January 17, 2025 • 31 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time time, time lucking load. So Michael
Very Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Here is Johnny. I am the danger. I am the
one who knocks. We'll do it lit, and we'll do
it live.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Last year I spent lordle on spill liquor.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
It's far from.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
One side of this world to the other than you may.
You're talking to the rolics wearing diamond ring, wearing jets,
stealing whoa wheeling, dealing live us in rag jet, flying
sun of a gun, and I'm having a hard time
hold the alligator.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
This sleive, this one awful. She can tell about a way.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
That I was bad of the bowl, bad of the bowl,
bad of the bowler, bad the bowl.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
Let my daughter go.
Speaker 6 (01:13):
Now that will be the end of it. I will
not look for you. I will not pursue you. But
if you don't I will look for you. I will
find you, and I will kill you.
Speaker 7 (01:26):
A minute.
Speaker 8 (01:29):
That I'm bad of the bowl, bad of the ball, frere.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Bad of the ball. I want by what jain I
get you?
Speaker 2 (01:46):
I double day, Marcus, semb Marcus, You're on the Michael
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Berry Show. Bro See.
Speaker 9 (02:14):
All right, well, this election, what it meant to me
was starting my own business. I was able to uh
plan to do it in twenty twenty four. That didn't
work out, but as of literally yesterday, my insurance kicked
in for Pitch Perfect Roofing, LLC.
Speaker 10 (02:30):
And I am operational as of now.
Speaker 7 (02:33):
Good for you.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
What were you doing before, same thing.
Speaker 9 (02:38):
Just with a different company. So I was, you know,
ten ninety nine commission halfway kind of employee, but did
it for six years with him, learned the business well enough,
and it's thirty five years old. It's time for me
to step out on my own. And my first customer
is a big part of the reason I got this
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off the ground. He was willing to pay much more
than others would upfront to get the job done, which
allowed me to pay insurance, material, and labor all up front,
which I would not have otherwise.
Speaker 7 (03:10):
Been able to do.
Speaker 9 (03:11):
And the reason for that is because he trusted his
accounts and everything. His investments now much more secure now
that Trump is going to be in office. Sorry, I'm
getting emotional. It's very exciting.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
It's your life. It's uh, it's it's a lot of
emotions that we have all pushed down to avoid confronting
them because the spirit of our fellow man was broken.
Speaker 7 (03:44):
You know.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
I was talking to some guys last night about the
stock market and about their business. So two of my friends,
Ernie Cockrell and Bryan Matt mackin their business is kind
of unique and a lot of people that do this.
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They secure a site and they got to be ahead
of the curve because you got to pay pennies on
the dollar what the site's going to end up being worth.
They secure a site and then they find a client,
a customer, I don't know what term they use, and
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they build data centers.
Speaker 7 (04:29):
And so.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
These guys live in Houston, but they buy these sites
in Ohio, mostly in the Columbus area, and then they
find data centers in logistics, in transportation and information companies
and these data centers. I've learned more about data centers
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from these two than I ever imagined. But these data
centers are huge because everything is data now. You were
talking about banks a minute ago. Everything is data now,
and AI is just going to make that more of
the case. But these data centers have all this heavy equipment,
computer technology equipment, and it runs hot and it's got
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to be cooled, and they've experimented with how to cool
it and all this, but they have data centers for
I probably shouldn't say the names of the people they
have data centers for, but they have a booming business
building these data centers that then they put on a
long term lease, or they may sell it to someone else,
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or it's a very very interesting business. And we were
talking last night. Their business is blowing up right now
because and they said that the Trump victory made people
ready in their industry, and I'm hearing this from all
sorts of industries. Made people ready to investigate. Because what
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you don't do is put your money money in play.
You don't put your money at risk when there is
uncertainty as to your country and what's going to happen
to your country. You don't as a result of that,
then you know, engage in research and development and begin
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projects that are multi year projects, capital expenses. What we're
seeing now is an exuberance that comes from consumer confidence
at the retail level, at the individual level. I mean,
some of you have probably bought a new car. Okay,
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we have a new sponsor, lone Star Chevy and the
last two months they've blown up since Trump.
Speaker 7 (06:45):
One.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Guys are going in and buying a Silverado truck. You
wouldn't think that people think this way, but they do
because they were uncertain as to what's going to happen
in our country.
Speaker 7 (06:56):
Trump won.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
I'm going to buy a new Silverado truck, or I'm
going to buy a new Tahoe, or I'm going to
buy a new suburban. And that's David Patches, the guy
that runs It's exciting. People are walking in the door
with a smile on their face. They had the money before,
they could have afforded the truck or the suburban before,
but now they're ready to buy because TheInk good things
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are about to happen. If we could make people understand
the difference between who we're voting for and how that's
going to affect your life personally, your individual life, and
voting for what those people are for. If we could
get people to understand that and cast vote, we'd never
lose another election. We would never lose another election. The
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Democrats are selling doom and depression and guilt and sadness
and division and rancor we are promising and delivering happiness,
exhilaration and these things. You live longer. When you're happy,
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you you enjoy your life more more people will have jobs,
more people will make more money. There are some people
who made money to the Baden administration because they're doing
business with the government or but but you look at
people with the lower rungs, they've suffered under Bible. Michael
Perry the followed Dino spiral.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Mess.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
If you haven't seen a press conference, can't get food.
Rocky the German shepherd. There was canine assigned to bring
in the turd that ended up killing Deputy Vargas. Rocky
was shot twice and then fragments ended up in his nose.
