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Speaker 1 (00:03):
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Good morning you, Michael Berry. How you learned that? I
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Listen to.
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Good Morning Texas.
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Morning Texas is on day and we're happy here to
talk about everything.
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Lauren, Texas, Good Morning.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Weakens the strict Condamn.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
John Cornyan has betrayed Texas values while serving in the
United States Senate for years. Every six years he comes
home and puts on his John Wayne mccornyn act tells
about how he's got to go back to Washington fight
for us because they're out.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Of control upper only John Wayne mccornyn in fight for
us now. He don't ever win.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
But that's the point of the Western, isn't it. He
fights a good fighting now then you step back overw
I'll do all the shooting.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Case some bullets ricochet around and here old John Wayne mccornyn.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
He goes back, puts his shooters in the holster and
fights for us.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
And we should be proud to have him up here
of fighting for us.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
But everybody knows that deep down he's selling us out.
Everybody knows it. And after he wins, when he's not
gonna be on the ballot for six years, he about
admits to it, and.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
It rolls back around and he gets more and more
text again, he's back here. He's a dead burned conservative.
A couple of weeks ago, he posted.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
A picture on Twitter of him reading the Art of
the Deal because Trump doesn't like him and he's been
afraid of challenge. I was given and the top line
report on a poll that was done that pitted John
Wayne mccornyan and Ken Paxton, and Paxton was up sixty
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three to twenty seven. That's a pretty whopping majority. Question
was only would Attorney General Ken Paxton run? He answered
that question on Fox News with Laura Ingram.
Speaker 6 (03:28):
I'm announcing that I'm running for US Senate against John Corner,
who apparently is running again for his fifth term, which
we put in their three decades. It's definitely time for
a change in Texas. We have another great US Centator
Ted Cruz, and it's time we have another great center
that will actually stand up and fight for Republican values,
fight for the values of the people of Texas, and
also support Trump Donald Trump in the areas that he's
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focused on in a very significant way. And that's what
I plan on doing. And I hope that people will
go to my website and look at what we're doing
at Kenpaxton dot com and obviously contribute as well.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Well.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
You wouldn't be surprised to know that Senator Cornyn has
responded to rumors that you might run watch Obviously, when you.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Run for office, you get your papers graded, in my case,
once every six years, and I'm looking forward to having
that conversation and a little competition is okay.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Too, Well, He's up for the competition.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
Look, he said twenty four years of this, which I
think has plenty. Given his lack of production, it's hard
to think of the things that he's done good for
Texas or for the country. I can certainly point to
many things like his gun restrictions, his lack of wanting
to fund a border wall, and disagreeing with President Trump
on that and even opposing President Trump's election in twenty
sixteen and the most recent election. So there's certainly many
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things to focus on that he has not done, and
I think it's time that somebody held hi account for that.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
The important to remember.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Is that ninety nine percent of what John Wayne mccornyn
does wrong, he does with great sleight of hand.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
We know this.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Ted Cruise has talked about this. When Ted Cruz went
to the Senate, it was ninety nine to one on
a number of votes. And I had conversations with him
early on and I'm not quoting him of late, so
I'm not putting words into his mouth, but he would
tell me stories about things that reminded me so much
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of Houston City Council that they had the ring of truth,
and that was that McConnell and McCain and Cornyn would
do things like count they wanted to lose on this issue.
Who wanted to let the Democrats and really the swamp win.
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But they are the controlled opposition and they still have
to keep their people because it's very important that the
people you elect to be the opposition to the swamp.
It's very important that they never actually be a Ken
Paxton or a Ted Cruiser, a Donald Trump or an
Elon Musk. They cannot be people who will actually do anything.
They have to be the Washington generals. For the Globetrotters
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to exist, they have to be the controlled opposition. But
in order to keep winning those elections, they have to
have a stockpile of money, and they have to pick
issues that they make a big stand. So he will
often make a big stand on a flag lapel or
an issue that's not before Congress. He'll come out every
few We got to have a balanced budget. By garden
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the mccornyn home, we balance our budget, and the Smiths
and the Jones and the Garcias do two. In its time,
our government was balanced. Well, it's not even up for
vote and it never will be. But that's supposed to
make people at home go. Tell you, but John Cornwall,
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he may not could ever win any of those votes,
but he's up there of fighting for us, and I
respect that about him. And what they'll do is they'll
pick a vote where they know they're going to lose,
because the point is to lose, and they'll say, all right,
who's up for election. Okay, McCain's up for election in Arizona.
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Let's let McCain make a big issue and vote in
the opposition and we'll still Schumer, You'll still win. But
we need to give McCain a bone. He's gotta have
something he can campaign on. This is a group that
when Marco Rubio was first coming out in twenty ten
from the Florida Legislature, is when the Tea Party was
at full swing. Rick Scott was their candidate, and the
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Republican Senate Committee put millions and millions of dollars of
Republican dollars to elect a Republican. They put that into
the Republican primary because Marco Rubio was a Tea Party
guy and they didn't want a Tea Party guy. And
Cornyan was was coordinating all that. You've seen that Mitch McConnell.
Now that he's not the majority leader and he's not
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able to run again, he's voting with the Democrats. That's
John Cornyn's running buddy.
Speaker 7 (08:13):
Who am I sticking to Michael Berry?
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Michael Berry, Yeah, I do enjoy your show. There's going
to be an old fashioned ass kicking of John Wayne mccorny.
And I'm going to tell you this, Karl Rove is
going to throw everything he has at this seat.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
It's going to be the same.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Exact group of people that supported Nicky Haley in the
Republican primary. It's going to be the same swamp creatures.
By the way, I didn't mean Rick Scott earlier. Earlier,
I meant Charlie crist the Republican that the Republican Senate
Committee supported over Marco Rubio and got involved in the
Republican primary because they couldn't let Republican primary voters vote.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
It wasn't it wasn't November elections Republican primary.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
And when Charlie Chriss lost, the guy the Republicans chose
to join them in the Senate as a Republican.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
What did he do?
