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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael very show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I'm a screen will soup.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Don't do here good? I hear perfectly. The fact that
you are a sheriff is not germane to the situation.
Damn Germans got nothing to do with it. Oh my gosh,
are you telling me you built a time machine?
Speaker 3 (00:36):
What of adaloreate the way.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
I see it.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
If you're gonna build a time machine into a car,
why not do it some style.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
He's in now my away a new cattle like I
had a fine box and runner and remo in the
bad What a piece of junk. She may not look
like much, but she's got to wear a cow kid.
I made a lot of special modifications myself.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
You knee, we bad?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
You knee and WHI dear mother, I was speeding. I
was driving like a maniac.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
You can all be grateful to this man for stopping us.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Sir, I'm going back to get the rest of the
garcass off the road.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Peek, officer, Well it's a big day. What do I
spy peeking out my window? Barrel? Hit July eighth, and
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here we are. There are two and a half months
later and they've come to pick up the trash. A
lot of you out there still have the rancid It
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just it looks like death, brown, withered limbs and bushes.
What was once a beautiful, lively, verdant green is now
How lazy of these people. They got a pincher out
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there picking this stuff up, and one dude up there
in the middle of the in the back of the
truck remote controlling this thing. This is going to take
forever because half of it's falling out when he pinches
it to put it in there. Ten weeks later. This
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is a sign of a broken city. This is a
sign of Sylvester Turner's city. I'm kind of curious because
down the street there's some people that put a bunch
of trash bags on top of their heap of trees
that are that they shredded or that they that they
took down then put at the edge of the street.
And I'm hearing stories that they won't pick it up
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if it's got a trash bag in there. They probably
sell this right here to some Moltz maker. It's yeah,
they'll probably They're probably right. They'll grind it and put
it in pellet smokers. We are currently in negotiations with
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Texas Star Grills to be a new show sponsor. Don't
go yet. We don't give them any business early. We
don't getting over on us. Texas Star Grills Shop. Don't
go yet. Hold the best scene in Braveheart, Hold but
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be ready, Be at the Ready. That's where Ramon got
his tregger repellet grill. What were we doing with celebrate?
We're still celebrating. They're cleaning up the mess out front.
Oh my goodness. It was so depressing, it really was.
I mean, I'm not gonnaless. Something like that depressed me.
But it's kind of a bummer. You know, you drive
down your street and they got you got these limbs
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piled halfway down the street. There's limbs piled literally eight
feet high at one point. Anyway, So we're currently in
negotiations with Texas Star Grill Shop to be the officious
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official barbecue pit Pellic grill Pit provider of the Michael
Berry Show. I don't think they know we're in negotiations,
but they will now. By negotiations, what I mean is
we'd like them to be a show sponsor. That's our negotiations.
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But it sounds better to say we're in negotiations, doesn't it?
Now carrying rec Tech grills. You know what a rec
Tech drill is. Texas Grill Shop now carries Rectech grills,
renowned for their superior build quality, precise temperature control, and
Wi Fi connectivity. That sounds like something you like to do.
You got that on your trigger too. Rectech grills deliver
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professional level cooking results. Visit us to elevate your barbecue
experience with rectechan. This is our top departments. I like
how they say our top departments, like they got fifty
of them. What do you service merchandise? Their top departments
are built in grills, gas grills, wood pellet grills, charcoal grills,
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outdoor kitchen design and tailgate touchdown sell. What's the what
they got going on over there? You want to know
what brands? Ah, Sir Napoleon, you own one? Oh Tragger?
You're fired up on this. Don't seem too eager, don't
seem too heger. You gotta do a little bit of
a take away. A little bit of a takeaway. Huh?
(06:05):
You not coming in here to talk to me about girls.
Big Green Egg people do still do the Big Green
egg they do. Huh weber.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Y S.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Do you know us Yellowstone? Yeah, it looks like Yellowstone. Blaze.
You ever heard of Blaze, DCS, Gosney or Gosney and
Renaissance Cooking Systems. Well, they got a lot of stuff here.
Family owned and operated, the Martin family and our dedicated
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team are committed to your unforgettable customer experience and utmost satisfaction.
That sounds good right there. And then they got a
dude shaking hands with a hard hat on top. And
then they got Toro in there. You're not gonna need
Toro anymore. You can get him out of there. You
just put us on there. Now, that's what flam. Oh
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it's true. Toro could catch on fire. That'd be awkward.
It's number one tragger dealer. It says two thousand and eight.
Four convenient locations, two in Houston, one in Katie Sinco Ranch,
and another in Spring the Woodlands where your go to
destination for your trager grew. I know they had four
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of them. That's where our people are. The two that
are in Houston would be the one. There's one at
Woodway near Voss. I don't know, oh, I know where
the other one is it's on field. That was I
think that was the original. That was at fifty nine
at about Greenbriar, Yeah, Green Briro. Good call, good call, Yeah,
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fifty nine In Greenbriar on the southeast side of that intersection,
they had a comics store there. Don't ask me why
I've never been in it. Now in comics you know why.
I know because about two hundred feet east at nineteen
oh seven Southwest Freeway was Michael Berry Properties World Headquarters.
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I once got a complaint when I started on the air.
There were still our signs out there said Michael Barry
World Headquarters. And this woman wrote in he says he's
got world Headquarters, but it's only one location. It's called
a sense of humor for a reason. Ramon, do you
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want to be in the negotiations with Texas Star Girls Shop.
I like to think of mister Martin getting a call
and saying, oh, so you're in negotiations with Michael Berry.