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That's part upsets me the most because those dogs, their
sense of smell, that is their superpower. I would be
like knocking out our legs, be like knocking out Jesse Owens' legs.
I went in nineteen thirty six Olympics just out of nowhere.
I don't know where that came from. All the runners
I could have chosen Carl Lewis Houston's own, I chose
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Jesse Owens, And I'm not even sure why. Maybe just
because he pissed Hitler off by being black an American
and I kind of get a kick out of that.
So they took him to Westbury veterinary clinic. That's not
where we go. We go to a woman named Danielle
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what is her name? I don't take George there, my
wife does. But she goes over to let's see where
would where it would be my cross streets. She goes
over to it's at vas and Sam Phillippy, if you
know where that Carabas is. There's a Carabas. There's a
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buffalo grill. There's a wonderful little optometrist shop right there
called Ella Eyes. And it's a Vietnamese lady, and she
is so good and so thorough. She's a listener of ours, hardcore,
hardcore conservative. But a lot of that generation of Vietnamese
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who came over in seventy six, even if they came
over as kids, they're hard working small business owners. And
that's you know, those kind of people tend not to
be big government doomsday democrats anyway. So there is a
haircutting place in there called the Boardroom. Is going through
the show. Oh there's a great little Uh, there's a
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great little shop owned by the Hotesi. Boy is it
Stephen Holtzi. There's about a thousand Hotzi's in that one family. Uh,
Dad Gumment I can't think of which which what his
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name is. But it's a little place there called Paris, Texas,
cool little shop. And then go around the corner. You're
right behind the Carabas at this point, and there is
a veterinary clinic right in there, and I cannot think
of it. It's in between. So if you know where
the Buffalo Grill is on Sam Philippi and the uh
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Whole Foods on Voss, it's kind of in between the
two of those. And I just can't think of the
name of the clinic. Uh, Emily knows because she. One
of Emily's crazy things she does is she rescues dogs
on the side of the road. Don't even tell me.
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I already know, I've already lectured her. But she she'll
go pick up the most mangy, nasty, vile dog and
put it in her car and take it and pay
for it to be to be treated. And I keep
telling her, you just stole a street corner beggars moneymaker.
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That dog was going to be useful, and that guy
that dog is off its shift. That dog lives at
the corner of Chimney Rock in fifty nine under the
overpass with that dude, and that dog lives well because
that's his money maker. You just took it away anyway.
So Jeff Chalky is the veterinarian at Westbury Veterinary Clintic
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and that's where they took Rocky when he was shot.
Jeff Chalky, Chad reminded me, was on our show fifteen
years ago. Did you remember this city of Houston was
being stupid with some new regulation they were trying to
pass in this veterinarian. He was a brand new veterinarian
at the time, kid straight out of that school, and
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he came on the show to talk about how this
was going to effect for pet owners, how this was
going to have a deleterious effect on your pet ownership.
Shall we say? He was a great guess. He stayed
on for a while. I forgot I knew we'd had
somebody on over there. I couldn't remember what it was.
Chad remembered it like that. That may be where Chad go. Anyway,
if you follow me on Facebook, or if you just
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want to go look it up, go to my Facebook
page and see what I just put up in the
title of the post. It's a video of Jeff Chalky,
the veterinarian at Westbury Talkie and Cameron Welch is there
and then over Chalky shoulder. But you're gonna spot him
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the minute you look at the report at the prescommence yesterday,
and I wrote, Behold the resplendent glory that is us
Marshall T Michael O'Connor's mustache. This guy has the greatest
mustache and I'm told he's had that mustache for forty years.
This is not an overnight mustache. This thing, if you
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seen it, this thing is something to behold. He will
make you proud to be a Texan. You will stand
up straight like you just walked into church when you
see this mustache. You will hold your manhood cheap in
the presence of T. Michael O'Connor's mustache. Not TM Michael O'Connor.
He's a legend in and of it, so it's big,
big Aggie. He's part of the O'Connors that Charlie Robinson
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was singing about in New Year's Day. They if you
know the song and you know the reference to the O'Connors,
that's the O'Connor family he's talking about. But I don't
know T. Michael O'Connor personally. I know people who know him.
I will eventually meet him because I should. He's the
kind of guy you should know, if for no other
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reason than to be in the actual presence of his mustache.
When you see the mustache, Stuis, it's amazing. Our system
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Speaker 1 (15:21):
Wayln Janning, Waylon Janning, Waylon Janning, Waylan Janning.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
You know with the B side this songs, Bob Willis
is still the King. You think about where Whalan's head was.
This was from the Dream of My Dreams album. Understand
You think about where Whalan was in nineteen seventy five.
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This is this is part of the seeds that led
to the outlaw country movement as it came to be known.
Speaker 7 (16:13):
This was.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Whalan's mind getting ready for to move country music, his
style of country music from Nashville to Texas to Austin.
Every single artist today who plays the Austin scene, country artists,
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especially and kind of country folk Americana Leon Bridges, even
these folks should all be thinking in song Willie and
Whalon and Tom Paul because this was the moment where
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they're saying that Nashville sound is. It's it's all cookie cutter.
Oh and you're great, But we're not. We're not doing that.
We're going to blaze a trail where real artists. We're
not just people who walk in and sing what some
guy in New York wrote, because well because because that's
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what they do, and that is the country music that
I love. And you look at you look at the
songwriting that comes out of that era, and of course
you got to bring Hank Junior into that. That's real song.
