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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
The Michael Verie Show is on.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
The air, so us playing the song Africa by Toto
caused a buddy mine named Lance Hoffman, who runs tri Tech.
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It's Engineering Surveying and all companies. Larry Hoffman's son. And
there is a certain sense of humor that our listeners
that are say under sixty, especially in the thirties and forties,
you know, guys that are out there just humping and
getting it all day long. And they needed these of
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the guys that trade memes, and I mean edgy memes.
I mean the kind of memes that when you get
you go ooh, I hope nobody was looking over my
shoulder when I got it, and you cringe and you laugh,
and you need that, right, Guys need that. A lot
of people don't have a sense of humor, or a
lot of folks are too polite for that, or there's
a lot of people are scared to death that they're
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going to get in trouble for laughing at the wrong thing,
because that gets people in trouble laughing at the wrong
thing anyway. So he said, I don't know if you've
heard of this. I can't say the word on the air.
It starts with an sh it has why at the end.
It has the word it in the middle plus an
extra t. It rhymes would be diddy, and it starts
with an sah. Okay, you got that. So the first
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word is the word that rhymes with diddy, and the
next word is flute. And the reason he thought of
it was because I was talking about the penny whistle,
that little flute, and basically it is taking a song.
It's crappy flute. Let's say it's taking a song and
ruining it. It's kind of like a kazoo. Maybe three
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percent of you will think it's funny. But if you
go to the guy's YouTube page, which is just that word,
let's say, crappy flute. He takes songs and ruins them,
and it's just it's glorious. If you're thinking to yourself, Michael,
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I don't see why that's funny. That's just really bad.
Then it's not your solid humor. My wife wouldn't get that.
If I made her sit down and listen to that.
She's a very literal person.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
She'd go that sounds horrible. Yeah, that's the point.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
That's the point, sweetheart.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
You know you don't get me.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
I don't get you.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
We all have different things. She likes to spend all
a Saturday under a tree painting. I don't mean painting
in a useful way. I mean painting the garden. Hey,
that's that's your thing. That's a good thing. By the way,
I was talking about show sponsors. Our newest show sponsor
is a longtime friend of mine. I've talked about him
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over the years. His name is Mark Lopez and he
he was a silver medalist at the Olympics in taekwondo.
His wife, Dagmar taught my young my kids, but more Crockett.
Crockett was was it it more? Because Michael had his
own sports going on at the time. So they used
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to come to the house several times a week and
Mark would come with her. She was on the Puerto
Rican team, he was on the American team. That's where
they met.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
They got married.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Mark would come with her and he would train Crockett
till seven with his wife, and then when I got home,
he'd peel off and he and I would have drinks
and talk about what's going on. And when he retired
from training in his we didn't really retire.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
He kept training.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
But when he got out of school and wasn't traveling
the world fighting in taekwondo, he became a financial advisor.
So he came up through the ranks, learned, got all
the certifications and all that, and he teamed up with
a really really sharp guy named Andy McGhee, who I
know through Marcus Latrell because he manages Marcus's money. I
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think I'm allowed to say that. And they have a
third member of their team and they work together. And
so I just watched them over I don't know, ten
years or so. I've watched them grow and develop, and
I've watched their profile and one of their areas of
expertise that they have developed is high net worth individuals
with a family business that are transitioning to the next generation.
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That raises a lot of estate planning issues and financial issues.
We have an estate planning lawyer. But what these guys
do financial advisor is one word. They call it wealth management,
but it really should be wealth growth, because you're never
going to get where you want to be when you
retire based just on what you make. You know, the
old days, when I was growing up, whatever you didn't spend,
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or you could keep from spending you put in a
savings account. It doesn't grow fast enough to outpace inflation.
But anyway, these guys have gone on and started their
own firm. They're attached to a firm called Stefel. And
the funny thing about that is, I believe Stefel was
a Rush Limbaugh show. I think they were his financial advisor.
I'm not positive on that. I need to check on it,
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but I was told by someone very high up in
radio that that was the case because they want to
sponsor our show nationwide, and I don't think they've had
a show they've sponsored since Rush, and so that was
a pretty big honor. And then my buddies end up
over there, so now it made sense.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
To do that.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
But anyway, if you would like someone, if you're looking
at the fact that you haven't really given enough thought
to your strategy, I'm a big one. And that's been
a big focus of mine for the last couple of years,
is being very strategic about my CPA firm, my insurance policies,
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my investing, those sorts of things. Because I focus so
much like you do on my business and my team
and my family that you have to step back and
make very good decisions because you realize that over the
course of five, ten, fifteen, twenty years, the difference between
making this and that financial investment can mean the difference
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between retiring with incredible comfort and eating v any sausages
and crackers. And it's a big difference. Anyway, I'll give
you a cell phone number. I don't know if I'm
allowed to for Mark Lopez or if you email me,
which is what I love to do, I'll connect you.
But his cell phone number is eight three to two.
Can you remember the eight three to two part romone
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nine four thirty seven twenty one eight three to two,
nine two four thirty seven to twenty one. It's Main
Street Wealth Management. They're in town and country. They just
built out this beautiful I've only seen pictures, haven't been
there yet. I may go over there this afternoon. They've
just built out this beautiful new office. He was in
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the galleria before, and some of you may remember I
told Mark's story. I don't know if I attached his
name to it. He and his wife came to our
house a lot of times to talk about adoption over
the years, and he got closer and closer and close,
and they finally did it and they got their baby.
If you go to my Twitter page, it got a
million and a half likes. I said, can you just
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take a second away from politics for just a moment
and enjoy the fact that a new life has come
into this world. And in this this new life, this new, beautiful,
innocent life, came into the world with someone who could
not take care of this child. And here's a couple
that desperately wanted to child, and now they have a
child and they're happy, and the child is happy, and
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God is smiling because God did this. Anyway, that was
also Mark Lopez, but his numbers eight three, two thirty seven,
twenty one. Oh, I'm sorry, I just saw that R one.
Remember the guy who sold the police cars to people.
He now has a really cool job promoting Texas businesses.
Name's Tony Now and you're gonna like this story. He's
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our guest coming up. I'm sorry, Goodness of real Jello Puddy.