He has no idea what we're talking about. But the
good news is, holy wow, they cleaned our street up
in just a minute. This technology thing might be here
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to stay. That's impressive. Wow, all that trash that's gone.
I wanted to go back to one of these women.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Are chief Michael Berry.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
I think that there might because I got.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Nothing going on down there. Probably, Oh they're back. I'd back.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
I guess what they're gonna do now. They didn't get
this out. Oh I couldn't see okay, Oh I can't
see that. You know what, Play that for a while. Man,
this thing looks like something the Soviets would have rolled
into Hungary in about nineteen fifty six. It's got wheels.
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It's like a big, massive tank, but it's a it's
the box on an eighteen wheeler, but it's so long
that it's like train car. Oh, he's growing up on there.
This can't be safe. He doesn't have papers, I guarantee you.
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But I'm not mad at that one, because I get
the trees out of here before you send la Miga.
I'm not even joking. Oh here it comes again. Oh
my goodness, this thing. I love things that nest write,
things that close up, you know, the tables that nest.
My wife Turk taught me that term where the chairs
go under the chairs going it like the old Baboushka dolls. Right. Well,
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this thing when he's driving around. It just looks like,
you know, the Kami's rolling in to Budapest and saying,
you know, we're taking over. They did grab the trash backs. Well,
thank god this. You know, you won't believe this. I
was going to write a note to say, stop putting
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trash bags on top of this, on top of the
limbs that y'all put out there, or it's going to
be stuck there, but I could not figure out what
medium to use. Right, true story, this is one less
thing for me to worry about it. I got a
lot of other stuff on my mind, but this ain't
one o them. Anyway. I want you all to understand
what's going on here. All you can see is the
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wheels underneath it. There's a lot a bunch of wheels,
and it's got two of these things, and it's like
a train. So when it turns, this thing can turn
around it. I'd never be able to back this thing up.
This dude backed this thing up. I can't even back
up a trailer with a boat on it.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
I see they got the white guy driving. Okay, so
you got the white guy driving and he just gets
out watches the Mexican work. Okay, Look every other crew,
I guess anyway, So they got these big black, ominous
walls on this thing, and then it's hollowed out up top.
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Because we're up above we can see it. There's no
markings on the truck. You know, they could be sex
trafficking people in that thing. You'd never know it. Do
what they do, I bet you they take our limbs
down to Mexico and they bring the illegals up in it.
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You know how the Chinese had to figure out what
they were going to do because they were sending all
those boxes over here, those containers, and they had to
figure out what they were going to do with them.
And then Texans just started saying, well, you know what,
I got some land on the side of the freeway.
We'll just stack them up and sell them to the
farmers out here. I bought one of them one time,
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those yeah, the Chinese containers. I bought one out of
our place in Carmet. The best thing I ever did.
It was a whole lot cheaper than if you go
to I wouldn't go to a big box store like
that because you get terrible customer service. But if you
go to a home depot or lows like people do,
and you have them come out and build one of
those little uh, those little shops that you know, they
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always have them out in front of the home depot,
Go price one of those things sometimes like six or
seven thousand dollars. Are you kidding me? Okay, So we
know that they're listening in. That's why when you've been
talking with your buddy about the most random thing in
the world. Right, you're like Eddie Martini played third base
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for Archbishop Rummel and once got in a fight with
two dudes at the same time, and he still talks
about it to this day. Right, So you're talking to
a friend of yours and that's the most random things.
You don't even know where Archbishop Rummel is. And then
the next day you log into say Facebook and they
go take a trip to visit Jamaica with the graduating
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class of Archbishop Rummell. Wait a minute, there's no doubt
they're definitely spying on me. If the Israelis can put
a pager in your pocket, beep it for you to
look at it, and then blow you up, what do
you think? And by the way, it's a good thing
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we make our own phones on American soil. Humh. Because
we wouldn't want to have the Chinese have the capability
and one fell swoop to take us all out. That
couldn't happen, could it. That's something for you to think
about today. So anyway, last night I'm watching a documentary
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on Pete Rose. I am obsessed with Pete Rose. Pete
Rose is so good. People don't remember how good Pete
Rose was. They have no idea. Statistically speaking, it's like
Nolan Ryan's strikeout records. Nolan Ryan not only has the
most strikeouts. You can't pile up ten people and get
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to his strikeouts. That's a little big exaggeration. So anyway,
it was this seventeen time All Star. I mean Pete
Rose's career. You can say what you want about the
off the field, right, but I'll bet you this that
dude has done more on a baseball field. I mean,
there's an argument he's the greatest player of all time.
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There is an argument look at what he did and
how long you did it? And I say all that
to say this, My buddy Kenny Duncan Jr. At us
COINS had told me a while back he's gotten into
memorabilia big time, and so he sent me. This Celebrity
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Mint launched his first ever Pete Rose Precious Metal Legal
Tender collectibles. Gold and silver trading coins honoring Charlie Hustle
are the first sports collectibles to receive CGC Signature Series certification.
Are you a memorabilia guy? You know they have this
whole thing, which is how you know that what you
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have is a real thing? Did you collect baseball cards
as a kid. I didn't collect baseball cards as a kid.
I got baseball cards, and I kept baseball cards, and
I pulled my baseball cards out and looked at my
baseball cards, and I studied my baseball cards, and I
memorized baseball to ten because I was obsessed with sports
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as a kid. What I mean is I spent more
time with baseball cards than ninety five percent of kids
in American history. But I never used the word collect
them because half of them came into bubblegumbox and the
ones I bought were not very pennies. If I had
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known that those were going to be very valuable collectibles anyway.