Those aren't Those aren't just your basic love song? Are
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your basic Me and my girls going down the red
dirt road wearing cut off blue jeans in my truck
with her name on the side of the door, down
to the river to be down there and be happy
and sang songs because we live in a small town,
just a small town. It's a small towns where we
lives in a small town. We do small town people
in a small town being small town y'all. Byee, I'm okay,
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that's funny because you're from Connecticut. Yeah, this music right
here right there. How about how about taking a shot
at Willie without ever having to say his name? With
Bob Willis is still a king. How about telling the
whole world? Hey, Uh, Willie's got too big for his breeches. Okay,
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just so y'all know, Willie's got too damn big for
his breeches, and uh, somebody needs to rein him in
if he's not going to do it himself because he
thinks he's the king of all time. Whalon did not
like Willie. There are lots of references to he appreciated
his music, his songwriting, his performances, his artistry. But uh,
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he said on several occasions, and he ain't the only
one that he would never do business with Willie again
because Willie's not to be trusted. There's a lot going
on at that time. It's a very exciting time, in
my opinion, very exciting time for kind of music I like,
and so many things that go with that, so so many,
so many in so many people, artists, cultures, Uh surrounding
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that anyway, Uh, did I mention tem Michael O'Connor's mustache,
Now that thing right there, that's something that's.
Speaker 9 (19:43):
That is Uh.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Somebody compared it on Facebook to Samuel to Sam Elliott's.
First of all, Sam Elliott's an idiot who supported Biden.
But let's just let his beer his mustache stand on
his own. Sam Elliott has a respectable mustache, don't get
me wrong, but you don't understand Sam Elliott's mustache does
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not have parts of it that come off the face.
The mustache is all either touching his face or adjacent
to a hair that's touching his face. T Michael O'Connor
his mustache. It's going every different direction. It is complete
and utter independence. It's on the left sides over here's
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some of it is almost poking into his eye, some
of us down under his chin, some of it is
wrapped almost around his ear. And yet, and yet, there
is a strange sense of order to the fact that
this thing is out there just running wild. It's like
you ever seen when these when these mustangs, these horses
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are out, there'll be a sweeping shot a cross across
the terrain of Texas and mustangs will be a whole
herd of them. And if you just glance at it
looks like a bunch of horses running wild. But there
is a certain orderliness to how they do that. And
that's his mustache.
Speaker 7 (21:16):
It is there.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Really, it really needs to become like a character in
a movie. His mustache alone, not not him his mustache,
it's its own independent thing that operates in a symbiotic
relationship with t Michael O'Connor. I'm so, I'm so in
awe of his mustache, and I have such admiration of
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him for this mustache. Do you know how much work?
I mean, you got your beard, just your beard? How
much this thing? I mean, gosh, Oh, it is a
labor of love to have something like that. Can you
imagine how many times in a day people ask him
stupid questions. Our assistant Emily is tatted up. I mean,
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she's got every part of her body that we've seen,
which is the public parts, is tatted up. Lord knows
what the rest has got going on, but it's tattoos.
She got tattoos on her hands, She got tattoos on
the palm of her hands. I can't understand any of it.
I don't like tattoos, but I've decided to just not
let it bother me, which is good. And what was
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I going to say? Oh, she gets aggravated that people
ask dumb questions about her tattoos, and I'm going, uh,
can you imagine how many dumb questions to Michael O'Connor
gets about that mustache? How do you eat? Does food
get any how you kiss?
Speaker 7 (22:42):
Your wife?
Speaker 9 (22:43):
Is there?
Speaker 4 (22:44):
Every time?
Speaker 2 (22:44):
It gets hung up on things? Man, you got a
mustache like that? It is a labor of love, a
full time. You gotta be a pro man. It'd be
like having a two by four coming out of your
rib cage about four feet just wherever you go. You've
got to be careful that that thing doesn't get hung
up going through you know, through the door. I mean
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that mustache you got to be Now, you gotta work
at that. I wonder how long that thing takes to
dry after he comes out of the shower. The Michael
Show comic values a million dollar record sales. Now, all right, ramon,
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you get to be in the catbird seat. Jim Mudd
sent me a take one off, put one on.
Speaker 7 (23:43):
Now.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Unlike you, he had plenty of time to sit and
think about it. I like to throw mine at you
real fast where you have to give your first answer
and then you end up regretting it, and that's and
people pile on and call you an idiot. That brings
me a lot of joy. So this is his take
one off, put one on that I'm gonna let you
do the take one on, take one off, put one
on of best mustaches, and his list, I don't know
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if this is in order or if this is just
three of them won there, but his list has at
number three Tom Selleck, number two Albert Einstein, and number
one Mark Twain. Twain had a hell of a mustache,
hell of a mustache. While you're thinking about it, I'm
going to tell you somebody else had a hell of
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mustache that deserves mentioned at this point, and that was
my good friend Red Duke. That was a fantastic mustache.
Fantastic and Red Duke, a lot of people don't know this.
Red Duke was skinny, really really skinny, and he had
he had his eyeglasses would always slide down his nose
a little, so sometimes he'd lean, he'd lean his nose down,
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he'd he'd tilt his nose down a little, look over
his glasses at you in the way old men used
to do that. And because he's tall, well lolock eh,
I don't know that in some way exaggerated the features
of the mustache.
Speaker 7 (25:05):
What are you doing?
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Somebody come in, take off Mark Twain, okay, and put
on Burt Reynolds. Oh, why don't you sit this one out?
