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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time time luck and load. So Michael
Verry Show is on the air, looking into micro We
gotta feed a beard.
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I don't plan to shave, and it's good thing, but
I just gotta see I'm.
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Doing it all right.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Well we come mad with support its I'm beating ridiclude
and that's the true. It's neither drink nor drug and
induice nool.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
I'm just doing all right. It's a great dad to
be alive.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I know the sun's still shining on a close my eyes.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
It's hard times in the neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
But why can't every day you just as good? Fifteen
years sid level, send every seed, I some heven my vessins.
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Then lifting alone alright, Redford, Redford, what you see, he says,
I see alone? Will looking at me hev in the conferr.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
I don't expect you to attend, but if you could
just take a moment this morning, pause, say a prayer.
Gary Lynn Rickenbacker. His funeral will be at ten o'clock
this morning. I didn't personally know Gary Lynn Ricord Rickenbaker,
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but like a lot of people, I came to know
him through email exchanges and through his story. I heard
his story a few years ago when his son.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
Caleb.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Was killed by a turd who had stolen a vehicle
and was running from Precinct four deputies and crashed into
and killed Caleb. It was Gary Lynn Rickenbacker's only son.
He was devastated. I heard his story when he reached
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out by a golf tournament that he was hosting for
his son. And he had done it for several years,
and every year he would reach out and let me
know and we would exchange a couple of emails about it.
And I always thought to myself, you know, he had
a boy about the age of my kids, just a
few years older, and I thought about the level of
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devastation would feel whether it be my only son is
his case or either of my sons would I would
just be broken. But like many people, he put effort
in two which became his his therapy. It becomes cathartic
to do such a thing he put together. Believe it
was a golf tournament.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
Well. I got the news a.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Few days ago that Gary Lynn Rickenbacker had passed and
this morning at ten will be his service. It's a
beautiful obituary that his wife wrote. Imagine her story. She
lost her son, their only son, to a third running
from the cops, and now she loses her husband, who
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was sixty five and looked literally looked fifty two, to
a heart attack. She wrote on October twenty first, twenty
twenty five, My knight in shining armor, my hero. The
milk to my halapen yo woo, I like that, The
milk to my halopenne.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
You know.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
The sun to my rain, the sweet to my salty,
the chocolate to my popcorn, the calm to my storm,
the sun to my cloudy, the strong to my weak,
the steady to my waves, the smile in my heart, My.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
One true love. Gary Akasa m u e.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
L ran into the arms of his beautiful son Caleb
Brickenbacker and his savior Jesus Christ in heaven. Gary was
born February twenty third, nineteen sixty in Kenton, Ohio. So
we can forgive his Ohio state fandom. The pictures she
used for his obituaries him in front of Ohios. There
will cut some slight because he was born in Ohio.
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He didn't know any better.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
In a moment, he got here as fast he could.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
To Paul and Nancy Birdwell, Rickenbacker grew up in the
beautiful farmlands of Kenton, graduating from Kenton High School in
nineteen seventy eight. He went on to matriculate at the
Ohio State University, where he studied finance and graduated with
a degree in accounting. Michael, you said it's finance. It's
really finance.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
Please don't gowing up.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Gary thrived in four h baseball, wrestling, and golf. As
much as he loved Ohio, he definitely disliked shoveling snow
and so off he went to the warmer climates of
the South, where he started his career with Connico Phillips
in Polka City, Oklahoma.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
In nineteen eighty two, on one of.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
His many transfers, Gary was once again moved to Houston,
where he attended a singles class at Houston's first Baptist
and met a greeter named Melissa. Clearly she did a
great job, because they were married after dating two and
two and a half years, and on March twenty third,
twenty twenty six, they would have celebrated thirty beautiful years
of marriage. Gary's love of golf continued throughout his life.
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It became a source of joy and purpose, especially as
he organized Caleb's Legacy of Love Golf Scramble Tournament, the
biggest fundraiser of the year held in memory of his
beloved son, which he had just completed. He also loved
scuba diving, water skiing, and snow skiing. Snow Skiing became
a passion for Kayla as well, and they would go
on a father's son's ski trip each year to spend
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time just the two of them. Gary and Melissa were
blessed in two thousand and two with the greatest gift
outside of salvation, their sunshine Caleb son spelled s o En,
who made their family of two and inseparable woo family
of three musketeers. Gary's career enabled them to move to
the Middle East, where they lived and traveled the world
for many years. Gary loved people with his kind With
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this kind, soft spoken love, he would share his greatest love,
his love of Jesus.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
Christ, with anyone he could.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
His greatest desiring life was for people to know salvation
through the saving grace of Jesus Christ. He emulated the
love of Jesus and all that he did Romans ten nine.
If you confess with your mouth Jesus is Lord, and
believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
You will be saved.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Garys survived by his forever bride Melissa Rickenbacker, his mother
Nancy Rickenbacker, his mother in law Peggy Munt, others Stephen Rickenbacker,
Kevin Rickenbacker and his wife in law, wife of and
his wife and law wife of Jeff Rickenbager. It's all
the family. Gary, You are my sam aka Samuel. See
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all my undying eternal love us with Samuel stands for about.
I will wait, We've made a breath until I'm reunited
with you and Calebin on the arms of Jesus. I
love you from here to attorneym.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
Well, she says some nice stuff. How about that.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
If you wanted to make a contribution or send a
nice note. It's Gary Lynn Rickenbacker R. I C K
E N B A c h E R. Only sixty
five years old. I didn't know him, know him, but
I was made aware this morning of his passing, and
all I could think about was his sweet widow having
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now lost her son inexplicably and her husband too early. Wow,
the travails of life in America today, with the awful
things that happened. I can't help but imagine that his
son's death did not precipitate his passing.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Wow, fos.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Deal a chance temonia. You're a mcartney expert, so I'm
going to sound like a neophyte, and I am compared
to you on this subject. But in my mind, having
never studied, McCartney just sort of passively listened. I know
of the Beatles years and the rivalry with John and you.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
Know, how do you sleep at night?
