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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, and.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Now a totally random week in review from the past.
Take a guess when this was.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Dude, you want to have homos as neighbors, I'm gonna
tell you something. I would subsidize having homos a neighbor.
They're great neighbors. First of all, there's no grass growing
under the abandoned cars in the front yard. They're gonna
keep the nicest yard on the block if you just
treat them like normal people. They're so ecstatic. Hey Tommy,
how y'all doing y'all knitting? Anything we got?
Speaker 3 (00:46):
No?
Speaker 1 (00:47):
It is time to us like we're normal people.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
That's all we I'm seriously more important than anything I
discovered the glories of.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
The waffle House. No matter how wrecked and obnoxious you are,
or how late it I you're nice.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
You never hear somebody come out of waffle House saying
you that really wasn't that good. You never leave waffle
House thinking you know their quality is really slipped. That
x con with all those tattoos on his arm making
the food right in front of you, That guy solid
boom boom boom, he's good at it.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Twelve days on the road and here we are back.
Admit it made.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
It's hard to start this series.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Against the Cleveland Guardians. Go ball, I'm hit pretty well.
No right, two outs the Carrotity. Just start of the gags.
Dreading walking on.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
I'm gonna call Matt Brice at Federal American Drill and
ask him to have on the menu by tonight a
carrot martini called the Carrotini. You can hear the intro. Well,
one Houston astro is being honored by a local establishment
with a drink named in his armor. They are serving
the Caratini, and then you got the ladies and she
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goes it's pretty good God Texas at music legend Willie
Nelson is celebrating his ninety first birthday today. Before I
spoke marijuana, I was I was drinking a lot and
I might have killed a lot of people too. Willie,
to me is that side of all of us. It's
a little bit mischievous, little cheeky. It's gonna be a
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little naughty.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
But WILLI got my stone and took all my money.
I was fifty dollars up, but then my mind went't funny.
It didn't really help that I didn't know the rules
of the game, and it probably didn't help that I
couldn't remember my name after Willie Gomstone and took all
my cash one high little split, but then he kicked
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my ass. He gave me knuckles across the table. But
then my mind went blurry and just like a puff
of smoke.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Fifty nine years ago to that, in nineteen sixty five,
was Stone to be the first concert in the Houston Astrodome.
There's probably some people listening who were there, and you'll
remember that the opening act for the first concert in
the astronom Astronom was none other than not Kiss Your
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Goober sixty five The Supremes. The Supremes were the opening
act for the main headliner in that headliner on this
day in nineteen sixty five, the Mickey Mantle of concerts
she would hit the first home run concert was none
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other than not sure. But that's a very good guest.
But if it was sixty five, she would have had
Sonny with her. Try one more. It's a woman, not Whitney.
Would you quit? Would you be serious for one minute?
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Rosemary Clooney is a good guess. That's not a bad guess.
Try again, one more in you not Shirley Temple, don't
even go there. Well, that wouldn't be a bad guess.
Nina Simone, No, a little early for Nina, for miss Nina, right,
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Ella Fitzgerald, another guest, how about this? She's not black?
Apparently that's the only people you know? Yeah, well, oh
with the Supremes, Okay, I don't think they were trying
to lure a black audience. Not I said she's not black.
Not Aretha. Aretha's a good guess though, that's actually a
very good guess. Not Rita Kool. It's no good guess though.
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Those are not terrible guesses. Those are actually serious guess.
Not Nancy Sinatra, A little early for Nancy Sinatra, keep
going there were white women singing, You would probably think
of her less in terms of a chart topper at
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the time, and more sort of an American institution. In
the Shirley Temple mold, how about that, Marilyn Monroe. No,
not nineteen sixty five. And Margaret is a very good guess. Not,
and Margaret will give you credit though that's a very
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good guess. Think in terms of American institutions and less
that somebody had a big moment in time, somebody that
this woman would be in the top ten list of
American institution women, larger than any particular song. Some people
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probably can't name a single of her songs. It's a
life that is got it not e Liza Minelli.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
But yes, you're on the right track, Judy Garland, it
is well done. Ramon, see you're not stupid. That's very
well done. And one year later after the first concert
in the Houston, Astronom was born unto our Land in
Orange County, the son of a DuPont worker by the
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name of Jerry Bird, himself a musician. A young man
raised in vider Texas, where he would be a star
on the basketball team. He would start college where he
decided he was going to learn to play the guitar.
And he said he locked himself in a room for
six months, didn't go to class, but he sat for
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six months.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
And learned the basic keys on the guitar. And there's
a period particularly in the nineties there where Tracy Bird
was on a run. It had a great, great career
and much like Mark Chestnutt, a lot of parallels, lots
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of overlaps there in that venn diagram. Never left Beaumont,
lives in Beaumont to this day. Never left Beaumont and
raised his beautiful kids in took off for about five
years fromout seven till about twelve or thirteen. I got
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a message through my brother in at the beginning of
twenty thirteen from a fellow named Greg Fountain, who's a
good friend of his, that Tracy Bird was ready to
get back out and start playing. He didn't want to
tour again because he'd burned out. It's very common, and
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he'd coached his kids in little dribblers. He's basketball, and
you know, he'd been staying home and being daddy. A
lot of guys do that that out on the road
for a while, that he would like to start playing again.
And I said, give me his number. I would love that.
And he started playing at the RCC and he sent
me the nicest note about six months into being back
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once he flipped the switch and said he was playing
again and put his band back together. He had all
the work he could possibly do. Because that era of
music there is such by the way, I got a
note the other day. I sent this to Tracy Bird.
