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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Till Michael Varry.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Show is on the air. A fact, drunk and stupid
is no way to go through life.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
So I'm shaking the dust of this crummy little town
off my feet and I'm gonna see the world.
Speaker 5 (00:23):
All my dreams.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
The frig gass water tight.
Speaker 6 (00:31):
By a yes, we believe it is bad.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
I'm going to steady my French kiss.
Speaker 7 (00:45):
So everybody does that.
Speaker 5 (00:46):
Yeah, But Daddy says I'm the best daddys.
Speaker 8 (00:49):
A careful man is a fare everybody down the ground.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
We gotta what on the doorscope.
Speaker 6 (00:56):
What the wide wide world.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Of sports is a going.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Busy Sinday Wrights Asian perspective. The ladies also call you Mama.
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David Maulsby sends me a daily report on good news
related to Camp Hope, says Chris Helms of Helms Landscape Design,
which has been a show sponsor of ours in the past,
still a good friend, donated and delivered fifteen beautiful Christmas
trees for our Camp Hope offices and residential areas. This
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is a gift that Chris has provided for our campus
for the past several years, providing the it's beginning to
look a lot like Christmas feel for our veterans. Chris
Helms Helms Landscape Design. He also notes members of the
PTSD Foundation of America's staff attended the Republican Women's Club
of Katie Christmas Celebration luncheon at the Pelasio Maria Events
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Center yesterday. The team spoke to a packed room about
Camp Hope's current mission twenty twenty five goals, and shared
personal testimonies on the restorative Milestones experience at Camp Hope.
The team also joined the group and congratulating GOP elected
officials and enjoyed a Christmas choir program and collected roughly
twenty names from the group interested in touring Camp Hope.
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The group provided items from our Camp Hope Urgent Needs list,
as well as some clothing items for our veterans. Just
so you know, if you're ever looking for a speaker
or your group, whether it be Chamber of Commerce, Kowana's
Neighborhood of Soul, or whatever else, David Maulsby or one
of the team spend a lot of time out in
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the community talking about what's going on at Camp Hope.
They usually bring one of our veterans as well to
share their testimony, and it's a true testimony because it's
a Christian based organization of that why they signed up,
what they saw in war, and how they ended up
where they are, and how Camp Hope has made a difference.
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Yak writes, sitting through a green light makes me irate.
I'm a hot shot driver for a living. So if
you're on your phone or not just paying attention and
you sit through a green light, or you block the
intersection and tie up track at traffic, I will come
on glued and want to rip your head off and
crap down your neck. Nothing is more rude than screwing
up the flow of traffic. Have a great day, Michael,
He comes back with it, have a great day. Logan writes,
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I went demon at the company Christmas party last night.
I'm hung over and looking forward to dragging ass at
work today. So I said, number one, what did you do?
He responded, number one, old fashions and middle lights. Number two,
how much of it? He said, approximately eight old fashions
and seven millers. Number three, what you did? And he said,
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I got ignorant with coworkers, I cut up with the boys.
I lightly flirted with the hot girls. It was also
a casino theme, so I was trying to cheat at blackjack.
Only good night, all right? Your observations on Asians Ramon
very rarely contributes to the show, but this is one
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of those rare occasions. Let me see if I can
find this Where he did? He found this clip from
Dennis Nordon's Laughter File. It's a clip of an actual
news report of a man being confronted by a reporter
for an ad he placed in the newspaper. He's trying
to sell his home and he says, no Asians.
Speaker 7 (04:53):
This Highgate isn't the one in London. It is a
suburb of Adelaide, but it's the adverts last sentence that
brought out local TV reporters crusading instincts.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
I just like to ask you a few questions about
the hair you've got.
Speaker 8 (05:06):
Well, I rather than an answer why not, because I
don't want to I'm not gonna spell.
Speaker 7 (05:11):
By this to anybody over the here.
Speaker 6 (05:14):
Well, I'm not interested in how much you want for
the house. I'm just interested in why you don't want
any Asians to buy it?
Speaker 7 (05:20):
The movie?
Speaker 8 (05:21):
Well, because the simple reason they tootl Asian.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Why don't you want Asians booty into your house? Because
I don't want the Asians.
Speaker 8 (05:29):
Let's say you don't want them, you don't want any They're.
Speaker 6 (05:33):
Just a mom crooks as all there.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
And if there's a law against what you're doing.
Speaker 7 (05:36):
Well, no one has told me that.
Speaker 8 (05:38):
And I'm mean to say, even the age you think
it's wrong, even the Asians himself.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
You said I can have my sign.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Up if if they get up by the sell it,
you won't get it to an Asian person if they
come up with a.
Speaker 7 (05:50):
Buyer his or they interested about it is just to
put the sign up.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
That's all I've had.
Speaker 8 (05:55):
Amasis I haven't knocked them back?
Speaker 6 (05:58):
Well would oh?
Speaker 2 (05:59):
No agents? Did you do you.
Speaker 8 (06:03):
Have a sush I sawry?
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Well that's that's a bad etcetera.
Speaker 8 (06:11):
That's is that what you say?
Speaker 2 (06:13):
No Asians? Now? No, no, they say no agents agents. Sorry, Linda,
you are on the Michael Berry Show. What is your
observation on agent on Asians? Linda, greg you're on the
Michael Berry Show. What is your observation on Asians?
Speaker 6 (06:37):
Hey, Michael, I lived in Thailand and worked there for
three years, and US western guys had a hard fast
rule if if the lady was tall, really good looking
with big boobs, she was a dude.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Al Ebara writes, my daughter in law is Japanese. She
is the smartest and hardest worker I have ever. She
came to America. First job here was a waitress in
a Japanese restaurant. Fifteen years later, she's the CFO of
a major international company here in Houston. She works incredibly hard.
People say I'm a hard worker. She works rings around me.
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I just love her to death. I'm so proud of her. Brian,
you're on the Michael Berry Show. What is your observation
on Asians?
