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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Arry Show is on the air. I asked the
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people to call in and share their stories if they're
working more than one job because of this economy, and
all the lines lit up and everybody was on the line,
and then they hung up. I guess they had to
get back to work. Is that how that works? So
my buddy is I said, well, how much do you
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make by day? And m mess you make it the plant.
And because he's a contractor, no an employees to make
twenty eight bucks an hour doing that, why don't you
just work more overtime? Because at AutoZone he gets twelve
dollars an hour, So why don't you work more overtime
and do that? He said, I would literally never see
my wife and kids. He's got two teenage sons that
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are still at home. He said, I just made Ason.
And this is a guy who's been willing over the years.
We keep up by text and he'll tell me where
he's working. He's going to Louisiana to work. He's going
to Midland a lot. He's gone to Odessa a lot.
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He's gone out West Texas to various places. And the
thing about it is when we were young, he dated
a girl from Mexico, ended up marrying her, and he
learned to speak Spanish. And I'm proud of my Spanish,
his Spanish. If you're not, if you're on the phone
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with him, you would be certain. This is a war
working class Mexican. Because he learned to speak Spanish on
concrete cruise, which was when we got out of school.
That's what he did for years, and then he ran
concrete cruise and then that business went out of that
company went out of business. He speaks the best Spanish
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you can possibly imagine for a white dude, and I
mean I mean street Spanish. The kind of Spanish that
he learns. He learns the vernacular, he learns the lingo.
He was asking him last night because he said, the
manager loves at the AutoZone in Willis. The manager loves
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when somebody comes in and doesn't speak good English, or
English at all, and he'll say, hold on Espanol, hold
on moment, titoe or momento and he goes and gets Ben,
and Ben comes over and then Ben starts into him
with Spanish. And I said, damn, Ben, that's impressive. He said,
you could do it. Your Spanish is just as good.
And I said, no, I couldn't because I don't have
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the vocabulary, Like I don't know what filter is. I mean,
I do, but there are certain words that unless they're
a cognate, which is just a word that is the
same in English or Spanish, like chocolate or choko lot
it's the same word, you just pronounce it. You pronounce
the vowels differently, or pronounce the vowels purely. I don't
know all the all the vocabulary. And he said his
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manager gets a real kick because he loves to watch
this white dude's you know, blow blow people's mind because
you he looks like a redneck and he speaks perfect,
perfect Spanish. So anyway, I'm getting him hired in Willis
one way or another for for more than he's making.
Now that's at least that's that's the plan. Ramon. All right,
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So we got the folks. Oh, Stephen was on in
need to Drop, but he's back. He must be calling
in during his breaks. Steven, you're on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
So what is Michael?
Speaker 3 (03:55):
First time?
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Long time?
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Yes, sir, thank you first time, long time. Really enjoy
your show. I had to hang up because, like you said,
I'm working. I work for a company, national company, but
we're based here. We're regional, regionally operated here in Houston,
and they rhyme with y'all, I'll put it that way.
And I drive a service truck around all day long.
And after I do this for about eight or ten
hours a day, I usually pull up long enough to
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fill up my water cup. And then I got to
go cut grass every night, which is my side gig,
which is hard work and I have to, but I
got to do it to make ends meet. My wife
cuts hair, and she has people left and right well
with the last year or so, they're calling in, Hey, Courtney,
I can't come. I just can't afford it. Can we
send it out a few more weeks or something? But
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we are very much people that are not We're not
living paycheck to paycheck. But we had a tree go
through our home back in July. So we're living in
a you know, in a camper and a driveway, arguing
with the insurance company over what they say it needs
to cost to fix versus what somebody's telling us. And
we're just out here like everybody else, man, you know,
we're just you know, the same money that we're making
two years ago, just not getting it done. And that's why,
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you know, my daughter even laughs, you know, daddy, you
got to cut grass. Then I'm like, yeah, dude, you know.
So last night's first time I played volleyball with her,
and you know, since the beginning of the year. So
we're just out here trying to make ends me. But
we appreciate everything you do on the show.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Okay, thank you, buddy, Ryan, you're on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Go ahead, sir. So I work three jobs.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
I'm a teacher. I coach gymnastics on the side. I
also do gutter cleaning and Christmas lights.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
When you're a teacher, at what grade do you teach?
Speaker 4 (05:34):
I teach high school, all grades, high school English. I'm
in northeast Texas, okay.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
And then you do the volleyball at a like at
a separate facility.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Well, I do cheerleading in gymnastics at a separate private
club facility.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Yes, sir, did you have a background in gymnastics?
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Yes, sir, I cheered, are they This is twenty four,
twenty five years and the sport cheered, and middle school
cheer and high school cheered in college and just coached
ever since.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
And then your third job is what.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
I do, Christmas lights and the clean gutters.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
And I guess you can do that. So how do
you get those jobs?
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Word of mouth, a little bit of advertising on social media.
But I've got to turn business away with Christmas lights
this year. It's just nine up hours of the day.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Yeah, no, I get it. I've got a buddy named
Art de Trinaltis and he had a mosquito company, and
he's a friend of mine and he's built the mosquito business.
And he said, you know, Michael, my biggest problem is
once it gets cold, I got several months, I got
a crew. I can't keep them busy. I wish I
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could figure something out. And on a whim, I said,
what about Christmas tree lights? And he thought I was
joking talking about it. And a week later he came back.
He had a business plan. Now he makes more money
on the Christmas tree lights, which is three months or yeah,
three months of his business, because's two months putting it up,
in one month taking it down.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
And he stores them with the whole thing, and he's
you know, he's reached a certain scale where that that
part of his business is actually making more than the
business that was that was the core business. But that's
hard work, dude, that is hard.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
If I just I can't find people that will work
the way I want him to work, or I was
staying work.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
So you know, it's interesting you say that when you
find a hand a guy that can that ken and
will work. Ben was telling me about the manager at
the Auto Zone in Willis and he said, Michael, this
guy makes probably twenty bucks an hour. And no, no, no,
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this guy makes about one thousand dollars a week and
he works between fifty and six hours every week, never
takes time off, cheerful, hard working, knowledgeable about our products.
