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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Verie Show is on the air. Don't want a
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good time for some Phomo calls, Well do that now.
I have one friend whose son has to switch schools
to go into his junior year at another school. He
doesn't want to go there. He's been working with his
dad for years. He wants to take over his dad's business.
Wants to do what his dad does. Doesn't want to
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go to school. He doesn't want to go to a school.
Wants to work, that's what he enjoys doing. Wants to
make some money by himself a truck, And somewhere along
the line we decided that that wasn't good for a kid. No, No,
you got to drive to the school and drive home
every day. You gotta switch classes constantly, and go sit
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at lunch and throw spitballs and flirt with the girls
and get in trouble and have letters sent home and
study the things they want you to study. And you
got to do that, and then when you're done, you
gotta go somewhere else and pay more money and spend
a bunch of time in classes. And you got to
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do their reports and get your grades and then when
they get your grades and you measure up, and if
you do that long enough and spend enough money, then
you'll have your degree. And then you'll have the williwonk
of golden ticket. You'll be able to do whatever you
want in life. So people did and it didn't work,
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and so you have a bunch of people deeply in debt,
years of their life spent doing something they didn't want
to do. And now what And the burden is much
higher when you got a college degree. Because I'm the
world's supposed to be my oyster. I went and got
a college degree, and nobody cares. Nobody cares because the
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people are hiring want to hire. You know, Google goes
out of their way not to hire people with college degrees.
There are a number of high tech companies that do
that because they think it's very hard to train a
young person with a college degree. They got too much pride.
I've got a college degree. You've got nothing. You've got nothing.
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You need the boot camp of life to break you
down and tell you are nobody. You've done nothing. Your
mother is very proud of your college degree. Mama will
tell you how proud she is. And when she sees
you walk across the stage, she will tell you how
wonderful you are and how you've basically conquered the world.
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And you've got your college degree, don't come looking for
a job from me or anybody else. And this is
the reality. And Dad's there. He paid for it. And
Dad doesn't have a college degree. He did a year
at A and M. And then he went to work,
went to work for fencing company or a sheet rock
company or roofing company, running an auger, driving forklift or caterpillar.
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And then he built up, built up, built up, and
went off started his own little business and now not
filthy rich, but he's got season tickets to the Aggie's
games because he still goes back to the Aggie's games
and he wears Texas A and M all the time,
like he graduated and he didn't. But does it matter?
And so he wants his kid to do better than
he did. I got news for you. The odds are, Bubba,
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your kid is not going to do better than you.
Using the metric you are employing, he's not going to
make more money than you. Odds are, he's not. That's
just a fact. Odds are he's not going to make
more money than you, and he's probably not going to
be as content as you because we've set false expectations.
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We need to have realistic conversations with young people instead
of this butterfly. Oh, Billy's going to college, therefore whatever, Billy,
his parts don't smell their roses. He's wonderful because he's
in college and everything he does is great. Oh Billy's graduated. Everybody,
Billy's coming in the room. He's graduated from college. Billy's
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better than everyone because he's graduated from college. What does
that even matter? It doesn't show me a kid that's
getting out there busting but learning a skill, learning a
skill and willing to work. Who can show up to
work on time? The hardest thing for young people to
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do today. Show up to work on time. Young people today,
especially once they get a degree, think they should start
as the CEO. I could go on forever, but these
folks have been holding carry you on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Go ahead, Hey how are you? Yeah, No, I'm kind
of in the situation. Love your show. By the way,
my son, I guess he's twenty seven now, But yeah,
we went through the college deal. I owned a hobby
store here and you send them.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Which one carry?
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Guess?
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Oh, performance art ce hobby? Who the biggest in Texas?
Speaker 1 (05:45):
So do you not own that anymore?
Speaker 2 (05:48):
I do, Yes, I do own it.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
That's the one.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Now are your largest wilume doing in Texas?
Speaker 1 (05:53):
It is lean in So I can wring your neck.
I shouldn't have to ask you that. You should say
the name of the damned place. I know who y'all are.
Y'all are a big deal in the remote control stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
That's right, That's right they are. We've grown really fast.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
You built that business yourself.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Yes, sir, from scratch.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
You owned the dirt of the space yall are in.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
I do not. I would surely like that. We just
came in with we've kind of had, you know, a
business plan together. Is like nobody's servicing these seven million people.
So we kind of had to get a spot that
was within thirty minutes and seven million people, that was
easy to get to. So that was location, location, location,
So we grabbed the spot that was ready to go,
got it open before Christmas two and a half years
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ago in twenty two and we're just rocking and rolling,
taking care of folks selling everything and internet price.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
And then you've got to have a big I guess
a big runway in an open space so you can
you can run your your planes. And is it just planes?
We do boats and all that as well.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
We do anything you can drive with remote control of planes, air, helicopters, boats,
of course, cars and trucks. I got cars and trucks
there one hundred miles an hour. Airplanes are one hundred
and fifty miles an hour out.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Of that's crazy, that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
And those that are about seventy miles an hour. And
I live on a private airport of sharing, so I
fly airplanes in the front, big and small.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
And I guarantee that whatever you were calling about is
not nearly as interesting as this.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
About about my son. Astly, my son going to college.
And you know he my his mom wanted him to
go to college, and he you know, he didn't make
it one semester. But he's a welder now, so we
finally found something for him to do. College ain't for everybody.
I mean, you know, he's making thirty five dollars an hour,
twenty six years old.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Yeah, yeah, and and yeah, well let me tell you
hold on, Kerry, because I want to talk to you
some more. I'm going to get a bunch of people
who are going to say you were against college. You
went to college in law school. Yes, I'm not against college. Okay,
I'm not against college. I'm not against the military. I'm
not against a foreign exchange program. I'm not against being vegetarian.
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It's just it's not for everybody. Stop trying to make
it for everybody and telling people they're a failure if
they don't callers hold tight. I want to hear from
you got three women. I don't expect women to call
in on this topic. Let me tell you about the
size they call during the break a few minutes ago
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that Roley McGinnis had died a long time, long time
Cadillac wasn't Roley McGinnis Cadillac what he was. You know,
it's an interesting thing. When Tesla came into the car business,
Tesla warned to go direct manufacture to the public, direct
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to consumer, and in state of Texas, you can't do that.