Speaker 8 (25:17):
That was not.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
You were plaguing to me. You thought I would think
Burt Reynolds had a better mustache than Mark Twain, Salvador Dali. No,
see that's now you're getting off into the roleygh fingers category, right,
the pencil thin mustache. You know that it comes down
and the hand of bars and all that. The beauty
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of t. Michael O'Connor's mustache is that it doesn't do
all that. His is more Pete Vukovich style. His is
more uh it is. It is a contrived, unkempt So
if you look at it, you go, well, he had
twirled anything. He hadn't putting beard aill on it. He's
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not managing that thing. But in fact, it's like it's
like a character in a movie. Brad Pitt pulls this
off sometimes that he's intended to look kind of disheveled,
but it works perfectly. It's all, it's all been staged.
His mustache looks like it's unkempt. And if you didn't
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know any better, but that is all by design. To
tell you this man will put a bullet in your
head if he has to, but he will do it honorably.
And then he will dig in the dirt and bury you.
And then he will get down on one knee and
pray over your soul, will pray for the future of
your soul. But you will be dead. Just know that
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he will kill you if he has to, but then
he'll do the the You know, all these wonderful things
after that is all conveyed through a mustache. It's not
easy to convey so many things in a mustache the
way t Michael O'Connor must have based things. But he does.
And that's what's amazing. Justin You're old, Michael Berry, show
what you got.
Speaker 5 (27:07):
I was just listen to talk about Trump and come
back an office. Yeah, go ahead streaming that. I'm surely
happy he's back. But I just thinking, like one hundred
hundred fifty years ago, the average joe walking down the
road and know the problems with central bank and debt
based money, so would killed the first Bank of America,
the second Bank of America, and they formed the third
winn in secret. And I hope that this guy takes
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the chance to break the wheel, because one day they're
going to come off this train, and we can pick
how it happens, or we can deal with it happening.
So that's my hope is that he goes in there
and takes a wrecking ball to certain powers that be
and we all end up better for it.
Speaker 7 (27:48):
You know.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
That's that's his uh, what's the word, h that's his mandate.
The good news is when when Trump begins to do
what he's going to do, when the actions actually occur,
because he's going to do it, and they will begin screeching.
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The good news is everybody knew it was coming. If
you voted for Trump, you knew he was going in
there with a wrecking ball because we've got to tear
this thing down to build it back. And there will
be no surprises when that happens. That will be no
surprises at all, that is for certain. Justin what do
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you do for a living?
Speaker 7 (28:38):
I have an electrical company, but I spend as much
time down the rabbit holes of history.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
You have a what company?
Speaker 7 (28:46):
An electrical serpany what just happened?
Speaker 9 (28:52):
What?
Speaker 7 (28:53):
I don't know? An electrical company?
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Somebody else is on that line. Did you didn't hear
anybody else on there? I'm hearing voices. Okay, all right?
Uh is the electrical company successful?
Speaker 7 (29:11):
Yes, sir, Tom, I surprise.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Did you inherit it or did you build it yourself?
Speaker 7 (29:17):
No, no, I've built it. I never thought i'd i'd
own a company and it ended up I ended up
starting one.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
What's it called.
Speaker 7 (29:29):
Dur It Tech Instrument Electric?
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Are you able to hear him? Are we down too low?
Do I need to turn I don't want to turn
it up? And in the next one blast I cannot
hear him. He might be a mumbler though.
Speaker 7 (29:40):
What is the name of it?
Speaker 10 (29:42):
Dura texs Instrument Electric.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Dura Text, Dura Tech Instruments and Electric. Yes, sir, what
are the intertext?
Speaker 7 (29:51):
Do you r at X?
Speaker 9 (29:54):
So?
Speaker 10 (29:55):
If you want to measure pressure, or you want.
Speaker 9 (29:57):
To measure volume, or you want to measure heat or
level in a tank, that also requires different kind of instruments.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
So give me the name of three instruments that I
may not have heard of that have a cool name,
that measure stuff and what do they measure?
Speaker 10 (30:13):
Sub tank radar, Rosemont Heart Control Microsystems thirty forty two.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
You work on all those?
Speaker 7 (30:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (30:24):
You kind of a tinker.
Speaker 7 (30:27):
Yeah, that's how I ended up doing this.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Well, I'm interested because I I can't fix dinner. I
mean I can't imagine.
Speaker 7 (30:35):
I can't.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
I couldn't. I couldn't work on any kind of instrument.
I couldn't do any good. I break stuff, I don't
fix it. I'm not. It's just I think there are
certain people who are wired to be solution providers of
instruments and systems and things like that, and you obviously have.
You've probably been that way since you were a kid.
Speaker 7 (30:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (30:56):
I got in trouble a while ago. Sort it's tanning
a part of the robot vacuum cleaner because.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
It wouldn't work at your house. I was like, yeah,
are you one of those people that tear stuff apart
and then leaves it halfway put back together?
Speaker 10 (31:11):
I mean sometimes there's extra pieces.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
At least he's honest, And there's nothing that you're afraid
of tearing down to figure out what's wrong and put
it back together like nothing, there's nothing you won't touch.
Speaker 7 (31:26):
What what happened?
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Oh we're up against the brain. I gotta go. Sorry,
It's that time time time, time lucking load. So Michael
Very Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Here is Johnny. I am the danger. I am the
one who knocks. We'll do it lit, and we'll do
it live.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Last year I spent lordle on spill liquor.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
It's far from.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
One side of this world to the other than you may.
