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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time, time, luck and load. So Michael
Verie Show is on the air. I got an email
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from a fellow named Bob Baldwin. I didn't know Bob Balden,
and I was talking about how I roll over my
to do list each day to the next day, and
how I enjoy marking things off as done. And there
have been studies, actually done business classes for NBA courses
about the psychological effect of checking a box. A lot
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of people will put a box next to an item
that needs to be done, are marking through an item
when it's done. And in fact, I've read from multiple
gurus on business organization and personal improvement and all this
that you shouldn't delete things as you complete them. You
should mark through them so that at the end of
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the day you can see what you've done, and it
gives you a sense of accomplishment, which tends to drive
people harder. You read much about the psychology of distance runners,
like the David Goggins kind of gas in the games
they have to play to push through the pain, and
I think each of us is different, but I do
find it to be interesting anyway. So I saw that
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his signature line was Bob Baldwin, CEO of CNG for
compressed natural gas the number four America Cgfouramerica dot com,
and so I went to the website and I started
looking at it. Well, it's pretty interesting. It's an alternative fuel,
much like an electric vehicle would be an alternative energy source.
And so we emailed back and forth about the economics
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of the business and how he got into it and
who else do you know who does this? And I
thought it was rather interesting. So, Bob, what enabled you
to deliver compressed natural gas to an end user cheaper
than refined gasoline per se?
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Well, I think it's the cost of the natural gas
is a lot cheaper. Like I said, it's only about
fifty cents per gallon for the raw product, and then
it's for us to get it into the vehicles as
cheap as possible, and with volume that gets spread, the
overhead gets spread across all those gallons, and then you
can get it down. I try it if I can
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get it down to as close to a dollar per
gallon as I can. If the station is not doing
very well, then I can't. I don't have a bunch
of volume to spread that overhead across but that's the cheapest.
The natural gas being four dollars per m and b
tou gets us eight gallons worth of fuel. That's probably
the biggest thing. And natural gas over the last few
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years has been down below two dollars. So in the
last year it went from a dollars seventy up to
right now it's about four to forty. So that has
caused me to raise my prices a little bit because
of the cost of the raw product has gone up.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
So you're selling compressed natural gas right now for a
gallon for how much.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
We're doing two forty nine right.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Now, And what's the price of gas right now.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
About two fifty it's about the same.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Oh that's not good for you.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Yeah, so we need to have a differential now for
diesel compared to diesel trucks. You know, diesel trucks, they're
paying at the truck stops about three fifty right now.
So compared to the diesel prices and the large trucks,
it is a very good deal still so standard, especially
if they get a contract with us, because then we
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are able to give them a lesser price.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Stand to endorset, right, what type of mileage can a
vehicle get for gallon. I know it'll vary depending on
the weight, but give me a comparison with diesel, right.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
That's okay, So that's a very good question. So we
measure our natural gas when we dispense it in a
gasoline gallon equivalent, so it has the same amount of
energy as a gasoline gallon. They also measure it in
a diesel gallon equivalent, which is about I think about
sixteen percent more natural gas equals a gallon of diesel,
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and it'll so the mileage for like my pickups of Silverado,
I use CNG, and it also switches to gasoline if
I run out of CNG. But I get the same
mileage approximately on the natural gas as I do on gasoline,
because it's a gasoline gallon equivalent of energy.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Interesting a fellow.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
And so diesel same thing, So it's a little bit more,
but you don't I never see it sold as a
diesel gallon equivalent.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Fellow by the name of Fred Delgadillo wrote me saying,
this guy, Bob Baldwin sounds a lot like your friend
Nick Cercy, And many of you will know Nick Cercy
as a famous actor. So we put Jim Mudd our
creative director on the case, and y'all can decide for yourself.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Our model that I came up with, which has not
been a very good model by the way.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Well there, all that permission I was asking was before
I got into your NAV system and figured out exactly
where your car was at the moment Bill Nichols was killed.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
We would build compressed natural gas stations on existing truck
stops where there's a natural gas pipeline close by.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Now, we don't have a lot of time here. You
got one chance, exactly one, to tell me what you did.