I'm not really sure how they got around it. I
guess they just spent enough money. But they do that now.
But when you think about for so many years, when
I where I grew up, you knew the names of
the car car dealers. Charlie Wickersham was a legend in
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Orange and you'd have a guy that just have in
a little town. You might have a guy that just
has a few cars, but he'd have his name on it.
I mean, that was a big name in town and
they would promote the name as much as as the dealership.
But in any case, we have not been able to
confirm that. But we we have been a prime We
have been advised that that not Charlie Wickersham. He passed
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a long time ago, that Roby McGinnis passed. Let's go
back to Kerry real quick, Kerrien, let me ask you
about this performance RC business. Okay, what kind of what
are we talking? Might grows sales there per year? Nobody
minds that they want you to see.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
We're gonna we're gonna do one point five this year.
We did nine hundred and ten. The first year, we
did one point one. Last year, we'll finish at one
to nine. Now I've got nine hundred in there in
the bank so far.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
And what does that And how many employees.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
I got five including me? Now I got mechanics to
work on cars.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Go ahead, uh, and the mechanics that work on our
C cars.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Yes, yes, I have somebody that can help you with
your RCY car. If you walk in the store, we
can fix your RC car while you wait. As far
as airplanes, I do all the airplanes stuff programmed.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Do they walk in? Do your guys walk in the
door knowing how to do that? Or do you teach
them how to do that?
Speaker 4 (10:43):
Wait?
Speaker 2 (10:44):
They have to they know how to do it. Uh.
I've got a couple of kids that work for me.
They're be twenty twenty one. They were high school kids
when they started with us. But they you know, you
find a poor kid that's got fifteen r C cars,
you know, he knows how to crank on it so.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Co So that's how he's got to fix it himself.
You know. I reblatched the other day Silicon Cowboys or
Silicon Cowboys about Rod Canyon, who's one of my heroes
in life, and it was about the founding of Compact,
and he talked about having a car when he was
growing up and he had this old Beater car. He
was making forty cents an hour and he bought his
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car for three hundred and fifty dollars and he said,
I first learned to build things by taking my car
apart and putting it back together. He said, I could
set the points and the distributor and the pistons, and
I could do all this sort of stuff. And that
was where I first learned that, you know, I don't
need to be afraid to tinker with things. Okay, I'm
looking at your website. I'm gonna give you the category.
I'm gonna need you to answer like a deposition in
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one number. Okay, you've got one, two, three, fourth, Fright,
You've got nine categories here, and I want you to
tell me what percentage of business each one is. Okay,
radio control cars sixty, radio control trucks.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Well, actually the sixty percent cars.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Trucks, okay, radio control, airplanes.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Thirty five.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
We're at ninety five and we're only three in Okay,
radio control.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
He loves, oh, sixty and oh I'm sorry, Oh, I'm
sorry about two probably fifty thirty and he ows is
only about five percent. We don't sell a whole lot.
About five percent of boats. Most of its cars, boats,
and airplanes.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
I'm striking all that from nonresponsive. How about drones.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
One percent?
Speaker 1 (12:31):
I'm surprised by that how come.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Dgis out of business and there's not really other Well
they're not out of business, but they are real hard
to get here in the United States because of their
connection with China supposedly, and uh, there's just not another
really really high quality I've got some lower you know,
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some four to five hundred dollar droans, but that thousand
dollars fifteen hundred dollars market, we just we don't really
that's about all. We don't really get into the drones
as much as we should. We've got some good SPV drones,
but they're not that DJI quality.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
I'm just surprised because I would have expected that was
your big growth and I'm just surprised as not. What
about radio control rockets?
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Rockets? We sell quite a few rockets, but it's that's
another thing. We have them just kind of as wall space,
but we sell a lot of them, and I'd say
probably about five percent maybe three percent on.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
The parts in service. How much of the service are
you personally doing?
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Oh? Me, I do all the airplane service myself. I
work on every airplane that comes in the shop. As
far as the cars, I try not to touch any
of them. I try to let my boys take care
of all that. They know what they're doing. Uh, they
know what to recommend. And we have over twelve thousand
items in stock along with all those parts, and so
for the most part, we got it in stock.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
What scares you the most that could put your business
out of business?
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Nothing? Failure is not an option.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Four hundred and ninety nine dollars for a remote control
looks like a defender. I guess jeep something. Yeah, with
the blue tracks, these aren't cheap. Who are the people buying?
I don't say everybody, give me one group one demo?
Is it fifty eight year old white guys? I mean,
who is it?
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Oh? Man, that's really weird.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Black people buy the.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Absolutely absolutely we should Asians? Oh absolutely, yeah, you got
about them. Yeah absolutely.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
You got a boat right in the middle of all
the cars, right in the middle of the cars. You
got a boat, a speedboat. I don't know what that's about. Oh,
that's popular products. Oh no, it's a cigarette it's a
cigarette boat. Do you have water right there so you
can take the boat? So you can take a boat
and drop it right there on the water, right there
on the spot.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Not not in our location. No, we don't.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Would you want house?
Speaker 2 (15:07):
And I do invite I do invite folks out to
the house. Every once in a while I've had to give
them a flight lesson or what happened. But we do
have thirty different RC fields airplane fields around Houston.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
You know. The CEO of Starbucks hired a guy to
come in he reported to nobody, and nobody reported to
him to take one year and study the business and
see how they could improve same store sales. And he
came to the conclusion that shocked everybody that eighty five
percent of Starbucks business is from fifteen percent of customers.
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And what they learned from that is one customer is
worth five, that the right customer is worth five people
like me that drink coffee there once a year. So
that's why I want.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
To go wah here.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Yeah, yeah, well that was my question. Do you hold
on just a second? Carry asked all those other people to
hold on. We'll get to them in just a moment.
She'll sleep because Michael Harry a period terry. Yes, I
gotta get some of these other calls. But how did
you get into this business? Did you have a day
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job before?
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Oh? Yeah, I was a I was a contract operations
ret for enterprise oil and gas, the pipeline inspector. My
wife is a geologist, microbitle, just kind of smart. She's
the smart one. And then uh, but uh, you know,
I phoned Nursia airplanes back in the nineties when my
kids were in high school or school, and then I
started flying real airplanes. And then about four years ago,
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do you know, one of my buddies sucked me in
about another one that I couldn't get airplane parks, so
she was died to start her own business. And I've
owned businesses before, and I said, well, we can do it.