Speaker 4 (08:52):
And and you know he and his wife never spent
a night apart for thirty eight years. And then he
married the stump woman and she was a living hell
for him, and and you think, wow, this this is
the guy who was with his wife every single night
for thirty eight years. I mean, who wants to do that?
That's not healthy in my opinion. Fellow needs a hunting trip,
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a fishing trip, something, right, But hey, that that tells
you a lot about him as a person. Then he
marries that woman and she's a little demon, she's demon spawning,
she's awful and anyway, so you.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
Need to kind of have that. And then you have
say you, and then you have the the was it
say us? No?
Speaker 4 (09:36):
No, it was what was the one he deal with
Michael Jackson, say say, say, and the girl is mine?
And then you find out later, well, you know, Michael
Jackson kind of you know, did him dirty with the
buy and the the the catalog and and you know
he's Sir probable McCartney and and you kind of go,
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well in life, well lived and all that, and so
you kind of put him over that. And the more
you study, you realize everything this man has done in
the level of all you have for him just grows
and grows and rows. And you know, I kind of
intuitively knew he was in a band called Wings, but
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it's not until you actually dig in and you realize
there's some amazing music. Band on the run is good stuff.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
Anyway, that's a.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Long way saying Paul McCartney, I mean kind of a
big deal. I watched a video last night about the sphere.
Took almost two point four billion to build it, a
little over two point three close closer to two point four.
And I thought it started ten years ago.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
It didn't.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
It start in twenty seventeen. Beginning of twenty eighteen, guy
named Dolan, whose father made his fortune off cable vision
imagine that the concept that you would pay for TV
before the cord cutting. And he does this thing, and
it turns out that the Sphere is a weird deal
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because it costs all that money eighty million dollars in
interest a year, two hundred twenty two thousand dollars a
day in interest on the Sphere. But what's amazing is
the Sphere has the odd situation where they sell everything
out and it's still losing money. It's losing money on
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a level you cannot imagine, and that's with everything sold out.
It sells out everything. But then they went through the
reasons why so you two was the first big residency.
You two made two hundred and twenty two million dollars
off that residency. The Sphere made twenty mini So that's
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not probably not a very good deal. And you think,
you they should have worked a better deal on YouTube
because that was good for you too, right, I mean,
somebody was the opening act of the Sphere. You should
maybe strike a better deal for them, But whatever, it
got them a lot of play. They are losing supposedly
half a billion dollars a year.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
Think about that. That's hard.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
You could literally go astrodome on it, lock the doors
and let it rot from within, and you wouldn't lose
half a billion dollars a year, five hundred million dollars
a year. And every single thing they do is sold out.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
It's crazy.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
They went through the electric bill alone for that thing,
and it is. Yeah, you can go ahead and not
worry about how much energy you use because I assure
you the sphere is draining more energy than entire cities,
So you don't. You don't really need to worry about
your carbon footprint. When Taylor Swift, who's lecturing you, is
flying around by herself in the back of a big
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jumbo jet. Yeah, I don't think you need to worry about.
It's India and China that are polluting the world. Don't
worry about the cal farts, don't worry about your own footprint.
You don't need to recycle. It's all a big silly game.
But anyway, that's my story about the sphere. If you
were wondering about it, that's my story about the sphere.
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We went to the UT game this weekend. Arts played
pretty darn well. Was it twenty five or thirty three?
I still worry that he can't hit wide open receivers,
I mean wide open receivers. He overthrows, underthrows, throws two
yards behind them, throws five yards ahead of them. But
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I'm hoping that gets better. But I'm not just gonna
say that all is well. I guess we're gonna find
out against Georgia. The unfortunate thing is while they're waiting
on their quarterback to hopefully grow up. And that's putting
it kindly. This defense is amazing. They're incredible, and this
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and special teams incredible. There are some incredible world class
talent on this team. And you know Archester, you don't
just come from was it Archbishop? What was it not Shaw?
What was his high school? Archbishop something? Archbishop? Nobody to playing,
you know, being ranked the number one team in the
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country and a Heisman hopeful when you know you only
took a few snaps last year and you mostly just
rammed the ball. There's a lot of pressure to put
on this kid. And he'll I think he'll grow into
a good quarterback. I don't know if it'll be a
great quarterback. I just I don't know yet. Anyway, it's
going to be fun to watch as we go down
the stretch and my goodness, my goodness, give those Texas
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A and m Aggie's their due. I would love to
see they were number three. I would love to see
the Aggie's rank number one at one point. I mean
I would love to see them that That would be
that would that would be a good thing. Here's to
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you Aggie fans.
Speaker 6 (15:13):
What y'all want me to stay in?
Speaker 3 (15:14):
This?
Speaker 5 (15:14):
Here? Fuck?
Speaker 1 (15:15):
What is this?
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Evil?
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Okay? Here? How you pronounced the word chuck them?
Speaker 6 (15:22):
Alum in that connect kabbala who commit Goodbye to Texas
University of Texas, Goodbye to Urge and why Lord, good
luck to them? The old Texas agis there is the
boys who knows how to fight? The eyes of Texas
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is upon you, is Lord. That is the song they
sing so well, It's all like hell, oh, goodbye to
Texas University.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Play now father agis looking here.
Speaker 6 (15:55):
Chicken wigabonel, chicken niggadoo, Just go hie out on or
no where did they mean?
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Tell who?
Speaker 4 (16:09):
I started with Michael Petro just under five years ago.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
I had heard.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
About him from my friend Chance McLean, and he said, hey,
I made a TV commercial for a guy. You will
love this commercial, and he sent it to me I
need to get it and post it again. And it
basically said, if you're a liberal, don't call me. I'm
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a personal trainer, but I come to your home. You
don't have to join a gym. You don't have to
drive there, park, go in, stand around people dropping the weights.
Most gyms are meet markets, and that's okay. There's nothing
wrong with that. It's a good a place to meet
somebody as a bar for sure. I come to your
home and I train you.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
There.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
At that time, he'd been doing it for twenty five years.