Speaker 2 (09:07):
He became a Democrat, and he became a Democrat who
campaigned for Barack Obama. That's who these people are. That's
who Adam kin Singer is, That's.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Who Liz Cheney is.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
That's exactly who these people are. The minute that they're
not in power, or the minute that they don't have
to answer to you, you see who they honestly are,
and that is secretly Democrats. Let's see if I can
find this from Chad to shrimper's story. We interviewed a
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woman yesterday from Bayou Labattery, Alabama, named Tammy Hall about
how the tariffs will affect her. And she talked about
she's the third generation shrimper, her husband is shrimps and they,
she said, they have what's known as an ice boat,
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which is a boat that can keep the fish fresh
or the shrimp fresh when they bring the shrimp in,
and it's a big deal. She said, there's only about
ten of them left and the shrimper has gone away.
But more importantly, the reason the family shrimper went away
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is because the cheap imports from Asia, and she said
Ecuador is the biggest one now and these things are
being funded by American banks, which is why when you
go to restaurants now, the fish you're eating do not
come out of Galveston Bay, even if you're eating in Galveston,
they're foreign fish being brought in because it's considerably cheaper.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
And that's just.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
We're seeing that in every industry, in every way. And
that's why family farms, family fisheries. Family we don't even
fish our own fisheries. We are a nations surround did
mostly surrounded by oceans and the Gulf of America golf waters,
and yet the fish that could be feeding our nation
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is coming from oceans away. That's what these terraffs are
supposed to do. That interview will air on this evening show.
But Khou had a story about shrimpers in Galveston, hoping
that this will bring back their business.
Speaker 8 (11:29):
Along Peer nineteen in Galveston where the water meets the docks.
Longtime shrimper Johnny Marulo will tell you it used to
be a lot busier here.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
This doc used to be loaded with shrimp boats.
Speaker 8 (11:39):
But for years that's not been the case.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
Almost everybody's out of the business.
Speaker 8 (11:43):
With cheaper imported shrimp, which makes up more than ninety
percent of the US supply, driving down sales for local producers.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
For a medium sized shrimp, they used to give us
like four dollars a pound four fifty. Now we get
about dollar twenty dollars thirty.
Speaker 8 (12:00):
Though Marullo was hopeful that could change after President Trump
with the stroke of a pen and post tariffs on
the foreign countries flooding the seafood market.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
If he can get the terriffs put in slow down
some of the imports hopefully, you know, we can have
a decent season for the first time in a long time.
Speaker 8 (12:19):
Shrimping industry experts have called those tariffs a lifeline, despite
backlash from other industries.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Already he's seeing positive results from the tariffs.
Speaker 8 (12:29):
Craig Reeves is a board member with the Southern Shrimp
Alliance and a second generation shrimper himself. He says the
tariffs would be a benefit to a beleaguered industry.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Where it may help us is the restaurants.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
It would tighten that margin so they don't get the
benefit of buying a cheaper import.
Speaker 8 (12:45):
Instead, he says, restaurants would be encouraged to buy domestic.
What happens if the domestic producers can't keep up with
the demand.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
I mean, I think prices will probably go up, and
then maybe we squeeze the middleman a little bit, and
then the consumer don't get hard I heard as bad.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
I think.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
We've got to ask ourselves some tough questions, though, Are
you willing to pay more for a plate of fried
shrimp to restore the family fishing operations? Because Americans are
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not going to work for twenty cents an hour. We're
just not It's not realistic and we create a social
safety net where that doesn't work. And it's not all
a question of higher wages in order to do this,
it's higher expenses. It's also higher environmental and regulatory concerns.
This woman from by Lavatory, Alabama, was telling the story
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about a diverter that they have to have on their
fishing nets. Diverter will not allow them to catch fish.
They can only catch shrimp. The fish have to be
separated out and not brought in the nets. She said,
So we're constantly asked for fresh fish out of the
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Alabama waters and we can't do that.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
We could do it.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
It would be easier for us to do it and
simply cull the fish from the shrimp, but our government
won't let.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Us do that.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
We have to impose we have to put a diverter
to keep the fish out of there.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
So we have the opportunity.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
We're already spending the gas to go out there in
the effort to throw the nets and pull the nets in,
and yet the nets that have fish, we have to
put the fish back like some sort of catch and
release like that's like driving around the parking lot to
find spots pulling the spots and then pull back. You're
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just practicing. There's a comedian has a whole bit on that.
It's just absolutely hilarious. Some of you will remember Pops,
the fella in his nineties that goes out shrimping every
morning in Galveston and his daughter in law as the
act of ultimate love. This absolutely gorgeous woman who goes
by the name Shrimp Diva.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
You can find her online. She takes her.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Father in law out fishing out shrimping every day and
they sell their shrimp to the bait shop because they
can't get enough from the restaurants and they can't compete
with it with the foreign competition.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Show everything you need and most everything you want. John
Wayne mccornyn is one of us.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
His business card has his fax number on it and
this belt has his name on the back in an
old Western font called tin can.
Speaker 9 (15:51):
This belt buckle, it's big, looks like a pewter toilet
seat lid.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
He slips that belt.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Through the loops of his wrangler big and all rugged wear,
cowboy cut blue jeans. Some folks brag about the audacity
of their leather boots. John Wayne mccornn has boots made
out of the actual Clydesdale's from the nineteen eighties TV
commercials don't get more American than that. Speaking of the eighties,
did you vote for John Wayne mccornyn he'll bring back
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alf An Airwolf Family ties? What other senator will bring
back the eighties for you? If you love Dexy's Midnight
Runners like John Wayne mccorn does, and you do because
you're just like him, then you'll vote for him in November.
Vote for someone else?
Speaker 9 (16:39):
Well, Cinderella said it, Dusty.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Kendall, you're on the Michael Berry Show. Welcome to the
program sir, And for those of you participating at home,
I want y'all to know that was spelled on my screen.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
K I N D L E.
Speaker 10 (17:07):
Well, I mean that's all.
Speaker 7 (17:09):
Can we get him a bell for effort?
Speaker 1 (17:13):
You know what?
Speaker 2 (17:13):
I'm just happy that I could read it as kindall
and I knew what he meant, and it's there and
you're on the air and I didn't. But I'm just
glad it wasn't cacophony or kafoknik or you know something else.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
I'll settle. At least it sounded out right.