He making the schedule, making sure everybody's there, somebody's not there.
He does it work. He said, I've never seen anything
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like it. But Ben works like that too. You know,
companies are eventually going to when the owner, when their
owner operated, they're eventually going to get out of hiring
DEI and they're going to hire guys whatever they look like, black, white,
Hispanic male, female that have that kind of pluck like you,
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like the earlier caller. You get you a guy like
that that's working three jobs, you hire that guy, and
you say, look, I'll pay you more than you're making
for those three jobs, and you won't have to drive
back and forth to those jobs. That guy's worth his
waiting gold. You get good employees.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
Like that in the history of our christ called.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
We can't afford four more years of this.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
But life goes on, and this old world we'll keep
on turning.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Clint, you're on the Michael Berry shows. We're talking to
people who are working multiple jobs to make ends meet
because Kamala Harris's economy is killing us. What you got, sir?
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Oh? Yeah, yeah. So I have a couple of jobs.
One is I do like a reverse logistical business, you know,
forty fifty hours a week. Then I also have a teach.
I do some teaching, but it's probably not too many,
you know, I do this, but I teach mining. You're
familiar with mimes, hello.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Like Charlie Chaplin or down under the Earth?
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Well, yeah, but it's more yeah mining. Yeah, I teach mimes,
and so we've been doing that and then he went
over there with them and then just didn't know if
Craig can do that. So it's you know, it's eighty
hours a week. So that's what we're doing.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
And I have no idea where we are here. So
are we talking about a mom like a wall that
doesn't exist Charlie Chaplin style? Are we talking about a
place to go down and dig for coal?
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Oh? No, I'm sorry, mine am? I am as in
Mary mining. Yeah, that's just a part time job of
main jobstical do that, you know? So that's se what is?
What's a logistical company? And we do back in reversing
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and so it's just you know, it's not that difficult, but.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
I literally have no idea what it is. Can you
help me understand that?
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Okay, Well, put the supply chain. Usually you just back
into it and if you reverse it, it comes back
to its fruition. So that's that's kind of how works.
I've just been trained on it for several years. But
you know, if he had.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Tom, Hello Tom, this is Michael.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Oh sorry, Mike ye good, sorry, nervous that's okay.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
So okay, let's the reverse logistics. So let's say you
walked into a kindergarten class. You have kids?
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Uh no, we have.
Speaker 6 (11:42):
You have what?
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Oh no, no, no kids for them?
Speaker 1 (11:45):
No they don't are you? Did you just switch to
bluetooth or something, because now I can't really hear you
very well.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Oh no, no, I'm here. Yeah. But it's you know,
it's reverse logistics. It's the same thing as regular logistics.
They just reverse double up. Yeah, that's it. Didn't the
way to go to lunch. It's Italian?
Speaker 1 (12:10):
What time isner?
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Who's lot toner? Yeah, judge.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
So let's say you walk into a kindergarten class and
you they ask you what you do for a living.
Explain to kindergarteners what you differently kindergarten.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
That's a good way to say it. So we have
products that need to be get out. It's called just
in time, right, or FIFO first in for out. So
when you have FIFO and you've got to get the
products to a customer, say in Asia, you have to
kind of reverse engineer to make sure the supply chain
goes the right way and the products on time. Because
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Walmart was famous for that when they built their uh,
you know, their just in time product systems, so they
they kind of pioneered the double reverse logistical scene.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Okay, you lost, you lost the kindergartener. You know, a
great lawyer is not good for using words that nobody
knows that that creates a boundary in between people. No
matter how complicated something is, if you fully understand it,
you can explain it in terms of the kindergartener. So
help me understand what.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
What if I didn't know, but then he didn't tell me,
then how would I know to you know, kind of
explain it. That's how reverse goes. Yeah, it's like a
reverse mortgage. Have you heard of that? Yeah, it's yeah,
so it's kind of.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
A right, So let me explain to Clinton. I'm going
to explain a reverse mortgage to you. Okay, So first,
let's understand what a mortgage is. A mortgage is where
a borrower goes to a lender and borrows money from
the lender for the home, and he pays back the
lender who technically owns the house while he paying it
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off until finally he pays it off and now he
takes title. He has a deed, he owns that property,
and he owes no money. Now the guy who owns
the home because he took out a mortgage, now he
paid off that mortgage, he has the equity in his home,
in the ownership of his home. A reverse mortgage is
where the owner who has the equity, now sells that
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equity back to a bank who buys it from him
in the form of a loan. So they loan him
a home that he already owned. So that's why they reverse.
That's a reverse mortgage. It's the exact opposite of what
he did on the first time. Now here is what
you explained. Reverse logistics is logistics in reverse. You take
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what you do and you do it backwards. Okay, but
that doesn't tell me why it's reversed. I don't understand
whether it's just in time, first in, first out. I
have no idea how y'all do what you do or
for what kind of client you do it, and why
you would need reverse logistics for that. I actually genuinely
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want to know. I'm just curious why you can't tell.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Me, because I don't even know how to explain it. Okay,
it's bad training, you know.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
It's just like, okay, well, let's let's work here, let's
work through this. This is an exercise. I enjoy this,
all right. So what is your title?
Speaker 3 (15:25):
A logistical trainer LT?
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Okay, and when you're brought in on a project, give
me without giving the company name. If you don't feel comfortable.
Give me a project that you're brought in on a solution.
