November 26, 2025 • 28 mins
Michael Berry celebrates classic rock, spills the truth about employees hiding on the crapper, and dreams up a Kennedy Center show starring Trump, Kiss, and Gloria Gaynor.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, luck and load. So Michael
very Show is on the air. Before I ask Ramone
(00:52):
to play the song, we will be cross fading too, Oh,
cross fading. I put the wrong in fast, I put
the emphasis on the wrongs, the lobel. I want you
to stop for a moment, because on this day, in
nineteen seventy three, the debut album of the greatest band
(01:13):
of all time, not just American, not just English speaking,
not just this millennium, Leonard Skinner released their album pronounced
Leonard Skinner. They're the best band. Yeah, it's not funny.
(01:36):
You already know who I see. You took me off
the track got me upset. So back to my point. Today.
In nineteen seventy three was the release of that album.
It had Give Me Three Steps, It had Simple Man,
(01:57):
it had free Bird, Hold On, I Feel Like William
Wallace and Braveheart Hold Hold. So this album has two,
undisputably two of the greatest ten songs in all of
(02:23):
American music history, no doubt about it, Simple Man, Free Bird.
If you send me an email disagreeing and you think
that's clever, you're embarrassing yourself. Don't do that. It's like,
I think to myself, forgive him father, for he knows
not what he does, you know, and they're so proud
(02:44):
to see me. Well, I like Paul McCartney. Yeah, well
he likes skinnered anyway. So when I say free Bird,
I know what you think. You think long guitar riff
at the end of the song, and most people do.
(03:05):
Most people say, gains rips that guitar, Rossington letter, Artemis Pyle.
You got vocals by Ronnie I mean it is, you
got Cassie singing background. Yeah, all of that is true,
every bit of that is true. However, the part of
that song that does not get its due that I
(03:29):
think makes the song special is not the ending. It's
not this incredible maestro performance exhibition display demonstration on the getfiddle.
It is the opening piano. And it's so subtle and
(03:54):
so smooth that you forget the most requested rock song
in all of rock history at a concert because of
the badass, long haired gemming out guitar is actually a
(04:17):
very smooth piano opening instead of a dusty hill bass line.
You've got the keyboard setting the tongue, and I'll bet
if you're honest, you never even notice that, because you're
(04:40):
waiting for the build up of the very lengthy guitar
solo at the end. So on this the day we
celebrate n eighteen seventy three, the release of pronounced Lynyrd Skynyrd,
I want you to listen a new to the opening piano. Really,
(05:09):
I think that's funny. That's funny. That's funny. Ha ha,
that's your upper decker. Okay, all right, okay they stopped.
The rest of the song goes downhill. I believe that.
I believe the greatness of that song is before Ronnie's vocals,
(05:34):
before the improvised guitar riff, because that's the era, right,
You've got Queen doing Bohemian Rhapsody, You've got Zeppelin, You've
got these long you got these long Hey, Jude's coming
out like that's the thing, and FM radio was embracing
the longer songs. I think the greatest part of that
(05:57):
song is the first twenty seconds. Okay, do that again.
What's incredible is what has already all happened by the
time Ronnie starts singing. You started with this bassline effect
by the piano. I wish I understood music theory. I
could use proper terminology, but you get my point. You
(06:21):
get that effect which begins to set the mood, and
you at first it stuns you, and then you go,
oh god, that's free bird coming right. But that that
sets the tone. We're about to y'all get serious. We're
about to go. And it's also a very slow, not ominous,
but heavy. This is this is gonna be heavy. And
(06:42):
then and then you build into the guitars coming in
one by one, the layers. By the time you get
to Ronnie, I mean you you've had a whole song already.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Time up veris show.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
I not my intention to do music deconstruction today, and
I'm certainly no expert. I'm just a fan. I just
appreciate art in all its forms and how we communicate,
how we express ourselves. I think the songwriter is the
modern day poet, a real poet, Marlowe, Shakespeare and Baron
(07:26):
that the people John Dunn, the people who moved us
with words that allowed us to say things that we
felt in a way that maybe we could have never constructed.
So I'm just a fan. You don't have to tell
me you know more about this or that band. You
(07:47):
won't know more than skinnered about anybody in the world ramon,
but any other band in mine. So when I started
in radio, Pat Gray was on in the morning, followed
by from nine to eleven, Glenn Beck. And first they
took Glenn Back off and put me in his spot.
(08:09):
And less than thirty days later, Back got the big
gig on CNN that really launched him to the next level.
