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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
The Michael Very Show is on the air live Robert Television.
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Stay at Hollywood Haven Knew everybody, No you know, I mean, come.
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And listen to the story about a man named.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Jad Or up near badly kept. His family said, just
a good old boy, never meaning no home. It's all
you never saw me in trouble where the lone sense
of tavy was born.
Speaker 5 (00:41):
Welcome by your dreams were your ticket?
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Welcome by? I say this cause for action. And now
in the bus I'm meting on the air in Cincinnati,
Naty W G k.
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R Boy Millow play.
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Songs, my neighbor, parade guys right cash, we're hotted maids.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
How you learn this? Here is Shirley Ce licking honey.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
So I don't know what I was thinking yesterday I
got in the car with Old Vanivva. Old ignorant asked
she want to drive down all the way downtown and
go shopping down there. And she ain't had narrow dollar
in her hand. She said, you don't need a girl,
She said, we're just gonna window shopping. So me and
her get in hold bruised up looking nineteen seventy seven,
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grimlin Ooh that's the ugly car. Oh lord, I was
hoping nobody will see me. I have my wig pulled
down all over my face. And she gonna get up
there park sideways, talking about this is how you parallel park.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Half of the car was hanging on the.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Curb, the other hands was hanging in the road.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
And she ain't know what she's during. I said, girl,
we're gonna get a ticket for the.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Show down here.
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And there was one of the meters on that where
you put the dollars in or the quarters or whatever.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
You put the one with the white man picture on
there and pull a thing and it stayed you can
park there. Because she ain't had no money, so she
gonna pull a button off her blouse and stick it
in there. I said, girl, that's ignorant, I said, you who,
that's gonna food? She said, work ever time. So hear
me and her goal strutting down Main Street and off
a beautiful hats on this hot day, going in and
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after TG and wide looking at pencils, and then we
go into the Jewelis store and we shot act like
we could spend some money up in there, talking about
oh like the one with all the diamonds on it
one hundred. The men's were looking at us, talking about
y'all show y'all need to be up in here.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
I didn't appreciate their attitudes. So finally we decided we're
gonna go have lunch.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
And we sat down in this very plush, a nice boutique,
and we asked the man could we see a menu?
And then he gonna fruit him waiter, gonna talk about
h my name is something, and this is what we
have on special, and you can have the braive sort
fish or this other tuna nasty. I said, look, I
want me a grape soda water in the moon pie.
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He said, we don't have that.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
I said, what is my food?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Keep hunting money?
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Not good enough for y'all. Oh, he got mad thing
to call the.
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Police for me and her decide we better run on
out of there, and damn it, the car.
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Was towed away.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
You know. We had to walk back seven miles to
the country. Ooh, my feets was hurting. Now y'all see
why I'm in a bad mood. Huh. Oh, lord, you
tell your mama if I keep up butt downtown too.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
This weekend. Think about something in your life that come
to think of it is an unnecessary obstacle to have
to happiness for other people. It's an unnecessary waste of time,
It's an unnecessary step, process, cost, requirement, duty, errand that
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if it wasn't done, nobody would notice. Give people back
their life and their freedom. Most people don't even know
how unfree they really are. So I'll start with you, ladies,
because I pick on you a lot, because I love you,
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Because if I'm being completely honest, I I think women
mothers have more to do with the happiness, healthfulness, health
good health, the happiness healthfulness. I just stuck healthfulness instead
of wellness because the age worked well. Happiness, healthfulness, success
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of a household. I think the woman or mother has
the most impact on that. So that's why I pick
on you so much. That is, those to whom much
is given, much is expected. Or what did Uncle Ben's
say to Spider Man? With great power comes great responsibility.
And I truly believe women have that. A lot of
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women don't realize that. I am often quoted in my
household as saying I'm the head of household. My wife
smarter than me, a better athlete than me, better personality
than me, happier than me, more accomplished than me, will say.
If you have to say that, ask yourself why you
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have to keep saying that. And then I sort of
go over in the corner and feel stupid because I'm
being used on being silly. But I do like to
say it because I think it sounds good, and it
sounds old fashioned, and I like the sound of it,
you know. So anyway, I want you to think about
something you can do to improve the life of people
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around you that's a minor thing. He might not have
to announce it. So for instance, let's say, ladies, you
send your husband on an errand, and you've gotten in
the habit of sending him on this errand what if
you didn't send him on an errand what if the
thing you make him do that he it has to
be something he doesn't want to do because he enjoys
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doing it at no point in taking it away. Sometimes
we do things that we actually enjoy doing. What if
it's weeding the garden. What if we weeded half is
often when it make a big difference. Well, we might
have a few strands of grass in there, but we
haven't had anybody over in fifteen years. Who's going to
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see him. What if we gave him back that time
to I don't know, watch football. There's no football. On
the other there is. It's called YouTube. I go back
and watch football all the time. Fellas, what is something
that you have put as an impediment? What if you
say to Mama tonight or tomorrow, Hey, instead of you
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cooking every night, let's take one night, if you do
one another, let me take you somewhere nice and I
want you to pick it. She won't be able to,
so you pick it. You kind of ease her into that,
You give her where you want to go. You guide
her on that, you steer. It's called steering. You steer
her into that, and you tell her that this is
for her. And that means that all those hours that
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she was going to be spending cutting up Vesse wasn't
doing all that and dragging you into the process, she
won't have to do.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Now.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Now, this is where it gets complicated, because some people,
if they're honest, actually enjoy that. If you take that away,
that takes away the meaning of life for them. Michael
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Barry Show, you.