All right, we'll stick the old testament then. You know,
back in the old days, we used to use the phone.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Book, you know what, and finding those was somewhat difficult.
But most of the people that around that time, we're
so excited about natural gas, that's the build it will come.
And after they realized they could put their own station
in their own and they're own your hard they started
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doing that and we lost a lot of those customers.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Noel Burkene, who's a bodybuilder, emailed me ask if they
can odorize it with mint or cinnamon, anything other than
swamp snake farts. I mean, I know, if you smell gas.
It's not a good thing. But does it have to
smell so bad?
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Yeah, it's very distinct. You can tell. What if there's
a natural gathlete in the area and you don't like it?
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Yeah, well, I guess that's the point, right, It's it's
the it's the chirping. It's a chirping alarm going off
in the background. Well, that's annoying when you hear that.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Well, they didn't used to sell it with autorized and
then there was a big explosion at a school here
in Texas and that forced them to autorize it.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
So, so when when you go out and you fuel
these fleets, are you do they have some sort of
a receptacle to catch this that you're you're you're not
fueling the individual units when you go out.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Yeah. So, well, and for one one of our fleets,
that is only ten of them, we do what you
call wet hosing, where you pull up to the vehicle,
stretch a hose over to it, fill it, go to
the next vehicle, fill it. But down at the Fort
ben School District, if you look at our website and
scroll down a ways, you'll see how we're filling thirty
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buses at one time. We connect thirty hoses to thirty buses,
record their pressures at the beginning, and then we feel
them all and then we record their pressures at the
end and disconnect all the hoses for them so they
The bus raverage is simply come in the morning, the
buses are ready.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
To go, and you do this every day.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
They're running twice twice a day. We do it for
thirty buses in the morning and thirty buses in the evening.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
And then how employees do you have?
Speaker 2 (08:05):
We only have five, six six, Well we're very small
company doing a lot. Uh.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
You're a great guest, Bob. I enjoyed our conversation.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
His website CNG for Compressed Natural Gas the number four
America CNG four america dot com. Allow me to introduce myself.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
My name is mitter Michael Berry Genius.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
I don't use the term advertised. I don't have advertisers.
Advertisers are what you hear when I'm not doing the
show or bragging on our show sponsors. Everything else is advertisers.
And it's very important to me that that when we
take on a new partner that they understand because some
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people frankly, you know, a home improvement company or a
medical shop or a restaurant or anything else. They just
want more business, more money, and they don't really care
how they get there. They would spend money on the
homage channel if it would get a more business. And
I'm not mad at them for that. That's their business.
That's how they do business. But that's not what we do.
And we're twenty years into this now and the model works.
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And when I started in radio, I could get this wrong,
but it doesn't matter because by the time Eddie Martinez
tells me I got it wrong, I moved on to
the next thing, and I really don't care. So there's
a certain creative license. But I believe this to be correct.
When I started in radio, there was no podcast, there
was no digital, there was no streaming, so nobody went
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to the websites, not really at that time. Nobody listened
on their phone or their iPad or their computer. You
listened through the radio. That was the same way you'd
always listen since Marconi days. And at that time, thirty
percent of all revenues or what was then Clear Channel
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now iHeart Houston was automotive, and that was car and
truck dealers and that that dominated the radio advertising. Those
are air quotes Business two thousand and eight hits car
dealerships fall off side of the earth. I mean, heck,
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when Lawrence Marshall goes under with Ray Childress the face
of it, I will tell you this the clobber line.
I don't you tell me Ramon, We'll open the phone lines.
Somebody tell me a better car or truck or RV
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marketing campaign that you remember hearing you had, cal Worthington
had some good ones. Tell me a better marketing campaign,
then Ray Childress bloberline. First of all, I've Ray Childers
is a friend, and I will tell you he is
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one of the most charming individuals ever. It's like he's
a normal guy trapped in Lufa Rigno's body that then
took steroids for forty years. And I'm not saying Ray
took steroids. I'm saying he's not like a big guy.