We just got to get a good location. Uh, sell
everything for internet price. Uh, make sure you have everything
in stock, have a business big enough or building big
enough to house everything. Be nice to people. It's real easy.
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Bring back that old timey customer service like we used
to having the old base and people eat it up. Ya.
Reviews are phenomenal. And you know, if you're looking for something,
your best chance for you to find it if you
want it today, is it perform a darty ibby.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Well, it strikes me that this is the sort of
thing that while people do enjoy it, you know, on
the comfort of their back porch or in their workshop
at their viewer ink dot com building out back. It's
also it's also an interactive thing, right, It's the kind
of thing that you like to gather with other people
and compare and and suggest ideas and talk through those
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sorts of things, and it's kind of more of a
social interaction. They want to talk to you about Hey,
I try to absolutely where are people. Let's take just
an average car. You know, somebody spends five six hundred
dollars on one of these cars I see on your site.
Where are they running? This car is in their backyard?
They go into a.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Course, man, they've got you've got of course, they'll run
from a backyard, or they'll find an o construction site
it's got some dirty you know, or a park. Uh.
There are some local tracks. We've got some local racing
going on around the area. So there are some racing
leagues for the cars. Airplanes, we have local fly ins
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out of the thirty clubs. There's a fly in right
now going on every week. You can go out, you know,
have a burger watch all the airplanes, talk to the pilots.
It's a lot of fun, a lot of camaraderie and
it's you know, something you can do getting out there
with your buddies. We uh, it's just a ton of fun.
It's just a yeah, yeah, it's great. I'd love one
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to get you wor centy to bring your boys.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
I think it'd be cool. Pick the one U percent.
First of all, what percentage of your customers are retired?
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Probably twenty percent.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
And if you were to pick one field, one professional
field that more people than any other come in your
store and or customers, what would it be?
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Oh, Man Field, that's just tough. We talked about cars
and trucks, not about what they do. For a lot
of times we do for the most part that I
want to say a kind of blue collar workers. You
got more blue collar guys that are looking for something
to do that don't have twenty thousand dollars to go
buy a you know, a real car, a voat or
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something that they can do and do with their friends.
And it's halfway affordable. So yeah, and you can spend
as much money on this, you know, as you want.
I've got jets in the shop that are you know,
five ten thousand dollars, but they start for a quid.
Quality rc car or boat or plane about one hundred
and twenty bucks. So it's just a big range that
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you can just about do with anybody.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
She's so interesting to me that there, you know, you
think about the opportunities that are available in twenty twenty
five that weren't there in three fifty five. You know,
these niche communities. You find your little thing that you
love and there is a community for it, and you
can go on that Www. Thing and you can find it.
And what's interesting is, you know, yes, maybe some or
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most of whatever you've got could be found on the internet,
but people want to come in and have that connection.
They want to talk to you, they want to talk
it through, they want to be around other people doing
what they're doing. I think that's just fantastic. Well year
did you start the business?
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Twenty two?
Speaker 1 (20:37):
And did you how long into the business did you
quit the day job?
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Oh about the first two months? Really, it's one of
my supervisors. Yeah. Well I didn't have turn of it,
didn't have a choice. It was something I had to
be there, so, you know, seven days a week, and
I didn't really have an opportunity where I could work both.
I started without you know, any employee. So it was
me and my wife and one other kid that that
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that came to work after you got out of school,
and so that's kind of how we started it. So
I didn't really have an opportunity to do both. Some
people do. There's another job that has a hobby. Shoper's
got two jobs. But I mean, failure is not an option. Uh,
You've got to believe in what you believe in. You
believe that failure is not an option, and you do
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what you got to do to make it work.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
You don't.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
It's me.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
I'm one of those guys that goes all the way
that way. If I fail, it's not because I didn't
try every everything I could have. I go, well, I
tried everything I could. You know, it's like, well I
could have done this, or I could have done that.
If I no, no, no, no, just don't do that.
Don't give yourself the opportunity. Put everything you got into it,
and there was never an option.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Kerry, you are a guy who would be miserable working
for somebody else if that's all you ever did, because
you're meant to one that they could not value you
as much and as hard as you would work. And
I guarantee you get up early and stay late and
wake up through the middle of the night and worry
and work and do things that your wife would say, well,
maybe you didn't need to do that, but you're just
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so focused on the business. I was watching last night.
Amazon has a documentary on the old pizza hut restaurants
that Ramon worked at in high school. And they've gone
through some pizza huts around and one of them was
a gay church and they went way too into the
whole gay thing. It was their social statement. But one
of them was a place called Big Ed's Barbecue, and
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it's just this black guy and his wife and his
kids and a whole family. And he goes into an
old pizza hut location. He has to gut the thing
because it had become an architect's office, and then he
makes a barbecue joint and he said, I didn't realize
how hard this was going to be. The bills just
kept coming faster than we could sell barbecue. And he
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lost his house, he lost his mortgage, I mean everything.
But he's kept this place going. And people don't realize
the tenacity I hear in your voice and your focus
on this business. People don't realize when you go in
and you get mad at a business for whatever else,
you don't know how hard they've worked to get to
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the point that you could just stroll in and look
at the shelves. You just don't know.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Yeah. Absolutely, it's like looking at the iceberg. Man. You know,
you see the iceberg, and you see the top half,
and it's just about twenty feet tall, and you know
you can get out there and walk on it. But
it's what's underneath that parts one hundred, one hundred and
fifty feet deep, that's what's holding it all together.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
You know how many square feet you have in that warehouse?
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Thirty two hundred square feet.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
How far where are you in Perland? How far are
you from the original Gringoes?
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Oh? Man, that's my favorite. I remember one that was
the original building. I loved those guys. I used to
reait there when we had to have a when we
had to have a membership card to get a beard.
I'm right now to eighty eight in Magnolia, which is
one exit past the five eighteen which the old Green
Days is on. That by team.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Oh well, that's still his number one location over twenty locations.
That's still his number is crazy to how much be
the lother performance RC hobby dot com. April, You'll be first,
hang tight, stay tunn doing it's big on the Michael
Berry Show.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
Oh hey, you.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
Daring this Shirley Cue licking on the Michael bed program.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
Ain't now one of you asks my opinion on this hell,
but I've been seeing it all day on the internet.