Celebritymint dot Com celebritymint dot Com Silver or Goals seventy
four ro When I'm gonna buy you one of these
and then eventually you go, look, I don't want this,
and you give it back to me. Found it in
twenty twenty three by the Duncan Group signature series that
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Kenny Duncan. He's always doing something. There's a good looking
card though it's got Pete Rose diving. You go back
and watch a video of Pete Rose sliding into base.
He would kind of leap up and then hit weird.
I do nowhere.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
We have all your formal wear needs, from morning suits
to coordinating accessories.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
I see that line wouldn't working. There's been good days
and bad day the winter, the day is off. There's
a lot of music that you and I can talk
about that I hear, and then some of my like,
some of them really like. But man, Merle Haggard, he
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gets down into the the crevices of your soul against
me most of the.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Time.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Anyway. He's talking about Jerry clar and then old.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Trailer and o'high ball and them famous dogs, and mister
Baron's got in there with them, and old John you bags,
HOLLI he speak to, and my brother son of Hahu
look food and oh it was beautiful now y'all get
this picture about that time they tree. We rushed down
into the swamps and there the dogs were treed up
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the biggest sweet gum tree and all of ame at
river swamps.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
It was huge. You couldn't reach.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
Around this tree. There wasn't a limb on it for
a while.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Wag up there, huge tree.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
And I looked around at John and I said, John,
I don't believe you didn't climb that tree.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
And it hurt John's feelings.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
He poosed his lips out, got fighting mad. He said,
there ain't a tree and all these swamps that I
can't climb.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
And he got his broken shoes off, and.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
He eased up to that sweet gum tree and he
hung his toenails in that bark, and he got his
fanging nails in there, and he kept easing up the tree,
working his way toward that bottom limb, and he finally
got to it and he started on up into this
big tree. Knock him out, John.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
It won't be long.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
And John worked his way on up to the top
of the tree, and who what a bickum. And he
reached around in his overhauls and got that sharp stick
and he drawed back and he punched the coon, but
it wasn't a coon.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
It was a lynx.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
We call him souped up wildcats.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
And then the cat.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
And that thing had red thig tushes coming out of
its mouth and red big claws.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
On the end of its feet, and people and that
thing attacked John up.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
In the top of that tree. WHOA, you can hear
John squattle? What's the matter with John? I don't have
no idea what in the world's happening to John? Knock
him out, John, WHOA? This thing's killing me.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
The whole top of the tree was shaken.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
The dogs got to back in the.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
Bark of the tree and fighting one another underneath the.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Tree, and I was kicking them, like, get dogs, get away.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
What's the matter with John?
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Knock him out, John, This than's killing me. And John
knew that.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
Mister Barron told it a pistol in his belt to
shoot snakes with, and he kept holling, shoot the sne
have mercy.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
This thing killing me, Shoot the sne And mister Barron.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Said, John, I can't shoot up in there. I might
hit you.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
John said, well, just shoot up in here amongst us.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
One of us got the house from relief, My brother
Chris could tell that story and you could record it
and lay it over the top of Jerry Clark. He
wouldn't miss I mean one word. One of my favorite
listener submissions I get is from a fellow named Darryl Hancock.
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He's posted for years on a blog as Uncle Daryl,
and he shares my kind of nerdy love of words
and history. He's president or very involved with the Czech
Association because I think his family's check if I remember correctly.
But anyway, we're talking about brogans, which is why we
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played that the brogan is the shoe, and he said,
brogan is a loanword with Celtic roots. A loan word
is a word that's loaned from one to the other.
I got the nicest email the other day from a
guy who drives from Houston to Wisconsin. Maybe on the record,
I forget where he goes exactly, but he said, I
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was looking for a podcast to listen to, and you
mentioned American the History of English Language. And I've now
listened to all three hundred and seventy episodes and it
was wonderful and I'm going to listen to it again.
Brogan is a loanword with Celtic roots. Both the Irish
and scott versions of Gaelic used the word for a rough,
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high topped leather shoe. What I liked as a wee
boy in East Texas was to watch my uncle Raymond
pull off the brogans and socks after a hard day
plowing behind a mule. That's kind of like hose al touve.
I wanted to see what he called ToeJam, a vile
mixture of dirt and sweat that formed inside his well
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used brogans and gave them a hearty odor. Uncle Raymond
would then soak and clean his gnarly feet in a
pan of fresh water. Ain't Lola had pulled from their
back porch water well. Uncle Raymond was my pal. He'd
let me drive his mule drawn wagon while he walked
along beside it pulling corn. Drive meant that I sat
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in the wagon seat and held the reins while he
told the mules what to do with three magic words gee,
haw and woa, and one magic tongue click, which meant go. Now,
see that's a story right there, and you got a
little history on brogans. Uh, let's see. Let's go to Ferrin. Ferrin,
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you're on the Michael Berry Show, Sweetheart, you got forty
eight seconds. Hello.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Well, I was calling to get some clarification on the
UH tax increase and the numbers that were reported that
based on four hundred thousand dollars, that a five percent
increase would equal to an additional one hundred and forty
dollars a year, and it just kind of sounds like
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man math to me. Can you explain that to me?
Speaker 1 (23:31):
I don't know how they calculated faar and I I
can't answer that question. I will only say generally, it's
my experience that whatever they say the number is going
to be, it's always going to be higher because you've
got to figure that a lot of people are getting exemptions.
You know, you have you seen your exemptions and those
sorts of things. So whoever's not getting that exemption is
getting hit even harder.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
You are listening to the Michael Berry shows, you think
they threw down after this recording session.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
I'm pretty sure that any duet Otis or Marvin Gaye
did poor Conway for Holland Oates. I'm just kidding. I'm
just kidding. Well, I know I'm not really.
