --> 00:21:15,560 Speaker 9: to do so. Michael, Can I just say one other thing? Sure, 385 00:21:15,960 --> 00:21:19,840 Speaker 9: we in a special needs community are blessed to. 386 00:21:19,880 --> 00:21:21,160 Speaker 1: Live in America. 387 00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:26,480 Speaker 9: Only in America can we have a contribution to society 388 00:21:26,520 --> 00:21:29,000 Speaker 9: the way that we were able to do. Nowhere else 389 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:30,840 Speaker 9: in the world could we do what we do here. 390 00:21:33,480 --> 00:21:38,240 Speaker 8: Amen, what a great perspective. You know, I'm a big 391 00:21:38,280 --> 00:21:42,320 Speaker 8: believer in attitude and perspective. And when someone is complaining 392 00:21:42,359 --> 00:21:44,480 Speaker 8: about everything and I say to them, you just need 393 00:21:44,520 --> 00:21:46,240 Speaker 8: to change your perspective, you need to have a different 394 00:21:46,240 --> 00:21:49,199 Speaker 8: approach to that, they'll say, well, I can't because and 395 00:21:49,240 --> 00:21:50,920 Speaker 8: then they go back to the thing that they're using 396 00:21:50,920 --> 00:21:53,840 Speaker 8: as their crutch. You have a real crutch, a real 397 00:21:54,119 --> 00:21:56,080 Speaker 8: legitimate crutch, and yet you don't see it as that. 398 00:21:56,160 --> 00:21:59,640 Speaker 8: You have such a great attitude. You you know, when 399 00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:01,400 Speaker 8: I when I asked you to be on the show, 400 00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:03,720 Speaker 8: it was just purely because you were a greeter. And 401 00:22:03,760 --> 00:22:06,000 Speaker 8: with all due respect you being a greeter is the 402 00:22:06,040 --> 00:22:10,560 Speaker 8: fifteenth most interesting thing. Your perspective, your ability to push 403 00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:14,119 Speaker 8: through the hand you were dealt, your ability to be 404 00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:19,200 Speaker 8: a witness. It's incredible. I am in awe. I will 405 00:22:19,240 --> 00:22:20,719 Speaker 8: think about this show a week from now. 406 00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:25,520 Speaker 1: Jason, Well, thank you, thank you. I'm so glad you. 407 00:22:25,480 --> 00:22:28,640 Speaker 8: Took the time to email me. I am so glad 408 00:22:29,160 --> 00:22:32,639 Speaker 8: you did that. I love the fact that you seek 409 00:22:32,760 --> 00:22:36,719 Speaker 8: purpose in your life. When you could sit around and 410 00:22:36,800 --> 00:22:39,520 Speaker 8: let other people feel sorry for you and baby you, 411 00:22:40,119 --> 00:22:42,760 Speaker 8: And yet you don't because that would be the easier 412 00:22:42,840 --> 00:22:46,080 Speaker 8: way out. But what you're doing is far more fulfilling. 413 00:22:47,800 --> 00:22:49,119 Speaker 2: Yes, it is fulfilling. 414 00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:52,200 Speaker 1: That's the word. That's the word, really good for you. 415 00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:53,240 Speaker 1: Are your parents still alive? 416 00:22:54,680 --> 00:22:57,240 Speaker 2: Yes, they are. They're both seventy six years old. 417 00:22:57,560 --> 00:23:02,320 Speaker 1: You live with them? Yes? And did they come to 418 00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:03,560 Speaker 1: the Walmart while you were working? 419 00:23:05,160 --> 00:23:07,120 Speaker 2: Sometimes? Yes? 420 00:23:07,920 --> 00:23:10,320 Speaker 1: Would you while you were working and you were on 421 00:23:10,359 --> 00:23:14,520 Speaker 1: your break, would you ever go and purchase anything? Yes? 422 00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:16,000 Speaker 1: Did you get a discount? 423 00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:17,440 Speaker 9: Yes? 424 00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:20,080 Speaker 8: Tell me one thing about working at Walmart that people 425 00:23:20,359 --> 00:23:22,800 Speaker 8: don't know, wouldn't expect. Can be good, can be bad, 426 00:23:22,840 --> 00:23:23,440 Speaker 8: can be neither. 427 00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:29,920 Speaker 1: Well. Walmart is very diverse. 428 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:33,040 Speaker 9: It draws a lot of customers and a lot of employees. 429 00:23:33,480 --> 00:23:37,480 Speaker 9: So whether or not as employees, whether we spoke the 430 00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:39,879 Speaker 9: same language or not, it was a it was a 431 00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:40,800 Speaker 9: great environment. 432 00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:42,320 Speaker 1: I mean, we were all. 433 00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:45,320 Speaker 9: Friends and all kind of working toward the same goal. 434 00:23:45,359 --> 00:23:48,879 Speaker 9: It was a really brotherhood and sisterhood kind of experience. 435 00:23:50,080 --> 00:23:52,400 Speaker 1: That's good to hear. So you looked forward to going to. 436 00:23:52,359 --> 00:23:54,320 Speaker 2: Work, Oh of course, yes. 437 00:23:54,680 --> 00:23:57,159 Speaker 8: What was the reaction of people when you walked in 438 00:23:57,240 --> 00:23:59,320 Speaker 8: and they saw someone in a wheelchair with such a 439 00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:00,400 Speaker 8: cheerful counttance. 