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Well, definitely I am Asian, so I do deserve a
lot of them, and my observation on them is, man,
they just work too damn fucking hard.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Oh oh oh yeah, yeah, we can't let the f
in there. The one Asian guy that calls in and
he breaks the rules, I mean, you got a wonder
on that, right, Yeah, they're supposed to be a good rule.
For he grew up here, he'd been corrupted. You know
that is I'll tell you this. For Indian Americans and
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their kids, that is a conversation that they have and
then they all are all sitting around and say, you know,
it's hard to raise kids in America. You know, they
don't respect their parents. And that's kind of one of
the things that comes up, one of the difficulties of
you know, as if it was perfectly easy to raise
your kid in India, it's not. India has changed as well.
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All these people who've left India and come to the
United States and think that, you know, the kids are
doing They're smoking in too much, they're drinking too much,
they're partying too much, they're you know, chasing the opposite
sex too much. They're the girls are dressing. That's also
going on in India, by the way, because of the
movie culture and the music culture as well, but they
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don't know that because they've left. Michael writes, A friend
of mine dated a girl who was half Japanese. When
he went to her house, he took off one shoe.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Bizarre is on, well done, So this is the Michael
Berry show.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Again.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
So strange. Talked about Sam Minikey earlier in the week,
who passed away this week in the Bass and Minuche Company.
I got a lot of emails from folks. P K writes,
Zara I grew up and passed it in the fifties
and sixties and made frequent trips with my dad to
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Bass and Minukee auto parts store that Sam Minikey and
his partner ed Bass started from nothing. Last time I
talked to mister Minikee, he told me that when he
was new to the car parts business, he sold he
sold Monroe Maatic shock absorbers. These shocks came with rebate
coupons that had legal cash value, and he kept them
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instead of giving him to the buyers. When he had
enough of them together, he made a deal with a
Lincoln Mercury dealer in Houston and bought a new Mercury
wagon with them. Merry Christmas, God blessed you and yours,
and I'm joining you in prayer for mister Jim Mackingville.
Listen carefully if you are well, how about this. If
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you want the number later, you'll have to go back
to the podcast. John Borman writes, I'm looking for an
industrial mechanic to hire. Howdy, I'm currently an industrial mechanic
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Gulf Coast authority in the Pasadena area. I'd love if
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you can send this to if you can send this
off to any industrial places you may have contact with.
So he's looking for an industrial wastewater plant, an industrial
mechanic to hire the phone number eight three to two
eight four six sixty two hundred. Eight three to two
eight four six sixty two hundred. I will gladly connect
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you with a show sponsor if you say, Hey, who
is your show sponsor? Who does medicare services? Who is
your show sponsor? Who's a jewel or who's your show sponsor?
This the gift store in bel Air and sugar Land
Magpies because I can immediately forward that. But when you
ask for details on something that I don't have in
front of me, it's easier when I gave those details
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out to just go back to the podcast and re
listen to the show. That's where you're going to get
the information faster. Your comments on Asians will start at
the top. Charlie, you're on the Michael Berry Show. Your
observation on Asians.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Yeah, I'm a toe truck driver at Harris County and
I see that most Asians drive Japanese cars.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Why do you think that.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Is because they like the Japanese cars? I guess, But
I know a while back, I went to this compartment
complex and it was mostly Asians in there, and I
bet I didn't see two or three American cars. That
are all Japanese cars. I guess they like Japanese cars.
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Most of them like Japanese cars better than American cars.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Interesting. And the people living there were you think they
were Indians? You think they were Vietnamese? What do you
think they were?
Speaker 6 (12:16):
Now?
Speaker 1 (12:16):
The most of them that I seen in there were like,
we're like the Japanese or Chinese or something like that.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
I will tell you that of the immigrants I have
seen who come here, who are say graduate students in engineering,
they won't buy and they're buying entry level cars. They
will not buy a Chevy or Ford or Dodge entry
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level car. They will buy a Toyota, Corolla or a
now a Hyundai. I remember I remember, let's see thirty
years ago, friend of ours friend got married to a
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woman and she bought a Hyundai Sonata and it was
kind of a forest green with a lot of gold
trim on it. And for the price it was, it
looked like a higher It looked it was built with
the finish and the feel of kind of like a
Lincoln Mercury in the seventies or eighties, all the gold
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trim and all that, and kind of meant to look
a little kind of like a sable if you remember
the old sable. They were kind of meant to look elegant,
but it was it was not built well. And that
was when the South Koreans were really making a push
beyond just consumer electronics and automobiles. And I will tell
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you that today, I think they make a much better
vehicle and they have increased their market share. I think
they made the Genesis too, don't they. I think the
Genesis is the Lexus to their Toyota. But I will
say I cannot speak for Chinese and Vietnamese, but I
will actually I can speak for Vietnamese. I will tell you,
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particularly with Indians, when they come here as grad students,
when they first get that first job, they will buy
a Japanese car. It'll be it'll be a small new
Toyota Corolla or Honda Civic. That's something that's going to
be very, very reliable. I will also tell you, and
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I don't know how this happened, but if you notice
black women who will buy a new car, that's that's
in the entry level of the market, they will very
often buy a Chevy, and I think that has a
lot to do with marketing to black women. And you
can see it in the songs they use. You can
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see it as who's driving that vehicle? Marketing that targeted
marketing like that tends to work. But you remember the
Neon Chevy Neon. I swear that car was built for
black women because that was the only people you would
see buying it. And I don't know how they targeted
that marketing, but it worked.
Speaker 6 (15:17):
It worked.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Linda, are you there, because we came to you earlier
and everybody was waiting and it was dead air.
Speaker 7 (15:24):
Yes, I'm here.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
What were you doing?
Speaker 7 (15:29):
I'm sorry? I got a call from the cable company.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Well hold on, what did they want?
Speaker 7 (15:35):
Oh? My cable went out because I got a sense
put in and they cut the cable on.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
And so what did the cable companies say?
