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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load Michael
Varry Show is on the air.
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In fact, drunk and stupid is no where to.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Go through life.
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Stuck.
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I'm shaking the dust of this crummy little town off
my feet and I'm gonna.
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See the world all my dreams old the frig gass
water type that.
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Is a yes, we believe it is bad.
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I'm going steady n French kiss. So everybody does that.
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Yeah, but Daddy says I'm the best daddys a careful man.
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The fabrics ever.
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We gotta what are there, sir?
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What the wide wide world of sports are going on?
Speaker 5 (01:02):
Raised card is so Friday, hallelujah. How you're doing this
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weekend and not back to the Michael.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Barrows, John Andrew, Vanessa and JB. Thank you for your
patience so I will get to you in just a moment.
James del Monte writes Zora, I talked to a friend
of mine, Liz in Smithville, and yes everyone knows Larry
the barber. I know a story from Doug Miller. He
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didn't want me to mention a guy's name, he says.
When I was a cadet, we had to get a
high and tight Every Thursday. There was a barbershop south
of campus called Southgate barbershop. There were four or five
barbers in there, but the best was me and Jean.
You'd have to wait for him. Did the straight razor
with the phone now mean Jean drank a little? I think,
so you'd have to time. It was a little shaky
early and a little sloppy late. But if you hit
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him in his sweet spot, it was nobody better. Should
you happen to tell this on air? Maybe omit his name.
I'm sure he's passed by now. I'd hate for a
loved one to think he's being disparaged. Well, I assure
you mean Jene is not being disparaged. He's being remembered.
Never get all right, we'll make them quick, so everybody
gets on. John, you're up. Go ahead, sir.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
This is a Signs and Wonders kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Oh, don hold on. I'm gonna end this segment with
you so I don't have to rush you. Wait right there,
I didn't realize that was you. We'll even give you
a Signs and Wonders intro. Just hang right there, Andrew,
go hey, Michael, how are you doing good?
Speaker 6 (03:20):
I just wanted to call in.
Speaker 8 (03:22):
The great so you've had it and listened to twenty twelve,
and if you've inspired me to kind of feel the community.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Andrew, you were. I put you on hold the other
day so I didn't have to rush the call. Then
I went to the other call and you hung up.
Speaker 6 (03:36):
You'll get the reference.
Speaker 8 (03:36):
I had to change.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
I had to learn to change one diaper.
Speaker 6 (03:40):
I wanted to change a diaper with one hand tied
behind my back.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
You got it done. Wait right there, you're gonna be
up after John. Wait right there. I don't want to
have to rush you. Vanessa, you're up, Michael. Yes.
Speaker 9 (03:53):
I grew up in the Missouri Ozarks in the sixties
and seventies, and I looked in a little bit of
town and the only barbara in town was Dean, and
he did everybody's hair, and my uncle would even drive from.
Speaker 6 (04:06):
Saint Louis, which is about four hours away. Well, he
died some years back, after he probably practiced for fifty years,
and his wife, who was still living at the time
and since past, told my lifelong best friend and me
that Dean had a diary that he'd written in every
night after he came home from the barbershop for almost
fifty years. We're dying. Be a hold of it, and
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I'm sure we can't because why should like him people
of integrity to make a good story.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
It does, and at the end of the day, it's
the stories that live with us, right, I mean, it's
the stories that we recall. That's how history was passed.
People forget this. We didn't have books. Much of what
we study as history was not reduced to writing in
the traditional sense, whether it was canea form or hieroglyphics
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or stone tablets that could not be transported easily. So
much of what we know was not written on a paper.
The Dead Sea scrolls that we later unveiled and read.
So much of it was the Homeric tradition of telling
stories from generation to generation. It's an art I cannot get.
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Jab On, there we go, JB.
Speaker 7 (05:21):
You're up.
Speaker 8 (05:23):
Good morning, Michael. I really liked the guests you just had.
That Barbara was excellent. It reminded me of something that
I thank you and your listeners will appreciate. I was
a personal trainer and health club manager for twenty five
years and that story from Larry to Barber reminded me
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about what I miss. You have a trainer, so you
understand where I'm coming from You meet with your client
at least once a week, sometimes two or three times
a week, and you have conversations and at first, you know,
you just get to know each other. Once you really
know each other, you get a lot more in depth
and you're each you are basically each other's therapist because
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I don't know my clients friends and family, and my
clients don't know my friends and family, so we can
be straight up and honest with each other where that
kind of conversation almost doesn't exist outside of a therapist environment.
So you really get down to things. And it was
very fulfilling, you know, the two way street, and it
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was so it was so rewarding in that way, and
that's what I missed the most. And it's very interesting
to hear Larry say basically say the same thing. So
more power to Larry and I love your show.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Thank you, mom man. I appreciate you saying that. I
never grow tired of hearing anyone say that. People people
wonder Pete michael By show go ahead, Hey.
Speaker 10 (06:54):
There, Michael A. And I was working for the government.
I was working at a submarine based on the East
coast and there's a few barbers in town so lunchtime,
I'd go get a haircut every once in a while.
And one day I went into this one barber shop
that somebody referred me to, and I'm sitting there and
I'm waiting. There's a couple other guys waiting, and this
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young black maybe probably third class, walks in and he
says to the barber, he says, how long is the
waiting And the barber looked at him and said, son,
it's going to be a long time, and didn't hit
me until I thought about it, and the kid's face
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went blank. He walked out.
Speaker 8 (07:38):
I walked out.
Speaker 10 (07:39):
One other person walked out. It's pretty sad. And this
isn't this wasn't long ago. This is probably maybe fifteen
years ago. So so yeah, he didn't get my business anymore.
