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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time. Time, time, time, luck and load. Michael
Vary Show is.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
On the air.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Oh don't look Stacy where? Oh god? I mean I
contact psycho host beast Stacy. We broke up two months ago.
Well that doesn't mean we can't still go out. Well
it does. Actually, that's what breaking up is. You know, Wayne,
if you're not careful, you're gonna lose me. I lost
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you two months ago. Are you mental? We broke up?
Get the nap?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
I saw this video. I mean, I've been seeing a
lot of videos anyone else having a hard time not
just breaking down crying several times a day because you're
just watching the horror happen. Well, you have so many
people around you that either have no idea, you don't
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pretending it's not and like you're crazy and you're just
a conspiracy theorist and you're just insane, and you just
start too dramatic and you seed to calm down.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Yeah, you're doing it again, you hysterical nut job.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
You want to help, and there's nothing you can do
because you don't have money. You have billions of dollars
you don't have. I don't have any dollars that I
can spare greatly want truly, but that's the only thing
that seems to kind of make a difference.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
You can't even do that.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
You can only speak, and now we can't even speak,
so watch and cry it is.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
I guess, yeah, you're.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Screeching on and the cats need to be fat.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
You know, the worse it gets, it's not like the
quieter I want to get. It's the angrier I get,
the louder I want to be. I've just been screaming
for so long that I'm not sure who I'm even
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talking to anymore.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Who's left? That's still what else do you need to see?
I'm noticing a lot of questions about tariffs, So let's
talk about tariffs. I know that's not riveting radio, I
get it, but I think it's important that we all understand.
I don't want you to support Donald Trump's policies because
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they're Donald Trump's policies, because that would make you no
different than a Democrat. I want you to understand those
policies and come to an independent, reasoned response as to
whatever that will be. Not everybody on our side is
going to support the terrafs, and some of them will
be for reasons that they can clearly articulate and are principled,
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and that's fine. This is not a sporting event where
we root for our team and they root for their team.
We're talking about making good policy for this country, and
I want to talk about that. But quickly two emails,
Travis writes, please don't mention out loud my wife's company.
They're very well. Okay, I'm going to mention it, but
not out loud. Are you ready? Okay? So she works
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for Blank at their corporate office. She has clawed her
way for sixteen years. We are high school sweethearts. We're
both forty two. I'm six four one ninety eight. People
know I like this. She's five ten one point thirty.
You know, tall people marry tall people.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
You know.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
It's that. It's a breeding thing, the animal instinct. They
want to keep their their bloodlines high. The tall people
like tall people. She's five ten, one thirty but pregnant.
I just got her pregnant again, so I effectively win
all the battles of who's right. Long story. I love
her dearly and I'm so proud of her. That gum.
The things I can tell you off air, dude, you're
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a dude, you don't have to tell I already know
You've put her through hell and back. She tolerates you,
she loves you. Women have a weakness. Thank God for it.
God plants in women a weakness that they love us
for all of our faults, and they stay with us
aside from the fact that we're incorrigible, unbearable, of noxious,
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the whole thing, and they continue to love us. And
that's just it really is, as people say, a God thing,
We're wired this way. It's in our DNA. That's why
couples say together. I've noticed I've had so many friends
that have multiple divorces, and it breaks my heart every
time because, in addition to the obvious of you have
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to cut things in half. But before you cut things
in half, let's take twenty five percent off and pay
it to the lawyers. And then there's the nasty. There's
the ugly, the things that are said and the things
that are said to mutual friends about how bad you
are and people believe it because it's your spouse. And
then there's the dividing up of the assets, the dogs,
the houses, and the friends. A lot of people don't
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remain friends with both sides of a couple, and so
that's traumatic because now part of that, part of that
is carved out of you. You just part of you
is just being carved away, like the knights that go
knee in money Python. You remember where he's hacking his
arm and that didn't hurt before. He's led just a nub.
He's just a brain and just a head and a nub.
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It's tough. But I see folks that have multiple divorces
and they will say to me, men and women, and
women will email in because they don't think I understand
how women think. And perhaps I don't, but I do
have you know, I do have a wife, I did
have a mother. I do have some empathy for the
feminine condition, whether you realize that or not. But people
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will talk about that the reason they got divorced, the
reason it didn't work, And then they will list an
imperfection in the other person. And I don't know if
it's movies or fantasy or cartoons or people are not perfect.
Nobody is perfect. The challenge is to learn to embrace
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the things you most want to change about the person
you once loved. I can't tell you how many times
I have seen and this is a woman thing. They
can't help it. It's also why they're good mothers, why
they raise children better than men do. Buy and large
is that the very things that women fall in love
with about a man, the minute they got him locked down,
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they start trying to change them. And is there something
about that. They have this romantic notion of he's going
to be perfect, and by perfect, I mean he's going
to have a testosterone level of eighty and he's going
to be sitting on the couch watching cuddly English sitcoms
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or rom coms and crying over movies while Fife sits
on y'all's lap and y'all plan out the threadcount of
the next round of bed sheets you're going to buy.
That's not what you want, but they think they want that,
and they're disappointed that he wants to go hunting and
fishing with his buddies. But that's really what you want.
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That's the biological necessity. Anyway, back to old boy, he says, Anyway,
we have owned or at least mortgaged eight homes and
moved all over America for this company. She now is
in the bullpen, after having had assistants and offices all
over America. No family picture is allowed in the office.
It's a damn shame, he said. They were talking about
that at seven o'clock this morning. How the company approached
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now is to take away you're There's a fellow named
Tyler Hassen's a Texas energy company executive. He dropped everything
to join DOGE because he feels it's his patriotic duty.
He was running five businesses in Houston. He was on
Fox recently. He's working with Elon. Now. Somebody knows Tyler Hassen.
I want to interview him. It's a great story. Somebody helped.