Speaker 7 (15:42):
They actually are going to send out a technician. So
that was helpful.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Are they sending them today? Oh? Today, between now and tomorrow?
Speaker 7 (15:51):
Now? They said four to eight, which is convenient.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Yeah, yeah, but I feel like we could tighten that
schedule up. Did you remind them Hey, guys, you're the
cable company. Within five years you won't exist. Maybe maybe
set a little tighter time and call me when you're
on the way.
Speaker 7 (16:06):
Right. Yeah, you know what.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Louis Florie that the tree whisperer does. My wife laughs,
because Louis Florey's assistant all day long. She will call she.
Lewis will say, you know, missus Barry, do you mind
if I forget her name? I think her name is
actually Linda. You might if Linda calls you to set
it up, yes, sure, and then the appointment will be
set for let's sake, today at two at one o'clock,
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she'll call him missus Barry. Let you know Lewis is
on pace to be there at two, okay, great, at
one forty five, Missus Barry. Just so you know, Louis
is about fifteen minutes away. Okay, great, Missus Barry. Just
so you know, Louis is getting ready to turn onto
your street. And my wife's like, my time's not that valuable.
Just you know, I'll be here. Just you don't have to.
But the cable company, if I was the cable company,
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I would be looking at better way and they can
automate that now, right, they can automate it based on
where the guy is, because I honestly believe that in
five years there won't be cable as we know it today.
So right, it's a little more on cable than you
were prepared for. I had that one, that one, that
one was in the back of my mind. I was
just waiting on an opportunity to use that. Right, what'd
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you call about, Linda.
Speaker 7 (17:18):
Oh, I just want to say real quickly, if you've
ever been to a typical American child piano recital, the
Asians are the ones that always play beautifully and perfectly,
and the white kids always make mistakes. So you know,
for what, I don't ponder whether there's some genetics involved.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
No, I don't think it's genetics. It's you know, most
everybody who's mastered of skill will tell you it's ten
thousand hours or whatever, the A thousand, whatever the number is.
It's it's purely repetition. My son, who has big, strong
black hands, Michael T can play the piano like you
would not believe lights out, but only the songs that
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he learned, and if it's a song he hadn't learned,
then he's clunky at it. But if it's a song
that he has learned and he has mastered you, and
you closed your eyes, you go to Asian. It's all
about how many hours because he just that's his therapy
plays A pino Asian kid comes home from school, hence
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his mom his paper that's been marked up. His tiger.
Mom says, a bee, have you forgotten? You are Asian,
not Beijian, Seesion or Djion. That was Detroit Henry and Tiffin,
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Ohio says, as a teenager in San Anton, I worked
at a deli run by mister and missus Chin. He
was a retired Air Force colonel in a quiet, friendly gentleman.
Missus Chin was kind as well, but if I stood
still for more than thirty seconds, she would say a
few words in Chinese and a few more in English
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to motivate me to find something to do to earn
my two twenty five an hour. No tolerance for idleness,
expectation of maximum effort for pay. That I think is
the Chinese way, true, true hard work, diligence. I believe
it makes you better. I think having a job at
an early age is a good thing. I think having
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tasks is a good thing. You know, Crockett is in
his junior year right now, so he's taking his ACT
prep and he's taking his toughest course load, and he's
trying to ace every class to get the best grades
and do this and do this. And he plays varsity
soccer and he's on a VARs and he's a VARs.
He's on a soccer travel team, which means he does
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not have one minute to spare. And my wife said,
you know, are you worried about that, because we went
to the same thing with Michael And I said, no,
idle hands of the Devil's workshop. You want something done,
give it to a busy person. I believe that a
kid having a very busy schedule, a heavy load and
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lots of things to keep them busy, is a good
thing because you learn time management. It's the hardest thing
for kids when they go off to college is that
all of a sudden, you have all this free time,
when you have no free time, and you go, well,
let me goof off for a couple of hours. You
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got a goof off for a set number of hours
and then get back to work. When you have no
free time, you go, I don't have time to goof off.
You see these people with two and three jobs keeping
it together, that develops such a sense of discipline that
eventually they're going to succeed. Freddie. You're on the Michael
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Berry Show. What's your observation on Asians?
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Hey, Michael, listen. True story golf tournament ten years ago,
playing with my best friend and we were foursome, and
I walked into the Bloody Mary breakfast bar sitting there
and said. He asked me, as he always does, how
you doing, Freddy? And I said, I couldn't be better
if I was with Asian twins. And he looked at
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me and then introduced me to his Asian friend that
was his guest. He was a big fish and a
services company. The Asian friend was a bigger fish in
a production company and a big production company. Spent the
whole weekend. I told the Asian friend one time we
were playing, I said, you know how to blind an Asian?
He said no, I said, put a windshield in front
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of him, and he literally ran over my friend during
the course of the tournament and knocked him out of
the tournament, broke broke, broke his ankle. The Asian guy did.
We had a great time at the end of the tournament,
We're sitting there smoking cigars and drinking a burb watching
the guys who were winning, not us, and he looked
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at me and he said free. He said, you know what,
I'd introduced you some Asian twins, but I don't know
any Asian twin boys. He had a great attitude, great
sense of humor, and we had a great time together.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
And that the joke about an Asian goes blind when
put behind a windshield, I actually first heard from an
Asian friend of mine, which, of course, you know, everybody
should know the best jokes about their own culture. I
know every rednut joke out there there is good. Call
shout out. You're up your observation on Asians.
Speaker 5 (22:49):
Hi, I'm Seanna from Corpus CHRISTI and I have we
adopted our eldest son from South Korea almost nineteen years ago,
and so but I always wanted to expose him to
the culture. And you know, even though we're an American family,
of course, he grew up Americans, and he kind of
resisted until he was about eight years old, and then
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we had a connection where he could learn how to
read and write Korean. And when he was drawing the letters,
the symbols, the handel alphabet. The teacher was so impressed
and somehow decided that that was an innate ability for him,
that he could draw so well and that he understood it.