So I look across a desk, computer and a bunch
of audio equipment through a microphone over a microphone at
Ramona on the other side of the glass, and I
have a clock that's telling me when we're going to break.
But some of you may have noticed we changed our
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clock after almost twenty years a month or so ago,
and so there are a lot of moving parts that
I'm It's not intuitive to me anymore. I could feel
the clock before I would know when to go to
even before the music started, based on having done it
for nineteen years. I live on this clock. Most of
my working most of my waking day. I'm on this clock.
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You just get to where you get used to it.
I can tell you how long thirty seconds is because
that's how long the spots are I cut. They laugh
because I can cut a spot for thirty seconds and
it'll be between twenty nine point five and thirty point
five consistently. Because my brain is so attuned to that.
I'm sure Radio Cowboy can can tell you is it
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seven seconds or eight?
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Eight?
Speaker 1 (09:32):
It is eight, and they gotta stay on for eight.
I guarantee they have an internal clock of how you
know that clock is ticking eight eight ticks. So anyway,
there's another screen that's over my right shoulder and to
the side, because frankly, I get distracted by squirrel all
day long, and so if I had that in front
of me. Then every call that was coming in, I
would see it and it would distract me and I
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would stop in the middle of my sentence. So this
has happened a few times since I've moved things, and
I owe it a pology to our guests. Tony nown
was our guest a little while back. Tony, why don't
you first tell folks what you were doing then? Because
I got a lot of emails after you were on
the show with us.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Okay, sounds good. Hi Michael, Hi everybody. Well, I for
the last thirty five years I was in the car business,
and I recently, for the last sixteen years, moved to Hempstead, Texas,
and I opened a dealership that's specialized in a PPV
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and special cards for agency for sheriff for the government
to use. And for the last fifteen years we have
served about one hundred and fourteen counties to help them
sell under the cars and up fitting the cars from cages,
prisoner k seats to radars and cameras and everything. I mean,
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we do have an operation. We're studying unemployees and we
do eighty vehicle customization and we serve a lot of
county and we help, and not only in Texas. We
have about twenty four to thirty other states that they
called us. They need the help, they need of fitting.
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They like to They don't have a lot of budget
to buy brand new cars. And I believe they're called
the right place. We have three owned from twenty fifteen
up to twenty twenty three, and.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
That's what we do.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
That's what I do for the last fifteen years.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
All right.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
And I heard from a lot of departments that they
buy vehicles from you. Obviously that was a big business.
And that business is called again.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
It's called Chiefs Pursued Surplus. We do sell about one
hundred and fifty two hundred and eight units a month.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Okay, say that against chiefs?
Speaker 4 (11:49):
What chief pursuit?
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Tu are chief pursuit? Your phone is cutting out every
time you say the name. Say the old name again.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Please, Jeans Pursuit surpless surplus.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Yes, Tony, are you on? Are you on a bluetooth?
Speaker 4 (12:08):
No, I'm not, No, I'm on speaker.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Maybe.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
I think it's cutting in and out. It's it's like
talking underwater is impossible.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
I believe it's better now, yeah, much better. Okay, all right,
So you were doing that, and then I got an
email that.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
You were you were doing something with sid at the
state and our listeners might be interested and I believe
they will tell about that.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
This is fascinating.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Yeah, what happened Michael is I left my business behind
and I give it to my three children, two daughters
and one son. My wife took over. They took over
my business and we do over a million million and
a half month. I mean we do over a total
of twelve million dollars a year. And this business because
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I worked so hard in my life for thirty five years,
it's time for me to do something else. Step in
and be a servant for the state and do something
that I'll to do. But my business is now belong
to my kids.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
And what I did.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
I call from Commissioners Simmillers, and he knows how how
hard I worked in my life for he knows me
for the last thirteen years. He asked me if I
can come and become the go Texan Ambassador, which is
the do tex Ambassador is to promote, is to promote ranurers,
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farmers and businesses, big corporations, small companies, promote in Texas
and globally and internationally. Try to help them to get
their business to the second level. And by having an
experience in my life for the last thirty five years
traveling and connecting with other businesses, other business people. I
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do have connection with the Middle East, which is called
it the GCC region. The GCC region is six countries
to get there's the Saudi Arabias and Oman and Sultan
and Oman, Kuwait, Qatar, Uae and Bahraine and which is
I have a small people of small offices that people
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run helped me out to start communicate with me and
we start giving a lot of orders, a lot of
products that's going to go from Texas to the Middle East.
And this is my duty. This is my duty to
start promoting Texas to the Middle East and to the
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Europe and South America because Texas is the sixth I believe,
the sixth largest economy in the world. And my duty
now and my mission not the money, not because the
money and everything, and my mission is to promote and
make it stronger and keep it as the sixth largest
economy in the world. And probably I can make it
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the fifth largest economy and world by working hard and
you know, support our hard working producer entrepreneur and the corporation.
We all rise together, you know. And I do travel.
I do travel across Texas now for the last three months,
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meeting with small family farm, big corporation, restaurant, food and
you know, producers, and help them understand that go Texan
it's not only an emblem. It's it's that will increase
their exposure, connect them with the new market, you know.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
And Tony tell me something. I know you've got grants
to give, You've got you've got things.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
How do people reach you.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Or this program to get help for their Texas based business?
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Okay? The grant, the grant, I mean I recently witnesses
a two hundred million.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Dollars Okay, But in their website they can go is
it just go Texan?
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Yeah, yeah, they can go none, They'll go to Texas.
