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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Vari show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
With schools starting back. Whether you have a public or
private school child or grandchild. My grandparents want to help
with the kids, and you want to help them succeed.
Maybe they're off to college, whatever that may be. I
wanted to spend just a few minutes talking about maybe
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you can't hire a tutor, but the best tutor is
the parent. In the cases for Derek, it's usually the
fact that the parents are traveling with work or hyper
hyper engaged in their business and they still want the
best for their kids when they get home. The old days,
when I grew up, you went to school, came home,
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did your homework, then you went out to play or
did your athletics, and you went on. That has changed.
I tell my kids all the time school I was
top of my class, I studied hard, I performed well,
but my school was not ten percent as difficult as
your school is today, not even nothing like it. It's
much harder today, much more competitive as well. Derek More
(01:32):
is our guest. Derek, let's take a couple of minutes
and drill down for a parent that you have watched
you come into the home. You've come into our home
for years. You go into the home and you watch
kids who succeed and you have helped them thrive. Let's
talk about a handful of things in five minutes or
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so that every parent can do to increase by some
measure the success of their kid, from when they wake
up to when they go to bed, when they study,
how they study, and how a parent can assist them
without freaking them out.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
That's great. Yeah, thanks for having me, Michael. This is
so important and timely, and I can't help think. I
can't help but think about Stephen Covey, begin with the
end in mind. And the thing about a good day
at school is it always begins the day before, the
night before. What's the bedtime? What's the bedtime routine? How
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much preparation was done before bedtime? With clothes, with breakfast,
with whatever, backpacks prepared so that tomorrow when I wake
up as a student, I can wake up late if
I did, and walk out the door under five minutes.
So preparing for a catastrophe means go to bed early,
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go to bed on time, get up, get your clothes
laid out, get them on, and get out the door.
The routine sets the anchor, and all the studies now
show that sleep is so important, and so many of
our students are sleep deprived. They're overstimulated with screens, with sugars,
with caffeines. That brings me to food as well. Make
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sure they are well fed if you can control that,
one good meal a day. So get out the door,
as you know, get to school early, as your boys do,
get there early. Make sure you talk to your teachers,
make sure you go by. I've even had this conversation
a student says, I need to go see this teacher
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and I'll say, is it academic or is it political?
He says it's political. I might need her later on
in the semester, That is a wise wise student. Is
it academic? Yeah, I'm kind of not sure about this work.
So teaching them to advocate for themselves. So as they
are younger, it's maybe heavier with the parent involvement. As
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they hit fourth fifth grade, middle school, they take more ownership.
By high school, it's a debate how often does mom,
how often does dad need to be involved? Because I'm
going to have you do it, son, I'm going to
have you do it. Daughter, go to school locked in again,
paying attention, sitting locking in after school, but before students
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go to bed, I would say, and everyone's different, but
physical exercise every day is it must? These children have
so much energy they have to get it out in
a healthy way. Family dinners, great way, even if you're
eating fifteen minutes and it's quick, sitting down and just
having FaceTime without your screens, minimizing your screen time, and
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having a dedicated study space. Oh, I study in my bed,
in my bedroom wherever. I don't particularly care because I've
seen students study with noise and with silence, in almost darkness,
in total brightness. If it's not working, you get involved
and change it. If it is working, hey, great job, Sally,
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Great great job, Bobby. You keep doing it your way.
So with those fundamentals, I would say, you have a
good framework. And I will finally add every student, beginning
as soon as they can read, needs to read. Read
something you like every day, and then read anything you
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love and give yourself time to read for thirty minutes
or an hour if you're into a good book. But
those core fundamentals will prepare a student for the semester,
will have a good daily routine and then you can
be rewarded by not thinking about school on Saturday, not
thinking about school on Sunday until four o'clock or two
o'clock or six o'clock, depending on your Sunday routine. So
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if I'm getting back to the fundamentals, because we have
this loss of learning that's happened in my group at
world class Tutors dot com. We've taken this decade of
experience that I've done in households and put into a
system where they don't have to hire a tutor. They
can pick up this material and take their kids through
it themselves. And these parents have told me, Wow, I
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didn't realize how inefficient I was. I didn't realize how
I needed to manage my time better. So we can
always learn as parents, as grandparents. We don't have to
be in the rat race, but we can always learn
how to be a little bit better with our priorities,
how to be a little bit better with our intentionality,
having our phone put down like you read earlier and
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talked about earlier, and locking in with your family when
it's time to lock in. So these are core things
and the bottom line is your students know you care
about them. Your students know you love them if you
give them clear boundaries and help them succeed within those
boundaries on a daily basis.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Derek, I want to get to one thing that I'm
watching emails coming in from folks. What about the kid
who's not a dumb dumb he's really smart, but he
does poorly in school. Take one minute, because I have
another question after that. He does really poorly in school
because he's not interested, he's not challenged.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
That's a great question. So for the student who is
doing well in school now I'm sorry, not doing well
particularly in school, but maybe does well on standardized tests
which reveal his or her intelligence. I take the approach
that this student needs some accelerant, that we need to
pour some gasoline on there. So I will work diligently
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to find out what is he passionate about, what is
she passionate about. I had a student who had to
be homeschooled because all he thought about was baseball, and
his mother taught him everything through baseball, math, the history
of baseball, biographies of baseball players, physics of baseball and bats,
and for years and years and years he was homeschooled,
and it was all through the lens of baseball. In
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about sixth grade, he said, Mom, can I do something
besides baseball? All we do is baseball all the time.
And at that point he had exhausted his focus on
baseball and she was able to reintegrate him back into
normal schooling. So my point on that is when you
can hyper focus and accelerate, give your child what they're
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what they want. They want to be challenged, Find someone
smarter than you in the community, find an expert in
whatever they're passionate about. Make a connection, make an introduction,
use your network so that you can help your child.
That's what I would say.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Derek Moore, thank you if you you bet? Is there
a website. I've never gone to a website.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Yeah, world class Tutors dot com. World class Tutors dot com.
Appreciation Michael Derek so much have like.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Fifty tutors and he realized I was managing tutors instead
of teaching kids. And you shut it all that you
might have to edit. This is Mark Chestnut and Jar
Bizaar of Talk Radio. I just received an email from
a friend of mine said, sorry to bother you during
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your show, but I figured you would want to know.