Speaker 5 (24:23):
You know what oldis.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
I don't care what you say, you're still a tramp.
Speaker 5 (24:26):
That's right, you haven't even.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Got a Dudes, they get all sweaty. I got six like.
They look like they've been through war. When they came
out of a song, that was an effort they have.
They have roadies come up and give them a tie
wipe and all. I just came out of the boxing. Man,
I laid it off. You see something preachers do that.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
T D.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Jakes does that. Oh my goodness, Okay, they listen to this.
Al Ebara says, the uh that that piece of equipment
that picked up the trash, the limbs and stuff, the debris,
that's an SPMT, a self propelled modular transport. He said.
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That multi wheel trailer you were speaking of is an SPMT.
Our company uses these to transport huge modules to construction
sites or to shipping barges. Google this to see one
in operation. Why couldn't you google it and put me
a link in there? Goodness, you know we don't spend
enough time going to look at big heavy equipment. Ramon.
(25:38):
You know, when I drive past Doggit what's the guy's name,
Leslie Doggett, I think to myself, I don't think mister
Doggett is going to survive unless he's a sponsor of
our show. Oh sure, they make hundreds and hundreds of
millions of dollars per year, but you think about this,
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they're like the little engine that could. If they can
do that without the Michael Berry Show, what could they
have done. It's always funny because if I mentioned somebody's name,
so much of so much of the old school advertising,
as it was called, was retail brands. Right, the master
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at it is Mattressmac because everybody can be a Mattress
Maac customer, so you'd have Mattress Mac. But historically it
was it was car dealers and electronic shops, stereo systems
and those in waterbeds. That was the big deal, and
that was how the industry existed for a very long time,
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and nobody ever thought of advertisers being anything other than that.
And slowly but surely I started saying, and to his credit,
Eddie Martinez was all in, Hey, our listeners are not
just consumers of retail products. Our listeners are the people
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who are managing organizations, managing teams, running departments for heavy
industrial companies and for all in gas projects and all
these sorts of things, and nobody's talking to them. If
those people want to talk to people that might be
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potential partners in business for them, they have to go
to the trades. That's all they got. So Eddie said,
we'll do it. We will do it. We'll find you
some people in that industry who love your show and
want to be a partner. And once we started doing that,
it was incredible. And it had never really been done.
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If it's been done somewhere else, I don't know where,
but I know it hadn't been done in Houston, and
so slowly, but surely Hawkins least service great example. Will Hawkins.
What he does is you call him because you have
a project in a chemical plant, at a construction site, whatever,
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and you need guys. You need to put guys on
a project and they can do most anything. And he said, look,
I said, explain to me what you do, because he's
a super fan. And he said, you know, I do this,
this and this. And I said, that's hard for me
to explain in just a few seconds, but I'll do
my best. And I said, I can't promise you you're going
to get calls the first month. And he said, mister
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Barry I don't care if I ever get a call.
What do you mean? I love what you do. I
understand it's a business. When you say sponsor, I'm sponsoring.
I said, well, this is not a cha charitable donation
by any stretch of the imagination. This is a business relationship.
I want we can be friends as well, but I
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want to get results for you, because they're going to
have to hire somebody. And slowly but surely, when Lamont
came on board, to Lamont brands to they make like
industrial they do anything, they put your logo on anything.
But they started getting calls. They got a big multimillion
dollar contract from a big engineering firm in town. I
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don't want to get the person in trouble. Who's there.
That person's head of procurement. Procurement listens to our show.
And they were about to put out a bid for
all this gear for their guys out on the out
in the field, on the platforms and all this. This
is a this is a multi multimillion dollar purchase of clothing.
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And they had gone to the same people that had
always gone to that had answered the RFP, and they
reached out and said to Lamont, hey, why don't you submit.
We heard about you on the Michael Berry Show, and
let's see what you got. They they're going to win
the b and there you go. Ray Briers, great example
pipe yard. This guy buys and sells pipe on his
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cell phone all day long. Now he'll buy twenty million
dollars a pipe at a time and sell off scrap
and do all this. But when we started with him,
he was another one that said, it doesn't matter if
I get results. My wife is a super fan of
your show. She wanted me to sponsor it. You know,
hearing you brag on what I do is that's good enough.
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And he's become a good friend out of the deal.
And he has probably made more money off our show
than any single sponsor because some abandoned pipelines called in
and boom, Republic Grand Ranch, same thing. I'm not really
sure why I said that other than the brag. Was
there a purpose of that whole thing? Just just raw
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dog brag and just unprotected bragging. Well, I guess that's
an art in and of itself, right, I mean, what
did Jimmy Baker say? James A. Becker the third Sometimes
one must toot one's on the horn if one wants
one's horn tooted. I mean it's worked so far. Oh,
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I know what it was that we want dog At
Enterprises to sponsor us. We used to have Mustang Cat.
I don't know what happened over there. We need a
big and I want to talk about big industrial equipment
and then sell some of them and then maybe we'll
just go hang out and drive stuff around the parking
lot and stuff. Oh hell yes,
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael very show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I'm a screen will soup.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Don't do here good? I hear perfectly. The fact that
you are a sheriff is not germane to the situation.
Damn Germans got nothing to do with it. Oh my gosh,
are you telling me you built a time machine?
Speaker 3 (00:36):
What of adaloreate the way.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
I see it.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
If you're gonna build a time machine into a car,
why not do it some style.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
He's in now my away a new cattle like I
had a fine box and runner and remo in the
bad What a piece of junk. She may not look
like much, but she's got to wear a cow kid.