You have to provide. What is the challenge.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
I mean right now we have in order for two
million of emits, so it's getting those out all over
the world of emits. I mean, it's a cheap product,
but getting those out and making sure you have you know,
you don't have one. I mean if you had fifteen
extra right hand ones then you'd be true. So it
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all has to be the same. So it's that's oh,
that's what a logistical this is more or less this
is fright, Yeah, it could be or freight it could
be great.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Is the thing that makes this reverse logistics the fact
that instead of it coming from China to the United States,
it's going from the United States to China.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
But well anywhere in the Far East it could be cambody.
I mean, it's these countries. It could be different. It
depends if it's if you knew it's fright. Some people
don't know, and if you don't know, then they just
have to tell you this is great, or you just
be in the dark. And that's that's the problem with
most of it. It's just most of the time people
are in the dark and they don't know, so they
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make mistakes. If I don't know, it's freight.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
How much do you get paid for miming?
Speaker 3 (16:53):
For miming?
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Thirty dollars thirty dollars for an hour, yup per hour
per hour? Okay, and who hires you to do that?
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Usually schools, school systems.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
For our right and you come in and do you
come in in character?
Speaker 3 (17:17):
But if we want to, you can. But it didn't
if they knew, if they didn't know us, then you'd
have to come in character. If Craig said that, yeah, yeah,
I'm sorry. I'm wasting a lot of your time.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Now, And so you get paid thirty dollars an hour
for how long are you there?
Speaker 3 (17:42):
I'm sorry? I rated this interesting.
Speaker 6 (17:45):
I'm gonna lay in bed tonight thinking about that call.
So now, huh, you're gonna have nightmares. I I'm fascinated
by that, truly fascinating.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
M I feel like I learned a lot, but not
about the things that he called about. Some don't want
to hear it.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
He'll just go ahead and say it. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
The Michael Barry Show, I'm the swarm keeps on turning.
Maybe you think of this as an al Green song,
or maybe you're thinking, no, Michael, that's a rave Price song.
Speaker 7 (18:34):
Let's just be glad.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
It's a Chris Christophers song. He wrote it.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
We had this time.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
To spend together.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
There is no need to what the bridge is.
Speaker 5 (18:59):
That we're that.
Speaker 8 (19:03):
M the You're.
Speaker 9 (19:15):
Warm mine, a cul sweet Oh, the w inching rolls
ste here, the whisper, Oh, all the rain drops in.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Law.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
So I guess my note.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Talk about a story, the turn of Fray. He's a
beautiful phrasing. Chris Christofferson a lifelong love of the English
language and how to use it to convey emotions, sentiment,
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paint a picture. Eric Stoltz turns sixty three today. Eric
stolts actor, director, and producer. The first role I remember
him playing was in the movie Mask, where he played
the role of Rocky Dennis. If you remember the very smart,
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likable teenager who had a spatial a facial deformity called lionidis,
and he's already outlived his life expectancy at this point,
but he has such a positive attitude. Do you remember
the blind girl. He's talking to the blind girl and
this is the closest thing he's ever going to get
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to a girlfriend because he's face is so deformed, and
he's describing the clouds, remember, and he got that what
do you call those little cotton ball cutton ball type things,
and he's he's describing what they look like, and he's
having her touch it and feel it. I thought that
was such a well done scene, just perfect. And then
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he's afraid. You know, she wants to touch his skin,
she wants to feel what he what he feels like,
and he's afraid when she goes to touch his face,
but of course she probably hasn't touched enough faces that
she would know that he is deformed. Anyway, his mom.
I think that is one of Cher's best roles, and
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nobody would ever say that, but that role she played,
I knew so many women like that, kind of fast women,
not bad women who loved their child, had terrible taste
in men still kind of wanting to be sexy because
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they are single and they're trying to keep it all together,
and they always smoke. Back then. Nobody smokes anymore. They
always smoke back then. Anyway, in this scene, he and
his mother, who goes by name Rusty, that share are
She's trying to get him she's fighting for her kid, right,
She's got this kid and he's got the problems, and
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he's a very good student academically. But this is when
they get the test results from yet another doctor.
Speaker 10 (22:34):
Please, doctor, I'm missus Dennis.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
What I'm missus Dennis?
Speaker 10 (22:39):
Signed doctor Vinton, I need to talk to you about
the test results. Hey, mom, why doesn't he wait outside?
What's for so we can talk? It's about the test
results on him?
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Him?
Speaker 5 (22:56):
Him?
Speaker 11 (22:56):
By the way, he's got a name. So if you've
got some information for him, I suggest you give it
to him.
Speaker 10 (23:01):
And you don't understand, No, you don't understand.
Speaker 11 (23:02):
You see, he's got a cheeseburger waiting out there with
his name on it. So I suggest you just hurry
this along.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Well.
Speaker 10 (23:09):
As you know, plastic surgery is not an option until
the skull stops thickening, and there's no evidence that it will.
In fact, the cranium is growing at such an accelerated rate,
creating pressure on the spinal cord to such an extent
that the prognosis is not good.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
We feel that life expectancy is three to six.
Speaker 11 (23:27):
Mon, we're not going to really give us that life
expectancy number again. Are you. You know for twelve years,
I've been listening to you guys.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Believe.
Speaker 11 (23:36):
First you told me that he was retarded. Then you
said he was going to be blind and deaf. Then
you told me he'd never be able to do anything
that regular kids could do. You know, if I had
dug his grave every time one of you geniuses told
me he was going to die, I'd be in Chop
Suey in China by now.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Anything else Matthew writes my favorite Chris christopht or some quote,
and it echoed through the canyons like the disappearing dreams
of yesterday. It's a line right there, that is a
that is a line al rights for the good times
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and help me make it through the night. Two of
the greatest love songs, A lot of a lot of
lot a lot of messages about our friend the mine.