I just left doctor Mary Tally Boden's office by far
the best medical experience I have ever had in my life,
and he's sixty something. She was awesome and very thorough.
Her staff was absolutely amazing. You know, if you knew
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how much time I spend planning, organizing, structuring, preparing. You
who think I'm very boring, and I'm okay with that
because I do not think you find success and happiness accidentally.
(10:03):
I think you work at things, and I was never
I never aced IQ tests or standardized tests. I worked
hard in school, and I have always said I don't
think I'm the greatest at anything. But I'm gonna tell
you this, I'm gonna outwork everyone else. You may not
(10:25):
realize I'm outworking them because I don't tell you i'm
outworking them. I just do it consistently every single day.
I don't know if you notice. We don't take vacation.
We are here in the studio every day. Take a
couple of days at Thanksgiving and at Christmas. That's it. Sick, tired,
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hung over, sadly exhausted from travel. I'm not gonna tell
them when you threw up in the trash. Canse who
wants to hear your throw up in the trash can story.
Literally nobody, but I want to say this. My wife
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does not listen to the show. But many is the
day that in the evening I will have or sometimes
in the afternoon before the evening show, I will have
a meeting at my house instead of out and about.
And the reason is because then people don't come over
and talk to you while you're trying to have a conversation.
(11:34):
And my wife said, if I go to the restroomhen
somebody's at the house, people will ask questions of my wife,
like she's not going to tell me, And she said,
she has said this multiple times. You know, people have
the wrong impression of you. They don't realize how you are,
how much focus you spend on things that appear to
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be haphazard or natural. So I decided last year that
I would spend twenty twenty four trying to help listeners.
Not that I'm some guru, not that you signed up
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for self help. But I think if you have something,
you share it and someone can do with it what
they want. There is always someone better than me in
every single thing. I don't think I'm the guru of finances.
Or health or anything else. But I do think that
I can share things I've learned and it may help somebody.
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And if that's not you, because you're a genius in
that field, I'm not trying to top you. I'm really not.
But I decided to put down on paper the things
I wanted to share for this year. And we've not
discussed this, but because of Derek, that was part of it,
you may have noticed, and that was planning, preparing and
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executing on physical health, financial health, family health, professional health
assets and things, and giving back physical health health. That's
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why I started sharing. I was a client of Michael
Petru for training, long before he was a show sponsor,
and I saw how it was transforming my body, and
more importantly, my mind made me like Ramone would laugh
about it. Ramones trained with him. I realized, yeah, we
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should share that. Doctor Boden when Bowden, why did I
say Boden? I was thinking to Murray Boden because I
saw it written. When COVID hit and doctors wouldn't let
you come in and they were being crazy, Doctor Bowden
would walk outside her clinic and talk to patients in
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the breezeway if they were scared to come in the
office when people were scared, like it was leprosy of COVID.
She was just bold and brave and treating patients. It
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was incredible financial health. I realized talking to listeners and
friends that a lot of people don't have good strategic
advice on tax planning. So I put the word out
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I want a strategic tax planner. More than just CPA's
I want. And we landed on Deroach Partners, and I realized,
I'm having dinner with them tonight. I realized, you know,
I have a business. I run a business, A team here,
and a lot of business owners I realize would ask
me questions. You're a lawyer. I haven't been a lawyer
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in almost thirty years. I'm not the person to answer
that question for you. You need a good tax strategic tax partner,
you need a good financial advisor. You need to put
your estate plan in order. So we went out for
a state planning lawyer. That's Christine Weaver, and wow, did
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the floodgates open for these things. I sit down and
we'll be doing this in the coming weeks between now
in January. First, I sit down and do an annual
plan for the year. I know it sounds dorky, and
I know you're thinking I had no idea. What a
weirdo you are. It's what I do. I just don't
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talk about it. I sit down and I go over insurance,
my insurance plan. I got two teenagers to insure for cars.
You know what that looks like. I do weird things
like I pay cash for my cars and I only
get liability. I don't pay. I don't fully insure my car.
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But what happens. I've run the numbers. I take the
money that I would have spent on an insurance premium
for full coverage, and I put that into a savings
account that goes toward. So if I have to repair
a car, I do. I do the minimal insurance but catastrophic,
and I pay when I go for health care because
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I don't want a high deductible. We don't use doctors
very often, so why am I paying for deductible so
that my bill is lower when we barely use doctors anyway.
Then there is family health. We made a decision years
ago we're going to have family dinner, and it's important.
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And Michael's senior year, we had family dinner probably seventy
five percent of the days because we realized our last
chance to do this, our last year to have dinners
like this. Professional health, I consciously study. I've gone through
every talk show host. I consciously study comedians, delivery, punchlines, everything,
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because I want to be better at what I do,
assets and things. I have people to handle every single
aspect of my house, and if they're good at what
they do, I say, would you like to be a
show sponsor? It ain't free, but we'll change your life
will We will give you so much business in every
aspect of what I do. I buy my tahos from
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classic elites of sugar Land. They get all our business
and giving back. I set a plan. This is how
we created a family foundation. This is how much of
my time I'm going to donate. These are the causes
I'm going to work.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
Lifestyles of the not saying you to do that.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
As I call it, the Michael.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Barry jail funny thing happened may Man, I appreciate it.
I asked Ramon to play magic, and the only version
of magic I thought about was Olivia Newton John and
xanadu Wo. I make my own sound effects now. That's
the she's hot. Give me a little whoops. I see
(18:23):
how off I was.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
And I did not clarify exactly what that was supposed
to be. Huh how about that? Yeah. So just my
advice to you, wherever you are in your life, do
a reset, but have that reset be January first, and
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start planning between what are we almost September, September, October, November, December.
You have four months to prepare for the ultimate twenty
twenty five. There's two types of personalities. You may say,
that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Why are you
talking about that? Just tell me how common is an idiot?
And Trump's going to win. But some people will say,
you know what, You're right. I never thought about that.
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Focus on what and who you want to be because
I believe we can change those things. I believe we
can go from being a double ard to being physically fit.
I don't care which one you are. I just want
you to be who and what you are. If you
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want to be fit, I'm willing to do everything I can.