You're talking to the rolics wearing diamond ring, wearing jets,
stealing whoa wheeling, dealing live us in rag jet, flying
sun of a gun, and I'm having a hard time
hold the alligator.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
This sleive, this one awful. She can tell about a way.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
That I was bad of the bowl, bad of the bowl,
bad of the bowler, bad the bowl.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
Let my daughter go.
Speaker 6 (01:13):
Now that will be the end of it. I will
not look for you. I will not pursue you. But
if you don't I will look for you. I will
find you, and I will kill you.
Speaker 7 (01:26):
A minute.
Speaker 8 (01:29):
That I'm bad of the bowl, bad of the ball, frere.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Bad of the ball. I want by what jain I
get you?
Speaker 2 (01:46):
I double day, Marcus, semb Marcus, You're on the Michael
(02:09):
Berry Show. Bro See.
Speaker 9 (02:14):
All right, well, this election, what it meant to me
was starting my own business. I was able to uh
plan to do it in twenty twenty four. That didn't
work out, but as of literally yesterday, my insurance kicked
in for Pitch Perfect Roofing, LLC.
Speaker 10 (02:30):
And I am operational as of now.
Speaker 7 (02:33):
Good for you.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
What were you doing before, same thing.
Speaker 9 (02:38):
Just with a different company. So I was, you know,
ten ninety nine commission halfway kind of employee, but did
it for six years with him, learned the business well enough,
and it's thirty five years old. It's time for me
to step out on my own. And my first customer
is a big part of the reason I got this
(02:58):
off the ground. He was willing to pay much more
than others would upfront to get the job done, which
allowed me to pay insurance, material, and labor all up front,
which I would not have otherwise.
Speaker 7 (03:10):
Been able to do.
Speaker 9 (03:11):
And the reason for that is because he trusted his
accounts and everything. His investments now much more secure now
that Trump is going to be in office. Sorry, I'm
getting emotional. It's very exciting.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
It's your life. It's uh, it's it's a lot of
emotions that we have all pushed down to avoid confronting
them because the spirit of our fellow man was broken.
Speaker 7 (03:44):
You know.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
I was talking to some guys last night about the
stock market and about their business. So two of my friends,
Ernie Cockrell and Bryan Matt mackin their business is kind
of unique and a lot of people that do this.
(04:05):
They secure a site and they got to be ahead
of the curve because you got to pay pennies on
the dollar what the site's going to end up being worth.
They secure a site and then they find a client,
a customer, I don't know what term they use, and
(04:26):
they build data centers.
Speaker 7 (04:29):
And so.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
These guys live in Houston, but they buy these sites
in Ohio, mostly in the Columbus area, and then they
find data centers in logistics, in transportation and information companies
and these data centers. I've learned more about data centers
(04:51):
from these two than I ever imagined. But these data
centers are huge because everything is data now. You were
talking about banks a minute ago. Everything is data now,
and AI is just going to make that more of
the case. But these data centers have all this heavy equipment,
computer technology equipment, and it runs hot and it's got
(05:14):
to be cooled, and they've experimented with how to cool
it and all this, but they have data centers for
I probably shouldn't say the names of the people they
have data centers for, but they have a booming business
building these data centers that then they put on a
long term lease, or they may sell it to someone else,
(05:35):
or it's a very very interesting business. And we were
talking last night. Their business is blowing up right now
because and they said that the Trump victory made people
ready in their industry, and I'm hearing this from all
sorts of industries. Made people ready to investigate. Because what
(05:57):
you don't do is put your money money in play.
You don't put your money at risk when there is
uncertainty as to your country and what's going to happen
to your country. You don't as a result of that,
then you know, engage in research and development and begin
(06:18):
projects that are multi year projects, capital expenses. What we're
seeing now is an exuberance that comes from consumer confidence
at the retail level, at the individual level. I mean,
some of you have probably bought a new car. Okay,
(06:38):
we have a new sponsor, lone Star Chevy and the
last two months they've blown up since Trump.
Speaker 7 (06:45):
One.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Guys are going in and buying a Silverado truck. You
wouldn't think that people think this way, but they do
because they were uncertain as to what's going to happen
in our country.
Speaker 7 (06:56):
Trump won.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
I'm going to buy a new Silverado truck, or I'm
going to buy a new Tahoe, or I'm going to
buy a new suburban. And that's David Patches, the guy
that runs It's exciting. People are walking in the door
with a smile on their face. They had the money before,
they could have afforded the truck or the suburban before,
but now they're ready to buy because TheInk good things
(07:21):
are about to happen. If we could make people understand
the difference between who we're voting for and how that's
going to affect your life personally, your individual life, and
voting for what those people are for. If we could
get people to understand that and cast vote, we'd never
lose another election. We would never lose another election. The
(07:43):
Democrats are selling doom and depression and guilt and sadness
and division and rancor we are promising and delivering happiness,
exhilaration and these things. You live longer. When you're happy,
(08:05):
you you enjoy your life more more people will have jobs,
more people will make more money. There are some people
who made money to the Baden administration because they're doing
business with the government or but but you look at
people with the lower rungs, they've suffered under Bible. Michael
Perry the followed Dino spiral.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Mess.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
If you haven't seen a press conference, can't get food.
Rocky the German shepherd. There was canine assigned to bring
in the turd that ended up killing Deputy Vargas. Rocky
was shot twice and then fragments ended up in his nose.
(09:12):
That's part upsets me the most because those dogs, their
sense of smell, that is their superpower. I would be
like knocking out our legs, be like knocking out Jesse Owens' legs.
I went in nineteen thirty six Olympics just out of nowhere.