Somebody connect me. Email me that you can connect you
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with Tyler Hassen.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
Up on South three Hill, I can see the city light.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Wind.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Often get emails from people who will say things like
I don't understand these tariffs but or I only have
a ged but or I didn't do well in school,
or I'm not smart. That one upsets me, and it
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upsets me because I'm worried that people are going through
life believing that our listeners. If you view yourself as
not being smart and you listen to our show, that's
partly my fault. I have failed, not just you and
everyone around you. When my kids were in elementary school,
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if there was a kid who came top of the class,
invariably an Indian every year, even as we change schools,
they'd say, you know, Kesh is smart. No, on what
basis is a Kesh smart? Well, he got the top score.
So if so, let's say Michael or Crockett, So what
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did you get on your test ninety seven? Was that
the highest grade? No, was the highest grade hundred? Who
got one hundred? A Kesh, Well, then you get it.
A Kesh is smart. Smart is a reference to what
you're born with. It is not a function of your output.
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Going back to the Tom Brady interview I told you
about this weekend, he talked about the skill set and
profile of a top performing athlete, not just a quarterback
in talent wasn't even in the mix. What you're born
with is responsible for some percentage, and whether it's sports, academics, entrepreneurism,
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chemical engineering, I mean they're probably I know there are
studies on performance, and those studies will tell you that
some percentage of that is what you're born with. That
is true, but it's certainly not the dominant percentage. It
is a function of what you do with that, your perseverance.
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And I have found perseverance to be probably the single
most important aspect of a successful business person. The ability
to recreate, willingness to get up donno mcclerkinstyle when you
get knocked down. Let's take Bill Clinton, not a guy
we like, bad politics. It's comeback all the above Bill Clinton,
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going back to nineteen seventy six. Nineteen seventy six, he
is elected attorney general of Arkansas. A bit of an upset.
I believe it's nineteen seventy eight. He gets elected governor
of Arkansas. He's in for two years, and he imposes
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a tax. He's trying to raise money. He doesn't want
to raise taxes, so he implements an inspection sticker scam
and you had to pay. And it became a hassle
for people something they didn't have to do before. Now
they have to do it. And there was a guy
named Frank I forget his name is Republican who runs
against him on the basis that this guy is just
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trying to make your money and government is hassling you,
and he beats Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton spends the next
two years famously there's a guy named Moranis who wrote
a book about this called First in His Class. He's
jogging around Little Rock every morning and people are going, oh, no,
there's the former governor. He can't let it go. And
for two years he's talking to people about what he
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did wrong. And he comes back in eighty two and
he gets elected, and he will get elected all the
way through nineteen ninety two when he's elected president. Fast
forward a few years, he's having the bimbo eruptions, as
his wife Hillary called them. Well, Didie Myers gave the statement,
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but she said that Hillary called a bibo eruptions because
Hillary's idea is any woman who would sleep with her
husband is not as smart as Hillary, is not accomplished
as Hillary is. They are a bimbo. So she cares
about all women, except she doesn't. She cares about herself
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and those around her. Those women who just like her
are trying to claw to the top. But you're not
smart and accomplished like her, even if your husband would
rather have sex with you than her. Clinton is set
to run for president in eighty eight. Reagan is at
the end of his two years. George H. W. Bush
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is not nearly as popular as Reagan is. There's a
crowded field in the Democrat set. Gary Hart is there,
Michael Ducacus, Joe Biden. But Clinton's going to be a
strong candidate. There's no doubt about that. Charismatic. He's got
Southern charm. I mean, you can say he doesn't. But
the guy has a talent set in the political world,
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and he's made a lot of powerful friends. But there's
a bad bembo eruption. So they are in the conference.
They are in the back of the hotel convention center
where he's going to go out and announce. There are balloons,
it is festooned with Clinton for President eighty eight. There's
staff there, there's everybody there. But they've had a bad
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bembo eruption, bad one, and the decision is made, much
to his chagrin, by Hillary, we can't do this. It
will not only will you not win, he'll destroy you.
We're going to spend four years. We're gonna put this
in the rearview mirror. We're gonna put some time in
between it and you can run in ninety two. And
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that's what happened. This is a guy who, as much
as we don't like him, gets back up twenty twenty
elections stolen from him. In twenty twenty, Donald Trump was
seventy four years old. Seventy four years old. There are
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people in the assisted living center with my dad younger
than that. He had an election stolen from him. Then
they dragged him through the courts. Courts, they raided his
wife's penny drawer. Fat Fanny and hot Dog Nathan were
carrying on an affair and trying to put him in prison.
Jack Smith was a special prosecutor that they brought in
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and schemed up. You had the State of New York
imposing a four hundred million dollar cash call. Who has that?
You had the judge whose daughter is getting all this
money from these NGOs, as is very common with these
with these judges that are doing this, That's why they
forum shop, That's why they'll get those judges. They're coming
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after him in every way, shaping for him. They're causing
a living hell for him. He keeps getting back up
if there is a skill set. When Michael Jordan came
into the league, those first few years, they were beating him.
The pistols were beating him up so bad, so he
decided I got to go in the weight room. I
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got to learn to take hits every time I score.
I got to learn to pay through play through pain.
I got to learn to pass more. I gotta make
my teammates better. I can't win this on my own.
Those that skill set. If we could just teach our
kids that skill set, being born smart or talented overrate radio,
the Michael Barry Show, Well but we we.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
But we.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Score. Sne is just a sin. But we couldn't stay there.
And God say, now o my busy head back ye
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back up? Oh my name?
Speaker 5 (17:22):
If we get back up again, reaks, but.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
He can't still leave that. There's a say of righteousness exited.
Oh say week if we get back up the bay.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
We falled out sometime, but we get back up again.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
We just want to leave that, all right. I know
we have some calls from Ray and Teresa ask him
to hold. I want to get into terrace because I'm
getting a lot of questions. And April second is the
day the tariffs are scheduled to go into effect. I
would not be surprised to see those tariffs delayed again,
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because particularly Canada and Mexico at twenty five percent apiece
and China at ten percent are it could collapse their economy.
