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Speaker 1 (00:03):
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Speaker 3 (00:30):
No precedents for taking a judge in this manner, and
I want to be really clear that what Judge Dougan
apparently did was what all of us should be doing,
and that is standing out for folks in our communities
who need support right now against the Trump regime more
than ever.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
I got stride Stride for all my shoulder.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I got James James.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Around notre I got stride stride for all my shoulder
and then James change the about the drag me out.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
He had beat up two people, a guy and a girl.
Beat the guy thirty times, knocked him to the ground,
choked him, beat up a woman. The judge learns that
Ice was outside to get the guy. She goes out
in the hallway screams at the immigration officers. She's furious,
visibly shaken, upset.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
I got striped s right around my shoulder, I got
change changed around my fee, I got stripe right around
my shoulder, and them chain here.
Speaker 6 (01:35):
He writes, you imagined a job answering the phones. I submit,
this is like combing the tassels on a buggy whip
as an old retired guy reach out a lot by phone.
What I usually hear is press one for English. Not
many actual people answering the phone these days, Just saying
if you look at the writing on the wall. Now,
this doesn't mean that every business is gonna go away,
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just enough to make a significant difference. Would you you
look at just the transformation that has already occurred, and
the technology is just now getting to the point where
it can replace human beings.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
There is a term for this.
Speaker 6 (02:16):
And I don't recall it. I'm not well versed enough
in this whole field or space, as they like to say.
I just read and ask a lot of questions technology.
The the speed of advancement in technology increases exponentially, so
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you go from I don't know chat GPT being able
to answer a question to jet chat GPT being able
to draft whole cloth. So it's no longer minding the
information that's out there and aggregating it for you.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Google's been doing that for years, and that was a
big deal at the time.
Speaker 6 (03:02):
You're no longer minding the data and then handing you
what's out there.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
You're now creating data.
Speaker 6 (03:09):
If it's not already the case, it will be soon
that there will be more artificially created content in the world,
then there will be human generated content, and will that
disparity will increase at an exponential rate until human created
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content will be one shelf in the entire library.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
And that's just what's going to happen.
Speaker 6 (03:37):
It's going to happen fast, and you've got to find
ways for yourself and your child to keep up.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Who would have guessed twenty years.
Speaker 6 (03:46):
Ago that I don't know what percentage of groceries are
delivered to people's homes now, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
I know that an Hub executive told me several years
ago they were putting these pickup lines, and oh, I
know who it was.
Speaker 6 (04:03):
It was the dude black hair looks a little bit
like alfalfa, it looks a little bit like buck.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Wait, yes, the Black, Scott McClellan. I saw Scott McClellan at.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
The uh UH They had just opened that day, the
uh HGB over in bel Air, and I wanted to
go see it because I was interested because they had
shoehorned it into a space that was like it was
a kind of a weird space. It was impressive how
they pull this thing off. I was, I don't know
how that store does. I don't think that's one of
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their bigger stores, but I don't know that. But he
had dedicated a goodly percentage of what could have been
parking or access and it's real tight.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
You know.
Speaker 6 (04:45):
I don't like to park in parking garage, and I don't
like to be in spaces like that where you're you know,
you got wait on somebody and pull up here and
turn here and sharp peer and someone's coming there.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
And that's not my thing. And I grew up out
in the country. I prefer that. I don't like to
be in those type confined spaces. Why I can never
live in New York.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
But anyway, so I said to him, why have you
dedicated so much space over here to this? And he said,
because right now pickup is say three percent.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Of our volume.
Speaker 6 (05:18):
But we project that will be and I'm pretty sure
on the three percent. We project that'll be ten percent
by the end of next year, and within five years
that will be twenty five percent. Now, pickup didn't just
mean I know a lot of you will will buy.
You will buy your groceries online or put in your
order online and you pull up, they come and put
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it in your back. But I'm talking about the delivery services.
And so what you're seeing is the job opportunities have changed.
Now your job opportunities are in the gig economy as
an uber each driver or a door dash driver. And
there are people I don't know what the numbers are.
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I'd be interested to know. There are people that if
you get in the back of their uber or their lift,
will tell you I used to.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Be a supervisor. The supervisor job gone. I used to be.
Speaker 6 (06:15):
So somebody that can run an entire operation, some of
those folks will will. If they're good leaders, good at operations,
they may they will hold on for longer. The attrition
will hit them later, but it's coming. But the people
who are simply supervisors, your job is to keep five
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Mexicans from screwing stuff up. Your job is to make
sure that five guys show up to work and don't
steal anything, or and they kund of mostly work. Those
jobs will go away because as you don't need people
to perform clerical tasks, you don't need people to manage them,
you don't need hr to handle badging, you don't need
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office space for them to work in. You're going to
see the transition of buildings that already exist. You're going
to see them transitioning the way you saw. Some of
them become sell storage, low value office space, C grade
office space.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Some of that became cell storage.
Speaker 6 (07:16):
Who would have guessed the highest and best use of
a six story building air conditioned in C grade location
would be as storage space, not where people work. No
food court downstairs, no security guard downstairs. All that's automated.
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Be interesting to see the numbers. Some of you great
researchers out there can find these things for me. Be
interesting to see the numbers of how many people in
America have a job as a security guard. Company wants
to take that off the books too, automate that. Here's
your push code, here's your gates, here's all of it.
I wonder how many young black men eighteen to thirty
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or work as security guard as compared to other jobs.
Speaker 7 (08:08):
I would really like to see that number pre Dog Night,
not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Sidney
Laufer in the Hall of Fame. Sa Kwan Barkley played
golf with the President over the weekend. He just posted
some people are really upset because I played golf and
flew to the White House with the President.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
Maybe I just respect the office. Not a hard concept
to understand. I just golfed with Obama not too long ago,
and I look forward to finishing my round with Trump.
Now you get out of my mensions with all this
politics and have an amazing day.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
God on u saque all right.
Speaker 6 (08:49):
Families who have multi generational success spend a lot of
time thinking about their own success and their child success.
I've witnessed it when you see multiple generations of families
that go to the University of Texas, go to Texas
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A and M go to TCU, and you notice that
everybody in that family looks like the Romneys. Everybody in
that family is fit, has a degree, has a good
paying job. You start noticing things about how they have
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ordered their lives. These are not accidental things. They have
done the right internships, they have gone on the foreign
study programs. When Michael Michael's senior year, there was an
opportunity to go.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
There was some pro.
Speaker 6 (09:50):
International program where you could go for three weeks during
the Christmas break to Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam. And
he said, I don't want to go. I said, okay,
so I don't have to go. I know you're going.