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Feel like fans has really come to a burning current
at my church down here, Matt Hoole, the aut checking
bapt Design Church to guard in Christ they find the high.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
This new woman passed us.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
It took a year and a half for the credential
committee to check out the lady paperwork.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
They come asking me, was this a Bible college you
had went to? And she would get up there and
double talk about.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
Sally's brothers and onlineeness and historically online black minister colleges
and things, and I feel like she was bamboosting us.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
But we couldn't get nobody else cheapen. She said.
Speaker 5 (08:59):
She worked for food stamps in a free house. So
the men went out there and put some slow boat
down in this shed and stuck a one thousand boat
air conditioning up in there and made a turlet, and
she seemed perfectly okay with that. I was surprised she
really took to it okay, because that was until I
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found out she was running drugs at the back of it,
she said. But then got the damn newsletter in the
mail today, and I hate this, it says Manda, her
attendance to send it. I don't let nobody telling me
what to do outside of a prison environment. I don't
care for that I'm not going to church in no
arne jumpsuit hatting, and I ain't.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Wearing a hat this year. Eas to do not mean
about hats. I'm gonna be honest with you.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
I could see Beverly Budweine fingerprints all behind this, because
she's on the Leadership Action Committee.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
And this is the kind of exactly the.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
Kind of Shenaniga she pulled when she wanted to be
controlling and everything.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
And I just I don't know.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
I'm gonna take a nerve care. I'll go down there
and see what happened. I'll let you i' out praise
the Lord. It's not my church is for his glory. Amen,
don't field.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Good waste time. Lord, I've come.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Too far.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
To where I started from.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
You told me.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
That's a Lord. Well, I don't believe to bring me
this fall. The human experience is a human experiment, ongoing
at all times to improve life and whatever that might mean.
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It means extending life. That's the medical discoveries. That's the
health and wellness. It means understanding why we're on this earth.
That's the spiritual and religious. It means satisfying our urges,
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our whims, our desires, that's commerce. It means perpetuating the species.
That's marriage, children, education, and in that process. Long before
we had governments, it's just you know, you and your
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girl in a in a tent. You all had a
baby and you raised him up before we came in,
before we joined together to make a pact to defend
ourselves against the people who live on the other side
of the mountain or down in the valley or up
on the hill. Before all of that, we wanted to
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improve things. We want to improve our gardens so that
we had a more bountiful harvest. We wanted to improve
our processes for making bread and in that process making beer.
We wanted to live longer, so we experimented with different foods.
We experimented with different drink We experimented with different applications
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for the treatment of a broken bone or an open wound.
And we failed. We failed mightily. You don't know all
the various ways we failed. You know, leeches, it's one
of those great examples. But most of it's not written about.
We just we know about pasteurization and homogenization and the
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people who did it penicillin. What we don't know. It's
not often written about and we don't reduce it to
memory is all the failures that occurred. But in that pursuit,
this is what differentiates us from the rest of the species.
In that pursuit we built upon. As Isaac Newton said,
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if I have seen further is by standing on the
shoulders of giants. He understood that his scientific discoveries would
not have occurred but for the fact that there were
developments ahead of him. And every great scientist understood that. Archimedes, Hippocrates,
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all of them understood that there had to be advances
and somewhere along the way. And this is what most
of talk radio focus is almost exclusively upon. We decided
that we would create rules, and every society does that differently.
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In fact, there are more sort of anarchic societies, less structural,
less hierarchical societies. Western civilization tends to be a touch
more structured, particularly the German English side, the Romantic people,
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the French, the Italians, the Spanish Portuguese tend to be
a touch less about the structure of government and the organization.
And you know, the Calvinist Christians tend to be more
structured and more consequence oriented than the Catholics. But throughout
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all of this, this blend of who we became, I'll
stick to Americans for a moment. We decided that we
would make rules because there would be conflicts. We would
make rules for how to handle that. A couple would
get together and have a child and she would decide
she didn't want to be with him for whatever reason
he liked a girl across the way, and who would
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get to keep the tent and who would raise the child,
and who would keep the ground that had been planted
and worked for ten years, And so we'd have a
system for that. And we decided that we could. We could.
Life would be easier if we had a paved road
of some sort of cobblestone that we could go and
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get the water. So we'd have to decide who paid
how much and who who would how we would let
the contract for the road, and so we would make
rules for that. We'd have rule makers, but we'd choose them,
and we'd be able to kick them out if we
didn't like what they were doing. And that's how we
ought to be approaching the political process, not this identity.
Nonsenseles reminding you if you burned your neighbors house down,
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it doesn't make your house look any better. Thanks for
listening to the Michael Berry shows. I've had an article
about a company that sold retail product and over ninety
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percent of those purchases that were made it's a big
ticket item, were financed and it was sixty five pages
of documents to fill out to get approval to finance.
And so the owner said, why so many pages, And
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they said, well, it's mostly legal documents. Have you read them?
And it turned out nobody actually read the documents, And
so he said, how many steps to order a Domino's pizza?
Was seven steps? Boom boom boom. You could order a
Domino's pizza very little, as in the business world, you said,
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very little friction. Time it takes to go from ordering
a pizza from sorry, from wanting a pizza to having
a pizza in the process of being made and delivered
was seven steps. Could be done in a little more
than one minute. The longer it took Dominoes learned to
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order the pizza, the less likely you would do it.