Mark Chestnutt played a show the other day, hour and
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a half, not full ninety minutes. Apparently his voice is
on the rebound and sounded very good. It was strong,
he sounded strong. He seems healthy. He had a heart attack,
I had all these health problems. It made me very
very happy to hear that. So happy birthday, Tracy Bird,
good friend. So for over ten years we've had a
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Republican majority in the Texas State House of Representatives, and
yet the Democrats are picking our Speaker of the House.
And the reason is because the Democrats all vote together,
and you get these guys who are very clever, who
are the establishment Republicans. They're not conservatives, but we've not
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been able to dislodge them from their district. So to
their district they say, we're going to go to Austin
and we're going to fight for you. But then they
get there and they put Democrats as committee chairmen. So
what they do is they go over and play for
the other team. Eighty eight out of our one hundred
and fifty state reps, it's eighty eight to sixty two.
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So if the eighty eight voted together, we would pick
the Speaker of the House. That's the way it works
in Congress. That's the way it should work in Texas.
But what happens is you get the guys that are
not conservatives. They don't like the Maga agenda, they don't
like the Tea Party agenda, they don't like any of this.
So what they do is they go over to the
Democrats and go, you give us your sixty two votes
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and we'll pull together fourteen of us and we'll get
seventy six out of one hundred and fifteen. So now
you only need fourteen out of the eighty eight Republicans.
Think about that. That's one sixth. You got sixteen percent
of the Republicans, and so we have a Republican Speaker
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of the House. And you've got the big money lobbyists
who like this because the idea of cutting taxes, the
idea of closing the borders because some of these people
rely on a legal immigration, the idea of doing what
you've the idea of giving school vouchers. We can't have
competition with government schools. So they got a lot of
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rural voters scared. They're going to do it. They're going
to destroy your public school, public school that's where my
kids go. Yep, they're gonna have vouchers. And so the
people who are most concerned about this are rural voters
where you got one school in a rural community, and
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they go, how vouchers they're going to destroy our public school?
Speaker 6 (11:27):
How?
Speaker 1 (11:28):
How are they going to destroy your public school? What
do you think is going to happen all of a sudden,
nobody's going to go to your school. Look, if you're
running your school district like the post office is, then yeah,
you're going to go out of business. But isn't that
what conservatism is all about? Since when do we want
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to create artificial barriers so that a government can dominate
a business and prevent outside competition. Taxpayers don't pay our
tax so that a school can have a monopoly on
the education lobby. Right, So they go and pluck off
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a couple of these rural state reps because the largest
employer in that school district you get these bedroom communities
is the school district. So the superintendent is actually the
tail wag and the dog. So they go get a
couple of these rural state reps and they team up
with the Democrats, and the Democrats they don't have rural
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school districts because the rural communities are all Trump country.
The Democrats want these big, massive school districts like HISD
because that's where they get all their buddies. Remember Rodney
Ellis's chief of staff was the president of HISD who
was arrested and convicted for taking bribes while she was
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the president of HISD. And oh, by the way, she
was serving on the staff of the county Commissioner's office.
That's how these big urban school districts work well. The
drunk Daid Republicans are teaming up with them, and that's
why we can't get a speaker who represents our values.
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That's why Dan Patrick Kent the Senate gets things out
of the Senate. The governor's got his agenda, and you're
left with a very very savvy and by the way,
I know the lobbyists who run this scheme, and they've
run this scheme for years. They are supposedly Republicans, but
they're not. They're just guys that make a lot of
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money for some big interests. And these people do not
like Ken Paxton. That's why drunk Daid Impeachton. So drunk
Daid has to step down. They had to have Democrats
vote in the Republican primary to get drunk Daid back
to Austin. But Drunk Daid is so tarnished for their
image that they bring in his number two and hope
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people won't notice Dustin Burroughs. Well, the entirety of the
Houston area Republican delegation is with David Cook, which is
who the majority of Republicans are with. It's now over
sixty percent except for Lacey Hull. And I'll leave her
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for a moment and Will Metcalf. And so people call
or email Will Metcalf and they forward me the email
they get and they go, here's how Will Metcalf responded
to our email. That's not Will Metcalf. The same lobbyists
that are putting together the coalition so that the Democrats
can have committee chairmanships even though they're minority party, the
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same lawyers. I know who they are. Everybody up there
knows who they are. They write these responses for them. Well,
Sam Harlest came over. I'm told Mono Dialla came over.
People were catching so much hell back home that they're going, man, hey,
you guys, you guys can't keep me in Austin. If
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I went with drunk Dad. I voted for the impeachment.
I can't. I had an opponent. Fifteen one to five,
Fifteen sitting Republican state reps lost their primaries to challengers
because of impeaching the most conservative attorney general in the country,
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fifteen of them. And I'm gonna tell you something. It's
going to happen in the next session as well. If
Burrows Wind's going to happen again. Well, Will Metcalf is
forwarding this little he's in Montgomery County and lo and behold,
the plot thickens because the vice chair of the Republican
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Party in Montgomery County, I do not know him, but
I am going to support him. John Bouchet has announced
he's going to challenge him, So Will Metcalf. You put
your head up Dustin Burrough's ass. You go hold hands
and skip through the Capitol with drunk Dade feeling. You
can have the lobbyists from Austin wind you and dine
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you at Ruths Chris or wherever you're going to dinner
every single night, every night, have a hell of a session.
Just know this, we are going to make your reelection
campaign a living hell. A year from now and every
Republican voter. You better start getting those Democrats lined up.