And this Hunter Biden, the former president's son, with ninety
percent motif now than he used to.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
All of them is dential Veniera's just like his father had.
His father even got hair plug. His father used to
be bow head. Do anybody remember a bowhead Joe Biden?
Speaker 1 (24:51):
But anywhere Hunter.
Speaker 6 (24:52):
Is so nasty and he's so foul mouthed. He reminded
me of Watusa. When she get on that THCCBD, yeah,
mix it with her five ball liquor.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (25:05):
She starts cursing, and I expect to see her on
a body cam video soon. And I expect to see
hunting Biden on a video cam soon because you cannot
continue to be that ignorant and get away with it.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
It's just not possible.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Let's go to April, which is the name of Chad
Knockanishi's wife, but I don't think she would call because
they're in Hawaii and she's busy being a lawyer. I
don't think she even listens to the show, which is
probably better. We don't want the spouse is listening, do
we remote? April, you're on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Go ahead, sweetheart, Hi, it's special to speak to this.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
It's crazy, it's Melina. It's chalk tall for soothing.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Oh okay, you got some chalk taw in you.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Well supposed boy.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Where'd you grow up?
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Lo Max outside of Laport, Texas?
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Oh okay, all right, go ahead, My dear.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
You were speaking earlier about people that dropped out of school,
and it's hard to follow up, mister Carey, But I
dropped out in tenth grade, and my husband, my husband,
my son's stepfather, he dropped out in the eighth and
I ended up working very hard and owning Mount Bar
which I've since sold, and he is a project manager
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at a plant. The reason I was calling you is
because my son, he's a twenty year old junior in college.
He's like college football with and he got injured. He
is home because he lost his scholarships because the injury,
and he's thinking about he got accepted to ut now,
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but he's kind of wanting to quit enjoying the military.
And I know it's kind of a skew from your
conversation earlier, but you know, I will support him no
matter what. But why I called you specifically is because
he wants to be in politics, so he's terrified of putting.
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He wanted to finish and go into as a officer. Anyway,
I guess my point is is that we both would dropouts,
and we worked hard, and we raised a different fun
and I'm very proud and your opinion about the military,
I'm nervous.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Well, listen, I first of all, I think it's a
noble thing to do the fact that he would want
to do it, I think he's a good sign I
think under President Trump, in the direction they're taking, we're
seeing record sign ups that will make it that much
more important at the next president after Donald Trump, if
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he's still in office, if your son is still in
the military, you know, four years from now, it'll make
it that much more important than that we get the
right person there so we have the right commander in chief.
My experience, now, I didn't go into the military. But
my experience, having lots of conversations with people who do,
is that it can be on a personal level. It
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can help folks develop a sense of independence, confidence, a
real revelation of their character. It can teach them discipline,
it can teach them self reliance. It's not for everybody.
Some people drop out because the systems aren't meant for them.
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Some people don't play within other people's rules. Some people
don't abide, you know, being talked to that way or
whatever else. But once you get through that process, and
you know, I got to tell you, I've known some
people who were not the toughest guys in the group
who go off and succeed there. And I've known some
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guys that were real bad asses that didn't make it.
It's as much mental as it is physical. And I
don't think you have to be a physical superstar to
succeed in the military. In fact, I've seen quite the opposite.
It requires a certain blend of brains and self control
and discipline and tenacity to succeed. And he's just got
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to ask himself if that's the case. Here's what I
believe happens, and this will apply to everybody out there,
young people particularly, but it happens older in life too.
Young people particularly, they graduate high school, they don't know
what to do. And everybody go to college. Why anybody
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who says go to college has never been to college,
doesn't know anything about what college is and is not.
You can always go to college and go to college later,
you night school if you need to. Perspective is everything,
and that's why when someone has that aha moment, no
not take on me, ramon it. When someone has that
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aha moment, that the whole perspective shifts and they get
it right. Everything falls into place after that. Take ourselves
back to a state of nature before we had universities
and key fobs and all this. Ask yourself this, Why
am I here? What am I doing on this earth?
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What do I want to do? You may not specifically
know where you're going to work and what you're going
to do, whether an employee of someone else or your
own business, But what do you want to do? Ask
yourself these questions? What gives you joy? What gives you joy?
Is it helping people? Is it being alone? Is it
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fixing things? Is it inventing things? Is it cleaning things?
Is it cooking for people. Is it challenging yourself physically
or mentally? Is it solving a problem for other people?
Is it soothing the pain of other people? You can
start imagining when you realize that those are the things
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that you enjoy doing. Okay, that might mean a career
over here. So many people come to me and want
to know what program, certification, school, whatever else they need
to go to. If you can't figure it out, here's
what you do. Find somebody you know who owns a
business and they have tasks to perform. Find somebody who's
(31:38):
a plumber, electrician, roofer, whatever else, small shop where they
themselves go out every day and do that, or they've
got a guy in their shop who does and say, hey,
can I go to work for ten bucks an hour
to be your helper? And I will commit to you
for one year that I will do that. Get up early,
show up on time, do that job and learn that.
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When I left practicing law, I bought apartment complexes. Had
no money, so I did owner finance and I would
get up every morning and I would go and I
would go to job sites and I would watch how
they did things, and I would find somebody I knew
in tile. I learned how to run a wet saw.
Me goofy me learn how to run a wet saw.
(32:21):
I learned how to install composition shingles on a roof.
Would you want me doing that on your project? No?
Because I'm not any good at it. But I learned
how to do it, and I learned how to do
it by doing it with a law degree thinking. I
went from being limoed around to meetings if I stayed
late to now here I am working with rednecks doing
(32:44):
projects like that the best thing I ever did. So
the point is dive in and start doing something. You
go to work at that business and you end up
never moving in ten years from now, you end up
owning that business or another business just like it, with
the blessing of the owner. The getting off ground zero,
getting started, get started doing something, and signing up for
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a program and paying somebody a bunch of money to
go to their school is not the best approach
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Verie Show is on the air. Don't want a
(00:33):
good time for some Phomo calls, Well do that now.
I have one friend whose son has to switch schools
to go into his junior year at another school. He
doesn't want to go there. He's been working with his
dad for years. He wants to take over his dad's business.