Jim Mudd was trying to get me to to get
him to mind wow wow while we were in the
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middle of our conversation, Well, I thought was kind of funny,
are you mommy? Oh yeah, yeah, Oh I can tell
your mommy. I don't think the miming was a serious
part of his second job, right, I don't I think
he's probably doing okay on his first job. I U
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I call Mueller Ink Mueller ink it. They fabricate steel buildings,
metal buildings, and they're a show sponsor. And so I
try to as everybody should do. I try to stay
in touch with my bosses, and they are my bosses.
You are my bosses. They are my bosses. And iHeart
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now Premier are my bosses. And at home, I have bosses.
And that's the way I look at that. And so
I called Mark Jones, who runs the North location, which
is the bigger of the two they have won and
down in Rosenberg and one up North, and I asked
him how business is, and he said, we are so
busy you wouldn't believe it. And it turns out that
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it had been slow and now business is picking up.
But I'm hearing this from everybody. If Trump wins, this
economy is gonna there's a lot of pent up demand
that people are scared to spend their money.
Speaker 8 (25:54):
Trump using you try.
Speaker 7 (26:02):
We're stealing water to col a place called Bolder on
little mild called I slept and fell to the west
com cree Flora.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
They buried me and not greater.
Speaker 7 (26:21):
These food sun but I'm still around.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Hello, how you learn this is shridy q liquor.
Speaker 8 (26:32):
With today's birthday in Anna versari Ai, I want to
wish a very happy birthday this morning to Phenelope and Arrhythmia.
They are twins and this is day fifth birthday. Then
mama supposed to take them down to MacDonald get them
a happy MEAs that clock successively. She turned eight today
and she getting her first ear rings, pierced it up
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in her head and absorbing Junior. His mama say he
turned at thirteen as far as she know, and crazy
in hell okay, as far as anniversary, Demonia and Claren's
been married for twenty some years. They said they gonna
go ahead and celebrate tonight down there at the club.
They forgot their certificate, but she remembered it was some
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time when it was hot, so it's probably about this time.
Ooh ooh.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
And you know what I had heard.
Speaker 8 (27:21):
Sharona Quishi Knellica. They said she have done eloped to
it with Devon Champlain and they were disappearing since last night,
but his Cadillac was spotted at the motel. I give
that one two weeks, honey, as soon as they both
sow up. They gonna realize that was ignorant, and they're
gonna have to get it a nud did it? And
let's stay on this day in history. Oh, five years
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ago today, Shanelda Jenkins moved in upstairs with her five
hundred pounds. But lord, my ceiling ain't never been the
same since me then got cracked it all up in here.
Nobody had even saw that woman. But every time she
take a bath, I get nervous. Well all right there
and half a happy day, and tell you Mama asks
her how she.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
Dre Perhaps I may become a highway men again all
I may simply be a single rhyme O ray, but
I will remain.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
I'll be back in sad again, say again again again.
Heard from a guy who has moved off from Houston
years ago, hadn't talked to in probably eight years, with
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a message thank you. I just want to thank you
again for the opportunity to see Chris Christofferson. It was
about eight years ago, he says, And it was It's
October nineth, twenty sixteen. First time I've heard from him
in eight years, So pretty cool. I like to hear
from people haven't heard from him some time. So I
got an email from a listener. I don't feel like
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I should say his name. He says, hellos are longtime fan.
This is about the strike that is expected at the
ports across the country. I've been with the ILA, it's
international longshoreman. I believe for over thirty years. This strike
is going to hurt me and many like me have
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been stretching our budget in this economy. This economy hurts
top to bottom. Many of us cannot afford to strike.
Just so you know, in the event of a long
term strike, I have a job lined out at a
car wash. I'll do what it takes to keep feeding
my family and provide for their well being. Whatever you
use the most of in your household, stock up on
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at least a forty day supply. If the strike even
goes a week, the supply chain will take up to
three months to correct. Stay safe and then his which
I'm not going to read. You know, these last few
years have made me think very hard about things that
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we tend to take for granted. The most immediate is
food and fuel, obviously, and then there is security and safety.
At a time like that, there tends to be a
breakdown of it, communication systems and the like. It's amazing
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how easy it is for us to fall from the
comforts of our daily life to scrounging around when just
the power, just the power goes out, when the supply
chain goes down, that's when it gets scary because people panic,
(30:57):
and when people panic, they hoard, and the hoarding creates
its own set of problems. I do wonder, though, there
is I don't know if this is because people say
it or if they're really tapping into the worst fears
of people, but it would appear that people's greatest concern
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is not having toilet paper. And my wife always laughs
and she says, why are people so obsessed with toilet paper?
Do you realize most people in India don't use toilet
paper in India because toilet paper was so expensive. That's
just the kind of thing you couldn't afford. People would
(31:42):
splash water on the bunghole with their left hand, and
this goes back. This goes back before anyone had toilet paper.
Your left hand was to wash your bunghole, and so
your right hand was the hand You pick your nose
each booger's and shake hands, slap somebody on the back
or whatever else. But you wouldn't do that with your
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left hand. It was sinister. You just didn't do that.
And so she always laughs and say, you don't understand
when people have you used toilet paper their entire life.
That is there. But I really am worried because I
think some people would say, you know, we don't have
to have food in our household, but we've got to
have that toilet paper. And you watch people at that
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time and you realize what sheep they are because they
just go grabbing for the toilet paper. If toilet paper
was that important, get you some in storied away. But
I can assure you when things are really bad, it's
not going to be toilet paper you're pining for. It's
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also a good It's also a good reminder people are
taking extra jobs to make more money. It's a good
reminder to figure out what's important in life and what
you can do without if you still if you still
do it fine. But the ability to prioritize is a
higher level of thinking that some people never achieve.
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Arry Show is on the air. I asked the
(00:26):
people to call in and share their stories if they're
working more than one job because of this economy, and
all the lines lit up and everybody was on the line,
and then they hung up. I guess they had to
get back to work. Is that how that works? So
my buddy is I said, well, how much do you
(00:49):
make by day? And m mess you make it the plant.