First of all, if you knew it was a long process,
because it had been a long process the last time
you did. Ah more hassle was worth I'm not going
to do it. But even if you didn't remember the
friction that was involved the last time, and all you
did was start through the process, and you're going, well,
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this is a hassle, forget it. I just I'd make
myself a sandwich. And that's what people do. Well, one
person doing that, it's not going to bankrupt Domino's Pizza,
but enough people doing it would. So they figured out,
we're going to make this easy. Do you realize how
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many people worked at Dominoes that had never given any
thought to how easy we should make this? Why? Because
they're evil? No, nobody's really doing anything like this. Because
they're evil. They never considered whether the consumer had a
difficult process or not. Never even cross their mind. They
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showed up and did their job, and in their minds
they got job satisfaction had of showing them up and
doing their job. And what was their job to show
up on time? That's the first thing. The time they
were told to be there. They arrived at that time.
So they've already accomplished something. They showed up when they
were supposed to do. Now that didn't really help you,
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you could argue downstream, it does because they're there to
make your pizza. But okay, not really a high bar.
We're not talking about necessarily the most motivated employee either.
They showed up on time and they did what they
were told, but they were never actually told to satisfy customers.
They're told to make pizzas when the order comes in.
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That's what they have to do. They have to make
pizzas till they get to stop making pizza because the
shift is over. Now. It never crosses their mind that
they're making pizza for what we'll call for the purposes
of this discussion, a customer, and that without a customer
ordering the pizza, there's no need to make the pizza.
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It's not make ready, it's not make work. It's not
prison where you bust in rocks. You're making pizza because
someone ordered a pizza. What if someone said to the
person making the pizza, all right, here's we're gonna do it.
We're gonna teach you how to make pizza. Not that hard,
just a few elements. We're gonna teach you to make
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it fast. But what we want you to really do
is focus on one thing, make the customer happy. So
if a customer comes in and says Hey, if y'all
haven't finished that pizza, is there any way you could?
You could put sausages on top. I'll pay for it. Yeah, yeah,
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I could do that. But what is most employee and
what are most employees going to do? Find a reason
not to because now it's a battle between me the
employee and you, or they'll find some reason they can't
do it. How many times have you've been to a
government office or a hospital, or a school or an airport?
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Could you just could you just do this? Why not?
We're not allowed to? Why was that rule written? No idea? Sorry,
I can't help you. Okay, that's the rule. Really really
sorry to say this, really really dumb. People stick to
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rules because they can understand a rule. They don't understand
why the rule was written or what the intended purpose
of the rule is. But they can remember the rule
Lotner at four o'clock, that's all. They don't have high
skill set application to this problem. Maybe the rule. I
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give you an example. So I told you earlier that
my bank was brought out by another bank, and so
all of a sudden, we keep getting our accounts flagged.
So my sons get an allowance put into their bank account,
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and they have to manage their money and everything they do.
If they get a gift from someone that goes into
the account. At the end of the month, we go
over expenses and we talked through finances. I think these
are important things, talk about sex, finances, career, behavior's health.
These are things that you can't leave the world to
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teach your children about. You have to have these tough
discussions and you don't have to be an expert. You
know more than your kids. It also gives you a
chance to see where their head is. But anyway, so
my son is on the other line and he's traveling
and he's in a foreign country and his card gets
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flagged and he can't use it his bank card. So
I get the lady on and no, no, no, your
son has to be on. Well, I'm the primary account holder.
I set it up. It's under my social can't do that.
Got to have this other person, my son, my eighteen
year old kid. Got my eighteen year old kid instead
of me. I'm fifty five. The accounts say, yeah, that's
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the rule, okay, all right, rule follower, all right. So
instead of making me happy, well, they had flagged it
because there were a lot of expenses. It's my money,
and I've never protested a false expense on my account.
She wanted to go through and read every expense and
have him say, Yep, I made that expense. YEP made
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that expense. Two dollars for a diet coke, YEP made
the So we're about ten through this and I got
him on the other line, and I'm having to have
both of them on speakerphone. But the new iPhones have
a setting where it doesn't pick up ambient noise, so
because they're not speaking directly, it's the conversation is is
rough and he's in a bad sales zone. And I said, ma'am,
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you can put it in the file. We're not going
to protest any expenses. We've never protested an expense ever,
he's telling you. And she said no. I said, how
many more expenses do you have for this month? Because
we're at like the fifth day, twenty five, I mean,
it was every candy bar. I said, no, we're not
doing that. We're not doing unflagged. She was not able
to make the decision. So the customer's not happy. I'm
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going to change banks. She didn't make anybody happy, but
in her mind. She didn't do anything wrong because guess
what she did. She followed the stupid rules which was
designed to protect me. Michael Show conjunction junction, how's that function?
I received an email, gentlemen, I don't know, which is
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typical zero point nine percent of people who email me.
I don't know anybody can email me. I read every
single email. Emily, my assistant, does read the emails as well.
After she's read it, she reads them along with me
on her phone in case theories say I took care
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of that, you don't need to worry about it. But
I read every email. And so that might be somebody
I went first grade with reconnecting with me. It might
be somebody I met when I was speaking in an
event in Miami, Florida, or New York or Portland or LA.
And it might be somebody a story for me to read,
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an article, for me to read an opinion on something
I said that I was right or I was wrong
based on their experience or their expertise or their analysis.
This one was an email from a fellow who knows
that I speak for and believe deeply in Camp Hope,
which is run by the PTSD Foundation of America sounds
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so formal, but it's not so formal. Camp Hope is
the facility PTSD Foundation of America is the document that's
filed with the government that says it's a nonprofit. But
Camp Hope is where the rubber hits wrote. And that
is a couple of a few buildings. I have five
or six now actually maybe more than that now where
people live in worship in go to meetings all day
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who are combat veterans suffering from PTSD post traumatic stress disorder.