I made a lot of special modifications myself.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
You knee, we bad?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
You knee and WHI dear mother, I was speeding. I
was driving like a maniac.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
You can all be grateful to this man for stopping us.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Sir, I'm going back to get the rest of the
garcass off the road.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Peek, officer, Well it's a big day. What do I
spy peeking out my window? Barrel? Hit July eighth, and
(01:49):
here we are. There are two and a half months
later and they've come to pick up the trash. A
lot of you out there still have the rancid It
(02:11):
just it looks like death, brown, withered limbs and bushes.
What was once a beautiful, lively, verdant green is now
How lazy of these people. They got a pincher out
(02:34):
there picking this stuff up, and one dude up there
in the middle of the in the back of the
truck remote controlling this thing. This is going to take
forever because half of it's falling out when he pinches
it to put it in there. Ten weeks later. This
(02:54):
is a sign of a broken city. This is a
sign of Sylvester Turner's city. I'm kind of curious because
down the street there's some people that put a bunch
of trash bags on top of their heap of trees
that are that they shredded or that they that they
took down then put at the edge of the street.
And I'm hearing stories that they won't pick it up
(03:15):
if it's got a trash bag in there. They probably
sell this right here to some Moltz maker. It's yeah,
they'll probably They're probably right. They'll grind it and put
it in pellet smokers. We are currently in negotiations with
(03:37):
Texas Star Grills to be a new show sponsor. Don't
go yet. We don't give them any business early. We
don't getting over on us. Texas Star Grills Shop. Don't
go yet. Hold the best scene in Braveheart, Hold but
(03:58):
be ready, Be at the Ready. That's where Ramon got
his tregger repellet grill. What were we doing with celebrate?
We're still celebrating. They're cleaning up the mess out front.
Oh my goodness. It was so depressing, it really was.
I mean, I'm not gonnaless. Something like that depressed me.
But it's kind of a bummer. You know, you drive
down your street and they got you got these limbs
(04:19):
piled halfway down the street. There's limbs piled literally eight
feet high at one point. Anyway, So we're currently in
negotiations with Texas Star Grill Shop to be the officious
(04:39):
official barbecue pit Pellic grill Pit provider of the Michael
Berry Show. I don't think they know we're in negotiations,
but they will now. By negotiations, what I mean is
we'd like them to be a show sponsor. That's our negotiations.
(05:02):
But it sounds better to say we're in negotiations, doesn't it?
Now carrying rec Tech grills. You know what a rec
Tech drill is. Texas Grill Shop now carries Rectech grills,
renowned for their superior build quality, precise temperature control, and
Wi Fi connectivity. That sounds like something you like to do.
You got that on your trigger too. Rectech grills deliver
(05:22):
professional level cooking results. Visit us to elevate your barbecue
experience with rectechan. This is our top departments. I like
how they say our top departments, like they got fifty
of them. What do you service merchandise? Their top departments
are built in grills, gas grills, wood pellet grills, charcoal grills,
(05:43):
outdoor kitchen design and tailgate touchdown sell. What's the what
they got going on over there? You want to know
what brands? Ah, Sir Napoleon, you own one? Oh Tragger?
You're fired up on this. Don't seem too eager, don't
seem too heger. You gotta do a little bit of
a take away. A little bit of a takeaway. Huh?
(06:05):
You not coming in here to talk to me about girls.
Big Green Egg people do still do the Big Green
egg they do. Huh weber.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Y S.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Do you know us Yellowstone? Yeah, it looks like Yellowstone. Blaze.
You ever heard of Blaze, DCS, Gosney or Gosney and
Renaissance Cooking Systems. Well, they got a lot of stuff here.
Family owned and operated, the Martin family and our dedicated
(06:35):
team are committed to your unforgettable customer experience and utmost satisfaction.
That sounds good right there. And then they got a
dude shaking hands with a hard hat on top. And
then they got Toro in there. You're not gonna need
Toro anymore. You can get him out of there. You
just put us on there. Now, that's what flam. Oh
(06:55):
it's true. Toro could catch on fire. That'd be awkward.
It's number one tragger dealer. It says two thousand and eight.
Four convenient locations, two in Houston, one in Katie Sinco Ranch,
and another in Spring the Woodlands where your go to
destination for your trager grew. I know they had four
(07:16):
of them. That's where our people are. The two that
are in Houston would be the one. There's one at
Woodway near Voss. I don't know, oh, I know where
the other one is it's on field. That was I
think that was the original. That was at fifty nine
at about Greenbriar, Yeah, Green Briro. Good call, good call, Yeah,
(07:38):
fifty nine In Greenbriar on the southeast side of that intersection,
they had a comics store there. Don't ask me why
I've never been in it. Now in comics you know why.
I know because about two hundred feet east at nineteen
oh seven Southwest Freeway was Michael Berry Properties World Headquarters.
(08:04):
I once got a complaint when I started on the air.
There were still our signs out there said Michael Barry
World Headquarters. And this woman wrote in he says he's
got world Headquarters, but it's only one location. It's called
a sense of humor for a reason. Ramon, do you
(08:25):
want to be in the negotiations with Texas Star Girls Shop.
I like to think of mister Martin getting a call
and saying, oh, so you're in negotiations with Michael Berry.
He has no idea what we're talking about. But the
good news is, holy wow, they cleaned our street up
in just a minute. This technology thing might be here
(08:47):
to stay. That's impressive. Wow, all that trash that's gone.