You're going, but I don't want to go. I know
I heard you, but you're going. And there's no point
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in us arguing about it, because when the plane a sense,
you're going to be on it. And maybe not today,
maybe not when you're twenty five, but when I'm long.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Dead, you'll feel guilty. Man.
Speaker 6 (10:25):
My dad was just trying to create experiences for me
that would broaden my horizons.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
And make me think differently, make me look at the
world differently.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
You know.
Speaker 6 (10:32):
I think about I think about Steve Jobs in Wozniak,
and I think about the fact that they that they
imagine all of the things that used to take.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Up your entire desk.
Speaker 6 (10:48):
In a little bit of phone, and in fact the
phone is bigger than it needs to be. They used
to be smaller. They figured out people liked it bigger,
and I go, wow, how did you think of that?
Speaker 2 (11:00):
It's brilliant.
Speaker 6 (11:01):
I don't like Zuckerberg or the Winklevosses for that matter,
but to imagine that as we were increasingly technological, increasingly
retreating to our homes and avoiding social spaces the dance hall,
the club, the bar, the park. As that happened, we
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still needed human connection.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
We crave it.
Speaker 6 (11:27):
We still have the same DNA, We still have the
desire for fellowship, fraternity, for interaction, for gossip. We want
to know who died. We wan't to know who got remarried,
who got divorced. We want the tea, as the kids say,
we want to see.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
All those things. And so Facebook gave that opportunity. Who
would have guessed.
Speaker 6 (11:51):
Who would have guessed that we would that there would
be a technological replacement for so much of our lives.
I love Facebook. I hate the company, I hate the people.
I love the ability. Saturday afternoon, nothing was painting. George
and I sat outside. She was sitting outside by the
fountain painting. I'm sitting out there with her, and she'd say.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Hey, you know what do you think about this, And
I said, what do you think about this?
Speaker 6 (12:17):
And then we go back to our own low and
I was posting on Facebook and interacting with people, and you.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Know, what are you all up to today? I love that.
I enjoy the heck out of that.
Speaker 6 (12:25):
I am unashamed that I would practically rather gather virtually. Mostly,
I would rather gather virtually than in the crowd because
I don't have to get there or get back. I
don't have to worry how I'm gonna extricate myself from
this situation. I don't have to dress. I can wear
you know, shorts. Those are the ways.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Those are some of the.
Speaker 6 (12:45):
Ways technology is changing our lives, and we'll continue to
change our lives.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Listener, John Manlow. Holiday Manlow has.
Speaker 6 (12:58):
A company called Cursive Media that I think what you
were referring to is Moore's law. MOORI is the idea
that computer chips get about twice as powerful every couple
of years while also getting cheaper.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
And then the singularity is what you were talking.
Speaker 6 (13:13):
About, the idea that at some point AI and technology
will get so advanced so fast that everything will change
beyond what we can even imagine.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
There is a.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
Fear by Altman and Musk and other guys that are
far deeper into this, and I ever want to be
of how fast the robots become more powerful than us
as sci fi movie kind of stuff, but it's real
because there's no artificial restriction on their strength. And how
would you who's going to decide how we're going to
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restrict these robots. We know that they're moving at the
speed of light. We know this, So let's go back
to your kids. I got an EMO from a woman.
She does data entry or a bank, and that bank
has now been bought by a bank in another state.
I'm not authorized to say what the company is not
going to so that I'm going to leave the details
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of that. She does data entry. She said, I'm sixty two.
I'm too young to retire. I can move to the
headquarters multiple states away, but I don't want to do that.
So right now we're just cleaning up the books for
the transfer, and my job is only guaranteed through August.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
You're going to watch.
Speaker 6 (14:20):
People lose their job at a rate that is going
to look like a war. It's just going to be
one after the other after the other, and you won't
notice it. Till you see the aggregate numbers. But you're
going to notice that your sister in law lost her
jobs job. A lot of these are women operated jobs,
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clerk positions and data entry positions and customer service positions.
The airlines are trying to get out of the customer
service business altogether, and they are investing heavily in chatbots.
And if you've ever had a conversation, it is for
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our for our kids or grandkids that won't they'll they'll
be robots themselves. But for me, I cannot deal with
the chatbot. I just I lose interest, you know what.
I just won't go on that trip, just forget it.
But there will be enough people who will transition slow
lyubiturely that it will make it make sense. When they
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sent all the phone answering systems to India, there was kickback,
but people eventually fell in line. When Sam Walton decided
to start importing from China and no longer saying made
in America, there was kickback for a.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Moment and then it went away.
Speaker 6 (15:46):
But as it relates to your kids and their success,
I think you have to understand you can't just send
your kid to public school, have them there on time,
pick them up afterwards, dot and do some studying if
you want to give your kids.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
If that's your goal, it doesn't have to be. I'm
not saying has to be. There are some things you
need to do. We're gonna talk about that coming up.
Michael Berry's show.
Speaker 6 (16:18):
Hard to have some advice for your kids. You can
take it or leave it. But before we do that,
a quick call from Laura, who has changed industry. You
were a stewardess and now and what happened?
Speaker 8 (16:31):
Okay, good morning, Michael. I'm thoroughly enjoying your show. Or
are you flying around the world. No, no, I'm Italian descent.
Exactly have you.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Seen true romance?
Speaker 6 (16:49):
Not that I recall it's it's it's I mean in
the in the Annals of Legendary Actors on stage together interacting,
Robert Duval being tortured by Christopher Walkin is as good
as it gets. And the joke that Robert Duval tells
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in insulting Christopher Walkin, who is a Sicilian, with the
fact that y'all are all black and that was the
ultimate insult to him while asking for a Chesterfield after
getting punched in the nose, Smarts doesn't. It's it's worth
you going to watch that movie. It's a Tarantino flick.
It's his best way for just that scene. But anyway,
I'm sorry.
Speaker 8 (17:31):
I was going to say, now you know what, I'll
do this afternoon. In any case, I'm part of Sicilian,
part not Bolton. So I fit the boxes. Yes, well
I was. I still am at seventy five years old.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
For you.
Speaker 8 (17:48):
I spoke to you a while back about being an
international stewardess and flew around the world for five years.
After that, I decided to stay in the travel industry
and became a travel agent. No automation, handwritten tickets, call
the airline to make reservations. I went to school for that,
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so I knew what I was doing. The travel agency
I worked at decided to put in computers. I walked out, Wow,
I said, there's no way.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
How did you want to do?
Speaker 8 (18:23):
You know? Well, I stayed in the travel business. I said,
I'm going to be an independent contractor and go and
sell travel for you, bring in your corporate ecclimity and that.