And because he's a contractor, no an employees to make
twenty eight bucks an hour doing that, why don't you
just work more overtime? Because at AutoZone he gets twelve
dollars an hour, So why don't you work more overtime
and do that? He said, I would literally never see
my wife and kids. He's got two teenage sons that
(01:12):
are still at home. He said, I just made Ason.
And this is a guy who's been willing over the years.
We keep up by text and he'll tell me where
he's working. He's going to Louisiana to work. He's going
to Midland a lot. He's gone to Odessa a lot.
(01:34):
He's gone out West Texas to various places. And the
thing about it is when we were young, he dated
a girl from Mexico, ended up marrying her, and he
learned to speak Spanish. And I'm proud of my Spanish,
his Spanish. If you're not, if you're on the phone
(01:56):
with him, you would be certain. This is a war
working class Mexican. Because he learned to speak Spanish on
concrete cruise, which was when we got out of school.
That's what he did for years, and then he ran
concrete cruise and then that business went out of that
company went out of business. He speaks the best Spanish
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you can possibly imagine for a white dude, and I
mean I mean street Spanish. The kind of Spanish that
he learns. He learns the vernacular, he learns the lingo.
He was asking him last night because he said, the
manager loves at the AutoZone in Willis. The manager loves
(02:40):
when somebody comes in and doesn't speak good English, or
English at all, and he'll say, hold on Espanol, hold
on moment, titoe or momento and he goes and gets Ben,
and Ben comes over and then Ben starts into him
with Spanish. And I said, damn, Ben, that's impressive. He said,
you could do it. Your Spanish is just as good.
And I said, no, I couldn't because I don't have
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the vocabulary, Like I don't know what filter is. I mean,
I do, but there are certain words that unless they're
a cognate, which is just a word that is the
same in English or Spanish, like chocolate or choko lot
it's the same word, you just pronounce it. You pronounce
the vowels differently, or pronounce the vowels purely. I don't
know all the all the vocabulary. And he said his
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manager gets a real kick because he loves to watch
this white dude's you know, blow blow people's mind because
you he looks like a redneck and he speaks perfect,
perfect Spanish. So anyway, I'm getting him hired in Willis
one way or another for for more than he's making.
Now that's at least that's that's the plan. Ramon. All right,
(03:45):
So we got the folks. Oh, Stephen was on in
need to Drop, but he's back. He must be calling
in during his breaks. Steven, you're on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
So what is Michael?
Speaker 3 (03:55):
First time?
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Long time?
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Yes, sir, thank you first time, long time. Really enjoy
your show. I had to hang up because, like you said,
I'm working. I work for a company, national company, but
we're based here. We're regional, regionally operated here in Houston,
and they rhyme with y'all, I'll put it that way.
And I drive a service truck around all day long.
And after I do this for about eight or ten
hours a day, I usually pull up long enough to
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fill up my water cup. And then I got to
go cut grass every night, which is my side gig,
which is hard work and I have to, but I
got to do it to make ends meet. My wife
cuts hair, and she has people left and right well
with the last year or so, they're calling in, Hey, Courtney,
I can't come. I just can't afford it. Can we
send it out a few more weeks or something? But
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we are very much people that are not We're not
living paycheck to paycheck. But we had a tree go
through our home back in July. So we're living in
a you know, in a camper and a driveway, arguing
with the insurance company over what they say it needs
to cost to fix versus what somebody's telling us. And
we're just out here like everybody else, man, you know,
we're just you know, the same money that we're making
two years ago, just not getting it done. And that's why,
(05:00):
you know, my daughter even laughs, you know, daddy, you
got to cut grass. Then I'm like, yeah, dude, you know.
So last night's first time I played volleyball with her,
and you know, since the beginning of the year. So
we're just out here trying to make ends me. But
we appreciate everything you do on the show.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Okay, thank you, buddy, Ryan, you're on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Go ahead, sir. So I work three jobs.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
I'm a teacher. I coach gymnastics on the side. I
also do gutter cleaning and Christmas lights.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
When you're a teacher, at what grade do you teach?
Speaker 4 (05:34):
I teach high school, all grades, high school English. I'm
in northeast Texas, okay.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
And then you do the volleyball at a like at
a separate facility.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Well, I do cheerleading in gymnastics at a separate private
club facility.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Yes, sir, did you have a background in gymnastics?
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Yes, sir, I cheered, are they This is twenty four,
twenty five years and the sport cheered, and middle school
cheer and high school cheered in college and just coached
ever since.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
And then your third job is what.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
I do, Christmas lights and the clean gutters.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
And I guess you can do that. So how do
you get those jobs?
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Word of mouth, a little bit of advertising on social media.
But I've got to turn business away with Christmas lights
this year. It's just nine up hours of the day.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Yeah, no, I get it. I've got a buddy named
Art de Trinaltis and he had a mosquito company, and
he's a friend of mine and he's built the mosquito business.
And he said, you know, Michael, my biggest problem is
once it gets cold, I got several months, I got
a crew. I can't keep them busy. I wish I
(06:52):
could figure something out. And on a whim, I said,
what about Christmas tree lights? And he thought I was
joking talking about it. And a week later he came back.
He had a business plan. Now he makes more money
on the Christmas tree lights, which is three months or yeah,
three months of his business, because's two months putting it up,
in one month taking it down.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
And he stores them with the whole thing, and he's
you know, he's reached a certain scale where that that
part of his business is actually making more than the
business that was that was the core business. But that's
hard work, dude, that is hard.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
If I just I can't find people that will work
the way I want him to work, or I was
staying work.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
So you know, it's interesting you say that when you
find a hand a guy that can that ken and
will work. Ben was telling me about the manager at
the Auto Zone in Willis and he said, Michael, this
guy makes probably twenty bucks an hour. And no, no, no,
(07:55):
this guy makes about one thousand dollars a week and
he works between fifty and six hours every week, never
takes time off, cheerful, hard working, knowledgeable about our products.