Now it's been thirty. But I want like minded people.
I don't want people who hate Trump or hate America.
And I love that because people will tell me, people
who share my and your values will tell me I'd
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love to sponsor the show, but I don't want to
lose customers. And I say, for every customer you lose,
and you won't, you'll gain ten more, and you'll gain
the kind of customers you want. As opposed to being
a wous in not standing for anything, it's always amusing
to me.
Speaker 7 (17:46):
We got to stand up for his country, Michael, We
got Achael, what you say, Wow, stand up for this country.
It's time we stand up be counted as Christians, as conservatives.
All right, well sponsor my show. Oh no, why well,
people will be mad at us.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
The only people that would ever be mad at you
are the very people you're talking about destroying the country.
Maybe you're the problem. I mean, you're a nice enough guy,
but you're a weasel. Please don't share opinions and talk
about how we need to embrace them as a country.
If you can't even embrace them as a business. You're
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a millionaire. Well, you know I don't want you know,
my wife wouldn't want it. I've come to the conclusion
that people who hide behind their wives, that's the weakest
person in society, the person who's gonna do something, but
he has to check with his wife. Really, in fact,
I don't even believe the wife would ever have a
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problem with it. I think that's just a weasel, a
way of weaseling out of things. Anyway, So Petru starts, so,
you know, he shows me his video. I said, you
know what, if for no other reason, then I love
that he put this. He had bought a commercial spot.
I think he spent ten grand. It wasn't a lot
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of money, and he got some results and so I
wanted to meet him and I wanted to train with him.
So I call him and he comes to the house
and my wife laughs about it because he comes over
and we have our first session and afterwards. It turns
out he's a hardcore listener. He listens to every hour
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we're on the air, either as he's driving to appointments
to train people or whatever he misses, he goes back
and listens on the podcast and has for years. I mean,
he could quote things from the show I'd forgotten about.
Ramona had slept through, and so we sat on the
back porch. Turns out he loves a good cigar. He
doesn't smoke him as often as I do, and he
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loves good bourbon. So we had some bourbon, We had
a cigar. We sat out there. It gets to be
dinner time and so we uh, he stayed around. I
think it was state night, and so we had a
state he stayed. He stayed close to five hours. We
hit it off, let's just say that. So six months
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into it, he said, Hey, I'd like to talk to
you about sponsoring the show. I said, well, it's ten
thousand dollars a month minimum. That's not my rule. It's
the company rule. The show is sold out and it's
a year long contract. It's you know, you don't want
to insult somebody, but I don't think your numbers work
for that. You're, you know, solo guy. And he started
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building a company, and he started training other people to
do what he does. And he takes every call as
they come in. He talks people through, you know, what
are you trying to accomplish this? Make sure this makes
sense and the whole thing. He today has eleven trainers.
Five years later, eleven trainers. He has increased by fifteen
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his revenues from being a guy on his own. I'm
not saying he's rich, but I'm saying he's very financially
successful now. And he has built an actual business, I
mean a thriving business that he can pull back from,
which I have encouraged him to do because he's exactly
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my age. He went to University of Texas and play
football there. Your body can't hold up to training. You know,
he's lifting the weight for somebody. He's doing all these
things and he's.
Speaker 5 (21:32):
Fit as a feddal.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
He looks great, he feels great, but you know, you
have to prepare a succession plan, and that is anyway.
So he says to me the other day, he's been
very slow to grow because when he brings a trainer on,
he wants that trainer to be busy. He wants to
be able to keep them busy mostly with his work,
and maybe subsidized with the work they already have, and
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eventually wean them off and just do his work, which
is our listeners. One hundred percent of his clients are
our listeners now.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
Anyway.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
So he says to me a couple of weeks ago,
I need another trainer. So we've talked it through and
this morning he said, all right, I gotta have another trainer.
So somebody out there who shares our values, because you've
got to realize the listener is going to be people
that's going to want to talk about our show, who
shares our values, who's willing to get in the car
and drive to the clients to train them. And that's
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usually in my case, it's in my garage, and some
people it's in their bedroom, it's in their living room,
it's in their office. That's the beauty. But the neat
thing about his model is when they go in, people say,
you're like a breath of fresh air. There's a lot
of people that are like in my dad's situation, and
when they go rolling in, that's the only person that
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that person's going to see because they're widowed or widow
or maybe they've had a stroke. That's the only person
that person's going to see in a day, and you're
coming to their house. So they're training, but they're getting
to tell you stories.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
You know, my.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
Grandson played football this weekend and I didn't get to
go to the game because I can't get out because
I'm want to walk her.
Speaker 5 (23:07):
Or whatever else.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
It's a fascinating business model, but he's made it work,
and our little Show that Could has helped him grow that.
So if you are looking for a phenomenal job and
you are a good trainer already, not somebody trying to
build somebody up for the Olympics, but some of the
understands health and safety and all that, email me and I'll.
Speaker 5 (23:28):
Connection what yep dot.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Allow me to introduce myself.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
My name is Mitta.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Michael Berry's genius.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
Quality writing right now, just quality, Ronnie Condren writes, Done,
Ronnie Condred, sound like some of you went to high
school with, Like I don't know a Ronnie Condren, but
that just sounds like a dude I went to high
school with. Hey, you remember Ronnie Condren. Ah, he was
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in between your brother's year and yours. I think he
was a year younger than your brother, maybe two younger
than you and two older than you. Ronnie Conrad, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I knew some conjuring boys. I don't But anyway, I
don't know him. He's not from Marnsfield to my knowledge.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
He writes zar.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
My daughter and I work for a company that sends
out a quote every Monday morning. Sometimes they're very good,
not only for our job, but for life in general.
Speaker 5 (24:32):
Today was a good one.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
I thought i'd share it with you. Busyness, that's bu
ask why busyness being busy? Busyness fills our time, purpose
fills our lives. The difference between the two is intention.
Are you feeling time or living with purpose? I said feeling?