They can go on the Texas Department of Agricultures.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
The Michael Biray Show, Simple Man just kind of just
kind of a Corinne Bailey Ray Vibe two Hearts. Our show.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
This year alone has added as sponsors here else.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
We've been at this for twenty years. This is incredible.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
This speaks to you responding when we talk about sponsors
of our show. We've added Ace Hardware Texas. I am,
by the way, I am overdue for a couple of
site visits. They've got thirty three locations, but I am
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headed to the one Insights. That's the one I told
you about. The lady on the air, she answered the phone,
I was so impressed. Ace Hardware Texas, Allied Custom Roofing,
arch Public that's the bitcoin of folks CCS Presentation Systems.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
That's the one that do the multimedia.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Like one of the major airlines in the area uses
them for meeting. Universities use them so if you're having
a meeting, all the sound, all the visual, they do
all of that. Car Pro so before you go buy
any car, go to carpro dot com and they set
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you up with the person there, so you arrive you've
already got somebody ready.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
They stay on top of it.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Enterprise Foundry, which I'm going to go tour next week
in the middle of the day. If you'd like to
join me Elite Medical Hospital Group. You know, the beauty
of capitalism we take for granted. You know, people hate companies.
They don't want them to make money. They think they
all charge too much. Businesses are horrible, nothing is good.
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You don't realize how important businesses and capitalism are until
they're shut down. When they're closed, and you can't get
to them, when you can't get their things. So many
of our so many ways our lives are better is
because somebody saw a problem and said, if I can
fix that, they'll pay me to fix it. And I
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can make money if I can provide something that people
haven't had, whether it's dipping dots or certain kind of
barbecue slow smoked, I can do that. People will want it.
But it's so many Look, I hate big pharma, but
there are plenty of pills that have changed people's lives.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
If I can figure out how to keep.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Heart patients from having a heart attack with a pill,
and so viser comes out with Viagra, and they start
these heart patients on it, and they start coming in
and how's your heart?
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Hount all by my heart, but my life that.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
And all of a sudden, the doctors started noting each
one by one. Hey, Pfizer, too early to tell on
the effects of the heart, but it's having another effect.
And then it came to have what's known as an
off label prescription, which meant people were going to their heart,
were going to a heart doctor that didn't need a
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heart doctor because they wanted their wiener to work. And
eventually it took a while, but Pfizer got FDA approval
to do that.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
But for a while, you just go to your heart,
arg dog.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
I feel like Fred Sandford, Elizabeth, I'm coming, I need it.
Your numbers are coming out fine, could you just write
me the thing? Elite Medical Hospital Group. They're not going
to help you on that that I know of. But
for years we've been talking about getting stuck in the
emergency room, and the stories are horrible, and until you're there,
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you can't believe this is happening. That with my dad
in the emergency room at one point, I don't remember
how many hours it was. I'm so entitled and demanding
and impatient that however long it.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Was, felt like forty days.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Anyway, they create they created this Elite Medical Hospital Group.
There's four of them, one in Kingwood, won and Sugarland,
one in Beaumont, Won in League City that you get
in and see a doctor within ten minutes. And within
several days of being our show sponsor, I was already
hearing from the Orsacks who put the group together that
our listeners were coming in that didn't even have an
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emergency need. They were coming in and going. Michael said,
to find our hospital before we needed it. I just
want to know you're here. This is how this work.
This is fantastic, this is wonderful. Fix Otto Houston. We
hadn't had a collision repair. We had one years and
years ago. We hadn't for years Family Psychiatry of the Woodlands.
We went looking for a show sponsor because I believe
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that mental health is one of the biggest challenges in
this country that we have not yet figured out how
to deal with.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
And there are a lot of things that fit into that.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
I know a lot of people believe that ADHD is
over diagnosed and overprescribed, but there are real conditions. And
I'm not saying it's a disease, it's not cancer, but
there are people whose lack of focus is debilitating to
them in their lives. And that is some children, not all,
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but it is some children.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Is real.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Depression is real. I didn't understand that until some people
that I loved were in the throes of it, and
I would say to them, as I say to people
when I mentor them, guide them advise them, annoy them,
past them, snap out of it.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
And it wasn't that simple.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
So we went looking for a psychiatrist that we could
trust that would take care and Robert Reese spearheaded that
project for me, and he talked to people all over
And this isn't some this isn't advertising, this is a partnership.
We pick categories and we say we need someone in
this field. We want you on as a guest. We
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want you to be our expert. I want you to
send me emails when stories are in the news. I
want you to explain things. I want you to be
available for me. I want to be able to send
patience to you and know that they're going to be
taken care of. The Golden Nugget Tilman had wanted us
to speak for the Golden Nugget for years. He knows
I loved their investments. So we added a bitcoin piece
with Arch Public. We added a very aggressive private equity
(22:35):
real estate play with Hawthorne Capital Cromberg's Flags. Obviously they
and their business is killing it because our if anybody
in this community is buying Flags, whether it's for their
alma mater or State of Texas or US it's our listeners.
Lone Star Chevrolet. We had a long time Chevy sponsor
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that ownership changed. We didn't see eye to eye and
Mike Batchett at Lon Star Chevrolet had wanted us to
be their spokesman for years.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
We switched over. Within a week, I.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Had sent them two clients that they that they closed
personally personal friends of mine, and a lot of listeners.
Muscle Cars of Texas is a is a perfect fit.
Vinnie Tortorella. First of all, I'd just like to say,
Viny Tortrello, I feel like I want a happy days
and our people are doing car need their cars restored,
Oracle netsweep AI is the future. You know the story there,
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Red Mountain Weight Loss, Rick Doak, Our Lifestyles, Ranching Home
and Home Group. It turns out we have a lot
of people outside of Houston who want to buy and
sell farms and ranches. And he is, he said, my
wife is about ready for me to dial this thing back.
All I'm doing is working Rough Greens, the supplement that
George speaks for. Shade Doctor told me their sales are
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up two and a half times over last year. The
only thing that changed was they added our show, Stifel,
our financial advisor firm, Synergenics.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
I'm a big believer in low te.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
I do tea replacement tech Star which was which does
automation controls for chemical companies. They call it in Texas
State Equipment big bulldozers and stuff in.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Texas Center for Cosmetic Industry.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
Guy B.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Lewis Mojo's official dentist of The Michael Berry Show, An
the Astros and Ramon. I think complacency is a very
natural thing, and I think it is the death of companies, artists, institutions, marriages.
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I think that we get lazy, very easy to do.
We get lazy because we get comfortable and we.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Lose our edge.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Every man my age, I can't speak for women. I
don't know what y'all go through, but every man my
age at fifty four thinks to himself, man, I wish
I had that run through a wall grit that I
had when I was twenty two. Who guys that were
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great football players. You were the Brian Bosworth of your school,
maybe your district, maybe your state, and you enjoyed hitting people,
putting a hat on them and drilling them into the ground.