He's like a normal guy in this massive body, almost
trapped there and he's real all shucks. But the thing
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that surprised me about him, By the way, if you
got a better ad campaign, you call him tell a
seven one three, nine, nine nine one thousand. But you
got to do the campaign. I mean you got to
you know, if there was a catch line or whatever.
Seven one three, nine nine nine one thousand. Here is
the thing that surprised me about Ray Childress. Once you
get to know him very well, he is amazingly smart.
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And I'm sorry, but I'll tell you honestly, I didn't
think he would be. I thought he'd be a big galot.
I thought he just wouldn't be wouldn't be very sharp.
So I will wait on your calls for a better
ad campaign. But here's what I wanted to tell you.
So when we started, I said, I don't just want.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
They do it.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
They called a read. In the business, you do a read,
so I'd be talking about something, talking about something, and
then this is what your host would do. Joe's Plumbing Supply.
They're really good and right now ten percent off if
you tell them that John Smith told you to call. Okay,
now back to the show, Well, that wasn't part of
the show making money. It's amazing to me how uncomfortable
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people are talking about making money. Do you understand that
a church has to have money to keep flowing, but
people don't ever want there to be talk about money.
Shouldn't always be about money. But we got to keep
the lights on here, folks. We got to keep the
music going. We got to keep the grass. But people, again,
in a lot of people, especially people who punch a clock,
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they do not like the idea that anything involves money.
It should never be talked about. Everything should be free.
You should be nice and do things for people to
be nice. You should never pay for anything. You should
never charge for anything, and you shouldn't make any money
because they've never made any money, so they're mad at
everybody else. My position is you can do good things,
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make a lot of money, and use your money to
help other people. Mac does it, Russe Lebarra does it.
I'd like to think we do it anyway. So I
get this. We get an email from the guy that
runs a company called tech Star Techstar Techstar dot com
and they're in process controls industrial automation. I told you
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that radio that automotive went from thirty percent of radio
revenues to three percent overnight. If you hear that snapped it.
And I didn't mind because I only have one show sponsor,
lone Star Chevy. I don't care how many other dealers
are on the air. We do have car pro which
can help people with any But the point was I
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wanted people in unique industries that weren't just advertising everywhere,
but believed in our show and didn't worry about how
many phone calls they got. But they believed in our
show and they wanted to be a part of our show.
So that's his tech star guys, so they come on.
I was so happy because for once, it's not a
retail brand. Radio was always dominated by retail brands, electronics stores,
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car dealerships, and these guys are in process controls, industrial automation,
anything that you measure or analyze your processes, which is
what my dad did for a living. So I know,
I feel like I have a connection here. Anyway, they
just started with us, and I tell people, don't bother
me for three months just to answer the phone. Eventually
it'll start ringing. They got five calls yesterday from me
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mentioning it one time tech tech start up two eight
one five four two two o five. Because nobody does
B to B, people do B to B in a
stupid uh. They do these trade journals so they advertise
to each other. They all spend money in the trade journal,
advertising to their own competition. And for years I have said,
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we've got a lot of guys working at a plant,
working at a construction site, uh, driving on the roads,
delivering things, selling things. We should be your number one
place to come if you want to build your business
B to B. That's where we should be, where you are,
because they think of it as well. This over here
is for the retail public. This over here is for
B to B. But those B to B audiences are
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microscopic anyway. So I appreciate you guys, because they wouldn't
know they got five of our listeners if you hadn't
told them when you called, all right, real quick, Rob,
who's the better spot than the clobber line? Man?
Speaker 2 (15:52):
If anybody can wickersteam can and will Oh my god,
you're back home fin'd from Buna Guessa.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Oh that one I knew, Charlie wickersh I had to
okay real quick to chip what's yours?
Speaker 2 (16:06):
That was?
Speaker 1 (16:06):
That was wiggershand Ford was the deal? Ramo, you have
no idea, uh, Chip, go ahead.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
Probably before your time. But there was a fellow named
Art Grindle, big guy. He would jump around on the
cars and scream I want to sell you a car.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
You call, we'll go and knock on THESAULA.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Moved my father in yesterday. Had to block a guy
last night. He said, I ain't gonna listen to you anymore.