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So that was pretty fun. But the other thing that
I love about my son is that eventually, when he
became a teenager, if we were serving something that he
didn't like to eat, he just put soy sauce on
it and it was good to go. And now he
uses soy sauce on everything. So that's the fun part
of him.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
There you go, ed, you're on the Michael Berry Show.
Your observation on Asians.
Speaker 8 (24:01):
My observation is they're very smart. I worked for a
distributor for Toyota here in Houston for twenty five years,
and I started off in production and then I went
to quality control. And when I got into quality control,
they started sending us to California and some of the
other plants to learn a kaison process, which is the
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production process where you eliminate waste. And they basically took
kenry Ford's production system and they refined it and they
came out and audited us on a surprise audit. We
didn't know what day it was going to be, four
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times a year, and they checked like randomly vehicles that
were fixing the go to deerships, and they went to
those things. The fine teeth common they found anything you
got rung up part and every disturbation. I think are
seven distriverships in the United States, and everybody was trying
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to beat each other. I think there might have ended
up with ten of them.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Well, and that's just it. Those are cultural issues, not
biological issues. Charles Murray has written a lot on studies
that have been done in terms of intelligence based on
races and people and cultures and times, and there have
been disparities, there's no doubt about that. But my children
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use the term that you know this or that kid
is smart. It's not that that kid is smart. That
kid studies and applies himself and is intellectually curious. That
doesn't make you any more smart. Per se from Michael's brain,
every single one of them. To your ears. This is
the Michael Berry Show. Emails coming in fast and furious
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from Asian America's going, oh my god, you're making me laugh.
This is the best thing ever. And that's how it's
supposed to work. We're supposed to be able to have
some fun with each other. You think black people don't
know this. I'm white, and I don't notice they're black,
or Asians or Hispanics first generation or somebody with an
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accent or a midget or an absolute seven foot tall
yaoming looking dude. We all know about our differences. Being
able to kid and laugh is how we approach them.
It's how we have some fun. Well, that's the last
of our This will be the last of our segments,
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of course, for the morning show for the week. And
so a couple of things I want to make sure
I do say, and that is some of you will
be out shopping this weekend as Christmas fast approaches. And
a little suggestion. You got a favorite little restaurant, retail shop,
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bike shop, gun shop, hardware store, clothing store, boutique that
you really like, and you worry whether they'll make it.
It's hard to make it as a small business anymore.
It's hard to compete against Amazon in Walmart. They have
massive buying power, they have massive marketing power. Yeah, sure
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it's easy to buy online, of course it is. But
when we want something, when we want that human connection,
we walk in, hear the bell ring as we walk in.
We want local businesses, not a hollowed out town. It
won't be there if we don't vote for it. Every
dollar we spend is a vote we cast. Never forget that.
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So here's how you can support local businesses in your community.
If there's something that you really appreciate the way they
do business and you want to do your part to
keep them in business, walk in and say, hey, can
I buy some gift certificates because I want to put
some money in your back pocket today and support your business.
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I want to keep you in business. And they get
the cash immediately, which is always helpful. And then for
every person you give a gift card, you're giving them
a sampler. You're giving them someone who's coming to try
out their good or service that might become a loyal
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customer themselves. It gives them an opportunity to earn that business.
And you can buy small gift cards. I can assure
you that Starbucks doesn't need your money. I know it's easy,
but I can assure you that Starbucks doesn't need your money,
but the local shop does. And if it's a shop,
you already believe in whatever you spend whatever you spend
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with them, that's real money that goes to their bottom line.
I used to eat it a little Puerto Rican restaurant
over on Fairview called Text Chick, and I would always
bring a person or two with me, and I got
such a kick. The owner was a guy named Thoe,
and it was him and his wife that was it.
And when you walked in, there were only three tables,
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and it was a little shack. It was like it
was like a wooden Oh, it was like a It
wasn't even like a real even garage, like a little
wood shack out in the back of a house. And
you'd walk in and as you walked into the screen
door there was no air conditioning. You walk in and
he would be standing on the other side of the
little counter and he there would be about three or
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four friars going and his wife would be behind him
in this tiny little area and she'd be cutting things
up and Thale would let me run. Anybody that knows
me knows I like to go into the kitchen with
the kid. It was just open air. It was just
right there. The whole place was probably one hundred square
feet at most, maybe two hundred square feet two fifty
and I'd walk over to the kitchen, and I'd walk
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over to the fridge, which was four paces away, and
there was a sheet that had been printed out that
would be stuck to the side of the refrigerator, and
it would list for each day what they had spent
on groceries and what they had made on gross sales,
and the numbers would look something like one hundred and
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thirty eight dollars in expenses two hundred nineteen dollars in revenues,
and you wonder how they could keep the place afloat
the numbers were that low. So what I would do,
not that I'm rich, but I could spare one hundred bucks.
I'd hand him a hundred bucks and I'd say and
he'd go, no, no, and I'd say, no, keep it
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till next time. Put that on my bill next time.
And it became a running joke with us that each
time he'd go, you're not paying today, and then we
would have this little fight, and we grew quite a
little friendship out of the deal, because he knew that
I was rooting for him. Very old man, I bet
you he was eighty years old. He eventually sold the
business either he or his wife grew ill. But it
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was just little bitty business. But there was nothing like it.
And the way I was introduced to it, get the
dinger barrel ready wrong? Is Jose Cruz took me there
and it was an authentic It was authentic Puerto Rican food,
but it was the place. There's not a lot of
Puerto Ricans in Houston, but it was the place that
Puerto Ricans went because it was like their little spot.