Speaker 10 (17:30):
Yeah, phonetically it makes sense.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Phonetically I appreciate that.
Speaker 7 (17:32):
Yes, yeah, yeah, all right, Well I know you're doing well.
So question is this is you know, first off, I
just got to say it, thanks for bringing some humor
into all of the corn and stuff.
Speaker 10 (17:43):
I can't. I mean, it's just it's hilarious. I think
it's it's hilarious. But that's what I wanted to ask
My question about. Is it's something that's bothered me my
entire life. I'm only thirty five years old. But it's
you know, you've got the Crenshaws, the feelings the corn
Ins do. That's say more about the lack of discernment
on voters or the cunning of the folks.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
That are running, yes both. Let me give you a
couple of examples. So I told you about the case
in twenty ten of Charlie Crist. So Charlie crist had
been the governor. Charlie Criss was a well known statewide guy.
Charlie christ was a guy like a Cornin who'd been around.
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He had played the right, he had the right titles.
He never stood for anything. He certainly was not a conservative.
And we had Barack Obama in the White House and
the Tea Party movement was tired of the Republicans that
had given us the John mccains. And truthfully, this was
the first we were starting to see of it bubbling up,
of people realizing, you know what, the Bush Chainey machine
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was not really conservative and the McCain as successor movement
was showing. People realized, we're never going to fix this
country using these guys, because these guys are part of
the problem. So twenty ten, there's Tea Party candidates around
the country and there is.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
This very loose association.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
It's not funded, it doesn't have an organization per se,
a structure of party apparatus. It's just a shared belief
that we've got to find somebody to oppose these people.
And we've all got a rally. And the rallying crowd
was around ideas, not a party or an organization, and
talk radio and in Fox there was this movement that
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was kind of beginning to coalesce, and everybody understood, we've
got to build this thing. We've got to We've got
people fired up. And this was the Trump rally before
the Trump rally. This was MAGA before MAGA. It's a
lot of the same people and there had never been
there had never been a ground swell that came together
and united people. So Marco Rubio comes out of nowhere.
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He's at two percent in the polls, and he manages
to start building and a lot of it was a
lot of ladies.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
There's a lot written about this at the time, a.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Lot of lady activists that started holding teas for him,
coffees for him, little events here, little church groups here,
and he builds up and builds up and builds up.
In the Republican Senate Committee, which is supposed to be
responsible for helping us win Senate seats against Democrats in
November so that we keep up Senate majority, that group
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decided to get very involved to make sure that the
senator that was named was their senator, not the voter senator.
So they spent a fortune against Rubio in favor of
Charlie Christ, an absolute wishy washy Republican. That money was
given by donors supposedly to defeat Democrats in November, but
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they used it in the spring.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
To pick their Republican. They were beaten.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
When Charlie Christ loses, he becomes an independent overnight, and
then he runs for office as a Democrat and supports
Barack Obama in twenty twelve. Two years later, he's on
the tour for Barack Obama. That was the guy that
they wanted. You think he changed. He didn't change. It's
just that now he didn't have to play the game.
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He didn't have to pretend to be one of us
where he did before. So how do you end up?
Think about Jeff Bush, Think about Liz Cheney, Think about
Adam kinsingherm think about all the Nikki Haley. Look at
all these people. Look we got an event coming up.
I just saw this this morning. Dan Crenshaw bad on me.
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I supported Crenshaw. I helped Crenshaw get there. Crenshaw is
not who he claimed to be to me, So, but
that's on me.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
I made a mistake. I'll own it.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
That's why I don't tend to support candidates. I tend
to support ideas. But that that's on me. Crenshaw's holding
a special campaign event. We quote special guest John Whitmyer. Okay,
so we've got Dan Crenshaw holding this event with special
guests John Whitmyer. We supported John Whitmyer over Sheila Jackson
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Lee in a Republican I mean a Democrat primary for mayor,
because that's what that was.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
We didn't want Sheila Jackson Lee. After that, John.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Whittmeyer endorsed Kamala Harris for president just before the election.
That's that's the guy you have as your special guest
at your congressional event.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Okay, all right, fair enough, just so we know what
we're doing.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
So are the voters at fault for continuing to send
John cornerback to the Senate. It's a very complicated question
as to how this happens, but let me try to
explain it.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
When you look.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
At the voters in a Republican primary, because that's the
only place you're going to beat Cornyn, We're not eager
for the Democrats to beat him because at least he
pretends to be a Republican part of the time. Once
he's up there, we don't want Beto o Rohurt to
be in there instead. So when you look at the
Republican primary voter in the first round of a Republican primary,
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if there's not a runoff, you're going to have a
lot of voters that are, believe it or not, low
information Republican voters.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
They're generally Republicans, which means they're not Democrats.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Now, their daddy might have been a Republican, their grandfather
daddy might have been the bank president, their daddy might
have been a precinct chairman. They're generally Republicans and they're
not Democrats. And the Democrats are the other party. And
you know, y'all are Dodgers fans and y'all are Yankees
fan but we're Astros fans.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
We root for the Astros.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
We don't know why, we don't know the players, we
may not speak their language, we don't know where they're from,
but we're for them. That group is going to vote
for Corning because that's the name they know. So you
have to take every voter that is not there and
get them up to speed, as by Corn. And it's
very hard to do that unless you have a very
good candidate's well.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Funded, and we never do, but this time we will.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Ace Hardware Texas dot Com his thirty three ACE Hardwares.
They're all independently owned and they work under the ACE
Hardware banner because you can't compete any longer as Joe
Bob's hardware shop.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
If if there's.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
A home depot, you know, within thirty miles because they
buy in bolt and you can't. So they can sell
a hammer cheaper than you can even buy it, much
less make a profit. And so they I've wanted them
to be a sponsor for years and years and years,
and finally we were able to make it happen. And
if you go to Acehardware Texas dot com you'll find
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the location.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
It's nearest U.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
And so I was calling to go visit one of
the owners, Rick Tap and he owns the Langham Creek
location out in the Cypress are at the northwest of Houston,
and I didn't know he was out of town that day,
and I was going to go in between the shows,
head out at about noon and get back by about two.