Introduce you to people, suggest things, give you a book,
just cave a buddy of mind, A book this week
on that very subject. It came over and said, good Lord,
didn't realize how much weight you had lost. Here's one
of the books I read when I was just getting started. Anyway,
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if you start planning today for a January first, I
tell my kids and long talk multiple times with Michael.
Some people are going to drop out of college, not
just at the University of Texas, at every university, but
especially at the University of Texas. There are kids that
are going to get there and they're going to come
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home with their tailtop between their legs, either at Christmas
or in the summer, and especially if mommy and Daddy
are paying for it, they're going to be embarrassed to
say that they got kicked out. And it happens to
very good people. I know people who go on to
be very successful who dropped out or got kicked out
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of college, and they'll tell you it's a couple of things.
The lack of a plan. No, it wasn't lack of planning, Michael,
I drank too much, I slept in, I partied too much.
That's the lack of a plan. If you're living your
life such that you only ever do what you think
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about doing at that moment, then you don't realize that
what you're about to do is taking you off of
the course of the plan you set. And once you
realize that, then you say, wait a second. That party
I was excited about on Sunday night, I can't get
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hammered and pass out at three o'clock in the frat hall.
I've got my first class at eight am and we've
got a quiz. I'll end up missing the class and
missing the quiz and getting a zero. Nobody planned to
fall out of college. Nobody. Nobody said I'm going to
go up there and have a hell of a time
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and get kicked out. What happened was a lack of
a plan. I bought Michael this. I was telling this
on the air the other day, and I had there's
some geeks out there like me who love planners in
the light. The old Franklin planner I had, the Trapper
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Keeper was the original planner for me. But it's a
sheet of paper, it's a it's a stack of them.
My wife ordered them online somewhere. I could have got
them from Belinda Fultz, but I didn't even know she
was doing this. And it's one of those that you
tear off the top page of each one in this
in this stack of them, and it's your next day's planner.
And this all comes from Derek the tutor. I was
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telling you about the idea that success on Wednesday is
because of preparation on Tuesday. So at this time of year,
every year, all of my service providers hear from me, CPA,
financial planner, insurance advisor, everybody. I had dinner with Petri
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the other day. We went over I said, here's where
I am, here's my weight, here's my strength, here's where
I feel good. Here are challenges for me, and here's
some things that in twenty twenty five I want to
improve on, and here are the metrics of how I
want to get there. He loves that stuff because that's
a challenge to him because guess what if I were
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to announce I want to bench press five hundred, That'll
never happen, But if I were. He likes the challenge
of how do I get there because he can't just say, well,
let's start with four hundred, because I'm not moving the bar.
I'm not moving the bar anywhere near any of those numbers.
So he's got to work within my body and not
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hurting me. I don't set bench press numbers. I'm just kidding.
That is my challenge to you. And the reason I
tell you this now I gave a lot of thought.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
To this.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Is we are about to enter what is called the
silly season, and Trump is winning, and everybody knows Trump
is winning, and right now today Trump is going to
win barring unforeseen circumstances. But they are foreseeable, aren't they.
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This is like the Donald Rumsfeld foreseeable, unforeseeable quote, if
you remember that one during the Iraq War. So you're
gonna lose, whether you realize it or not, a couple
of months of your life. I mean, look at what's
already happened. In June. Trump wipes Biden the earliest debate ever,
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wipes him off the floor, off the table. Then a coup,
Biden's kicked out. Then we have the ascension of Kamala
we're going to have. Then we have the president shot
in the face. I mean, some crazy things happening. I
think we could very well have war before November. I
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think we could be invol in a war before November,
especially not yet boots on the ground. Because everybody cheers
when we go in and shock in all people. I
think that Kamalo will be the president. A lot of
things are gonna happen. So all I'm saying is set
your plan now for your meetings with your service providers,
and get your goals in place so you can start
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on January first, because I'm gonna tell you something. Come
October November, you're not even be able to focus on
anything else. I had Beaver Applin on years ago, some
of you will remember, and some people thought I was
insulting him. I wasn't because I said, what beaver Applin
did with BUCkies and he has a business partner Don.
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I don't know Don, but I understand he's a genius
as well. I said, at the end of the day,
BUCkies is a gas station, but they took something that
anybody could have done and elevated it. And that was
when I issued the new vocabulary ramon. Remember I said,
it's not just a gas station, it's a gas station
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that is a destination. It is a gas donation, pure brilliance.
Beaver did not give me my due. He kind of
said that's pretty good. And then two weeks later they
got billboards up. Did I get a commission. Did I
get a reward? Nothing? Story of my life. But what
I love is anybody could have improved the gas station
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to make it a thing that's talked about on late
night TV. But they did it. Over the years. How
many people have you heard providing traffic on the radio?
And for my money in twenty years, nineteen years of
doing radio and fifty three years of listening to radio,
I think sky Mike's the best. Do you agree Ramond'd
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be weird if you didn't. You're not just saying that
because he's Hispanic? Who was the guy that was drunk on?
Are are you serious?
Speaker 5 (26:56):
Who?
Speaker 4 (26:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Talking about Bob Bockwalter, Eddie? What was Eddie's lest Eddie Barton?
He was good. He's no sky Mike. So we asked
sky Mike to join us for a moment. Sky Mike, Hey,
what's you're on the air? You're weirdo.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
You'd sound like you're I know, longtime listener, first time caller.
You're a great American.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Thank you. That's Sean Hannity with things what's going on
on fifty nine? There was something was shut down?
Speaker 4 (27:23):
Oh oh god, what would I know? You know? I mean,
I've just been goofing right now.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
We want you to do it in sky Mike. I
want you to do it in sky Mike West, like
you're doing a report.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
I'll like it in the morning.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Okay, okay, hold on time ramon, do you have a
sounder time now for traffic, Let's go to sky Mike.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
All right here, let me get my slinky, let me
give my all right southbound outbound look out Southwest Freeway.
This is all lanes blocked now at the Beltway. Nothing
good's happening there. If you want to hop off, if
you're a big shot, get on the West Park Tollway.
If you're just calmon, rip raft, then get on all
the most city expressway by the way. In real life,
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this wreck is now clear. Just want everybody to know
the wreck is clear. Yes, I pay attention. Hello, that's
all I got.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Do you know what happened?