He was nationally syndicated, but it wasn't It wasn't as
big as Beck would become. And Glenn was his Houston
lead in, and then Beck had the syndicated show from
(08:29):
nine to eleven. They took Back off and put me on,
and the vice president of programming thought it would be
real cute. Eddie would never have done this. This was
another person. He thought it'd be real cute to have
me go in just after they announced it they're taking
Back off the air and sit down with Pat, and
(08:50):
Pat would interview me about taking this position, and that
was real funny to him. But it wasn't funny. It
was disrespectful to Pat because that Pat is the reason
Glenn is a Mormon. Pat evangelized witnessed to Glenn when
Glenn was suicidal. I'm not telling you anything that they
(09:11):
don't talk about. Glynn was not going to survive, and
Pat sat by his side and offered testimony and teaching
and coaching, and Glenn became a Mormon out of the deal.
That's how close they are and always have been. And
as you know, still are passed part of Glenn's network now.
(09:32):
And it came back around. So Beck, I replaced back,
replaced back, and then our show starts picking up steam
and we're getting amazing plaudits we never expected, and they
take Pat off and put me in his place. Well
that's weird because I would listen to Pat as I
(09:54):
was driving in every morning, and I never cared for
the band Bread. I didn't dislike him, but it didn't
matter to me. So I really grew to appreciate Bread,
which happens to be a Mormon band, because of Pat's
love of it, as well as the Bluebelt ice Cream song.
(10:17):
And so I began listening to Bread more and what
I thought was cheesy, watered down like Sister Wife kind
of music became much deeper. Bread had a huge hit
with the song baby I'm Gonna Want You. It's a
love song, Babe, I'm Gonna want you baby, I'm gonna
(10:38):
need you. You're the only one I care enough to
hurt about. Maybe I'm crazy, Maybe I just can't live
without You're loving an affection, give me direct. It's a
love song, right, So when you when you come back
to the song we just played, it's the next in
(11:00):
the line. Red's a hit machine. So you just assume
this is another love song, and it is a love song.
But David Gates, the lead singer, his father had died
in sixty three. Before his dad died, he sent his
mother an orchid, and he said he could barely afford
this orchid. But his father called and said, he rocked
(11:24):
your mom's world sending her this flower. This is the
most powerful thing in the world. You can have everything
she owns because you did this, this thing, this gesture.
So his dad dies in sixty three and never gets
to see how successful he becomes. And in seventy two
he writes, how often does this happen? He writes a
(11:45):
love song to his father, Woo, who does that? Right?
He writes a song about if he could just see
his father one more time? Oh, man, if I could
just see him one more time, But he couches it
(12:05):
in a way that sounds like a love song, so
that it'll become popular and people will listen to it
and people will buy it. It's a song to his dad.
If this song doesn't just blow your mind, I don't.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Know what will. Bill writes, Tzar, I took your advice.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Recently, my brother and I brother in law and I
gifted to our wives sisters a heritage film of their dad,
Jack c Age eighty nine of Houston. Yesterday we held
the premiere showing at Jack's home with a room full
(12:53):
of family. As the credits rolled, we clapped tears of
joy and smiles all around, including my father in law.
Chance in his team exceeded all expectations from the additional
research they did, photos, videos, additions, audio enhancements, music transitions,
(13:15):
so many little things all made the viewing a great
experience and not just something to watch. Plus the whole family,
the kids, the grandkids all now have this documentary as
told by their Papaul, Jack Forever. Thank you for the recommendation.
I am often My mother used to say, how do
(13:36):
you have the most amazing people around you? You are
so lucky. You've the most incredible people around you, your wife,
your colleagues because I seek out the best people and
I do not waste a moment on anyone who is
not incredible. You don't have to be the most beautiful,
(14:01):
you don't have to run the fastest, you don't have
to be the physically strongest, you don't have to score,
you don't have to be a MENSA member. In fact,
I prefer you not what Ramone almost figured that out.
People are not fungible, they're not robots. They're not plug
(14:22):
and play. One number two pencil goes out, grab another one.
They're exactly the same. Can't tell a difference people. People
are not exactly the same. One guy comes into work.
Let's say he's working the cash register at the restaurant.
(14:42):
He goes and takes a poop every ten minutes. Do
you ever go to a restaurant and they got one
head and it's locked, and you got a prairie dog,
and you're sitting there and you're like, so you do
that passive aggressive thing. You get real quiet, like you left,
and now you pretend you're another person and you go
(15:02):
to the door to open it and jiggle it because
you know that makes people uncomfortable, and you jiggle it
I'm in hare and you oh sorry, and then you
wait about thirty seconds and then you do the loud walk.