That lasted for a while and I said I can't
make enough money. So I learned the computer. I got
good at it. I got very good that American Airlines
Saber system had me teach some In any case, well, thank.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
You for sharing that story. Let me tell you about
your kids, folks. You cannot assume that your kid's going
to graduate high school. The whole family comes in Yorkshire
and they throw there was that thing called not task,
what they throw their headgear, whatever it's called, doesn't matter,
get their diploma and they're going to be in good shape.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
You cannot assume that's going to happen.
Speaker 6 (19:09):
You cannot assume that just because you send them to college,
because you saved money all this time, you got a
five twenty nine or Texas whatever it.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Is, choice, whatever that was, that that's going to be enough.
It's not.
Speaker 6 (19:22):
It is going to be insanely more competitive going forward
because there will be fewer opportunities for human beings.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Make no mistake.
Speaker 6 (19:33):
Technology is going to replace most of the functions that
humans perform today. You can send around cry over it
like the climate activists. You can sit around and cry
over a lot of things. We're all going to die.
I wouldn't spend a lot of time open over it.
I mean, you can change your life because of it,
but I wouldn't spend a lot of time on it.
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That is to say this that in order to be
first of all, I think everybody should be putting themselves
into the position to own their own equity from as
early as they can. And if you don't have the
capital or family run business to do that, you should
be building toward the point that you are self employed.
That should be the case. You know who's going to
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have jobs, you know who's going to make money forget jobs?
Speaker 2 (20:19):
I hate that word. We have to create jobs.
Speaker 6 (20:22):
Government needs to provide jobs. Everything is about jobs. That
is a weak mentality, as a loser mentality, it really is.
But we have to have a place for people to go.
We'll give them a little money and they'll show up.
That's not how you build excellence. That's not what Edison,
that's not what elon, that's not what forward. You don't
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think of. How can we just keep keep people busy
so they don't kill each other. That's the worst way
to look at things. Every person should be striving to
the point that they are in and of themselves able
to add value in some place that maybe my tizable,
maybe it's not. I had to stay at home mom,
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I wouldn't trade that for the world. That was so
important to my upbringing. I would not trade that for
the world. I don't know the alternative, but I know
none to take in retirement when it was a sale
and I had to sell it, and I didn't say
you have to do this because that's not our relationship.
But I will tell you I begged, and the kids begged,
and you know, I think she would like to go
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back to work after Crocket's gone because she feels bored
or she feels like she will be bored. But if
you are and if that's your role, that's your role.
I'm not saying everybody has to do that. If you're retired,
that's your business. But for everybody else, you should be
striving for the point that you have a skill set
of some sort that other people are going to pay for.
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And let's start at this. There are a lot of
people with a loser's mentality that wanting money, that charging
for things and charging good money for it is a
bad thing. I learned very quickly at the RCC. The
person who bitched about ticket prices, do not accommodate. Say
you're right, this isn't for you, and it's not. There's
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a bar with chie for beer down the way. They
don't have security at every door. They don't have bathrooms.
That beaver Applin that founded Bucky said was the cleanest
bathrooms he had ever seen, including his own. But hey,
you know, you go to the hole in the wall
bar where the owners behind the counter, and he's got
a shotgun on the counter because they get robbed all
the time, and you save fifty cents per beer. By
all means, that's where you belong. Nothing wrong with that.
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You like cheap stuff, you don't like good stuff. I'm
okay with that. You've got to think about what skill
set you have, not that someone else will hire you for,
but someone else.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Will pay you for.
Speaker 6 (22:43):
There are a lot of people making good money out
there as a fishing guide, running a power washing business,
or doing power washing, mowing lawns. You'd be surprised painting houses.
Be surprised how many people don't have an employer. And
it's not just about freedom, it's about a future. I
don't think we're going to replace painting with AI so quickly,
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or at least I didn't until I saw a machine
they put in a house that put they were doing
concrete fours and it took the crushed concrete and lay it,
trowled it out and it was beautiful and it was
snapped off perfectly. And that guy didn't show up drunk,
he didn't steal from you. I mean, that's the future.
So that's what you have to be putting yourself in
a position to do now for your kids. This summer,
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you have an opportunity, You have a massive How many
times do you not do something because you.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Don't have time for it? We all have the same
amount of time.
Speaker 6 (23:36):
How does one guy learn five languages and the rest
of us don't at all? How does one guy get
really really fit and the rest of us say, yeah,
I don't have time.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Work out? How's one guy restoring an old car?
Speaker 8 (23:49):
Well?
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Why like doing old car? Just don't have time.
Speaker 6 (23:51):
We all had the exact same amount of time, Donald Trump,
all of us same amount of time.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
But you got.
Speaker 6 (23:57):
A packet of time, a big packet for your kids
this summer. Find somebody you trust, because petophil is real.
Find somebody you trust, an environment you trust, and say
to your kid, hey, let's talk about work this summer.
You can keep one hundred percent of what you make
is there somewhere they can ride their bike to work.
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It can either be an office job, it can be
working at the grocery store. It could be in hospitality,
which is the easiest place to get work over teach
your kid to overcome ejections. I talked to Uncle Bobby.
He said he'd love to have me, but I'm too
young to qualify. You're only too young to get paid.
You're not too young to wash dishes for free.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
You're not. Yes, I just put that on a Michael
Barriss so Michael Berry show.
Speaker 6 (24:46):
All right, I'm gonna get off my soapbox on this issue.
I'm gonna spend this segment and then I'm leaving alone
for a while. So my pep talk to you as
a parent, is you've got to do more than the
bare minimum.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
You don't know what you don't know. I didn't know
what I didn't know. My parents did everything for me.
They could.
Speaker 6 (25:10):
They let me go find jobs, they let me go
do things. They told me I was great for doing
it well. My mom told me I was embarrassing the
family because it looked like we were poor. We are poor.
What's the problem, Well, you're out begging for money. People
tell me you're coming and asking them to mow their
loan and wash the car.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Yeah, I did that. What makes us look poor?
Speaker 6 (25:30):
Okay, well it's showing thrift and ambition and pluck on
my part.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
That's true.
Speaker 6 (25:37):
Story that happened many, many, many many times. Anyway, So
you don't realize what other kids are doing. And let
me tell you this. I've told my kids this from
the earliest age, and I have to remind them of
this now because Crockett to go, Hey, Dad, should I do.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
This for my resume?
Speaker 6 (25:53):
Never ever, ever do anything in your life for a
resume or a a college application.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Do things because you believe in it, because it matters.