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You would have never seen it, no sign out front,
nothing like that. But everybody knows a little place like that,
and you just never know how close they are to
closing up. You know, the Sheriff Friar incident should should
warn p You just never know. Can't tell you how
many people I know that the life wakes up in
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the middle of the night and the husband has passed
away in the in the middle of the in their sleep,
and you know, you go to bed the last thing
you say when you go to bed. I'm not trying
to be Micawber. I'm just trying to be realistic. I've
lived long enough now to know that nothing is permanent,
and so the things that you like at a time
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from people that you really like because Star, Starbucks, Amazon,
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It's it's understandable that that's not that's not a knock.
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David Maulsby sends me a daily report on good news
related to Camp Hope, says Chris Helms of Helms Landscape Design,
which has been a show sponsor of ours in the past,
still a good friend, donated and delivered fifteen beautiful Christmas
trees for our Camp Hope offices and residential areas. This
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is a gift that Chris has provided for our campus
for the past several years, providing the it's beginning to
look a lot like Christmas feel for our veterans. Chris
Helms Helms Landscape Design. He also notes members of the
PTSD Foundation of America's staff attended the Republican Women's Club
of Katie Christmas Celebration luncheon at the Pelasio Maria Events
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Center yesterday. The team spoke to a packed room about
Camp Hope's current mission twenty twenty five goals, and shared
personal testimonies on the restorative Milestones experience at Camp Hope.
The team also joined the group and congratulating GOP elected
officials and enjoyed a Christmas choir program and collected roughly
twenty names from the group interested in touring Camp Hope.
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The group provided items from our Camp Hope Urgent Needs list,
as well as some clothing items for our veterans. Just
so you know, if you're ever looking for a speaker
or your group, whether it be Chamber of Commerce, Kowana's
Neighborhood of Soul, or whatever else, David Maulsby or one
of the team spend a lot of time out in
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the community talking about what's going on at Camp Hope.
They usually bring one of our veterans as well to
share their testimony, and it's a true testimony because it's
a Christian based organization of that why they signed up,
what they saw in war, and how they ended up
where they are, and how Camp Hope has made a difference.
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Yak writes, sitting through a green light makes me irate.
I'm a hot shot driver for a living. So if
you're on your phone or not just paying attention and
you sit through a green light, or you block the
intersection and tie up track at traffic, I will come
on glued and want to rip your head off and
crap down your neck. Nothing is more rude than screwing
up the flow of traffic. Have a great day, Michael,
He comes back with it, have a great day. Logan writes,
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I went demon at the company Christmas party last night.
I'm hung over and looking forward to dragging ass at
work today. So I said, number one, what did you do?
He responded, number one, old fashions and middle lights. Number two,
how much of it? He said, approximately eight old fashions
and seven millers. Number three, what you did? And he said,
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I got ignorant with coworkers, I cut up with the boys.
I lightly flirted with the hot girls. It was also
a casino theme, so I was trying to cheat at blackjack.
Only good night, all right? Your observations on Asians Ramon
very rarely contributes to the show, but this is one
(04:33):
of those rare occasions. Let me see if I can
find this Where he did? He found this clip from
Dennis Nordon's Laughter File. It's a clip of an actual
news report of a man being confronted by a reporter
for an ad he placed in the newspaper. He's trying
to sell his home and he says, no Asians.
Speaker 7 (04:53):
This Highgate isn't the one in London. It is a
suburb of Adelaide, but it's the adverts last sentence that
brought out local TV reporters crusading instincts.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
I just like to ask you a few questions about
the hair you've got.
Speaker 8 (05:06):
Well, I rather than an answer why not, because I
don't want to I'm not gonna spell.
Speaker 7 (05:11):
By this to anybody over the here.
Speaker 6 (05:14):
Well, I'm not interested in how much you want for
the house. I'm just interested in why you don't want
any Asians to buy it?
Speaker 7 (05:20):
The movie?
Speaker 8 (05:21):
Well, because the simple reason they tootl Asian.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Why don't you want Asians booty into your house? Because
I don't want the Asians.
Speaker 8 (05:29):
Let's say you don't want them, you don't want any They're.
Speaker 6 (05:33):
Just a mom crooks as all there.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
And if there's a law against what you're doing.
Speaker 7 (05:36):
Well, no one has told me that.
Speaker 8 (05:38):
And I'm mean to say, even the age you think
it's wrong, even the Asians himself.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
You said I can have my sign.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Up if if they get up by the sell it,
you won't get it to an Asian person if they
come up with a.
Speaker 7 (05:50):
Buyer his or they interested about it is just to
put the sign up.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
That's all I've had.
Speaker 8 (05:55):
Amasis I haven't knocked them back?
Speaker 6 (05:58):
Well would oh?
Speaker 2 (05:59):
No agents? Did you do you.
Speaker 8 (06:03):
Have a sush I sawry?
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Well that's that's a bad etcetera.
Speaker 8 (06:11):
That's is that what you say?
Speaker 2 (06:13):
No Asians? Now? No, no, they say no agents agents. Sorry, Linda,
you are on the Michael Berry Show. What is your
observation on agent on Asians? Linda, greg you're on the
Michael Berry Show. What is your observation on Asians?
Speaker 6 (06:37):
Hey, Michael, I lived in Thailand and worked there for
three years, and US western guys had a hard fast
rule if if the lady was tall, really good looking
with big boobs, she was a dude.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Al Ebara writes, my daughter in law is Japanese. She
is the smartest and hardest worker I have ever. She
came to America. First job here was a waitress in
a Japanese restaurant. Fifteen years later, she's the CFO of
a major international company here in Houston. She works incredibly hard.
People say I'm a hard worker. She works rings around me.
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I just love her to death. I'm so proud of her. Brian,
you're on the Michael Berry Show. What is your observation
on Asians?
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Well, definitely I am Asian, so I do deserve a
lot of them, and my observation on them is, man,
they just work too damn fucking hard.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Oh oh oh yeah, yeah, we can't let the f
in there. The one Asian guy that calls in and
he breaks the rules, I mean, you got a wonder
on that, right, Yeah, they're supposed to be a good rule.