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I meant feeling. I said feeling like touching feel. Let
me read it to you again. Busyness b u s
why busyness fills our time? Purpose fills our lives? Can
you hear that I'm saying, feil not feel?
Speaker 5 (25:16):
It's questionable. Oh, canlet me try it?
Speaker 4 (25:19):
Busyness b u s why fills fills?
Speaker 5 (25:25):
Fo No, not belonging to Phillip? How would you say?
It feels no?
Speaker 4 (25:31):
Pouring into fills, fills and feels Okay. I'm gonna try
it again. Busyness fills our time?
Speaker 5 (25:38):
How was that? Okay?
Speaker 4 (25:39):
Busyness fills our time. Purpose fills our lives. The difference
between the two is intention. Are you feeling time or
living with purpose? That's a good quote. So he's r
O N N I E like a girl. So I said,
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are you a girl, Runnie or a boy?
Speaker 5 (26:04):
Ronnie?
Speaker 4 (26:04):
I'm betting a girl.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Just check it.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
And what is the company? He said, I'm a red
blooded American man. The company is Allied fire Protection. That'll
probably be a good show sponsor for us from them,
because you know people that need that. You know, that's
our listeners. You know. It always blows my mind when
we add a new show sponsor. I'll always say, how
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did you get your name out prior to this? And
they usually have been spending money on a trade magazine.
Oh so you've been telling everybody else in your business
what you do when they are your competition. Yeah, I
didn't know what else to do. Or the other thing
is they bought some package that somebody bought it said
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somebody was selling, so they ended up on some mus
station or somewhere else. Nobody is choosing their fire protection
or most anything else on a station where they're listening
to music. If they tune into us, they may not
even like me. But our opinion matters because that's what
we are mostly an opinion and entertainment show.
Speaker 5 (27:17):
It's engaging.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
So when we say, hey, Mike Batchis has got a
special interest rate on Chevy Silverado's.
Speaker 5 (27:25):
Wait who wait what?
Speaker 4 (27:27):
Yeah, then you're gonna you're gonna you're gonna pay attention
to that anyway.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
I like that quote. I like that quote a lot.
That's that's a good deal.
Speaker 4 (27:40):
You know, it's pretty neat that we get to help
businesses that are people that we like, Petru being one
of them.
Speaker 5 (27:51):
He was a one man shop.
Speaker 4 (27:53):
Ten grand a month's a pretty big nut for one
man shop, right, and now he's grown to eleven trainers
and become very successful. And in the meantime of knowing him,
his daughter Elle, great student at Alvin High School or
Mays Manville Manville High School. She went from graduating with honors,
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went to Texas A and M on a scholarship, got
a four point zero at Texas A and M married
her college sweetheart Kyle, great kid, and they moved to
the north side of Houston, and she works for Republic
Grand Range. Now, well, Gary Sumner's hired her. She's a
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beautiful girl. I mean she could honestly be a model,
beautiful young lady and just smart as a whip and
great personality and makes me look like a liberal. I
mean she is conservative about She's what you she's what
you think of with Texas A and M that a
lot of people aren't. But she is what you imagine
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being a Texas A and M girl to be. I mean,
this is.
Speaker 5 (29:03):
The girl you want to marry.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
Gary Sumner hired her to do the follow up. So
when somebody goes into Republic Grand Ranch and they buy
their home site and they build their home and they
move in, she goes in and spends time with them
going over the process. You know, has it been what
you hoped it would be?
Speaker 5 (29:26):
What was not good?
Speaker 4 (29:27):
What you know, all the ways that they could improve,
all the things that mattered to that person, things that
they would still like added to the community, all those
where did you come from?
Speaker 5 (29:36):
All those sorts of things.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
So that's great feedback for me because I get to
hear from her through a dad what people have to
say about living there. And the cool thing is the
reason they live there is our show. So you know
that tells you something about the values of your neighbors,
which if you've ever had a liberal neighbor and you
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don't want to have another one, pretty good. So we
got an email from a lady. She does a state
planning and she wanted to sponsor the show. So Robert
Reese goes and meets with her, and he comes back
as I really like this lady. I think you're gonna
like her. And I said, Robert, it's a one woman
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law firm. There's no way those economics are going to
make sense unless she gets really busy and works.
Speaker 5 (30:28):
Twenty four hours a day, seven days a week.
Speaker 4 (30:30):
Well, Saturday night, my wife and I are sitting at
dinner and I text her a message and I said,
I'm gonna see how Christine is doing because my wife
just loves her and is rooting for her. I said,
how do we do for the month of October? I
like my show sponsors to tell me how we did
for the month. Mike Batch just gives me my sales reporter.
You know how far we get? You know, do we
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sell four hundred and forty units? And so I said,
how do we do for the month of October? And
she sends back the numbers and her business has grown.
I don't know if it's fifteen x. It's probably twelve
x what it was. But it was Saturday night at
nine she said, tell Madam Secretary. I said, hello, I'm
in a meeting.
Speaker 5 (31:10):
As soon as I.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
Get out of this, I'll text you the results.
Speaker 5 (31:13):
And she texts us at ten fifteen.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
Because it turned out a lot of our listeners needed
to state planning and didn't know where to go, and
in some cases didn't even know they needed it. You know,
you're married, you have kids, your kids grow up, you
get divorced, One of your kids works in the business,
and now you know if something happens to you, you
know what goes to your current wife, what goes to
the kids?
Speaker 5 (31:35):
Who gets the business?
Speaker 4 (31:37):
You don't want the government to step in and take
everything you worked so hard for that should belong to
your family.
Speaker 5 (31:43):
All of those sorts of things. It's more than just.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
A basic will of state. Planning is really really important.
And tax avoidance, I mean, you don't want the government
will take everything you've got if they can when you die.
That's what the Democrats want anyway. So her business is
blown up. So you guys are great, y'all make this
whole thing work.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Yes,
It's that time time time luck and load. So Michael
Verry Show is on the air, looking into micro We
gotta feed a beard.