440 00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:06,360 Speaker 9: Oh, it was just great to build relationships and learn 441 00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:09,680 Speaker 9: people's stories. I mean, the regulars would come in and 442 00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:12,160 Speaker 9: whether or not we knew one another's names. 443 00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:15,040 Speaker 2: It was like, you know, we recognized one another. We 444 00:24:15,080 --> 00:24:19,280 Speaker 2: built that rapport, that camaraderie. You know. It was great, wonderful, 445 00:24:19,359 --> 00:24:20,159 Speaker 2: great experience. 446 00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:24,119 Speaker 8: It's interesting you say that, Jason, because I believe that 447 00:24:24,280 --> 00:24:29,480 Speaker 8: little moments like that, chance encounters, random acts of kindness. 448 00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:32,600 Speaker 8: I think that's what grounds us and keeps us going 449 00:24:32,720 --> 00:24:37,000 Speaker 8: because we have we have allowed a system to establish 450 00:24:37,080 --> 00:24:40,400 Speaker 8: and in the process we've kind of perpetuated it of rage, 451 00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:46,840 Speaker 8: anger and rage bait and this anxiety and all these things. 452 00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:50,280 Speaker 8: And it's amazing to me how a kind word to 453 00:24:50,359 --> 00:24:54,760 Speaker 8: someone can just seemingly change their disposition and maybe change 454 00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:56,400 Speaker 8: their hour or their day. 455 00:24:57,040 --> 00:24:58,720 Speaker 1: And it's it's a powerful thing. 456 00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:02,399 Speaker 8: And you obviously that because all of the things that 457 00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:05,040 Speaker 8: keep the rest of us pulled down you don't have. 458 00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:07,800 Speaker 8: You've got a very narrow space you're working in, and 459 00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:10,119 Speaker 8: within that space you have seen glory. 460 00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:10,639 Speaker 1: I love it. 461 00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:14,840 Speaker 8: Jason poncher Train, thank you for sharing up with the Michael. 462 00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:19,840 Speaker 5: Barrys, That's how I found my first Ten Wives listener. 463 00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:23,199 Speaker 8: Robert Reeves of iHeartMedia Fame says, why do they always 464 00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:27,000 Speaker 8: check my receipt but never my wife? Is it the tattoos, 465 00:25:27,040 --> 00:25:29,000 Speaker 8: bloodshot eyes, or grace wetpants that. 466 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:31,840 Speaker 1: Get me stopped? See? 467 00:25:32,359 --> 00:25:35,640 Speaker 8: The thing is about Robert Reeves is a dude makes 468 00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:39,720 Speaker 8: a million dollars a year. He's got He's the most 469 00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:44,680 Speaker 8: financially successful sales rep in radio Houston radio history. He 470 00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:48,040 Speaker 8: is incredibly buttoned up. He goes to breakfast, lunch, and 471 00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:50,879 Speaker 8: dinner with a different show sponsor every single day. He 472 00:25:50,960 --> 00:25:54,600 Speaker 8: never takes the day off. He's incredibly focused. But the 473 00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:57,880 Speaker 8: dude is a mess. Like that's the appearance. You go, Okay, 474 00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:01,760 Speaker 8: here's his success, Here's here's what he does. Here's how 475 00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:04,159 Speaker 8: good he is. I hold him up as the model 476 00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:05,720 Speaker 8: of relationship management. 477 00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:08,280 Speaker 1: You know, he's not a salesman. 478 00:26:08,320 --> 00:26:10,560 Speaker 8: People have the idea of a salesman as a guy 479 00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:12,919 Speaker 8: that wants to, you know, stick the Scotch guard on 480 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:14,920 Speaker 8: at the end of your purchase. But here's a guy 481 00:26:14,920 --> 00:26:17,440 Speaker 8: that's a real relationship manager. In fact, I argue with 482 00:26:17,520 --> 00:26:20,320 Speaker 8: him all the time because he'll say no I don't 483 00:26:20,359 --> 00:26:22,680 Speaker 8: think that that particular sponsor needs to spend more money. 