Almost every person who comes in the door is someone
who has attempted suicide at least once, someone who is terribly, horribly,
uncontrollably addicted I guess that's repetitive, often to multiple drugs, alcohol, heroin.
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Those are the big ones, and they can't figure out
how to get out of this loop. They came back
wounded by war physically at a minimum, usually mentally on
a deep level. And the way that works is they
come back from Iraq and their mom and dad are
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very excited. This is a story that happens a lot,
and so they tell mom and dad and go to
be back. You know, we arrive back, you know, next Wednesday.
All right, So they come rolling in and mom and
dad surprise them and all their buddies from high school.
You know, they've been gone for three years. All their
buddies from high school are there, surprise. But what and
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Dad and the friends don't know is that he hasn't
slept in forty eight hours because the checkout system, the
I don't know deep platform and there's a term for it.
I don't know it. I'm not a veteran. I don't
try to tell you I am. But that process is stressful,
and it's it's laborious. It's the government against what we've
been talking about all night. It's a mess to go through.
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It's a bunch of stupid rules from people who waste
time of other people. And they've had to travel, if
they're coming from a war zone, they've had to travel
and wait and travel and wait and travel and wait.
And you can't sleep anywhere. So you've been sitting up,
you know, back against the wall with your bags and
you just want to get home. You just want to
get home. And then the closer and closer you get,
you want to get home and sleep in your own bed.
You're happy to give mom a hug, maybe even eat
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a quick bite of mom's home cooking and go to sleep.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
But but.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
That's not Nobody knows you've been through this last forty
eight hours of what you've gone through, and you haven't slept,
and you're in a really, really bad movie about it.
And they mean well, and so you rally. You get
home and everyone's surprised, and your mom is so proud,
bless her heart, she's the sweetest lady ever. She means, well,
she's got a cake and she's gone to all this
trouble to invite all your old friends and they've all
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come in, and my god, you're a hero. And they
tell you you're a hero. And right now you feel
like you just want to go to sleep, And so
you go into your bedroom and you close the door
and you lay down. Hopefully they'll leave you alone. At
least least you can get twenty minutes. You haven't slept
in forty eight hours. You're at your wits end, and
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war messed you up to start with. And Mom comes
in and she says, baby, what.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
Are you doing.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Everybody's out there waiting on you. Come on, come out here,
join the party. She doesn't understand, And at some point
you snap atter, you say something you shouldn't say, because
you've been in war, you've been talking rough, you've been
hanging out with guys. You've seen bullets fly, you've seen
people killed. Maybe you slap her in the face or
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you push her. Dad comes in. What the hell have
you done? You're not a hero anymore. Right now he's
mad at you, So Dad squares off with you. Before
you know it, you punch dad. Mom calls the cops.
This thing just spiraled. You're in jail. Everybody goes home.
This didn't end up the way was supposed to. Whose
fault is it? Who knows? It's just happened, and it
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happens in this form or another. Your girlfriend is there,
maybe your wife. You wake up in the middle of
the night and you punch her because you're having a nightmare.
You didn't mean to punch her, But now she's got
a black eye and people want to know why. The
kids are upset. She decides she can't do this. She's
going back to live with her parents. And now you've
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lost your wife, you've lost your kids. You've spiral out
of control, and now you start drinking a lot. It
turns out you can't show up to work because your
mind's not in a good spot. Now you've lost your wife,
your house, your kids, you step from your life. You're
disjoining and nothing makes sense. And you're standing at the
ten items or less line at the grocery store and
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somebody is losing their mind that somebody else in front
of you has eleven items, that you're not standing here,
what does it matter? Or you're not standing here and
they're fighting over this, and you're thinking, I've been watching
people get killed in the desert thousands of miles away,
and y'all are arguing over whether eleven items is too many,
and you lose your mind and life is not worth living,
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so you want to take your own life. What Camp
Hope is is a place where veterans help veterans. It's
a free phone call, it's a free service, it's a
free place to live, it's free food, it's free counseling
veterans helping veterans. And I've been involved with them for
fourteen years. How long they've been open, sorry, thirteen years.
And it's a wonderful, wonderful cause, and all the money
goes to the Veterans Helping Veterans facility. There's not a
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bunch of overhead. It has a great rating anyway. By
the way, if you're a veteran who needs help eight
seven seven seven one seven PTSD, wherever you are in America,
it's in Houston. We'll get you to Houston and we'll
get your help, and you'll live there for six months
and you'll come out and you'll be able to make
sense of the world again. Eight seven seven seven one
seven PTSD. But here's the point. God sends me an
email and he says, Hey, you're always talking about Camp
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Hope and how it saves people's lives, and I'm grateful
it's there. And I'm a veteran, and I've got a
buddy who's a veteran, and this is for his mom.
She's not a veteran. My buddy's brother committed suicide, but
first he killed his dad. So my buddy's mother lost
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her son and her husband at the same time when
he had a meltdown after he came back from war
from PTSD. So now she needs help, but there's no
place to get it. Can you help me? And of
course I got on it. So I spent the afternoon
putting her in touch with people. I think can hopefully
get her some help. And all I can think about
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is the dude who thought so much of his friend
and his friends that he painstakingly explained this process and
reached out to me. He didn't just go, oh, that's
unfortunate that lady's gone through a living hell, And I thought, Wow,
every day we have the opportunity to make one phone call,
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drop one email, change one life, save one life, and
it's right there in front of us. The question is
do we take it.