And you know, I have a few hours in between
during the show and usually I'm stuck at my desk,
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but at that on that day, I was caught up.
So the woman named Heather answered. She answered, didn't go
to a voice tree and it's very helpful, and you're
very apologetic to Rick. Wasdin there and I could have her?
Could I haven't called back? I thought, this's got to
be the owner's wife. No, she's just a lady that
works there. Lady that's married, has kids, and this is
her job. She works checking people out at the Ace
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hardware and helping them with anything they need. And I
was so impressed. So I told her about the story
on the air, and I asked Rick in an email, Hey,
would you do something for her in front of all
the other employees. I think it's good for people to
be recognized among their peers.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
So I got an.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Email from Rick and he said, zar, just to follow
up on this, I did a spot bonus for her,
which means a bonus right there on the spot, as
opposed to part of your regular paycheck. And I recognized
her over the store radio to give her recognition in
front of her peers as you asked. She was embarrassed
by the whole thing and just felt like she was
doing her job. Customers have since come in found her
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and said, oh, your Heather. Thanks again for the recognition
for her. She's always cheerful and polite and deserved the recognition.
She's great at her job and trains all of our
new cashiers. I always say it doesn't cost you anything
to say thank you, but it sure is valuable to
the person who gets it. When you're building a culture
in an organization. I find that a lot of business
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owners are good at telling me how terrible their employees
are and what they do wrong, but many people are
not very good at understanding how you change that and
get them to do right. And I think the idea
that where this goes wrong is this idea. And I've
noticed that people have this that everybody should show up
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on day one knowing right from wrong, knowing how to
address people, knowing to put the customer first, knowing to
be on time. And when that person isn't, they're very
good at saying, oh, he doesn't even know to do this, this,
and this. All right, that's step one, step two as
you teach him, but he's not equipped to fulfill your expectations.
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And if we're being honest, you're not equipped to teach
him how to that's your failing. Your job is to
take him from point A to point B, to coach him,
to lead him, to manage him, to improve him, to
inspire him. But you don't know how to do that.
You only know how to point out the things that
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he doesn't do well. Well, I give you one way
you can do that. There's positive and negative reinforcements, carrot
and a stick. You can start with the positive. When
an employee demonstrates a trait that you want to see,
highlight that you have an internal email. Highlight that Russell
Lebarra does that on his internal emails. He points out
somebody that does something right. If you have, you know,
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roll call for you at your police station or at
your company. Hey, I'd like to point out that Wendy
did this great thing. I need to update my names, Romo.
All I got is Wendy and Susan and maybe Karen
and for boys, I got Bobby. I got to come
up with Tommy. Got to come up with some new
ones and work on that. But that's one way you
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can do it. It's a lot more fun than having
to punish, which you have to do as well. But
giving an employee recognition in front of others both makes
them feel good about it, but it also tells the
other people. Hey, that's the expectation I have. And some
people will see that and go, oh, why did I
think to do? You know, I'm not the one. I'm
not doing that. I'm doing the opposite of that. I
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guess he notices that I'm doing the opposite of that,
I'm not doing what I'm supposed to do. That's the standard.
Many many organizations do not have a culture because they've
not established a culture. You can't assume culture exists on
its own. You have to establish it. Nick Saban doesn't
just bring in players and hope everything works out well.
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He's honestly, he was constantly chewing their ass to get
them back in line. That's how you heard these steers
or wrangle these cats.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
You teach them.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Here the parameters, here's what's expected. Here's what we're going
to do. When you do that the way it's supposed
to be done, we'll win. When you don't. We're not
going to wait to lose to show you that that
was what was wrong. Jose Garcia sent me an email
subject hardworking old lady in Santa fe.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Zar.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
I had a screw in my tire this morning, so
I head into Sam's Club to get it patched up.
They refused to do it. They said, if I go
to a mom and pop shop, I'd probably have better love.
There will be a day where we don't have mama
pop shops. You realize this, There will be a day
where there will not be an independently owned small business.
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And these are the small businesses we go to for
what the big boxes won't do, and then what do
we do? And it will have been our own fault.
So Sam said, Now I go in little mom and pop.
They'll do that for you because we won't. I went
down FM seventeen sixty four in Stanta Fe, stopped at
Bud's Tire Service, and he sent a to a buz
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Tar service.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
It's exactly what you look like, what you expect.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
It's about seven foot tall, low slung building of plywood
with a hand painted sign that says Buds Tar Shop
and tires everywhere. I don't know if they're new tires
or old tires, but if i'm a betting man than
I am, they're old tires. I didn't see a raggedy
old mangye dog around there, but I'm sure there is one.
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At first, I don't see anyone there, and I'm about
to leave. Then this sweet little lady, probably sixty five
years old, comes out, and I think there's no way
she fixes flats. Sure enough, she grabs a jack and
asks which tire. She then proceeds to remove the tire
from my truck. Takes it off the rim, patches it up,
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lugs it around to a bathtub to check for leaks.
She was impressive and at the same time motivational. To
see an older lady put in work like that and
continue being a productive member of society is a site
to see. I made sure to give her a good
tip ps. I wanted to help her remove and then
mount the tire, but she didn't seem like she wanted, expected,
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or needed help.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Tough lady.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Then, in contrast to her grit and hard work ethic,
as I headed to the Gold Freeway to drive into
work in downtown Houston, I see a young, seemingly able body,
young man at the intersection asking for help.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Have a good day, jose Garcia there is.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
I don't know if Bud's Tire Shop on seventeen sixty
four has a website.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
My guess is not.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
But he did include a photo which I'll post to
the Facebook page and we'll put on the blast today,
which you could get by signing up at Michael berryshow
dot com. We send out a blast once a day,
but if you're in that area, you want to stop
in and meet this sweet little lady.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
He did say she's somewhere between fifty and sixty five.