I wanted to go back to one of these women.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Are chief Michael Berry.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
I think that there might because I got.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Nothing going on down there. Probably, Oh they're back. I'd back.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
I guess what they're gonna do now. They didn't get
this out. Oh I couldn't see okay, Oh I can't
see that. You know what, Play that for a while. Man,
this thing looks like something the Soviets would have rolled
into Hungary in about nineteen fifty six. It's got wheels.
(09:24):
It's like a big, massive tank, but it's a it's
the box on an eighteen wheeler, but it's so long
that it's like train car. Oh, he's growing up on there.
This can't be safe. He doesn't have papers, I guarantee you.
(09:48):
But I'm not mad at that one, because I get
the trees out of here before you send la Miga.
I'm not even joking. Oh here it comes again. Oh
my goodness, this thing. I love things that nest write,
things that close up, you know, the tables that nest.
My wife Turk taught me that term where the chairs
go under the chairs going it like the old Baboushka dolls. Right. Well,
(10:10):
this thing when he's driving around. It just looks like,
you know, the Kami's rolling in to Budapest and saying,
you know, we're taking over. They did grab the trash backs. Well,
thank god this. You know, you won't believe this. I
was going to write a note to say, stop putting
(10:31):
trash bags on top of this, on top of the
limbs that y'all put out there, or it's going to
be stuck there, but I could not figure out what
medium to use. Right, true story, this is one less
thing for me to worry about it. I got a
lot of other stuff on my mind, but this ain't
one o them. Anyway. I want you all to understand
what's going on here. All you can see is the
(10:53):
wheels underneath it. There's a lot a bunch of wheels,
and it's got two of these things, and it's like
a train. So when it turns, this thing can turn
around it. I'd never be able to back this thing up.
This dude backed this thing up. I can't even back
up a trailer with a boat on it.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
I see they got the white guy driving. Okay, so
you got the white guy driving and he just gets
out watches the Mexican work. Okay, Look every other crew,
I guess anyway, So they got these big black, ominous
walls on this thing, and then it's hollowed out up top.
(11:38):
Because we're up above we can see it. There's no
markings on the truck. You know, they could be sex
trafficking people in that thing. You'd never know it. Do
what they do, I bet you they take our limbs
down to Mexico and they bring the illegals up in it.
(12:00):
You know how the Chinese had to figure out what
they were going to do because they were sending all
those boxes over here, those containers, and they had to
figure out what they were going to do with them.
And then Texans just started saying, well, you know what,
I got some land on the side of the freeway.
We'll just stack them up and sell them to the
farmers out here. I bought one of them one time,
(12:20):
those yeah, the Chinese containers. I bought one out of
our place in Carmet. The best thing I ever did.
It was a whole lot cheaper than if you go
to I wouldn't go to a big box store like
that because you get terrible customer service. But if you
go to a home depot or lows like people do,
and you have them come out and build one of
those little uh, those little shops that you know, they
(12:43):
always have them out in front of the home depot,
Go price one of those things sometimes like six or
seven thousand dollars. Are you kidding me? Okay, So we
know that they're listening in. That's why when you've been
talking with your buddy about the most random thing in
the world. Right, you're like Eddie Martini played third base
(13:04):
for Archbishop Rummel and once got in a fight with
two dudes at the same time, and he still talks
about it to this day. Right, So you're talking to
a friend of yours and that's the most random things.
You don't even know where Archbishop Rummel is. And then
the next day you log into say Facebook and they
go take a trip to visit Jamaica with the graduating
(13:29):
class of Archbishop Rummell. Wait a minute, there's no doubt
they're definitely spying on me. If the Israelis can put
a pager in your pocket, beep it for you to
look at it, and then blow you up, what do
you think? And by the way, it's a good thing
(13:49):
we make our own phones on American soil. Humh. Because
we wouldn't want to have the Chinese have the capability
and one fell swoop to take us all out. That
couldn't happen, could it. That's something for you to think
about today. So anyway, last night I'm watching a documentary
(14:12):
on Pete Rose. I am obsessed with Pete Rose. Pete
Rose is so good. People don't remember how good Pete
Rose was. They have no idea. Statistically speaking, it's like
Nolan Ryan's strikeout records. Nolan Ryan not only has the
most strikeouts. You can't pile up ten people and get
(14:35):
to his strikeouts. That's a little big exaggeration. So anyway,
it was this seventeen time All Star. I mean Pete
Rose's career. You can say what you want about the
off the field, right, but I'll bet you this that
dude has done more on a baseball field. I mean,
there's an argument he's the greatest player of all time.
(14:57):
There is an argument look at what he did and
how long you did it? And I say all that
to say this, My buddy Kenny Duncan Jr. At us
COINS had told me a while back he's gotten into
memorabilia big time, and so he sent me. This Celebrity
(15:17):
Mint launched his first ever Pete Rose Precious Metal Legal
Tender collectibles. Gold and silver trading coins honoring Charlie Hustle
are the first sports collectibles to receive CGC Signature Series certification.
Are you a memorabilia guy? You know they have this
whole thing, which is how you know that what you
(15:39):
have is a real thing? Did you collect baseball cards
as a kid. I didn't collect baseball cards as a kid.
I got baseball cards, and I kept baseball cards, and
I pulled my baseball cards out and looked at my
baseball cards, and I studied my baseball cards, and I
memorized baseball to ten because I was obsessed with sports
(16:03):
as a kid. What I mean is I spent more
time with baseball cards than ninety five percent of kids
in American history. But I never used the word collect
them because half of them came into bubblegumbox and the
ones I bought were not very pennies. If I had
(16:23):
known that those were going to be very valuable collectibles anyway.