Speaker 4 (28:11):
Okay, fine, you get a banana stick or fine, I'll
give you a banana stick.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
What happened?
Speaker 4 (28:15):
One for remote?
Speaker 5 (28:15):
Two?
Speaker 3 (28:16):
What? No?
Speaker 2 (28:18):
What caused it?
Speaker 4 (28:18):
Oh? Do what caused the accident? Oh? I don't want
to speculate. And actually it was in a bad spot
where we couldn't see it very well. But it started
out with just a couple of lanes. That one. I
don't really want to talk about that one much, but
that one, nothing good is happening here. That's my code
language to you know, really close. iHeartRadio listeners that you know,
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we just don't even want to know.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Oh okay.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
You know, sometimes sometimes we have you know, we have
recks where everybody's okay, and then sometimes we'll have some
little minor thing where they just get on the side
and then they point at things, you know, like you
hold up for a second, pointing at things as part
of it. And then sometimes it's just it's gone before
we touchreck Ninjas, that's what that means.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Okay, did you read the email I just sent you
about my pillow?
Speaker 4 (29:05):
That's very sweet. Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Tell people what I said. It's get to read it
word for word. Okay, absolutely true.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
Okay, let's see here. You said your first word to
me was jackass. I'm the one promoting. Oh sorry, I'll
skip that one.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
You can read that. Read that, thank you, You can
read it.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
You know, me and Ramon are both Hispanic. That's why
he likes me.
Speaker 5 (29:25):
Your endorsement for my pillow is the best endorsement on
Houston Radio to see how good I can read. I
read real good because I'm tarking to just read the
best Okay Houston Radio today, including everything I do and
even that crap Ramone turns out.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
Sorry, Ramone, it really is exceptional. My friend in college
station brought it up to me, the line about your
quote Ouji trailer or whatever it is. I love that
line and your use of random Sheriff Friar clips as
well as callers are next level. Thank you so very much.
I really appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Dude, No, that was it. I just want to have
you on love on you, look because I think you're fantastic.
You're You're really, really, really.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
Good at what you do. I you know, somebody told
me you said something good about me a while back,
and yeah, I appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
You know.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
All we can do is, hey, do tell people. I'm
also a jock across the country though for iHeart RADIOAU,
I'm a DJ. Yeah, you can listen to my eighties
shows across America on the free iHeart Radio app.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
I didn't know that What's what's the name?
Speaker 4 (30:25):
Yeah, uh no, I could believe it or not. They're
letting me use sky Mike. I'm surprised, but they're letting
me use the sky Mike trademark on iHeart stations like cool, Wane,
to Wait Minneapolis and KLOU Saint Louis. I'm even in
heart of that. I know that.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
How does somebody that wants to listen to your show?
How do they find it?
Speaker 3 (30:43):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (30:44):
I am so glad you asked. You download the free
iHeart Radio app and you just put in whatever station,
like if you want to listen to me on kJ
E B Seattle or oh, San Antonio. I signed a
multi dollar deal with Mark Sherman to k q x
T San Antonio. I'm on Q one O one San
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Antonio every Sunday.
Speaker 5 (31:05):
Now, all right, so she.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Didn't answer my question. I'm gonna go. I'm on iHeartRadio
app and can I just yeah, now, just put sky
Mike on there?
Speaker 4 (31:16):
Can I can well search?
Speaker 1 (31:18):
No?
Speaker 4 (31:18):
No, no, you got to search. You gotta search, like
whatever station I'm on. I'm on my Facebook and Twitter
and all that, and I'll tell all my friends. Okay,
I'm gonna be on this station today like I'm on Uh,
I'm on Cool one O Wait every Sunday morning. But
I'm also Ono.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Said we're gonna do this is Live Radio. Ramone says,
you pick a song that Ramon's gonna play, you talk
up to it like you do your DJ thing. What's
the song?
Speaker 4 (31:44):
Am I gonna be able to he Am I gonna
be able to hear it? Am I gonna be able
to hear?
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Oh? You just a you're going to talk up to it?
Speaker 1 (31:49):
What? What?
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Pick the song?
Speaker 5 (31:50):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (31:51):
Just imagine So I'm not gonna be able to hear
the song in the background, so I can talk up. Okay, Okay,
let's do Stevie Wonder. I was made for loving you,
Stevie Wonder. I was made for loving you. I think
I'll be on a cool one to wait. I think
I'll be ok I can't hear, I'll start talking. I
(32:12):
was made to love her Stevie Wonder, and I we
go one O three point three. Hey, oh you skybike
on a winning weekend? Right here? We've got tickets to
see this guy at the Stafford Center. It's Stevie. You'll
see him, but he won't see you. I didn't really
nail it.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
But Skott Mike, thank you, buddy.
Speaker 4 (32:34):
Okay, I gotta go.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
I already fired you.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
You're already done.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Don't give me the I gotta go. I hate that
more than anybody I've been do.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
You know what I mean? I've been fired more than
you have. Now.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
What I meant was I had already dumped you from
the show. You can't say I have to go. You've
already been dumped. I chose I wanted to do before
you said you had to. God, Minister, I'm important, trying
to look I.
Speaker 4 (32:55):
Was trying to be important. See I got I know
you were.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
You know, when we started in radio, we used to
do a lot of groofy stuff like that. We didn't
care if the listeners liked it or not. We just
did it because we were radio nerds and we love radio,
and we wanted to have other people on the radio.
I had Paul Berlynn in. I missed that we have
to do that every song. Some of you older folks
were old radio dorks. A lot of you worked in
radio college radio, or you work as an engineer and
(33:21):
David Oberts and folks, and you have an old radio background,
and I missed the fun stuff of radio. We kind
of grab ass clowning around substitute teacher Uncle Smiley video
she rolled in.
Speaker 4 (33:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
So, anyway, if you need any help planning any aspect
of your life so that you hit the ground running
on January first, and you want to use anybody that
I've already pre vetted form you, email me and I
will connect you
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Vari show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
With schools starting back. Whether you have a public or
private school child or grandchild. My grandparents want to help
with the kids, and you want to help them succeed.
Maybe they're off to college, whatever that may be. I
wanted to spend just a few minutes talking about maybe
(00:47):
you can't hire a tutor, but the best tutor is
the parent. In the cases for Derek, it's usually the
fact that the parents are traveling with work or hyper
hyper engaged in their business and they still want the
best for their kids when they get home. The old days,
when I grew up, you went to school, came home,
(01:10):
did your homework, then you went out to play or
did your athletics, and you went on. That has changed.