You moved your dad into a nursing home. So I
wrote out this reply that went, it's not a nursing home,
it's an assisted living facility. But I guess you could
call it a nursing home because he gets twenty four
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hour day care that I can't provide him at home.
And here's what I never understood. Why people Why if
you're at the right place and it's a good fit.
This one is why it works so well because we
sat down to dinner last night, and it turns out
that I knew a lot of the people at the
assistant Living center because most of my friend group is
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I'm fifty four, is twenty to forty years older than me.
It's always been the case. I've always taken on mentors
and older folks and not as many people my age,
and never anybody younger than me. It's just always been
the way it was, and especially when I was younger
and trying to make a name for myself, people my
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age didn't want to help somebody young. They were trying
to make it name themselves. But older folks were at
the point that they wanted to give back. So I
could take them for a cup of coffee, hit them
up for their support, get them to make two more introductions,
and on and on, and I could build my business
for my political career or whatever else. And I made
a lot of friends across the way. And older people
have learned things, learn things that they don't get to share.
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And if you'll so much as listen to them, you
make a friend in the deal. So I knew quite
a few of them folks there yesterday. And oh, anyway,
the reason I blocked the guy, he said, I can't
believe you put him nursing home. And I said, well,
I wrote out this long response. I said, number one,
it's medical care that I can't have. It's doctors and
things that I can't have at my home twenty four
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hours a day. And number two, and this is something
people don't understand. When you get to be that age,
you want to be around other people that age. I
spent the afternoon with him yesterday, and they had somebody
come in and play the organ and sing songs. And
he told me that in the last month alone, he
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performed five hundred and seven gigs that songs. Sorry, last
year twenty four he performed five hundred seven gigs. He
goes from retirement home to retirement home. He called him
retirement homes. I called him old folks homes. But he
goes from one to the other. He said last week
he had seventeen of them, seven teen of them. You know,
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there's little niche businesses you wouldn't believe he hauls. He's
got a he's got an organ. Used to be the
organist for the astros. He's got an organ that he
can turn on its side. It's got wheels and then
he can roll it. You can roll it through anywhere,
and it's it's a full blown organ. And he plays
the songs that the people know and enjoy. Anyway, I
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wrote the whole thing out, and I thought, you know what,
if that guy's an idiot, why is he op? He
didn't know my situation, so I blocked it. But I
did have something funny happened yesterday. Sweet little old lady,
I'm gonna tell you something, Ramon, if you can live
long enough to be a widower who goes into an
assisted living facility. The only people who are gonna know
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how wise what I'm about to say is are people
who've been through it. If your father is a widower
and you take them in, like the first day of kindergarten,
you know, you're so nervous because there's clicks over there,
and you know, one of the nurs just referred to
the table that this table of women as the Golden Girls.
She said, that's the Golden Girls table. And because first
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as school, I asked one of the nurses, I said, Hey,
I don't want to sit in somebody's table. Is there
a table that's open we can sit at? And she said, oh,
you can sit wherever you want. I said, I don't
believe that, because I've been here every day getting this
room ready for him. And at that table right there,
there's a group of about eight women that sit to you. Oh,
she said, oh, that's the Golden Girls. Yeah, you don't
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want to sit the Golden Girls table, But anything else
you're fine, because you know it's like your pew at
church at Old First Orange. You didn't walk into Old
First Orange and just sit down. You waited to see
there's where Ms McCabe is. There's where Miss Rees says,
you knew you didn't. Everybody had their seat. My parents
had their seat for decades, a seat where they sat.
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And God help you if as a visitor. We welcome
all visitors, but we don't welcome you to sit in
our seat. You do not sit on our pew where
we sit normally. But the sweet little lady comes up.
Her name was Nelda, and she comes up and she says,
I do so enjoy your show. And I thought, oh,
we're not that sweet. She's from South Carolina and in
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the most wonderful South Carolina acts. No, I'm gonna do it.
I'm not go with accents. This in the sweetest South
Carolina accent. She said, I do so love your show
and your music. Ramon does a great job with the music.