He making the schedule, making sure everybody's there, somebody's not there.
He does it work. He said, I've never seen anything
(08:16):
like it. But Ben works like that too. You know,
companies are eventually going to when the owner, when their
owner operated, they're eventually going to get out of hiring
DEI and they're going to hire guys whatever they look like, black, white,
Hispanic male, female that have that kind of pluck like you,
(08:40):
like the earlier caller. You get you a guy like
that that's working three jobs, you hire that guy, and
you say, look, I'll pay you more than you're making
for those three jobs, and you won't have to drive
back and forth to those jobs. That guy's worth his
waiting gold. You get good employees.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
Like that in the history of our christ called.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
We can't afford four more years of this.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
But life goes on, and this old world we'll keep
on turning.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Clint, you're on the Michael Berry shows. We're talking to
people who are working multiple jobs to make ends meet
because Kamala Harris's economy is killing us. What you got, sir?
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Oh? Yeah, yeah. So I have a couple of jobs.
One is I do like a reverse logistical business, you know,
forty fifty hours a week. Then I also have a teach.
I do some teaching, but it's probably not too many,
you know, I do this, but I teach mining. You're
familiar with mimes, hello.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Like Charlie Chaplin or down under the Earth?
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Well, yeah, but it's more yeah mining. Yeah, I teach mimes,
and so we've been doing that and then he went
over there with them and then just didn't know if
Craig can do that. So it's you know, it's eighty
hours a week. So that's what we're doing.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
And I have no idea where we are here. So
are we talking about a mom like a wall that
doesn't exist Charlie Chaplin style? Are we talking about a
place to go down and dig for coal?
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Oh? No, I'm sorry, mine am? I am as in
Mary mining. Yeah, that's just a part time job of
main jobstical do that, you know? So that's se what is?
What's a logistical company? And we do back in reversing
(10:43):
and so it's just you know, it's not that difficult, but.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
I literally have no idea what it is. Can you
help me understand that?
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Okay, Well, put the supply chain. Usually you just back
into it and if you reverse it, it comes back
to its fruition. So that's that's kind of how works.
I've just been trained on it for several years. But
you know, if he had.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Tom, Hello Tom, this is Michael.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Oh sorry, Mike ye good, sorry, nervous that's okay.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
So okay, let's the reverse logistics. So let's say you
walked into a kindergarten class. You have kids?
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Uh no, we have.
Speaker 6 (11:42):
You have what?
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Oh no, no, no kids for them?
Speaker 1 (11:45):
No they don't are you? Did you just switch to
bluetooth or something, because now I can't really hear you
very well.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Oh no, no, I'm here. Yeah. But it's you know,
it's reverse logistics. It's the same thing as regular logistics.
They just reverse double up. Yeah, that's it. Didn't the
way to go to lunch. It's Italian?
Speaker 1 (12:10):
What time isner?
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Who's lot toner? Yeah, judge.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
So let's say you walk into a kindergarten class and
you they ask you what you do for a living.
Explain to kindergarteners what you differently kindergarten.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
That's a good way to say it. So we have
products that need to be get out. It's called just
in time, right, or FIFO first in for out. So
when you have FIFO and you've got to get the
products to a customer, say in Asia, you have to
kind of reverse engineer to make sure the supply chain
goes the right way and the products on time. Because
(12:51):
Walmart was famous for that when they built their uh,
you know, their just in time product systems, so they
they kind of pioneered the double reverse logistical scene.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Okay, you lost, you lost the kindergartener. You know, a
great lawyer is not good for using words that nobody
knows that that creates a boundary in between people. No
matter how complicated something is, if you fully understand it,
you can explain it in terms of the kindergartener. So
help me understand what.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
What if I didn't know, but then he didn't tell me,
then how would I know to you know, kind of
explain it. That's how reverse goes. Yeah, it's like a
reverse mortgage. Have you heard of that? Yeah, it's yeah,
so it's kind of.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
A right, So let me explain to Clinton. I'm going
to explain a reverse mortgage to you. Okay, So first,
let's understand what a mortgage is. A mortgage is where
a borrower goes to a lender and borrows money from
the lender for the home, and he pays back the
lender who technically owns the house while he paying it
(14:01):
off until finally he pays it off and now he
takes title. He has a deed, he owns that property,
and he owes no money. Now the guy who owns
the home because he took out a mortgage, now he
paid off that mortgage, he has the equity in his home,
in the ownership of his home. A reverse mortgage is
where the owner who has the equity, now sells that
(14:24):
equity back to a bank who buys it from him
in the form of a loan. So they loan him
a home that he already owned. So that's why they reverse.
That's a reverse mortgage. It's the exact opposite of what
he did on the first time. Now here is what
you explained. Reverse logistics is logistics in reverse. You take
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what you do and you do it backwards. Okay, but
that doesn't tell me why it's reversed. I don't understand
whether it's just in time, first in, first out. I
have no idea how y'all do what you do or
for what kind of client you do it, and why
you would need reverse logistics for that. I actually genuinely
(15:07):
want to know. I'm just curious why you can't tell.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Me, because I don't even know how to explain it. Okay,
it's bad training, you know.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
It's just like, okay, well, let's let's work here, let's
work through this. This is an exercise. I enjoy this,
all right. So what is your title?
Speaker 3 (15:25):
A logistical trainer LT?
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Okay, and when you're brought in on a project, give
me without giving the company name. If you don't feel comfortable.
Give me a project that you're brought in on a solution.