For he grew up here, he'd been corrupted. You know
that is I'll tell you this. For Indian Americans and
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their kids, that is a conversation that they have and
then they all are all sitting around and say, you know,
it's hard to raise kids in America. You know, they
don't respect their parents. And that's kind of one of
the things that comes up, one of the difficulties of
you know, as if it was perfectly easy to raise
your kid in India, it's not. India has changed as well.
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All these people who've left India and come to the
United States and think that, you know, the kids are
doing They're smoking in too much, they're drinking too much,
they're partying too much, they're you know, chasing the opposite
sex too much. They're the girls are dressing. That's also
going on in India, by the way, because of the
movie culture and the music culture as well, but they
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don't know that because they've left. Michael writes, A friend
of mine dated a girl who was half Japanese. When
he went to her house, he took off one shoe.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Bizarre is on, well done, So this is the Michael
Berry show.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Again.
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So strange. Talked about Sam Minikey earlier in the week,
who passed away this week in the Bass and Minuche Company.
I got a lot of emails from folks. P K writes,
Zara I grew up and passed it in the fifties
and sixties and made frequent trips with my dad to
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Bass and Minukee auto parts store that Sam Minikey and
his partner ed Bass started from nothing. Last time I
talked to mister Minikee, he told me that when he
was new to the car parts business, he sold he
sold Monroe Maatic shock absorbers. These shocks came with rebate
coupons that had legal cash value, and he kept them
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instead of giving him to the buyers. When he had
enough of them together, he made a deal with a
Lincoln Mercury dealer in Houston and bought a new Mercury
wagon with them. Merry Christmas, God blessed you and yours,
and I'm joining you in prayer for mister Jim Mackingville.
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This the gift store in bel Air and sugar Land
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out to just go back to the podcast and re
listen to the show. That's where you're going to get
the information faster. Your comments on Asians will start at
the top. Charlie, you're on the Michael Berry Show. Your
observation on Asians.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Yeah, I'm a toe truck driver at Harris County and
I see that most Asians drive Japanese cars.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Why do you think that.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Is because they like the Japanese cars? I guess, But
I know a while back, I went to this compartment
complex and it was mostly Asians in there, and I
bet I didn't see two or three American cars. That
are all Japanese cars. I guess they like Japanese cars.
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Most of them like Japanese cars better than American cars.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Interesting. And the people living there were you think they
were Indians? You think they were Vietnamese? What do you
think they were?
Speaker 6 (12:16):
Now?
Speaker 1 (12:16):
The most of them that I seen in there were like,
we're like the Japanese or Chinese or something like that.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
I will tell you that of the immigrants I have
seen who come here, who are say graduate students in engineering,
they won't buy and they're buying entry level cars. They
will not buy a Chevy or Ford or Dodge entry
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level car. They will buy a Toyota, Corolla or a
now a Hyundai. I remember I remember, let's see thirty
years ago, friend of ours friend got married to a
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woman and she bought a Hyundai Sonata and it was
kind of a forest green with a lot of gold
trim on it. And for the price it was, it
looked like a higher It looked it was built with
the finish and the feel of kind of like a
Lincoln Mercury in the seventies or eighties, all the gold
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trim and all that, and kind of meant to look
a little kind of like a sable if you remember
the old sable. They were kind of meant to look elegant,
but it was it was not built well. And that
was when the South Koreans were really making a push
beyond just consumer electronics and automobiles. And I will tell
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you that today, I think they make a much better
vehicle and they have increased their market share. I think
they made the Genesis too, don't they. I think the
Genesis is the Lexus to their Toyota. But I will
say I cannot speak for Chinese and Vietnamese, but I
will actually I can speak for Vietnamese. I will tell you,
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particularly with Indians, when they come here as grad students,
when they first get that first job, they will buy
a Japanese car. It'll be it'll be a small new
Toyota Corolla or Honda Civic. That's something that's going to
be very, very reliable. I will also tell you, and
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I don't know how this happened, but if you notice
black women who will buy a new car, that's that's
in the entry level of the market, they will very
often buy a Chevy, and I think that has a
lot to do with marketing to black women. And you
can see it in the songs they use. You can
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see it as who's driving that vehicle? Marketing that targeted
marketing like that tends to work. But you remember the
Neon Chevy Neon. I swear that car was built for
black women because that was the only people you would
see buying it. And I don't know how they targeted
that marketing, but it worked.
Speaker 6 (15:17):
It worked.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Linda, are you there, because we came to you earlier
and everybody was waiting and it was dead air.
Speaker 7 (15:24):
Yes, I'm here.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
What were you doing?
Speaker 7 (15:29):
I'm sorry? I got a call from the cable company.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Well hold on, what did they want?
Speaker 7 (15:35):
Oh? My cable went out because I got a sense
put in and they cut the cable on.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
And so what did the cable companies say?
Speaker 7 (15:42):
They actually are going to send out a technician. So
that was helpful.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Are they sending them today? Oh? Today, between now and tomorrow?
Speaker 7 (15:51):
Now? They said four to eight, which is convenient.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Yeah, yeah, but I feel like we could tighten that
schedule up. Did you remind them Hey, guys, you're the
cable company. Within five years you won't exist. Maybe maybe
set a little tighter time and call me when you're
on the way.
Speaker 7 (16:06):
Right. Yeah, you know what.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Louis Florie that the tree whisperer does. My wife laughs,
because Louis Florey's assistant all day long. She will call she.
Lewis will say, you know, missus Barry, do you mind
if I forget her name? I think her name is
actually Linda. You might if Linda calls you to set
it up, yes, sure, and then the appointment will be
set for let's sake, today at two at one o'clock,
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she'll call him missus Barry. Let you know Lewis is
on pace to be there at two, okay, great, at
one forty five, Missus Barry. Just so you know, Louis
is about fifteen minutes away. Okay, great, Missus Barry. Just
so you know, Louis is getting ready to turn onto
your street. And my wife's like, my time's not that valuable.
Just you know, I'll be here. Just you don't have to.