I tell my kids all the time school I was
top of my class, I studied hard, I performed well,
but my school was not ten percent as difficult as
your school is today, not even nothing like it. It's
much harder today, much more competitive as well. Derek More
(01:32):
is our guest. Derek, let's take a couple of minutes
and drill down for a parent that you have watched
you come into the home. You've come into our home
for years. You go into the home and you watch
kids who succeed and you have helped them thrive. Let's
talk about a handful of things in five minutes or
(01:54):
so that every parent can do to increase by some
measure the success of their kid, from when they wake
up to when they go to bed, when they study,
how they study, and how a parent can assist them
without freaking them out.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
That's great. Yeah, thanks for having me, Michael. This is
so important and timely, and I can't help think. I
can't help but think about Stephen Covey, begin with the
end in mind. And the thing about a good day
at school is it always begins the day before, the
night before. What's the bedtime? What's the bedtime routine? How
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much preparation was done before bedtime? With clothes, with breakfast,
with whatever, backpacks prepared so that tomorrow when I wake
up as a student, I can wake up late if
I did, and walk out the door under five minutes.
So preparing for a catastrophe means go to bed early,
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go to bed on time, get up, get your clothes
laid out, get them on, and get out the door.
The routine sets the anchor, and all the studies now
show that sleep is so important, and so many of
our students are sleep deprived. They're overstimulated with screens, with sugars,
with caffeines. That brings me to food as well. Make
(03:15):
sure they are well fed if you can control that,
one good meal a day. So get out the door,
as you know, get to school early, as your boys do,
get there early. Make sure you talk to your teachers,
make sure you go by. I've even had this conversation
a student says, I need to go see this teacher
(03:37):
and I'll say, is it academic or is it political?
He says it's political. I might need her later on
in the semester, That is a wise wise student. Is
it academic? Yeah, I'm kind of not sure about this work.
So teaching them to advocate for themselves. So as they
are younger, it's maybe heavier with the parent involvement. As
(03:58):
they hit fourth fifth grade, middle school, they take more ownership.
By high school, it's a debate how often does mom,
how often does dad need to be involved? Because I'm
going to have you do it, son, I'm going to
have you do it. Daughter, go to school locked in again,
paying attention, sitting locking in after school, but before students
(04:22):
go to bed, I would say, and everyone's different, but
physical exercise every day is it must? These children have
so much energy they have to get it out in
a healthy way. Family dinners, great way, even if you're
eating fifteen minutes and it's quick, sitting down and just
having FaceTime without your screens, minimizing your screen time, and
(04:47):
having a dedicated study space. Oh, I study in my bed,
in my bedroom wherever. I don't particularly care because I've
seen students study with noise and with silence, in almost darkness,
in total brightness. If it's not working, you get involved
and change it. If it is working, hey, great job, Sally,
(05:07):
Great great job, Bobby. You keep doing it your way.
So with those fundamentals, I would say, you have a
good framework. And I will finally add every student, beginning
as soon as they can read, needs to read. Read
something you like every day, and then read anything you
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love and give yourself time to read for thirty minutes
or an hour if you're into a good book. But
those core fundamentals will prepare a student for the semester,
will have a good daily routine and then you can
be rewarded by not thinking about school on Saturday, not
thinking about school on Sunday until four o'clock or two
o'clock or six o'clock, depending on your Sunday routine. So
(05:54):
if I'm getting back to the fundamentals, because we have
this loss of learning that's happened in my group at
world class Tutors dot com. We've taken this decade of
experience that I've done in households and put into a
system where they don't have to hire a tutor. They
can pick up this material and take their kids through
it themselves. And these parents have told me, Wow, I
(06:17):
didn't realize how inefficient I was. I didn't realize how
I needed to manage my time better. So we can
always learn as parents, as grandparents. We don't have to
be in the rat race, but we can always learn
how to be a little bit better with our priorities,
how to be a little bit better with our intentionality,
having our phone put down like you read earlier and
(06:40):
talked about earlier, and locking in with your family when
it's time to lock in. So these are core things
and the bottom line is your students know you care
about them. Your students know you love them if you
give them clear boundaries and help them succeed within those
boundaries on a daily basis.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Derek, I want to get to one thing that I'm
watching emails coming in from folks. What about the kid
who's not a dumb dumb he's really smart, but he
does poorly in school. Take one minute, because I have
another question after that. He does really poorly in school
because he's not interested, he's not challenged.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
That's a great question. So for the student who is
doing well in school now I'm sorry, not doing well
particularly in school, but maybe does well on standardized tests
which reveal his or her intelligence. I take the approach
that this student needs some accelerant, that we need to
pour some gasoline on there. So I will work diligently
(07:41):
to find out what is he passionate about, what is
she passionate about. I had a student who had to
be homeschooled because all he thought about was baseball, and
his mother taught him everything through baseball, math, the history
of baseball, biographies of baseball players, physics of baseball and bats,
and for years and years and years he was homeschooled,
and it was all through the lens of baseball. In
(08:03):
about sixth grade, he said, Mom, can I do something
besides baseball? All we do is baseball all the time.
And at that point he had exhausted his focus on
baseball and she was able to reintegrate him back into
normal schooling. So my point on that is when you
can hyper focus and accelerate, give your child what they're
(08:24):
what they want. They want to be challenged, Find someone
smarter than you in the community, find an expert in
whatever they're passionate about. Make a connection, make an introduction,
use your network so that you can help your child.
That's what I would say.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Derek Moore, thank you if you you bet? Is there
a website. I've never gone to a website.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Yeah, world class Tutors dot com. World class Tutors dot com.
Appreciation Michael Derek so much have like.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Fifty tutors and he realized I was managing tutors instead
of teaching kids. And you shut it all that you
might have to edit. This is Mark Chestnut and Jar
Bizaar of Talk Radio. I just received an email from
a friend of mine said, sorry to bother you during
(09:14):
your show, but I figured you would want to know.
I just left doctor Mary Tally Boden's office by far
the best medical experience I have ever had in my life,
and he's sixty something. She was awesome and very thorough.