You have to provide. What is the challenge.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
I mean right now we have in order for two
million of emits, so it's getting those out all over
the world of emits. I mean, it's a cheap product,
but getting those out and making sure you have you know,
you don't have one. I mean if you had fifteen
extra right hand ones then you'd be true. So it
(16:03):
all has to be the same. So it's that's oh,
that's what a logistical this is more or less this
is fright, Yeah, it could be or freight it could
be great.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Is the thing that makes this reverse logistics the fact
that instead of it coming from China to the United States,
it's going from the United States to China.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
But well anywhere in the Far East it could be cambody.
I mean, it's these countries. It could be different. It
depends if it's if you knew it's fright. Some people
don't know, and if you don't know, then they just
have to tell you this is great, or you just
be in the dark. And that's that's the problem with
most of it. It's just most of the time people
are in the dark and they don't know, so they
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make mistakes. If I don't know, it's freight.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
How much do you get paid for miming?
Speaker 3 (16:53):
For miming?
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Thirty dollars thirty dollars for an hour, yup per hour
per hour? Okay, and who hires you to do that?
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Usually schools, school systems.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
For our right and you come in and do you
come in in character?
Speaker 3 (17:17):
But if we want to, you can. But it didn't
if they knew, if they didn't know us, then you'd
have to come in character. If Craig said that, yeah, yeah,
I'm sorry. I'm wasting a lot of your time.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Now, And so you get paid thirty dollars an hour
for how long are you there?
Speaker 3 (17:42):
I'm sorry? I rated this interesting.
Speaker 6 (17:45):
I'm gonna lay in bed tonight thinking about that call.
So now, huh, you're gonna have nightmares. I I'm fascinated
by that, truly fascinating.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
M I feel like I learned a lot, but not
about the things that he called about. Some don't want
to hear it.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
He'll just go ahead and say it. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
The Michael Barry Show, I'm the swarm keeps on turning.
Maybe you think of this as an al Green song,
or maybe you're thinking, no, Michael, that's a rave Price song.
Speaker 7 (18:34):
Let's just be glad.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
It's a Chris Christophers song. He wrote it.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
We had this time.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
To spend together.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
There is no need to what the bridge is.
Speaker 5 (18:59):
That we're that.
Speaker 8 (19:03):
M the You're.
Speaker 9 (19:15):
Warm mine, a cul sweet Oh, the w inching rolls
ste here, the whisper, Oh, all the rain drops in.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Law.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
So I guess my note.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Talk about a story, the turn of Fray. He's a
beautiful phrasing. Chris Christofferson a lifelong love of the English
language and how to use it to convey emotions, sentiment,
(20:17):
paint a picture. Eric Stoltz turns sixty three today. Eric
stolts actor, director, and producer. The first role I remember
him playing was in the movie Mask, where he played
the role of Rocky Dennis. If you remember the very smart,
(20:38):
likable teenager who had a spatial a facial deformity called lionidis,
and he's already outlived his life expectancy at this point,
but he has such a positive attitude. Do you remember
the blind girl. He's talking to the blind girl and
this is the closest thing he's ever going to get
(20:58):
to a girlfriend because he's face is so deformed, and
he's describing the clouds, remember, and he got that what
do you call those little cotton ball cutton ball type things,
and he's he's describing what they look like, and he's
having her touch it and feel it. I thought that
was such a well done scene, just perfect. And then
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he's afraid. You know, she wants to touch his skin,
she wants to feel what he what he feels like,
and he's afraid when she goes to touch his face,
but of course she probably hasn't touched enough faces that
she would know that he is deformed. Anyway, his mom.
I think that is one of Cher's best roles, and
(21:42):
nobody would ever say that, but that role she played,
I knew so many women like that, kind of fast women,
not bad women who loved their child, had terrible taste
in men still kind of wanting to be sexy because
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they are single and they're trying to keep it all together,
and they always smoke. Back then. Nobody smokes anymore. They
always smoke back then. Anyway, in this scene, he and
his mother, who goes by name Rusty, that share are
She's trying to get him she's fighting for her kid, right,
She's got this kid and he's got the problems, and
(22:25):
he's a very good student academically. But this is when
they get the test results from yet another doctor.
Speaker 10 (22:34):
Please, doctor, I'm missus Dennis.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
What I'm missus Dennis?
Speaker 10 (22:39):
Signed doctor Vinton, I need to talk to you about
the test results. Hey, mom, why doesn't he wait outside?
What's for so we can talk? It's about the test
results on him?
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Him?
Speaker 5 (22:56):
Him?
Speaker 11 (22:56):
By the way, he's got a name. So if you've
got some information for him, I suggest you give it
to him.
Speaker 10 (23:01):
And you don't understand, No, you don't understand.
Speaker 11 (23:02):
You see, he's got a cheeseburger waiting out there with
his name on it. So I suggest you just hurry
this along.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Well.
Speaker 10 (23:09):
As you know, plastic surgery is not an option until
the skull stops thickening, and there's no evidence that it will.
In fact, the cranium is growing at such an accelerated rate,
creating pressure on the spinal cord to such an extent
that the prognosis is not good.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
We feel that life expectancy is three to six.
Speaker 11 (23:27):
Mon, we're not going to really give us that life
expectancy number again. Are you. You know for twelve years,
I've been listening to you guys.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Believe.
Speaker 11 (23:36):
First you told me that he was retarded. Then you
said he was going to be blind and deaf. Then
you told me he'd never be able to do anything
that regular kids could do. You know, if I had
dug his grave every time one of you geniuses told
me he was going to die, I'd be in Chop
Suey in China by now.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Anything else Matthew writes my favorite Chris christopht or some quote,
and it echoed through the canyons like the disappearing dreams
of yesterday. It's a line right there, that is a
that is a line al rights for the good times
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and help me make it through the night. Two of
the greatest love songs, A lot of a lot of
lot a lot of messages about our friend the mine.