And I said, oh, okay, like I don't have any
part in it, but whatever, Yeah, great, I'm standing right here.
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Why do you have to split my compliment with Ramon?
He don't even here right now? She said. Now, I
tell you, of course, old people they have to nothing,
cannot be all positive. They have to tell you, you know,
nine nine percent of the time you're great, but let me
go ahead and focus on that one percent to leave
you wishing that you hadn't had this conversation. He said, Now,
I'll tell you. Sometimes you get to play and stuff
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and I'm about ready to turn it off. I just
I get so aggravated. I'm about ready to turn it off.
And then she went positive again, like the switch switch flipped,
and she said, but it's because I don't know the song.
I said, oh, it's so sweet. Yeah, that's absolutely true.
We we turn it off when we don't know the song.
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We want we want to know, uh what it is
that that we're listening to, and when we don't like it,
we tend to not like that, not care for that
at all. You know, when I when I was little,
my mom used to say, when we get old, you're
gonna be so shad of us. You're gonna you're gonna
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wanna you're gonna put us in a home. And I said, Mom,
I'm never gonna put you in a home. Never put
you in a home. And that was her idea of Hell. Well,
they finally got to the point that they couldn't take
care of my aunt Gail, my mother's sister, who is
seventy two years old now and was not supposed to
live to be twenty. She is severely mentally and physically retarded. Uh,
she has to be bathed, she has to be cared for,
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she has to be lifted into a wheelchair. She can
do hardly anything for herself. When my grandmother passed, then
my mother took her in and it finally got to
the point that I had to have an intervention and say, Mom,
it's not fair to dad. He cannot lift Gail at
his age any longer. There's a wonderful assistant living facility.
We could put her in there and we'll get this
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taken care of. It'll be fine, and you can go
visit her every day. And my mother wailed, Oh, she
wailed all the way up to the day that Ain't
Gail had to be moved, and she wailed some more,
I mean teeth gnashing and lamentations. And I was a
devil for having done this, and it wasn't fair to Gail,
and it wasn't fair to Gail, and I knew Ain't
Gail would love it. A week later, my mom called
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and said, Hugh, I hate to say it, but you
are right about what this time, because I'm always right,
she said. Gail loves it. She said, it kind of
hurts my feelings, be honest with you. She loves it.
She's made friends, they play bingo, they got social time.
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She gets bathed as many times as she wants to.
She's got this and she's got that. And she's just
as happy as my mom, said Michael, she has never
been happier. Well, lo and behold. In my dad's documentary
that Heritage Films made Chance McLean's company, he talked about
the fact that after we put my aunt in there
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next door to her, the room next door, we put
my grandmother who lived to be one hundred just short
of one hundred ninety nine, the one that Ramon put
the googly eyes on her on her funeral. Damn still
not over that. And he talked about how happy she
was because it was ten years ago. She was ninety
six at the time. He talked about how happy she
was in this assistant living facility. And he talked about
Aunt Gale and he said, you know, she just sat
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at home and watched TV and now she's engaged. And
so anyway, there is a time and place for everything,
and this has worked out well, so for all your prayers,
thank you.
Speaker 6 (24:54):
We put every.
Speaker 7 (24:55):
Printable picture and if you don't like them, we'll reprint
them or refund your money.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
At her, who's.
Speaker 8 (25:00):
Fault it is?
Speaker 5 (25:02):
Show your photo matters when it all goes crazy and the.
Speaker 7 (25:16):
Telly is God's gataining and the knights cablong when you
get that happy and you were gone to stemming at
your seats and.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Thinking of you hold up, hold on for just saying.
I saw an interview with the lead singer of this band, Firefall,
and in a it was a four year period, Firefall
had eleven hits. Firefall was a juggernaut in a in
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about a four year period with just uh, with hits
that were so big they you are the woman. You
know that, you know you are the woman just well,
this guy was an unapologetic I'm not even sure it
was former the way he said it. Course, he's in
his seventies. Now, I've never heard somebody so unapologetically talk
about their drug use. And he was saying that so
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the song just Remember I Love You. He was explaining
that song was a defensive song because what happened was
he'd been up on coke for three days in a row,
and from what I understand, people just they never go
to sleep. In fact, friends of mine who've done it say, Michael,
you could never touch that because it would be your
wonder drug because I already don't sleep because I don't
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want to go to sleep. There's things I want to do,
and it would be a struggle anyway. So he's three
days on this and his wife comes down to see
to the foot of the stairs and she says, are
you going to come upstairs and make love to me
like a husband should? Are you going to stay down
here with your guitar and your cocaine for the fourth
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day in a row? He said, give me just a minute.
