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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. Michael
Very Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Gay, I want you to say what you put made in?
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Brother?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hey, I got Bob, so any other I'm here?
Speaker 1 (00:18):
You say, yeah, show you the money.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
So show me the money.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Show me the money. Yeah, getter, show me the money.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
That's it problem. Show me the money, Jared, show.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Me the money, Jared.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Be Yeah.
Speaker 5 (00:37):
Look at the unfair trade practices that we have. Fifty
percent from the European Union on American dairy. You have
a seven hundred percent tarraf from Japan on American rice.
You have a one hundred percent tariff from India on
American agricultural products. You have nearly a three hundred percent
terraf from Canada on American butter and American cheese. This
makes it virtually impossible for American products to be imported
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into these markets, and it has put a lot of
Americans out of business and out of work over the
past several decades. So it's time for reciprocity.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
It's been a lot.
Speaker 6 (01:12):
A lot time coming.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Let's chase ball. Come, yes, it will.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
We've seen some of our most imbalanced trading partners come
forward and want to drop their tariffs. So by President
Trump pushing forward with a tariff plan, reciprocal tariffs. If
you drop yours will drop hours. We are already seeing
some of the worst defenders come in.
Speaker 6 (01:42):
Love lot time coming. Let's chase come.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
President Trump's created a win win situation here.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Either the tariff barriers.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Come down, the US can export more, trade is fairer.
It's always been free, but not fairer, and then we
or if they don't do it, we'll take in substantial revenues.
Speaker 6 (02:15):
It's been a love.
Speaker 7 (02:19):
Time coming, but I love.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Chase Gold come, yes.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
It will.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
We have to care about Americans.
Speaker 8 (02:31):
You know the global view that says if I move
car manufacturing out of Michigan, out of Ohio to Mexico
to Canada does not lower our costs. It does, But
what does it do to Americans who live in Michigan
and Ohio.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
You know what it does. It decimates their community.
Speaker 8 (02:46):
You lose a US steel from Pittsburgh, you are going
to blitz Pittsburgh and that whole community.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
So someone's got to care about these workers. Someone's got
to care about these people.
Speaker 8 (02:55):
And the combination of bringing that back, the manufacturing back,
or you don't want to bring it back, pay the
tariffrom the way in the door.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
That time that.
Speaker 6 (03:07):
I thought I could.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Be low, now gonna be.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Carry.
Speaker 6 (03:21):
It's been a long.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
A long time coming, but I love.
Speaker 6 (03:31):
Change all come.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
It's a liberation day. If you think about American dairy
is good dairy. It's well regarded, well respected, and our
agricultural output Archer Daniel's Midland a d M refers to
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themselves as a supermarket to the world. Now they engage
in some practices I don't like, yes a lot, But
when you talk about America's industrial heft, America's economic prowess,
you can't imagine how many places we can't ship our
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products that want The consumer wants our product. We can
deliver our product, if not the cheapest, We're very rarely
the cheapest. Anything we do in the United States is
very rarely the cheapest. But we can deliver our product
that will compete based on quality, and the consumer would
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want it. And the consumer not that we can't sell
products to poor people in third world countries. We just can't.
There's not going to happen. The price, the economics will
ever work out. But the well to do in third
world countries want our products. We were in Japan at Christmas,
and if somebody's driving a non Japanese car, especially if
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they're having an American car, it's a sign of stature
that you can afford. I had a classmate University of Houston,
hutim Obo Sonena, and he his father was like the
vice president at one point, and he imported Cadillacs into Sudan.
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That was his business for many years. He's now diversified
into other things, but that was what he did because
there was such a It was probably I don't know,
the tariff might have been a thousand percent. You pay
ten times what you'd pay for the actual automobile. But
if somebody's you know, if somebody has one hundred million
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dollars and they want to be the only person has
a Cadillac Escalator, they'll pay for it. The world has
been shut off to our companies, and most people didn't
even know this. Our dairy. You heard Catherine Levitt Levitt
say what about our rice? Why can't we send our
rice into Japan? Yo know that that little bit. I
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think it was seven hundred percent, which means multiply at
time seven. So if we sold them a bag of
rice for a dollar, we'd have to tack on seven
dollars in taxes to the government, a duty excise or
custom duty. That's what a tariff is. So we'd have
to sell our product for eight dollars a bag instead
of one dollar, which is what we're able to do
it because we had seven hundred percent tariff, which basically
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closes off the market. What I find odd about that
is I love Japanese rice. Japanese rice in Japan has
a sort of milky appearance and a slightly wetter feel,
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and it's a little bit sticky. We need to ask
Chad because Chad will be able to explain this better
than I am because he's lived there. But I really
like Japanese rice. American rice can tend to be very fluffy,
so much so that it's almost like not tabuli. What
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is the what is the grain? It's a real dry,
almost like a dusty grain. What is that called in
the tabuli family? To Middle Eastern grain?
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Dang it?
Speaker 1 (07:27):
I can't remember. By the way the phone lines are open,
I don't really want an answer to what I'm talking about.
But if you have something you want to call about
seven one three nine nine nine one thousand, seven one
three nine nine nine one thousand. Okay, So Japanese rice
I really like because it has it's sticky, so it
tends to clump and it makes it a little easier
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if I I'm are you a fork or a spoon guy?
I'm a fork guy? Correct, And so if I'm eating
something with a fork, and American rice tends to be
fluffy er, it separates into you know, grain by grain,
Japanese rice tends to clump. That stickiness pulls it together,
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and I like that. So I don't know why they're
having to fight to keep our rice out. It doesn't
make sense anyway. Seven one three one thousand, seven one
three nine nine one thousand. And I've got a mind
blowing detail. I just learned to.
Speaker 6 (08:27):
The Keeper, the Storm and the Soft.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
You know who did a surprisingly good cover of this,
Roy Orbison, I mean really really good. If I were
to tell you that Roy Orbison was going to cover
a Man and his Guitar in this interesting voice, multi
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octave voice throwback look is going to cover Love Hurts,
which to me is all about the arrangement that song,
and I love the lyrics I think they were but
for me, she shot, heavy pound arrangement. All right, mom,
can you play the sounder for my mind being blown?