Wants to do what his dad does. Doesn't want to
(00:54):
go to school. He doesn't want to go to a school.
Wants to work, that's what he enjoys doing. Wants to
make some money by himself a truck, And somewhere along
the line we decided that that wasn't good for a kid. No, No,
you got to drive to the school and drive home
every day. You gotta switch classes constantly, and go sit
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at lunch and throw spitballs and flirt with the girls
and get in trouble and have letters sent home and
study the things they want you to study. And you
got to do that, and then when you're done, you
gotta go somewhere else and pay more money and spend
a bunch of time in classes. And you got to
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do their reports and get your grades and then when
they get your grades and you measure up, and if
you do that long enough and spend enough money, then
you'll have your degree. And then you'll have the williwonk
of golden ticket. You'll be able to do whatever you
want in life. So people did and it didn't work,
(02:03):
and so you have a bunch of people deeply in debt,
years of their life spent doing something they didn't want
to do. And now what And the burden is much
higher when you got a college degree. Because I'm the
world's supposed to be my oyster. I went and got
a college degree, and nobody cares. Nobody cares because the
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people are hiring want to hire. You know, Google goes
out of their way not to hire people with college degrees.
There are a number of high tech companies that do
that because they think it's very hard to train a
young person with a college degree. They got too much pride.
I've got a college degree. You've got nothing. You've got nothing.
(02:48):
You need the boot camp of life to break you
down and tell you are nobody. You've done nothing. Your
mother is very proud of your college degree. Mama will
tell you how proud she is. And when she sees
you walk across the stage, she will tell you how
wonderful you are and how you've basically conquered the world.
(03:10):
And you've got your college degree, don't come looking for
a job from me or anybody else. And this is
the reality. And Dad's there. He paid for it. And
Dad doesn't have a college degree. He did a year
at A and M. And then he went to work,
went to work for fencing company or a sheet rock
company or roofing company, running an auger, driving forklift or caterpillar.
(03:38):
And then he built up, built up, built up, and
went off started his own little business and now not
filthy rich, but he's got season tickets to the Aggie's
games because he still goes back to the Aggie's games
and he wears Texas A and M all the time,
like he graduated and he didn't. But does it matter?
And so he wants his kid to do better than
he did. I got news for you. The odds are, Bubba,
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your kid is not going to do better than you.
Using the metric you are employing, he's not going to
make more money than you. Odds are, he's not. That's
just a fact. Odds are he's not going to make
more money than you, and he's probably not going to
be as content as you because we've set false expectations.
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We need to have realistic conversations with young people instead
of this butterfly. Oh, Billy's going to college, therefore whatever, Billy,
his parts don't smell their roses. He's wonderful because he's
in college and everything he does is great. Oh Billy's graduated. Everybody,
Billy's coming in the room. He's graduated from college. Billy's
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better than everyone because he's graduated from college. What does
that even matter? It doesn't show me a kid that's
getting out there busting but learning a skill, learning a
skill and willing to work. Who can show up to
work on time? The hardest thing for young people to
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do today. Show up to work on time. Young people today,
especially once they get a degree, think they should start
as the CEO. I could go on forever, but these
folks have been holding carry you on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Go ahead, Hey how are you? Yeah, No, I'm kind
of in the situation. Love your show. By the way,
my son, I guess he's twenty seven now, But yeah,
we went through the college deal. I owned a hobby
store here and you send them.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Which one carry?
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Guess?
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Oh, performance art ce hobby? Who the biggest in Texas?
Speaker 1 (05:45):
So do you not own that anymore?
Speaker 2 (05:48):
I do, Yes, I do own it.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
That's the one.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Now are your largest wilume doing in Texas?
Speaker 1 (05:53):
It is lean in So I can wring your neck.
I shouldn't have to ask you that. You should say
the name of the damned place. I know who y'all are.
Y'all are a big deal in the remote control stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
That's right, That's right they are. We've grown really fast.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
You built that business yourself.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Yes, sir, from scratch.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
You owned the dirt of the space yall are in.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
I do not. I would surely like that. We just
came in with we've kind of had, you know, a
business plan together. Is like nobody's servicing these seven million people.
So we kind of had to get a spot that
was within thirty minutes and seven million people, that was
easy to get to. So that was location, location, location,
So we grabbed the spot that was ready to go,
got it open before Christmas two and a half years
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ago in twenty two and we're just rocking and rolling,
taking care of folks selling everything and internet price.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
And then you've got to have a big I guess
a big runway in an open space so you can
you can run your your planes. And is it just planes?
We do boats and all that as well.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
We do anything you can drive with remote control of planes, air, helicopters, boats,
of course, cars and trucks. I got cars and trucks
there one hundred miles an hour. Airplanes are one hundred
and fifty miles an hour out.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Of that's crazy, that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
And those that are about seventy miles an hour. And
I live on a private airport of sharing, so I
fly airplanes in the front, big and small.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
And I guarantee that whatever you were calling about is
not nearly as interesting as this.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
About about my son. Astly, my son going to college.
And you know he my his mom wanted him to
go to college, and he you know, he didn't make
it one semester. But he's a welder now, so we
finally found something for him to do. College ain't for everybody.
I mean, you know, he's making thirty five dollars an hour,
twenty six years old.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Yeah, yeah, and and yeah, well let me tell you
hold on, Kerry, because I want to talk to you
some more. I'm going to get a bunch of people
who are going to say you were against college. You
went to college in law school. Yes, I'm not against college. Okay,
I'm not against college. I'm not against the military. I'm
not against a foreign exchange program. I'm not against being vegetarian.
(08:15):
It's just it's not for everybody. Stop trying to make
it for everybody and telling people they're a failure if
they don't callers hold tight. I want to hear from
you got three women. I don't expect women to call
in on this topic. Let me tell you about the
size they call during the break a few minutes ago
(08:39):
that Roley McGinnis had died a long time, long time
Cadillac wasn't Roley McGinnis Cadillac what he was. You know,
it's an interesting thing. When Tesla came into the car business,
Tesla warned to go direct manufacture to the public, direct
(09:02):
to consumer, and in state of Texas, you can't do that.
I'm not really sure how they got around it. I
guess they just spent enough money. But they do that now.