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
The Michael Very Show is on the air live Robert Television.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Stay at Hollywood Haven Knew everybody, No you know, I mean, come.
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And listen to the story about a man named.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Jad Or up near badly kept. His family said, just
a good old boy, never meaning no home. It's all
you never saw me in trouble where the lone sense
of tavy was born.
Speaker 5 (00:41):
Welcome by your dreams were your ticket?
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Welcome by? I say this cause for action. And now
in the bus I'm meting on the air in Cincinnati,
Naty W G k.
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R Boy Millow play.
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Songs, my neighbor, parade guys right cash, we're hotted maids.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
How you learn this? Here is Shirley Ce licking honey.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
So I don't know what I was thinking yesterday I
got in the car with Old Vanivva. Old ignorant asked
she want to drive down all the way downtown and
go shopping down there. And she ain't had narrow dollar
in her hand. She said, you don't need a girl,
She said, we're just gonna window shopping. So me and
her get in hold bruised up looking nineteen seventy seven,
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grimlin Ooh that's the ugly car. Oh lord, I was
hoping nobody will see me. I have my wig pulled
down all over my face. And she gonna get up
there park sideways, talking about this is how you parallel park.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Half of the car was hanging on the.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Curb, the other hands was hanging in the road.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
And she ain't know what she's during. I said, girl,
we're gonna get a ticket for the.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Show down here.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
And there was one of the meters on that where
you put the dollars in or the quarters or whatever.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
You put the one with the white man picture on
there and pull a thing and it stayed you can
park there. Because she ain't had no money, so she
gonna pull a button off her blouse and stick it
in there. I said, girl, that's ignorant, I said, you who,
that's gonna food? She said, work ever time. So hear
me and her goal strutting down Main Street and off
a beautiful hats on this hot day, going in and
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after TG and wide looking at pencils, and then we
go into the Jewelis store and we shot act like
we could spend some money up in there, talking about
oh like the one with all the diamonds on it
one hundred. The men's were looking at us, talking about
y'all show y'all need to be up in here.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
I didn't appreciate their attitudes. So finally we decided we're
gonna go have lunch.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
And we sat down in this very plush, a nice boutique,
and we asked the man could we see a menu?
And then he gonna fruit him waiter, gonna talk about
h my name is something, and this is what we
have on special, and you can have the braive sort
fish or this other tuna nasty. I said, look, I
want me a grape soda water in the moon pie.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
He said, we don't have that.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
I said, what is my food?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Keep hunting money?
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Not good enough for y'all. Oh, he got mad thing
to call the.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Police for me and her decide we better run on
out of there, and damn it, the car.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Was towed away.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
You know. We had to walk back seven miles to
the country. Ooh, my feets was hurting. Now y'all see
why I'm in a bad mood. Huh. Oh, lord, you
tell your mama if I keep up butt downtown too.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
This weekend. Think about something in your life that come
to think of it is an unnecessary obstacle to have
to happiness for other people. It's an unnecessary waste of time,
It's an unnecessary step, process, cost, requirement, duty, errand that
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if it wasn't done, nobody would notice. Give people back
their life and their freedom. Most people don't even know
how unfree they really are. So I'll start with you, ladies,
because I pick on you a lot, because I love you,
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Because if I'm being completely honest, I I think women
mothers have more to do with the happiness, healthfulness, health
good health, the happiness healthfulness. I just stuck healthfulness instead
of wellness because the age worked well. Happiness, healthfulness, success
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of a household. I think the woman or mother has
the most impact on that. So that's why I pick
on you so much. That is, those to whom much
is given, much is expected. Or what did Uncle Ben's
say to Spider Man? With great power comes great responsibility.
And I truly believe women have that. A lot of
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women don't realize that. I am often quoted in my
household as saying I'm the head of household. My wife
smarter than me, a better athlete than me, better personality
than me, happier than me, more accomplished than me, will say.
If you have to say that, ask yourself why you
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have to keep saying that. And then I sort of
go over in the corner and feel stupid because I'm
being used on being silly. But I do like to
say it because I think it sounds good, and it
sounds old fashioned, and I like the sound of it,
you know. So anyway, I want you to think about
something you can do to improve the life of people
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around you that's a minor thing. He might not have
to announce it. So for instance, let's say, ladies, you
send your husband on an errand, and you've gotten in
the habit of sending him on this errand what if
you didn't send him on an errand what if the
thing you make him do that he it has to
be something he doesn't want to do because he enjoys
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doing it at no point in taking it away. Sometimes
we do things that we actually enjoy doing. What if
it's weeding the garden. What if we weeded half is
often when it make a big difference. Well, we might
have a few strands of grass in there, but we
haven't had anybody over in fifteen years. Who's going to
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see him. What if we gave him back that time
to I don't know, watch football. There's no football. On
the other there is. It's called YouTube. I go back
and watch football all the time. Fellas, what is something
that you have put as an impediment? What if you
say to Mama tonight or tomorrow, Hey, instead of you
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cooking every night, let's take one night, if you do
one another, let me take you somewhere nice and I
want you to pick it. She won't be able to,
so you pick it. You kind of ease her into that,
You give her where you want to go. You guide
her on that, you steer. It's called steering. You steer
her into that, and you tell her that this is
for her. And that means that all those hours that
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she was going to be spending cutting up Vesse wasn't
doing all that and dragging you into the process, she
won't have to do.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Now.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Now, this is where it gets complicated, because some people,
if they're honest, actually enjoy that. If you take that away,
that takes away the meaning of life for them. Michael
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Barry Show, you.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
Feel like fans has really come to a burning current
at my church down here, Matt Hoole, the aut checking
bapt Design Church to guard in Christ they find the high.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
This new woman passed us.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
It took a year and a half for the credential
committee to check out the lady paperwork.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
They come asking me, was this a Bible college you
had went to? And she would get up there and
double talk about.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
Sally's brothers and onlineeness and historically online black minister colleges
and things, and I feel like she was bamboosting us.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
But we couldn't get nobody else cheapen. She said.