(10:06):
And I'm going to tell you what happened? Okay, do
it again. Yeah, that's a good mind being wrong. I
wish you'd drag out a little longer, you know, because
it's like out in the desert. You can it's almost echo.
Going to do it again, okay. Emailer of the day
today already as of nine forty four am, which is
when this email came in, is a fellow named John
(10:29):
Wesler Weschler. I don't know if it's Wexler because there's
an S before w E S c h l e R.
So here are your options. You can be John Weschler.
That's a little tortured, right, People were gonna west Schler.
You could be Wexler and just pretend the S isn't there.
Nobody would get it right, which I mean, I don't know.
(10:51):
It could be Weischler. I mean you could go hardcore
on that Bachler or Weschler. It's probably gonna be one
of those things where he irritates me, where you go, hey,
how do you pronounce your last name? And you go, well,
I just go by Wexler here, but my family would
say Weischlar anyway. John is our emailer of the day,
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subject line Bob Barker microphone czar. The reason why Bob
Barker had such a long microphone is, you know, because
the contestants on The Price Is Right were called out
of the audience and thus not miked up. He needed
the long microphone to get it over to the contestant's face.
(11:36):
You think about it, unless you were really hot and
he was sexually harassing you, which he did because he
was handsy for everybody else some fat dude. You think
about the distance that he spanned by simply extending, you know,
like you're like you're you're throwing your cards down on
the table. He would take and bend his elbow and
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point that mic to you and then he would bring
it back. You know who else did that? Now that
I think about it, now that I'm doing the image,
and they got the Ed McMahon, it's a very Ed
McMahon move. Yes, indeed, Genie writes Zara, thanks for the recommendation.
She'd asked for a plumber. We ended up flooding with
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city septic. With the city septic line into our bathroom,
laundry room, closet and underwall into bedroom. You know why
idiots upline put grease and butt wifs down the train.
Please tell people don't do this. I'm always amused how
many people want to do a public service announcement out
of what happened to them. I don't know if I'm
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supposed to receive that and go, hey, guys, hey, we're
going to talk about some stuff. But I want to
remind y'all please do not put grease down your toilets. Guys.
We got Genie over here and god knows where, and
she's had it put y'all, come on, guys, please don't.
Let's see. Let's go to Tom in Jersey Village. Tom says,
I just recovered a dog that doesn't have a collar,
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and we don't know whose dog it is, but we'd
love to take this dog back to his owner. Please
tell people to chip your dog and put a collar
on it. Guys, y'all, he's right. I would like to
say to everybody out there, you know Tom and Jersey
Village's story is is a is a poignant reminder that
we need to chip our dog and put a collar
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on it. Zor burned my mouth this morning getting my
regular coffee at at at McDonald's. I wasn't paying attention,
pulled it off and I was looking out when I said,
and it burned it. And I'm afraid I'm gonna have
to go to the doctor this afternoon. Please remind people
don't put the coffee to your mouth until you've tested
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it to make sure it's not too hot. Guys, I
want to remind y'all. Janine over here in Crosby has
a good point. Y'all need to remember, don't. I would
put this out there for everybody. Denie's got to go
put it out there for everybody, y'all. Don't put your
mouth not a PSA needed that for everything real quick.
(14:09):
On the hot wheels issue, so literally every day I
get an email from a listener who says, you're right
about Abbot. Give him, give give him hell, I'm tired
of old hot wheels. Hot wheels is hot?
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Was it?
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Every day? And then and then Jasmine Crockett says it,
and the same people, Oh my god, driving on Crockett
say hot wheels. He's just a bolt.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
Really?
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Uh okay, you know I have a search function, right
you know, I can go back and find the email
where you wrote hot wheels, and so I'll do it
and the person will say, yeah, but I'm not a congressman.
Fare you're not. I don't recognize your name. There's four
thirty five. I just said, yeah, you're not a member
of Congress, nor a Senate, nor the Senate, or to
my knowledge, and elected official to any level across the country.
(14:56):
Why does that matter, Well, congressman shouldn't say that. So
you're saying it's a very horrible, terrible, no good, downright
dirty thing to do to make a joke about the
fact that Greg Abbott is in a wheelchair. It's a terrible, horrible,
tawdry thing, scandalous for an elected official to do it
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because it's offensive to disable people and horrible, But it's
okay when you do it. Why is there a different
standard for what some ghetto hoos says versus you, Because
truth is, you know better, and she's trying to build
her career and make a name for herself. You just
be a mean which I'm here for mean. I'm be mean.
(15:42):
I'm for the mean. But let's not I guess I'm
struggling how we're going to reconcile this. We're really really upset,
she said, hot Wheels. Well, you know the truth, right,
this is the kind of thing you ought to not
have to say, but we're gonna say it. Nobody's really offended,
she said, hot wheels, nobody. I'm not offended. Fox News
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is not offended. And really you're not offended. Nobody's offended.
But we got to put content on. So there we go.
And so there's so Bill Maher will have a guest
on and they'll say, and he'll ask some you know,
kind of smart black guy. Bill Maher's got to show
you that, you know, he can mix it up. And
that smart black guy will say, you know, I must
say because what you're supposed to go is, well, he's black.
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He's going to take her aside, and he goes, it's
not right, it's not appropriate, and then the audience ers, oh,
come on, no one's buying this. Please clap, please please clap.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
No.
Speaker 6 (16:56):
Right here, this is it.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
A recent study reveals that forty one percent of men
bobbing their head to this song and singing along own
a shirt that the back of it says, if you
can read this, the bitch fell off thirty seven percent
of people men bobbing their head to this song are
(17:35):
also Molly hatchetmans. Yeah. You know, when you do the
concentric circle of interest, our audience kind of spain. You know,
you got RJ over here, you got this, You got
some people that will you know that that would like
to commodorees and that can really feel the commodores. I
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only just kind of liked to come and feel Black
people of a kind of you know, Marvin Gay persuasion,
you know, sort of make pretty good money, maybe served
in the military, but got a little little algreen to them.