Celebritymint dot Com celebritymint dot Com Silver or Goals seventy
four ro When I'm gonna buy you one of these
and then eventually you go, look, I don't want this,
and you give it back to me. Found it in
twenty twenty three by the Duncan Group signature series that
(16:49):
Kenny Duncan. He's always doing something. There's a good looking
card though it's got Pete Rose diving. You go back
and watch a video of Pete Rose sliding into base.
He would kind of leap up and then hit weird.
I do nowhere.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
We have all your formal wear needs, from morning suits
to coordinating accessories.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
I see that line wouldn't working. There's been good days
and bad day the winter, the day is off. There's
a lot of music that you and I can talk
about that I hear, and then some of my like,
some of them really like. But man, Merle Haggard, he
(17:32):
gets down into the the crevices of your soul against
me most of the.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Time.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Anyway. He's talking about Jerry clar and then old.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Trailer and o'high ball and them famous dogs, and mister
Baron's got in there with them, and old John you bags,
HOLLI he speak to, and my brother son of Hahu
look food and oh it was beautiful now y'all get
this picture about that time they tree. We rushed down
into the swamps and there the dogs were treed up
(18:11):
the biggest sweet gum tree and all of ame at
river swamps.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
It was huge. You couldn't reach.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
Around this tree. There wasn't a limb on it for
a while.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Wag up there, huge tree.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
And I looked around at John and I said, John,
I don't believe you didn't climb that tree.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
And it hurt John's feelings.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
He poosed his lips out, got fighting mad. He said,
there ain't a tree and all these swamps that I
can't climb.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
And he got his broken shoes off, and.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
He eased up to that sweet gum tree and he
hung his toenails in that bark, and he got his
fanging nails in there, and he kept easing up the tree,
working his way toward that bottom limb, and he finally
got to it and he started on up into this
big tree. Knock him out, John.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
It won't be long.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
And John worked his way on up to the top
of the tree, and who what a bickum. And he
reached around in his overhauls and got that sharp stick
and he drawed back and he punched the coon, but
it wasn't a coon.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
It was a lynx.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
We call him souped up wildcats.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
And then the cat.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
And that thing had red thig tushes coming out of
its mouth and red big claws.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
On the end of its feet, and people and that
thing attacked John up.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
In the top of that tree. WHOA, you can hear
John squattle? What's the matter with John? I don't have
no idea what in the world's happening to John? Knock
him out, John, WHOA? This thing's killing me.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
The whole top of the tree was shaken.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
The dogs got to back in the.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
Bark of the tree and fighting one another underneath the.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Tree, and I was kicking them, like, get dogs, get away.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
What's the matter with John?
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Knock him out, John, This than's killing me. And John
knew that.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
Mister Barron told it a pistol in his belt to
shoot snakes with, and he kept holling, shoot the sne
have mercy.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
This thing killing me, Shoot the sne And mister Barron.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Said, John, I can't shoot up in there. I might
hit you.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
John said, well, just shoot up in here amongst us.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
One of us got the house from relief, My brother
Chris could tell that story and you could record it
and lay it over the top of Jerry Clark. He
wouldn't miss I mean one word. One of my favorite
listener submissions I get is from a fellow named Darryl Hancock.
(20:50):
He's posted for years on a blog as Uncle Daryl,
and he shares my kind of nerdy love of words
and history. He's president or very involved with the Czech
Association because I think his family's check if I remember correctly.
But anyway, we're talking about brogans, which is why we
(21:11):
played that the brogan is the shoe, and he said,
brogan is a loanword with Celtic roots. A loan word
is a word that's loaned from one to the other.
I got the nicest email the other day from a
guy who drives from Houston to Wisconsin. Maybe on the record,
I forget where he goes exactly, but he said, I
(21:32):
was looking for a podcast to listen to, and you
mentioned American the History of English Language. And I've now
listened to all three hundred and seventy episodes and it
was wonderful and I'm going to listen to it again.
Brogan is a loanword with Celtic roots. Both the Irish
and scott versions of Gaelic used the word for a rough,
(21:52):
high topped leather shoe. What I liked as a wee
boy in East Texas was to watch my uncle Raymond
pull off the brogans and socks after a hard day
plowing behind a mule. That's kind of like hose al touve.
I wanted to see what he called ToeJam, a vile
mixture of dirt and sweat that formed inside his well
(22:13):
used brogans and gave them a hearty odor. Uncle Raymond
would then soak and clean his gnarly feet in a
pan of fresh water. Ain't Lola had pulled from their
back porch water well. Uncle Raymond was my pal. He'd
let me drive his mule drawn wagon while he walked
along beside it pulling corn. Drive meant that I sat
(22:35):
in the wagon seat and held the reins while he
told the mules what to do with three magic words gee,
haw and woa, and one magic tongue click, which meant go. Now,
see that's a story right there, and you got a
little history on brogans. Uh, let's see. Let's go to Ferrin. Ferrin,
(22:57):
you're on the Michael Berry Show, Sweetheart, you got forty
eight seconds. Hello.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Well, I was calling to get some clarification on the
UH tax increase and the numbers that were reported that
based on four hundred thousand dollars, that a five percent
increase would equal to an additional one hundred and forty
dollars a year, and it just kind of sounds like
(23:25):
man math to me. Can you explain that to me?
Speaker 1 (23:31):
I don't know how they calculated faar and I I
can't answer that question. I will only say generally, it's
my experience that whatever they say the number is going
to be, it's always going to be higher because you've
got to figure that a lot of people are getting exemptions.