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I don't plan to shave, and it's good thing, but
I just gotta see I'm.
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Doing it all right.
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and that's the true. It's neither drink nor drug and
induice nool.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
I'm just doing all right. It's a great dad to
be alive.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I know the sun's still shining on a close my eyes.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
It's hard times in the neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
But why can't every day you just as good? Fifteen
years sid level, send every seed, I some heven my vessins.
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Then lifting alone alright, Redford, Redford, what you see, he says,
I see alone? Will looking at me hev in the conferr.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
I don't expect you to attend, but if you could
just take a moment this morning, pause, say a prayer.
Gary Lynn Rickenbacker. His funeral will be at ten o'clock
this morning. I didn't personally know Gary Lynn Ricord Rickenbaker,
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but like a lot of people, I came to know
him through email exchanges and through his story. I heard
his story a few years ago when his son.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
Caleb.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Was killed by a turd who had stolen a vehicle
and was running from Precinct four deputies and crashed into
and killed Caleb. It was Gary Lynn Rickenbacker's only son.
He was devastated. I heard his story when he reached
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out by a golf tournament that he was hosting for
his son. And he had done it for several years,
and every year he would reach out and let me
know and we would exchange a couple of emails about it.
And I always thought to myself, you know, he had
a boy about the age of my kids, just a
few years older, and I thought about the level of
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devastation would feel whether it be my only son is
his case or either of my sons would I would
just be broken. But like many people, he put effort
in two which became his his therapy. It becomes cathartic
to do such a thing he put together. Believe it
was a golf tournament.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
Well. I got the news a.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Few days ago that Gary Lynn Rickenbacker had passed and
this morning at ten will be his service. It's a
beautiful obituary that his wife wrote. Imagine her story. She
lost her son, their only son, to a third running
from the cops, and now she loses her husband, who
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was sixty five and looked literally looked fifty two, to
a heart attack. She wrote on October twenty first, twenty
twenty five, My knight in shining armor, my hero. The
milk to my halapen yo woo, I like that, The
milk to my halopenne.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
You know.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
The sun to my rain, the sweet to my salty,
the chocolate to my popcorn, the calm to my storm,
the sun to my cloudy, the strong to my weak,
the steady to my waves, the smile in my heart, My.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
One true love. Gary Akasa m u e.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
L ran into the arms of his beautiful son Caleb
Brickenbacker and his savior Jesus Christ in heaven. Gary was
born February twenty third, nineteen sixty in Kenton, Ohio. So
we can forgive his Ohio state fandom. The pictures she
used for his obituaries him in front of Ohios. There
will cut some slight because he was born in Ohio.
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He didn't know any better.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
In a moment, he got here as fast he could.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
To Paul and Nancy Birdwell, Rickenbacker grew up in the
beautiful farmlands of Kenton, graduating from Kenton High School in
nineteen seventy eight. He went on to matriculate at the
Ohio State University, where he studied finance and graduated with
a degree in accounting. Michael, you said it's finance. It's
really finance.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
Please don't gowing up.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Gary thrived in four h baseball, wrestling, and golf. As
much as he loved Ohio, he definitely disliked shoveling snow
and so off he went to the warmer climates of
the South, where he started his career with Connico Phillips
in Polka City, Oklahoma.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
In nineteen eighty two, on one of.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
His many transfers, Gary was once again moved to Houston,
where he attended a singles class at Houston's first Baptist
and met a greeter named Melissa. Clearly she did a
great job, because they were married after dating two and
two and a half years, and on March twenty third,
twenty twenty six, they would have celebrated thirty beautiful years
of marriage. Gary's love of golf continued throughout his life.
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It became a source of joy and purpose, especially as
he organized Caleb's Legacy of Love Golf Scramble Tournament, the
biggest fundraiser of the year held in memory of his
beloved son, which he had just completed. He also loved
scuba diving, water skiing, and snow skiing. Snow Skiing became
a passion for Kayla as well, and they would go
on a father's son's ski trip each year to spend
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time just the two of them. Gary and Melissa were
blessed in two thousand and two with the greatest gift
outside of salvation, their sunshine Caleb son spelled s o En,
who made their family of two and inseparable woo family
of three musketeers. Gary's career enabled them to move to
the Middle East, where they lived and traveled the world
for many years. Gary loved people with his kind With
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this kind, soft spoken love, he would share his greatest love,
his love of Jesus.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
Christ, with anyone he could.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
His greatest desiring life was for people to know salvation
through the saving grace of Jesus Christ. He emulated the
love of Jesus and all that he did Romans ten nine.
If you confess with your mouth Jesus is Lord, and
believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
You will be saved.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Garys survived by his forever bride Melissa Rickenbacker, his mother
Nancy Rickenbacker, his mother in law Peggy Munt, others Stephen Rickenbacker,
Kevin Rickenbacker and his wife in law, wife of and
his wife and law wife of Jeff Rickenbager. It's all
the family. Gary, You are my sam aka Samuel. See
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all my undying eternal love us with Samuel stands for about.
I will wait, We've made a breath until I'm reunited
with you and Calebin on the arms of Jesus. I
love you from here to attorneym.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
Well, she says some nice stuff. How about that.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
If you wanted to make a contribution or send a
nice note. It's Gary Lynn Rickenbacker R. I C K
E N B A c h E R. Only sixty
five years old. I didn't know him, know him, but
I was made aware this morning of his passing, and
all I could think about was his sweet widow having
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now lost her son inexplicably and her husband too early. Wow,
the travails of life in America today, with the awful
things that happened. I can't help but imagine that his
son's death did not precipitate his passing.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Wow, fos.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Deal a chance temonia. You're a mcartney expert, so I'm
going to sound like a neophyte, and I am compared
to you on this subject. But in my mind, having
never studied, McCartney just sort of passively listened. I know
of the Beatles years and the rivalry with John and you.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
Know, how do you sleep at night?