Speaker 5 (08:59):
She worked for food stamps in a free house. So
the men went out there and put some slow boat
down in this shed and stuck a one thousand boat
air conditioning up in there and made a turlet, and
she seemed perfectly okay with that. I was surprised she
really took to it okay, because that was until I
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found out she was running drugs at the back of it,
she said. But then got the damn newsletter in the
mail today, and I hate this, it says Manda, her
attendance to send it. I don't let nobody telling me
what to do outside of a prison environment. I don't
care for that I'm not going to church in no
arne jumpsuit hatting, and I ain't.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Wearing a hat this year. Eas to do not mean
about hats. I'm gonna be honest with you.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
I could see Beverly Budweine fingerprints all behind this, because
she's on the Leadership Action Committee.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
And this is the kind of exactly the.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
Kind of Shenaniga she pulled when she wanted to be
controlling and everything.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
And I just I don't know.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
I'm gonna take a nerve care. I'll go down there
and see what happened. I'll let you i' out praise
the Lord. It's not my church is for his glory. Amen,
don't field.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Good waste time. Lord, I've come.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Too far.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
To where I started from.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
You told me.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
That's a Lord. Well, I don't believe to bring me
this fall. The human experience is a human experiment, ongoing
at all times to improve life and whatever that might mean.
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It means extending life. That's the medical discoveries. That's the
health and wellness. It means understanding why we're on this earth.
That's the spiritual and religious. It means satisfying our urges,
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our whims, our desires, that's commerce. It means perpetuating the species.
That's marriage, children, education, and in that process. Long before
we had governments, it's just you know, you and your
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girl in a in a tent. You all had a
baby and you raised him up before we came in,
before we joined together to make a pact to defend
ourselves against the people who live on the other side
of the mountain or down in the valley or up
on the hill. Before all of that, we wanted to
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improve things. We want to improve our gardens so that
we had a more bountiful harvest. We wanted to improve
our processes for making bread and in that process making beer.
We wanted to live longer, so we experimented with different foods.
We experimented with different drink We experimented with different applications
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for the treatment of a broken bone or an open wound.
And we failed. We failed mightily. You don't know all
the various ways we failed. You know, leeches, it's one
of those great examples. But most of it's not written about.
We just we know about pasteurization and homogenization and the
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people who did it penicillin. What we don't know. It's
not often written about and we don't reduce it to
memory is all the failures that occurred. But in that pursuit,
this is what differentiates us from the rest of the species.
In that pursuit we built upon. As Isaac Newton said,
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if I have seen further is by standing on the
shoulders of giants. He understood that his scientific discoveries would
not have occurred but for the fact that there were
developments ahead of him. And every great scientist understood that. Archimedes, Hippocrates,
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all of them understood that there had to be advances
and somewhere along the way. And this is what most
of talk radio focus is almost exclusively upon. We decided
that we would create rules, and every society does that differently.
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In fact, there are more sort of anarchic societies, less structural,
less hierarchical societies. Western civilization tends to be a touch
more structured, particularly the German English side, the Romantic people,
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the French, the Italians, the Spanish Portuguese tend to be
a touch less about the structure of government and the organization.
And you know, the Calvinist Christians tend to be more
structured and more consequence oriented than the Catholics. But throughout
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all of this, this blend of who we became, I'll
stick to Americans for a moment. We decided that we
would make rules because there would be conflicts. We would
make rules for how to handle that. A couple would
get together and have a child and she would decide
she didn't want to be with him for whatever reason
he liked a girl across the way, and who would
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get to keep the tent and who would raise the child,
and who would keep the ground that had been planted
and worked for ten years, And so we'd have a
system for that. And we decided that we could. We could.
Life would be easier if we had a paved road
of some sort of cobblestone that we could go and
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get the water. So we'd have to decide who paid
how much and who who would how we would let
the contract for the road, and so we would make
rules for that. We'd have rule makers, but we'd choose them,
and we'd be able to kick them out if we
didn't like what they were doing. And that's how we
ought to be approaching the political process, not this identity.
Nonsenseles reminding you if you burned your neighbors house down,
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it doesn't make your house look any better. Thanks for
listening to the Michael Berry shows. I've had an article
about a company that sold retail product and over ninety
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percent of those purchases that were made it's a big
ticket item, were financed and it was sixty five pages
of documents to fill out to get approval to finance.
And so the owner said, why so many pages, And
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they said, well, it's mostly legal documents. Have you read them?
And it turned out nobody actually read the documents, And
so he said, how many steps to order a Domino's pizza?
Was seven steps? Boom boom boom. You could order a
Domino's pizza very little, as in the business world, you said,
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very little friction. Time it takes to go from ordering
a pizza from sorry, from wanting a pizza to having
a pizza in the process of being made and delivered
was seven steps. Could be done in a little more
than one minute. The longer it took Dominoes learned to
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order the pizza, the less likely you would do it.