I don't know where that came from. All the runners
I could have chosen Carl Lewis Houston's own, I chose
(09:34):
Jesse Owens, And I'm not even sure why. Maybe just
because he pissed Hitler off by being black an American
and I kind of get a kick out of that.
So they took him to Westbury veterinary clinic. That's not
where we go. We go to a woman named Danielle
(09:55):
what is her name? I don't take George there, my
wife does. But she goes over to let's see where
would where it would be my cross streets. She goes
over to it's at vas and Sam Phillippy, if you
know where that Carabas is. There's a Carabas. There's a
(10:18):
buffalo grill. There's a wonderful little optometrist shop right there
called Ella Eyes. And it's a Vietnamese lady, and she
is so good and so thorough. She's a listener of ours, hardcore,
hardcore conservative. But a lot of that generation of Vietnamese
(10:40):
who came over in seventy six, even if they came
over as kids, they're hard working small business owners. And
that's you know, those kind of people tend not to
be big government doomsday democrats anyway. So there is a
haircutting place in there called the Boardroom. Is going through
the show. Oh there's a great little Uh, there's a
(11:03):
great little shop owned by the Hotesi. Boy is it
Stephen Holtzi. There's about a thousand Hotzi's in that one family. Uh,
Dad Gumment I can't think of which which what his
(11:23):
name is. But it's a little place there called Paris, Texas,
cool little shop. And then go around the corner. You're
right behind the Carabas at this point, and there is
a veterinary clinic right in there, and I cannot think
of it. It's in between. So if you know where
the Buffalo Grill is on Sam Philippi and the uh
(11:44):
Whole Foods on Voss, it's kind of in between the
two of those. And I just can't think of the
name of the clinic. Uh, Emily knows because she. One
of Emily's crazy things she does is she rescues dogs
on the side of the road. Don't even tell me.
(12:06):
I already know, I've already lectured her. But she she'll
go pick up the most mangy, nasty, vile dog and
put it in her car and take it and pay
for it to be to be treated. And I keep
telling her, you just stole a street corner beggars moneymaker.
(12:29):
That dog was going to be useful, and that guy
that dog is off its shift. That dog lives at
the corner of Chimney Rock in fifty nine under the
overpass with that dude, and that dog lives well because
that's his money maker. You just took it away anyway.
So Jeff Chalky is the veterinarian at Westbury Veterinary Clintic
(12:56):
and that's where they took Rocky when he was shot.
Jeff Chalky, Chad reminded me, was on our show fifteen
years ago. Did you remember this city of Houston was
being stupid with some new regulation they were trying to
pass in this veterinarian. He was a brand new veterinarian
at the time, kid straight out of that school, and
(13:18):
he came on the show to talk about how this
was going to effect for pet owners, how this was
going to have a deleterious effect on your pet ownership.
Shall we say? He was a great guess. He stayed
on for a while. I forgot I knew we'd had
somebody on over there. I couldn't remember what it was.
Chad remembered it like that. That may be where Chad go. Anyway,
if you follow me on Facebook, or if you just
(13:40):
want to go look it up, go to my Facebook
page and see what I just put up in the
title of the post. It's a video of Jeff Chalky,
the veterinarian at Westbury Talkie and Cameron Welch is there
and then over Chalky shoulder. But you're gonna spot him
(14:01):
the minute you look at the report at the prescommence yesterday,
and I wrote, Behold the resplendent glory that is us
Marshall T Michael O'Connor's mustache. This guy has the greatest
mustache and I'm told he's had that mustache for forty years.
This is not an overnight mustache. This thing, if you
(14:24):
seen it, this thing is something to behold. He will
make you proud to be a Texan. You will stand
up straight like you just walked into church when you
see this mustache. You will hold your manhood cheap in
the presence of T. Michael O'Connor's mustache. Not TM Michael O'Connor.
He's a legend in and of it, so it's big,
big Aggie. He's part of the O'Connors that Charlie Robinson
(14:49):
was singing about in New Year's Day. They if you
know the song and you know the reference to the O'Connors,
that's the O'Connor family he's talking about. But I don't
know T. Michael O'Connor personally. I know people who know him.
I will eventually meet him because I should. He's the
kind of guy you should know, if for no other
(15:10):
reason than to be in the actual presence of his mustache.
When you see the mustache, Stuis, it's amazing. Our system
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Speaker 1 (15:21):
Wayln Janning, Waylon Janning, Waylon Janning, Waylan Janning.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
You know with the B side this songs, Bob Willis
is still the King. You think about where Whalan's head was.
This was from the Dream of My Dreams album. Understand
You think about where Whalan was in nineteen seventy five.
(15:59):
This is this is part of the seeds that led
to the outlaw country movement as it came to be known.
Speaker 7 (16:13):
This was.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Whalan's mind getting ready for to move country music, his
style of country music from Nashville to Texas to Austin.
Every single artist today who plays the Austin scene, country artists,
(16:44):
especially and kind of country folk Americana Leon Bridges, even
these folks should all be thinking in song Willie and
Whalon and Tom Paul because this was the moment where
(17:07):
they're saying that Nashville sound is. It's it's all cookie cutter.
Oh and you're great, But we're not. We're not doing that.
We're going to blaze a trail where real artists. We're
not just people who walk in and sing what some
guy in New York wrote, because well because because that's
(17:30):
what they do, and that is the country music that
I love. And you look at you look at the
songwriting that comes out of that era, and of course
you got to bring Hank Junior into that. That's real song.