Back when you could hit people and you think to yourself,
I don't want to hit anything anymore. You miss that, right.
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I think it is very difficult. One of the things
Trump does well, and this is going to be a
challenge of his Trump has to keep his people from
getting complacent. These cabinet meetings that he's having that are open,
that are televised. It is an opportunity for each cabinet official,
but a responsibility of each cabinet official to prepare.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
And here's the deal.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
This is one of those deals where you know, you
come in after the summer and coach says, did you
train so you're ready. It's in the deal where your
teacher asked you on the first day, all right, we
gave you a summer reading list.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Did you read it?
Speaker 1 (26:09):
And you go, oh, now I'm in trouble. He's keeping
them honest. He understands that we are excited to begin
a project and then we get complacent. One of my
challenges in what we do is that we can get
into set it and forget it if we allow ourselves to.
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And I'm sure I get on the nerves of my
team because I'm constantly foundering around trying to keep that
from happening. To us, because you won't notice that you're
not entertained and engaged and intrigued by the show anymore.
If you ever were, you won't notice it. It'll just
have happened. It'll get stale, and eventually you may not
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even go to another show. You may not go to
an alternative media source like a podcast. You may just
make phone calls on your drive instead of setting your
doll to listen to what we do. I'm not saying
everybody does. There's some people that were just convenient were
on the air. But some people, and I read my emails,
they are waiting. Had a guy Omar came out to
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fix the gate for Paul Jacob at Jacob's Barbecue. And
remember that the guys had broken in the night before
and bust his gate all up. So a guy named
Omar came up. He owned South Texas Fabrication. And he
comes up to meet me, and he's the one that
had the big look like a look at me was
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bitten by a snake on his bicep.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
I see the story. Oh you were with me, I'm sorry,
I'm a goof my bad.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
He had this big and Ramon gets grossed out or
gets not just grossed. He gets weirded out because I
like to, you know, look at people's wounds and stuff,
and I'll touch them, and you know, he doesn't.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Know what's going to happen next. I like to keep
it interesting. So this guy's got this big knot.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
It looks like a boil and it's kind of has
a little bit of dry blood on it. And I
reach out and I touch just behind his bicep, just
away from it because it might be septic.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
I don't know it's bad. And it's got like a
cyst in it.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
And it turns out it's his port where he's on dialysis,
and so they put these things in there. There was
a cyst in there. It's a plastic port so that
they can just plug him in and run his blood through.
He gets up at four o'clock down in South Texas
and drives in and his goal is to he listens
to our podcast on the way in, and his goal
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is to be seated and set up, put his headsets on.
Don't talk to me. He's got a three hour dialysis
and he listens to our show from eight to eleven. Well,
when you meet somebody and they tell you that I
never grow tired of hearing that. I mean, it might
sound like I'm bragging, and that is not my intention.
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I think some people think, you know, look, it's great,
You've got a great life.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
You don't have to keep telling us about it.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
It's not that I don't ever want anybody to think
that I take any of this for granted.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
I am as giddy as you.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Would be if you got to drive aj Foyt's car,
or you got to fly you know, the G five,
whatever it is, your thing is, whatever that is for you,
this is for me. So anyway, in an effort to
avoid becoming complacent, I am always always to the point
that I'm sure it drives our team crazy. It might
(29:25):
even seem abusive. I'm always trying to motivate and push
them to do more things, create more things, dream up
more things. So who should have a week like none
other this week than the laziest guy on the whole team?
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Remonder over.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
So two nights ago, he might he might've had a
nip of a bourbon. I don't know, but his creative
juices were flowing. And he sends an email and he says,
I've come up with a concept. We take a classic
rock song, and we rewrite it in Middle English. Listeners
(30:12):
have to guess which song that is because the lyrics
have been changed to Middle English instead.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Of And I sat there thinking that's the craziest thing error.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
But he did, and he created some songs, and now
everybody on the team is enjoying putting classic songs to
Middle English. If you enjoy, if you enjoy sort of
making Bible talk out of everyday language. You know, if somebody,
(30:46):
if somebody tells you that they're they're going to England
and they're gonna do that, Oh Mary.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Old England, I'm gonna see the Queen? Are we thou artst?
Speaker 1 (30:55):
So you know, if you've ever done that, then then
you get the point of the game. So what I'm
gonna do is we're gonna cue up the calls. This
is just is a don't try this at home. This
is live on the air, never been done before. The
name of the game as given by Ramon, and we
let him name it since he came up with it,
is the old rock and roll Oh oh O L
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d E, the old old e, like you know, the
old English taverny old rock and roll. So if you
think you would be a good contestant. If you get
the answer correct, you win nothing, just just knowing that
that you've wanted the Yeah, there're no prizes. We don't
have a prize since Melissa Bresner retired, our promotions director
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of many years.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
We don't have a prize clauset.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Melissa always had as always had a prize clauset. We
have no We need to talk to Charlie Paine about that.
No prize clauses. But you will have the pride of knowing.
All right, So seven one three, nine nine, nine, one thousand,
I will read.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
You the lyrics.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
You will have a chance to answer. If you are wrong,
we will summarily drop you. We might insult you, We
might say that's the dumbest guest ever who knows. It's
not for your sake that we engage you. It is
for the entertainment of everyone else. Okay, are you not entertained?
As Russell Crow would say, you are in the middle
of the arena. So it might be ruthless, but that
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is the game, and in this forthcoming this has never
been done before in the annals of all spoken word
media in all languages. Call you old rock and roll
if you want to participate Start Calling Now seven one
three nine nine nine one thousand. Seven one three, nine,
nine nine, one thousand,
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
The Michael Verie Show is on.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
The air, so us playing the song Africa by Toto
caused a buddy mine named Lance Hoffman, who runs tri Tech.
(00:36):
It's Engineering Surveying and all companies. Larry Hoffman's son. And
there is a certain sense of humor that our listeners
that are say under sixty, especially in the thirties and forties,
you know, guys that are out there just humping and
getting it all day long. And they needed these of
(01:00):
the guys that trade memes, and I mean edgy memes.