Speaker 6 (26:07):
The kind of people who do the things necessary to
get jobs or to get into schools and only do
it for that reason are not They're not superb, they're
not excellent, They're just not. I can spot these people
from a mile away. I can spot these people in
every industry. This is the guy who's real good at
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getting a sales job and then makes no sales because
he meets people for lunch every day.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Let's meet for lunch. Go, he's already your client.
Speaker 6 (26:36):
Why are you meeting for lunch and they have a
three martini lunch and then he's going at two o'clock. Right,
I mean, Robert Reese meets a client every day. It's
already a client that's already active, but he's finding out,
how's your business?
Speaker 2 (26:48):
What can we do to help you? Is there anything
you know.
Speaker 6 (26:51):
He's connecting that's different. I'm talking about people that think
they're working or networking. They go to all the networking
events so they can get drinks. All right, let me
focus on some things you should be thinking about for
your kids.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
You can take one of two paths.
Speaker 6 (27:04):
You can take the path of get a job doing work,
or do work, do work at a company or for
a person. You trust this person and learn what it's like,
make them be on time at eight o'clock. I'm going
to tell you this. For the first several years of
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my life as a baby lawyer, well especially as a
baby lawyer. Once I had my own business, it was amazing.
I got up and rushed to the office. It was
a twenty dollars deal between me and my top producing
agent in my real estate on the brokerage side of
my business. Whoever arrived last had to give twenty bucks
to the other person. That's an incentive. That was a
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lot of money in nineteen ninety seven and the rush.
I implemented this to get to the office fast. All
of a sudden, I was in at seven o'clock. I
was in at six point thirty, whereas I struggled to
come rolling in at the law firm. Your kids should
have a job where they learn to get to work
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on time. Are they late to school now they'll be
late to work. Teach them that they need to go
get the job. One of the things I've done with
my kids. And look, I'm not the perfect parent. I'm
not saying I am. I'm just giving you ideas. I'm
just trying to spark conversations so that this comes up
at your dinner table so your kid doesn't wake up
thirty years old in the world's passed them by, and
you go, did I do everything I could for that
child within their own You know, you can't push a
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kid to do what they don't want to do, but
you can give them opportunities. I get a lot of
emails from say, some mommy and Katie who her kid
is smarter than the rest and she's trying to figure
out how to channel this and give him opportunities. And
she doesn't know glad to help because that's a kid.
It reminds me of myself. That's a kid that has
outsized ambition and probably doesn't have the means to get
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where he's going the connections. So one option is go
apply for a job. Washington think about this, and I
think this is part of it. Is young kids today
and this has probably always been true, but it's more
true today than ever. They think about what's in this
for me? Nobody is hiring you for what's in it
for you? Your little twerp? What can you do for me?
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I never got turned down from jobs. Actually that's not true.
I called I was student by president. I called Bobby Sakowitz,
and Bobby had left Sakowitz first, and he took a
lunch with me, and I said, I want to be
your assistant. I don't need an assistant. I already have
somebody answer my phone. I said, no, I'll carry a briefcase.
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I'll go into every meeting. I'll take the notes, I'll
write to thank you notes, I'll place the phone calls.
I'll remember people's birthdays, and i'll keep your schedule. I'll
drive you where you need to be. I'll pick you up.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
When you're done.
Speaker 6 (29:53):
I will read the paper and brief you on it
every day. I did that for an executive in town.
I'm not going to tell you who, because I'm not
authorized to do so, but I did that. I did
a lot of things like that, jobs that I created.
I was adding value to him. And Bobby said to me,
and we still laugh about this to this day, Bobby said, Hell, no,
I don't want to be chapter seven of some book
you're going to write one day. Oh that was hilarious anyway.
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So option one is go out there and show people
how you can add value. If you have a family
member that has a business, send the kid to that business.
And I don't mean half assed. They do it one
day and show up three days later. They got to go,
they got to be there at eight o'clock, they got
to stay till five o'clock. They have to turn their
damn phone off. That is the worst I keep up with. Well. Emily,
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my assistant, and Alex, my buddy, worked for us at
the RCC, and we were talking about the fact that
they couldn't. You were not allowed to have your phone
on on property. At the RCC fireable offense and how
hard that was for them, but then they learned the
habit of doing that. Alex also told me that he
vapes today because he was a smoker because we wouldn't
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allow smoking there. I'm like, I don't even remember that
I did that. Oh oh, you did it all right.
You thought it looked trashy if we were smoking. So
go get that job that you can add value, even
if you don't get paid. It's about a life experience.
The second thing is, the second option is do something.
And these don't have to be people think it has
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to be an internship program and there has to be
an intern coordinator and all those sorts of things.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
You don't have to do all that. It's very informal.
Speaker 6 (31:32):
If you can take I give you a great example,
my buddy, the Aggie plumber, Michael Robinson. Summer hits seven o'clock,
Michael Eli, get your butt out of bed, get out
in the truck. Those guys have the skill of an
entry level plumber, well a one year experienced plumber, and
they haven't even graduated high school. And you know why
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he does it because his daddy did it before him.
And I think he gives him one hundred dollars a
day or something like that, and it's just spending money
for them, and he's got them up under the they
are actually adding value to him. They could take over
the company when they graduate if they so choose. If
you've got a business, to bring your kid in and
have them do something.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Maybe you just need.
Speaker 6 (32:15):
To clear out some old filing boxes because you got
to because your lease is up on that end of
the building.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Have your kid move that. Give them one hundred bucks
a day.
Speaker 6 (32:23):
Remember this, whatever money you're giving them, you're gonna give
them anyway. You're just giving them money that they're earning,
as opposed to give them a goal. Hey you want
an xbox. Okay, here's how you're gonna earn it. I'll
pay you this amount per day, and you're gonna make
a commitment. We're going to sign a contract. Contracts are
important when you write things down. Psychologically has an effect
or If your kid has a propensity for some other skill, law, medicine, whatever,
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If you have the pluck, if you have the ambition
as a kid, you will get a job.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
People like to help young people.
Speaker 6 (32:57):
They just do mommy, don't do it for them, make
them do it, make them draft it, make them follow through.
When we're at a restaurant, my kids pay the bill
and they've been doing that for years. They know how
much to tip depending on the service. They'll clarify it
with me first. They know how to review the bill,
they know how to ask for the bill.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
They know all of that.
Speaker 6 (33:17):
These are life skills we have to be teaching our
kids while we're there. And by the way, kids like responsibility.
It makes them feel valued. Otherwise they're like a puppy.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Nobody wants that.