But when you think about for so many years, when
I where I grew up, you knew the names of
the car car dealers. Charlie Wickersham was a legend in
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Orange and you'd have a guy that just have in
a little town. You might have a guy that just
has a few cars, but he'd have his name on it.
I mean, that was a big name in town and
they would promote the name as much as as the dealership.
But in any case, we have not been able to
confirm that. But we we have been a prime We
have been advised that that not Charlie Wickersham. He passed
(09:46):
a long time ago, that Roby McGinnis passed. Let's go
back to Kerry real quick, Kerrien, let me ask you
about this performance RC business. Okay, what kind of what
are we talking? Might grows sales there per year? Nobody
minds that they want you to see.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
We're gonna we're gonna do one point five this year.
We did nine hundred and ten. The first year, we
did one point one. Last year, we'll finish at one
to nine. Now I've got nine hundred in there in
the bank so far.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
And what does that And how many employees.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
I got five including me? Now I got mechanics to
work on cars.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Go ahead, uh, and the mechanics that work on our
C cars.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Yes, yes, I have somebody that can help you with
your RCY car. If you walk in the store, we
can fix your RC car while you wait. As far
as airplanes, I do all the airplanes stuff programmed.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Do they walk in? Do your guys walk in the
door knowing how to do that? Or do you teach
them how to do that?
Speaker 4 (10:43):
Wait?
Speaker 2 (10:44):
They have to they know how to do it. Uh.
I've got a couple of kids that work for me.
They're be twenty twenty one. They were high school kids
when they started with us. But they you know, you
find a poor kid that's got fifteen r C cars,
you know, he knows how to crank on it so.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Co So that's how he's got to fix it himself.
You know. I reblatched the other day Silicon Cowboys or
Silicon Cowboys about Rod Canyon, who's one of my heroes
in life, and it was about the founding of Compact,
and he talked about having a car when he was
growing up and he had this old Beater car. He
was making forty cents an hour and he bought his
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car for three hundred and fifty dollars and he said,
I first learned to build things by taking my car
apart and putting it back together. He said, I could
set the points and the distributor and the pistons, and
I could do all this sort of stuff. And that
was where I first learned that, you know, I don't
need to be afraid to tinker with things. Okay, I'm
looking at your website. I'm gonna give you the category.
I'm gonna need you to answer like a deposition in
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one number. Okay, you've got one, two, three, fourth, Fright,
You've got nine categories here, and I want you to
tell me what percentage of business each one is. Okay,
radio control cars sixty, radio control trucks.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Well, actually the sixty percent cars.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Trucks, okay, radio control, airplanes.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Thirty five.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
We're at ninety five and we're only three in Okay,
radio control.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
He loves, oh, sixty and oh I'm sorry, Oh, I'm
sorry about two probably fifty thirty and he ows is
only about five percent. We don't sell a whole lot.
About five percent of boats. Most of its cars, boats,
and airplanes.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
I'm striking all that from nonresponsive. How about drones.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
One percent?
Speaker 1 (12:31):
I'm surprised by that how come.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Dgis out of business and there's not really other Well
they're not out of business, but they are real hard
to get here in the United States because of their
connection with China supposedly, and uh, there's just not another
really really high quality I've got some lower you know,
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some four to five hundred dollar droans, but that thousand
dollars fifteen hundred dollars market, we just we don't really
that's about all. We don't really get into the drones
as much as we should. We've got some good SPV drones,
but they're not that DJI quality.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
I'm just surprised because I would have expected that was
your big growth and I'm just surprised as not. What
about radio control rockets?
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Rockets? We sell quite a few rockets, but it's that's
another thing. We have them just kind of as wall space,
but we sell a lot of them, and I'd say
probably about five percent maybe three percent on.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
The parts in service. How much of the service are
you personally doing?
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Oh? Me, I do all the airplane service myself. I
work on every airplane that comes in the shop. As
far as the cars, I try not to touch any
of them. I try to let my boys take care
of all that. They know what they're doing. Uh, they
know what to recommend. And we have over twelve thousand
items in stock along with all those parts, and so
for the most part, we got it in stock.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
What scares you the most that could put your business
out of business?
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Nothing? Failure is not an option.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Four hundred and ninety nine dollars for a remote control
looks like a defender. I guess jeep something. Yeah, with
the blue tracks, these aren't cheap. Who are the people buying?
I don't say everybody, give me one group one demo?
Is it fifty eight year old white guys? I mean,
who is it?
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Oh? Man, that's really weird.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Black people buy the.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Absolutely absolutely we should Asians? Oh absolutely, yeah, you got
about them. Yeah absolutely.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
You got a boat right in the middle of all
the cars, right in the middle of the cars. You
got a boat, a speedboat. I don't know what that's about. Oh,
that's popular products. Oh no, it's a cigarette it's a
cigarette boat. Do you have water right there so you
can take the boat? So you can take a boat
and drop it right there on the water, right there
on the spot.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Not not in our location. No, we don't.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Would you want house?
Speaker 2 (15:07):
And I do invite I do invite folks out to
the house. Every once in a while I've had to give
them a flight lesson or what happened. But we do
have thirty different RC fields airplane fields around Houston.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
You know. The CEO of Starbucks hired a guy to
come in he reported to nobody, and nobody reported to
him to take one year and study the business and
see how they could improve same store sales. And he
came to the conclusion that shocked everybody that eighty five
percent of Starbucks business is from fifteen percent of customers.
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And what they learned from that is one customer is
worth five, that the right customer is worth five people
like me that drink coffee there once a year. So
that's why I want.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
To go wah here.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Yeah, yeah, well that was my question. Do you hold
on just a second? Carry asked all those other people to
hold on. We'll get to them in just a moment.
She'll sleep because Michael Harry a period terry. Yes, I
gotta get some of these other calls. But how did
you get into this business? Did you have a day
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job before?
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Oh? Yeah, I was a I was a contract operations
ret for enterprise oil and gas, the pipeline inspector. My
wife is a geologist, microbitle, just kind of smart. She's
the smart one. And then uh, but uh, you know,
I phoned Nursia airplanes back in the nineties when my
kids were in high school or school, and then I
started flying real airplanes. And then about four years ago,
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do you know, one of my buddies sucked me in
about another one that I couldn't get airplane parks, so
she was died to start her own business. And I've
owned businesses before, and I said, well, we can do it.