I mean the kind of memes that when you get
you go ooh, I hope nobody was looking over my
shoulder when I got it, and you cringe and you laugh,
and you need that, right, Guys need that. A lot
of people don't have a sense of humor, or a
lot of folks are too polite for that, or there's
a lot of people are scared to death that they're
(01:21):
going to get in trouble for laughing at the wrong thing,
because that gets people in trouble laughing at the wrong
thing anyway. So he said, I don't know if you've
heard of this. I can't say the word on the air.
It starts with an sh it has why at the end.
It has the word it in the middle plus an
extra t. It rhymes would be diddy, and it starts
with an sah. Okay, you got that. So the first
(01:42):
word is the word that rhymes with diddy, and the
next word is flute. And the reason he thought of
it was because I was talking about the penny whistle,
that little flute, and basically it is taking a song.
It's crappy flute. Let's say it's taking a song and
ruining it. It's kind of like a kazoo. Maybe three
(02:04):
percent of you will think it's funny. But if you
go to the guy's YouTube page, which is just that word,
let's say, crappy flute. He takes songs and ruins them,
and it's just it's glorious. If you're thinking to yourself, Michael,
(02:36):
I don't see why that's funny. That's just really bad.
Then it's not your solid humor. My wife wouldn't get that.
If I made her sit down and listen to that.
She's a very literal person.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
She'd go that sounds horrible. Yeah, that's the point.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
That's the point, sweetheart.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
You know you don't get me.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
I don't get you.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
We all have different things. She likes to spend all
a Saturday under a tree painting. I don't mean painting
in a useful way. I mean painting the garden. Hey,
that's that's your thing. That's a good thing. By the way,
I was talking about show sponsors. Our newest show sponsor
is a longtime friend of mine. I've talked about him
(03:18):
over the years. His name is Mark Lopez and he
he was a silver medalist at the Olympics in taekwondo.
His wife, Dagmar taught my young my kids, but more Crockett.
Crockett was was it it more? Because Michael had his
own sports going on at the time. So they used
(03:40):
to come to the house several times a week and
Mark would come with her. She was on the Puerto
Rican team, he was on the American team. That's where
they met.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
They got married.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Mark would come with her and he would train Crockett
till seven with his wife, and then when I got home,
he'd peel off and he and I would have drinks
and talk about what's going on. And when he retired
from training in his we didn't really retire.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
He kept training.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
But when he got out of school and wasn't traveling
the world fighting in taekwondo, he became a financial advisor.
So he came up through the ranks, learned, got all
the certifications and all that, and he teamed up with
a really really sharp guy named Andy McGhee, who I
know through Marcus Latrell because he manages Marcus's money. I
(04:29):
think I'm allowed to say that. And they have a
third member of their team and they work together. And
so I just watched them over I don't know, ten
years or so. I've watched them grow and develop, and
I've watched their profile and one of their areas of
expertise that they have developed is high net worth individuals
with a family business that are transitioning to the next generation.
(04:53):
That raises a lot of estate planning issues and financial issues.
We have an estate planning lawyer. But what these guys
do financial advisor is one word. They call it wealth management,
but it really should be wealth growth, because you're never
going to get where you want to be when you
retire based just on what you make. You know, the
old days, when I was growing up, whatever you didn't spend,
(05:16):
or you could keep from spending you put in a
savings account. It doesn't grow fast enough to outpace inflation.
But anyway, these guys have gone on and started their
own firm. They're attached to a firm called Stefel. And
the funny thing about that is, I believe Stefel was
a Rush Limbaugh show. I think they were his financial advisor.
I'm not positive on that. I need to check on it,
(05:37):
but I was told by someone very high up in
radio that that was the case because they want to
sponsor our show nationwide, and I don't think they've had
a show they've sponsored since Rush, and so that was
a pretty big honor. And then my buddies end up
over there, so now it made sense.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
To do that.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
But anyway, if you would like someone, if you're looking
at the fact that you haven't really given enough thought
to your strategy, I'm a big one. And that's been
a big focus of mine for the last couple of years,
is being very strategic about my CPA firm, my insurance policies,
(06:16):
my investing, those sorts of things. Because I focus so
much like you do on my business and my team
and my family that you have to step back and
make very good decisions because you realize that over the
course of five, ten, fifteen, twenty years, the difference between
making this and that financial investment can mean the difference
(06:39):
between retiring with incredible comfort and eating v any sausages
and crackers. And it's a big difference. Anyway, I'll give
you a cell phone number. I don't know if I'm
allowed to for Mark Lopez or if you email me,
which is what I love to do, I'll connect you.
But his cell phone number is eight three to two.
Can you remember the eight three to two part romone
(07:00):
nine four thirty seven twenty one eight three to two,
nine two four thirty seven to twenty one. It's Main
Street Wealth Management. They're in town and country. They just
built out this beautiful I've only seen pictures, haven't been
there yet. I may go over there this afternoon. They've
just built out this beautiful new office. He was in
(07:20):
the galleria before, and some of you may remember I
told Mark's story. I don't know if I attached his
name to it. He and his wife came to our
house a lot of times to talk about adoption over
the years, and he got closer and closer and close,
and they finally did it and they got their baby.
If you go to my Twitter page, it got a
million and a half likes. I said, can you just
(07:42):
take a second away from politics for just a moment
and enjoy the fact that a new life has come
into this world. And in this this new life, this new, beautiful,
innocent life, came into the world with someone who could
not take care of this child. And here's a couple
that desperately wanted to child, and now they have a
child and they're happy, and the child is happy, and
(08:05):
God is smiling because God did this. Anyway, that was
also Mark Lopez, but his numbers eight three, two thirty seven,
twenty one. Oh, I'm sorry, I just saw that R one.
Remember the guy who sold the police cars to people.
He now has a really cool job promoting Texas businesses.
Name's Tony Now and you're gonna like this story. He's
(08:27):
our guest coming up. I'm sorry, Goodness of real Jello Puddy.