Those aren't Those aren't just your basic love song? Are
(17:50):
your basic Me and my girls going down the red
dirt road wearing cut off blue jeans in my truck
with her name on the side of the door, down
to the river to be down there and be happy
and sang songs because we live in a small town,
just a small town. It's a small towns where we
lives in a small town. We do small town people
in a small town being small town y'all. Byee, I'm okay,
(18:13):
that's funny because you're from Connecticut. Yeah, this music right
here right there. How about how about taking a shot
at Willie without ever having to say his name? With
Bob Willis is still a king. How about telling the
whole world? Hey, Uh, Willie's got too big for his breeches. Okay,
(18:38):
just so y'all know, Willie's got too damn big for
his breeches, and uh, somebody needs to rein him in
if he's not going to do it himself because he
thinks he's the king of all time. Whalon did not
like Willie. There are lots of references to he appreciated
his music, his songwriting, his performances, his artistry. But uh,
(19:07):
he said on several occasions, and he ain't the only
one that he would never do business with Willie again
because Willie's not to be trusted. There's a lot going
on at that time. It's a very exciting time, in
my opinion, very exciting time for kind of music I like,
and so many things that go with that, so so many,
so many in so many people, artists, cultures, Uh surrounding
(19:31):
that anyway, Uh, did I mention tem Michael O'Connor's mustache,
Now that thing right there, that's something that's.
Speaker 9 (19:43):
That is Uh.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Somebody compared it on Facebook to Samuel to Sam Elliott's.
First of all, Sam Elliott's an idiot who supported Biden.
But let's just let his beer his mustache stand on
his own. Sam Elliott has a respectable mustache, don't get
me wrong, but you don't understand Sam Elliott's mustache does
(20:06):
not have parts of it that come off the face.
The mustache is all either touching his face or adjacent
to a hair that's touching his face. T Michael O'Connor
his mustache. It's going every different direction. It is complete
and utter independence. It's on the left sides over here's
(20:31):
some of it is almost poking into his eye, some
of us down under his chin, some of it is
wrapped almost around his ear. And yet, and yet, there
is a strange sense of order to the fact that
this thing is out there just running wild. It's like
you ever seen when these when these mustangs, these horses
(20:55):
are out, there'll be a sweeping shot a cross across
the terrain of Texas and mustangs will be a whole
herd of them. And if you just glance at it
looks like a bunch of horses running wild. But there
is a certain orderliness to how they do that. And
that's his mustache.
Speaker 7 (21:16):
It is there.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Really, it really needs to become like a character in
a movie. His mustache alone, not not him his mustache,
it's its own independent thing that operates in a symbiotic
relationship with t Michael O'Connor. I'm so, I'm so in
awe of his mustache, and I have such admiration of
(21:40):
him for this mustache. Do you know how much work?
I mean, you got your beard, just your beard? How
much this thing? I mean, gosh, Oh, it is a
labor of love to have something like that. Can you
imagine how many times in a day people ask him
stupid questions. Our assistant Emily is tatted up. I mean,
(22:03):
she's got every part of her body that we've seen,
which is the public parts, is tatted up. Lord knows
what the rest has got going on, but it's tattoos.
She got tattoos on her hands, She got tattoos on
the palm of her hands. I can't understand any of it.
I don't like tattoos, but I've decided to just not
let it bother me, which is good. And what was
(22:24):
I going to say? Oh, she gets aggravated that people
ask dumb questions about her tattoos, and I'm going, uh,
can you imagine how many dumb questions to Michael O'Connor
gets about that mustache? How do you eat? Does food
get any how you kiss?
Speaker 7 (22:42):
Your wife?
Speaker 9 (22:43):
Is there?
Speaker 4 (22:44):
Every time?
Speaker 2 (22:44):
It gets hung up on things? Man, you got a
mustache like that? It is a labor of love, a
full time. You gotta be a pro man. It'd be
like having a two by four coming out of your
rib cage about four feet just wherever you go. You've
got to be careful that that thing doesn't get hung
up going through you know, through the door. I mean
(23:09):
that mustache you got to be Now, you gotta work
at that. I wonder how long that thing takes to
dry after he comes out of the shower. The Michael
Show comic values a million dollar record sales. Now, all right, ramon,
(23:35):
you get to be in the catbird seat. Jim Mudd
sent me a take one off, put one on.
Speaker 7 (23:43):
Now.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Unlike you, he had plenty of time to sit and
think about it. I like to throw mine at you
real fast where you have to give your first answer
and then you end up regretting it, and that's and
people pile on and call you an idiot. That brings
me a lot of joy. So this is his take
one off, put one on that I'm gonna let you
do the take one on, take one off, put one
on of best mustaches, and his list, I don't know
(24:06):
if this is in order or if this is just
three of them won there, but his list has at
number three Tom Selleck, number two Albert Einstein, and number
one Mark Twain. Twain had a hell of a mustache,
hell of a mustache. While you're thinking about it, I'm
going to tell you somebody else had a hell of
(24:28):
mustache that deserves mentioned at this point, and that was
my good friend Red Duke. That was a fantastic mustache.
Fantastic and Red Duke, a lot of people don't know this.
Red Duke was skinny, really really skinny, and he had
he had his eyeglasses would always slide down his nose
a little, so sometimes he'd lean, he'd lean his nose down,
(24:49):
he'd he'd tilt his nose down a little, look over
his glasses at you in the way old men used
to do that. And because he's tall, well lolock eh,
I don't know that in some way exaggerated the features
of the mustache.