It's that time, time, time, time, Luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Michael Verie show is on the air.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will
be used against you in a court of law. You
have the right to speak to an attorney and have
an attorney president during any questioning. If you cannot afford
an attorney, when will be provided for you at the
government's expense. Do you understand these rights as I have
just recited them to you.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
No precedents for taking a judge in this manner, and
I want to be really clear that what Judge Dougan
apparently did was what all of us should be doing,
and that is standing out for folks in our communities
who need support right now against the Trump regime more
than ever.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
I got stride Stride for all my shoulder.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I got James James.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Around notre I got stride stride for all my shoulder
and then James change the about the drag me out.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
He had beat up two people, a guy and a girl.
Beat the guy thirty times, knocked him to the ground,
choked him, beat up a woman. The judge learns that
Ice was outside to get the guy. She goes out
in the hallway screams at the immigration officers. She's furious,
visibly shaken, upset.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
I got striped s right around my shoulder, I got
change changed around my fee, I got stripe right around
my shoulder, and them chain here.
Speaker 6 (01:35):
He writes, you imagined a job answering the phones. I submit,
this is like combing the tassels on a buggy whip
as an old retired guy reach out a lot by phone.
What I usually hear is press one for English. Not
many actual people answering the phone these days, Just saying
if you look at the writing on the wall. Now,
this doesn't mean that every business is gonna go away,
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just enough to make a significant difference. Would you you
look at just the transformation that has already occurred, and
the technology is just now getting to the point where
it can replace human beings.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
There is a term for this.
Speaker 6 (02:16):
And I don't recall it. I'm not well versed enough
in this whole field or space, as they like to say.
I just read and ask a lot of questions technology.
The the speed of advancement in technology increases exponentially, so
(02:39):
you go from I don't know chat GPT being able
to answer a question to jet chat GPT being able
to draft whole cloth. So it's no longer minding the
information that's out there and aggregating it for you.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Google's been doing that for years, and that was a
big deal at the time.
Speaker 6 (03:02):
You're no longer minding the data and then handing you
what's out there.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
You're now creating data.
Speaker 6 (03:09):
If it's not already the case, it will be soon
that there will be more artificially created content in the world,
then there will be human generated content, and will that
disparity will increase at an exponential rate until human created
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content will be one shelf in the entire library.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
And that's just what's going to happen.
Speaker 6 (03:37):
It's going to happen fast, and you've got to find
ways for yourself and your child to keep up.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Who would have guessed twenty years.
Speaker 6 (03:46):
Ago that I don't know what percentage of groceries are
delivered to people's homes now, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
I know that an Hub executive told me several years
ago they were putting these pickup lines, and oh, I
know who it was.
Speaker 6 (04:03):
It was the dude black hair looks a little bit
like alfalfa, it looks a little bit like buck.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Wait, yes, the Black, Scott McClellan. I saw Scott McClellan at.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
The uh UH They had just opened that day, the
uh HGB over in bel Air, and I wanted to
go see it because I was interested because they had
shoehorned it into a space that was like it was
a kind of a weird space. It was impressive how
they pull this thing off. I was, I don't know
how that store does. I don't think that's one of
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their bigger stores, but I don't know that. But he
had dedicated a goodly percentage of what could have been
parking or access and it's real tight.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
You know.
Speaker 6 (04:45):
I don't like to park in parking garage, and I don't
like to be in spaces like that where you're you know,
you got wait on somebody and pull up here and
turn here and sharp peer and someone's coming there.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
And that's not my thing. And I grew up out
in the country. I prefer that. I don't like to
be in those type confined spaces. Why I can never
live in New York.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
But anyway, so I said to him, why have you
dedicated so much space over here to this? And he said,
because right now pickup is say three percent.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Of our volume.
Speaker 6 (05:18):
But we project that will be and I'm pretty sure
on the three percent. We project that'll be ten percent
by the end of next year, and within five years
that will be twenty five percent. Now, pickup didn't just
mean I know a lot of you will will buy.
You will buy your groceries online or put in your
order online and you pull up, they come and put
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it in your back. But I'm talking about the delivery services.
And so what you're seeing is the job opportunities have changed.
Now your job opportunities are in the gig economy as
an uber each driver or a door dash driver. And
there are people I don't know what the numbers are.
(06:00):
I'd be interested to know. There are people that if
you get in the back of their uber or their lift,
will tell you I used to.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Be a supervisor. The supervisor job gone. I used to be.
Speaker 6 (06:15):
So somebody that can run an entire operation, some of
those folks will will. If they're good leaders, good at operations,
they may they will hold on for longer. The attrition
will hit them later, but it's coming. But the people
who are simply supervisors, your job is to keep five
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Mexicans from screwing stuff up. Your job is to make
sure that five guys show up to work and don't
steal anything, or and they kund of mostly work. Those
jobs will go away because as you don't need people
to perform clerical tasks, you don't need people to manage them,
you don't need hr to handle badging, you don't need
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office space for them to work in. You're going to
see the transition of buildings that already exist. You're going
to see them transitioning the way you saw. Some of
them become sell storage, low value office space, C grade
office space.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Some of that became cell storage.
Speaker 6 (07:16):
Who would have guessed the highest and best use of
a six story building air conditioned in C grade location
would be as storage space, not where people work. No
food court downstairs, no security guard downstairs. All that's automated.
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Be interesting to see the numbers. Some of you great
researchers out there can find these things for me. Be
interesting to see the numbers of how many people in
America have a job as a security guard. Company wants
to take that off the books too, automate that. Here's
your push code, here's your gates, here's all of it.
I wonder how many young black men eighteen to thirty
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or work as security guard as compared to other jobs.
Speaker 7 (08:08):
I would really like to see that number pre Dog Night,
not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Sidney
Laufer in the Hall of Fame. Sa Kwan Barkley played
golf with the President over the weekend. He just posted
some people are really upset because I played golf and
flew to the White House with the President.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
Maybe I just respect the office. Not a hard concept
to understand. I just golfed with Obama not too long ago,
and I look forward to finishing my round with Trump.
Now you get out of my mensions with all this
politics and have an amazing day.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
God on u saque all right.
Speaker 6 (08:49):
Families who have multi generational success spend a lot of
time thinking about their own success and their child success.
I've witnessed it when you see multiple generations of families
that go to the University of Texas, go to Texas
(09:10):
A and M go to TCU, and you notice that
everybody in that family looks like the Romneys. Everybody in
that family is fit, has a degree, has a good
paying job. You start noticing things about how they have
(09:33):
ordered their lives. These are not accidental things. They have
done the right internships, they have gone on the foreign
study programs. When Michael Michael's senior year, there was an
opportunity to go.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
There was some pro.
Speaker 6 (09:50):
International program where you could go for three weeks during
the Christmas break to Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam. And
he said, I don't want to go. I said, okay,
so I don't have to go. I know you're going.