But the cable company, if I was the cable company,
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I would be looking at better way and they can
automate that now, right, they can automate it based on
where the guy is, because I honestly believe that in
five years there won't be cable as we know it today.
So right, it's a little more on cable than you
were prepared for. I had that one, that one, that
one was in the back of my mind. I was
just waiting on an opportunity to use that. Right, what'd
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you call about, Linda.
Speaker 7 (17:18):
Oh, I just want to say real quickly, if you've
ever been to a typical American child piano recital, the
Asians are the ones that always play beautifully and perfectly,
and the white kids always make mistakes. So you know,
for what, I don't ponder whether there's some genetics involved.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
No, I don't think it's genetics. It's you know, most
everybody who's mastered of skill will tell you it's ten
thousand hours or whatever, the A thousand, whatever the number is.
It's it's purely repetition. My son, who has big, strong
black hands, Michael T can play the piano like you
would not believe lights out, but only the songs that
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he learned, and if it's a song he hadn't learned,
then he's clunky at it. But if it's a song
that he has learned and he has mastered you, and
you closed your eyes, you go to Asian. It's all
about how many hours because he just that's his therapy
plays A pino Asian kid comes home from school, hence
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his mom his paper that's been marked up. His tiger.
Mom says, a bee, have you forgotten? You are Asian,
not Beijian, Seesion or Djion. That was Detroit Henry and Tiffin,
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Ohio says, as a teenager in San Anton, I worked
at a deli run by mister and missus Chin. He
was a retired Air Force colonel in a quiet, friendly gentleman.
Missus Chin was kind as well, but if I stood
still for more than thirty seconds, she would say a
few words in Chinese and a few more in English
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to motivate me to find something to do to earn
my two twenty five an hour. No tolerance for idleness,
expectation of maximum effort for pay. That I think is
the Chinese way, true, true hard work, diligence. I believe
it makes you better. I think having a job at
an early age is a good thing. I think having
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tasks is a good thing. You know, Crockett is in
his junior year right now, so he's taking his ACT
prep and he's taking his toughest course load, and he's
trying to ace every class to get the best grades
and do this and do this. And he plays varsity
soccer and he's on a VARs and he's a VARs.
He's on a soccer travel team, which means he does
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not have one minute to spare. And my wife said,
you know, are you worried about that, because we went
to the same thing with Michael And I said, no,
idle hands of the Devil's workshop. You want something done,
give it to a busy person. I believe that a
kid having a very busy schedule, a heavy load and
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lots of things to keep them busy, is a good
thing because you learn time management. It's the hardest thing
for kids when they go off to college is that
all of a sudden, you have all this free time,
when you have no free time, and you go, well,
let me goof off for a couple of hours. You
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got a goof off for a set number of hours
and then get back to work. When you have no
free time, you go, I don't have time to goof off.
You see these people with two and three jobs keeping
it together, that develops such a sense of discipline that
eventually they're going to succeed. Freddie. You're on the Michael
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Berry Show. What's your observation on Asians?
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Hey, Michael, listen. True story golf tournament ten years ago,
playing with my best friend and we were foursome, and
I walked into the Bloody Mary breakfast bar sitting there
and said. He asked me, as he always does, how
you doing, Freddy? And I said, I couldn't be better
if I was with Asian twins. And he looked at
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me and then introduced me to his Asian friend that
was his guest. He was a big fish and a
services company. The Asian friend was a bigger fish in
a production company and a big production company. Spent the
whole weekend. I told the Asian friend one time we
were playing, I said, you know how to blind an Asian?
He said no, I said, put a windshield in front
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of him, and he literally ran over my friend during
the course of the tournament and knocked him out of
the tournament, broke broke, broke his ankle. The Asian guy did.
We had a great time at the end of the tournament,
We're sitting there smoking cigars and drinking a burb watching
the guys who were winning, not us, and he looked
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at me and he said free. He said, you know what,
I'd introduced you some Asian twins, but I don't know
any Asian twin boys. He had a great attitude, great
sense of humor, and we had a great time together.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
And that the joke about an Asian goes blind when
put behind a windshield, I actually first heard from an
Asian friend of mine, which, of course, you know, everybody
should know the best jokes about their own culture. I
know every rednut joke out there there is good. Call
shout out. You're up your observation on Asians.
Speaker 5 (22:49):
Hi, I'm Seanna from Corpus CHRISTI and I have we
adopted our eldest son from South Korea almost nineteen years ago,
and so but I always wanted to expose him to
the culture. And you know, even though we're an American family,
of course, he grew up Americans, and he kind of
resisted until he was about eight years old, and then
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we had a connection where he could learn how to
read and write Korean. And when he was drawing the letters,
the symbols, the handel alphabet. The teacher was so impressed
and somehow decided that that was an innate ability for him,
that he could draw so well and that he understood it.
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So that was pretty fun. But the other thing that
I love about my son is that eventually, when he
became a teenager, if we were serving something that he
didn't like to eat, he just put soy sauce on
it and it was good to go. And now he
uses soy sauce on everything. So that's the fun part
of him.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
There you go, ed, you're on the Michael Berry Show.
Your observation on Asians.
Speaker 8 (24:01):
My observation is they're very smart. I worked for a
distributor for Toyota here in Houston for twenty five years,
and I started off in production and then I went
to quality control. And when I got into quality control,
they started sending us to California and some of the
other plants to learn a kaison process, which is the
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production process where you eliminate waste. And they basically took
kenry Ford's production system and they refined it and they
came out and audited us on a surprise audit. We
didn't know what day it was going to be, four
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times a year, and they checked like randomly vehicles that
were fixing the go to deerships, and they went to
those things. The fine teeth common they found anything you
got rung up part and every disturbation. I think are
seven distriverships in the United States, and everybody was trying
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to beat each other. I think there might have ended
up with ten of them.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Well, and that's just it. Those are cultural issues, not
biological issues. Charles Murray has written a lot on studies
that have been done in terms of intelligence based on
races and people and cultures and times, and there have
been disparities, there's no doubt about that. But my children
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use the term that you know this or that kid
is smart. It's not that that kid is smart. That
kid studies and applies himself and is intellectually curious. That
doesn't make you any more smart. Per se from Michael's brain,
every single one of them. To your ears. This is
the Michael Berry Show. Emails coming in fast and furious
(26:00):
from Asian America's going, oh my god, you're making me laugh.