First of all, if you knew it was a long process,
because it had been a long process the last time
you did. Ah more hassle was worth I'm not going
to do it. But even if you didn't remember the
friction that was involved the last time, and all you
did was start through the process, and you're going, well,
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this is a hassle, forget it. I just I'd make
myself a sandwich. And that's what people do. Well, one
person doing that, it's not going to bankrupt Domino's Pizza,
but enough people doing it would. So they figured out,
we're going to make this easy. Do you realize how
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many people worked at Dominoes that had never given any
thought to how easy we should make this? Why? Because
they're evil? No, nobody's really doing anything like this. Because
they're evil. They never considered whether the consumer had a
difficult process or not. Never even cross their mind. They
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showed up and did their job, and in their minds
they got job satisfaction had of showing them up and
doing their job. And what was their job to show
up on time? That's the first thing. The time they
were told to be there. They arrived at that time.
So they've already accomplished something. They showed up when they
were supposed to do. Now that didn't really help you,
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you could argue downstream, it does because they're there to
make your pizza. But okay, not really a high bar.
We're not talking about necessarily the most motivated employee either.
They showed up on time and they did what they
were told, but they were never actually told to satisfy customers.
They're told to make pizzas when the order comes in.
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That's what they have to do. They have to make
pizzas till they get to stop making pizza because the
shift is over. Now. It never crosses their mind that
they're making pizza for what we'll call for the purposes
of this discussion, a customer, and that without a customer
ordering the pizza, there's no need to make the pizza.
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It's not make ready, it's not make work. It's not
prison where you bust in rocks. You're making pizza because
someone ordered a pizza. What if someone said to the
person making the pizza, all right, here's we're gonna do it.
We're gonna teach you how to make pizza. Not that hard,
just a few elements. We're gonna teach you to make
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it fast. But what we want you to really do
is focus on one thing, make the customer happy. So
if a customer comes in and says Hey, if y'all
haven't finished that pizza, is there any way you could?
You could put sausages on top. I'll pay for it. Yeah, yeah,
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I could do that. But what is most employee and
what are most employees going to do? Find a reason
not to because now it's a battle between me the
employee and you, or they'll find some reason they can't
do it. How many times have you've been to a
government office or a hospital, or a school or an airport?
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Could you just could you just do this? Why not?
We're not allowed to? Why was that rule written? No idea? Sorry,
I can't help you. Okay, that's the rule. Really really
sorry to say this, really really dumb. People stick to
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rules because they can understand a rule. They don't understand
why the rule was written or what the intended purpose
of the rule is. But they can remember the rule
Lotner at four o'clock, that's all. They don't have high
skill set application to this problem. Maybe the rule. I
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give you an example. So I told you earlier that
my bank was brought out by another bank, and so
all of a sudden, we keep getting our accounts flagged.
So my sons get an allowance put into their bank account,
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and they have to manage their money and everything they do.
If they get a gift from someone that goes into
the account. At the end of the month, we go
over expenses and we talked through finances. I think these
are important things, talk about sex, finances, career, behavior's health.
These are things that you can't leave the world to
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teach your children about. You have to have these tough
discussions and you don't have to be an expert. You
know more than your kids. It also gives you a
chance to see where their head is. But anyway, so
my son is on the other line and he's traveling
and he's in a foreign country and his card gets
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flagged and he can't use it his bank card. So
I get the lady on and no, no, no, your
son has to be on. Well, I'm the primary account holder.
I set it up. It's under my social can't do that.
Got to have this other person, my son, my eighteen
year old kid. Got my eighteen year old kid instead
of me. I'm fifty five. The accounts say, yeah, that's
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the rule, okay, all right, rule follower, all right. So
instead of making me happy, well, they had flagged it
because there were a lot of expenses. It's my money,
and I've never protested a false expense on my account.
She wanted to go through and read every expense and
have him say, Yep, I made that expense. YEP made
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that expense. Two dollars for a diet coke, YEP made
the So we're about ten through this and I got
him on the other line, and I'm having to have
both of them on speakerphone. But the new iPhones have
a setting where it doesn't pick up ambient noise, so
because they're not speaking directly, it's the conversation is is
rough and he's in a bad sales zone. And I said, ma'am,
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you can put it in the file. We're not going
to protest any expenses. We've never protested an expense ever,
he's telling you. And she said no. I said, how
many more expenses do you have for this month? Because
we're at like the fifth day, twenty five, I mean,
it was every candy bar. I said, no, we're not
doing that. We're not doing unflagged. She was not able
to make the decision. So the customer's not happy. I'm
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going to change banks. She didn't make anybody happy, but
in her mind. She didn't do anything wrong because guess
what she did. She followed the stupid rules which was
designed to protect me. Michael Show conjunction junction, how's that function?
I received an email, gentlemen, I don't know, which is
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typical zero point nine percent of people who email me.
I don't know anybody can email me. I read every
single email. Emily, my assistant, does read the emails as well.
After she's read it, she reads them along with me
on her phone in case theories say I took care
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of that, you don't need to worry about it. But
I read every email. And so that might be somebody
I went first grade with reconnecting with me. It might
be somebody I met when I was speaking in an
event in Miami, Florida, or New York or Portland or LA.
And it might be somebody a story for me to read,
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an article, for me to read an opinion on something
I said that I was right or I was wrong
based on their experience or their expertise or their analysis.
This one was an email from a fellow who knows
that I speak for and believe deeply in Camp Hope,
which is run by the PTSD Foundation of America sounds
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so formal, but it's not so formal. Camp Hope is
the facility PTSD Foundation of America is the document that's
filed with the government that says it's a nonprofit. But
Camp Hope is where the rubber hits wrote. And that
is a couple of a few buildings. I have five
or six now actually maybe more than that now where
people live in worship in go to meetings all day
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who are combat veterans suffering from PTSD post traumatic stress disorder.