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Y'all are going to have to do the same thing
you did in Orange County, Jefferson County, in Beaumont, Orange County,
Jefferson County, in Jasper County where drunk Dade lost going
into the runoff and lost the speakership. Will Metcalf you're done.
Ask Ernest Bells how that worked out for him in
Liberty County. Ask Ernest Bells how voting for the impeachment
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and running his mouth worked out for him. His whole
life was being a state rep. And guess what he
got it ass whipped. And there's a bunch of these
other Republicans who thought they were bigger than the base,
who thought they didn't need the voters known the Lord.
I got these fancy Austin and Houston law firms with
Austin offices. I got these billionaires. I got to I'm
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flying around the country and it in private jets. I'm
hanging out with drug Dad. We're down on the sideline
at the Texas Tech Game, in the UT game and
the A and M Game. They got all the money.
They're gonna pour all this pack cash in there and
they had fun. They're having fundraiser after fundraiser and it's
the same crowd of guys, and they all show up
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with their check. The political Action Committee for the state
wide diss and the state wide diss and the municipal
employees and the this and the this and the this. Well,
guess what you don't have, you bastards. You don't have
the voters. And you're gonna see that. Will Metcalf, We're
coming after you and Michael Berryshow.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
Then all our songs get about the lifestyles of the
nonsur rich chi.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Fame followed by the name of Oscar Owen sent me
an email through the website Michael Berryshow dot com, subject,
I run the oldest radiator shop in Texas Czar. I
just thought this was a cool story, thought i'd share.
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I run the oldest radiator shop in Texas, Eccles Brothers
Radiator Works. We've been in business since nineteen twelve. My
grandpa was shop foreman for many years, then my dad
and now I've been doing it the last eight years.
I worked with some of the coolest old guys that
have so many stories of Houston changing the last eighty years.
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It's one hundred and twelve years, but we now own
Wayside Radiator and we moved our shop there. I just
recently found two old match box matt sorry matchbooks on
eBay that pre date when the current owner's dad bought
Ecchos Brothers back in the sixties. They're easily thirties to
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forties by the locations and the phone number. One location
is where the House of Blues sits now and the
other is where the Four Seasons is. Thanks for listening
to my rambling story. I'm going to turn your microphone on.
I want you to say something into the microphone. Are
you ready? I want you to tell people what a
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radiator does. Go ahead, Oh, radiates? Okay, yeah, it's very radiant. Yes, okay,
I'm waiting. Yeah, can you put some music? Because dead
air means yeah. You just just tell people what a
radio air Just simple explanation, will do? I mean, just
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basic function. You don't have to go to d You
don't just assume anything.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
What does it do?
Speaker 1 (20:04):
How does it cool the engine but radiating? What is
the process by which it cools the engine by radiating? Oh? Okay,
you don't want to leave people behind and go too
deep into the woods here into the weeds. Okay, I
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would like, whether it's Owen or Skip Hartley at Thunderbolt
Motors and Transmissions, somebody to call up and give an
explanation that a four year old could, I mean, a
fourth grader could understand as to what a radiator does.
Do you ever stop and think ramon how many things
around us that we take for granted that if we
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went back to the state of nature, we would have
no idea how to make them happen. I would not
have the slightest clue. And what's interesting to me is
how many people have technical none. Is our phone system
not working? It is working. We got the sorriest phone system.
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I would like to talk for the next five minutes
and burn airtime on how stupid I was to buy
this phone system. But I pretty much think people have
the idea by now, don't you, Okay, I just I
have no idea how radiator works, no idea none. I'll
be honest with you. I have no idea how how
air conditioning works. And I've looked it up, I've read
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about it. It just doesn't. It's not intuitive to me.
So I want you to listen to Bill Maher talking
about why Democrats lost this election. I think he nails it.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
You wear Queers for Palestine t shirts and masks two
years after the pandemic ended, and you can't define woman,
I mean person who menstruates. You're the teachers Union, an
education party, and you've turned schools and colleges into a joke.
But a shocker that the people who see everything through
the lens of race and sex see their election loss
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as a result of racism and sexism. Kamalists spent one
hundred days telling voters, I know it feels like crime
and legal immigration are bad, but feelings. Look at this chart.
You've seen my in this house, we believe lawn sign
see it says.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Right on it.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
We believe in science, right, which is why you demanded
no one even debate whether COVID could have escaped from
the one lab in the one city where they were
studying it.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
How far fetched.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
Democrats have become like a royal family that, because of
so much incest, has unfortunately had children who are retarded.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Texas Monthly just released their bum steers. And it's always
Republicans for you know, doing some stupid things as wanting
to shut down the border. Can you believe they're so ridiculous?
And Texas Monthly just gets worse and worse with fewer
and fewer subscribers as they become more and more nutting.
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But it looks like they gave a bumsteer to John Whitmer.
Now I've known John Whitmyer for twenty five years. We've
not always agreed on everything, but we've always gotten along.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
And.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
I supported him wholeheartedly in order to defeat Sheila Jackson Lee.
He's a lifetime Democrat, and he's far more conservative than
the modern Democrat Party. And he could never get elected
if he was a new candidate today because his views
look more Republican than they do Democrat. And they go
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on and they they talk about the fact that he
blamed the problems of the city on Sivi Turner, that
he's impulsive, that he's seventy five. Listen, I'm gonna say
something that if he screws up tomorrow, I will be
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the first one to jump it. But I want to
be very clear. I am very happy I supported him,
and I know a number of you did as well.