And then you got your pure country folks over here.
And then you got your people that wish we'd stop
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talk about music, and that's mostly your little old ladies.
They'd really like you to, you know, just do two things,
and that is talk about how great Trump is and
how the Democrats are all out to get him and
we need to pray for him. They really like you
to focus on those two things and really honestly never
stray from that. Then you got this group over you,
gads you. And then you got the guys that have
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they wear black T shirts. They this would be Doug Truckenbrod, who,
by the way, is that cancer treatment this morning? You
got the shirt, you got shirtsleeves cut out right so
you can see about about where the long hairs of
your underarm pit go. That goes to about there and
up over the shoulder, and this old ragged seventies and
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even some eighties concert t shirts and some holes in
him and all that maybe where a bandana, maybe have
a Harley, don't ride all the time, but have it
that there's that demographic. That demo is going to be
super served with the thirty eight special Molly Hatchet. You
know you're going further out on the spectrum because you're
gonna lose some of those people when you get to
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Molly Hatchet, but you know you're gonna get was it
Argus holds your head up, remember the Argent? Yeah, Argent,
you're right, the Mullets Rule album. You're gonna have that
group of people. You know, you could segment people into
all of those little things like that. See, this is
what I love about Chad chat just knows stuff. Listen
to this. He just emails. He doesn't say further to
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your point, or he just makes a statement and like
minimally intestive. Japanese rice is calrose rice and it's grown
in California, and Japan does import some of it. They're
very protective of their rice. Though. Rice is very expensive
in Japan. Comparatively speaking, imported US calros rice is cheaper
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there than the domestically produced Very interesting. I don't know
how he knows that. He just knows stuff. Things just
appear to chat and there's no doubt. You don't. You
don't go check that. You don't go check the prices.
You know, hey, whats You just know it to be
true because he said it. So it's true. Paul, you're
on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 7 (20:23):
Go ahead, cool, I'm here to defend uh American rice.
I'm not. I'm not so certain that rice is any
different that much different in Japan. It's how they cook it.
You know, the rice is the main staple there, so
they don't just make one serving. They make a pot,
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they right, and so they also if you've ever cooked
Japanese rice, follow recipe in the United States.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
You know, we use just.
Speaker 7 (20:54):
Regular old matma or wherever you add different. They add
a little sugar and that sort of give it to stickiness.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
That's interesting. So my wife being from India, she prefers
Indian rice, which is a longer grain. And uh the
brand that she grew up on was Bustmouthy, and Bustmuthy
is like Nestle or craft there and it is it is. Yeah. Well,
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for a while when she came, you couldn't get Bustmuthy.
It was hard to get and it was expensive. So
a seakh here in town bought some land I want
to say, kind of near the Doge rice fields in Hampshire,
Finett area on Iten east toward toward Beaumont, you know,
kind of that same Marshy area. My brother used to
patrol and he called it Techsmathy. So it's like Bustmouthy,
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but made in Texas. And we used to buy our
groceries which she still does at a little grocery store
on Hillcroft at fifty nine and uh Keimos called the
grocers k E e m a t kemmoth gro groceris
And she would buy a text you'd buy about five
different kinds of rices, depend on what she was cooking.
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But she is a rice connoisseur. I'm just an eater.
I like to eat, but she likes the rice to
be perfect for the dish. Are you the corporate chef fellow?
Speaker 4 (22:18):
No?
Speaker 1 (22:19):
How do you know all these?
Speaker 7 (22:20):
I just cooked for me so well? I worked for
Teshibah and so I traveled to Japan and a number
of times.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
And where are you from?
Speaker 7 (22:27):
And then I, uh, I'm originally from Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
That's what I'm detecting. Okay, interesting.
Speaker 7 (22:33):
Yeah, And I had actually left a message on your
system because I have a cousin who was one of
the guys in that artillery unit that spoke out against
Tim Waltz. Uh huh you remember, Yeah, there was like
six or eight of them.
Speaker 9 (22:47):
Yeah, yeah, he was my it's my cousin, my first cousin,
and I'm so proud of him because, uh, he's he's
a Minnesota is pretty Republican except the city centers and
you know, the large population zones.
Speaker 7 (22:59):
Do what you share, They're just.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
What you should read books on tape. You have a
great delivery, great delivery.
Speaker 9 (23:08):
I was in theater when I was in high school,
for sure.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
You very You vary your tone, you vary your style,
You turn the corner on certain words the way you
say them. I would like to have you read two
pages of a book, and then I would like to
listen to it and and study your your your speech pattern.
It's very interesting to me. It's a delightful. It's a
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delightful speech patter, isn't it wrong? In a in a
nice voice. You got just the right amount of bass,
you enunciate without without seeming to tries for effortless. It's
it's a good storytelling voice. I could see listening to
a long book of Paul Johnson or something with your voice.
It's it's kind of it's uh, very soothing, very smoothing.
(23:56):
You know, just pick uh, just pick pick Dickens Oliver Twist. Okay,
do the opening of Oliver Twist. Oh you know what? No,
do it tell of two cities best of times in worse.
That would be nice, would be delightful. Do tell Yeah,
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of course you do. You seem like a well read man.
Actually a kind of an unexpected laugh.
Speaker 9 (24:24):
Do you hear?
Speaker 7 (24:25):
That?
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Kind of went real high? I just got.
Speaker 7 (24:29):
She decorated with books?
Speaker 1 (24:31):
How do you know so much about all this rice? Uh?
Speaker 7 (24:36):
Just I don't know a lot about rice. I just
you know that isn't that much how to cook rice
in Japan? And you know that Texas is one of
the major rice producers in the world.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Actually, so you work for Toshiba. You work for Toshiba. Now,
people are so interesting. Many years ago going to Japan
talking about it. I got emails from all these listeners
who have spent time. It's like a whole different world.