So I look across a desk, computer and a bunch
of audio equipment through a microphone over a microphone at
Ramona on the other side of the glass, and I
have a clock that's telling me when we're going to break.
But some of you may have noticed we changed our
(08:49):
clock after almost twenty years a month or so ago,
and so there are a lot of moving parts that
I'm It's not intuitive to me anymore. I could feel
the clock before I would know when to go to
even before the music started, based on having done it
for nineteen years. I live on this clock. Most of
my working most of my waking day. I'm on this clock.
(09:10):
You just get to where you get used to it.
I can tell you how long thirty seconds is because
that's how long the spots are I cut. They laugh
because I can cut a spot for thirty seconds and
it'll be between twenty nine point five and thirty point
five consistently. Because my brain is so attuned to that.
I'm sure Radio Cowboy can can tell you is it
(09:31):
seven seconds or eight?
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Eight?
Speaker 1 (09:32):
It is eight, and they gotta stay on for eight.
I guarantee they have an internal clock of how you
know that clock is ticking eight eight ticks. So anyway,
there's another screen that's over my right shoulder and to
the side, because frankly, I get distracted by squirrel all
day long, and so if I had that in front
of me. Then every call that was coming in, I
would see it and it would distract me and I
(09:54):
would stop in the middle of my sentence. So this
has happened a few times since I've moved things, and
I owe it a pology to our guests. Tony nown
was our guest a little while back. Tony, why don't
you first tell folks what you were doing then? Because
I got a lot of emails after you were on
the show with us.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Okay, sounds good. Hi Michael, Hi everybody. Well, I for
the last thirty five years I was in the car business,
and I recently, for the last sixteen years, moved to Hempstead, Texas,
and I opened a dealership that's specialized in a PPV
(10:32):
and special cards for agency for sheriff for the government
to use. And for the last fifteen years we have
served about one hundred and fourteen counties to help them
sell under the cars and up fitting the cars from cages,
prisoner k seats to radars and cameras and everything. I mean,
(10:56):
we do have an operation. We're studying unemployees and we
do eighty vehicle customization and we serve a lot of
county and we help, and not only in Texas. We
have about twenty four to thirty other states that they
called us. They need the help, they need of fitting.
(11:16):
They like to They don't have a lot of budget
to buy brand new cars. And I believe they're called
the right place. We have three owned from twenty fifteen
up to twenty twenty three, and.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
That's what we do.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
That's what I do for the last fifteen years.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
All right.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
And I heard from a lot of departments that they
buy vehicles from you. Obviously that was a big business.
And that business is called again.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
It's called Chiefs Pursued Surplus. We do sell about one
hundred and fifty two hundred and eight units a month.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Okay, say that against chiefs?
Speaker 4 (11:49):
What chief pursuit?
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Tu are chief pursuit? Your phone is cutting out every
time you say the name. Say the old name again.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Please, Jeans Pursuit surpless surplus.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Yes, Tony, are you on? Are you on a bluetooth?
Speaker 4 (12:08):
No, I'm not, No, I'm on speaker.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Maybe.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
I think it's cutting in and out. It's it's like
talking underwater is impossible.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
I believe it's better now, yeah, much better. Okay, all right,
So you were doing that, and then I got an
email that.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
You were you were doing something with sid at the
state and our listeners might be interested and I believe
they will tell about that.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
This is fascinating.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Yeah, what happened Michael is I left my business behind
and I give it to my three children, two daughters
and one son. My wife took over. They took over
my business and we do over a million million and
a half month. I mean we do over a total
of twelve million dollars a year. And this business because
(12:51):
I worked so hard in my life for thirty five years,
it's time for me to do something else. Step in
and be a servant for the state and do something
that I'll to do. But my business is now belong
to my kids.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
And what I did.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
I call from Commissioners Simmillers, and he knows how how
hard I worked in my life for he knows me
for the last thirteen years. He asked me if I
can come and become the go Texan Ambassador, which is
the do tex Ambassador is to promote, is to promote ranurers,
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farmers and businesses, big corporations, small companies, promote in Texas
and globally and internationally. Try to help them to get
their business to the second level. And by having an
experience in my life for the last thirty five years
traveling and connecting with other businesses, other business people. I
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do have connection with the Middle East, which is called
it the GCC region. The GCC region is six countries
to get there's the Saudi Arabias and Oman and Sultan
and Oman, Kuwait, Qatar, Uae and Bahraine and which is
I have a small people of small offices that people
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run helped me out to start communicate with me and
we start giving a lot of orders, a lot of
products that's going to go from Texas to the Middle East.
And this is my duty. This is my duty to
start promoting Texas to the Middle East and to the
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Europe and South America because Texas is the sixth I believe,
the sixth largest economy in the world. And my duty
now and my mission not the money, not because the
money and everything, and my mission is to promote and
make it stronger and keep it as the sixth largest
economy in the world. And probably I can make it
(14:57):
the fifth largest economy and world by working hard and
you know, support our hard working producer entrepreneur and the corporation.
We all rise together, you know. And I do travel.
I do travel across Texas now for the last three months,
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meeting with small family farm, big corporation, restaurant, food and
you know, producers, and help them understand that go Texan
it's not only an emblem. It's it's that will increase
their exposure, connect them with the new market, you know.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
And Tony tell me something. I know you've got grants
to give, You've got you've got things.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
How do people reach you.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Or this program to get help for their Texas based business?
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Okay? The grant, the grant, I mean I recently witnesses
a two hundred million.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Dollars Okay, But in their website they can go is
it just go Texan?
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Yeah, yeah, they can go none, They'll go to Texas.