Speaker 7 (25:05):
What are you doing?
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Somebody come in, take off Mark Twain, okay, and put
on Burt Reynolds. Oh, why don't you sit this one out?
Speaker 8 (25:17):
That was not.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
You were plaguing to me. You thought I would think
Burt Reynolds had a better mustache than Mark Twain, Salvador Dali. No,
see that's now you're getting off into the roleygh fingers category, right,
the pencil thin mustache. You know that it comes down
and the hand of bars and all that. The beauty
(25:42):
of t. Michael O'Connor's mustache is that it doesn't do
all that. His is more Pete Vukovich style. His is
more uh it is. It is a contrived, unkempt So
if you look at it, you go, well, he had
twirled anything. He hadn't putting beard aill on it. He's
(26:03):
not managing that thing. But in fact, it's like it's
like a character in a movie. Brad Pitt pulls this
off sometimes that he's intended to look kind of disheveled,
but it works perfectly. It's all, it's all been staged.
His mustache looks like it's unkempt. And if you didn't
(26:25):
know any better, but that is all by design. To
tell you this man will put a bullet in your
head if he has to, but he will do it honorably.
And then he will dig in the dirt and bury you.
And then he will get down on one knee and
pray over your soul, will pray for the future of
your soul. But you will be dead. Just know that
(26:45):
he will kill you if he has to, but then
he'll do the the You know, all these wonderful things
after that is all conveyed through a mustache. It's not
easy to convey so many things in a mustache the
way t Michael O'Connor must have based things. But he does.
And that's what's amazing. Justin You're old, Michael Berry, show
what you got.
Speaker 5 (27:07):
I was just listen to talk about Trump and come
back an office. Yeah, go ahead streaming that. I'm surely
happy he's back. But I just thinking, like one hundred
hundred fifty years ago, the average joe walking down the
road and know the problems with central bank and debt
based money, so would killed the first Bank of America,
the second Bank of America, and they formed the third
winn in secret. And I hope that this guy takes
(27:29):
the chance to break the wheel, because one day they're
going to come off this train, and we can pick
how it happens, or we can deal with it happening.
So that's my hope is that he goes in there
and takes a wrecking ball to certain powers that be
and we all end up better for it.
Speaker 7 (27:48):
You know.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
That's that's his uh, what's the word, h that's his mandate.
The good news is when when Trump begins to do
what he's going to do, when the actions actually occur,
because he's going to do it, and they will begin screeching.
(28:15):
The good news is everybody knew it was coming. If
you voted for Trump, you knew he was going in
there with a wrecking ball because we've got to tear
this thing down to build it back. And there will
be no surprises when that happens. That will be no
surprises at all, that is for certain. Justin what do
(28:35):
you do for a living?
Speaker 7 (28:38):
I have an electrical company, but I spend as much
time down the rabbit holes of history.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
You have a what company?
Speaker 7 (28:46):
An electrical serpany what just happened?
Speaker 9 (28:52):
What?
Speaker 7 (28:53):
I don't know? An electrical company?
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Somebody else is on that line. Did you didn't hear
anybody else on there? I'm hearing voices. Okay, all right?
Uh is the electrical company successful?
Speaker 7 (29:11):
Yes, sir, Tom, I surprise.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Did you inherit it or did you build it yourself?
Speaker 7 (29:17):
No, no, I've built it. I never thought i'd i'd
own a company and it ended up I ended up
starting one.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
What's it called.
Speaker 7 (29:29):
Dur It Tech Instrument Electric?
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Are you able to hear him? Are we down too low?
Do I need to turn I don't want to turn
it up? And in the next one blast I cannot
hear him. He might be a mumbler though.
Speaker 7 (29:40):
What is the name of it?
Speaker 10 (29:42):
Dura texs Instrument Electric.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Dura Text, Dura Tech Instruments and Electric. Yes, sir, what
are the intertext?
Speaker 7 (29:51):
Do you r at X?
Speaker 9 (29:54):
So?
Speaker 10 (29:55):
If you want to measure pressure, or you want.
Speaker 9 (29:57):
To measure volume, or you want to measure heat or
level in a tank, that also requires different kind of instruments.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
So give me the name of three instruments that I
may not have heard of that have a cool name,
that measure stuff and what do they measure?
Speaker 10 (30:13):
Sub tank radar, Rosemont Heart Control Microsystems thirty forty two.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
You work on all those?
Speaker 7 (30:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (30:24):
You kind of a tinker.
Speaker 7 (30:27):
Yeah, that's how I ended up doing this.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Well, I'm interested because I I can't fix dinner. I
mean I can't imagine.
Speaker 7 (30:35):
I can't.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
I couldn't. I couldn't work on any kind of instrument.
I couldn't do any good. I break stuff, I don't
fix it. I'm not. It's just I think there are
certain people who are wired to be solution providers of
instruments and systems and things like that, and you obviously have.
You've probably been that way since you were a kid.
Speaker 7 (30:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (30:56):
I got in trouble a while ago. Sort it's tanning
a part of the robot vacuum cleaner because.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
It wouldn't work at your house. I was like, yeah,
are you one of those people that tear stuff apart
and then leaves it halfway put back together?
Speaker 10 (31:11):
I mean sometimes there's extra pieces.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
At least he's honest, And there's nothing that you're afraid
of tearing down to figure out what's wrong and put
it back together like nothing, there's nothing you won't touch.
Speaker 7 (31:26):
What what happened?
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Oh we're up against the brain. I gotta go. Sorry,
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