You come up and you kind of bump into the
door like it's a whole different person and I'm in here.
Oh yeah, okay, And you're thinking, at some point they're
gonna go priestly, I got to get out of here, right,
(15:25):
But when that person comes out, if it's been ten
minutes or more, and that's the only bathroom, one hundred percent,
that's an employee. That employee hides and you get to
hide in the toilet because nobody wants to call you
out for it. Oh, Mar, you're taking eight dumps today?
Are you doing an upper deck or what's going on? Dude?
(15:48):
I need you in the kitchen, not on the crapper. Well,
that's where they go to respond to emails or text message.
I had a bar and restaurant owner tell me a
little while back. He said, I used to love to
go to your place RCC because your staff were so attentive,
(16:13):
you were always smiling, they were always there, they anticipated
your needs. And ma'am, my employees, I can't keep them
off the phone. I mean I can't keep them off
their their cell phones, tax messaging. And it isn't that
the people I had were great. Your people are sorry.
It is you have to set expectations with people very clearly.
(16:35):
He is amazing to me how many people don't realize that.
I have watched so many people who are always hiring
and firing people, and every time they have a new
employee in some short order, they will say, oh, oh, Susie,
she's she's not working out, She's not even good at all.
What's wrong with her? She did? She did? She does this,
(16:59):
She shows up late, she does Okay? Does she know
what times she's supposed to? Arrie? She ought to? How
should she ort to? I mean people know, no, they
don't know.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
That's just it.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
I am an over communicator. I'm not the greatest boss
manager leader in the history of mankind. I know that.
But what I'm gonna do is study people who are
because what I'm trying to do is build a team
with purpose in life to perform a mission and enjoy
the process as we're going. And in order to do that,
(17:34):
you don't just fill out that forum show up here tomorrow.
Here's your keys, and here's the shirt, and that's the
time clock. And you cannot assume that someone knows anything.
My kids will always say, we know, we know. No,
let me explain that we already know. Why does it
bother you so much if I tell you something that
you already know? Because there may be something in the
(17:56):
ten step process I'm about to give you that you
know already. And invariably, right around about seven, they'll go, oh,
oh you have to park on the side and go
to the side door. Yes you do, Oh that I
didn't realize that. Okay, okay, yes, don't leave anything unset.
(18:20):
Set expectations very clearly, and constantly reinforce them. That's what
the military does, It's what coaches do. Can you imagine
you play for Nick Saban and you're a sophomore and
you win the championship and there you are, You're pouring
the bucket of gatorado on him. He's hugging you and
everybody's happy, and you know it's a matter of days
(18:41):
until he's chewing your ass again. And he has talked
about that process. I can't celebrate with my team the
way I would like to when we win a championship
because I know I got to chew their ass very
soon and So there, You've ascended the mountain, You've won
the championship. Now you're back. What do players want to do?
(19:02):
Show up fat and out of shape, gloat, brag, swagger.
But what got you that championship is busting your tail
with humility. I don't know how we got on that subject.
Oh I know, I do know. But the point of
that is, just like I said earlier, David Crook was
(19:24):
the worst Little League baseball coach. I ever saw. An
absolute monster of a man, and a lot of people
know that and never wanted to confront him because they
wanted their kids to be on All Stars. Absolute monster
of a human being. Turned out to be a monster
of a husband as well, and anyway, just just a
bad human being, David Crook. But then I had coaches.
(19:45):
My dad coached me as well, but I had coaches
in life. I still have coaches in life. Eddie Martinez
a coach, even though he's a friend, even though he's
my boss in many ways, and he knows how to
handle me without me flying off the handle. He'll say, hey,
you know you need to do this he You really
need to call that guy back he got his feelings hurt.
Or you really need to do this, and he does
(20:06):
it in a way like my mother would do, like
my wife does, like my kids do for that matter,
to know how to manage me, to know how to
get me to do what they want without me overruling them.
Trump does that with the media. Trump gets the media
to cover him in a way that they don't want
to cover him, but he gets them to cover him.
(20:27):
He gets them to tell you what he's doing. That's
how you know. You don't Trump doesn't call you every morning.
You know what Trump is up to because the very
media that hates him tells you, and he forces them
to tell you. So the point is, human beings are
everything in a company. I don't care what the company
is even AI. Human beings are everything. Human beings are
(20:50):
everything in your home. Human beings are everything in your life.