I didn't see that. I said she's sixty five. He
says she's somewhere between fifty and sixty five. She could
be older.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
I don't know what a good oreo huh h. Which
how you want when you're gonna have somebody up. So
you got a Hispanic dude praising an old white woman
for fixing his tire.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
I love it.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
Mhm
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Speaker 3 (01:17):
Weakens the strict Condamn.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
John Cornyan has betrayed Texas values while serving in the
United States Senate for years. Every six years he comes
home and puts on his John Wayne mccornyn act tells
about how he's got to go back to Washington fight
for us because they're out.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Of control upper only John Wayne mccornyn in fight for
us now. He don't ever win.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
But that's the point of the Western, isn't it. He
fights a good fighting now then you step back overw
I'll do all the shooting.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Case some bullets ricochet around and here old John Wayne mccornyn.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
He goes back, puts his shooters in the holster and
fights for us.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
And we should be proud to have him up here
of fighting for us.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
But everybody knows that deep down he's selling us out.
Everybody knows it. And after he wins, when he's not
gonna be on the ballot for six years, he about
admits to it, and.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
It rolls back around and he gets more and more
text again, he's back here. He's a dead burned conservative.
A couple of weeks ago, he posted.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
A picture on Twitter of him reading the Art of
the Deal because Trump doesn't like him and he's been
afraid of challenge. I was given and the top line
report on a poll that was done that pitted John
Wayne mccornyan and Ken Paxton, and Paxton was up sixty
(03:11):
three to twenty seven. That's a pretty whopping majority. Question
was only would Attorney General Ken Paxton run? He answered
that question on Fox News with Laura Ingram.
Speaker 6 (03:28):
I'm announcing that I'm running for US Senate against John Corner,
who apparently is running again for his fifth term, which
we put in their three decades. It's definitely time for
a change in Texas. We have another great US Centator
Ted Cruz, and it's time we have another great center
that will actually stand up and fight for Republican values,
fight for the values of the people of Texas, and
also support Trump Donald Trump in the areas that he's
(03:51):
focused on in a very significant way. And that's what
I plan on doing. And I hope that people will
go to my website and look at what we're doing
at Kenpaxton dot com and obviously contribute as well.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Well.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
You wouldn't be surprised to know that Senator Cornyn has
responded to rumors that you might run watch Obviously, when you.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Run for office, you get your papers graded, in my case,
once every six years, and I'm looking forward to having
that conversation and a little competition is okay.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Too, Well, He's up for the competition.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
Look, he said twenty four years of this, which I
think has plenty. Given his lack of production, it's hard
to think of the things that he's done good for
Texas or for the country. I can certainly point to
many things like his gun restrictions, his lack of wanting
to fund a border wall, and disagreeing with President Trump
on that and even opposing President Trump's election in twenty
sixteen and the most recent election. So there's certainly many
(04:48):
things to focus on that he has not done, and
I think it's time that somebody held hi account for that.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
The important to remember.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Is that ninety nine percent of what John Wayne mccornyn
does wrong, he does with great sleight of hand.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
We know this.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Ted Cruise has talked about this. When Ted Cruz went
to the Senate, it was ninety nine to one on
a number of votes. And I had conversations with him
early on and I'm not quoting him of late, so
I'm not putting words into his mouth, but he would
tell me stories about things that reminded me so much
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of Houston City Council that they had the ring of truth,
and that was that McConnell and McCain and Cornyn would
do things like count they wanted to lose on this issue.
Who wanted to let the Democrats and really the swamp win.
(05:53):
But they are the controlled opposition and they still have
to keep their people because it's very important that the
people you elect to be the opposition to the swamp.
It's very important that they never actually be a Ken
Paxton or a Ted Cruiser, a Donald Trump or an
Elon Musk. They cannot be people who will actually do anything.
They have to be the Washington generals. For the Globetrotters
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to exist, they have to be the controlled opposition. But
in order to keep winning those elections, they have to
have a stockpile of money, and they have to pick
issues that they make a big stand. So he will
often make a big stand on a flag lapel or
an issue that's not before Congress. He'll come out every
few We got to have a balanced budget. By garden
(06:38):
the mccornyn home, we balance our budget, and the Smiths
and the Jones and the Garcias do two. In its time,
our government was balanced. Well, it's not even up for
vote and it never will be. But that's supposed to
make people at home go. Tell you, but John Cornwall,
(07:01):
he may not could ever win any of those votes,
but he's up there of fighting for us, and I
respect that about him. And what they'll do is they'll
pick a vote where they know they're going to lose,
because the point is to lose, and they'll say, all right,
who's up for election. Okay, McCain's up for election in Arizona.
(07:23):
Let's let McCain make a big issue and vote in
the opposition and we'll still Schumer, You'll still win. But
we need to give McCain a bone. He's gotta have
something he can campaign on. This is a group that
when Marco Rubio was first coming out in twenty ten
from the Florida Legislature, is when the Tea Party was
at full swing. Rick Scott was their candidate, and the
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Republican Senate Committee put millions and millions of dollars of
Republican dollars to elect a Republican. They put that into
the Republican primary because Marco Rubio was a Tea Party
guy and they didn't want a Tea Party guy. And
Cornyan was was coordinating all that. You've seen that Mitch McConnell.
Now that he's not the majority leader and he's not
(08:08):
able to run again, he's voting with the Democrats. That's
John Cornyn's running buddy.
Speaker 7 (08:13):
Who am I sticking to Michael Berry?
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Michael Berry, Yeah, I do enjoy your show. There's going
to be an old fashioned ass kicking of John Wayne mccorny.
And I'm going to tell you this, Karl Rove is
going to throw everything he has at this seat.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
It's going to be the same.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Exact group of people that supported Nicky Haley in the
Republican primary. It's going to be the same swamp creatures.
By the way, I didn't mean Rick Scott earlier. Earlier,
I meant Charlie crist the Republican that the Republican Senate
Committee supported over Marco Rubio and got involved in the
Republican primary because they couldn't let Republican primary voters vote.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
It wasn't it wasn't November elections Republican primary.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
And when Charlie Chriss lost, the guy the Republicans chose
to join them in the Senate as a Republican.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
What did he do?