Not the right answer. She goes upstairs and he's working
on it, and he realizes he's noodling on a song
and he's got it, and it's like this, you know,
it's the five pound bass. He's got it on the line.
He can't just walk off, so he said, I stayed
up all night. And she came downstairs at nine o'clock
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and she looked at me. She said, I cannot believe you.
I cannot believe you. And he said, will you just
listen to the song, And he said. The whole song
was written as a challenge of I have to have
something by nine o'clock. It was say midnight at that time.
That will make it okay that I didn't come upstairs.
Now play the opening of it.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
When it all goes crazy and the till is gone,
the day's gat.
Speaker 7 (27:49):
Raining and the nights gat along, when you get that
fel and you were gone to staring at your seat
and thinking of you up blues when there's so much.
Speaker 5 (28:07):
Tut you on a cry the world has crumbled.
Speaker 7 (28:11):
And you dumbed a while in yours off it and
they can be bound queens atween lech down, just remember
I love you little beyond.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Some great harmonies on this song. We don't think of
fire Fall because you know, they're not led Zeppelin there.
It's kind of soft a s. But they're really talented
writers and and it was Rolling Stone Cover that called
them the poor Man's supergroup because they had h they
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had been each of them had been with another band
and had great accomplishments when they came in. It wasn't Toto,
but but they were kind of in that way a supergroup.
Totally random. But there's a piece of audio that I
would like to share, and it's very timely. The US
beat Canada, just beat the snot out of them fighting,
and then beat them in hockey on the on the
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on the ice. And then there was the next matchup
and we lost bummer. But Shirley q Lickor had some
comments on it, and this doesn't make any sense a
year from now and I forgot to play it then.
So let's just pretend that this was the right time
to play.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
That this is the lated my church, my whole life
is taken back to design Church of Guarding Cross down
here on Third and Joy Streaking.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
And she from Nova Scotia.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
She's claimed she is halfway Canadian.
Speaker 9 (29:42):
She don't sound like she sounded like she's from pod also,
but she always talking about Canada.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
This is Canada dead.
Speaker 5 (29:48):
I said, girl, they fit to play the US. Say
night y'all, go boo aba nasha anthems.
Speaker 9 (29:52):
She said, well maybe we we I said, well, well
maybe we will blow our ass out the water.
Speaker 7 (29:56):
We will see what happens.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Had it.
Speaker 9 (29:59):
I feel like all the eyes, why they keep changing
their national anthem.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
It's for the Transnessica. It always is now, it's always
the transsexicals. President Trump will address a joint Session tonight
at eight o'clock. The Joint Session is not the State
of the Union, but it's basically the state of the Union.
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The first state of the Union is at the beginning
of your second year as president. Your inaugural address is
what takes place is instead of the State of the Union,
He's given his inaugural address, and now we will get
his address to the Joint Session of Congress tonight at
eight o'clock. I will tell you we haven't talked about
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the border in a minute, but it's working. Border patrol
is telling me there's nobody. They're just it's not nobody.
It's minuscule. It's acceptable the number of people who are
coming over. And what nobody's talking about is the self
deportation story Fox twenty six, a Honduran woman and her
children decided, all right, we're we're just going back.
Speaker 9 (31:12):
I'm a bit nervous and scared because of the situation
with my two youngest daughters documentation, but I'm trusted in
God and with his help, we're going to get through this.
Speaker 8 (31:20):
Ahlica Castillo is a Hunduran native that arrived to the
United States seven months ago with her five children and husband.
All was going well until last month. Her husband was
arrested and detained by Ice despite not having a criminal record.