This is the best thing ever. And that's how it's
supposed to work. We're supposed to be able to have
some fun with each other. You think black people don't
know this. I'm white, and I don't notice they're black,
or Asians or Hispanics first generation or somebody with an
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accent or a midget or an absolute seven foot tall
yaoming looking dude. We all know about our differences. Being
able to kid and laugh is how we approach them.
It's how we have some fun. Well, that's the last
of our This will be the last of our segments,
(26:45):
of course, for the morning show for the week. And
so a couple of things I want to make sure
I do say, and that is some of you will
be out shopping this weekend as Christmas fast approaches. And
a little suggestion. You got a favorite little restaurant, retail shop,
(27:08):
bike shop, gun shop, hardware store, clothing store, boutique that
you really like, and you worry whether they'll make it.
It's hard to make it as a small business anymore.
It's hard to compete against Amazon in Walmart. They have
massive buying power, they have massive marketing power. Yeah, sure
(27:29):
it's easy to buy online, of course it is. But
when we want something, when we want that human connection,
we walk in, hear the bell ring as we walk in.
We want local businesses, not a hollowed out town. It
won't be there if we don't vote for it. Every
dollar we spend is a vote we cast. Never forget that.
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So here's how you can support local businesses in your community.
If there's something that you really appreciate the way they
do business and you want to do your part to
keep them in business, walk in and say, hey, can
I buy some gift certificates because I want to put
some money in your back pocket today and support your business.
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I want to keep you in business. And they get
the cash immediately, which is always helpful. And then for
every person you give a gift card, you're giving them
a sampler. You're giving them someone who's coming to try
out their good or service that might become a loyal
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customer themselves. It gives them an opportunity to earn that business.
And you can buy small gift cards. I can assure
you that Starbucks doesn't need your money. I know it's easy,
but I can assure you that Starbucks doesn't need your money,
but the local shop does. And if it's a shop,
you already believe in whatever you spend whatever you spend
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with them, that's real money that goes to their bottom line.
I used to eat it a little Puerto Rican restaurant
over on Fairview called Text Chick, and I would always
bring a person or two with me, and I got
such a kick. The owner was a guy named Thoe,
and it was him and his wife that was it.
And when you walked in, there were only three tables,
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and it was a little shack. It was like it
was like a wooden Oh, it was like a It
wasn't even like a real even garage, like a little
wood shack out in the back of a house. And
you'd walk in and as you walked into the screen
door there was no air conditioning. You walk in and
he would be standing on the other side of the
little counter and he there would be about three or
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four friars going and his wife would be behind him
in this tiny little area and she'd be cutting things
up and Thale would let me run. Anybody that knows
me knows I like to go into the kitchen with
the kid. It was just open air. It was just
right there. The whole place was probably one hundred square
feet at most, maybe two hundred square feet two fifty
and I'd walk over to the kitchen, and I'd walk
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over to the fridge, which was four paces away, and
there was a sheet that had been printed out that
would be stuck to the side of the refrigerator, and
it would list for each day what they had spent
on groceries and what they had made on gross sales,
and the numbers would look something like one hundred and
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thirty eight dollars in expenses two hundred nineteen dollars in revenues,
and you wonder how they could keep the place afloat
the numbers were that low. So what I would do,
not that I'm rich, but I could spare one hundred bucks.
I'd hand him a hundred bucks and I'd say and
he'd go, no, no, and I'd say, no, keep it
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till next time. Put that on my bill next time.
And it became a running joke with us that each
time he'd go, you're not paying today, and then we
would have this little fight, and we grew quite a
little friendship out of the deal, because he knew that
I was rooting for him. Very old man, I bet
you he was eighty years old. He eventually sold the
business either he or his wife grew ill. But it
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was just little bitty business. But there was nothing like it.
And the way I was introduced to it, get the
dinger barrel ready wrong? Is Jose Cruz took me there
and it was an authentic It was authentic Puerto Rican food,
but it was the place. There's not a lot of
Puerto Ricans in Houston, but it was the place that
Puerto Ricans went because it was like their little spot.
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You would have never seen it, no sign out front,
nothing like that. But everybody knows a little place like that,
and you just never know how close they are to
closing up. You know, the Sheriff Friar incident should should
warn p You just never know. Can't tell you how
many people I know that the life wakes up in
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the middle of the night and the husband has passed
away in the in the middle of the in their sleep,
and you know, you go to bed the last thing
you say when you go to bed. I'm not trying
to be Micawber. I'm just trying to be realistic. I've
lived long enough now to know that nothing is permanent,
and so the things that you like at a time
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like this, you've set aside a little bit of your
budget to buy gifts. Why not buy gifts from places
from people that you really like because Star, Starbucks, Amazon,
and Walmart don't need your money. I understand that's easy, right,
It's it's understandable that that's not that's not a knock.
But the little Magpies and the Corey Diamonds and and
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these these little shops like this, it makes a world
of difference from them. You're gonna order some food La
Boucherie online, Cajunmeats dot com for your traduction. In all
of that, you're gonna buy some jewelry of Corey Diamonds.
But it doesn't just have to be our show sponsor.
I would appreciate it if it is, And if you
email me, I assure you won't be it won't be
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a burden. I will personally connect you with with our
show sponsor. Our website is Michael Berryshow dot com. But
even if you don't use our show sponsor, use somebody
in your little neck of the woods in Tomball, Magnolia, Crosby,
wherever you are, cat Springs and support those small businesses
or they won't be there tomorrow.
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