It could. America can survive without Mexico, Canada, and yes,
even China, they cannot survive without us. The Trump administration
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has been willing to say something that no president in
my lifetime has been able to has been willing to say,
and that is America's pre eminence. Our world dominance is
our internal consumer market. If we turn our market off
to a country, we can break them. The blockade with Cuba,
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we were the primary consumer of Cuban cigars. And when
the blockade occurred under Kennedy imposed on Castro, it it well.
There were two things happened. Castro's nationalization of the casinos.
The casinos were where Americans primarily went to play ninety
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days in a world away the casinos of Cuba, and
the American mafia was making a fortune running those casinos
and basically running Cuba. The revolution was not against Bautista,
it was against American dominance or mafia dominance of the
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of the casinos and industry in Cuba. There were a
lot of Americans tossed out of there that were very
rich off of Cuba, and I have no problem with that.
The blockade aid against Cuba forced them to develop better
relations with their long time legacy brothers in Spain. But
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it's not the same market. It's a lot further transportation costs.
There were a lot of things at play. Closing off
our market to the rest of the world has the
effect of getting their attention. A tariff you learned about tariffs,
you might remember the term from when you were in school.
Is a duty or a custom duty. It is a tax.
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So think of it this way. If Mexico sends a
product into the United States for one hundred dollars and
a twenty five percent tariff is slapped on that, that
company must pay to our excise board twenty five dollars.
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So if they sold that to the American importer, who's
usually a wholesaler of one form or another, whatever the
product is, they were selling it to him for one
hundred dollars a bushel. Now it's one hundred and twenty five. Well,
it may be the case that that importer paid one
hundred dollars a bushel, but he could get the same
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bushel because it costs more to get it here from
El Salvador and Bouquetle really wants to get their products
in the United States, he's opened his prisons to the
gang bangers. We've sent down there, and El Salvador can
send it up here, but it would cost one hundred
and ten. So Mexico was able to undercut one hundred
and ten to one hundred dollars shorter transportation costs, maybe
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more mechanized labor. Well, the importer now says, if I
got to pay one hundred and twenty five for that,
I can get it over here for one hundred because
American consumers are very price conscious, and in fact, American
consumers love to be conscious even when they don't need
to be, even when they could afford not to, because
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it is considered distasteful to be to disregard cost. The
only people who do that are making a show of
their opulence by, for instance, making it rain with the cash,
peeling off cash, driving the ridiculous vehicles. Well, if you
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look at the community who does that most, it's athletes
and rappers. And it's largely athletes and rappers who grew
up poor black kids, single mom, section eight housing, not
enough food eat. Can you blame them? I finally got
some money. I want to show it. If you grew
up with money. People that grew up with money typically
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are the least ostentatious people you'll know. And it also
goes back to a French revolution mindset. We better not
lord disover the people because when the revolution comes, our
heads in the guillotine. First. People with real money never
talk about money. They do not, will not. Everybody pays
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their own way. They don't show it around, they don't
flaunt it for all the reasons above. But the American
consumer is very price conscious. So now your bushel of
fruit that you're bringing in from Mexico, the importer says,
I'm not going to pay one hundred and twenty five dollars.
I'll buy it from that guy for one hundred and ten.
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I bought it from you at one hundred. So the
Mexican company has a big decision to make. Well, how
about if we sell it to you for seventy five
and then we slap the twenty five on that actually
technically to be eighty. If you're going to put twenty
five percent on it, and that would make it a
nice round hundred because twenty we got. So we'll sell
it to you for eighty, we'll pay the tariff. Well,
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that twenty dollars per bushel has to come out of
their profits. For some businesses, at a minimum, it's going
to cost them that much. For some businesses that will
mean they go under. You're talking about disrupting a long
term trade relationship upon which last year they built a
new factory. Well, that factory was dependent on a model
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that projected that they would not only not decrease production
that they would export into the United States, but certainly
not decrease it. They were hoping to increase it. So
that tariff becomes a very very powerful tool, this taxing authority.
So it's the tariff that he's using to say, you've
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got to do your part on the border Canada. You
got to do your part on the border. But for
all the people very upset and the Wall Street journals
losing their mind, you must also understand that for people
who say it doesn't seem right to put a tax
on a foreign product coming into the United States, Okay,
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Well does it seem right that they're doing it to us?
If you saw the tariffs that Canada imposes on American
exports that are imports into Canada, that nobody ever talked about,
why we tolerated this. Why would we allow other countries
to do bad things to us and not reciprocate. All
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he's asking for is reciprocal terriffs. It all starts on
Wednesday at least is supposed to talk more about this
coming up, and Ray and Teresa, U stay tuned.
Speaker 6 (25:30):
Inza jes, Well, where's the inside of my sole?
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Friend of mine said she was recently married a year
or so ago, might be two years at this point,
but she said, I want to her husband, recently retired, said,
I want to give him a day out on Galveston
Bay fishing. I need a guide who's gonna take care
of him. He's gonna really be patient, show him a
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good time. I want to spoil him. He deserves this.
Do you know someone, and I said, as luck would
have it, I do. Remember our old friend Matt Parrish,
singer songwriter of Market Junction fame. That's what he's doing now, Well,
that's what he's doing with part of his time. The
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other part of his time is he's filming himself doing
that and posting videos about it constantly. But good on him.
You know, there's something I have a kind of a
romantic notion of the one man show. You know, if
I go into a little bakery and it's tiny, they
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got two inner square feet in the strips her and
there's a woman there and she's got an apron on
and her she's got burned scars on her hands and arms,
which means she didn't get, you know, a big retirement package.
You her husband made a bunch of money and she
wanted on a bakery. This woman's a baker, like a
legit real base. She's got the battle scars to prove it,
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and she's she's got in the glass case in between
you and her. She's got what's left for the day.