That's all. We arrive as human beings, we die as
human beings, and in betweens a bunch of junk plastic rooms.
Don't invest in the people around for this is just
gets better and better and better. Pinch myself. President Trump
(21:15):
as the head of the Kennedy Center, just announcing that
George Straight will be honored at the Kennedy Center I
as civilian honor you can receive. And I think about
I wasn't there seeing photos. I think about George Straight
being chosen by the Houston Livestalk showing Rodeo to cover
(21:40):
a missed date. Do you remember who missed the date?
Who very good to cover for a missed date? And
how that really launched me? Obviously, I think that was
the biggest effect on a person's career, what MTV did
for zz Top, the Houston Livestock Show on Rodeo did
(22:04):
for George Strait. And I think about this little bitty fellow,
little skinny, fair faced, fresh faced kill boy in his
boots and his jeans crease down the middle, and he's
reaching out there and shaking people's hands and he's happy
to be here. And that's George Straight, and now he's
(22:27):
going to be honored. Have you ever been to the
Kennedy Center? Nonehing. I went up because the kids were
interning in Congress this summer and spent some time, and
we went back to things that I had worked at
a law firm there, and I hadn't but I hadn't
spent any real time there in a while, so I
had to make multiple trips to d C and uh
(22:48):
so sometimes this summer I was doing my show from
my hotel room. Uh And it's good that you didn't notice.
It means our equipment is good. And don't try to
say you notice now that I told you. Anyway, we
went to a show at the Kennedy Center, and I
mean it's it's kind of a tired old building, to
be honest with you. But it the grandeur and the
fact that Trump understood, just like he's taking over the Olympics.
(23:10):
Why let the left have these things? Why not? So
George Strait will be honored, Gloria Gaynor will be honored.
Michael Crawford. I think he's actually an Englishman, but he's
famous for being the voice of the of the Phantom
and Phantom of the Opera. He's kind of the voice
that's a nod to the cultural or to the high culture,
(23:31):
to the to the fine to the uh performing arts theater.
And then who else Sylvester still own and last but
not least kiss Oh hell, yes.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
Oh yes, this is not about their daddy.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
And to think Eddie thinks what I really wanted to
be was a DJ, not a talk to your host.
I why even say that Oh, yeah, Trump's gonna do
his ymc a dance to this. Hell yes, America's back.
Oh he's gonna be a kiss, make up with platforms.
(24:30):
What will his be give it all? Oh, I got it,
I got it. He's all white like a pantamion. But
there's a bullet streak across where the bullet went across,
and his ear is black. Oh hell yes yes. Instead
(24:54):
of fireworks, Patriot missiles and massive Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade,
versions of Nancy Pelosi throwing eggs at him, and an
iron dome emerges and they shatter and crack like Paul
(25:18):
Pelosi's knee, and over to the side, Paul and Nancy
are both getting hammered, but in very different ways. Oh,
I love it. We're going to make it one. And
he's just doing that YMCA dance all around the stage
and the Liberals are wailing, just wailing, Keith Nash and
(25:46):
lamentations as they bow before us, and then stallone comes
out circa Rambo Yes, And then Gloria Gaynor comes out
(26:24):
looking like Thelma Houston circa nineteen seventy eight, and they
fade down kiss and they make a barbershop quartet behind them,
and she starts into I will survive, and everyone knows
this is a tribute to Donald Trump.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
Donald J.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Trump was a breed. Now was did you find? Got
thinking of another? Without you find my side? But then
I spent summit a night thinking hw you dimmy.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
Wrong, DoD was wrong, and I learned the people are.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
It's like that last scene of officer and a gentleman.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
I should a change that.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Way to go, Paul, but they're way to go in
Donald Trumps like, look at this thirty four convictions. And
then Stormy daniels over to the side her her dress
falls off and she is exposed in all her shame.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
And Egene Carol is over there in her eyes have
turned blood red, and then she turns to stone like Medusa.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Well, I want to thank you all very much. This
is great. These are our friends. Have thousands of the
said said I won't fight for you, for your family
and your future. Every single day, I will be fighting
for you. So we're gonna make our country better than
on the screen has displayed a picture of Bill Clinton
(28:09):
in the blue dress and red high heels with his
f me look on his face like he's in bride's
heead revisited that hung in Epstein's New York home, and
(28:33):
Hillary just keeps fainting, but they put smelling salts under
her and say, no face the music, Hillary, you ain't
no ways time. That's just how I imagine that might not.