Jim Mudd was trying to get me to to get
him to mind wow wow while we were in the
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middle of our conversation, Well, I thought was kind of funny,
are you mommy? Oh yeah, yeah, Oh I can tell
your mommy. I don't think the miming was a serious
part of his second job, right, I don't I think
he's probably doing okay on his first job. I U
(25:01):
I call Mueller Ink Mueller ink it. They fabricate steel buildings,
metal buildings, and they're a show sponsor. And so I
try to as everybody should do. I try to stay
in touch with my bosses, and they are my bosses.
You are my bosses. They are my bosses. And iHeart
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now Premier are my bosses. And at home, I have bosses.
And that's the way I look at that. And so
I called Mark Jones, who runs the North location, which
is the bigger of the two they have won and
down in Rosenberg and one up North, and I asked
him how business is, and he said, we are so
busy you wouldn't believe it. And it turns out that
(25:43):
it had been slow and now business is picking up.
But I'm hearing this from everybody. If Trump wins, this
economy is gonna there's a lot of pent up demand
that people are scared to spend their money.
Speaker 8 (25:54):
Trump using you try.
Speaker 7 (26:02):
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little mild called I slept and fell to the west
com cree Flora.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
They buried me and not greater.
Speaker 7 (26:21):
These food sun but I'm still around.
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Hello, how you learn this is shridy q liquor.
Speaker 8 (26:32):
With today's birthday in Anna versari Ai, I want to
wish a very happy birthday this morning to Phenelope and Arrhythmia.
They are twins and this is day fifth birthday. Then
mama supposed to take them down to MacDonald get them
a happy MEAs that clock successively. She turned eight today
and she getting her first ear rings, pierced it up
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in her head and absorbing Junior. His mama say he
turned at thirteen as far as she know, and crazy
in hell okay, as far as anniversary, Demonia and Claren's
been married for twenty some years. They said they gonna
go ahead and celebrate tonight down there at the club.
They forgot their certificate, but she remembered it was some
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time when it was hot, so it's probably about this time.
Ooh ooh.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
And you know what I had heard.
Speaker 8 (27:21):
Sharona Quishi Knellica. They said she have done eloped to
it with Devon Champlain and they were disappearing since last night,
but his Cadillac was spotted at the motel. I give
that one two weeks, honey, as soon as they both
sow up. They gonna realize that was ignorant, and they're
gonna have to get it a nud did it? And
let's stay on this day in history. Oh, five years
(27:45):
ago today, Shanelda Jenkins moved in upstairs with her five
hundred pounds. But lord, my ceiling ain't never been the
same since me then got cracked it all up in here.
Nobody had even saw that woman. But every time she
take a bath, I get nervous. Well all right there
and half a happy day, and tell you Mama asks
her how she.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
Dre Perhaps I may become a highway men again all
I may simply be a single rhyme O ray, but
I will remain.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
I'll be back in sad again, say again again again.
Heard from a guy who has moved off from Houston
years ago, hadn't talked to in probably eight years, with
(28:43):
a message thank you. I just want to thank you
again for the opportunity to see Chris Christofferson. It was
about eight years ago, he says, And it was It's
October nineth, twenty sixteen. First time I've heard from him
in eight years, So pretty cool. I like to hear
from people haven't heard from him some time. So I
got an email from a listener. I don't feel like
(29:05):
I should say his name. He says, hellos are longtime fan.
This is about the strike that is expected at the
ports across the country. I've been with the ILA, it's
international longshoreman. I believe for over thirty years. This strike
is going to hurt me and many like me have
(29:28):
been stretching our budget in this economy. This economy hurts
top to bottom. Many of us cannot afford to strike.
Just so you know, in the event of a long
term strike, I have a job lined out at a
car wash. I'll do what it takes to keep feeding
my family and provide for their well being. Whatever you
use the most of in your household, stock up on
(29:49):
at least a forty day supply. If the strike even
goes a week, the supply chain will take up to
three months to correct. Stay safe and then his which
I'm not going to read. You know, these last few
years have made me think very hard about things that
(30:10):
we tend to take for granted. The most immediate is
food and fuel, obviously, and then there is security and safety.
At a time like that, there tends to be a
breakdown of it, communication systems and the like. It's amazing
(30:35):
how easy it is for us to fall from the
comforts of our daily life to scrounging around when just
the power, just the power goes out, when the supply
chain goes down, that's when it gets scary because people panic,
(30:57):
and when people panic, they hoard, and the hoarding creates
its own set of problems. I do wonder, though, there
is I don't know if this is because people say
it or if they're really tapping into the worst fears
of people, but it would appear that people's greatest concern
(31:21):
is not having toilet paper. And my wife always laughs
and she says, why are people so obsessed with toilet paper?
Do you realize most people in India don't use toilet
paper in India because toilet paper was so expensive. That's
just the kind of thing you couldn't afford. People would
(31:42):
splash water on the bunghole with their left hand, and
this goes back. This goes back before anyone had toilet paper.
Your left hand was to wash your bunghole, and so
your right hand was the hand You pick your nose
each booger's and shake hands, slap somebody on the back
or whatever else. But you wouldn't do that with your
(32:02):
left hand. It was sinister. You just didn't do that.
And so she always laughs and say, you don't understand
when people have you used toilet paper their entire life.
That is there. But I really am worried because I
think some people would say, you know, we don't have
to have food in our household, but we've got to
have that toilet paper. And you watch people at that
(32:25):
time and you realize what sheep they are because they
just go grabbing for the toilet paper. If toilet paper
was that important, get you some in storied away. But
I can assure you when things are really bad, it's
not going to be toilet paper you're pining for. It's
(32:46):
also a good It's also a good reminder people are
taking extra jobs to make more money. It's a good
reminder to figure out what's important in life and what
you can do without if you still if you still
do it fine. But the ability to prioritize is a
higher level of thinking that some people never achieve.
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