And these people who spent time there. You never would
have known you, Michael Berry, were you underestimate the influence
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of Cleveland on Black American music? I mean, Ohio players
come to mind. You know where the term dazz man
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comes from. It's danceable jazz.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
You know.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
I find a lot of people like to say they
like jazz, but they don't really like jazz. They like
to think of them elves as a person who likes jazz.
They like to think of themselves as a person who
lives in a high ceilinged apartment overlooking downtown Chicago and
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they're and you know, there's there's nothing but the lights
in the city, and it's like that scene with Angela
Bassett and Bernie it's a comedian's name, Bernie Mack in
Mister three thousand. You know, they have it's very sleek, elegant,
and there's jazz playing and they have a glass of
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wine on the on the island, and they like jazz,
but they don't really like jazz, not that much. It's
a background noise to them. It's it's one of those
things that people they like to self identify. There are people,
it's like this kind of people who uh who will say,
you know, I'm uh, I'm kind of eccentric. Single people
(26:59):
will do, especially woman. You have to understand I'm a
little bit. You have to understand I'm I'm eccentric or
what's the other word that they use. You can't call
yourself that, can you? Can You hear Andy Dick saying
you know, I'm really kind of eccentric. No, No, you're
You're just Andy Dick. And people know you're You're eccentric,
and that's what they talk about. The moment you give
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voice to it, then you're not. You're some contrived weirdo.
But people like to say they like jazz because they
think that makes you think that they're a more sophisticated
music consumer, in the same way that people will like
to say that they like certain other music musical genres
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like Japanese. No, I wasn't trying to brag by liking
Japanese rice. By the way, Chad got very upset over
that conversation. He said that dude doesn't know anything about rice.
Nobody adds sugar to their rice in Japan. That is sinful.
I've never heard it. I've never seen it. It's not done.
Chad got wound up. Let me tell you something. He said,
rice rice is washed before cooking it to get some
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of the starch out. I do remember my wife telling
me that she read somewhere. I said, how come the
rice taste so different here? And the reason was they
pulled the starch out of it, and starchless rice is
a very different taste, texture, everything changes the whole thing.
But I must say before we go to the cause,
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my rice consumption is informed. Again, if you take one
hundred percent of our audience who are listening, there's all
you could cross it up. You know, you don't think
about the dude from Minnesota who worked for Toshiba, right,
But this is probably, I mean not exter at least
forty percent of our audience. Their rice consumption is informed
the way mine was, and that is Southwest Louisiana, Southeast Texas,
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very very very much Louisiana informed and so we're talking
about rue. We're talking about basically, well, it's the equivalent
of a rice and gravy. That was every meal and unfortunate.
I hate to say this, but it's true. When I
lost my weight, one of the things I had to
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do was give up rice, because I literally ate rice
at every meal for decades. In fact, it was troubling
to my wife when she came to this country and
she would make me a meal. And so she might
make potatoes and like a pot roast, and you put
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that in the crock pot, and you come home, you
got the juices, you got the I love that. One
of my favorite things in the world to eat that
in my grandmother's corn bread, and I got a meal.
And so she would make that and she'd say, is
there anything missing that you wish you had? And I said, well,
it's too late, but in the future if you would
make some rice, and she'll say, oh, you want to
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replace the potatoes with the rice, No, I want rice
in addition, and she would say, you can't have two starches.
Who's who makes these rules? I still don't understand who
is the person's making these damn rules. Is it Emeral
Lagossi on some TV show. Did Paul prudon't say it?
Did Justin Wilson say who said it? Who makes these rules?
(30:12):
Because people repeat these rules? You can have two starches?
Why I like two starches? I love starches? Why would
I not? So I shut down no more rice. And
it took takes two weeks, three weeks to form a habit.
I don't think it always takes that. Within two weeks,
I didn't have rice. I went over a year without eating.
Rice's kind of a big deal. I mean that when
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you when that's what you've eaten every night for dinner, boom,
all right, you got just a few seconds to eat,
so please be ready, berry go.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
I wanted to talk about Singapore and Kuala Lumpur because
they have really high import duties and when I sold
helicopter parts, it would cost one hundred percent duty to
getting into Singapore, But if I brought it back home
and shipped it back to Kuala Lumpur, it didn't cost
nearly as much. Petro brost and Brazil, Well.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Hold on, how long ago was this? Because Singapore separated
from UH Malaysia? How long ago?
Speaker 3 (31:14):
Yes? I know, I think that was sixty four, twenty
years ago.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Okay, they were already separated by them. But yes, that's interesting.
Why do you travel so much?
Speaker 3 (31:23):
I don't travel that much. I was based for a
helicopter company in Colorado, which one you know, I'm going
to ask ship. Well, it was called Hella Support, but
I don't believe it's in business any longer. It was
sold to a Canadian company and they drove it into
the ground.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Why wouldn't you say I worked for Hellesport, which was
a Canadian helicopter company that was driven in the ground.
But anyway, I'm distracted, and then go on with the story.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
I didn't. I didn't work for him when it happened.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Defensive, I.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Did import in export and dangerous goods.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
How did you get into that?
Speaker 3 (32:02):
And I tripped into it. I left one company, went
to work for this other company is import exports. Then
I realized we're doing dangerous goods. I had to get
my certification for that. And then when I got home
from that trip that was in two thousand and one,
I trained all my employees and how to do it too.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Do you still have that company? No, you still do that?
Speaker 3 (32:30):
Oh, occasionally I'm seventy two.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Now you seem like a guy that I would enjoy
sitting out on the back porch and you telling me stories.
But I think I would start irritating you because I
would interrupt with a question in the middle, because there
would be a missing detail that would be very important
to me at that moment. We didn't get to it,
but we will. Val Kilmer has passed extraordinarily talented actor,
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It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. Michael
Very Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Gay, I want you to say what you put made in?
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Brother?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hey, I got Bob, so any other I'm here?
Speaker 1 (00:18):
You say, yeah, show you the money.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
So show me the money.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Show me the money. Yeah, getter, show me the money.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
That's it problem. Show me the money, Jared, show.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Me the money, Jared.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Be Yeah.