I don't know, that's not official
It's that time, time, time, luck and load. So Michael
very Show is on the air. Before I ask Ramone
(00:52):
to play the song, we will be cross fading too, Oh,
cross fading. I put the wrong in fast, I put
the emphasis on the wrongs, the lobel. I want you
to stop for a moment, because on this day, in
nineteen seventy three, the debut album of the greatest band
(01:13):
of all time, not just American, not just English speaking,
not just this millennium, Leonard Skinner released their album pronounced
Leonard Skinner. They're the best band. Yeah, it's not funny.
(01:36):
You already know who I see. You took me off
the track got me upset. So back to my point. Today.
In nineteen seventy three was the release of that album.
It had Give Me Three Steps, It had Simple Man,
(01:57):
it had free Bird, Hold On, I Feel Like William
Wallace and Braveheart Hold Hold. So this album has two,
undisputably two of the greatest ten songs in all of
(02:23):
American music history, no doubt about it, Simple Man, Free Bird.
If you send me an email disagreeing and you think
that's clever, you're embarrassing yourself. Don't do that. It's like,
I think to myself, forgive him father, for he knows
not what he does, you know, and they're so proud
(02:44):
to see me. Well, I like Paul McCartney. Yeah, well
he likes skinnered anyway. So when I say free Bird,
I know what you think. You think long guitar riff
at the end of the song, and most people do.
(03:05):
Most people say, gains rips that guitar, Rossington letter, Artemis Pyle.
You got vocals by Ronnie I mean it is, you
got Cassie singing background. Yeah, all of that is true,
every bit of that is true. However, the part of
that song that does not get its due that I
(03:29):
think makes the song special is not the ending. It's
not this incredible maestro performance exhibition display demonstration on the getfiddle.
It is the opening piano. And it's so subtle and
(03:54):
so smooth that you forget the most requested rock song
in all of rock history at a concert because of
the badass, long haired gemming out guitar is actually a
(04:17):
very smooth piano opening instead of a dusty hill bass line.
You've got the keyboard setting the tongue, and I'll bet
if you're honest, you never even notice that, because you're
(04:40):
waiting for the build up of the very lengthy guitar
solo at the end. So on this the day we
celebrate n eighteen seventy three, the release of pronounced Lynyrd Skynyrd,
I want you to listen a new to the opening piano. Really,
(05:09):
I think that's funny. That's funny. That's funny. Ha ha,
that's your upper decker. Okay, all right, okay they stopped.
The rest of the song goes downhill. I believe that.
I believe the greatness of that song is before Ronnie's vocals,
(05:34):
before the improvised guitar riff, because that's the era, right,
You've got Queen doing Bohemian Rhapsody, You've got Zeppelin, You've
got these long you got these long Hey, Jude's coming
out like that's the thing, and FM radio was embracing
the longer songs. I think the greatest part of that
(05:57):
song is the first twenty seconds. Okay, do that again.
What's incredible is what has already all happened by the
time Ronnie starts singing. You started with this bassline effect
by the piano. I wish I understood music theory. I
could use proper terminology, but you get my point. You
(06:21):
get that effect which begins to set the mood, and
you at first it stuns you, and then you go,
oh god, that's free bird coming right. But that that
sets the tone. We're about to y'all get serious. We're
about to go. And it's also a very slow, not ominous,
but heavy. This is this is gonna be heavy. And
(06:42):
then and then you build into the guitars coming in
one by one, the layers. By the time you get
to Ronnie, I mean you you've had a whole song already.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Time up veris show.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
I not my intention to do music deconstruction today, and
I'm certainly no expert. I'm just a fan. I just
appreciate art in all its forms and how we communicate,
how we express ourselves. I think the songwriter is the
modern day poet, a real poet, Marlowe, Shakespeare and Baron
(07:26):
that the people John Dunn, the people who moved us
with words that allowed us to say things that we
felt in a way that maybe we could have never constructed.
So I'm just a fan. You don't have to tell
me you know more about this or that band. You
(07:47):
won't know more than skinnered about anybody in the world ramon,
but any other band in mine. So when I started
in radio, Pat Gray was on in the morning, followed
by from nine to eleven, Glenn Beck. And first they
took Glenn Back off and put me in his spot.
(08:09):
And less than thirty days later, Back got the big
gig on CNN that really launched him to the next level.