You know, you have you seen your exemptions and those
sorts of things. So whoever's not getting that exemption is
getting hit even harder.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
You are listening to the Michael Berry shows, you think
they threw down after this recording session.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
I'm pretty sure that any duet Otis or Marvin Gaye
did poor Conway for Holland Oates. I'm just kidding. I'm
just kidding. Well, I know I'm not really.
Speaker 5 (24:23):
You know what oldis.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
I don't care what you say, you're still a tramp.
Speaker 5 (24:26):
That's right, you haven't even.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Got a Dudes, they get all sweaty. I got six like.
They look like they've been through war. When they came
out of a song, that was an effort they have.
They have roadies come up and give them a tie
wipe and all. I just came out of the boxing. Man,
I laid it off. You see something preachers do that.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
T D.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Jakes does that. Oh my goodness, Okay, they listen to this.
Al Ebara says, the uh that that piece of equipment
that picked up the trash, the limbs and stuff, the debris,
that's an SPMT, a self propelled modular transport. He said.
(25:13):
That multi wheel trailer you were speaking of is an SPMT.
Our company uses these to transport huge modules to construction
sites or to shipping barges. Google this to see one
in operation. Why couldn't you google it and put me
a link in there? Goodness, you know we don't spend
enough time going to look at big heavy equipment. Ramon.
(25:38):
You know, when I drive past Doggit what's the guy's name,
Leslie Doggett, I think to myself, I don't think mister
Doggett is going to survive unless he's a sponsor of
our show. Oh sure, they make hundreds and hundreds of
millions of dollars per year, but you think about this,
(25:58):
they're like the little engine that could. If they can
do that without the Michael Berry Show, what could they
have done. It's always funny because if I mentioned somebody's name,
so much of so much of the old school advertising,
as it was called, was retail brands. Right, the master
(26:20):
at it is Mattressmac because everybody can be a Mattress
Maac customer, so you'd have Mattress Mac. But historically it
was it was car dealers and electronic shops, stereo systems
and those in waterbeds. That was the big deal, and
that was how the industry existed for a very long time,
(26:43):
and nobody ever thought of advertisers being anything other than that.
And slowly but surely I started saying, and to his credit,
Eddie Martinez was all in, Hey, our listeners are not
just consumers of retail products. Our listeners are the people
(27:09):
who are managing organizations, managing teams, running departments for heavy
industrial companies and for all in gas projects and all
these sorts of things, and nobody's talking to them. If
those people want to talk to people that might be
(27:32):
potential partners in business for them, they have to go
to the trades. That's all they got. So Eddie said,
we'll do it. We will do it. We'll find you
some people in that industry who love your show and
want to be a partner. And once we started doing that,
it was incredible. And it had never really been done.
(27:54):
If it's been done somewhere else, I don't know where,
but I know it hadn't been done in Houston, and
so slowly, but surely Hawkins least service great example. Will Hawkins.
What he does is you call him because you have
a project in a chemical plant, at a construction site, whatever,
(28:14):
and you need guys. You need to put guys on
a project and they can do most anything. And he said, look,
I said, explain to me what you do, because he's
a super fan. And he said, you know, I do this,
this and this. And I said, that's hard for me
to explain in just a few seconds, but I'll do
my best. And I said, I can't promise you you're going
to get calls the first month. And he said, mister
(28:37):
Barry I don't care if I ever get a call.
What do you mean? I love what you do. I
understand it's a business. When you say sponsor, I'm sponsoring.
I said, well, this is not a cha charitable donation
by any stretch of the imagination. This is a business relationship.
I want we can be friends as well, but I
(28:59):
want to get results for you, because they're going to
have to hire somebody. And slowly but surely, when Lamont
came on board, to Lamont brands to they make like
industrial they do anything, they put your logo on anything.
But they started getting calls. They got a big multimillion
dollar contract from a big engineering firm in town. I
(29:23):
don't want to get the person in trouble. Who's there.
That person's head of procurement. Procurement listens to our show.
And they were about to put out a bid for
all this gear for their guys out on the out
in the field, on the platforms and all this. This
is a this is a multi multimillion dollar purchase of clothing.
(29:45):
And they had gone to the same people that had
always gone to that had answered the RFP, and they
reached out and said to Lamont, hey, why don't you submit.
We heard about you on the Michael Berry Show, and
let's see what you got. They they're going to win
the b and there you go. Ray Briers, great example
pipe yard. This guy buys and sells pipe on his
(30:07):
cell phone all day long. Now he'll buy twenty million
dollars a pipe at a time and sell off scrap
and do all this. But when we started with him,
he was another one that said, it doesn't matter if
I get results. My wife is a super fan of
your show. She wanted me to sponsor it. You know,
hearing you brag on what I do is that's good enough.
(30:29):
And he's become a good friend out of the deal.
And he has probably made more money off our show
than any single sponsor because some abandoned pipelines called in
and boom, Republic Grand Ranch, same thing. I'm not really
sure why I said that other than the brag. Was
there a purpose of that whole thing? Just just raw
(30:50):
dog brag and just unprotected bragging. Well, I guess that's
an art in and of itself, right, I mean, what
did Jimmy Baker say? James A. Becker the third Sometimes
one must toot one's on the horn if one wants
one's horn tooted. I mean it's worked so far. Oh,
(31:13):
I know what it was that we want dog At
Enterprises to sponsor us. We used to have Mustang Cat.
I don't know what happened over there. We need a
big and I want to talk about big industrial equipment
and then sell some of them and then maybe we'll
just go hang out and drive stuff around the parking
lot and stuff. Oh hell yes,
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I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!