Speaker 5 (00:37):
Look at the unfair trade practices that we have. Fifty
percent from the European Union on American dairy. You have
a seven hundred percent tarraf from Japan on American rice.
You have a one hundred percent tariff from India on
American agricultural products. You have nearly a three hundred percent
terraf from Canada on American butter and American cheese. This
makes it virtually impossible for American products to be imported
(01:01):
into these markets, and it has put a lot of
Americans out of business and out of work over the
past several decades. So it's time for reciprocity.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
It's been a lot.
Speaker 6 (01:12):
A lot time coming.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Let's chase ball. Come, yes, it will.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
We've seen some of our most imbalanced trading partners come
forward and want to drop their tariffs. So by President
Trump pushing forward with a tariff plan, reciprocal tariffs. If
you drop yours will drop hours. We are already seeing
some of the worst defenders come in.
Speaker 6 (01:42):
Love lot time coming. Let's chase come.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
President Trump's created a win win situation here.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Either the tariff barriers.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Come down, the US can export more, trade is fairer.
It's always been free, but not fairer, and then we
or if they don't do it, we'll take in substantial revenues.
Speaker 6 (02:15):
It's been a love.
Speaker 7 (02:19):
Time coming, but I love.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Chase Gold come, yes.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
It will.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
We have to care about Americans.
Speaker 8 (02:31):
You know the global view that says if I move
car manufacturing out of Michigan, out of Ohio to Mexico
to Canada does not lower our costs. It does, But
what does it do to Americans who live in Michigan
and Ohio.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
You know what it does. It decimates their community.
Speaker 8 (02:46):
You lose a US steel from Pittsburgh, you are going
to blitz Pittsburgh and that whole community.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
So someone's got to care about these workers. Someone's got
to care about these people.
Speaker 8 (02:55):
And the combination of bringing that back, the manufacturing back,
or you don't want to bring it back, pay the
tariffrom the way in the door.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
That time that.
Speaker 6 (03:07):
I thought I could.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Be low, now gonna be.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Carry.
Speaker 6 (03:21):
It's been a long.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
A long time coming, but I love.
Speaker 6 (03:31):
Change all come.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
It's a liberation day. If you think about American dairy
is good dairy. It's well regarded, well respected, and our
agricultural output Archer Daniel's Midland a d M refers to
(03:56):
themselves as a supermarket to the world. Now they engage
in some practices I don't like, yes a lot, But
when you talk about America's industrial heft, America's economic prowess,
you can't imagine how many places we can't ship our
(04:17):
products that want The consumer wants our product. We can
deliver our product, if not the cheapest, We're very rarely
the cheapest. Anything we do in the United States is
very rarely the cheapest. But we can deliver our product
that will compete based on quality, and the consumer would
(04:38):
want it. And the consumer not that we can't sell
products to poor people in third world countries. We just can't.
There's not going to happen. The price, the economics will
ever work out. But the well to do in third
world countries want our products. We were in Japan at Christmas,
and if somebody's driving a non Japanese car, especially if
(04:59):
they're having an American car, it's a sign of stature
that you can afford. I had a classmate University of Houston,
hutim Obo Sonena, and he his father was like the
vice president at one point, and he imported Cadillacs into Sudan.
(05:19):
That was his business for many years. He's now diversified
into other things, but that was what he did because
there was such a It was probably I don't know,
the tariff might have been a thousand percent. You pay
ten times what you'd pay for the actual automobile. But
if somebody's you know, if somebody has one hundred million
(05:40):
dollars and they want to be the only person has
a Cadillac Escalator, they'll pay for it. The world has
been shut off to our companies, and most people didn't
even know this. Our dairy. You heard Catherine Levitt Levitt
say what about our rice? Why can't we send our
rice into Japan? Yo know that that little bit. I
(06:05):
think it was seven hundred percent, which means multiply at
time seven. So if we sold them a bag of
rice for a dollar, we'd have to tack on seven
dollars in taxes to the government, a duty excise or
custom duty. That's what a tariff is. So we'd have
to sell our product for eight dollars a bag instead
of one dollar, which is what we're able to do
it because we had seven hundred percent tariff, which basically
(06:25):
closes off the market. What I find odd about that
is I love Japanese rice. Japanese rice in Japan has
a sort of milky appearance and a slightly wetter feel,
(06:47):
and it's a little bit sticky. We need to ask
Chad because Chad will be able to explain this better
than I am because he's lived there. But I really
like Japanese rice. American rice can tend to be very fluffy,
so much so that it's almost like not tabuli. What
(07:12):
is the what is the grain? It's a real dry,
almost like a dusty grain. What is that called in
the tabuli family? To Middle Eastern grain?
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Dang it?
Speaker 1 (07:27):
I can't remember. By the way the phone lines are open,
I don't really want an answer to what I'm talking about.
But if you have something you want to call about
seven one three nine nine nine one thousand, seven one
three nine nine nine one thousand. Okay, So Japanese rice
I really like because it has it's sticky, so it
tends to clump and it makes it a little easier
(07:47):
if I I'm are you a fork or a spoon guy?
I'm a fork guy? Correct, And so if I'm eating
something with a fork, and American rice tends to be
fluffy er, it separates into you know, grain by grain,
Japanese rice tends to clump. That stickiness pulls it together,
(08:12):
and I like that. So I don't know why they're
having to fight to keep our rice out. It doesn't
make sense anyway. Seven one three one thousand, seven one
three nine nine one thousand. And I've got a mind
blowing detail. I just learned to.
Speaker 6 (08:27):
The Keeper, the Storm and the Soft.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
You know who did a surprisingly good cover of this,
Roy Orbison, I mean really really good. If I were
to tell you that Roy Orbison was going to cover
a Man and his Guitar in this interesting voice, multi
(09:45):
octave voice throwback look is going to cover Love Hurts,
which to me is all about the arrangement that song,
and I love the lyrics I think they were but
for me, she shot, heavy pound arrangement. All right, mom,
can you play the sounder for my mind being blown?