John Whitmyer beat Sheila Jackson Lee. It's easy to forget. Yes,
he beat her sixty four to thirty six. But he
beat her because Republicans voted in large percentages, almost one
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hundred percent for him. But more importantly, Republicans showed up
to vote. If only ten Republicans show up to vote
in the city, Kingwood showed up, Hispanics showed up to vote.
A lot of people showed up to vote, and thank god.
Can you imagine if Sheila Jackson Michael Holy sound warehouse.
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That's what I from the smokes to the rocky slid
back down to big taskbar.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Right.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
A radiator transferse heat in a car. The radiator uses
water to cool the engine from combustion. Water cycles through
the engine has a water pump, then the water is
cooled by forward motion of the automobile. Gary Stewart writes
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rule of thumb. The temperature drop across a radiator is
only fifteen degrees. The same is also true for a
cooling coil in a refrigerator or air conditioner. So engine
coolant in an engine enters the radiator at about two
hundred and thirty degrees, an exit exits at about two
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point fifteen, just above boiling. The pressure cap keeps the
boiling temp above two twelve. As you probably know, boiling
temp is lower way up in the mountains, less pressure,
and Lory writes, family owned restaurant on Christmas Day. Open
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on Christmas Day. My family would like to visit a
small family owned business for Christmas Day dinner. Would you
be open to providing a list of the restaurants that
will be open that day? Well, I can tell you
it's just going to be Chinese restaurants. Anywhere in the
world I have ever traveled on Christmas, the only restaurants
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open are the five star hotels and Chinese restaurants. My
Jewish friends all laugh because they say it's kind of
a Seinfeld joke where they go because they don't celebrate Christmas,
that they go eat Chinese food on Christmas. That is
just the whole place is Jewish on Christmas at a
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Chinese food restaurant, which, yeah, probably probably something to be
said for that. I came across a Steve Jobs quote
that is probably as responsible for any of the success
I've had in life and the people who I know
who have had in life, and I thought I would
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share it with you. This was recorded pretty early in
his career.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
First of all. Good to see you, thank you, good
to see you.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
Yeah, good to see you.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Can you comment on the drones that are flying around
New Jersey? Sorry, no, no, not not the Trump drones.
I'm gonna do that this evening. It's a clip number
six o one. Sorry I gave you the wrong number.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
I've never found anybody that didn't want to help me
if I asked him for help. I called up Bill
Hewlett when I was twelve years old, and he lived
in Palo Alto. His number was still in the phone book,
and he answered the phone himself. Yes, he said, Hi,
I'm Steve Jobs. I'm twelve years old. I'm a student
in high school and I want to build a frequency counter.
And I was wondering if you had any spare parts
I could have, And he laughed, and he gave me
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the spare parts to build his frequency counter. And he
gave me a job that summer and Heltt Packard working
on the assembly line putting nuts and bolts together on
frequency counters. He got me a job in the place
that built them. And I've never found anyone who said
no or hung up the phone when I called.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
I just asked.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most
people never ask, and that's what separates sometimes the people
that do things from the people that just stream about them.
You got to act, and you've got to be willing
to fail.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
I study highly successful, self made people, and one of
the things that comes up again and again and again,
whether it's the oil patch wildcatters, John Moore's at BMC,
Tim and Fertita with hospitality and then casinos, on and
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on and on, is I was just dumb enough to
believe I could succeed at that. In many ways, the
worst curse you can have on your career is to
do well in school and to get a good job,
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because it's very hard to leave a good job, very
hard to leave a good job. The best and boldest
thing I ever did was working for a downtown law firm.
My dream if I stayed past seven o'clock, I got
limoed home at night and limoed back in. I was
twenty five years old. I felt like a king dinner
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would be brought.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
In for me.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Because I was making a lot of money for the
law firm, working very long hours weekends. The whole thing
to walk away from that and start my own business
out of a little shack we were living in. It
had a little a add on room to the outside
of it that was probably unpermitted, and it was on
a slope, and it had anoleum floor, and it was terrible.
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And I had a phone which was a brother printer,
fax machine and phone all in one. And I started
my business at a little card table desk in there.
I'm not woe as me. I don't know why I
was dumb enough to do that. Maybe because my wife
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was willing to support me chasing my dream. Maybe because
I watched my dad work for forty years for DuPont
and hate every single bit of it, and I saw
how it kills you slowly but surely. I don't know,
kind of a death of a salesman sort of thing.
But I don't know why. Maybe because I always got
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good feedback from teachers and parents and coaches and siblings
and friends. But I was never afraid to try anything,
to ask people for help, to ask people for a meeting,
to ask people for advice, ask people to make a connection,
to ask people to get me in here or refer
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me over here. Best advice you can get. A couple
times a week, I'll get an email from a mom
who says, hey, can you help my son do this, this,
and this? And my response is simple, I know I
sound like an ass. No, have your son contact me.
Have your son reach out to me, and I will
connect your son. Mama can't get the job because mama
can't do the job. Encourt my kids. Michael is much
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more shocked. Crockett's more outgoing. But if we go to
a restaurant, one of them has to go in and
get the table. One of them has to They have
to speak to my friends when they come over. Teach
your kids this. It's important.
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Very Show is on the air, and.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Now a totally random week in review from the past.
Take a guess when this was.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Dude, you want to have homos as neighbors, I'm gonna
tell you something. I would subsidize having homos a neighbor.
They're great neighbors. First of all, there's no grass growing
under the abandoned cars in the front yard. They're gonna
keep the nicest yard on the block if you just
treat them like normal people. They're so ecstatic. Hey Tommy,
how y'all doing y'all knitting? Anything we got?