But the way he said that for that.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
You've got corn pop was a bad dude. The Michael
Berry Show got read the emails I'm getting. Everybody has
a barbershop story, and not one of them says, yeah,
I like to go to a barbershop that's got that's
in the newest strip center, it's got the newest code
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of paint, it's got the most modern features, it's got
Ai interactive screen technology. Not one person says that, you
know what I read? Oh, I got this guy over here.
He's still got paneled walls. You can smell the cigarette smoke.
You got Lanolin or whatever that stuff is. One of
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them says, I go in and if they don't have this,
I don't trust them. The Pinot brand, Clubman finest powder.
That's how you know it's fancy. You remember that, this
dude right here. I like stuff that passes itself off
as fancy to poor people because that's what I grew
up on and it makes me happy.
Speaker 11 (08:58):
Only the finest for you, you brute by Faberge. Yeah, yeah,
Rolling rights Zar. I'll just list the points I tried
to call in, but the lines were all busy. I
grew up in West Texas, San Angelo. There was a
barber college there circle in nineteen sixty five. You don't
want to hear this one when I'm listening.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
My father would take my older brother and me in
every two weeks in the summer for a buzz cut.
It was twenty five cents apiece unless the student barber
cut you, then it was free. My dad would tell
us to keep moving until they cut us. If dad
had to pay fifty cents, he'd be pissed all day.
You didn't want that rolling baker. Joe Vento rights Zar.
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I get my hair cut at the VA every twenty
eight days by James. What's nice about barbers is that
they're neutral in conversations. They hear, listen and talk about
my problems and his. I don't like them to talk
about their problems. I don't go there to hear their problems.
Michael Wrights El Tasino. I had to pull over to
send this note. Was Jesse at the Avalon barbershop. I
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think that's what my grandfather used forever. I had to
cut there once, and I too enjoyed that massage. He
ran on your head and shoulders afterwards with that handheld vibrator.
That's correct. Michael Moody second, he's probably one of the
famous Fancy Moodies. I used to go to Jesse because
that's where my mentor, Walter's everally got his haircut, and
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Jesse was helping me. I was running for city council
and I would coordinate my haircut for right before Ben Love,
and so I'd go and Ben Love would arrive early,
or I'd coordinate. If I couldn't get that, I'd coordinate
for right after Ben Love. So I'd come in and
i'd sit down and Ben Love would be getting his haircut,
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and I'd walk in and Jesse would We'd had this
song and dance routine and Ben Love had been getting
his haircut by Jesse for many, many years. And I'd
walk in and sit down and act like I didn't
even notice Ben Love was sitting there, and Jess she
would say, Hey, Michael Barry, how's our next city councilor
how's my friend boy? It's good to see you, and
Ben Love would look at me and I'd say, oh,
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mister Love, Hi, how are you like? I had no idea,
but it was all scripted. We're all we're planning this
whole thing out. And I would sit there and at
some point you didn't talk to Ben Love. You waited
he talked to you. I mean, this was the chairman
of Texas Commerce Bank. This was a legend, a living legend.
This would have been about ninety nine in two thousand
and then at some point he'd say, how's a campaign going.
It's pretty good, and I'd drop a couple of names
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of people I had supporting me, so I can get
him to support me. Or i'd say, well, it's going well.
I'm trying to get in to see Jack Trotter. I
can't get I don't have anybody that's got access to
Jack Trotter knowing good well about anybody he couldn't get
me access to. Or I'm trying to get access to
Jack Blenton, but I just I'm not able. I'm not
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going to give up. But he'd go, yeah, I'm trouble
with Jack Blynn. Tell you what, call my office late
this morning. I remember, I can't remember. It wasn't Margaret,
can't remember what his secretary's name was, but he's a
call my office this afternoon, and Francino will tell you
what to do. And I'd call over. And in those
days this prem you know, you didn't. It wasn't phones
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and computers and all that. It was old fashioned. Somebody
said they were going to do something, they did it,
and so you'd call and Francine or whatever her name was,
would say, mister Blanton asked if you could come by
his office at four o'clock, Yes I can, And there
I'd go to Quintina Oh and be waiting and Jack
Clinton's look at you like you little some of them?
What can I do for you? I just want you
to support me for city council. Done and get out
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of my office. He didn't do that, Corby Robertson Boom.
That's how I went through, and that's how I ended up.
People thought I was a scion of a wealthy Houston
family because when I announced February twenty second, two thousand
and one, I was running for city council, and we
announced our list of endorsements, and I dare say it
would blow you out of the water. The big names.
If you were a big name in Houston, you were
still alive. You were supporting me. And that was how
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I did it. Little stuff like that, good good times,
John in Alabama. You've waited so long. I'm going to
give you a minute or two.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Go ahead, brother, Oh signs and wonders here? Can you
hear me? All right?
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Oh yeah?
Speaker 7 (13:07):
Hold on?
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Can you give them my signs of wonders intro? Because
he waited so patiently, and then Andrew, with his little
autistic self, tell him to hold on. All right, go ahead,
I wait, hold on, hold home.
Speaker 12 (13:22):
Told damn money had come money, and the drugs. It's
just him beyond everything.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
What it mean? What's it leading to?
Speaker 12 (13:31):
I don't know if you'd have told me twenty years ago.
I've seen children walk in the streets of our Texas
towns with their green hair, bones and their noses.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
I just flat out with in't the bleak signs and wonders.
But I think once you can wait here in sir
and ma'am, the rest of them to follow. Oh, it's
the tad. It's the dismal pad.
Speaker 12 (13:51):
It is not the one thing, the one thing, signs,
signs and wonders.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
All right, John, take it away.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
It's the additional from Illinois, and there was a There
are multiple people who have been arrested for this. They
make I feel bad to mention this after the Norman
Rockwell barber story. But monkey torture.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Poorn have you heard of this?