Because the difficulty of the baking business is inventory management.
You know that the vaguar reason supplying demand demand varies daily,
and that you know that scone You say, Sconeer's gone, okay,
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just checking listen, appointment me repeat. Nobody cares how you say?
Nobody thinks? Oh I bet Ramon would know. I've always
wondered how to say that Ramone would know. I just
scurious myself. No, I'm not saying it. You said how
you want to say it, but I'm not repeating it.
You get your own show and then you can say
how you want to say it. So anyway, as I
was saying before, I was so rudely interrupted, that's gone,
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which may or may not be hormone says it might
be worth two dollars. I don't know what this con
goes for today, but it might be worth two dollars
at eight o'clock this morning. But if the shop closes
at five o'clock at about four forty five, it's worth
nothing because it's going to be thrown out. So you
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know she's there. She's hoping to sell everything on the
front end at the top profit trys to try to
make it. I love to see a one man show
the idea of because most people a bunch o'clock. Most
people get paid by someone else. You have good days,
you have bad days. Most people think they're worth more
than the company is paying them. But people tend to
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discount all of the reasons. You went to work for
somebody in the first place. Could have started on your own.
Could have been a fishing guide. You could have been
a tennis instructor, could have been a tutor, could have
been any number it could have been a housekeeper. You
went to work because it was an easy way out.
And there's nothing wrong with that. It was easier to
go to work somewhere else. And then once you're there,
you're like, I should get paid more moneyany's making money,
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I should be paid more money. Leave start your own business.
But I have this kind of romantic notion of the
person who has to get out there and get it.
And when you're selling your time. The funny thing is
about when you're selling your time is you can't scale up.
You've only got so much time. So then you decide
to do you add another person, Because if all you've
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ever been is an employee, you have no idea what
a hassle having employees is, what an absolute hassle employees are.
That's why I'm glad we have Chad because he never
causes any problems. I got Jim Mudd moving new houses.
I got Darryl Kunda hadn't been here but for ten minutes,
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so we're still figuring out what he can do. I
got Ramon, y'all know my trials and tribulations with regard
to him. And then there's Chad ever a problem. But
there's old Matt Parrish. He is he's doing the fishing
guid thing, and I mean, he's got about how many
twelve kids. He's got more kids. He's got a set
of twins. He might have multiple twins. I don't want.
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He got a bunch of kids. And he's out there
humping on the bay doing doing you know what I
asked him, I said, do you is it work when
you're out there doing that or is it fun? Because
I know you love to fish, because he's always loaded
to fish. He said, it's still fun. I'll let you
know when it's not. And I thought that's pretty good.
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He's also still in the friends and family face. Eventually,
you're gonna take Scott Kutac out as buddies and you'
all gonna be fishing. He's gonna let me, let me
help you my business. And Scott's going to tell you
about this guy that he knows who's looking for a
guy like I'm doing with Sandy. And then that guy's
gonna go out and have a good time, and that
guy's going to tell somebody's going to tell somebody's gonna
stay somewhere down the line, you're gonna get that guy
who's an ass. And there are certain people who cannot
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help themselves. If you are the service provide whether you're
the waiter at their table, the bartender behind the bar,
the guy who cuts their grass. They like to abuse
other people make them feel good about their own life.
Speaker 6 (31:07):
Right.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
The dog that gets kicked all the time can still
chase the cat. And the question will be at the
end of that day, do you still love it? And
if you don't know how to reach Matt Parish and
you want a good Galveston Bay guide, you can always
email me. I guess I give out a cell phone number?
Should I give out? It's it's the business number two
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is nine seven nine. Don't call his text because he
might be out on the water nine seven nine five
nine five thirty four eighty five, and just say yeah,
I need a fishing guide nine seven nine five nine
five thirty four eighty five nine seven nine five nine
five thirty four eighty five. Or you can email me
through the website Michael Berryshow dot com and I will
forward you to young Matt Parrish. Of course, you know
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how that works. You know, he probably spent so much
money buying a new boat and new equipment that he
won't make any money for three years. That's how that works, right,
Because when you're insecure about starting your business. You spend
money on the business because you feel good about it.
Chance does this, Well, we had a very profitable month
last month. Please God tell me you're not about to
try to buy a new equipment. Well, I have to
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have this new camera. Okay, Well, there goes our profit
last month, because he's just constantly wanting to his credit.
You know, I've been there. When you're starting a business,
you're insecure on you. Once you're in it in a
while and you're really good at it. You don't need
to buy a new equipment. You don't need to buy
new business cards, you don't need to redo your graphic.
Just do what you do well, and people will come
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to you and you will thrive. The less you spend
the more. Oh Russell Labarro had a great email he
sent to their employees about that issue. Let me just
go to Teresa real quick. Is that Teresa or Teressa?
Speaker 4 (32:45):
It's Teresa.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Okay, Well why did he spell at T E R
E S SA. The double S makes a soft E
short E. That's right, Okay, go ahead.
Speaker 4 (32:55):
So I wanted to call about your basically your nature
nurture conversation you were having earlier and I have an
adopted brother. He was my aunt's son and she died
from breast cancer when he was seven years old, and
my parents adopted him because they had promised her they would. Now,
my dad was a class A machinist toolmaker, and so
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Alan grew up with my dad mentoring him his whole life,
teaching him how to work on cars, teaching him things. Well,
there was a brief period of Alan's life where he
was well, let's just say, till he got into his thirties,
he was sewing crazy oats. But Alan eventually matured and
(33:43):
grew up, and now he's a wonderful electrician and air
conditioning prepared gentleman in Huntsville, Texas.
It's that time. Time, time, time, luck and load. Michael
Vary Show is.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
On the air.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Oh don't look Stacy where? Oh god? I mean I
contact psycho host beast Stacy. We broke up two months ago.
Well that doesn't mean we can't still go out. Well
it does. Actually, that's what breaking up is. You know, Wayne,
if you're not careful, you're gonna lose me. I lost
(00:36):
you two months ago. Are you mental? We broke up?