They can go on the Texas Department of Agricultures.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
The Michael Biray Show, Simple Man just kind of just
kind of a Corinne Bailey Ray Vibe two Hearts. Our show.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
This year alone has added as sponsors here else.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
We've been at this for twenty years. This is incredible.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
This speaks to you responding when we talk about sponsors
of our show. We've added Ace Hardware Texas. I am,
by the way, I am overdue for a couple of
site visits. They've got thirty three locations, but I am
(16:58):
headed to the one Insights. That's the one I told
you about. The lady on the air, she answered the phone,
I was so impressed. Ace Hardware Texas, Allied Custom Roofing,
arch Public that's the bitcoin of folks CCS Presentation Systems.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
That's the one that do the multimedia.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Like one of the major airlines in the area uses
them for meeting. Universities use them so if you're having
a meeting, all the sound, all the visual, they do
all of that. Car Pro so before you go buy
any car, go to carpro dot com and they set
(17:38):
you up with the person there, so you arrive you've
already got somebody ready.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
They stay on top of it.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Enterprise Foundry, which I'm going to go tour next week
in the middle of the day. If you'd like to
join me Elite Medical Hospital Group. You know, the beauty
of capitalism we take for granted. You know, people hate companies.
They don't want them to make money. They think they
all charge too much. Businesses are horrible, nothing is good.
(18:03):
You don't realize how important businesses and capitalism are until
they're shut down. When they're closed, and you can't get
to them, when you can't get their things. So many
of our so many ways our lives are better is
because somebody saw a problem and said, if I can
fix that, they'll pay me to fix it. And I
(18:25):
can make money if I can provide something that people
haven't had, whether it's dipping dots or certain kind of
barbecue slow smoked, I can do that. People will want it.
But it's so many Look, I hate big pharma, but
there are plenty of pills that have changed people's lives.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
If I can figure out how to keep.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Heart patients from having a heart attack with a pill,
and so viser comes out with Viagra, and they start
these heart patients on it, and they start coming in
and how's your heart?
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Hount all by my heart, but my life that.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
And all of a sudden, the doctors started noting each
one by one. Hey, Pfizer, too early to tell on
the effects of the heart, but it's having another effect.
And then it came to have what's known as an
off label prescription, which meant people were going to their heart,
were going to a heart doctor that didn't need a
(19:25):
heart doctor because they wanted their wiener to work. And
eventually it took a while, but Pfizer got FDA approval
to do that.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
But for a while, you just go to your heart,
arg dog.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
I feel like Fred Sandford, Elizabeth, I'm coming, I need it.
Your numbers are coming out fine, could you just write
me the thing? Elite Medical Hospital Group. They're not going
to help you on that that I know of. But
for years we've been talking about getting stuck in the
emergency room, and the stories are horrible, and until you're there,
(19:57):
you can't believe this is happening. That with my dad
in the emergency room at one point, I don't remember
how many hours it was. I'm so entitled and demanding
and impatient that however long it.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Was, felt like forty days.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Anyway, they create they created this Elite Medical Hospital Group.
There's four of them, one in Kingwood, won and Sugarland,
one in Beaumont, Won in League City that you get
in and see a doctor within ten minutes. And within
several days of being our show sponsor, I was already
hearing from the Orsacks who put the group together that
our listeners were coming in that didn't even have an
(20:36):
emergency need. They were coming in and going. Michael said,
to find our hospital before we needed it. I just
want to know you're here. This is how this work.
This is fantastic, this is wonderful. Fix Otto Houston. We
hadn't had a collision repair. We had one years and
years ago. We hadn't for years Family Psychiatry of the Woodlands.
We went looking for a show sponsor because I believe
(20:59):
that mental health is one of the biggest challenges in
this country that we have not yet figured out how
to deal with.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
And there are a lot of things that fit into that.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
I know a lot of people believe that ADHD is
over diagnosed and overprescribed, but there are real conditions. And
I'm not saying it's a disease, it's not cancer, but
there are people whose lack of focus is debilitating to
them in their lives. And that is some children, not all,
(21:30):
but it is some children.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Is real.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Depression is real. I didn't understand that until some people
that I loved were in the throes of it, and
I would say to them, as I say to people
when I mentor them, guide them advise them, annoy them,
past them, snap out of it.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
And it wasn't that simple.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
So we went looking for a psychiatrist that we could
trust that would take care and Robert Reese spearheaded that
project for me, and he talked to people all over
And this isn't some this isn't advertising, this is a partnership.
We pick categories and we say we need someone in
this field. We want you on as a guest. We
(22:09):
want you to be our expert. I want you to
send me emails when stories are in the news. I
want you to explain things. I want you to be
available for me. I want to be able to send
patience to you and know that they're going to be
taken care of. The Golden Nugget Tilman had wanted us
to speak for the Golden Nugget for years. He knows
I loved their investments. So we added a bitcoin piece
with Arch Public. We added a very aggressive private equity
(22:35):
real estate play with Hawthorne Capital Cromberg's Flags. Obviously they
and their business is killing it because our if anybody
in this community is buying Flags, whether it's for their
alma mater or State of Texas or US it's our listeners.
Lone Star Chevrolet. We had a long time Chevy sponsor
(22:57):
that ownership changed. We didn't see eye to eye and
Mike Batchett at Lon Star Chevrolet had wanted us to
be their spokesman for years.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
We switched over. Within a week, I.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Had sent them two clients that they that they closed
personally personal friends of mine, and a lot of listeners.
Muscle Cars of Texas is a is a perfect fit.
Vinnie Tortorella. First of all, I'd just like to say,
Viny Tortrello, I feel like I want a happy days
and our people are doing car need their cars restored,
Oracle netsweep AI is the future. You know the story there,
(23:29):
Red Mountain Weight Loss, Rick Doak, Our Lifestyles, Ranching Home
and Home Group. It turns out we have a lot
of people outside of Houston who want to buy and
sell farms and ranches. And he is, he said, my
wife is about ready for me to dial this thing back.
All I'm doing is working Rough Greens, the supplement that
George speaks for. Shade Doctor told me their sales are
(23:52):
up two and a half times over last year. The
only thing that changed was they added our show, Stifel,
our financial advisor firm, Synergenics.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
I'm a big believer in low te.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
I do tea replacement tech Star which was which does
automation controls for chemical companies. They call it in Texas
State Equipment big bulldozers and stuff in.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Texas Center for Cosmetic Industry.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
Guy B.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Lewis Mojo's official dentist of The Michael Berry Show, An
the Astros and Ramon. I think complacency is a very
natural thing, and I think it is the death of companies, artists, institutions, marriages.
(24:37):
I think that we get lazy, very easy to do.