Speaker 3 (14:24):
The woman was arrested and this was in Illinois. There
are people from New Hampshire, Tennessee. They make videos of
monkeys being mutilated and in ways I don't even want
to discuss.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
No, no, no, they're talking about corporal punishment of primates.
They're not talking about what you.
Speaker 11 (14:44):
Think prosen putting on a stake, the Michael Verry Show,
Jello Brand pudding pops, maybe the goodness of real jello pudding.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Man, it's just beautiful writing. That's that's in the Cormack
McCarthy and Larry McMurtry genre of just pretty storytelling. From Oakmulgy, Oklahoma.
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I love that song so much. We lost Andrew in
the mix. It's the holiday season. Andrew is full blown
on the spectrum.
Speaker 7 (15:33):
You know.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
I've gotten to the point now where I'd pretty much
rather sit and dissect somebody on the spectrum than anything else.
I'm fascinated because you'll find little areas of genius that
you want. Most people just kind of muddling along on medium,
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you know, fair to Midland. But you'll find one of
those people that can't. I remember reading an article galoshes
are known as rubbers, and the little girl next door
would would have to tell Albert Einstein to put on
his rubbers because he would forget to put his rubber
boots on and go walking out in the water in
a front of his little girl. And that didn't seem
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weird to me at the time, but I guess now
telling the story does sound a little odd, doesn't it.
But anyway, you know, one of the things I have
found is that really, really, really creative people are often
almost never quote unquote normal, and normal people love to
point that out. They love to point out, I go,
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he got cocaine conviction. Okay, yeah, he's written ten great
songs too. Well, you got that cocaine conviction. Okay, you
got none? You what is interesting about you? I'm just saying, yeah,
cocaine cobe. What you're trying to do is tear him
down because you are both a super fan and jealous
raging on him. How about everybody's got a failing and
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one of those feelings, maybe never having dared to try anything.
Maybe that, maybe we'll look at that. Maybe we don't
tear people down who've done great things but also fallen mightily.
I don't know, just an idea, Johnny, Just sir, What.
Speaker 7 (17:21):
You got Chad and curl and hair kit in place
in Waller? Yeah, you go in there and it's the
all day affair when you get your haircit it's truly
Chad and curl.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Oh, Chat and curl. Okay, the chat man became Chad
to me. Okay, all right, Chat and curl. Okay, they
have women in there.
Speaker 7 (17:41):
Oh definitely no.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Sorry.
Speaker 7 (17:42):
I used to go in there with my grandmother and
it was I just sit there half a dazingly.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Well, if you've got a good memory, I don't want
to poop on that. I'll leave it at that. I
don't want women to me there is it is sacrosanct.
There are male only places. And not only that. I
don't trust or like men who want to bring women
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to men only stuff. I do a men only poker knight,
and there's always some dude, and I say it very clearly,
this is only men. You cannot bring your wife. There
are no women invited. This is men only. I say
it very particularly in some some of the wives of hey,
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how come we can't come? How come you even know
about it? Which means he, like a cook, showed her
the post or showed her the text. How about just
I'm going and it's I think it's probably dude's only
end I want to go. I don't think it's yeah, yeah,
ask him. No, look here it is it says it
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no women, or we'll actually ask, hey, can we bring
our wives?
Speaker 7 (19:00):
No?
Speaker 2 (19:02):
I love my wife, you love your wife. But there
is a different experience for a guys only versus a
couple's dinner or poker night, or hunting trip or fishing
trip or ballgame visiting. There are two very different things.
I don't cuss in front of my wife. I don't
want you to cuss in front of my wife. I
don't speak about graphic things in front of my wife.
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I don't want you speaking about graphic things in front
of my wife. We're at church, dress up with my
wife's around. That's how I want it, not how she
asked for it. That's how I want it. That's how
I operate. That's how I was raised, and that's how
I operate. And that's that's just that. That's how I
behave around women. I am formal, respectful always. You don't
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cross that line now when it's just the guys, raunchy language, whiskey, cigars, obnoxious, Okay,
that's just it. That's the way it works. But if
I'm going to a bar shop, I don't want many
women up under them with them rollers on, up under
their Harper Valley Pta Kennedy. I'm not doing that. I
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can't have it. That's where the money's at though, really,
that's that's really where the money's at uh. I want
to tell you this, if you get a minute this weekend.
I've been studying graduation speeches Eric Church. I can't name
one song by Eric Church, so that's not an insult
of him. It's just he's a modern I guess, a
modern country guy. He's a big deal. He gave the
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graduation address at the University of North Carolina, and there's
almost not a graduation address that has ever been talked
about that I have not watched. And the best one
I've ever seen, and this is going to surprise you,
the best one I've ever seen is Lou Holtz. Lou Holtz,
the coach, was the speaker at a little Catholic Christian
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at a Catholic school, and I don't know what his
connection was to it. The Francis whatever. It is the
best graduation speech I have ever heard. It is so
so good and so profound. The second best I've ever heard.
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If you got one you want to send me, that's fine,
but I will tell you I've probably seen it. Second
best I've ever seen was Eric Church with a guitar
and six strings, eighteen minutes long, finishes the song. I
don't know if it's one of his hits about Carolina.
He has a real connection to North Carolina. You can
tell it, man, I'm gonna tell there was gonna dry
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in the house when he was done. It was amazing. Oh,
we got it. We have Sandy.
Speaker 8 (21:43):
This is fine.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
I'm trying making it, Sandy.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
This is a lyrical Yes.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Can can you hold on just a moment? You're gonna
be first, coming up? Ladies first? Do you sound like
a lady the Michael Barry Show, Simple man, Sandy, you
are up first, sweetheart? Be Flora? Is yours?
Speaker 4 (22:11):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (22:12):
All right, take it away. Hello, Yep, you're up. I'm yes, ma'am.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Hello there, Michael.
Speaker 8 (22:24):
Hi, Here are you hellover?