Speaker 2 (09:07):
He became a Democrat, and he became a Democrat who
campaigned for Barack Obama. That's who these people are. That's
who Adam kin Singer is, That's.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Who Liz Cheney is.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
That's exactly who these people are. The minute that they're
not in power, or the minute that they don't have
to answer to you, you see who they honestly are,
and that is secretly Democrats. Let's see if I can
find this from Chad to shrimper's story. We interviewed a
(09:40):
woman yesterday from Bayou Labattery, Alabama, named Tammy Hall about
how the tariffs will affect her. And she talked about
she's the third generation shrimper, her husband is shrimps and they,
she said, they have what's known as an ice boat,
(10:03):
which is a boat that can keep the fish fresh
or the shrimp fresh when they bring the shrimp in,
and it's a big deal. She said, there's only about
ten of them left and the shrimper has gone away.
But more importantly, the reason the family shrimper went away
(10:25):
is because the cheap imports from Asia, and she said
Ecuador is the biggest one now and these things are
being funded by American banks, which is why when you
go to restaurants now, the fish you're eating do not
come out of Galveston Bay, even if you're eating in Galveston,
they're foreign fish being brought in because it's considerably cheaper.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
And that's just.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
We're seeing that in every industry, in every way. And
that's why family farms, family fisheries. Family we don't even
fish our own fisheries. We are a nations surround did
mostly surrounded by oceans and the Gulf of America golf waters,
and yet the fish that could be feeding our nation
(11:11):
is coming from oceans away. That's what these terraffs are
supposed to do. That interview will air on this evening show.
But Khou had a story about shrimpers in Galveston, hoping
that this will bring back their business.
Speaker 8 (11:29):
Along Peer nineteen in Galveston where the water meets the docks.
Longtime shrimper Johnny Marulo will tell you it used to
be a lot busier here.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
This doc used to be loaded with shrimp boats.
Speaker 8 (11:39):
But for years that's not been the case.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
Almost everybody's out of the business.
Speaker 8 (11:43):
With cheaper imported shrimp, which makes up more than ninety
percent of the US supply, driving down sales for local producers.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
For a medium sized shrimp, they used to give us
like four dollars a pound four fifty. Now we get
about dollar twenty dollars thirty.
Speaker 8 (12:00):
Though Marullo was hopeful that could change after President Trump
with the stroke of a pen and post tariffs on
the foreign countries flooding the seafood market.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
If he can get the terriffs put in slow down
some of the imports hopefully, you know, we can have
a decent season for the first time in a long time.
Speaker 8 (12:19):
Shrimping industry experts have called those tariffs a lifeline, despite
backlash from other industries.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Already he's seeing positive results from the tariffs.
Speaker 8 (12:29):
Craig Reeves is a board member with the Southern Shrimp
Alliance and a second generation shrimper himself. He says the
tariffs would be a benefit to a beleaguered industry.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Where it may help us is the restaurants.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
It would tighten that margin so they don't get the
benefit of buying a cheaper import.
Speaker 8 (12:45):
Instead, he says, restaurants would be encouraged to buy domestic.
What happens if the domestic producers can't keep up with
the demand.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
I mean, I think prices will probably go up, and
then maybe we squeeze the middleman a little bit, and
then the consumer don't get hard I heard as bad.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
I think.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
We've got to ask ourselves some tough questions, though, Are
you willing to pay more for a plate of fried
shrimp to restore the family fishing operations? Because Americans are
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not going to work for twenty cents an hour. We're
just not It's not realistic and we create a social
safety net where that doesn't work. And it's not all
a question of higher wages in order to do this,
it's higher expenses. It's also higher environmental and regulatory concerns.
This woman from by Lavatory, Alabama, was telling the story
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about a diverter that they have to have on their
fishing nets. Diverter will not allow them to catch fish.
They can only catch shrimp. The fish have to be
separated out and not brought in the nets. She said,
So we're constantly asked for fresh fish out of the
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Alabama waters and we can't do that.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
We could do it.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
It would be easier for us to do it and
simply cull the fish from the shrimp, but our government
won't let.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Us do that.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
We have to impose we have to put a diverter
to keep the fish out of there.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
So we have the opportunity.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
We're already spending the gas to go out there in
the effort to throw the nets and pull the nets in,
and yet the nets that have fish, we have to
put the fish back like some sort of catch and
release like that's like driving around the parking lot to
find spots pulling the spots and then pull back. You're
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just practicing. There's a comedian has a whole bit on that.
It's just absolutely hilarious. Some of you will remember Pops,
the fella in his nineties that goes out shrimping every
morning in Galveston and his daughter in law as the
act of ultimate love. This absolutely gorgeous woman who goes
by the name Shrimp Diva.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
You can find her online. She takes her.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Father in law out fishing out shrimping every day and
they sell their shrimp to the bait shop because they
can't get enough from the restaurants and they can't compete
with it with the foreign competition.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Show everything you need and most everything you want. John
Wayne mccornyn is one of us.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
His business card has his fax number on it and
this belt has his name on the back in an
old Western font called tin can.
Speaker 9 (15:51):
This belt buckle, it's big, looks like a pewter toilet
seat lid.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
He slips that belt.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Through the loops of his wrangler big and all rugged wear,
cowboy cut blue jeans. Some folks brag about the audacity
of their leather boots. John Wayne mccornn has boots made
out of the actual Clydesdale's from the nineteen eighties TV
commercials don't get more American than that. Speaking of the eighties,
did you vote for John Wayne mccornyn he'll bring back
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alf An Airwolf Family ties? What other senator will bring
back the eighties for you? If you love Dexy's Midnight
Runners like John Wayne mccorn does, and you do because
you're just like him, then you'll vote for him in November.
Vote for someone else?
Speaker 9 (16:39):
Well, Cinderella said it, Dusty.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Kendall, you're on the Michael Berry Show. Welcome to the
program sir, And for those of you participating at home,
I want y'all to know that was spelled on my screen.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
K I N D L E.
Speaker 10 (17:07):
Well, I mean that's all.
Speaker 7 (17:09):
Can we get him a bell for effort?
Speaker 1 (17:13):
You know what?
Speaker 2 (17:13):
I'm just happy that I could read it as kindall
and I knew what he meant, and it's there and
you're on the air and I didn't. But I'm just
glad it wasn't cacophony or kafoknik or you know something else.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
I'll settle. At least it sounded out right.
Speaker 10 (17:30):
Yeah, phonetically it makes sense.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Phonetically I appreciate that.