Her staff was absolutely amazing. You know, if you knew
(09:42):
how much time I spend planning, organizing, structuring, preparing. You
who think I'm very boring, and I'm okay with that
because I do not think you find success and happiness accidentally.
(10:03):
I think you work at things, and I was never
I never aced IQ tests or standardized tests. I worked
hard in school, and I have always said I don't
think I'm the greatest at anything. But I'm gonna tell
you this, I'm gonna outwork everyone else. You may not
(10:25):
realize I'm outworking them because I don't tell you i'm
outworking them. I just do it consistently every single day.
I don't know if you notice. We don't take vacation.
We are here in the studio every day. Take a
couple of days at Thanksgiving and at Christmas. That's it. Sick, tired,
(10:51):
hung over, sadly exhausted from travel. I'm not gonna tell
them when you threw up in the trash. Canse who
wants to hear your throw up in the trash can story.
Literally nobody, but I want to say this. My wife
(11:11):
does not listen to the show. But many is the
day that in the evening I will have or sometimes
in the afternoon before the evening show, I will have
a meeting at my house instead of out and about.
And the reason is because then people don't come over
and talk to you while you're trying to have a conversation.
(11:34):
And my wife said, if I go to the restroomhen
somebody's at the house, people will ask questions of my wife,
like she's not going to tell me, And she said,
she has said this multiple times. You know, people have
the wrong impression of you. They don't realize how you are,
how much focus you spend on things that appear to
(11:55):
be haphazard or natural. So I decided last year that
I would spend twenty twenty four trying to help listeners.
Not that I'm some guru, not that you signed up
(12:15):
for self help. But I think if you have something,
you share it and someone can do with it what
they want. There is always someone better than me in
every single thing. I don't think I'm the guru of finances.
Or health or anything else. But I do think that
I can share things I've learned and it may help somebody.
(12:37):
And if that's not you, because you're a genius in
that field, I'm not trying to top you. I'm really not.
But I decided to put down on paper the things
I wanted to share for this year. And we've not
discussed this, but because of Derek, that was part of it,
you may have noticed, and that was planning, preparing and
(13:02):
executing on physical health, financial health, family health, professional health
assets and things, and giving back physical health health. That's
(13:22):
why I started sharing. I was a client of Michael
Petru for training, long before he was a show sponsor,
and I saw how it was transforming my body, and
more importantly, my mind made me like Ramone would laugh
about it. Ramones trained with him. I realized, yeah, we
(13:44):
should share that. Doctor Boden when Bowden, why did I
say Boden? I was thinking to Murray Boden because I
saw it written. When COVID hit and doctors wouldn't let
you come in and they were being crazy, Doctor Bowden
would walk outside her clinic and talk to patients in
(14:07):
the breezeway if they were scared to come in the
office when people were scared, like it was leprosy of COVID.
She was just bold and brave and treating patients. It
(14:28):
was incredible financial health. I realized talking to listeners and
friends that a lot of people don't have good strategic
advice on tax planning. So I put the word out
(14:49):
I want a strategic tax planner. More than just CPA's
I want. And we landed on Deroach Partners, and I realized,
I'm having dinner with them tonight. I realized, you know,
I have a business. I run a business, A team here,
and a lot of business owners I realize would ask
me questions. You're a lawyer. I haven't been a lawyer
(15:12):
in almost thirty years. I'm not the person to answer
that question for you. You need a good tax strategic tax partner,
you need a good financial advisor. You need to put
your estate plan in order. So we went out for
a state planning lawyer. That's Christine Weaver, and wow, did
(15:33):
the floodgates open for these things. I sit down and
we'll be doing this in the coming weeks between now
in January. First, I sit down and do an annual
plan for the year. I know it sounds dorky, and
I know you're thinking I had no idea. What a
weirdo you are. It's what I do. I just don't
(15:54):
talk about it. I sit down and I go over insurance,
my insurance plan. I got two teenagers to insure for cars.
You know what that looks like. I do weird things
like I pay cash for my cars and I only
get liability. I don't pay. I don't fully insure my car.
(16:15):
But what happens. I've run the numbers. I take the
money that I would have spent on an insurance premium
for full coverage, and I put that into a savings
account that goes toward. So if I have to repair
a car, I do. I do the minimal insurance but catastrophic,
and I pay when I go for health care because
(16:38):
I don't want a high deductible. We don't use doctors
very often, so why am I paying for deductible so
that my bill is lower when we barely use doctors anyway.
Then there is family health. We made a decision years
ago we're going to have family dinner, and it's important.
(16:58):
And Michael's senior year, we had family dinner probably seventy
five percent of the days because we realized our last
chance to do this, our last year to have dinners
like this. Professional health, I consciously study. I've gone through
every talk show host. I consciously study comedians, delivery, punchlines, everything,
(17:23):
because I want to be better at what I do,
assets and things. I have people to handle every single
aspect of my house, and if they're good at what
they do, I say, would you like to be a
show sponsor? It ain't free, but we'll change your life
will We will give you so much business in every
aspect of what I do. I buy my tahos from
(17:43):
classic elites of sugar Land. They get all our business
and giving back. I set a plan. This is how
we created a family foundation. This is how much of
my time I'm going to donate. These are the causes
I'm going to work.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
Lifestyles of the not saying you to do that.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
As I call it, the Michael.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Barry jail funny thing happened may Man, I appreciate it.
I asked Ramon to play magic, and the only version
of magic I thought about was Olivia Newton John and
xanadu Wo. I make my own sound effects now. That's
the she's hot. Give me a little whoops. I see
(18:23):
how off I was.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
And I did not clarify exactly what that was supposed
to be. Huh how about that? Yeah. So just my
advice to you, wherever you are in your life, do
a reset, but have that reset be January first, and
(18:52):
start planning between what are we almost September, September, October, November, December.
You have four months to prepare for the ultimate twenty
twenty five. There's two types of personalities. You may say,
that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Why are you
talking about that? Just tell me how common is an idiot?
And Trump's going to win. But some people will say,
you know what, You're right. I never thought about that.
(19:15):
Focus on what and who you want to be because
I believe we can change those things. I believe we
can go from being a double ard to being physically fit.
I don't care which one you are. I just want
you to be who and what you are. If you
(19:38):
want to be fit, I'm willing to do everything I can.