Speaker 3 (00:46):
No?
Speaker 1 (00:47):
It is time to us like we're normal people.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
That's all we I'm seriously more important than anything I
discovered the glories of.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
The waffle House. No matter how wrecked and obnoxious you are,
or how late it I you're nice.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
You never hear somebody come out of waffle House saying
you that really wasn't that good. You never leave waffle
House thinking you know their quality is really slipped. That
x con with all those tattoos on his arm making
the food right in front of you, That guy solid
boom boom boom, he's good at it.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Twelve days on the road and here we are back.
Admit it made.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
It's hard to start this series.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Against the Cleveland Guardians. Go ball, I'm hit pretty well.
No right, two outs the Carrotity. Just start of the gags.
Dreading walking on.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
I'm gonna call Matt Brice at Federal American Drill and
ask him to have on the menu by tonight a
carrot martini called the Carrotini. You can hear the intro. Well,
one Houston astro is being honored by a local establishment
with a drink named in his armor. They are serving
the Caratini, and then you got the ladies and she
(01:58):
goes it's pretty good God Texas at music legend Willie
Nelson is celebrating his ninety first birthday today. Before I
spoke marijuana, I was I was drinking a lot and
I might have killed a lot of people too. Willie,
to me is that side of all of us. It's
a little bit mischievous, little cheeky. It's gonna be a
(02:19):
little naughty.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
But WILLI got my stone and took all my money.
I was fifty dollars up, but then my mind went't funny.
It didn't really help that I didn't know the rules
of the game, and it probably didn't help that I
couldn't remember my name after Willie Gomstone and took all
my cash one high little split, but then he kicked
(02:43):
my ass. He gave me knuckles across the table. But
then my mind went blurry and just like a puff
of smoke.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Fifty nine years ago to that, in nineteen sixty five,
was Stone to be the first concert in the Houston Astrodome.
There's probably some people listening who were there, and you'll
remember that the opening act for the first concert in
the astronom Astronom was none other than not Kiss Your
(03:15):
Goober sixty five The Supremes. The Supremes were the opening
act for the main headliner in that headliner on this
day in nineteen sixty five, the Mickey Mantle of concerts
she would hit the first home run concert was none
(03:37):
other than not sure. But that's a very good guest.
But if it was sixty five, she would have had
Sonny with her. Try one more. It's a woman, not Whitney.
Would you quit? Would you be serious for one minute?
(03:58):
Rosemary Clooney is a good guess. That's not a bad guess.
Try again, one more in you not Shirley Temple, don't
even go there. Well, that wouldn't be a bad guess.
Nina Simone, No, a little early for Nina, for miss Nina, right,
(04:21):
Ella Fitzgerald, another guest, how about this? She's not black?
Apparently that's the only people you know? Yeah, well, oh
with the Supremes, Okay, I don't think they were trying
to lure a black audience. Not I said she's not black.
Not Aretha. Aretha's a good guess though, that's actually a
very good guess. Not Rita Kool. It's no good guess though.
(04:45):
Those are not terrible guesses. Those are actually serious guess.
Not Nancy Sinatra, A little early for Nancy Sinatra, keep
going there were white women singing, You would probably think
of her less in terms of a chart topper at
(05:07):
the time, and more sort of an American institution. In
the Shirley Temple mold, how about that, Marilyn Monroe. No,
not nineteen sixty five. And Margaret is a very good guess. Not,
and Margaret will give you credit though that's a very
(05:27):
good guess. Think in terms of American institutions and less
that somebody had a big moment in time, somebody that
this woman would be in the top ten list of
American institution women, larger than any particular song. Some people
(05:48):
probably can't name a single of her songs. It's a
life that is got it not e Liza Minelli.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
But yes, you're on the right track, Judy Garland, it
is well done. Ramon, see you're not stupid. That's very
well done. And one year later after the first concert
in the Houston, Astronom was born unto our Land in
Orange County, the son of a DuPont worker by the
(06:21):
name of Jerry Bird, himself a musician. A young man
raised in vider Texas, where he would be a star
on the basketball team. He would start college where he
decided he was going to learn to play the guitar.
And he said he locked himself in a room for
six months, didn't go to class, but he sat for
(06:45):
six months.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
And learned the basic keys on the guitar. And there's
a period particularly in the nineties there where Tracy Bird
was on a run. It had a great, great career
and much like Mark Chestnutt, a lot of parallels, lots
(07:08):
of overlaps there in that venn diagram. Never left Beaumont,
lives in Beaumont to this day. Never left Beaumont and
raised his beautiful kids in took off for about five
years fromout seven till about twelve or thirteen. I got
(07:32):
a message through my brother in at the beginning of
twenty thirteen from a fellow named Greg Fountain, who's a
good friend of his, that Tracy Bird was ready to
get back out and start playing. He didn't want to
tour again because he'd burned out. It's very common, and
(07:52):
he'd coached his kids in little dribblers. He's basketball, and
you know, he'd been staying home and being daddy. A
lot of guys do that that out on the road
for a while, that he would like to start playing again.
And I said, give me his number. I would love that.
And he started playing at the RCC and he sent
me the nicest note about six months into being back
(08:14):
once he flipped the switch and said he was playing
again and put his band back together. He had all
the work he could possibly do. Because that era of
music there is such by the way, I got a
note the other day. I sent this to Tracy Bird.