Speaker 4 (08:52):
And and you know he and his wife never spent
a night apart for thirty eight years. And then he
married the stump woman and she was a living hell
for him, and and you think, wow, this this is
the guy who was with his wife every single night
for thirty eight years. I mean, who wants to do that?
That's not healthy in my opinion. Fellow needs a hunting trip,
(09:15):
a fishing trip, something, right, But hey, that that tells
you a lot about him as a person. Then he
marries that woman and she's a little demon, she's demon spawning,
she's awful and anyway, so you.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
Need to kind of have that. And then you have
say you, and then you have the the was it
say us? No?
Speaker 4 (09:36):
No, it was what was the one he deal with
Michael Jackson, say say, say, and the girl is mine?
And then you find out later, well, you know, Michael
Jackson kind of you know, did him dirty with the
buy and the the the catalog and and you know
he's Sir probable McCartney and and you kind of go,
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well in life, well lived and all that, and so
you kind of put him over that. And the more
you study, you realize everything this man has done in
the level of all you have for him just grows
and grows and rows. And you know, I kind of
intuitively knew he was in a band called Wings, but
(10:20):
it's not until you actually dig in and you realize
there's some amazing music. Band on the run is good stuff.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
Anyway, that's a.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Long way saying Paul McCartney, I mean kind of a
big deal. I watched a video last night about the sphere.
Took almost two point four billion to build it, a
little over two point three close closer to two point four.
And I thought it started ten years ago.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
It didn't.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
It start in twenty seventeen. Beginning of twenty eighteen, guy
named Dolan, whose father made his fortune off cable vision
imagine that the concept that you would pay for TV
before the cord cutting. And he does this thing, and
it turns out that the Sphere is a weird deal
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because it costs all that money eighty million dollars in
interest a year, two hundred twenty two thousand dollars a
day in interest on the Sphere. But what's amazing is
the Sphere has the odd situation where they sell everything
out and it's still losing money. It's losing money on
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a level you cannot imagine, and that's with everything sold out.
It sells out everything. But then they went through the
reasons why so you two was the first big residency.
You two made two hundred and twenty two million dollars
off that residency. The Sphere made twenty mini So that's
(11:53):
not probably not a very good deal. And you think,
you they should have worked a better deal on YouTube
because that was good for you too, right, I mean,
somebody was the opening act of the Sphere. You should
maybe strike a better deal for them, But whatever, it
got them a lot of play. They are losing supposedly
half a billion dollars a year.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
Think about that. That's hard.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
You could literally go astrodome on it, lock the doors
and let it rot from within, and you wouldn't lose
half a billion dollars a year, five hundred million dollars
a year. And every single thing they do is sold out.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
It's crazy.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
They went through the electric bill alone for that thing,
and it is. Yeah, you can go ahead and not
worry about how much energy you use because I assure
you the sphere is draining more energy than entire cities,
So you don't. You don't really need to worry about
your carbon footprint. When Taylor Swift, who's lecturing you, is
flying around by herself in the back of a big
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jumbo jet. Yeah, I don't think you need to worry about.
It's India and China that are polluting the world. Don't
worry about the cal farts, don't worry about your own footprint.
You don't need to recycle. It's all a big silly game.
But anyway, that's my story about the sphere. If you
were wondering about it, that's my story about the sphere.
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We went to the UT game this weekend. Arts played
pretty darn well. Was it twenty five or thirty three?
I still worry that he can't hit wide open receivers,
I mean wide open receivers. He overthrows, underthrows, throws two
yards behind them, throws five yards ahead of them. But
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I'm hoping that gets better. But I'm not just gonna
say that all is well. I guess we're gonna find
out against Georgia. The unfortunate thing is while they're waiting
on their quarterback to hopefully grow up. And that's putting
it kindly. This defense is amazing. They're incredible, and this
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and special teams incredible. There are some incredible world class
talent on this team. And you know Archester, you don't
just come from was it Archbishop? What was it not Shaw?
What was his high school? Archbishop something? Archbishop? Nobody to playing,
you know, being ranked the number one team in the
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country and a Heisman hopeful when you know you only
took a few snaps last year and you mostly just
rammed the ball. There's a lot of pressure to put
on this kid. And he'll I think he'll grow into
a good quarterback. I don't know if it'll be a
great quarterback. I just I don't know yet. Anyway, it's
going to be fun to watch as we go down
the stretch and my goodness, my goodness, give those Texas
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A and m Aggie's their due. I would love to
see they were number three. I would love to see
the Aggie's rank number one at one point. I mean
I would love to see them that That would be
that would that would be a good thing. Here's to
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you Aggie fans.
Speaker 6 (15:13):
What y'all want me to stay in?
Speaker 3 (15:14):
This?
Speaker 5 (15:14):
Here? Fuck?
Speaker 1 (15:15):
What is this?
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Evil?
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Okay? Here? How you pronounced the word chuck them?
Speaker 6 (15:22):
Alum in that connect kabbala who commit Goodbye to Texas
University of Texas, Goodbye to Urge and why Lord, good
luck to them? The old Texas agis there is the
boys who knows how to fight? The eyes of Texas
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is upon you, is Lord. That is the song they
sing so well, It's all like hell, oh, goodbye to
Texas University.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Play now father agis looking here.
Speaker 6 (15:55):
Chicken wigabonel, chicken niggadoo, Just go hie out on or
no where did they mean?
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Tell who?
Speaker 4 (16:09):
I started with Michael Petro just under five years ago.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
I had heard.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
About him from my friend Chance McLean, and he said, hey,
I made a TV commercial for a guy. You will
love this commercial, and he sent it to me I
need to get it and post it again. And it
basically said, if you're a liberal, don't call me. I'm
(16:42):
a personal trainer, but I come to your home. You
don't have to join a gym. You don't have to
drive there, park, go in, stand around people dropping the weights.
Most gyms are meet markets, and that's okay. There's nothing
wrong with that. It's a good a place to meet
somebody as a bar for sure. I come to your
home and I train you.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
There.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
At that time, he'd been doing it for twenty five years.