Speaker 7 (17:32):
Yes, yeah, yeah, all right, Well I know you're doing well.
So question is this is you know, first off, I
just got to say it, thanks for bringing some humor
into all of the corn and stuff.
Speaker 10 (17:43):
I can't. I mean, it's just it's hilarious. I think
it's it's hilarious. But that's what I wanted to ask
My question about. Is it's something that's bothered me my
entire life. I'm only thirty five years old. But it's
you know, you've got the Crenshaws, the feelings the corn
Ins do. That's say more about the lack of discernment
on voters or the cunning of the folks.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
That are running, yes both. Let me give you a
couple of examples. So I told you about the case
in twenty ten of Charlie Crist. So Charlie crist had
been the governor. Charlie Criss was a well known statewide guy.
Charlie christ was a guy like a Cornin who'd been around.
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He had played the right, he had the right titles.
He never stood for anything. He certainly was not a conservative.
And we had Barack Obama in the White House and
the Tea Party movement was tired of the Republicans that
had given us the John mccains. And truthfully, this was
the first we were starting to see of it bubbling up,
of people realizing, you know what, the Bush Chainey machine
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was not really conservative and the McCain as successor movement
was showing. People realized, we're never going to fix this
country using these guys, because these guys are part of
the problem. So twenty ten, there's Tea Party candidates around
the country and there is.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
This very loose association.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
It's not funded, it doesn't have an organization per se,
a structure of party apparatus. It's just a shared belief
that we've got to find somebody to oppose these people.
And we've all got a rally. And the rallying crowd
was around ideas, not a party or an organization, and
talk radio and in Fox there was this movement that
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was kind of beginning to coalesce, and everybody understood, we've
got to build this thing. We've got to We've got
people fired up. And this was the Trump rally before
the Trump rally. This was MAGA before MAGA. It's a
lot of the same people and there had never been
there had never been a ground swell that came together
and united people. So Marco Rubio comes out of nowhere.
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He's at two percent in the polls, and he manages
to start building and a lot of it was a
lot of ladies.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
There's a lot written about this at the time, a.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Lot of lady activists that started holding teas for him,
coffees for him, little events here, little church groups here,
and he builds up and builds up and builds up.
In the Republican Senate Committee, which is supposed to be
responsible for helping us win Senate seats against Democrats in
November so that we keep up Senate majority, that group
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decided to get very involved to make sure that the
senator that was named was their senator, not the voter senator.
So they spent a fortune against Rubio in favor of
Charlie Christ, an absolute wishy washy Republican. That money was
given by donors supposedly to defeat Democrats in November, but
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they used it in the spring.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
To pick their Republican. They were beaten.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
When Charlie Christ loses, he becomes an independent overnight, and
then he runs for office as a Democrat and supports
Barack Obama in twenty twelve. Two years later, he's on
the tour for Barack Obama. That was the guy that
they wanted. You think he changed. He didn't change. It's
just that now he didn't have to play the game.
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He didn't have to pretend to be one of us
where he did before. So how do you end up?
Think about Jeff Bush, Think about Liz Cheney, Think about
Adam kinsingherm think about all the Nikki Haley. Look at
all these people. Look we got an event coming up.
I just saw this this morning. Dan Crenshaw bad on me.
(21:29):
I supported Crenshaw. I helped Crenshaw get there. Crenshaw is
not who he claimed to be to me, So, but
that's on me.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
I made a mistake. I'll own it.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
That's why I don't tend to support candidates. I tend
to support ideas. But that that's on me. Crenshaw's holding
a special campaign event. We quote special guest John Whitmyer. Okay,
so we've got Dan Crenshaw holding this event with special
guests John Whitmyer. We supported John Whitmyer over Sheila Jackson
(21:58):
Lee in a Republican I mean a Democrat primary for mayor,
because that's what that was.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
We didn't want Sheila Jackson Lee. After that, John.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Whittmeyer endorsed Kamala Harris for president just before the election.
That's that's the guy you have as your special guest
at your congressional event.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Okay, all right, fair enough, just so we know what
we're doing.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
So are the voters at fault for continuing to send
John cornerback to the Senate. It's a very complicated question
as to how this happens, but let me try to
explain it.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
When you look.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
At the voters in a Republican primary, because that's the
only place you're going to beat Cornyn, We're not eager
for the Democrats to beat him because at least he
pretends to be a Republican part of the time. Once
he's up there, we don't want Beto o Rohurt to
be in there instead. So when you look at the
Republican primary voter in the first round of a Republican primary,
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if there's not a runoff, you're going to have a
lot of voters that are, believe it or not, low
information Republican voters.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
They're generally Republicans, which means they're not Democrats.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Now, their daddy might have been a Republican, their grandfather
daddy might have been the bank president, their daddy might
have been a precinct chairman. They're generally Republicans and they're
not Democrats. And the Democrats are the other party. And
you know, y'all are Dodgers fans and y'all are Yankees
fan but we're Astros fans.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
We root for the Astros.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
We don't know why, we don't know the players, we
may not speak their language, we don't know where they're from,
but we're for them. That group is going to vote
for Corning because that's the name they know. So you
have to take every voter that is not there and
get them up to speed, as by Corn. And it's
very hard to do that unless you have a very
good candidate's well.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Funded, and we never do, but this time we will.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Ace Hardware Texas dot Com his thirty three ACE Hardwares.
They're all independently owned and they work under the ACE
Hardware banner because you can't compete any longer as Joe
Bob's hardware shop.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
If if there's.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
A home depot, you know, within thirty miles because they
buy in bolt and you can't. So they can sell
a hammer cheaper than you can even buy it, much
less make a profit. And so they I've wanted them
to be a sponsor for years and years and years,
and finally we were able to make it happen. And
if you go to Acehardware Texas dot com you'll find
(24:25):
the location.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
It's nearest U.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
And so I was calling to go visit one of
the owners, Rick Tap and he owns the Langham Creek
location out in the Cypress are at the northwest of Houston,
and I didn't know he was out of town that day,
and I was going to go in between the shows,
head out at about noon and get back by about two.
And you know, I have a few hours in between
during the show and usually I'm stuck at my desk,
(24:49):
but at that on that day, I was caught up.