(10:06):
And I'm going to tell you what happened? Okay, do
it again. Yeah, that's a good mind being wrong. I
wish you'd drag out a little longer, you know, because
it's like out in the desert. You can it's almost echo.
Going to do it again, okay. Emailer of the day
today already as of nine forty four am, which is
when this email came in, is a fellow named John
(10:29):
Wesler Weschler. I don't know if it's Wexler because there's
an S before w E S c h l e R.
So here are your options. You can be John Weschler.
That's a little tortured, right, People were gonna west Schler.
You could be Wexler and just pretend the S isn't there.
Nobody would get it right, which I mean, I don't know.
(10:51):
It could be Weischler. I mean you could go hardcore
on that Bachler or Weschler. It's probably gonna be one
of those things where he irritates me, where you go, hey,
how do you pronounce your last name? And you go, well,
I just go by Wexler here, but my family would
say Weischlar anyway. John is our emailer of the day,
(11:12):
subject line Bob Barker microphone czar. The reason why Bob
Barker had such a long microphone is, you know, because
the contestants on The Price Is Right were called out
of the audience and thus not miked up. He needed
the long microphone to get it over to the contestant's face.
(11:36):
You think about it, unless you were really hot and
he was sexually harassing you, which he did because he
was handsy for everybody else some fat dude. You think
about the distance that he spanned by simply extending, you know,
like you're like you're you're throwing your cards down on
the table. He would take and bend his elbow and
(11:57):
point that mic to you and then he would bring
it back. You know who else did that? Now that
I think about it, now that I'm doing the image,
and they got the Ed McMahon, it's a very Ed
McMahon move. Yes, indeed, Genie writes Zara, thanks for the recommendation.
She'd asked for a plumber. We ended up flooding with
(12:17):
city septic. With the city septic line into our bathroom,
laundry room, closet and underwall into bedroom. You know why
idiots upline put grease and butt wifs down the train.
Please tell people don't do this. I'm always amused how
many people want to do a public service announcement out
of what happened to them. I don't know if I'm
(12:41):
supposed to receive that and go, hey, guys, hey, we're
going to talk about some stuff. But I want to
remind y'all please do not put grease down your toilets. Guys.
We got Genie over here and god knows where, and
she's had it put y'all, come on, guys, please don't.
Let's see. Let's go to Tom in Jersey Village. Tom says,
I just recovered a dog that doesn't have a collar,
(13:05):
and we don't know whose dog it is, but we'd
love to take this dog back to his owner. Please
tell people to chip your dog and put a collar
on it. Guys, y'all, he's right. I would like to
say to everybody out there, you know Tom and Jersey
Village's story is is a is a poignant reminder that
we need to chip our dog and put a collar
(13:27):
on it. Zor burned my mouth this morning getting my
regular coffee at at at McDonald's. I wasn't paying attention,
pulled it off and I was looking out when I said,
and it burned it. And I'm afraid I'm gonna have
to go to the doctor this afternoon. Please remind people
don't put the coffee to your mouth until you've tested
(13:49):
it to make sure it's not too hot. Guys, I
want to remind y'all. Janine over here in Crosby has
a good point. Y'all need to remember, don't. I would
put this out there for everybody. Denie's got to go
put it out there for everybody, y'all. Don't put your
mouth not a PSA needed that for everything real quick.
(14:09):
On the hot wheels issue, so literally every day I
get an email from a listener who says, you're right
about Abbot. Give him, give give him hell, I'm tired
of old hot wheels. Hot wheels is hot?
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Was it?
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Every day? And then and then Jasmine Crockett says it,
and the same people, Oh my god, driving on Crockett
say hot wheels. He's just a bolt.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
Really?
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Uh okay, you know I have a search function, right
you know, I can go back and find the email
where you wrote hot wheels, and so I'll do it
and the person will say, yeah, but I'm not a congressman.
Fare you're not. I don't recognize your name. There's four
thirty five. I just said, yeah, you're not a member
of Congress, nor a Senate, nor the Senate, or to
my knowledge, and elected official to any level across the country.
(14:56):
Why does that matter, Well, congressman shouldn't say that. So
you're saying it's a very horrible, terrible, no good, downright
dirty thing to do to make a joke about the
fact that Greg Abbott is in a wheelchair. It's a terrible, horrible,
tawdry thing, scandalous for an elected official to do it
(15:18):
because it's offensive to disable people and horrible, But it's
okay when you do it. Why is there a different
standard for what some ghetto hoos says versus you, Because
truth is, you know better, and she's trying to build
her career and make a name for herself. You just
be a mean which I'm here for mean. I'm be mean.
(15:42):
I'm for the mean. But let's not I guess I'm
struggling how we're going to reconcile this. We're really really upset,
she said, hot Wheels. Well, you know the truth, right,
this is the kind of thing you ought to not
have to say, but we're gonna say it. Nobody's really offended,
she said, hot wheels, nobody. I'm not offended. Fox News
(16:02):
is not offended. And really you're not offended. Nobody's offended.
But we got to put content on. So there we go.
And so there's so Bill Maher will have a guest
on and they'll say, and he'll ask some you know,
kind of smart black guy. Bill Maher's got to show
you that, you know, he can mix it up. And
that smart black guy will say, you know, I must
say because what you're supposed to go is, well, he's black.
(16:23):
He's going to take her aside, and he goes, it's
not right, it's not appropriate, and then the audience ers, oh,
come on, no one's buying this. Please clap, please please clap.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
No.
Speaker 6 (16:56):
Right here, this is it.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
A recent study reveals that forty one percent of men
bobbing their head to this song and singing along own
a shirt that the back of it says, if you
can read this, the bitch fell off thirty seven percent
of people men bobbing their head to this song are
(17:35):
also Molly hatchetmans. Yeah. You know, when you do the
concentric circle of interest, our audience kind of spain. You know,
you got RJ over here, you got this, You got
some people that will you know that that would like
to commodorees and that can really feel the commodores. I
(17:56):
only just kind of liked to come and feel Black
people of a kind of you know, Marvin Gay persuasion,
you know, sort of make pretty good money, maybe served
in the military, but got a little little algreen to them.