Get the nap?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
I saw this video. I mean, I've been seeing a
lot of videos anyone else having a hard time not
just breaking down crying several times a day because you're
just watching the horror happen. Well, you have so many
people around you that either have no idea, you don't
(01:16):
pretending it's not and like you're crazy and you're just
a conspiracy theorist and you're just insane, and you just
start too dramatic and you seed to calm down.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Yeah, you're doing it again, you hysterical nut job.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
You want to help, and there's nothing you can do
because you don't have money. You have billions of dollars
you don't have. I don't have any dollars that I
can spare greatly want truly, but that's the only thing
that seems to kind of make a difference.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
You can't even do that.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
You can only speak, and now we can't even speak,
so watch and cry it is.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
I guess, yeah, you're.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Screeching on and the cats need to be fat.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
You know, the worse it gets, it's not like the
quieter I want to get. It's the angrier I get,
the louder I want to be. I've just been screaming
for so long that I'm not sure who I'm even
(02:28):
talking to anymore.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Who's left? That's still what else do you need to see?
I'm noticing a lot of questions about tariffs, So let's
talk about tariffs. I know that's not riveting radio, I
get it, but I think it's important that we all understand.
I don't want you to support Donald Trump's policies because
(02:53):
they're Donald Trump's policies, because that would make you no
different than a Democrat. I want you to understand those
policies and come to an independent, reasoned response as to
whatever that will be. Not everybody on our side is
going to support the terrafs, and some of them will
be for reasons that they can clearly articulate and are principled,
(03:14):
and that's fine. This is not a sporting event where
we root for our team and they root for their team.
We're talking about making good policy for this country, and
I want to talk about that. But quickly two emails,
Travis writes, please don't mention out loud my wife's company.
They're very well. Okay, I'm going to mention it, but
not out loud. Are you ready? Okay? So she works
(03:39):
for Blank at their corporate office. She has clawed her
way for sixteen years. We are high school sweethearts. We're
both forty two. I'm six four one ninety eight. People
know I like this. She's five ten one point thirty.
You know, tall people marry tall people.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
You know.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
It's that. It's a breeding thing, the animal instinct. They
want to keep their their bloodlines high. The tall people
like tall people. She's five ten, one thirty but pregnant.
I just got her pregnant again, so I effectively win
all the battles of who's right. Long story. I love
her dearly and I'm so proud of her. That gum.
The things I can tell you off air, dude, you're
(04:21):
a dude, you don't have to tell I already know
You've put her through hell and back. She tolerates you,
she loves you. Women have a weakness. Thank God for it.
God plants in women a weakness that they love us
for all of our faults, and they stay with us
aside from the fact that we're incorrigible, unbearable, of noxious,
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the whole thing, and they continue to love us. And
that's just it really is, as people say, a God thing,
We're wired this way. It's in our DNA. That's why
couples say together. I've noticed I've had so many friends
that have multiple divorces, and it breaks my heart every
time because, in addition to the obvious of you have
(05:09):
to cut things in half. But before you cut things
in half, let's take twenty five percent off and pay
it to the lawyers. And then there's the nasty. There's
the ugly, the things that are said and the things
that are said to mutual friends about how bad you
are and people believe it because it's your spouse. And
then there's the dividing up of the assets, the dogs,
the houses, and the friends. A lot of people don't
(05:31):
remain friends with both sides of a couple, and so
that's traumatic because now part of that, part of that
is carved out of you. You just part of you
is just being carved away, like the knights that go
knee in money Python. You remember where he's hacking his
arm and that didn't hurt before. He's led just a nub.
He's just a brain and just a head and a nub.
(05:53):
It's tough. But I see folks that have multiple divorces
and they will say to me, men and women, and
women will email in because they don't think I understand
how women think. And perhaps I don't, but I do
have you know, I do have a wife, I did
have a mother. I do have some empathy for the
feminine condition, whether you realize that or not. But people
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will talk about that the reason they got divorced, the
reason it didn't work, And then they will list an
imperfection in the other person. And I don't know if
it's movies or fantasy or cartoons or people are not perfect.
Nobody is perfect. The challenge is to learn to embrace
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the things you most want to change about the person
you once loved. I can't tell you how many times
I have seen and this is a woman thing. They
can't help it. It's also why they're good mothers, why
they raise children better than men do. Buy and large
is that the very things that women fall in love
with about a man, the minute they got him locked down,
(07:00):
they start trying to change them. And is there something
about that. They have this romantic notion of he's going
to be perfect, and by perfect, I mean he's going
to have a testosterone level of eighty and he's going
to be sitting on the couch watching cuddly English sitcoms
(07:21):
or rom coms and crying over movies while Fife sits
on y'all's lap and y'all plan out the threadcount of
the next round of bed sheets you're going to buy.
That's not what you want, but they think they want that,
and they're disappointed that he wants to go hunting and
fishing with his buddies. But that's really what you want.
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That's the biological necessity. Anyway, back to old boy, he says, Anyway,
we have owned or at least mortgaged eight homes and
moved all over America for this company. She now is
in the bullpen, after having had assistants and offices all
over America. No family picture is allowed in the office.
It's a damn shame, he said. They were talking about
that at seven o'clock this morning. How the company approached
(08:06):
now is to take away you're There's a fellow named
Tyler Hassen's a Texas energy company executive. He dropped everything
to join DOGE because he feels it's his patriotic duty.
He was running five businesses in Houston. He was on
Fox recently. He's working with Elon. Now. Somebody knows Tyler Hassen.
I want to interview him. It's a great story. Somebody helped.