Speaker 6 (22:26):
I'm well.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
I just called in to tell you that you're our
favorite show. We love your show. Here You've got We
like that you combine humor with the news of the day.
And I wanted to share with you that this was
a butt doll.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
I tried to call you one hundred times. And I
were leaving town to go to my son's college graduation,
and I was calling my sister to tell her we
were on the road, and all of a sudden, I
all started talking to me and I was like.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Flabbergusted, that's hilarious. Where are y'all? Where is the graduation.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
Texas State in St. Marcus?
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Uh huh yea.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
He's graduating. He's graduating man cum Lottie computer science and
applied mathematics. He's good looking, he's personal, he is the
finest candidate anybody could find. And he's looking for a
computer science job in Austin, Texas.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Well, I could probably help you on all of that,
except for Austin, Texas.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
I know, I know, I've got I've.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Got a very good friend by the name of Mike
Bowman who owns a company called Hunt and Hunt, And
I know that fantastic company. They make uh drilling guns
for downhol drilling, and it's a perforated gun. They they
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they work for slumberj Schlumberge and and Halliburton and different
companies like that. And they put a gun down into
the ground and it's perforted and then out of the holes.
As it goes out, it shoots these vertical lines. And
each gun is kind of a one and done use.
And he has there's only three people left in the
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world that do what he does. And the way they
say that this American company does this. The way they
did that is years ago. He embraced robotics and he
bought one machine, and in time he bought more and
more and more. And that's that's why he's a big
believer that these machine shops have to embrace AI. I'm
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not AI robotics in order to be able to scale
up and things like that. But he is one of
the biggest two or three biggest donors of all time
to Texas State.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
Wow, okay, how do I connect?
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Well, he's in Houston.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
Though he's in Houston. Well, we're from Houston, I know.
But he should come back home. He might, he might
come back home. We've we're rather than be in Houston
and Austin.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
But all right, I'm going to put you on Hold's
gonna get your phone number in your email address, and
I will I will, I will connect you with Mike
Bowman and see if we can do something. It is
graduation season. Let me give you my graduation advice. This
is not our graduation special, obviously, we'll do that next week,
but it is graduation time and a number of you
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out there are looking to help your little boy or
little girl entering into the world do something and whatever
that may be, whether it's an internship or whether it's
a job. And I'm going to give you the best
advice you're gonna get. And nobody else is gonna give
you this honest advice. But here you go. Number one,
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your kid needs to reach out and ask, not you.
So that means especially moms will do this, but DA's
will do it too, And I've been guilty of it
in myself in the past. You will reach you will
want to reach out and help your kid. Your kid
has got to do that. Now, if your kid is
incapable of doing that, you have to ask yourself, have
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I failed as a parent? Hey, Bobby, you know John
down the street owns a company that does exactly what
you want to do. Why don't you walk over there
and tell him you're interested in what they do and
see if you might come and follow him for a
day or two and see if it's a good match.
If your kid cannot do that, you have to ask
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yourself if you've failed as a parent. Of my two kids,
Michael tin Crockett, they have different skill sets, different interests,
different two different kids. And if you have two kids,
anybody that's had two kids. You know, even two boys
or two girls, they can be very different. Raised in
the same home, Crockett would walk up to Donald Trump
and air pistol him and give him knuckles, and he
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would want Donald Trump to know that it should be
Donald Trump's honor to get to meet Crockett. Michael is
a leave people alone, don't bother them. I'm not going
up to talk to somebody I don't already know. He's
more private, doesn't want to be uh. He doesn't want
to be known, he doesn't want to be exalted. He
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doesn't want to be called out of the crowd. They're
very different people. But because of that, and because I
believe that you need to be able to get in
any door. He's had too since he was litle, and
he didn't always like it. I need you to go
up and ask the manager if we can get this
to go. Dad, I don't want to do that. You
want to go, don't? Yeah, I don't want it to
go anymore. Now you do want it to go. I
need you to go ask the manager for to go packaging. Oh, Dad,
(27:28):
I don't want any more. You do want it, Crockett,
you go ask, Nope, you go ask it's never too early.
It's never too late to teach your kid to be
able to walk up and interact with somebody and win
them over. You're not going to be able to do
that for them their entire lives. You're just not going
to be able to do that. At some point. Mommy
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and Daddy are not going to be there. Number one,
Make your kid reach out. Number two, there's not out
there in the ether a job. Very few jobs are
secured through indeed or monster or whatever else. And I'm
going to tell you, as somebody who has hired a
lot of people over the years, I don't hire off
of those pages. I don't even need a resume. I
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don't want a resbmey, I don't care what your resume is.
I honestly don't. I want to look you in the eye.
I want to have a five minute conversation. I can
tell you within one minute whether I'm gonna hire you
or not. Every time I have a good gut sense
and I'm very very very very rarely wrong. Can you
look me in the eye. I tell if you're a
recovered addict and not sure if you're gonna fall off
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the wagon, I can tell early on I can tell
if you're a dishonest person. I've been wrong, but rarely
there's a job waiting. There's an opportunity waiting, and it
may be somebody you know. If you don't feel comfortable
asking them, go to work for free. Offer to work
for free and do it. You don't have anything to
lose anyway, you're just laying around. Don't let kids lay
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around the house. That's a terrible idea of parents, a
terrible idea. You're gonna find something to do. I don't.
There's nothing beneath you. You're gonna go work at a
fast food restaurant, you can go bad groceries. You're gonna
go wait tables. Those places are all looking for somebody,
and guess what You're gonna get turned down. That's a
great life skill right there, learning to get back up
after rejection. I had my guys at Redstone, the credit
(29:14):
card processing peoples. The hardest thing to teach young people
in sales is you know, you bat three hundred and
you're in the Hall of fame. That means seven times
you got rejected.