Introduce you to people, suggest things, give you a book,
just cave a buddy of mind, A book this week
on that very subject. It came over and said, good Lord,
didn't realize how much weight you had lost. Here's one
of the books I read when I was just getting started. Anyway,
(20:04):
if you start planning today for a January first, I
tell my kids and long talk multiple times with Michael.
Some people are going to drop out of college, not
just at the University of Texas, at every university, but
especially at the University of Texas. There are kids that
are going to get there and they're going to come
(20:28):
home with their tailtop between their legs, either at Christmas
or in the summer, and especially if mommy and Daddy
are paying for it, they're going to be embarrassed to
say that they got kicked out. And it happens to
very good people. I know people who go on to
be very successful who dropped out or got kicked out
(20:48):
of college, and they'll tell you it's a couple of things.
The lack of a plan. No, it wasn't lack of planning, Michael,
I drank too much, I slept in, I partied too much.
That's the lack of a plan. If you're living your
life such that you only ever do what you think
(21:11):
about doing at that moment, then you don't realize that
what you're about to do is taking you off of
the course of the plan you set. And once you
realize that, then you say, wait a second. That party
I was excited about on Sunday night, I can't get
(21:33):
hammered and pass out at three o'clock in the frat hall.
I've got my first class at eight am and we've
got a quiz. I'll end up missing the class and
missing the quiz and getting a zero. Nobody planned to
fall out of college. Nobody. Nobody said I'm going to
go up there and have a hell of a time
(21:55):
and get kicked out. What happened was a lack of
a plan. I bought Michael this. I was telling this
on the air the other day, and I had there's
some geeks out there like me who love planners in
the light. The old Franklin planner I had, the Trapper
(22:16):
Keeper was the original planner for me. But it's a
sheet of paper, it's a it's a stack of them.
My wife ordered them online somewhere. I could have got
them from Belinda Fultz, but I didn't even know she
was doing this. And it's one of those that you
tear off the top page of each one in this
in this stack of them, and it's your next day's planner.
And this all comes from Derek the tutor. I was
(22:37):
telling you about the idea that success on Wednesday is
because of preparation on Tuesday. So at this time of year,
every year, all of my service providers hear from me, CPA,
financial planner, insurance advisor, everybody. I had dinner with Petri
(23:01):
the other day. We went over I said, here's where
I am, here's my weight, here's my strength, here's where
I feel good. Here are challenges for me, and here's
some things that in twenty twenty five I want to
improve on, and here are the metrics of how I
want to get there. He loves that stuff because that's
a challenge to him because guess what if I were
(23:22):
to announce I want to bench press five hundred, That'll
never happen, But if I were. He likes the challenge
of how do I get there because he can't just say, well,
let's start with four hundred, because I'm not moving the bar.
I'm not moving the bar anywhere near any of those numbers.
So he's got to work within my body and not
(23:43):
hurting me. I don't set bench press numbers. I'm just kidding.
That is my challenge to you. And the reason I
tell you this now I gave a lot of thought.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
To this.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Is we are about to enter what is called the
silly season, and Trump is winning, and everybody knows Trump
is winning, and right now today Trump is going to
win barring unforeseen circumstances. But they are foreseeable, aren't they.
(24:14):
This is like the Donald Rumsfeld foreseeable, unforeseeable quote, if
you remember that one during the Iraq War. So you're
gonna lose, whether you realize it or not, a couple
of months of your life. I mean, look at what's
already happened. In June. Trump wipes Biden the earliest debate ever,
(24:38):
wipes him off the floor, off the table. Then a coup,
Biden's kicked out. Then we have the ascension of Kamala
we're going to have. Then we have the president shot
in the face. I mean, some crazy things happening. I
think we could very well have war before November. I
(24:59):
think we could be invol in a war before November,
especially not yet boots on the ground. Because everybody cheers
when we go in and shock in all people. I
think that Kamalo will be the president. A lot of
things are gonna happen. So all I'm saying is set
your plan now for your meetings with your service providers,
and get your goals in place so you can start
(25:21):
on January first, because I'm gonna tell you something. Come
October November, you're not even be able to focus on
anything else. I had Beaver Applin on years ago, some
of you will remember, and some people thought I was
insulting him. I wasn't because I said, what beaver Applin
did with BUCkies and he has a business partner Don.
(25:43):
I don't know Don, but I understand he's a genius
as well. I said, at the end of the day,
BUCkies is a gas station, but they took something that
anybody could have done and elevated it. And that was
when I issued the new vocabulary ramon. Remember I said,
it's not just a gas station, it's a gas station
(26:05):
that is a destination. It is a gas donation, pure brilliance.
Beaver did not give me my due. He kind of
said that's pretty good. And then two weeks later they
got billboards up. Did I get a commission. Did I
get a reward? Nothing? Story of my life. But what
I love is anybody could have improved the gas station
(26:26):
to make it a thing that's talked about on late
night TV. But they did it. Over the years. How
many people have you heard providing traffic on the radio?
And for my money in twenty years, nineteen years of
doing radio and fifty three years of listening to radio,
I think sky Mike's the best. Do you agree Ramond'd
(26:48):
be weird if you didn't. You're not just saying that
because he's Hispanic? Who was the guy that was drunk on?
Are are you serious?
Speaker 5 (26:56):
Who?
Speaker 4 (26:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Talking about Bob Bockwalter, Eddie? What was Eddie's lest Eddie Barton?
He was good. He's no sky Mike. So we asked
sky Mike to join us for a moment. Sky Mike, Hey,
what's you're on the air? You're weirdo.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
You'd sound like you're I know, longtime listener, first time caller.
You're a great American.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Thank you. That's Sean Hannity with things what's going on
on fifty nine? There was something was shut down?
Speaker 4 (27:23):
Oh oh god, what would I know? You know? I mean,
I've just been goofing right now.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
We want you to do it in sky Mike. I
want you to do it in sky Mike West, like
you're doing a report.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
I'll like it in the morning.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Okay, okay, hold on time ramon, do you have a
sounder time now for traffic, Let's go to sky Mike.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
All right here, let me get my slinky, let me
give my all right southbound outbound look out Southwest Freeway.
This is all lanes blocked now at the Beltway. Nothing
good's happening there. If you want to hop off, if
you're a big shot, get on the West Park Tollway.