Somebody connect me. Email me that you can connect you
(08:26):
with Tyler Hassen.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
Up on South three Hill, I can see the city light.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Wind.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Often get emails from people who will say things like
I don't understand these tariffs but or I only have
a ged but or I didn't do well in school,
or I'm not smart. That one upsets me, and it
(09:25):
upsets me because I'm worried that people are going through
life believing that our listeners. If you view yourself as
not being smart and you listen to our show, that's
partly my fault. I have failed, not just you and
everyone around you. When my kids were in elementary school,
(09:48):
if there was a kid who came top of the class,
invariably an Indian every year, even as we change schools,
they'd say, you know, Kesh is smart. No, on what
basis is a Kesh smart? Well, he got the top score.
So if so, let's say Michael or Crockett, So what
(10:09):
did you get on your test ninety seven? Was that
the highest grade? No, was the highest grade hundred? Who
got one hundred? A Kesh, Well, then you get it.
A Kesh is smart. Smart is a reference to what
you're born with. It is not a function of your output.
(10:30):
Going back to the Tom Brady interview I told you
about this weekend, he talked about the skill set and
profile of a top performing athlete, not just a quarterback
in talent wasn't even in the mix. What you're born
with is responsible for some percentage, and whether it's sports, academics, entrepreneurism,
(10:52):
chemical engineering, I mean they're probably I know there are
studies on performance, and those studies will tell you that
some percentage of that is what you're born with. That
is true, but it's certainly not the dominant percentage. It
is a function of what you do with that, your perseverance.
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And I have found perseverance to be probably the single
most important aspect of a successful business person. The ability
to recreate, willingness to get up donno mcclerkinstyle when you
get knocked down. Let's take Bill Clinton, not a guy
we like, bad politics. It's comeback all the above Bill Clinton,
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going back to nineteen seventy six. Nineteen seventy six, he
is elected attorney general of Arkansas. A bit of an upset.
I believe it's nineteen seventy eight. He gets elected governor
of Arkansas. He's in for two years, and he imposes
(12:02):
a tax. He's trying to raise money. He doesn't want
to raise taxes, so he implements an inspection sticker scam
and you had to pay. And it became a hassle
for people something they didn't have to do before. Now
they have to do it. And there was a guy
named Frank I forget his name is Republican who runs
against him on the basis that this guy is just
(12:23):
trying to make your money and government is hassling you,
and he beats Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton spends the next
two years famously there's a guy named Moranis who wrote
a book about this called First in His Class. He's
jogging around Little Rock every morning and people are going, oh, no,
there's the former governor. He can't let it go. And
for two years he's talking to people about what he
(12:43):
did wrong. And he comes back in eighty two and
he gets elected, and he will get elected all the
way through nineteen ninety two when he's elected president. Fast
forward a few years, he's having the bimbo eruptions, as
his wife Hillary called them. Well, Didie Myers gave the statement,
(13:05):
but she said that Hillary called a bibo eruptions because
Hillary's idea is any woman who would sleep with her
husband is not as smart as Hillary, is not accomplished
as Hillary is. They are a bimbo. So she cares
about all women, except she doesn't. She cares about herself
(13:26):
and those around her. Those women who just like her
are trying to claw to the top. But you're not
smart and accomplished like her, even if your husband would
rather have sex with you than her. Clinton is set
to run for president in eighty eight. Reagan is at
the end of his two years. George H. W. Bush
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is not nearly as popular as Reagan is. There's a
crowded field in the Democrat set. Gary Hart is there,
Michael Ducacus, Joe Biden. But Clinton's going to be a
strong candidate. There's no doubt about that. Charismatic. He's got
Southern charm. I mean, you can say he doesn't. But
the guy has a talent set in the political world,
(14:08):
and he's made a lot of powerful friends. But there's
a bad bembo eruption. So they are in the conference.
They are in the back of the hotel convention center
where he's going to go out and announce. There are balloons,
it is festooned with Clinton for President eighty eight. There's
staff there, there's everybody there. But they've had a bad
(14:30):
bembo eruption, bad one, and the decision is made, much
to his chagrin, by Hillary, we can't do this. It
will not only will you not win, he'll destroy you.
We're going to spend four years. We're gonna put this
in the rearview mirror. We're gonna put some time in
between it and you can run in ninety two. And
(14:51):
that's what happened. This is a guy who, as much
as we don't like him, gets back up twenty twenty
elections stolen from him. In twenty twenty, Donald Trump was
seventy four years old. Seventy four years old. There are
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people in the assisted living center with my dad younger
than that. He had an election stolen from him. Then
they dragged him through the courts. Courts, they raided his
wife's penny drawer. Fat Fanny and hot Dog Nathan were
carrying on an affair and trying to put him in prison.
Jack Smith was a special prosecutor that they brought in
(15:35):
and schemed up. You had the State of New York
imposing a four hundred million dollar cash call. Who has that?
You had the judge whose daughter is getting all this
money from these NGOs, as is very common with these
with these judges that are doing this, That's why they
forum shop, That's why they'll get those judges. They're coming
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after him in every way, shaping for him. They're causing
a living hell for him. He keeps getting back up
if there is a skill set. When Michael Jordan came
into the league, those first few years, they were beating him.
The pistols were beating him up so bad, so he
decided I got to go in the weight room. I
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got to learn to take hits every time I score.
I got to learn to pay through play through pain.
I got to learn to pass more. I gotta make
my teammates better. I can't win this on my own.
Those that skill set. If we could just teach our
kids that skill set, being born smart or talented overrate radio,
the Michael Barry Show, Well but we we.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
But we.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Score. Sne is just a sin. But we couldn't stay there.
And God say, now o my busy head back ye
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back up? Oh my name?
Speaker 5 (17:22):
If we get back up again, reaks, but.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
He can't still leave that. There's a say of righteousness exited.
Oh say week if we get back up the bay.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
We falled out sometime, but we get back up again.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
We just want to leave that, all right. I know
we have some calls from Ray and Teresa ask him
to hold. I want to get into terrace because I'm
getting a lot of questions. And April second is the
day the tariffs are scheduled to go into effect. I
would not be surprised to see those tariffs delayed again,
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because particularly Canada and Mexico at twenty five percent apiece
and China at ten percent are it could collapse their economy.