Now it's been thirty. But I want like minded people.
I don't want people who hate Trump or hate America.
And I love that because people will tell me, people
who share my and your values will tell me I'd
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love to sponsor the show, but I don't want to
lose customers. And I say, for every customer you lose,
and you won't, you'll gain ten more, and you'll gain
the kind of customers you want. As opposed to being
a wous in not standing for anything, it's always amusing
to me.
Speaker 7 (17:46):
We got to stand up for his country, Michael, We
got Achael, what you say, Wow, stand up for this country.
It's time we stand up be counted as Christians, as conservatives.
All right, well sponsor my show. Oh no, why well,
people will be mad at us.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
The only people that would ever be mad at you
are the very people you're talking about destroying the country.
Maybe you're the problem. I mean, you're a nice enough guy,
but you're a weasel. Please don't share opinions and talk
about how we need to embrace them as a country.
If you can't even embrace them as a business. You're
(18:28):
a millionaire. Well, you know I don't want you know,
my wife wouldn't want it. I've come to the conclusion
that people who hide behind their wives, that's the weakest
person in society, the person who's gonna do something, but
he has to check with his wife. Really, in fact,
I don't even believe the wife would ever have a
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problem with it. I think that's just a weasel, a
way of weaseling out of things. Anyway, So Petru starts, so,
you know, he shows me his video. I said, you
know what, if for no other reason, then I love
that he put this. He had bought a commercial spot.
I think he spent ten grand. It wasn't a lot
(19:10):
of money, and he got some results and so I
wanted to meet him and I wanted to train with him.
So I call him and he comes to the house
and my wife laughs about it because he comes over
and we have our first session and afterwards. It turns
out he's a hardcore listener. He listens to every hour
(19:32):
we're on the air, either as he's driving to appointments
to train people or whatever he misses, he goes back
and listens on the podcast and has for years. I mean,
he could quote things from the show I'd forgotten about.
Ramona had slept through, and so we sat on the
back porch. Turns out he loves a good cigar. He
doesn't smoke him as often as I do, and he
(19:53):
loves good bourbon. So we had some bourbon, We had
a cigar. We sat out there. It gets to be
dinner time and so we uh, he stayed around. I
think it was state night, and so we had a
state he stayed. He stayed close to five hours. We
hit it off, let's just say that. So six months
(20:13):
into it, he said, Hey, I'd like to talk to
you about sponsoring the show. I said, well, it's ten
thousand dollars a month minimum. That's not my rule. It's
the company rule. The show is sold out and it's
a year long contract. It's you know, you don't want
to insult somebody, but I don't think your numbers work
for that. You're, you know, solo guy. And he started
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building a company, and he started training other people to
do what he does. And he takes every call as
they come in. He talks people through, you know, what
are you trying to accomplish this? Make sure this makes
sense and the whole thing. He today has eleven trainers.
Five years later, eleven trainers. He has increased by fifteen
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his revenues from being a guy on his own. I'm
not saying he's rich, but I'm saying he's very financially
successful now. And he has built an actual business, I
mean a thriving business that he can pull back from,
which I have encouraged him to do because he's exactly
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my age. He went to University of Texas and play
football there. Your body can't hold up to training. You know,
he's lifting the weight for somebody. He's doing all these
things and he's.
Speaker 5 (21:32):
Fit as a feddal.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
He looks great, he feels great, but you know, you
have to prepare a succession plan, and that is anyway.
So he says to me the other day, he's been
very slow to grow because when he brings a trainer on,
he wants that trainer to be busy. He wants to
be able to keep them busy mostly with his work,
and maybe subsidized with the work they already have, and
(21:55):
eventually wean them off and just do his work, which
is our listeners. One hundred percent of his clients are
our listeners now.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
Anyway.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
So he says to me a couple of weeks ago,
I need another trainer. So we've talked it through and
this morning he said, all right, I gotta have another trainer.
So somebody out there who shares our values, because you've
got to realize the listener is going to be people
that's going to want to talk about our show, who
shares our values, who's willing to get in the car
and drive to the clients to train them. And that's
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usually in my case, it's in my garage, and some
people it's in their bedroom, it's in their living room,
it's in their office. That's the beauty. But the neat
thing about his model is when they go in, people say,
you're like a breath of fresh air. There's a lot
of people that are like in my dad's situation, and
when they go rolling in, that's the only person that
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that person's going to see because they're widowed or widow
or maybe they've had a stroke. That's the only person
that person's going to see in a day, and you're
coming to their house. So they're training, but they're getting
to tell you stories.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
You know, my.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
Grandson played football this weekend and I didn't get to
go to the game because I can't get out because
I'm want to walk her.
Speaker 5 (23:07):
Or whatever else.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
It's a fascinating business model, but he's made it work,
and our little Show that Could has helped him grow that.
So if you are looking for a phenomenal job and
you are a good trainer already, not somebody trying to
build somebody up for the Olympics, but some of the
understands health and safety and all that, email me and I'll.
Speaker 5 (23:28):
Connection what yep dot.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Allow me to introduce myself.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
My name is Mitta.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Michael Berry's genius.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
Quality writing right now, just quality, Ronnie Condren writes, Done,
Ronnie Condred, sound like some of you went to high
school with, Like I don't know a Ronnie Condren, but
that just sounds like a dude I went to high
school with. Hey, you remember Ronnie Condren. Ah, he was
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in between your brother's year and yours. I think he
was a year younger than your brother, maybe two younger
than you and two older than you. Ronnie Conrad, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I knew some conjuring boys. I don't But anyway, I
don't know him. He's not from Marnsfield to my knowledge.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
He writes zar.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
My daughter and I work for a company that sends
out a quote every Monday morning. Sometimes they're very good,
not only for our job, but for life in general.
Speaker 5 (24:32):
Today was a good one.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
I thought i'd share it with you. Busyness, that's bu
ask why busyness being busy? Busyness fills our time, purpose
fills our lives. The difference between the two is intention.
Are you feeling time or living with purpose? I said feeling?