Speaker 8 (29:27):
Get back up.
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load Michael
Varry Show is on the air.
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In fact, drunk and stupid is no where to.
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Speaker 2 (02:06):
Barrows, John Andrew, Vanessa and JB. Thank you for your
patience so I will get to you in just a moment.
James del Monte writes Zora, I talked to a friend
of mine, Liz in Smithville, and yes everyone knows Larry
the barber. I know a story from Doug Miller. He
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didn't want me to mention a guy's name, he says.
When I was a cadet, we had to get a
high and tight Every Thursday. There was a barbershop south
of campus called Southgate barbershop. There were four or five
barbers in there, but the best was me and Jean.
You'd have to wait for him. Did the straight razor
with the phone now mean Jean drank a little? I think,
so you'd have to time. It was a little shaky
early and a little sloppy late. But if you hit
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him in his sweet spot, it was nobody better. Should
you happen to tell this on air? Maybe omit his name.
I'm sure he's passed by now. I'd hate for a
loved one to think he's being disparaged. Well, I assure
you mean Jene is not being disparaged. He's being remembered.
Never get all right, we'll make them quick, so everybody
gets on. John, you're up. Go ahead, sir.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
This is a Signs and Wonders kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Oh, don hold on. I'm gonna end this segment with
you so I don't have to rush you. Wait right there,
I didn't realize that was you. We'll even give you
a Signs and Wonders intro. Just hang right there, Andrew,
go hey, Michael, how are you doing good?
Speaker 6 (03:20):
I just wanted to call in.
Speaker 8 (03:22):
The great so you've had it and listened to twenty twelve,
and if you've inspired me to kind of feel the community.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Andrew, you were. I put you on hold the other
day so I didn't have to rush the call. Then
I went to the other call and you hung up.
Speaker 6 (03:36):
You'll get the reference.
Speaker 8 (03:36):
I had to change.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
I had to learn to change one diaper.
Speaker 6 (03:40):
I wanted to change a diaper with one hand tied
behind my back.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
You got it done. Wait right there, you're gonna be
up after John. Wait right there. I don't want to
have to rush you. Vanessa, you're up, Michael. Yes.
Speaker 9 (03:53):
I grew up in the Missouri Ozarks in the sixties
and seventies, and I looked in a little bit of
town and the only barbara in town was Dean, and
he did everybody's hair, and my uncle would even drive from.
Speaker 6 (04:06):
Saint Louis, which is about four hours away. Well, he
died some years back, after he probably practiced for fifty years,
and his wife, who was still living at the time
and since past, told my lifelong best friend and me
that Dean had a diary that he'd written in every
night after he came home from the barbershop for almost
fifty years. We're dying. Be a hold of it, and
(04:28):
I'm sure we can't because why should like him people
of integrity to make a good story.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
It does, and at the end of the day, it's
the stories that live with us, right, I mean, it's
the stories that we recall. That's how history was passed.
People forget this. We didn't have books. Much of what
we study as history was not reduced to writing in
the traditional sense, whether it was canea form or hieroglyphics
(04:57):
or stone tablets that could not be transported easily. So
much of what we know was not written on a paper.
The Dead Sea scrolls that we later unveiled and read.
So much of it was the Homeric tradition of telling
stories from generation to generation. It's an art I cannot get.
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Jab On, there we go, JB.
Speaker 7 (05:21):
You're up.
Speaker 8 (05:23):
Good morning, Michael. I really liked the guests you just had.
That Barbara was excellent. It reminded me of something that
I thank you and your listeners will appreciate. I was
a personal trainer and health club manager for twenty five
years and that story from Larry to Barber reminded me
(05:44):
about what I miss. You have a trainer, so you
understand where I'm coming from You meet with your client
at least once a week, sometimes two or three times
a week, and you have conversations and at first, you know,
you just get to know each other. Once you really
know each other, you get a lot more in depth
and you're each you are basically each other's therapist because
(06:09):
I don't know my clients friends and family, and my
clients don't know my friends and family, so we can
be straight up and honest with each other where that
kind of conversation almost doesn't exist outside of a therapist environment.
So you really get down to things. And it was
very fulfilling, you know, the two way street, and it
(06:29):
was so it was so rewarding in that way, and
that's what I missed the most. And it's very interesting
to hear Larry say basically say the same thing. So
more power to Larry and I love your show.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Thank you, mom man. I appreciate you saying that. I
never grow tired of hearing anyone say that. People people
wonder Pete michael By show go ahead, Hey.
Speaker 10 (06:54):
There, Michael A. And I was working for the government.
I was working at a submarine based on the East
coast and there's a few barbers in town so lunchtime,
I'd go get a haircut every once in a while.
And one day I went into this one barber shop
that somebody referred me to, and I'm sitting there and
I'm waiting. There's a couple other guys waiting, and this
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young black maybe probably third class, walks in and he
says to the barber, he says, how long is the
waiting And the barber looked at him and said, son,
it's going to be a long time, and didn't hit
me until I thought about it, and the kid's face
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went blank. He walked out.
Speaker 8 (07:38):
I walked out.
Speaker 10 (07:39):
One other person walked out. It's pretty sad. And this
isn't this wasn't long ago. This is probably maybe fifteen
years ago. So so yeah, he didn't get my business anymore.
But the way he said that for that.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
You've got corn pop was a bad dude. The Michael
Berry Show got read the emails I'm getting. Everybody has
a barbershop story, and not one of them says, yeah,
I like to go to a barbershop that's got that's
in the newest strip center, it's got the newest code
(08:16):
of paint, it's got the most modern features, it's got
Ai interactive screen technology. Not one person says that, you
know what I read? Oh, I got this guy over here.
He's still got paneled walls. You can smell the cigarette smoke.
You got Lanolin or whatever that stuff is. One of
(08:38):
them says, I go in and if they don't have this,
I don't trust them. The Pinot brand, Clubman finest powder.