You're going, but I don't want to go. I know
I heard you, but you're going. And there's no point
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in us arguing about it, because when the plane a sense,
you're going to be on it. And maybe not today,
maybe not when you're twenty five, but when I'm long.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Dead, you'll feel guilty. Man.
Speaker 6 (10:25):
My dad was just trying to create experiences for me
that would broaden my horizons.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
And make me think differently, make me look at the
world differently.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
You know.
Speaker 6 (10:32):
I think about I think about Steve Jobs in Wozniak,
and I think about the fact that they that they
imagine all of the things that used to take.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Up your entire desk.
Speaker 6 (10:48):
In a little bit of phone, and in fact the
phone is bigger than it needs to be. They used
to be smaller. They figured out people liked it bigger,
and I go, wow, how did you think of that?
Speaker 2 (11:00):
It's brilliant.
Speaker 6 (11:01):
I don't like Zuckerberg or the Winklevosses for that matter,
but to imagine that as we were increasingly technological, increasingly
retreating to our homes and avoiding social spaces the dance hall,
the club, the bar, the park. As that happened, we
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still needed human connection.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
We crave it.
Speaker 6 (11:27):
We still have the same DNA, We still have the
desire for fellowship, fraternity, for interaction, for gossip. We want
to know who died. We wan't to know who got remarried,
who got divorced. We want the tea, as the kids say,
we want to see.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
All those things. And so Facebook gave that opportunity. Who
would have guessed.
Speaker 6 (11:51):
Who would have guessed that we would that there would
be a technological replacement for so much of our lives.
I love Facebook. I hate the company, I hate the people.
I love the ability. Saturday afternoon, nothing was painting. George
and I sat outside. She was sitting outside by the
fountain painting. I'm sitting out there with her, and she'd say.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Hey, you know what do you think about this, And
I said, what do you think about this?
Speaker 6 (12:17):
And then we go back to our own low and
I was posting on Facebook and interacting with people, and you.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Know, what are you all up to today? I love that.
I enjoy the heck out of that.
Speaker 6 (12:25):
I am unashamed that I would practically rather gather virtually. Mostly,
I would rather gather virtually than in the crowd because
I don't have to get there or get back. I
don't have to worry how I'm gonna extricate myself from
this situation. I don't have to dress. I can wear
you know, shorts. Those are the ways.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Those are some of the.
Speaker 6 (12:45):
Ways technology is changing our lives, and we'll continue to
change our lives.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Listener, John Manlow. Holiday Manlow has.
Speaker 6 (12:58):
A company called Cursive Media that I think what you
were referring to is Moore's law. MOORI is the idea
that computer chips get about twice as powerful every couple
of years while also getting cheaper.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
And then the singularity is what you were talking.
Speaker 6 (13:13):
About, the idea that at some point AI and technology
will get so advanced so fast that everything will change
beyond what we can even imagine.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
There is a.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
Fear by Altman and Musk and other guys that are
far deeper into this, and I ever want to be
of how fast the robots become more powerful than us
as sci fi movie kind of stuff, but it's real
because there's no artificial restriction on their strength. And how
would you who's going to decide how we're going to
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restrict these robots. We know that they're moving at the
speed of light. We know this, So let's go back
to your kids. I got an EMO from a woman.
She does data entry or a bank, and that bank
has now been bought by a bank in another state.
I'm not authorized to say what the company is not
going to so that I'm going to leave the details
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of that. She does data entry. She said, I'm sixty two.
I'm too young to retire. I can move to the
headquarters multiple states away, but I don't want to do that.
So right now we're just cleaning up the books for
the transfer, and my job is only guaranteed through August.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
You're going to watch.
Speaker 6 (14:20):
People lose their job at a rate that is going
to look like a war. It's just going to be
one after the other after the other, and you won't
notice it. Till you see the aggregate numbers. But you're
going to notice that your sister in law lost her
jobs job. A lot of these are women operated jobs,
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clerk positions and data entry positions and customer service positions.
The airlines are trying to get out of the customer
service business altogether, and they are investing heavily in chatbots.
And if you've ever had a conversation, it is for
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our for our kids or grandkids that won't they'll they'll
be robots themselves. But for me, I cannot deal with
the chatbot. I just I lose interest, you know what.
I just won't go on that trip, just forget it.
But there will be enough people who will transition slow
lyubiturely that it will make it make sense. When they
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sent all the phone answering systems to India, there was kickback,
but people eventually fell in line. When Sam Walton decided
to start importing from China and no longer saying made
in America, there was kickback for a.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Moment and then it went away.
Speaker 6 (15:46):
But as it relates to your kids and their success,
I think you have to understand you can't just send
your kid to public school, have them there on time,
pick them up afterwards, dot and do some studying if
you want to give your kids.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
If that's your goal, it doesn't have to be. I'm
not saying has to be. There are some things you
need to do. We're gonna talk about that coming up.
Michael Berry's show.
Speaker 6 (16:18):
Hard to have some advice for your kids. You can
take it or leave it. But before we do that,
a quick call from Laura, who has changed industry. You
were a stewardess and now and what happened?
Speaker 8 (16:31):
Okay, good morning, Michael. I'm thoroughly enjoying your show. Or
are you flying around the world. No, no, I'm Italian descent.
Exactly have you.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Seen true romance?
Speaker 6 (16:49):
Not that I recall it's it's it's I mean in
the in the Annals of Legendary Actors on stage together interacting,
Robert Duval being tortured by Christopher Walkin is as good
as it gets. And the joke that Robert Duval tells
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in insulting Christopher Walkin, who is a Sicilian, with the
fact that y'all are all black and that was the
ultimate insult to him while asking for a Chesterfield after
getting punched in the nose, Smarts doesn't. It's it's worth
you going to watch that movie. It's a Tarantino flick.
It's his best way for just that scene. But anyway,
I'm sorry.
Speaker 8 (17:31):
I was going to say, now you know what, I'll
do this afternoon. In any case, I'm part of Sicilian,
part not Bolton. So I fit the boxes. Yes, well
I was. I still am at seventy five years old.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
For you.
Speaker 8 (17:48):
I spoke to you a while back about being an
international stewardess and flew around the world for five years.
After that, I decided to stay in the travel industry
and became a travel agent. No automation, handwritten tickets, call
the airline to make reservations. I went to school for that,
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so I knew what I was doing. The travel agency
I worked at decided to put in computers. I walked out, Wow,
I said, there's no way.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
How did you want to do?
Speaker 8 (18:23):
You know? Well, I stayed in the travel business. I said,
I'm going to be an independent contractor and go and
sell travel for you, bring in your corporate ecclimity and that.