Almost every person who comes in the door is someone
who has attempted suicide at least once, someone who is terribly, horribly,
uncontrollably addicted I guess that's repetitive, often to multiple drugs, alcohol, heroin.
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Those are the big ones, and they can't figure out
how to get out of this loop. They came back
wounded by war physically at a minimum, usually mentally on
a deep level. And the way that works is they
come back from Iraq and their mom and dad are
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very excited. This is a story that happens a lot,
and so they tell mom and dad and go to
be back. You know, we arrive back, you know, next Wednesday.
All right, So they come rolling in and mom and
dad surprise them and all their buddies from high school.
You know, they've been gone for three years. All their
buddies from high school are there, surprise. But what and
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Dad and the friends don't know is that he hasn't
slept in forty eight hours because the checkout system, the
I don't know deep platform and there's a term for it.
I don't know it. I'm not a veteran. I don't
try to tell you I am. But that process is stressful,
and it's it's laborious. It's the government against what we've
been talking about all night. It's a mess to go through.
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It's a bunch of stupid rules from people who waste
time of other people. And they've had to travel, if
they're coming from a war zone, they've had to travel
and wait and travel and wait and travel and wait.
And you can't sleep anywhere. So you've been sitting up,
you know, back against the wall with your bags and
you just want to get home. You just want to
get home. And then the closer and closer you get,
you want to get home and sleep in your own bed.
You're happy to give mom a hug, maybe even eat
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a quick bite of mom's home cooking and go to sleep.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
But but.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
That's not Nobody knows you've been through this last forty
eight hours of what you've gone through, and you haven't slept,
and you're in a really, really bad movie about it.
And they mean well, and so you rally. You get
home and everyone's surprised, and your mom is so proud,
bless her heart, she's the sweetest lady ever. She means, well,
she's got a cake and she's gone to all this
trouble to invite all your old friends and they've all
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come in, and my god, you're a hero. And they
tell you you're a hero. And right now you feel
like you just want to go to sleep, And so
you go into your bedroom and you close the door
and you lay down. Hopefully they'll leave you alone. At
least least you can get twenty minutes. You haven't slept
in forty eight hours. You're at your wits end, and
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war messed you up to start with. And Mom comes
in and she says, baby, what.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
Are you doing.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Everybody's out there waiting on you. Come on, come out here,
join the party. She doesn't understand, And at some point
you snap atter, you say something you shouldn't say, because
you've been in war, you've been talking rough, you've been
hanging out with guys. You've seen bullets fly, you've seen
people killed. Maybe you slap her in the face or
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you push her. Dad comes in. What the hell have
you done? You're not a hero anymore. Right now he's
mad at you, So Dad squares off with you. Before
you know it, you punch dad. Mom calls the cops.
This thing just spiraled. You're in jail. Everybody goes home.
This didn't end up the way was supposed to. Whose
fault is it? Who knows? It's just happened, and it
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happens in this form or another. Your girlfriend is there,
maybe your wife. You wake up in the middle of
the night and you punch her because you're having a nightmare.
You didn't mean to punch her, But now she's got
a black eye and people want to know why. The
kids are upset. She decides she can't do this. She's
going back to live with her parents. And now you've
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lost your wife, you've lost your kids. You've spiral out
of control, and now you start drinking a lot. It
turns out you can't show up to work because your
mind's not in a good spot. Now you've lost your wife,
your house, your kids, you step from your life. You're
disjoining and nothing makes sense. And you're standing at the
ten items or less line at the grocery store and
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somebody is losing their mind that somebody else in front
of you has eleven items, that you're not standing here,
what does it matter? Or you're not standing here and
they're fighting over this, and you're thinking, I've been watching
people get killed in the desert thousands of miles away,
and y'all are arguing over whether eleven items is too many,
and you lose your mind and life is not worth living,
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so you want to take your own life. What Camp
Hope is is a place where veterans help veterans. It's
a free phone call, it's a free service, it's a
free place to live, it's free food, it's free counseling
veterans helping veterans. And I've been involved with them for
fourteen years. How long they've been open, sorry, thirteen years.
And it's a wonderful, wonderful cause, and all the money
goes to the Veterans Helping Veterans facility. There's not a
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bunch of overhead. It has a great rating anyway. By
the way, if you're a veteran who needs help eight
seven seven seven one seven PTSD, wherever you are in America,
it's in Houston. We'll get you to Houston and we'll
get your help, and you'll live there for six months
and you'll come out and you'll be able to make
sense of the world again. Eight seven seven seven one
seven PTSD. But here's the point. God sends me an
email and he says, Hey, you're always talking about Camp
(31:13):
Hope and how it saves people's lives, and I'm grateful
it's there. And I'm a veteran, and I've got a
buddy who's a veteran, and this is for his mom.
She's not a veteran. My buddy's brother committed suicide, but
first he killed his dad. So my buddy's mother lost
(31:34):
her son and her husband at the same time when
he had a meltdown after he came back from war
from PTSD. So now she needs help, but there's no
place to get it. Can you help me? And of
course I got on it. So I spent the afternoon
putting her in touch with people. I think can hopefully
get her some help. And all I can think about
(31:56):
is the dude who thought so much of his friend
and his friends that he painstakingly explained this process and
reached out to me. He didn't just go, oh, that's
unfortunate that lady's gone through a living hell, And I thought, Wow,
every day we have the opportunity to make one phone call,
(32:18):
drop one email, change one life, save one life, and
it's right there in front of us. The question is
do we take it.
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