If you're just calmon, rip raft, then get on all
the most city expressway by the way. In real life,
(28:03):
this wreck is now clear. Just want everybody to know
the wreck is clear. Yes, I pay attention. Hello, that's
all I got.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Do you know what happened?
Speaker 4 (28:11):
Okay, fine, you get a banana stick or fine, I'll
give you a banana stick.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
What happened?
Speaker 4 (28:15):
One for remote?
Speaker 5 (28:15):
Two?
Speaker 3 (28:16):
What? No?
Speaker 2 (28:18):
What caused it?
Speaker 4 (28:18):
Oh? Do what caused the accident? Oh? I don't want
to speculate. And actually it was in a bad spot
where we couldn't see it very well. But it started
out with just a couple of lanes. That one. I
don't really want to talk about that one much, but
that one, nothing good is happening here. That's my code
language to you know, really close. iHeartRadio listeners that you know,
(28:39):
we just don't even want to know.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Oh okay.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
You know, sometimes sometimes we have you know, we have
recks where everybody's okay, and then sometimes we'll have some
little minor thing where they just get on the side
and then they point at things, you know, like you
hold up for a second, pointing at things as part
of it. And then sometimes it's just it's gone before
we touchreck Ninjas, that's what that means.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Okay, did you read the email I just sent you
about my pillow?
Speaker 4 (29:05):
That's very sweet. Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Tell people what I said. It's get to read it
word for word. Okay, absolutely true.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
Okay, let's see here. You said your first word to
me was jackass. I'm the one promoting. Oh sorry, I'll
skip that one.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
You can read that. Read that, thank you, You can
read it.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
You know, me and Ramon are both Hispanic. That's why
he likes me.
Speaker 5 (29:25):
Your endorsement for my pillow is the best endorsement on
Houston Radio to see how good I can read. I
read real good because I'm tarking to just read the
best Okay Houston Radio today, including everything I do and
even that crap Ramone turns out.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
Sorry, Ramone, it really is exceptional. My friend in college
station brought it up to me, the line about your
quote Ouji trailer or whatever it is. I love that
line and your use of random Sheriff Friar clips as
well as callers are next level. Thank you so very much.
I really appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Dude, No, that was it. I just want to have
you on love on you, look because I think you're fantastic.
You're You're really, really, really.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
Good at what you do. I you know, somebody told
me you said something good about me a while back,
and yeah, I appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
You know.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
All we can do is, hey, do tell people. I'm
also a jock across the country though for iHeart RADIOAU,
I'm a DJ. Yeah, you can listen to my eighties
shows across America on the free iHeart Radio app.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
I didn't know that What's what's the name?
Speaker 4 (30:25):
Yeah, uh no, I could believe it or not. They're
letting me use sky Mike. I'm surprised, but they're letting
me use the sky Mike trademark on iHeart stations like cool, Wane,
to Wait Minneapolis and KLOU Saint Louis. I'm even in
heart of that. I know that.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
How does somebody that wants to listen to your show?
How do they find it?
Speaker 3 (30:43):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (30:44):
I am so glad you asked. You download the free
iHeart Radio app and you just put in whatever station,
like if you want to listen to me on kJ
E B Seattle or oh, San Antonio. I signed a
multi dollar deal with Mark Sherman to k q x
T San Antonio. I'm on Q one O one San
(31:04):
Antonio every Sunday.
Speaker 5 (31:05):
Now, all right, so she.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Didn't answer my question. I'm gonna go. I'm on iHeartRadio
app and can I just yeah, now, just put sky
Mike on there?
Speaker 4 (31:16):
Can I can well search?
Speaker 1 (31:18):
No?
Speaker 4 (31:18):
No, no, you got to search. You gotta search, like
whatever station I'm on. I'm on my Facebook and Twitter
and all that, and I'll tell all my friends. Okay,
I'm gonna be on this station today like I'm on Uh,
I'm on Cool one O Wait every Sunday morning. But
I'm also Ono.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Said we're gonna do this is Live Radio. Ramone says,
you pick a song that Ramon's gonna play, you talk
up to it like you do your DJ thing. What's
the song?
Speaker 4 (31:44):
Am I gonna be able to he Am I gonna
be able to hear it? Am I gonna be able
to hear?
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Oh? You just a you're going to talk up to it?
Speaker 1 (31:49):
What? What?
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Pick the song?
Speaker 5 (31:50):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (31:51):
Just imagine So I'm not gonna be able to hear
the song in the background, so I can talk up. Okay, Okay,
let's do Stevie Wonder. I was made for loving you,
Stevie Wonder. I was made for loving you. I think
I'll be on a cool one to wait. I think
I'll be ok I can't hear, I'll start talking. I
(32:12):
was made to love her Stevie Wonder, and I we
go one O three point three. Hey, oh you skybike
on a winning weekend? Right here? We've got tickets to
see this guy at the Stafford Center. It's Stevie. You'll
see him, but he won't see you. I didn't really
nail it.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
But Skott Mike, thank you, buddy.
Speaker 4 (32:34):
Okay, I gotta go.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
I already fired you.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
You're already done.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Don't give me the I gotta go. I hate that
more than anybody I've been do.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
You know what I mean? I've been fired more than
you have. Now.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
What I meant was I had already dumped you from
the show. You can't say I have to go. You've
already been dumped. I chose I wanted to do before
you said you had to. God, Minister, I'm important, trying
to look I.
Speaker 4 (32:55):
Was trying to be important. See I got I know
you were.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
You know, when we started in radio, we used to
do a lot of groofy stuff like that. We didn't
care if the listeners liked it or not. We just
did it because we were radio nerds and we love radio,
and we wanted to have other people on the radio.
I had Paul Berlynn in. I missed that we have
to do that every song. Some of you older folks
were old radio dorks. A lot of you worked in
radio college radio, or you work as an engineer and
(33:21):
David Oberts and folks, and you have an old radio background,
and I missed the fun stuff of radio. We kind
of grab ass clowning around substitute teacher Uncle Smiley video
she rolled in.
Speaker 4 (33:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
So, anyway, if you need any help planning any aspect
of your life so that you hit the ground running
on January first, and you want to use anybody that
I've already pre vetted form you, email me and I
will connect you
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