It could. America can survive without Mexico, Canada, and yes,
even China, they cannot survive without us. The Trump administration
(18:38):
has been willing to say something that no president in
my lifetime has been able to has been willing to say,
and that is America's pre eminence. Our world dominance is
our internal consumer market. If we turn our market off
to a country, we can break them. The blockade with Cuba,
(19:05):
we were the primary consumer of Cuban cigars. And when
the blockade occurred under Kennedy imposed on Castro, it it well.
There were two things happened. Castro's nationalization of the casinos.
The casinos were where Americans primarily went to play ninety
(19:28):
days in a world away the casinos of Cuba, and
the American mafia was making a fortune running those casinos
and basically running Cuba. The revolution was not against Bautista,
it was against American dominance or mafia dominance of the
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of the casinos and industry in Cuba. There were a
lot of Americans tossed out of there that were very
rich off of Cuba, and I have no problem with that.
The blockade aid against Cuba forced them to develop better
relations with their long time legacy brothers in Spain. But
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it's not the same market. It's a lot further transportation costs.
There were a lot of things at play. Closing off
our market to the rest of the world has the
effect of getting their attention. A tariff you learned about tariffs,
you might remember the term from when you were in school.
Is a duty or a custom duty. It is a tax.
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So think of it this way. If Mexico sends a
product into the United States for one hundred dollars and
a twenty five percent tariff is slapped on that, that
company must pay to our excise board twenty five dollars.
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So if they sold that to the American importer, who's
usually a wholesaler of one form or another, whatever the
product is, they were selling it to him for one
hundred dollars a bushel. Now it's one hundred and twenty five. Well,
it may be the case that that importer paid one
hundred dollars a bushel, but he could get the same
(21:19):
bushel because it costs more to get it here from
El Salvador and Bouquetle really wants to get their products
in the United States, he's opened his prisons to the
gang bangers. We've sent down there, and El Salvador can
send it up here, but it would cost one hundred
and ten. So Mexico was able to undercut one hundred
and ten to one hundred dollars shorter transportation costs, maybe
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more mechanized labor. Well, the importer now says, if I
got to pay one hundred and twenty five for that,
I can get it over here for one hundred because
American consumers are very price conscious, and in fact, American
consumers love to be conscious even when they don't need
to be, even when they could afford not to, because
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it is considered distasteful to be to disregard cost. The
only people who do that are making a show of
their opulence by, for instance, making it rain with the cash,
peeling off cash, driving the ridiculous vehicles. Well, if you
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look at the community who does that most, it's athletes
and rappers. And it's largely athletes and rappers who grew
up poor black kids, single mom, section eight housing, not
enough food eat. Can you blame them? I finally got
some money. I want to show it. If you grew
up with money. People that grew up with money typically
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are the least ostentatious people you'll know. And it also
goes back to a French revolution mindset. We better not
lord disover the people because when the revolution comes, our
heads in the guillotine. First. People with real money never
talk about money. They do not, will not. Everybody pays
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their own way. They don't show it around, they don't
flaunt it for all the reasons above. But the American
consumer is very price conscious. So now your bushel of
fruit that you're bringing in from Mexico, the importer says,
I'm not going to pay one hundred and twenty five dollars.
I'll buy it from that guy for one hundred and ten.
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I bought it from you at one hundred. So the
Mexican company has a big decision to make. Well, how
about if we sell it to you for seventy five
and then we slap the twenty five on that actually
technically to be eighty. If you're going to put twenty
five percent on it, and that would make it a
nice round hundred because twenty we got. So we'll sell
it to you for eighty, we'll pay the tariff. Well,
(23:53):
that twenty dollars per bushel has to come out of
their profits. For some businesses, at a minimum, it's going
to cost them that much. For some businesses that will
mean they go under. You're talking about disrupting a long
term trade relationship upon which last year they built a
new factory. Well, that factory was dependent on a model
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that projected that they would not only not decrease production
that they would export into the United States, but certainly
not decrease it. They were hoping to increase it. So
that tariff becomes a very very powerful tool, this taxing authority.
So it's the tariff that he's using to say, you've
(24:41):
got to do your part on the border Canada. You
got to do your part on the border. But for
all the people very upset and the Wall Street journals
losing their mind, you must also understand that for people
who say it doesn't seem right to put a tax
on a foreign product coming into the United States, Okay,
(25:01):
Well does it seem right that they're doing it to us?
If you saw the tariffs that Canada imposes on American
exports that are imports into Canada, that nobody ever talked about,
why we tolerated this. Why would we allow other countries
to do bad things to us and not reciprocate. All
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he's asking for is reciprocal terriffs. It all starts on
Wednesday at least is supposed to talk more about this
coming up, and Ray and Teresa, U stay tuned.
Speaker 6 (25:30):
Inza jes, Well, where's the inside of my sole?
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Friend of mine said she was recently married a year
or so ago, might be two years at this point,
but she said, I want to her husband, recently retired, said,
I want to give him a day out on Galveston
Bay fishing. I need a guide who's gonna take care
of him. He's gonna really be patient, show him a
(26:15):
good time. I want to spoil him. He deserves this.
Do you know someone, and I said, as luck would
have it, I do. Remember our old friend Matt Parrish,
singer songwriter of Market Junction fame. That's what he's doing now, Well,
that's what he's doing with part of his time. The
(26:37):
other part of his time is he's filming himself doing
that and posting videos about it constantly. But good on him.
You know, there's something I have a kind of a
romantic notion of the one man show. You know, if
I go into a little bakery and it's tiny, they
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got two inner square feet in the strips her and
there's a woman there and she's got an apron on
and her she's got burned scars on her hands and arms,
which means she didn't get, you know, a big retirement package.