We just got to get a good location. Uh, sell
everything for internet price. Uh, make sure you have everything
in stock, have a business big enough or building big
enough to house everything. Be nice to people. It's real easy.
(17:02):
Bring back that old timey customer service like we used
to having the old base and people eat it up. Ya.
Reviews are phenomenal. And you know, if you're looking for something,
your best chance for you to find it if you
want it today, is it perform a darty ibby.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Well, it strikes me that this is the sort of
thing that while people do enjoy it, you know, on
the comfort of their back porch or in their workshop
at their viewer ink dot com building out back. It's
also it's also an interactive thing, right, It's the kind
of thing that you like to gather with other people
and compare and and suggest ideas and talk through those
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sorts of things, and it's kind of more of a
social interaction. They want to talk to you about Hey,
I try to absolutely where are people. Let's take just
an average car. You know, somebody spends five six hundred
dollars on one of these cars I see on your site.
Where are they running? This car is in their backyard?
They go into a.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Course, man, they've got you've got of course, they'll run
from a backyard, or they'll find an o construction site
it's got some dirty you know, or a park. Uh.
There are some local tracks. We've got some local racing
going on around the area. So there are some racing
leagues for the cars. Airplanes, we have local fly ins
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out of the thirty clubs. There's a fly in right
now going on every week. You can go out, you know,
have a burger watch all the airplanes, talk to the pilots.
It's a lot of fun, a lot of camaraderie and
it's you know, something you can do getting out there
with your buddies. We uh, it's just a ton of fun.
It's just a yeah, yeah, it's great. I'd love one
(18:42):
to get you wor centy to bring your boys.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
I think it'd be cool. Pick the one U percent.
First of all, what percentage of your customers are retired?
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Probably twenty percent.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
And if you were to pick one field, one professional
field that more people than any other come in your
store and or customers, what would it be?
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Oh, Man Field, that's just tough. We talked about cars
and trucks, not about what they do. For a lot
of times we do for the most part that I
want to say a kind of blue collar workers. You
got more blue collar guys that are looking for something
to do that don't have twenty thousand dollars to go
buy a you know, a real car, a voat or
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something that they can do and do with their friends.
And it's halfway affordable. So yeah, and you can spend
as much money on this, you know, as you want.
I've got jets in the shop that are you know,
five ten thousand dollars, but they start for a quid.
Quality rc car or boat or plane about one hundred
and twenty bucks. So it's just a big range that
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you can just about do with anybody.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
She's so interesting to me that there, you know, you
think about the opportunities that are available in twenty twenty
five that weren't there in three fifty five. You know,
these niche communities. You find your little thing that you
love and there is a community for it, and you
can go on that Www. Thing and you can find it.
And what's interesting is, you know, yes, maybe some or
(20:21):
most of whatever you've got could be found on the internet,
but people want to come in and have that connection.
They want to talk to you, they want to talk
it through, they want to be around other people doing
what they're doing. I think that's just fantastic. Well year
did you start the business?
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Twenty two?
Speaker 1 (20:37):
And did you how long into the business did you
quit the day job?
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Oh about the first two months? Really, it's one of
my supervisors. Yeah. Well I didn't have turn of it,
didn't have a choice. It was something I had to
be there, so, you know, seven days a week, and
I didn't really have an opportunity where I could work both.
I started without you know, any employee. So it was
me and my wife and one other kid that that
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that came to work after you got out of school,
and so that's kind of how we started it. So
I didn't really have an opportunity to do both. Some
people do. There's another job that has a hobby. Shoper's
got two jobs. But I mean, failure is not an option. Uh,
You've got to believe in what you believe in. You
believe that failure is not an option, and you do
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what you got to do to make it work.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
You don't.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
It's me.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
I'm one of those guys that goes all the way
that way. If I fail, it's not because I didn't
try every everything I could have. I go, well, I
tried everything I could. You know, it's like, well I
could have done this, or I could have done that.
If I no, no, no, no, just don't do that.
Don't give yourself the opportunity. Put everything you got into it,
and there was never an option.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Kerry, you are a guy who would be miserable working
for somebody else if that's all you ever did, because
you're meant to one that they could not value you
as much and as hard as you would work. And
I guarantee you get up early and stay late and
wake up through the middle of the night and worry
and work and do things that your wife would say, well,
maybe you didn't need to do that, but you're just
(22:08):
so focused on the business. I was watching last night.
Amazon has a documentary on the old pizza hut restaurants
that Ramon worked at in high school. And they've gone
through some pizza huts around and one of them was
a gay church and they went way too into the
whole gay thing. It was their social statement. But one
of them was a place called Big Ed's Barbecue, and
(22:30):
it's just this black guy and his wife and his
kids and a whole family. And he goes into an
old pizza hut location. He has to gut the thing
because it had become an architect's office, and then he
makes a barbecue joint and he said, I didn't realize
how hard this was going to be. The bills just
kept coming faster than we could sell barbecue. And he
(22:51):
lost his house, he lost his mortgage, I mean everything.
But he's kept this place going. And people don't realize
the tenacity I hear in your voice and your focus
on this business. People don't realize when you go in
and you get mad at a business for whatever else,
you don't know how hard they've worked to get to
(23:11):
the point that you could just stroll in and look
at the shelves. You just don't know.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Yeah. Absolutely, it's like looking at the iceberg. Man. You know,
you see the iceberg, and you see the top half,
and it's just about twenty feet tall, and you know
you can get out there and walk on it. But
it's what's underneath that parts one hundred, one hundred and
fifty feet deep, that's what's holding it all together.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
You know how many square feet you have in that warehouse?
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Thirty two hundred square feet.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
How far where are you in Perland? How far are
you from the original Gringoes?
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Oh? Man, that's my favorite. I remember one that was
the original building. I loved those guys. I used to
reait there when we had to have a when we
had to have a membership card to get a beard.
I'm right now to eighty eight in Magnolia, which is
one exit past the five eighteen which the old Green
Days is on. That by team.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Oh well, that's still his number one location over twenty locations.
That's still his number is crazy to how much be
the lother performance RC hobby dot com. April, You'll be first,
hang tight, stay tunn doing it's big on the Michael
Berry Show.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
Oh hey, you.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
Daring this Shirley Cue licking on the Michael bed program.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
Ain't now one of you asks my opinion on this hell,
but I've been seeing it all day on the internet.