So the woman named Heather answered. She answered, didn't go
to a voice tree and it's very helpful, and you're
very apologetic to Rick. Wasdin there and I could have her?
Could I haven't called back? I thought, this's got to
be the owner's wife. No, she's just a lady that
works there. Lady that's married, has kids, and this is
her job. She works checking people out at the Ace
(25:11):
hardware and helping them with anything they need. And I
was so impressed. So I told her about the story
on the air, and I asked Rick in an email, Hey,
would you do something for her in front of all
the other employees. I think it's good for people to
be recognized among their peers.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
So I got an.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Email from Rick and he said, zar, just to follow
up on this, I did a spot bonus for her,
which means a bonus right there on the spot, as
opposed to part of your regular paycheck. And I recognized
her over the store radio to give her recognition in
front of her peers as you asked. She was embarrassed
by the whole thing and just felt like she was
doing her job. Customers have since come in found her
(25:52):
and said, oh, your Heather. Thanks again for the recognition
for her. She's always cheerful and polite and deserved the recognition.
She's great at her job and trains all of our
new cashiers. I always say it doesn't cost you anything
to say thank you, but it sure is valuable to
the person who gets it. When you're building a culture
in an organization. I find that a lot of business
(26:13):
owners are good at telling me how terrible their employees
are and what they do wrong, but many people are
not very good at understanding how you change that and
get them to do right. And I think the idea
that where this goes wrong is this idea. And I've
noticed that people have this that everybody should show up
(26:34):
on day one knowing right from wrong, knowing how to
address people, knowing to put the customer first, knowing to
be on time. And when that person isn't, they're very
good at saying, oh, he doesn't even know to do this, this,
and this. All right, that's step one, step two as
you teach him, but he's not equipped to fulfill your expectations.
(26:57):
And if we're being honest, you're not equipped to teach
him how to that's your failing. Your job is to
take him from point A to point B, to coach him,
to lead him, to manage him, to improve him, to
inspire him. But you don't know how to do that.
You only know how to point out the things that
(27:19):
he doesn't do well. Well, I give you one way
you can do that. There's positive and negative reinforcements, carrot
and a stick. You can start with the positive. When
an employee demonstrates a trait that you want to see,
highlight that you have an internal email. Highlight that Russell
Lebarra does that on his internal emails. He points out
somebody that does something right. If you have, you know,
(27:43):
roll call for you at your police station or at
your company. Hey, I'd like to point out that Wendy
did this great thing. I need to update my names, Romo.
All I got is Wendy and Susan and maybe Karen
and for boys, I got Bobby. I got to come
up with Tommy. Got to come up with some new
ones and work on that. But that's one way you
(28:04):
can do it. It's a lot more fun than having
to punish, which you have to do as well. But
giving an employee recognition in front of others both makes
them feel good about it, but it also tells the
other people. Hey, that's the expectation I have. And some
people will see that and go, oh, why did I
think to do? You know, I'm not the one. I'm
not doing that. I'm doing the opposite of that. I
(28:27):
guess he notices that I'm doing the opposite of that,
I'm not doing what I'm supposed to do. That's the standard.
Many many organizations do not have a culture because they've
not established a culture. You can't assume culture exists on
its own. You have to establish it. Nick Saban doesn't
just bring in players and hope everything works out well.
(28:49):
He's honestly, he was constantly chewing their ass to get
them back in line. That's how you heard these steers
or wrangle these cats.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
You teach them.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Here the parameters, here's what's expected. Here's what we're going
to do. When you do that the way it's supposed
to be done, we'll win. When you don't. We're not
going to wait to lose to show you that that
was what was wrong. Jose Garcia sent me an email
subject hardworking old lady in Santa fe.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Zar.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
I had a screw in my tire this morning, so
I head into Sam's Club to get it patched up.
They refused to do it. They said, if I go
to a mom and pop shop, I'd probably have better love.
There will be a day where we don't have mama
pop shops. You realize this, There will be a day
where there will not be an independently owned small business.
(29:40):
And these are the small businesses we go to for
what the big boxes won't do, and then what do
we do? And it will have been our own fault.
So Sam said, Now I go in little mom and pop.
They'll do that for you because we won't. I went
down FM seventeen sixty four in Stanta Fe, stopped at
Bud's Tire Service, and he sent a to a buz
(30:00):
Tar service.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
It's exactly what you look like, what you expect.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
It's about seven foot tall, low slung building of plywood
with a hand painted sign that says Buds Tar Shop
and tires everywhere. I don't know if they're new tires
or old tires, but if i'm a betting man than
I am, they're old tires. I didn't see a raggedy
old mangye dog around there, but I'm sure there is one.
(30:25):
At first, I don't see anyone there, and I'm about
to leave. Then this sweet little lady, probably sixty five
years old, comes out, and I think there's no way
she fixes flats. Sure enough, she grabs a jack and
asks which tire. She then proceeds to remove the tire
from my truck. Takes it off the rim, patches it up,
(30:48):
lugs it around to a bathtub to check for leaks.
She was impressive and at the same time motivational. To
see an older lady put in work like that and
continue being a productive member of society is a site
to see. I made sure to give her a good
tip ps. I wanted to help her remove and then
mount the tire, but she didn't seem like she wanted, expected,
(31:11):
or needed help.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Tough lady.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Then, in contrast to her grit and hard work ethic,
as I headed to the Gold Freeway to drive into
work in downtown Houston, I see a young, seemingly able body,
young man at the intersection asking for help.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Have a good day, jose Garcia there is.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
I don't know if Bud's Tire Shop on seventeen sixty
four has a website.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
My guess is not.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
But he did include a photo which I'll post to
the Facebook page and we'll put on the blast today,
which you could get by signing up at Michael berryshow
dot com. We send out a blast once a day,
but if you're in that area, you want to stop
in and meet this sweet little lady.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
He did say she's somewhere between fifty and sixty five.
I didn't see that. I said she's sixty five. He
says she's somewhere between fifty and sixty five. She could
be older.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
I don't know what a good oreo huh h. Which
how you want when you're gonna have somebody up. So
you got a Hispanic dude praising an old white woman
for fixing his tire.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
I love it.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
Mhm
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