You her husband made a bunch of money and she
wanted on a bakery. This woman's a baker, like a
legit real base. She's got the battle scars to prove it,
(27:19):
and she's she's got in the glass case in between
you and her. She's got what's left for the day.
Because the difficulty of the baking business is inventory management.
You know that the vaguar reason supplying demand demand varies daily,
and that you know that scone You say, Sconeer's gone, okay,
(27:43):
just checking listen, appointment me repeat. Nobody cares how you say?
Nobody thinks? Oh I bet Ramon would know. I've always
wondered how to say that Ramone would know. I just
scurious myself. No, I'm not saying it. You said how
you want to say it, but I'm not repeating it.
You get your own show and then you can say
how you want to say it. So anyway, as I
was saying before, I was so rudely interrupted, that's gone,
(28:03):
which may or may not be hormone says it might
be worth two dollars. I don't know what this con
goes for today, but it might be worth two dollars
at eight o'clock this morning. But if the shop closes
at five o'clock at about four forty five, it's worth
nothing because it's going to be thrown out. So you
(28:24):
know she's there. She's hoping to sell everything on the
front end at the top profit trys to try to
make it. I love to see a one man show
the idea of because most people a bunch o'clock. Most
people get paid by someone else. You have good days,
you have bad days. Most people think they're worth more
than the company is paying them. But people tend to
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discount all of the reasons. You went to work for
somebody in the first place. Could have started on your own.
Could have been a fishing guide. You could have been
a tennis instructor, could have been a tutor, could have
been any number it could have been a housekeeper. You
went to work because it was an easy way out.
And there's nothing wrong with that. It was easier to
go to work somewhere else. And then once you're there,
you're like, I should get paid more moneyany's making money,
(29:05):
I should be paid more money. Leave start your own business.
But I have this kind of romantic notion of the
person who has to get out there and get it.
And when you're selling your time. The funny thing is
about when you're selling your time is you can't scale up.
You've only got so much time. So then you decide
to do you add another person, Because if all you've
(29:27):
ever been is an employee, you have no idea what
a hassle having employees is, what an absolute hassle employees are.
That's why I'm glad we have Chad because he never
causes any problems. I got Jim Mudd moving new houses.
I got Darryl Kunda hadn't been here but for ten minutes,
(29:48):
so we're still figuring out what he can do. I
got Ramon, y'all know my trials and tribulations with regard
to him. And then there's Chad ever a problem. But
there's old Matt Parrish. He is he's doing the fishing
guid thing, and I mean, he's got about how many
twelve kids. He's got more kids. He's got a set
of twins. He might have multiple twins. I don't want.
(30:09):
He got a bunch of kids. And he's out there
humping on the bay doing doing you know what I
asked him, I said, do you is it work when
you're out there doing that or is it fun? Because
I know you love to fish, because he's always loaded
to fish. He said, it's still fun. I'll let you
know when it's not. And I thought that's pretty good.
(30:32):
He's also still in the friends and family face. Eventually,
you're gonna take Scott Kutac out as buddies and you'
all gonna be fishing. He's gonna let me, let me
help you my business. And Scott's going to tell you
about this guy that he knows who's looking for a
guy like I'm doing with Sandy. And then that guy's
gonna go out and have a good time, and that
guy's going to tell somebody's going to tell somebody's gonna
stay somewhere down the line, you're gonna get that guy
who's an ass. And there are certain people who cannot
(30:57):
help themselves. If you are the service provide whether you're
the waiter at their table, the bartender behind the bar,
the guy who cuts their grass. They like to abuse
other people make them feel good about their own life.
Speaker 6 (31:07):
Right.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
The dog that gets kicked all the time can still
chase the cat. And the question will be at the
end of that day, do you still love it? And
if you don't know how to reach Matt Parish and
you want a good Galveston Bay guide, you can always
email me. I guess I give out a cell phone number?
Should I give out? It's it's the business number two
(31:29):
is nine seven nine. Don't call his text because he
might be out on the water nine seven nine five
nine five thirty four eighty five, and just say yeah,
I need a fishing guide nine seven nine five nine
five thirty four eighty five nine seven nine five nine
five thirty four eighty five. Or you can email me
through the website Michael Berryshow dot com and I will
forward you to young Matt Parrish. Of course, you know
(31:51):
how that works. You know, he probably spent so much
money buying a new boat and new equipment that he
won't make any money for three years. That's how that works, right,
Because when you're insecure about starting your business. You spend
money on the business because you feel good about it.
Chance does this, Well, we had a very profitable month
last month. Please God tell me you're not about to
try to buy a new equipment. Well, I have to
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have this new camera. Okay, Well, there goes our profit
last month, because he's just constantly wanting to his credit.
You know, I've been there. When you're starting a business,
you're insecure on you. Once you're in it in a
while and you're really good at it. You don't need
to buy a new equipment. You don't need to buy
new business cards, you don't need to redo your graphic.
Just do what you do well, and people will come
(32:33):
to you and you will thrive. The less you spend
the more. Oh Russell Labarro had a great email he
sent to their employees about that issue. Let me just
go to Teresa real quick. Is that Teresa or Teressa?
Speaker 4 (32:45):
It's Teresa.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Okay, Well why did he spell at T E R
E S SA. The double S makes a soft E
short E. That's right, Okay, go ahead.
Speaker 4 (32:55):
So I wanted to call about your basically your nature
nurture conversation you were having earlier and I have an
adopted brother. He was my aunt's son and she died
from breast cancer when he was seven years old, and
my parents adopted him because they had promised her they would. Now,
my dad was a class A machinist toolmaker, and so
(33:20):
Alan grew up with my dad mentoring him his whole life,
teaching him how to work on cars, teaching him things. Well,
there was a brief period of Alan's life where he
was well, let's just say, till he got into his thirties,
he was sewing crazy oats. But Alan eventually matured and
(33:43):
grew up, and now he's a wonderful electrician and air
conditioning prepared gentleman in Huntsville, Texas.
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