That lasted for a while and I said I can't
make enough money. So I learned the computer. I got
good at it. I got very good that American Airlines
Saber system had me teach some In any case, well, thank.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
You for sharing that story. Let me tell you about
your kids, folks. You cannot assume that your kid's going
to graduate high school. The whole family comes in Yorkshire
and they throw there was that thing called not task,
what they throw their headgear, whatever it's called, doesn't matter,
get their diploma and they're going to be in good shape.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
You cannot assume that's going to happen.
Speaker 6 (19:09):
You cannot assume that just because you send them to college,
because you saved money all this time, you got a
five twenty nine or Texas whatever it.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Is, choice, whatever that was, that that's going to be enough.
It's not.
Speaker 6 (19:22):
It is going to be insanely more competitive going forward
because there will be fewer opportunities for human beings.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Make no mistake.
Speaker 6 (19:33):
Technology is going to replace most of the functions that
humans perform today. You can send around cry over it
like the climate activists. You can sit around and cry
over a lot of things. We're all going to die.
I wouldn't spend a lot of time open over it.
I mean, you can change your life because of it,
but I wouldn't spend a lot of time on it.
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That is to say this that in order to be
first of all, I think everybody should be putting themselves
into the position to own their own equity from as
early as they can. And if you don't have the
capital or family run business to do that, you should
be building toward the point that you are self employed.
That should be the case. You know who's going to
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have jobs, you know who's going to make money forget jobs?
Speaker 2 (20:19):
I hate that word. We have to create jobs.
Speaker 6 (20:22):
Government needs to provide jobs. Everything is about jobs. That
is a weak mentality, as a loser mentality, it really is.
But we have to have a place for people to go.
We'll give them a little money and they'll show up.
That's not how you build excellence. That's not what Edison,
that's not what elon, that's not what forward. You don't
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think of. How can we just keep keep people busy
so they don't kill each other. That's the worst way
to look at things. Every person should be striving to
the point that they are in and of themselves able
to add value in some place that maybe my tizable,
maybe it's not. I had to stay at home mom,
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I wouldn't trade that for the world. That was so
important to my upbringing. I would not trade that for
the world. I don't know the alternative, but I know
none to take in retirement when it was a sale
and I had to sell it, and I didn't say
you have to do this because that's not our relationship.
But I will tell you I begged, and the kids begged,
and you know, I think she would like to go
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back to work after Crocket's gone because she feels bored
or she feels like she will be bored. But if
you are and if that's your role, that's your role.
I'm not saying everybody has to do that. If you're retired,
that's your business. But for everybody else, you should be
striving for the point that you have a skill set
of some sort that other people are going to pay for.
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And let's start at this. There are a lot of
people with a loser's mentality that wanting money, that charging
for things and charging good money for it is a
bad thing. I learned very quickly at the RCC. The
person who bitched about ticket prices, do not accommodate. Say
you're right, this isn't for you, and it's not. There's
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a bar with chie for beer down the way. They
don't have security at every door. They don't have bathrooms.
That beaver Applin that founded Bucky said was the cleanest
bathrooms he had ever seen, including his own. But hey,
you know, you go to the hole in the wall
bar where the owners behind the counter, and he's got
a shotgun on the counter because they get robbed all
the time, and you save fifty cents per beer. By
all means, that's where you belong. Nothing wrong with that.
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You like cheap stuff, you don't like good stuff. I'm
okay with that. You've got to think about what skill
set you have, not that someone else will hire you for,
but someone else.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Will pay you for.
Speaker 6 (22:43):
There are a lot of people making good money out
there as a fishing guide, running a power washing business,
or doing power washing, mowing lawns. You'd be surprised painting houses.
Be surprised how many people don't have an employer. And
it's not just about freedom, it's about a future. I
don't think we're going to replace painting with AI so quickly,
(23:07):
or at least I didn't until I saw a machine
they put in a house that put they were doing
concrete fours and it took the crushed concrete and lay it,
trowled it out and it was beautiful and it was
snapped off perfectly. And that guy didn't show up drunk,
he didn't steal from you. I mean, that's the future.
So that's what you have to be putting yourself in
a position to do now for your kids. This summer,
(23:28):
you have an opportunity, You have a massive How many
times do you not do something because you.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Don't have time for it? We all have the same
amount of time.
Speaker 6 (23:36):
How does one guy learn five languages and the rest
of us don't at all? How does one guy get
really really fit and the rest of us say, yeah,
I don't have time.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Work out? How's one guy restoring an old car?
Speaker 8 (23:49):
Well?
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Why like doing old car? Just don't have time.
Speaker 6 (23:51):
We all had the exact same amount of time, Donald Trump,
all of us same amount of time.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
But you got.
Speaker 6 (23:57):
A packet of time, a big packet for your kids
this summer. Find somebody you trust, because petophil is real.
Find somebody you trust, an environment you trust, and say
to your kid, hey, let's talk about work this summer.
You can keep one hundred percent of what you make
is there somewhere they can ride their bike to work.
(24:18):
It can either be an office job, it can be
working at the grocery store. It could be in hospitality,
which is the easiest place to get work over teach
your kid to overcome ejections. I talked to Uncle Bobby.
He said he'd love to have me, but I'm too
young to qualify. You're only too young to get paid.
You're not too young to wash dishes for free.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
You're not. Yes, I just put that on a Michael
Barriss so Michael Berry show.
Speaker 6 (24:46):
All right, I'm gonna get off my soapbox on this issue.
I'm gonna spend this segment and then I'm leaving alone
for a while. So my pep talk to you as
a parent, is you've got to do more than the
bare minimum.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
You don't know what you don't know. I didn't know
what I didn't know. My parents did everything for me.
They could.
Speaker 6 (25:10):
They let me go find jobs, they let me go
do things. They told me I was great for doing
it well. My mom told me I was embarrassing the
family because it looked like we were poor. We are poor.
What's the problem, Well, you're out begging for money. People
tell me you're coming and asking them to mow their
loan and wash the car.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Yeah, I did that. What makes us look poor?
Speaker 6 (25:30):
Okay, well it's showing thrift and ambition and pluck on
my part.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
That's true.
Speaker 6 (25:37):
Story that happened many, many, many many times. Anyway, So
you don't realize what other kids are doing. And let
me tell you this. I've told my kids this from
the earliest age, and I have to remind them of
this now because Crockett to go, Hey, Dad, should I do.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
This for my resume?
Speaker 6 (25:53):
Never ever, ever do anything in your life for a
resume or a a college application.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Do things because you believe in it, because it matters.