484 00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:24,560 Speaker 8: I'm not sure we'll get results for it. And he 485 00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:26,840 Speaker 8: would make money off of them spending more money. And 486 00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:30,800 Speaker 8: I'll say, yeah, they've got additional bandwidth, and here's where 487 00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:32,520 Speaker 8: we are, and here's what I think they should do. 488 00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:34,960 Speaker 8: I don't think people should either. But the point is 489 00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:37,760 Speaker 8: he will argue back even to his own contrary to 490 00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:40,800 Speaker 8: his own financial interest. And yet when he's off work, 491 00:26:41,640 --> 00:26:44,760 Speaker 8: he's like the usual suspects or something, and you think, 492 00:26:44,760 --> 00:26:47,960 Speaker 8: to yourself, that's this jekylin Hyde kind of deal. I 493 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:51,080 Speaker 8: think they do stop him at the at the Walmart, 494 00:26:51,119 --> 00:26:53,200 Speaker 8: and I think they don't stop his wife is partly 495 00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:56,080 Speaker 8: because she's hot, But you figure they would stop her 496 00:26:56,080 --> 00:26:58,280 Speaker 8: because she's hot, right, Excuse me? I mean cops are 497 00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:00,159 Speaker 8: more likely to stop a hot woman than an not 498 00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:04,000 Speaker 8: hot woman, when we know that that's been verified. Clint 499 00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:08,880 Speaker 8: Pustayovski writes Czar, I was shocked to learn I had 500 00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:12,359 Speaker 8: heart problems a few months ago. You know, when a 501 00:27:12,359 --> 00:27:15,400 Speaker 8: guy's name Postayovski, I expect he has heart problems, don't 502 00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:18,400 Speaker 8: you like doabars, you just expect to do It's got, 503 00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:22,960 Speaker 8: you know, sky high numbers. After a stress test and 504 00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:29,920 Speaker 8: a heart catheticization catheterization catheterization, I learned I had ninety 505 00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:34,679 Speaker 8: five and ninety percent blockages. I was told if I 506 00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:37,960 Speaker 8: had blockages over seventy percent, I would have to have 507 00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:42,280 Speaker 8: open heart surgery with a long and hard recovery. A 508 00:27:42,359 --> 00:27:44,760 Speaker 8: friend from the third grade told me she was able 509 00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:49,919 Speaker 8: to receive five stints and one blockage with one blockage 510 00:27:50,280 --> 00:27:51,840 Speaker 8: even being at one hundred per oh. 511 00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:52,400 Speaker 1: I read that wrong. 512 00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:54,720 Speaker 8: A friend of mine from the third grade told me 513 00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:58,080 Speaker 8: she was able to receive five stints with one blockage 514 00:27:58,119 --> 00:28:00,520 Speaker 8: even being at one hundred percent. Gave me the name 515 00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:02,960 Speaker 8: of the doctor who did the procedures. My wife and 516 00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:05,400 Speaker 8: I went for a second opinion with doctor alpes Shah, 517 00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:09,080 Speaker 8: who's an interventional cardiologist. He was able to fix my 518 00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:13,760 Speaker 8: multiple blockages with two stints no open heart surgery. It 519 00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:17,320 Speaker 8: appears that the standard line is quote, if you have 520 00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:21,200 Speaker 8: more than two blockages or blockages above seventy percent, you 521 00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:24,960 Speaker 8: need CABG, which is bypass surgery. I want to let 522 00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:27,280 Speaker 8: your audience know that there can be other options in 523 00:28:27,320 --> 00:28:29,679 Speaker 8: many cases, and if you're able, maybe get a second opinion, 524 00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:31,520 Speaker 8: have a blessed day, Clint Postayovski. 525 00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:39,480 Speaker 1: The reason I read that is this is not a simple. 526 00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:43,840 Speaker 8: Conversation to have, and a lot of people want simple, 527 00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:45,800 Speaker 8: set it and forget it. Give me my answer, tell 528 00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:49,680 Speaker 8: me what to do. Don't complicate things as good b 529 00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:52,640 Speaker 8: as bad. This is what I've always been told. Don't 530 00:28:52,720 --> 00:28:58,720 Speaker 8: question anything. First of all, as I told my mother 531 00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:03,120 Speaker 8: many many times. Are not gods. They are people who 532 00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:06,640 Speaker 8: went to medical school. It's not easy to get in. 