He was nationally syndicated, but it wasn't It wasn't as
big as Beck would become. And Glenn was his Houston
lead in, and then Beck had the syndicated show from
(08:29):
nine to eleven. They took Back off and put me on,
and the vice president of programming thought it would be
real cute. Eddie would never have done this. This was
another person. He thought it'd be real cute to have
me go in just after they announced it they're taking
Back off the air and sit down with Pat, and
(08:50):
Pat would interview me about taking this position, and that
was real funny to him. But it wasn't funny. It
was disrespectful to Pat because that Pat is the reason
Glenn is a Mormon. Pat evangelized witnessed to Glenn when
Glenn was suicidal. I'm not telling you anything that they
(09:11):
don't talk about. Glynn was not going to survive, and
Pat sat by his side and offered testimony and teaching
and coaching, and Glenn became a Mormon out of the deal.
That's how close they are and always have been. And
as you know, still are passed part of Glenn's network now.
(09:32):
And it came back around. So Beck, I replaced back,
replaced back, and then our show starts picking up steam
and we're getting amazing plaudits we never expected, and they
take Pat off and put me in his place. Well
that's weird because I would listen to Pat as I
(09:54):
was driving in every morning, and I never cared for
the band Bread. I didn't dislike him, but it didn't
matter to me. So I really grew to appreciate Bread,
which happens to be a Mormon band, because of Pat's
love of it, as well as the Bluebelt ice Cream song.
(10:17):
And so I began listening to Bread more and what
I thought was cheesy, watered down like Sister Wife kind
of music became much deeper. Bread had a huge hit
with the song baby I'm Gonna Want You. It's a
love song, Babe, I'm Gonna want you baby, I'm gonna
(10:38):
need you. You're the only one I care enough to
hurt about. Maybe I'm crazy, Maybe I just can't live
without You're loving an affection, give me direct. It's a
love song, right, So when you when you come back
to the song we just played, it's the next in
(11:00):
the line. Red's a hit machine. So you just assume
this is another love song, and it is a love song.
But David Gates, the lead singer, his father had died
in sixty three. Before his dad died, he sent his
mother an orchid, and he said he could barely afford
this orchid. But his father called and said, he rocked
(11:24):
your mom's world sending her this flower. This is the
most powerful thing in the world. You can have everything
she owns because you did this, this thing, this gesture.
So his dad dies in sixty three and never gets
to see how successful he becomes. And in seventy two
he writes, how often does this happen? He writes a
(11:45):
love song to his father, Woo, who does that? Right?
He writes a song about if he could just see
his father one more time? Oh, man, if I could
just see him one more time, But he couches it
(12:05):
in a way that sounds like a love song, so
that it'll become popular and people will listen to it
and people will buy it. It's a song to his dad.
If this song doesn't just blow your mind, I don't.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Know what will. Bill writes, Tzar, I took your advice.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Recently, my brother and I brother in law and I
gifted to our wives sisters a heritage film of their dad,
Jack c Age eighty nine of Houston. Yesterday we held
the premiere showing at Jack's home with a room full
(12:53):
of family. As the credits rolled, we clapped tears of
joy and smiles all around, including my father in law.
Chance in his team exceeded all expectations from the additional
research they did, photos, videos, additions, audio enhancements, music transitions,
(13:15):
so many little things all made the viewing a great
experience and not just something to watch. Plus the whole family,
the kids, the grandkids all now have this documentary as
told by their Papaul, Jack Forever. Thank you for the recommendation.
I am often My mother used to say, how do
(13:36):
you have the most amazing people around you? You are
so lucky. You've the most incredible people around you, your wife,
your colleagues because I seek out the best people and
I do not waste a moment on anyone who is
not incredible. You don't have to be the most beautiful,
(14:01):
you don't have to run the fastest, you don't have
to be the physically strongest, you don't have to score,
you don't have to be a MENSA member. In fact,
I prefer you not what Ramone almost figured that out.
People are not fungible, they're not robots. They're not plug
(14:22):
and play. One number two pencil goes out, grab another one.
They're exactly the same. Can't tell a difference people. People
are not exactly the same. One guy comes into work.
Let's say he's working the cash register at the restaurant.
(14:42):
He goes and takes a poop every ten minutes. Do
you ever go to a restaurant and they got one
head and it's locked, and you got a prairie dog,
and you're sitting there and you're like, so you do
that passive aggressive thing. You get real quiet, like you left,
and now you pretend you're another person and you go
(15:02):
to the door to open it and jiggle it because
you know that makes people uncomfortable, and you jiggle it
I'm in hare and you oh sorry, and then you
wait about thirty seconds and then you do the loud walk.