Mark Chestnutt played a show the other day, hour and
(08:34):
a half, not full ninety minutes. Apparently his voice is
on the rebound and sounded very good. It was strong,
he sounded strong. He seems healthy. He had a heart attack,
I had all these health problems. It made me very
very happy to hear that. So happy birthday, Tracy Bird,
good friend. So for over ten years we've had a
(09:04):
Republican majority in the Texas State House of Representatives, and
yet the Democrats are picking our Speaker of the House.
And the reason is because the Democrats all vote together,
and you get these guys who are very clever, who
are the establishment Republicans. They're not conservatives, but we've not
(09:29):
been able to dislodge them from their district. So to
their district they say, we're going to go to Austin
and we're going to fight for you. But then they
get there and they put Democrats as committee chairmen. So
what they do is they go over and play for
the other team. Eighty eight out of our one hundred
and fifty state reps, it's eighty eight to sixty two.
(09:54):
So if the eighty eight voted together, we would pick
the Speaker of the House. That's the way it works
in Congress. That's the way it should work in Texas.
But what happens is you get the guys that are
not conservatives. They don't like the Maga agenda, they don't
like the Tea Party agenda, they don't like any of this.
So what they do is they go over to the
Democrats and go, you give us your sixty two votes
(10:17):
and we'll pull together fourteen of us and we'll get
seventy six out of one hundred and fifteen. So now
you only need fourteen out of the eighty eight Republicans.
Think about that. That's one sixth. You got sixteen percent
of the Republicans, and so we have a Republican Speaker
(10:38):
of the House. And you've got the big money lobbyists
who like this because the idea of cutting taxes, the
idea of closing the borders because some of these people
rely on a legal immigration, the idea of doing what
you've the idea of giving school vouchers. We can't have
competition with government schools. So they got a lot of
(11:00):
rural voters scared. They're going to do it. They're going
to destroy your public school, public school that's where my
kids go. Yep, they're gonna have vouchers. And so the
people who are most concerned about this are rural voters
where you got one school in a rural community, and
(11:22):
they go, how vouchers they're going to destroy our public school?
Speaker 6 (11:27):
How?
Speaker 1 (11:28):
How are they going to destroy your public school? What
do you think is going to happen all of a sudden,
nobody's going to go to your school. Look, if you're
running your school district like the post office is, then yeah,
you're going to go out of business. But isn't that
what conservatism is all about? Since when do we want
(11:49):
to create artificial barriers so that a government can dominate
a business and prevent outside competition. Taxpayers don't pay our
tax so that a school can have a monopoly on
the education lobby. Right, So they go and pluck off
(12:10):
a couple of these rural state reps because the largest
employer in that school district you get these bedroom communities
is the school district. So the superintendent is actually the
tail wag and the dog. So they go get a
couple of these rural state reps and they team up
with the Democrats, and the Democrats they don't have rural
(12:32):
school districts because the rural communities are all Trump country.
The Democrats want these big, massive school districts like HISD
because that's where they get all their buddies. Remember Rodney
Ellis's chief of staff was the president of HISD who
was arrested and convicted for taking bribes while she was
(12:55):
the president of HISD. And oh, by the way, she
was serving on the staff of the county Commissioner's office.
That's how these big urban school districts work well. The
drunk Daid Republicans are teaming up with them, and that's
why we can't get a speaker who represents our values.
(13:17):
That's why Dan Patrick Kent the Senate gets things out
of the Senate. The governor's got his agenda, and you're
left with a very very savvy and by the way,
I know the lobbyists who run this scheme, and they've
run this scheme for years. They are supposedly Republicans, but
they're not. They're just guys that make a lot of
(13:38):
money for some big interests. And these people do not
like Ken Paxton. That's why drunk Daid Impeachton. So drunk
Daid has to step down. They had to have Democrats
vote in the Republican primary to get drunk Daid back
to Austin. But Drunk Daid is so tarnished for their
image that they bring in his number two and hope
(13:58):
people won't notice Dustin Burroughs. Well, the entirety of the
Houston area Republican delegation is with David Cook, which is
who the majority of Republicans are with. It's now over
sixty percent except for Lacey Hull. And I'll leave her
(14:20):
for a moment and Will Metcalf. And so people call
or email Will Metcalf and they forward me the email
they get and they go, here's how Will Metcalf responded
to our email. That's not Will Metcalf. The same lobbyists
that are putting together the coalition so that the Democrats
can have committee chairmanships even though they're minority party, the
(14:43):
same lawyers. I know who they are. Everybody up there
knows who they are. They write these responses for them. Well,
Sam Harlest came over. I'm told Mono Dialla came over.
People were catching so much hell back home that they're going, man, hey,
you guys, you guys can't keep me in Austin. If
(15:05):
I went with drunk Dad. I voted for the impeachment.
I can't. I had an opponent. Fifteen one to five,
Fifteen sitting Republican state reps lost their primaries to challengers
because of impeaching the most conservative attorney general in the country,
(15:27):
fifteen of them. And I'm gonna tell you something. It's
going to happen in the next session as well. If
Burrows Wind's going to happen again. Well, Will Metcalf is
forwarding this little he's in Montgomery County and lo and behold,
the plot thickens because the vice chair of the Republican
(15:50):
Party in Montgomery County, I do not know him, but
I am going to support him. John Bouchet has announced
he's going to challenge him, So Will Metcalf. You put
your head up Dustin Burrough's ass. You go hold hands
and skip through the Capitol with drunk Dade feeling. You
can have the lobbyists from Austin wind you and dine
(16:10):
you at Ruths Chris or wherever you're going to dinner
every single night, every night, have a hell of a session.
Just know this, we are going to make your reelection
campaign a living hell. A year from now and every
Republican voter. You better start getting those Democrats lined up.