533 00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:10,840 Speaker 8: But being good in organic, because that's the class in 534 00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:14,160 Speaker 8: college that typically is the separator. Being good in a 535 00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:17,640 Speaker 8: particular class at providing the answers that the professor wants 536 00:29:18,120 --> 00:29:20,840 Speaker 8: does not make you a great doctor. There has to 537 00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:23,120 Speaker 8: be some way that you determine who's going to be 538 00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:27,040 Speaker 8: a doctor and who's not. You could say, anyone able 539 00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:29,920 Speaker 8: to throw a eighty five mile an hour fastball, or 540 00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:33,920 Speaker 8: anybody able to throw a screwball, or anybody able to 541 00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:37,000 Speaker 8: kick a soccer ball through the goal from forty yards, 542 00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:40,000 Speaker 8: or anybody able to win a Pat McAfee challenge, or 543 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:42,200 Speaker 8: anybody over six feet tall or under five four. 544 00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:43,000 Speaker 1: You could do anything. 545 00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:46,520 Speaker 8: Now, how you do an organic is probably more related 546 00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:48,280 Speaker 8: to whether you're going to be a good doctor than 547 00:29:48,560 --> 00:29:52,440 Speaker 8: kicking a field goal. But the point is it's not determinative. 548 00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:56,120 Speaker 8: So then you have medical school and you go through 549 00:29:56,120 --> 00:29:59,240 Speaker 8: the courses in you learn the things. 550 00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:00,120 Speaker 1: How well do you. 551 00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:02,440 Speaker 8: Learn the things you're supposed to learn, We don't really know. 552 00:30:03,040 --> 00:30:05,800 Speaker 8: You create tests to try to determine how well someone 553 00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:08,440 Speaker 8: has learned something, but you know that that's not necessarily. 554 00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:10,600 Speaker 8: I can tell you that some of the best lawyers 555 00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:13,800 Speaker 8: I knew from law school were C students. And it 556 00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:18,600 Speaker 8: is widely discussed and hilarious fact that the C students 557 00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:20,760 Speaker 8: are going to get rich and the A students are 558 00:30:20,760 --> 00:30:24,400 Speaker 8: going to become alcoholics working for defense firms downtown. And 559 00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:28,040 Speaker 8: that's not criminal defense, that's corporate defense. The big money 560 00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:30,440 Speaker 8: is for the poor students. But often poor students, for 561 00:30:30,520 --> 00:30:33,720 Speaker 8: poor students because and you may have this with your 562 00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:36,880 Speaker 8: own children, Often poor students for poor students, because they're 563 00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:40,719 Speaker 8: not rule followers, they're free thinkers, they're elon musk. Our 564 00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:45,760 Speaker 8: school system was established to create compliant, little peasants, little 565 00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:48,320 Speaker 8: industrial workers who would show up and do what they're 566 00:30:48,320 --> 00:30:51,040 Speaker 8: supposed to do. That is not a sign of intelligence. 567 00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:53,480 Speaker 8: A lot of people think it is the school system 568 00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:56,680 Speaker 8: does not reward or encourage in any way shape or 569 00:30:56,720 --> 00:31:01,720 Speaker 8: form intelligence, Creativityeople who do great things in our society 570 00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:05,880 Speaker 8: are more often than not actually good students. Witness Steve 571 00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:09,080 Speaker 8: jobs Zuckerberg, weird as he is, did something special. 