You come up and you kind of bump into the
door like it's a whole different person and I'm in here.
Oh yeah, okay, And you're thinking, at some point they're
gonna go priestly, I got to get out of here, right,
(15:25):
But when that person comes out, if it's been ten
minutes or more, and that's the only bathroom, one hundred percent,
that's an employee. That employee hides and you get to
hide in the toilet because nobody wants to call you
out for it. Oh, Mar, you're taking eight dumps today?
Are you doing an upper deck or what's going on? Dude?
(15:48):
I need you in the kitchen, not on the crapper. Well,
that's where they go to respond to emails or text message.
I had a bar and restaurant owner tell me a
little while back. He said, I used to love to
go to your place RCC because your staff were so attentive,
(16:13):
you were always smiling, they were always there, they anticipated
your needs. And ma'am, my employees, I can't keep them
off the phone. I mean I can't keep them off
their their cell phones, tax messaging. And it isn't that
the people I had were great. Your people are sorry.
It is you have to set expectations with people very clearly.
(16:35):
He is amazing to me how many people don't realize that.
I have watched so many people who are always hiring
and firing people, and every time they have a new
employee in some short order, they will say, oh, oh, Susie,
she's she's not working out, She's not even good at all.
What's wrong with her? She did? She did? She does this,
(16:59):
She shows up late, she does Okay? Does she know
what times she's supposed to? Arrie? She ought to? How
should she ort to? I mean people know, no, they
don't know.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
That's just it.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
I am an over communicator. I'm not the greatest boss
manager leader in the history of mankind. I know that.
But what I'm gonna do is study people who are
because what I'm trying to do is build a team
with purpose in life to perform a mission and enjoy
the process as we're going. And in order to do that,
(17:34):
you don't just fill out that forum show up here tomorrow.
Here's your keys, and here's the shirt, and that's the
time clock. And you cannot assume that someone knows anything.
My kids will always say, we know, we know. No,
let me explain that we already know. Why does it
bother you so much if I tell you something that
you already know? Because there may be something in the
(17:56):
ten step process I'm about to give you that you
know already. And invariably, right around about seven, they'll go, oh,
oh you have to park on the side and go
to the side door. Yes you do, Oh that I
didn't realize that. Okay, okay, yes, don't leave anything unset.
(18:20):
Set expectations very clearly, and constantly reinforce them. That's what
the military does, It's what coaches do. Can you imagine
you play for Nick Saban and you're a sophomore and
you win the championship and there you are, You're pouring
the bucket of gatorado on him. He's hugging you and
everybody's happy, and you know it's a matter of days
(18:41):
until he's chewing your ass again. And he has talked
about that process. I can't celebrate with my team the
way I would like to when we win a championship
because I know I got to chew their ass very
soon and So there, You've ascended the mountain, You've won
the championship. Now you're back. What do players want to do?
(19:02):
Show up fat and out of shape, gloat, brag, swagger.
But what got you that championship is busting your tail
with humility. I don't know how we got on that subject.
Oh I know, I do know. But the point of
that is, just like I said earlier, David Crook was
(19:24):
the worst Little League baseball coach. I ever saw. An
absolute monster of a man, and a lot of people
know that and never wanted to confront him because they
wanted their kids to be on All Stars. Absolute monster
of a human being. Turned out to be a monster
of a husband as well, and anyway, just just a
bad human being, David Crook. But then I had coaches.
(19:45):
My dad coached me as well, but I had coaches
in life. I still have coaches in life. Eddie Martinez
a coach, even though he's a friend, even though he's
my boss in many ways, and he knows how to
handle me without me flying off the handle. He'll say, hey,
you know you need to do this he You really
need to call that guy back he got his feelings hurt.
Or you really need to do this, and he does
(20:06):
it in a way like my mother would do, like
my wife does, like my kids do for that matter,
to know how to manage me, to know how to
get me to do what they want without me overruling them.
Trump does that with the media. Trump gets the media
to cover him in a way that they don't want
to cover him, but he gets them to cover him.
(20:27):
He gets them to tell you what he's doing. That's
how you know. You don't Trump doesn't call you every morning.
You know what Trump is up to because the very
media that hates him tells you, and he forces them
to tell you. So the point is, human beings are
everything in a company. I don't care what the company
is even AI. Human beings are everything. Human beings are
(20:50):
everything in your home. Human beings are everything in your life.