And then you got your pure country folks over here.
And then you got your people that wish we'd stop
(18:17):
talk about music, and that's mostly your little old ladies.
They'd really like you to, you know, just do two things,
and that is talk about how great Trump is and
how the Democrats are all out to get him and
we need to pray for him. They really like you
to focus on those two things and really honestly never
stray from that. Then you got this group over you,
gads you. And then you got the guys that have
(18:37):
they wear black T shirts. They this would be Doug Truckenbrod, who,
by the way, is that cancer treatment this morning? You
got the shirt, you got shirtsleeves cut out right so
you can see about about where the long hairs of
your underarm pit go. That goes to about there and
up over the shoulder, and this old ragged seventies and
(18:58):
even some eighties concert t shirts and some holes in
him and all that maybe where a bandana, maybe have
a Harley, don't ride all the time, but have it
that there's that demographic. That demo is going to be
super served with the thirty eight special Molly Hatchet. You
know you're going further out on the spectrum because you're
gonna lose some of those people when you get to
(19:19):
Molly Hatchet, but you know you're gonna get was it
Argus holds your head up, remember the Argent? Yeah, Argent,
you're right, the Mullets Rule album. You're gonna have that
group of people. You know, you could segment people into
all of those little things like that. See, this is
what I love about Chad chat just knows stuff. Listen
to this. He just emails. He doesn't say further to
(19:42):
your point, or he just makes a statement and like
minimally intestive. Japanese rice is calrose rice and it's grown
in California, and Japan does import some of it. They're
very protective of their rice. Though. Rice is very expensive
in Japan. Comparatively speaking, imported US calros rice is cheaper
(20:02):
there than the domestically produced Very interesting. I don't know
how he knows that. He just knows stuff. Things just
appear to chat and there's no doubt. You don't. You
don't go check that. You don't go check the prices.
You know, hey, whats You just know it to be
true because he said it. So it's true. Paul, you're
on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 7 (20:23):
Go ahead, cool, I'm here to defend uh American rice.
I'm not. I'm not so certain that rice is any
different that much different in Japan. It's how they cook it.
You know, the rice is the main staple there, so
they don't just make one serving. They make a pot,
(20:45):
they right, and so they also if you've ever cooked
Japanese rice, follow recipe in the United States.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
You know, we use just.
Speaker 7 (20:54):
Regular old matma or wherever you add different. They add
a little sugar and that sort of give it to stickiness.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
That's interesting. So my wife being from India, she prefers
Indian rice, which is a longer grain. And uh the
brand that she grew up on was Bustmouthy, and Bustmuthy
is like Nestle or craft there and it is it is. Yeah. Well,
(21:25):
for a while when she came, you couldn't get Bustmuthy.
It was hard to get and it was expensive. So
a seakh here in town bought some land I want
to say, kind of near the Doge rice fields in Hampshire,
Finett area on Iten east toward toward Beaumont, you know,
kind of that same Marshy area. My brother used to
patrol and he called it Techsmathy. So it's like Bustmouthy,
(21:48):
but made in Texas. And we used to buy our
groceries which she still does at a little grocery store
on Hillcroft at fifty nine and uh Keimos called the
grocers k E e m a t kemmoth gro groceris
And she would buy a text you'd buy about five
different kinds of rices, depend on what she was cooking.
(22:08):
But she is a rice connoisseur. I'm just an eater.
I like to eat, but she likes the rice to
be perfect for the dish. Are you the corporate chef fellow?
Speaker 4 (22:18):
No?
Speaker 1 (22:19):
How do you know all these?
Speaker 7 (22:20):
I just cooked for me so well? I worked for
Teshibah and so I traveled to Japan and a number
of times.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
And where are you from?
Speaker 7 (22:27):
And then I, uh, I'm originally from Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
That's what I'm detecting. Okay, interesting.
Speaker 7 (22:33):
Yeah, And I had actually left a message on your
system because I have a cousin who was one of
the guys in that artillery unit that spoke out against
Tim Waltz. Uh huh you remember, Yeah, there was like
six or eight of them.
Speaker 9 (22:47):
Yeah, yeah, he was my it's my cousin, my first cousin,
and I'm so proud of him because, uh, he's he's
a Minnesota is pretty Republican except the city centers and
you know, the large population zones.
Speaker 7 (22:59):
Do what you share, They're just.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
What you should read books on tape. You have a
great delivery, great delivery.
Speaker 9 (23:08):
I was in theater when I was in high school,
for sure.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
You very You vary your tone, you vary your style,
You turn the corner on certain words the way you
say them. I would like to have you read two
pages of a book, and then I would like to
listen to it and and study your your your speech pattern.
It's very interesting to me. It's a delightful. It's a
(23:31):
delightful speech patter, isn't it wrong? In a in a
nice voice. You got just the right amount of bass,
you enunciate without without seeming to tries for effortless. It's
it's a good storytelling voice. I could see listening to
a long book of Paul Johnson or something with your voice.
It's it's kind of it's uh, very soothing, very smoothing.
(23:56):
You know, just pick uh, just pick pick Dickens Oliver Twist. Okay,
do the opening of Oliver Twist. Oh you know what? No,
do it tell of two cities best of times in worse.
That would be nice, would be delightful. Do tell Yeah,
(24:18):
of course you do. You seem like a well read man.
Actually a kind of an unexpected laugh.
Speaker 9 (24:24):
Do you hear?
Speaker 7 (24:25):
That?
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Kind of went real high? I just got.
Speaker 7 (24:29):
She decorated with books?
Speaker 1 (24:31):
How do you know so much about all this rice? Uh?
Speaker 7 (24:36):
Just I don't know a lot about rice. I just
you know that isn't that much how to cook rice
in Japan? And you know that Texas is one of
the major rice producers in the world.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Actually, so you work for Toshiba. You work for Toshiba. Now,
people are so interesting. Many years ago going to Japan
talking about it. I got emails from all these listeners
who have spent time. It's like a whole different world.