We get lazy because we get comfortable and we.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Lose our edge.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Every man my age, I can't speak for women. I
don't know what y'all go through, but every man my
age at fifty four thinks to himself, man, I wish
I had that run through a wall grit that I
had when I was twenty two. Who guys that were
(25:10):
great football players. You were the Brian Bosworth of your school,
maybe your district, maybe your state, and you enjoyed hitting people,
putting a hat on them and drilling them into the ground.
Back when you could hit people and you think to yourself,
I don't want to hit anything anymore. You miss that, right.
(25:31):
I think it is very difficult. One of the things
Trump does well, and this is going to be a
challenge of his Trump has to keep his people from
getting complacent. These cabinet meetings that he's having that are open,
that are televised. It is an opportunity for each cabinet official,
but a responsibility of each cabinet official to prepare.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
And here's the deal.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
This is one of those deals where you know, you
come in after the summer and coach says, did you
train so you're ready. It's in the deal where your
teacher asked you on the first day, all right, we
gave you a summer reading list.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Did you read it?
Speaker 1 (26:09):
And you go, oh, now I'm in trouble. He's keeping
them honest. He understands that we are excited to begin
a project and then we get complacent. One of my
challenges in what we do is that we can get
into set it and forget it if we allow ourselves to.
(26:31):
And I'm sure I get on the nerves of my
team because I'm constantly foundering around trying to keep that
from happening. To us, because you won't notice that you're
not entertained and engaged and intrigued by the show anymore.
If you ever were, you won't notice it. It'll just
have happened. It'll get stale, and eventually you may not
(26:52):
even go to another show. You may not go to
an alternative media source like a podcast. You may just
make phone calls on your drive instead of setting your
doll to listen to what we do. I'm not saying
everybody does. There's some people that were just convenient were
on the air. But some people, and I read my emails,
they are waiting. Had a guy Omar came out to
(27:12):
fix the gate for Paul Jacob at Jacob's Barbecue. And
remember that the guys had broken in the night before
and bust his gate all up. So a guy named
Omar came up. He owned South Texas Fabrication. And he
comes up to meet me, and he's the one that
had the big look like a look at me was
(27:33):
bitten by a snake on his bicep.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
I see the story. Oh you were with me, I'm sorry,
I'm a goof my bad.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
He had this big and Ramon gets grossed out or
gets not just grossed. He gets weirded out because I
like to, you know, look at people's wounds and stuff,
and I'll touch them, and you know, he doesn't.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Know what's going to happen next. I like to keep
it interesting. So this guy's got this big knot.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
It looks like a boil and it's kind of has
a little bit of dry blood on it. And I
reach out and I touch just behind his bicep, just
away from it because it might be septic.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
I don't know it's bad. And it's got like a
cyst in it.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
And it turns out it's his port where he's on dialysis,
and so they put these things in there. There was
a cyst in there. It's a plastic port so that
they can just plug him in and run his blood through.
He gets up at four o'clock down in South Texas
and drives in and his goal is to he listens
to our podcast on the way in, and his goal
(28:32):
is to be seated and set up, put his headsets on.
Don't talk to me. He's got a three hour dialysis
and he listens to our show from eight to eleven. Well,
when you meet somebody and they tell you that I
never grow tired of hearing that. I mean, it might
sound like I'm bragging, and that is not my intention.
(28:55):
I think some people think, you know, look, it's great,
You've got a great life.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
You don't have to keep telling us about it.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
It's not that I don't ever want anybody to think
that I take any of this for granted.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
I am as giddy as you.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Would be if you got to drive aj Foyt's car,
or you got to fly you know, the G five,
whatever it is, your thing is, whatever that is for you,
this is for me. So anyway, in an effort to
avoid becoming complacent, I am always always to the point
that I'm sure it drives our team crazy. It might
(29:25):
even seem abusive. I'm always trying to motivate and push
them to do more things, create more things, dream up
more things. So who should have a week like none
other this week than the laziest guy on the whole team?
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Remonder over.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
So two nights ago, he might he might've had a
nip of a bourbon. I don't know, but his creative
juices were flowing. And he sends an email and he says,
I've come up with a concept. We take a classic
rock song, and we rewrite it in Middle English. Listeners
(30:12):
have to guess which song that is because the lyrics
have been changed to Middle English instead.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Of And I sat there thinking that's the craziest thing error.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
But he did, and he created some songs, and now
everybody on the team is enjoying putting classic songs to
Middle English. If you enjoy, if you enjoy sort of
making Bible talk out of everyday language. You know, if somebody,
(30:46):
if somebody tells you that they're they're going to England
and they're gonna do that, Oh Mary.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Old England, I'm gonna see the Queen? Are we thou artst?
Speaker 1 (30:55):
So you know, if you've ever done that, then then
you get the point of the game. So what I'm
gonna do is we're gonna cue up the calls. This
is just is a don't try this at home. This
is live on the air, never been done before. The
name of the game as given by Ramon, and we
let him name it since he came up with it,
is the old rock and roll Oh oh O L
(31:17):
d E, the old old e, like you know, the
old English taverny old rock and roll. So if you
think you would be a good contestant. If you get
the answer correct, you win nothing, just just knowing that
that you've wanted the Yeah, there're no prizes. We don't
have a prize since Melissa Bresner retired, our promotions director
(31:40):
of many years.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
We don't have a prize clauset.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Melissa always had as always had a prize clauset. We
have no We need to talk to Charlie Paine about that.
No prize clauses. But you will have the pride of knowing.
All right, So seven one three, nine nine, nine, one thousand,
I will read.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
You the lyrics.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
You will have a chance to answer. If you are wrong,
we will summarily drop you. We might insult you, We
might say that's the dumbest guest ever who knows. It's
not for your sake that we engage you. It is
for the entertainment of everyone else. Okay, are you not entertained?
As Russell Crow would say, you are in the middle
of the arena. So it might be ruthless, but that
(32:19):
is the game, and in this forthcoming this has never
been done before in the annals of all spoken word
media in all languages. Call you old rock and roll
if you want to participate Start Calling Now seven one
three nine nine nine one thousand. Seven one three, nine,
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