That's all. We arrive as human beings, we die as
human beings, and in betweens a bunch of junk plastic rooms.
Don't invest in the people around for this is just
gets better and better and better. Pinch myself. President Trump
(21:15):
as the head of the Kennedy Center, just announcing that
George Straight will be honored at the Kennedy Center I
as civilian honor you can receive. And I think about
I wasn't there seeing photos. I think about George Straight
being chosen by the Houston Livestalk showing Rodeo to cover
(21:40):
a missed date. Do you remember who missed the date?
Who very good to cover for a missed date? And
how that really launched me? Obviously, I think that was
the biggest effect on a person's career, what MTV did
for zz Top, the Houston Livestock Show on Rodeo did
(22:04):
for George Strait. And I think about this little bitty fellow,
little skinny, fair faced, fresh faced kill boy in his
boots and his jeans crease down the middle, and he's
reaching out there and shaking people's hands and he's happy
to be here. And that's George Straight, and now he's
(22:27):
going to be honored. Have you ever been to the
Kennedy Center? Nonehing. I went up because the kids were
interning in Congress this summer and spent some time, and
we went back to things that I had worked at
a law firm there, and I hadn't but I hadn't
spent any real time there in a while, so I
had to make multiple trips to d C and uh
(22:48):
so sometimes this summer I was doing my show from
my hotel room. Uh And it's good that you didn't notice.
It means our equipment is good. And don't try to
say you notice now that I told you. Anyway, we
went to a show at the Kennedy Center, and I
mean it's it's kind of a tired old building, to
be honest with you. But it the grandeur and the
fact that Trump understood, just like he's taking over the Olympics.
(23:10):
Why let the left have these things? Why not? So
George Strait will be honored, Gloria Gaynor will be honored.
Michael Crawford. I think he's actually an Englishman, but he's
famous for being the voice of the of the Phantom
and Phantom of the Opera. He's kind of the voice
that's a nod to the cultural or to the high culture,
(23:31):
to the to the fine to the uh performing arts theater.
And then who else Sylvester still own and last but
not least kiss Oh hell, yes.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
Oh yes, this is not about their daddy.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
And to think Eddie thinks what I really wanted to
be was a DJ, not a talk to your host.
I why even say that Oh, yeah, Trump's gonna do
his ymc a dance to this. Hell yes, America's back.
Oh he's gonna be a kiss, make up with platforms.
(24:30):
What will his be give it all? Oh, I got it,
I got it. He's all white like a pantamion. But
there's a bullet streak across where the bullet went across,
and his ear is black. Oh hell yes yes. Instead
(24:54):
of fireworks, Patriot missiles and massive Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade,
versions of Nancy Pelosi throwing eggs at him, and an
iron dome emerges and they shatter and crack like Paul
(25:18):
Pelosi's knee, and over to the side, Paul and Nancy
are both getting hammered, but in very different ways. Oh,
I love it. We're going to make it one. And
he's just doing that YMCA dance all around the stage
and the Liberals are wailing, just wailing, Keith Nash and
(25:46):
lamentations as they bow before us, and then stallone comes
out circa Rambo Yes, And then Gloria Gaynor comes out
(26:24):
looking like Thelma Houston circa nineteen seventy eight, and they
fade down kiss and they make a barbershop quartet behind them,
and she starts into I will survive, and everyone knows
this is a tribute to Donald Trump.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
Donald J.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Trump was a breed. Now was did you find? Got
thinking of another? Without you find my side? But then
I spent summit a night thinking hw you dimmy.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
Wrong, DoD was wrong, and I learned the people are.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
It's like that last scene of officer and a gentleman.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
I should a change that.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Way to go, Paul, but they're way to go in
Donald Trumps like, look at this thirty four convictions. And
then Stormy daniels over to the side her her dress
falls off and she is exposed in all her shame.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
And Egene Carol is over there in her eyes have
turned blood red, and then she turns to stone like Medusa.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Well, I want to thank you all very much. This
is great. These are our friends. Have thousands of the
said said I won't fight for you, for your family
and your future. Every single day, I will be fighting
for you. So we're gonna make our country better than
on the screen has displayed a picture of Bill Clinton
(28:09):
in the blue dress and red high heels with his
f me look on his face like he's in bride's
heead revisited that hung in Epstein's New York home, and
(28:33):
Hillary just keeps fainting, but they put smelling salts under
her and say, no face the music, Hillary, you ain't
no ways time. That's just how I imagine that might not.
I don't know, that's not official
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