And these people who spent time there. You never would
have known you, Michael Berry, were you underestimate the influence
(25:25):
of Cleveland on Black American music? I mean, Ohio players
come to mind. You know where the term dazz man
(25:48):
comes from. It's danceable jazz.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
You know.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
I find a lot of people like to say they
like jazz, but they don't really like jazz. They like
to think of them elves as a person who likes jazz.
They like to think of themselves as a person who
lives in a high ceilinged apartment overlooking downtown Chicago and
(26:14):
they're and you know, there's there's nothing but the lights
in the city, and it's like that scene with Angela
Bassett and Bernie it's a comedian's name, Bernie Mack in
Mister three thousand. You know, they have it's very sleek, elegant,
and there's jazz playing and they have a glass of
(26:34):
wine on the on the island, and they like jazz,
but they don't really like jazz, not that much. It's
a background noise to them. It's it's one of those
things that people they like to self identify. There are people,
it's like this kind of people who uh who will say,
you know, I'm uh, I'm kind of eccentric. Single people
(26:59):
will do, especially woman. You have to understand I'm a
little bit. You have to understand I'm I'm eccentric or
what's the other word that they use. You can't call
yourself that, can you? Can You hear Andy Dick saying
you know, I'm really kind of eccentric. No, No, you're
You're just Andy Dick. And people know you're You're eccentric,
and that's what they talk about. The moment you give
(27:20):
voice to it, then you're not. You're some contrived weirdo.
But people like to say they like jazz because they
think that makes you think that they're a more sophisticated
music consumer, in the same way that people will like
to say that they like certain other music musical genres
(27:41):
like Japanese. No, I wasn't trying to brag by liking
Japanese rice. By the way, Chad got very upset over
that conversation. He said that dude doesn't know anything about rice.
Nobody adds sugar to their rice in Japan. That is sinful.
I've never heard it. I've never seen it. It's not done.
Chad got wound up. Let me tell you something. He said,
rice rice is washed before cooking it to get some
(28:02):
of the starch out. I do remember my wife telling
me that she read somewhere. I said, how come the
rice taste so different here? And the reason was they
pulled the starch out of it, and starchless rice is
a very different taste, texture, everything changes the whole thing.
But I must say before we go to the cause,
(28:24):
my rice consumption is informed. Again, if you take one
hundred percent of our audience who are listening, there's all
you could cross it up. You know, you don't think
about the dude from Minnesota who worked for Toshiba, right,
But this is probably, I mean not exter at least
forty percent of our audience. Their rice consumption is informed
the way mine was, and that is Southwest Louisiana, Southeast Texas,
(28:48):
very very very much Louisiana informed and so we're talking
about rue. We're talking about basically, well, it's the equivalent
of a rice and gravy. That was every meal and unfortunate.
I hate to say this, but it's true. When I
lost my weight, one of the things I had to
(29:08):
do was give up rice, because I literally ate rice
at every meal for decades. In fact, it was troubling
to my wife when she came to this country and
she would make me a meal. And so she might
make potatoes and like a pot roast, and you put
(29:31):
that in the crock pot, and you come home, you
got the juices, you got the I love that. One
of my favorite things in the world to eat that
in my grandmother's corn bread, and I got a meal.
And so she would make that and she'd say, is
there anything missing that you wish you had? And I said, well,
it's too late, but in the future if you would
make some rice, and she'll say, oh, you want to
(29:51):
replace the potatoes with the rice, No, I want rice
in addition, and she would say, you can't have two starches.
Who's who makes these rules? I still don't understand who
is the person's making these damn rules. Is it Emeral
Lagossi on some TV show. Did Paul prudon't say it?
Did Justin Wilson say who said it? Who makes these rules?
(30:12):
Because people repeat these rules? You can have two starches?
Why I like two starches? I love starches? Why would
I not? So I shut down no more rice. And
it took takes two weeks, three weeks to form a habit.
I don't think it always takes that. Within two weeks,
I didn't have rice. I went over a year without eating.
Rice's kind of a big deal. I mean that when
(30:33):
you when that's what you've eaten every night for dinner, boom,
all right, you got just a few seconds to eat,
so please be ready, berry go.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
I wanted to talk about Singapore and Kuala Lumpur because
they have really high import duties and when I sold
helicopter parts, it would cost one hundred percent duty to
getting into Singapore, But if I brought it back home
and shipped it back to Kuala Lumpur, it didn't cost
nearly as much. Petro brost and Brazil, Well.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Hold on, how long ago was this? Because Singapore separated
from UH Malaysia? How long ago?
Speaker 3 (31:14):
Yes? I know, I think that was sixty four, twenty
years ago.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Okay, they were already separated by them. But yes, that's interesting.
Why do you travel so much?
Speaker 3 (31:23):
I don't travel that much. I was based for a
helicopter company in Colorado, which one you know, I'm going
to ask ship. Well, it was called Hella Support, but
I don't believe it's in business any longer. It was
sold to a Canadian company and they drove it into
the ground.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Why wouldn't you say I worked for Hellesport, which was
a Canadian helicopter company that was driven in the ground.
But anyway, I'm distracted, and then go on with the story.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
I didn't. I didn't work for him when it happened.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Defensive, I.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Did import in export and dangerous goods.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
How did you get into that?
Speaker 3 (32:02):
And I tripped into it. I left one company, went
to work for this other company is import exports. Then
I realized we're doing dangerous goods. I had to get
my certification for that. And then when I got home
from that trip that was in two thousand and one,
I trained all my employees and how to do it too.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Do you still have that company? No, you still do that?
Speaker 3 (32:30):
Oh, occasionally I'm seventy two.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Now you seem like a guy that I would enjoy
sitting out on the back porch and you telling me stories.
But I think I would start irritating you because I
would interrupt with a question in the middle, because there
would be a missing detail that would be very important
to me at that moment. We didn't get to it,
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