That's how you know it's fancy. You remember that, this
dude right here. I like stuff that passes itself off
as fancy to poor people because that's what I grew
up on and it makes me happy.
Speaker 11 (08:58):
Only the finest for you, you brute by Faberge. Yeah, yeah,
Rolling rights Zar. I'll just list the points I tried
to call in, but the lines were all busy. I
grew up in West Texas, San Angelo. There was a
barber college there circle in nineteen sixty five. You don't
want to hear this one when I'm listening.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
My father would take my older brother and me in
every two weeks in the summer for a buzz cut.
It was twenty five cents apiece unless the student barber
cut you, then it was free. My dad would tell
us to keep moving until they cut us. If dad
had to pay fifty cents, he'd be pissed all day.
You didn't want that rolling baker. Joe Vento rights Zar.
(09:42):
I get my hair cut at the VA every twenty
eight days by James. What's nice about barbers is that
they're neutral in conversations. They hear, listen and talk about
my problems and his. I don't like them to talk
about their problems. I don't go there to hear their problems.
Michael Wrights El Tasino. I had to pull over to
send this note. Was Jesse at the Avalon barbershop. I
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think that's what my grandfather used forever. I had to
cut there once, and I too enjoyed that massage. He
ran on your head and shoulders afterwards with that handheld vibrator.
That's correct. Michael Moody second, he's probably one of the
famous Fancy Moodies. I used to go to Jesse because
that's where my mentor, Walter's everally got his haircut, and
(10:26):
Jesse was helping me. I was running for city council
and I would coordinate my haircut for right before Ben Love,
and so I'd go and Ben Love would arrive early,
or I'd coordinate. If I couldn't get that, I'd coordinate
for right after Ben Love. So I'd come in and
i'd sit down and Ben Love would be getting his haircut,
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and I'd walk in and Jesse would We'd had this
song and dance routine and Ben Love had been getting
his haircut by Jesse for many, many years. And I'd
walk in and sit down and act like I didn't
even notice Ben Love was sitting there, and Jess she
would say, Hey, Michael Barry, how's our next city councilor
how's my friend boy? It's good to see you, and
Ben Love would look at me and I'd say, oh,
(11:08):
mister Love, Hi, how are you like? I had no idea,
but it was all scripted. We're all we're planning this
whole thing out. And I would sit there and at
some point you didn't talk to Ben Love. You waited
he talked to you. I mean, this was the chairman
of Texas Commerce Bank. This was a legend, a living legend.
This would have been about ninety nine in two thousand
and then at some point he'd say, how's a campaign going.
It's pretty good, and I'd drop a couple of names
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of people I had supporting me, so I can get
him to support me. Or i'd say, well, it's going well.
I'm trying to get in to see Jack Trotter. I
can't get I don't have anybody that's got access to
Jack Trotter knowing good well about anybody he couldn't get
me access to. Or I'm trying to get access to
Jack Blenton, but I just I'm not able. I'm not
(11:49):
going to give up. But he'd go, yeah, I'm trouble
with Jack Blynn. Tell you what, call my office late
this morning. I remember, I can't remember. It wasn't Margaret,
can't remember what his secretary's name was, but he's a
call my office this afternoon, and Francino will tell you
what to do. And I'd call over. And in those
days this prem you know, you didn't. It wasn't phones
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and computers and all that. It was old fashioned. Somebody
said they were going to do something, they did it,
and so you'd call and Francine or whatever her name was,
would say, mister Blanton asked if you could come by
his office at four o'clock, Yes I can, And there
I'd go to Quintina Oh and be waiting and Jack
Clinton's look at you like you little some of them?
What can I do for you? I just want you
to support me for city council. Done and get out
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of my office. He didn't do that, Corby Robertson Boom.
That's how I went through, and that's how I ended up.
People thought I was a scion of a wealthy Houston
family because when I announced February twenty second, two thousand
and one, I was running for city council, and we
announced our list of endorsements, and I dare say it
would blow you out of the water. The big names.
If you were a big name in Houston, you were
still alive. You were supporting me. And that was how
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I did it. Little stuff like that, good good times,
John in Alabama. You've waited so long. I'm going to
give you a minute or two.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Go ahead, brother, Oh signs and wonders here? Can you
hear me? All right?
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Oh yeah?
Speaker 7 (13:07):
Hold on?
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Can you give them my signs of wonders intro? Because
he waited so patiently, and then Andrew, with his little
autistic self, tell him to hold on. All right, go ahead,
I wait, hold on, hold home.
Speaker 12 (13:22):
Told damn money had come money, and the drugs. It's
just him beyond everything.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
What it mean? What's it leading to?
Speaker 12 (13:31):
I don't know if you'd have told me twenty years ago.
I've seen children walk in the streets of our Texas
towns with their green hair, bones and their noses.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
I just flat out with in't the bleak signs and wonders.
But I think once you can wait here in sir
and ma'am, the rest of them to follow. Oh, it's
the tad. It's the dismal pad.
Speaker 12 (13:51):
It is not the one thing, the one thing, signs,
signs and wonders.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
All right, John, take it away.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
It's the additional from Illinois, and there was a There
are multiple people who have been arrested for this. They
make I feel bad to mention this after the Norman
Rockwell barber story. But monkey torture.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Poorn have you heard of this?
Speaker 3 (14:24):
The woman was arrested and this was in Illinois. There
are people from New Hampshire, Tennessee. They make videos of
monkeys being mutilated and in ways I don't even want
to discuss.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
No, no, no, they're talking about corporal punishment of primates.
They're not talking about what you.
Speaker 11 (14:44):
Think prosen putting on a stake, the Michael Verry Show,
Jello Brand pudding pops, maybe the goodness of real jello pudding.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Man, it's just beautiful writing. That's that's in the Cormack
McCarthy and Larry McMurtry genre of just pretty storytelling. From Oakmulgy, Oklahoma.