572 00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:12,680 Speaker 1: He dropped out of school. He didn't finish at. 573 00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:16,080 Speaker 8: Harvard, even though he did get in really really really 574 00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:19,240 Speaker 8: smart people till and Fatita didn't go to college. He's 575 00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:21,760 Speaker 8: done pretty well for himself. Had a friend David Sapristein 576 00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:26,120 Speaker 8: who became a billionaire. He didn't go to college, went 577 00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:29,000 Speaker 8: to work at eighteen at a car dealership. All that 578 00:31:29,080 --> 00:31:32,400 Speaker 8: by way of saying that doctors are not God's. It's 579 00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:34,840 Speaker 8: not that you walk. Many people believe this, that you 580 00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:37,440 Speaker 8: walk into a doctor's office. If we can just get 581 00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:40,440 Speaker 8: to the doctor's lowice, we'll survive. And you walk in 582 00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:42,440 Speaker 8: the doctor's office and you sit down, and the doctor 583 00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:45,720 Speaker 8: comes sweeping in, and you've already spent two hours in 584 00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:47,960 Speaker 8: the lobby and filling out a bunch of stupid documents 585 00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:50,440 Speaker 8: that you've already filled out before, and the insurance in 586 00:31:50,560 --> 00:31:53,400 Speaker 8: this and the nurse and for whatever reason, they've taken 587 00:31:53,480 --> 00:31:55,960 Speaker 8: your temperature and stuck something up your butt and they've 588 00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:59,440 Speaker 8: done your blood pressure. So you're like, yeah, I'm about 589 00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:02,160 Speaker 8: to be he well, nothing's actually happened. 590 00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:04,600 Speaker 1: But people, it's part of the trappings. 591 00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:04,840 Speaker 9: Right. 592 00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:08,120 Speaker 8: You got there, you got all dressed up, you went down, 593 00:32:08,240 --> 00:32:11,480 Speaker 8: you parked, you got in the elevator, you went up, 594 00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:15,200 Speaker 8: you went to all the little doors. Oh this is ours, 595 00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:18,200 Speaker 8: so and so medical associates. And then you waited and 596 00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:20,160 Speaker 8: you watch the other people and you wondered what they have, 597 00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:22,960 Speaker 8: and then you go in. The doctor comes, he comes 598 00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:26,000 Speaker 8: sweeping in, and all of a sudden, everything is gonna 599 00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:28,680 Speaker 8: be fine because he's here now, and he's just gonna 600 00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:31,960 Speaker 8: tell me. He's just gonna heal me with the Midas touch. 601 00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:35,600 Speaker 8: It doesn't work that way. He's only going to react 602 00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:42,400 Speaker 8: to what you tell him. Garbage in, garbage out. We've 603 00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:45,320 Speaker 8: come to learn people who think, and who are curious, 604 00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:48,520 Speaker 8: and who read and who engage and who question, that 605 00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:51,600 Speaker 8: oftentimes you can know more about your condition than the 606 00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:57,440 Speaker 8: doctor does. Doctors are instruments. They're not gods. They're not 607 00:32:57,600 --> 00:33:01,640 Speaker 8: the solution. They're a person trying to help get to 608 00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:04,760 Speaker 8: the solution. And you're as if not more important to 609 00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:07,320 Speaker 8: that process than they are. If you go to the 610 00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:09,800 Speaker 8: doctor and simply do what they tell you, then you 611 00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:15,160 Speaker 8: deserve what you get. Well, I just don't know. Learn 612 00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:19,040 Speaker 8: it's your body. You've got some hobby that you spend 613 00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:23,440 Speaker 8: untold hours pursuing. And if you don't, then you're watching 614 00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:24,720 Speaker 8: Mariy Povich. 615 00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:28,880 Speaker 1: Is that still on remo? Focus on your own. 616 00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:32,080 Speaker 8: Body and your own health, and question and ask for 617 00:33:32,120 --> 00:33:34,360 Speaker 8: second opinions. And before you go to the doctor and 618 00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:36,760 Speaker 8: know as much as he does, know every one of 619 00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:39,800 Speaker 8: your symptoms, write them down, read about what people say 620 00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:42,760 Speaker 8: and don't take one person's opinion online because there's coops 621 00:33:42,800 --> 00:33:46,800 Speaker 8: out there, because there are a lot of solutions that 622 00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:47,960 Speaker 8: people don't realize.