(16:31):
Y'all are going to have to do the same thing
you did in Orange County, Jefferson County, in Beaumont, Orange County,
Jefferson County, in Jasper County where drunk Dade lost going
into the runoff and lost the speakership. Will Metcalf you're done.
Ask Ernest Bells how that worked out for him in
Liberty County. Ask Ernest Bells how voting for the impeachment
(16:53):
and running his mouth worked out for him. His whole
life was being a state rep. And guess what he
got it ass whipped. And there's a bunch of these
other Republicans who thought they were bigger than the base,
who thought they didn't need the voters known the Lord.
I got these fancy Austin and Houston law firms with
Austin offices. I got these billionaires. I got to I'm
(17:16):
flying around the country and it in private jets. I'm
hanging out with drug Dad. We're down on the sideline
at the Texas Tech Game, in the UT game and
the A and M Game. They got all the money.
They're gonna pour all this pack cash in there and
they had fun. They're having fundraiser after fundraiser and it's
the same crowd of guys, and they all show up
(17:37):
with their check. The political Action Committee for the state
wide diss and the state wide diss and the municipal
employees and the this and the this and the this. Well,
guess what you don't have, you bastards. You don't have
the voters. And you're gonna see that. Will Metcalf, We're
coming after you and Michael Berryshow.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
Then all our songs get about the lifestyles of the
nonsur rich chi.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Fame followed by the name of Oscar Owen sent me
an email through the website Michael Berryshow dot com, subject,
I run the oldest radiator shop in Texas Czar. I
just thought this was a cool story, thought i'd share.
(18:24):
I run the oldest radiator shop in Texas, Eccles Brothers
Radiator Works. We've been in business since nineteen twelve. My
grandpa was shop foreman for many years, then my dad
and now I've been doing it the last eight years.
I worked with some of the coolest old guys that
have so many stories of Houston changing the last eighty years.
(18:47):
It's one hundred and twelve years, but we now own
Wayside Radiator and we moved our shop there. I just
recently found two old match box matt sorry matchbooks on
eBay that pre date when the current owner's dad bought
Ecchos Brothers back in the sixties. They're easily thirties to
(19:09):
forties by the locations and the phone number. One location
is where the House of Blues sits now and the
other is where the Four Seasons is. Thanks for listening
to my rambling story. I'm going to turn your microphone on.
I want you to say something into the microphone. Are
you ready? I want you to tell people what a
(19:32):
radiator does. Go ahead, Oh, radiates? Okay, yeah, it's very radiant. Yes, okay,
I'm waiting. Yeah, can you put some music? Because dead
air means yeah. You just just tell people what a
radio air Just simple explanation, will do? I mean, just
(19:56):
basic function. You don't have to go to d You
don't just assume anything.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
What does it do?
Speaker 1 (20:04):
How does it cool the engine but radiating? What is
the process by which it cools the engine by radiating? Oh? Okay,
you don't want to leave people behind and go too
deep into the woods here into the weeds. Okay, I
(20:27):
would like, whether it's Owen or Skip Hartley at Thunderbolt
Motors and Transmissions, somebody to call up and give an
explanation that a four year old could, I mean, a
fourth grader could understand as to what a radiator does.
Do you ever stop and think ramon how many things
around us that we take for granted that if we
(20:51):
went back to the state of nature, we would have
no idea how to make them happen. I would not
have the slightest clue. And what's interesting to me is
how many people have technical none. Is our phone system
not working? It is working. We got the sorriest phone system.
(21:14):
I would like to talk for the next five minutes
and burn airtime on how stupid I was to buy
this phone system. But I pretty much think people have
the idea by now, don't you, Okay, I just I
have no idea how radiator works, no idea none. I'll
be honest with you. I have no idea how how
air conditioning works. And I've looked it up, I've read
(21:35):
about it. It just doesn't. It's not intuitive to me.
So I want you to listen to Bill Maher talking
about why Democrats lost this election. I think he nails it.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
You wear Queers for Palestine t shirts and masks two
years after the pandemic ended, and you can't define woman,
I mean person who menstruates. You're the teachers Union, an
education party, and you've turned schools and colleges into a joke.
But a shocker that the people who see everything through
the lens of race and sex see their election loss
(22:09):
as a result of racism and sexism. Kamalists spent one
hundred days telling voters, I know it feels like crime
and legal immigration are bad, but feelings. Look at this chart.
You've seen my in this house, we believe lawn sign
see it says.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Right on it.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
We believe in science, right, which is why you demanded
no one even debate whether COVID could have escaped from
the one lab in the one city where they were
studying it.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
How far fetched.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
Democrats have become like a royal family that, because of
so much incest, has unfortunately had children who are retarded.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Texas Monthly just released their bum steers. And it's always
Republicans for you know, doing some stupid things as wanting
to shut down the border. Can you believe they're so ridiculous?
And Texas Monthly just gets worse and worse with fewer
and fewer subscribers as they become more and more nutting.
(23:11):
But it looks like they gave a bumsteer to John Whitmer.
Now I've known John Whitmyer for twenty five years. We've
not always agreed on everything, but we've always gotten along.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
And.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
I supported him wholeheartedly in order to defeat Sheila Jackson Lee.
He's a lifetime Democrat, and he's far more conservative than
the modern Democrat Party. And he could never get elected
if he was a new candidate today because his views
look more Republican than they do Democrat. And they go
(23:53):
on and they they talk about the fact that he
blamed the problems of the city on Sivi Turner, that
he's impulsive, that he's seventy five. Listen, I'm gonna say
something that if he screws up tomorrow, I will be
(24:14):
the first one to jump it. But I want to
be very clear. I am very happy I supported him,
and I know a number of you did as well.