(15:15):
I love that song so much. We lost Andrew in
the mix. It's the holiday season. Andrew is full blown
on the spectrum.
Speaker 7 (15:33):
You know.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
I've gotten to the point now where I'd pretty much
rather sit and dissect somebody on the spectrum than anything else.
I'm fascinated because you'll find little areas of genius that
you want. Most people just kind of muddling along on medium,
(15:53):
you know, fair to Midland. But you'll find one of
those people that can't. I remember reading an article galoshes
are known as rubbers, and the little girl next door
would would have to tell Albert Einstein to put on
his rubbers because he would forget to put his rubber
boots on and go walking out in the water in
a front of his little girl. And that didn't seem
(16:16):
weird to me at the time, but I guess now
telling the story does sound a little odd, doesn't it.
But anyway, you know, one of the things I have
found is that really, really, really creative people are often
almost never quote unquote normal, and normal people love to
point that out. They love to point out, I go,
(16:39):
he got cocaine conviction. Okay, yeah, he's written ten great
songs too. Well, you got that cocaine conviction. Okay, you
got none? You what is interesting about you? I'm just saying, yeah,
cocaine cobe. What you're trying to do is tear him
down because you are both a super fan and jealous
raging on him. How about everybody's got a failing and
(17:03):
one of those feelings, maybe never having dared to try anything.
Maybe that, maybe we'll look at that. Maybe we don't
tear people down who've done great things but also fallen mightily.
I don't know, just an idea, Johnny, Just sir, What.
Speaker 7 (17:21):
You got Chad and curl and hair kit in place
in Waller? Yeah, you go in there and it's the
all day affair when you get your haircit it's truly
Chad and curl.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Oh, Chat and curl. Okay, the chat man became Chad
to me. Okay, all right, Chat and curl. Okay, they
have women in there.
Speaker 7 (17:41):
Oh definitely no.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Sorry.
Speaker 7 (17:42):
I used to go in there with my grandmother and
it was I just sit there half a dazingly.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Well, if you've got a good memory, I don't want
to poop on that. I'll leave it at that. I
don't want women to me there is it is sacrosanct.
There are male only places. And not only that. I
don't trust or like men who want to bring women
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to men only stuff. I do a men only poker knight,
and there's always some dude, and I say it very clearly,
this is only men. You cannot bring your wife. There
are no women invited. This is men only. I say
it very particularly in some some of the wives of hey,
(18:33):
how come we can't come? How come you even know
about it? Which means he, like a cook, showed her
the post or showed her the text. How about just
I'm going and it's I think it's probably dude's only
end I want to go. I don't think it's yeah, yeah,
ask him. No, look here it is it says it
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no women, or we'll actually ask, hey, can we bring
our wives?
Speaker 7 (19:00):
No?
Speaker 2 (19:02):
I love my wife, you love your wife. But there
is a different experience for a guys only versus a
couple's dinner or poker night, or hunting trip or fishing
trip or ballgame visiting. There are two very different things.
I don't cuss in front of my wife. I don't
want you to cuss in front of my wife. I
don't speak about graphic things in front of my wife.
(19:23):
I don't want you speaking about graphic things in front
of my wife. We're at church, dress up with my
wife's around. That's how I want it, not how she
asked for it. That's how I want it. That's how
I operate. That's how I was raised, and that's how
I operate. And that's that's just that. That's how I
behave around women. I am formal, respectful always. You don't
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cross that line now when it's just the guys, raunchy language, whiskey, cigars, obnoxious, Okay,
that's just it. That's the way it works. But if
I'm going to a bar shop, I don't want many
women up under them with them rollers on, up under
their Harper Valley Pta Kennedy. I'm not doing that. I
(20:07):
can't have it. That's where the money's at though, really,
that's that's really where the money's at uh. I want
to tell you this, if you get a minute this weekend.
I've been studying graduation speeches Eric Church. I can't name
one song by Eric Church, so that's not an insult
of him. It's just he's a modern I guess, a
modern country guy. He's a big deal. He gave the
(20:30):
graduation address at the University of North Carolina, and there's
almost not a graduation address that has ever been talked
about that I have not watched. And the best one
I've ever seen, and this is going to surprise you,
the best one I've ever seen is Lou Holtz. Lou Holtz,
the coach, was the speaker at a little Catholic Christian
(20:55):
at a Catholic school, and I don't know what his
connection was to it. The Francis whatever. It is the
best graduation speech I have ever heard. It is so
so good and so profound. The second best I've ever heard.
(21:16):
If you got one you want to send me, that's fine,
but I will tell you I've probably seen it. Second
best I've ever seen was Eric Church with a guitar
and six strings, eighteen minutes long, finishes the song. I
don't know if it's one of his hits about Carolina.
He has a real connection to North Carolina. You can
tell it, man, I'm gonna tell there was gonna dry
(21:36):
in the house when he was done. It was amazing. Oh,
we got it. We have Sandy.
Speaker 8 (21:43):
This is fine.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
I'm trying making it, Sandy.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
This is a lyrical Yes.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Can can you hold on just a moment? You're gonna
be first, coming up? Ladies first? Do you sound like
a lady the Michael Barry Show, Simple man, Sandy, you
are up first, sweetheart? Be Flora? Is yours?
Speaker 4 (22:11):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (22:12):
All right, take it away. Hello, Yep, you're up. I'm yes, ma'am.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Hello there, Michael.
Speaker 8 (22:24):
Hi, Here are you hellover?
Speaker 6 (22:26):
I'm well.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
I just called in to tell you that you're our
favorite show. We love your show. Here You've got We
like that you combine humor with the news of the day.