(24:56):
I meant feeling. I said feeling like touching feel. Let
me read it to you again. Busyness b u s
why busyness fills our time? Purpose fills our lives? Can
you hear that I'm saying, feil not feel?
Speaker 5 (25:16):
It's questionable. Oh, canlet me try it?
Speaker 4 (25:19):
Busyness b u s why fills fills?
Speaker 5 (25:25):
Fo No, not belonging to Phillip? How would you say?
It feels no?
Speaker 4 (25:31):
Pouring into fills, fills and feels Okay. I'm gonna try
it again. Busyness fills our time?
Speaker 5 (25:38):
How was that? Okay?
Speaker 4 (25:39):
Busyness fills our time. Purpose fills our lives. The difference
between the two is intention. Are you feeling time or
living with purpose? That's a good quote. So he's r
O N N I E like a girl. So I said,
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are you a girl, Runnie or a boy?
Speaker 5 (26:04):
Ronnie?
Speaker 4 (26:04):
I'm betting a girl.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Just check it.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
And what is the company? He said, I'm a red
blooded American man. The company is Allied fire Protection. That'll
probably be a good show sponsor for us from them,
because you know people that need that. You know, that's
our listeners. You know. It always blows my mind when
we add a new show sponsor. I'll always say, how
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did you get your name out prior to this? And
they usually have been spending money on a trade magazine.
Oh so you've been telling everybody else in your business
what you do when they are your competition. Yeah, I
didn't know what else to do. Or the other thing
is they bought some package that somebody bought it said
(26:56):
somebody was selling, so they ended up on some mus
station or somewhere else. Nobody is choosing their fire protection
or most anything else on a station where they're listening
to music. If they tune into us, they may not
even like me. But our opinion matters because that's what
we are mostly an opinion and entertainment show.
Speaker 5 (27:17):
It's engaging.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
So when we say, hey, Mike Batchis has got a
special interest rate on Chevy Silverado's.
Speaker 5 (27:25):
Wait who wait what?
Speaker 4 (27:27):
Yeah, then you're gonna you're gonna you're gonna pay attention
to that anyway.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
I like that quote. I like that quote a lot.
That's that's a good deal.
Speaker 4 (27:40):
You know, it's pretty neat that we get to help
businesses that are people that we like, Petru being one
of them.
Speaker 5 (27:51):
He was a one man shop.
Speaker 4 (27:53):
Ten grand a month's a pretty big nut for one
man shop, right, and now he's grown to eleven trainers
and become very successful. And in the meantime of knowing him,
his daughter Elle, great student at Alvin High School or
Mays Manville Manville High School. She went from graduating with honors,
(28:18):
went to Texas A and M on a scholarship, got
a four point zero at Texas A and M married
her college sweetheart Kyle, great kid, and they moved to
the north side of Houston, and she works for Republic
Grand Range. Now, well, Gary Sumner's hired her. She's a
(28:39):
beautiful girl. I mean she could honestly be a model,
beautiful young lady and just smart as a whip and
great personality and makes me look like a liberal. I
mean she is conservative about She's what you she's what
you think of with Texas A and M that a
lot of people aren't. But she is what you imagine
(29:00):
being a Texas A and M girl to be. I mean,
this is.
Speaker 5 (29:03):
The girl you want to marry.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
Gary Sumner hired her to do the follow up. So
when somebody goes into Republic Grand Ranch and they buy
their home site and they build their home and they
move in, she goes in and spends time with them
going over the process. You know, has it been what
you hoped it would be?
Speaker 5 (29:26):
What was not good?
Speaker 4 (29:27):
What you know, all the ways that they could improve,
all the things that mattered to that person, things that
they would still like added to the community, all those
where did you come from?
Speaker 5 (29:36):
All those sorts of things.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
So that's great feedback for me because I get to
hear from her through a dad what people have to
say about living there. And the cool thing is the
reason they live there is our show. So you know
that tells you something about the values of your neighbors,
which if you've ever had a liberal neighbor and you
(29:58):
don't want to have another one, pretty good. So we
got an email from a lady. She does a state
planning and she wanted to sponsor the show. So Robert
Reese goes and meets with her, and he comes back
as I really like this lady. I think you're gonna
like her. And I said, Robert, it's a one woman
(30:19):
law firm. There's no way those economics are going to
make sense unless she gets really busy and works.
Speaker 5 (30:28):
Twenty four hours a day, seven days a week.
Speaker 4 (30:30):
Well, Saturday night, my wife and I are sitting at
dinner and I text her a message and I said,
I'm gonna see how Christine is doing because my wife
just loves her and is rooting for her. I said,
how do we do for the month of October? I
like my show sponsors to tell me how we did
for the month. Mike Batch just gives me my sales reporter.
You know how far we get? You know, do we
(30:52):
sell four hundred and forty units? And so I said,
how do we do for the month of October? And
she sends back the numbers and her business has grown.
I don't know if it's fifteen x. It's probably twelve
x what it was. But it was Saturday night at
nine she said, tell Madam Secretary. I said, hello, I'm
in a meeting.
Speaker 5 (31:10):
As soon as I.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
Get out of this, I'll text you the results.
Speaker 5 (31:13):
And she texts us at ten fifteen.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
Because it turned out a lot of our listeners needed
to state planning and didn't know where to go, and
in some cases didn't even know they needed it. You know,
you're married, you have kids, your kids grow up, you
get divorced, One of your kids works in the business,
and now you know if something happens to you, you
know what goes to your current wife, what goes to
the kids?
Speaker 5 (31:35):
Who gets the business?
Speaker 4 (31:37):
You don't want the government to step in and take
everything you worked so hard for that should belong to
your family.
Speaker 5 (31:43):
All of those sorts of things. It's more than just.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
A basic will of state. Planning is really really important.
And tax avoidance, I mean, you don't want the government
will take everything you've got if they can when you die.
That's what the Democrats want anyway. So her business is
blown up. So you guys are great, y'all make this
whole thing work.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Yes,
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