And this Hunter Biden, the former president's son, with ninety
percent motif now than he used to.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
All of them is dential Veniera's just like his father had.
His father even got hair plug. His father used to
be bow head. Do anybody remember a bowhead Joe Biden?
Speaker 1 (24:51):
But anywhere Hunter.
Speaker 6 (24:52):
Is so nasty and he's so foul mouthed. He reminded
me of Watusa. When she get on that THCCBD, yeah,
mix it with her five ball liquor.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (25:05):
She starts cursing, and I expect to see her on
a body cam video soon. And I expect to see
hunting Biden on a video cam soon because you cannot
continue to be that ignorant and get away with it.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
It's just not possible.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Let's go to April, which is the name of Chad
Knockanishi's wife, but I don't think she would call because
they're in Hawaii and she's busy being a lawyer. I
don't think she even listens to the show, which is
probably better. We don't want the spouse is listening, do
we remote? April, you're on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Go ahead, sweetheart, Hi, it's special to speak to this.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
It's crazy, it's Melina. It's chalk tall for soothing.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Oh okay, you got some chalk taw in you.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Well supposed boy.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Where'd you grow up?
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Lo Max outside of Laport, Texas?
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Oh okay, all right, go ahead, My dear.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
You were speaking earlier about people that dropped out of school,
and it's hard to follow up, mister Carey, But I
dropped out in tenth grade, and my husband, my husband,
my son's stepfather, he dropped out in the eighth and
I ended up working very hard and owning Mount Bar
which I've since sold, and he is a project manager
(26:36):
at a plant. The reason I was calling you is
because my son, he's a twenty year old junior in college.
He's like college football with and he got injured. He
is home because he lost his scholarships because the injury,
and he's thinking about he got accepted to ut now,
(26:56):
but he's kind of wanting to quit enjoying the military.
And I know it's kind of a skew from your
conversation earlier, but you know, I will support him no
matter what. But why I called you specifically is because
he wants to be in politics, so he's terrified of putting.
(27:18):
He wanted to finish and go into as a officer. Anyway,
I guess my point is is that we both would dropouts,
and we worked hard, and we raised a different fun
and I'm very proud and your opinion about the military,
I'm nervous.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Well, listen, I first of all, I think it's a
noble thing to do the fact that he would want
to do it, I think he's a good sign I
think under President Trump, in the direction they're taking, we're
seeing record sign ups that will make it that much
more important at the next president after Donald Trump, if
(27:58):
he's still in office, if your son is still in
the military, you know, four years from now, it'll make
it that much more important than that we get the
right person there so we have the right commander in chief.
My experience, now, I didn't go into the military. But
my experience, having lots of conversations with people who do,
is that it can be on a personal level. It
(28:24):
can help folks develop a sense of independence, confidence, a
real revelation of their character. It can teach them discipline,
it can teach them self reliance. It's not for everybody.
Some people drop out because the systems aren't meant for them.
(28:45):
Some people don't play within other people's rules. Some people
don't abide, you know, being talked to that way or
whatever else. But once you get through that process, and
you know, I got to tell you, I've known some
people who were not the toughest guys in the group
who go off and succeed there. And I've known some
(29:06):
guys that were real bad asses that didn't make it.
It's as much mental as it is physical. And I
don't think you have to be a physical superstar to
succeed in the military. In fact, I've seen quite the opposite.
It requires a certain blend of brains and self control
and discipline and tenacity to succeed. And he's just got
(29:29):
to ask himself if that's the case. Here's what I
believe happens, and this will apply to everybody out there,
young people particularly, but it happens older in life too.
Young people particularly, they graduate high school, they don't know
what to do. And everybody go to college. Why anybody
(29:51):
who says go to college has never been to college,
doesn't know anything about what college is and is not.
You can always go to college and go to college later,
you night school if you need to. Perspective is everything,
and that's why when someone has that aha moment, no
not take on me, ramon it. When someone has that
(30:12):
aha moment, that the whole perspective shifts and they get
it right. Everything falls into place after that. Take ourselves
back to a state of nature before we had universities
and key fobs and all this. Ask yourself this, Why
am I here? What am I doing on this earth?
(30:33):
What do I want to do? You may not specifically
know where you're going to work and what you're going
to do, whether an employee of someone else or your
own business, But what do you want to do? Ask
yourself these questions? What gives you joy? What gives you joy?
Is it helping people? Is it being alone? Is it
(30:54):
fixing things? Is it inventing things? Is it cleaning things?
Is it cooking for people. Is it challenging yourself physically
or mentally? Is it solving a problem for other people?
Is it soothing the pain of other people? You can
start imagining when you realize that those are the things
(31:15):
that you enjoy doing. Okay, that might mean a career
over here. So many people come to me and want
to know what program, certification, school, whatever else they need
to go to. If you can't figure it out, here's
what you do. Find somebody you know who owns a
business and they have tasks to perform. Find somebody who's
(31:38):
a plumber, electrician, roofer, whatever else, small shop where they
themselves go out every day and do that, or they've
got a guy in their shop who does and say, hey,
can I go to work for ten bucks an hour
to be your helper? And I will commit to you
for one year that I will do that. Get up early,
show up on time, do that job and learn that.
(32:01):
When I left practicing law, I bought apartment complexes. Had
no money, so I did owner finance and I would
get up every morning and I would go and I
would go to job sites and I would watch how
they did things, and I would find somebody I knew
in tile. I learned how to run a wet saw.
Me goofy me learn how to run a wet saw.
(32:21):
I learned how to install composition shingles on a roof.
Would you want me doing that on your project? No?
Because I'm not any good at it. But I learned
how to do it, and I learned how to do
it by doing it with a law degree thinking. I
went from being limoed around to meetings if I stayed
late to now here I am working with rednecks doing
(32:44):
projects like that the best thing I ever did. So
the point is dive in and start doing something. You
go to work at that business and you end up
never moving in ten years from now, you end up
owning that business or another business just like it, with
the blessing of the owner. The getting off ground zero,
getting started, get started doing something, and signing up for
(33:06):
a program and paying somebody a bunch of money to
go to their school is not the best approach
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