And I wanted to share with you that this was
a butt doll.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
I tried to call you one hundred times. And I
were leaving town to go to my son's college graduation,
and I was calling my sister to tell her we
were on the road, and all of a sudden, I
all started talking to me and I was like.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Flabbergusted, that's hilarious. Where are y'all? Where is the graduation.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
Texas State in St. Marcus?
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Uh huh yea.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
He's graduating. He's graduating man cum Lottie computer science and
applied mathematics. He's good looking, he's personal, he is the
finest candidate anybody could find. And he's looking for a
computer science job in Austin, Texas.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Well, I could probably help you on all of that,
except for Austin, Texas.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
I know, I know, I've got I've.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Got a very good friend by the name of Mike
Bowman who owns a company called Hunt and Hunt, And
I know that fantastic company. They make uh drilling guns
for downhol drilling, and it's a perforated gun. They they
(23:47):
they work for slumberj Schlumberge and and Halliburton and different
companies like that. And they put a gun down into
the ground and it's perforted and then out of the holes.
As it goes out, it shoots these vertical lines. And
each gun is kind of a one and done use.
And he has there's only three people left in the
(24:09):
world that do what he does. And the way they
say that this American company does this. The way they
did that is years ago. He embraced robotics and he
bought one machine, and in time he bought more and
more and more. And that's that's why he's a big
believer that these machine shops have to embrace AI. I'm
(24:30):
not AI robotics in order to be able to scale
up and things like that. But he is one of
the biggest two or three biggest donors of all time
to Texas State.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
Wow, okay, how do I connect?
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Well, he's in Houston.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
Though he's in Houston. Well, we're from Houston, I know.
But he should come back home. He might, he might
come back home. We've we're rather than be in Houston
and Austin.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
But all right, I'm going to put you on Hold's
gonna get your phone number in your email address, and
I will I will, I will connect you with Mike
Bowman and see if we can do something. It is
graduation season. Let me give you my graduation advice. This
is not our graduation special, obviously, we'll do that next week,
but it is graduation time and a number of you
(25:16):
out there are looking to help your little boy or
little girl entering into the world do something and whatever
that may be, whether it's an internship or whether it's
a job. And I'm going to give you the best
advice you're gonna get. And nobody else is gonna give
you this honest advice. But here you go. Number one,
(25:39):
your kid needs to reach out and ask, not you.
So that means especially moms will do this, but DA's
will do it too, And I've been guilty of it
in myself in the past. You will reach you will
want to reach out and help your kid. Your kid
has got to do that. Now, if your kid is
incapable of doing that, you have to ask yourself, have
(26:00):
I failed as a parent? Hey, Bobby, you know John
down the street owns a company that does exactly what
you want to do. Why don't you walk over there
and tell him you're interested in what they do and
see if you might come and follow him for a
day or two and see if it's a good match.
If your kid cannot do that, you have to ask
(26:21):
yourself if you've failed as a parent. Of my two kids,
Michael tin Crockett, they have different skill sets, different interests,
different two different kids. And if you have two kids,
anybody that's had two kids. You know, even two boys
or two girls, they can be very different. Raised in
the same home, Crockett would walk up to Donald Trump
and air pistol him and give him knuckles, and he
(26:44):
would want Donald Trump to know that it should be
Donald Trump's honor to get to meet Crockett. Michael is
a leave people alone, don't bother them. I'm not going
up to talk to somebody I don't already know. He's
more private, doesn't want to be uh. He doesn't want
to be known, he doesn't want to be exalted. He
(27:06):
doesn't want to be called out of the crowd. They're
very different people. But because of that, and because I
believe that you need to be able to get in
any door. He's had too since he was litle, and
he didn't always like it. I need you to go
up and ask the manager if we can get this
to go. Dad, I don't want to do that. You
want to go, don't? Yeah, I don't want it to
go anymore. Now you do want it to go. I
need you to go ask the manager for to go packaging. Oh, Dad,
(27:28):
I don't want any more. You do want it, Crockett,
you go ask, Nope, you go ask it's never too early.
It's never too late to teach your kid to be
able to walk up and interact with somebody and win
them over. You're not going to be able to do
that for them their entire lives. You're just not going
to be able to do that. At some point. Mommy
(27:49):
and Daddy are not going to be there. Number one,
Make your kid reach out. Number two, there's not out
there in the ether a job. Very few jobs are
secured through indeed or monster or whatever else. And I'm
going to tell you, as somebody who has hired a
lot of people over the years, I don't hire off
of those pages. I don't even need a resume. I
(28:11):
don't want a resbmey, I don't care what your resume is.
I honestly don't. I want to look you in the eye.
I want to have a five minute conversation. I can
tell you within one minute whether I'm gonna hire you
or not. Every time I have a good gut sense
and I'm very very very very rarely wrong. Can you
look me in the eye. I tell if you're a
recovered addict and not sure if you're gonna fall off
(28:32):
the wagon, I can tell early on I can tell
if you're a dishonest person. I've been wrong, but rarely
there's a job waiting. There's an opportunity waiting, and it
may be somebody you know. If you don't feel comfortable
asking them, go to work for free. Offer to work
for free and do it. You don't have anything to
lose anyway, you're just laying around. Don't let kids lay
(28:53):
around the house. That's a terrible idea of parents, a
terrible idea. You're gonna find something to do. I don't.
There's nothing beneath you. You're gonna go work at a
fast food restaurant, you can go bad groceries. You're gonna
go wait tables. Those places are all looking for somebody,
and guess what You're gonna get turned down. That's a
great life skill right there, learning to get back up
after rejection. I had my guys at Redstone, the credit
(29:14):
card processing peoples. The hardest thing to teach young people
in sales is you know, you bat three hundred and
you're in the Hall of fame. That means seven times
you got rejected.
Speaker 8 (29:27):
Get back up.
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