Speaker 6 (26:07):
The kind of people who do the things necessary to
get jobs or to get into schools and only do
it for that reason are not They're not superb, they're
not excellent, They're just not. I can spot these people
from a mile away. I can spot these people in
every industry. This is the guy who's real good at
(26:27):
getting a sales job and then makes no sales because
he meets people for lunch every day.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Let's meet for lunch. Go, he's already your client.
Speaker 6 (26:36):
Why are you meeting for lunch and they have a
three martini lunch and then he's going at two o'clock. Right,
I mean, Robert Reese meets a client every day. It's
already a client that's already active, but he's finding out,
how's your business?
Speaker 2 (26:48):
What can we do to help you? Is there anything
you know.
Speaker 6 (26:51):
He's connecting that's different. I'm talking about people that think
they're working or networking. They go to all the networking
events so they can get drinks. All right, let me
focus on some things you should be thinking about for
your kids.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
You can take one of two paths.
Speaker 6 (27:04):
You can take the path of get a job doing work,
or do work, do work at a company or for
a person. You trust this person and learn what it's like,
make them be on time at eight o'clock. I'm going
to tell you this. For the first several years of
(27:25):
my life as a baby lawyer, well especially as a
baby lawyer. Once I had my own business, it was amazing.
I got up and rushed to the office. It was
a twenty dollars deal between me and my top producing
agent in my real estate on the brokerage side of
my business. Whoever arrived last had to give twenty bucks
to the other person. That's an incentive. That was a
(27:46):
lot of money in nineteen ninety seven and the rush.
I implemented this to get to the office fast. All
of a sudden, I was in at seven o'clock. I
was in at six point thirty, whereas I struggled to
come rolling in at the law firm. Your kids should
have a job where they learn to get to work
(28:07):
on time. Are they late to school now they'll be
late to work. Teach them that they need to go
get the job. One of the things I've done with
my kids. And look, I'm not the perfect parent. I'm
not saying I am. I'm just giving you ideas. I'm
just trying to spark conversations so that this comes up
at your dinner table so your kid doesn't wake up
thirty years old in the world's passed them by, and
you go, did I do everything I could for that
child within their own You know, you can't push a
(28:30):
kid to do what they don't want to do, but
you can give them opportunities. I get a lot of
emails from say, some mommy and Katie who her kid
is smarter than the rest and she's trying to figure
out how to channel this and give him opportunities. And
she doesn't know glad to help because that's a kid.
It reminds me of myself. That's a kid that has
outsized ambition and probably doesn't have the means to get
(28:54):
where he's going the connections. So one option is go
apply for a job. Washington think about this, and I
think this is part of it. Is young kids today
and this has probably always been true, but it's more
true today than ever. They think about what's in this
for me? Nobody is hiring you for what's in it
for you? Your little twerp? What can you do for me?
(29:17):
I never got turned down from jobs. Actually that's not true.
I called I was student by president. I called Bobby Sakowitz,
and Bobby had left Sakowitz first, and he took a
lunch with me, and I said, I want to be
your assistant. I don't need an assistant. I already have
somebody answer my phone. I said, no, I'll carry a briefcase.
(29:40):
I'll go into every meeting. I'll take the notes, I'll
write to thank you notes, I'll place the phone calls.
I'll remember people's birthdays, and i'll keep your schedule. I'll
drive you where you need to be. I'll pick you up.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
When you're done.
Speaker 6 (29:53):
I will read the paper and brief you on it
every day. I did that for an executive in town.
I'm not going to tell you who, because I'm not
authorized to do so, but I did that. I did
a lot of things like that, jobs that I created.
I was adding value to him. And Bobby said to me,
and we still laugh about this to this day, Bobby said, Hell, no,
I don't want to be chapter seven of some book
you're going to write one day. Oh that was hilarious anyway.
(30:17):
So option one is go out there and show people
how you can add value. If you have a family
member that has a business, send the kid to that business.
And I don't mean half assed. They do it one
day and show up three days later. They got to go,
they got to be there at eight o'clock, they got
to stay till five o'clock. They have to turn their
damn phone off. That is the worst I keep up with. Well. Emily,
(30:39):
my assistant, and Alex, my buddy, worked for us at
the RCC, and we were talking about the fact that
they couldn't. You were not allowed to have your phone
on on property. At the RCC fireable offense and how
hard that was for them, but then they learned the
habit of doing that. Alex also told me that he
vapes today because he was a smoker because we wouldn't
(31:02):
allow smoking there. I'm like, I don't even remember that
I did that. Oh oh, you did it all right.
You thought it looked trashy if we were smoking. So
go get that job that you can add value, even
if you don't get paid. It's about a life experience.
The second thing is, the second option is do something.
And these don't have to be people think it has
(31:24):
to be an internship program and there has to be
an intern coordinator and all those sorts of things.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
You don't have to do all that. It's very informal.
Speaker 6 (31:32):
If you can take I give you a great example,
my buddy, the Aggie plumber, Michael Robinson. Summer hits seven o'clock,
Michael Eli, get your butt out of bed, get out
in the truck. Those guys have the skill of an
entry level plumber, well a one year experienced plumber, and
they haven't even graduated high school. And you know why
(31:54):
he does it because his daddy did it before him.
And I think he gives him one hundred dollars a
day or something like that, and it's just spending money
for them, and he's got them up under the they
are actually adding value to him. They could take over
the company when they graduate if they so choose. If
you've got a business, to bring your kid in and
have them do something.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Maybe you just need.
Speaker 6 (32:15):
To clear out some old filing boxes because you got
to because your lease is up on that end of
the building.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Have your kid move that. Give them one hundred bucks
a day.
Speaker 6 (32:23):
Remember this, whatever money you're giving them, you're gonna give
them anyway. You're just giving them money that they're earning,
as opposed to give them a goal. Hey you want
an xbox. Okay, here's how you're gonna earn it. I'll
pay you this amount per day, and you're gonna make
a commitment. We're going to sign a contract. Contracts are
important when you write things down. Psychologically has an effect
or If your kid has a propensity for some other skill, law, medicine, whatever,
(32:50):
If you have the pluck, if you have the ambition
as a kid, you will get a job.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
People like to help young people.
Speaker 6 (32:57):
They just do mommy, don't do it for them, make
them do it, make them draft it, make them follow through.
When we're at a restaurant, my kids pay the bill
and they've been doing that for years. They know how
much to tip depending on the service. They'll clarify it
with me first. They know how to review the bill,
they know how to ask for the bill.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
They know all of that.
Speaker 6 (33:17):
These are life skills we have to be teaching our
kids while we're there. And by the way, kids like responsibility.
It makes them feel valued. Otherwise they're like a puppy.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Nobody wants that.
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