John Whitmyer beat Sheila Jackson Lee. It's easy to forget. Yes,
he beat her sixty four to thirty six. But he
beat her because Republicans voted in large percentages, almost one
(24:39):
hundred percent for him. But more importantly, Republicans showed up
to vote. If only ten Republicans show up to vote
in the city, Kingwood showed up, Hispanics showed up to vote.
A lot of people showed up to vote, and thank god.
Can you imagine if Sheila Jackson Michael Holy sound warehouse.
(25:00):
That's what I from the smokes to the rocky slid
back down to big taskbar.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Right.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
A radiator transferse heat in a car. The radiator uses
water to cool the engine from combustion. Water cycles through
the engine has a water pump, then the water is
cooled by forward motion of the automobile. Gary Stewart writes
(25:31):
rule of thumb. The temperature drop across a radiator is
only fifteen degrees. The same is also true for a
cooling coil in a refrigerator or air conditioner. So engine
coolant in an engine enters the radiator at about two
hundred and thirty degrees, an exit exits at about two
(25:53):
point fifteen, just above boiling. The pressure cap keeps the
boiling temp above two twelve. As you probably know, boiling
temp is lower way up in the mountains, less pressure,
and Lory writes, family owned restaurant on Christmas Day. Open
(26:15):
on Christmas Day. My family would like to visit a
small family owned business for Christmas Day dinner. Would you
be open to providing a list of the restaurants that
will be open that day? Well, I can tell you
it's just going to be Chinese restaurants. Anywhere in the
world I have ever traveled on Christmas, the only restaurants
(26:38):
open are the five star hotels and Chinese restaurants. My
Jewish friends all laugh because they say it's kind of
a Seinfeld joke where they go because they don't celebrate Christmas,
that they go eat Chinese food on Christmas. That is
just the whole place is Jewish on Christmas at a
(26:58):
Chinese food restaurant, which, yeah, probably probably something to be
said for that. I came across a Steve Jobs quote
that is probably as responsible for any of the success
I've had in life and the people who I know
who have had in life, and I thought I would
(27:19):
share it with you. This was recorded pretty early in
his career.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
First of all. Good to see you, thank you, good
to see you.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
Yeah, good to see you.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Can you comment on the drones that are flying around
New Jersey? Sorry, no, no, not not the Trump drones.
I'm gonna do that this evening. It's a clip number
six o one. Sorry I gave you the wrong number.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
I've never found anybody that didn't want to help me
if I asked him for help. I called up Bill
Hewlett when I was twelve years old, and he lived
in Palo Alto. His number was still in the phone book,
and he answered the phone himself. Yes, he said, Hi,
I'm Steve Jobs. I'm twelve years old. I'm a student
in high school and I want to build a frequency counter.
And I was wondering if you had any spare parts
I could have, And he laughed, and he gave me
(28:02):
the spare parts to build his frequency counter. And he
gave me a job that summer and Heltt Packard working
on the assembly line putting nuts and bolts together on
frequency counters. He got me a job in the place
that built them. And I've never found anyone who said
no or hung up the phone when I called.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
I just asked.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most
people never ask, and that's what separates sometimes the people
that do things from the people that just stream about them.
You got to act, and you've got to be willing
to fail.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
I study highly successful, self made people, and one of
the things that comes up again and again and again,
whether it's the oil patch wildcatters, John Moore's at BMC,
Tim and Fertita with hospitality and then casinos, on and
(28:58):
on and on, is I was just dumb enough to
believe I could succeed at that. In many ways, the
worst curse you can have on your career is to
do well in school and to get a good job,
(29:21):
because it's very hard to leave a good job, very
hard to leave a good job. The best and boldest
thing I ever did was working for a downtown law firm.
My dream if I stayed past seven o'clock, I got
limoed home at night and limoed back in. I was
twenty five years old. I felt like a king dinner
(29:45):
would be brought.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
In for me.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Because I was making a lot of money for the
law firm, working very long hours weekends. The whole thing
to walk away from that and start my own business
out of a little shack we were living in. It
had a little a add on room to the outside
of it that was probably unpermitted, and it was on
a slope, and it had anoleum floor, and it was terrible.
(30:09):
And I had a phone which was a brother printer,
fax machine and phone all in one. And I started
my business at a little card table desk in there.
I'm not woe as me. I don't know why I
was dumb enough to do that. Maybe because my wife
(30:29):
was willing to support me chasing my dream. Maybe because
I watched my dad work for forty years for DuPont
and hate every single bit of it, and I saw
how it kills you slowly but surely. I don't know,
kind of a death of a salesman sort of thing.
But I don't know why. Maybe because I always got
(30:51):
good feedback from teachers and parents and coaches and siblings
and friends. But I was never afraid to try anything,
to ask people for help, to ask people for a meeting,
to ask people for advice, ask people to make a connection,
to ask people to get me in here or refer
(31:11):
me over here. Best advice you can get. A couple
times a week, I'll get an email from a mom
who says, hey, can you help my son do this, this,
and this? And my response is simple, I know I
sound like an ass. No, have your son contact me.
Have your son reach out to me, and I will
connect your son. Mama can't get the job because mama
can't do the job. Encourt my kids. Michael is much
(31:35):
more shocked. Crockett's more outgoing. But if we go to
a restaurant, one of them has to go in and
get the table. One of them has to They have
to speak to my friends when they come over. Teach
your kids this. It's important.
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