Castilla was able to talk with her husband before her
immigration court hearing.
Speaker 9 (31:36):
But I mean, I'm happy because I was able to
see him and see that he's doing well, he says.
Others have been deported, but he's still detained. He says
he gets impatient because he wants to be with his
family and see his daughters.
Speaker 8 (31:48):
Anxious and nervous, Castillo stood before an immigration judge with
her attorney c V. A.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Mintz.
Speaker 8 (31:52):
Castile had already decided that she wanted to leave the
country and self deport and the judge granted her wish. Today.
Speaker 6 (31:58):
It was a very important because we were asking the
judge to give us pray conclusionary departure, which means before
we even have a hitting on the merits, she wants
to leave.
Speaker 8 (32:10):
Minutes before her court hearing, her husband called her and
told her he had finally signed documents to be deported.
He will be flown to him. There is in two
weeks for Castillo. The judge gave her until June twenty
sixth to leave the country.
Speaker 9 (32:22):
And soon we will be reunited and give each other
a big hug after going through all of this, because
both of us and the kids have suffered during this
time we've been separated, and I do not want to
be here in this country if it's not with him
and all of our kids.
Speaker 8 (32:34):
And Helica says she has no regrets, but would not
embark on the journey again, and her attorney advised these
undocumented immigrants to show up for their court hearings.
Speaker 6 (32:42):
Don't be afraid to show up to their court hearings,
to don't be afraid to follow up because there might
be options. It's worse if they don't show up to
their heating and there is an order of deportation and absentia,
because then they will be in more legal trouble.
Speaker 8 (32:58):
Alica said she use this next four month to get
all her documentation in order so that she is able
to travel back to her home country and be reunited
with her family and her husband.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Eh.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
This poor guy, This poor guy. I feel sorry for
this guy. Most guys go fishing. Maybe they go to
the bar to get some time to themselves. This guy's like,
I've had it, I'm out of here, honey, Sorry, but
I got departed.
Speaker 10 (33:27):
He's finally gonna get some alone time. He's finally headed out.
He's finally gonna get some alone time. But no, she
can't give him that. She goes to the court and
asks to deport her too, just to.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Ruin his alone time. It's like that scene in Goodfellas.
Nobody goes to jail unless they want to.
Speaker 8 (33:47):
Oh, I don't know if.
Speaker 9 (33:48):
They could live like that, God's forbid. What would happen
if you had to go to prison trying?
Speaker 6 (33:57):
Mickey said that Janie's husband, You know why Genie's been
went to the can because of Genie, because.
Speaker 5 (34:02):
He wanted to get away from her.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
That's why. Let me tell you something.
Speaker 9 (34:06):
Nobody goes to jail unless they want to.
It's that time time, time, luck and load. So Michael
Verie Show is on the air. I got an email
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from a fellow named Bob Baldwin. I didn't know Bob Balden,
and I was talking about how I roll over my
to do list each day to the next day, and
how I enjoy marking things off as done. And there
have been studies, actually done business classes for NBA courses
about the psychological effect of checking a box. A lot
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of people will put a box next to an item
that needs to be done, are marking through an item
when it's done. And in fact, I've read from multiple
gurus on business organization and personal improvement and all this
that you shouldn't delete things as you complete them. You
should mark through them so that at the end of
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the day you can see what you've done, and it
gives you a sense of accomplishment, which tends to drive
people harder. You read much about the psychology of distance runners,
like the David Goggins kind of gas in the games
they have to play to push through the pain, and
I think each of us is different, but I do
find it to be interesting anyway. So I saw that
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his signature line was Bob Baldwin, CEO of CNG for
compressed natural gas the number four America Cgfouramerica dot com,
and so I went to the website and I started
looking at it. Well, it's pretty interesting. It's an alternative fuel,
much like an electric vehicle would be an alternative energy source.
And so we emailed back and forth about the economics
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of the business and how he got into it and
who else do you know who does this? And I
thought it was rather interesting. So, Bob, what enabled you
to deliver compressed natural gas to an end user cheaper
than refined gasoline per se?
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Well, I think it's the cost of the natural gas
is a lot cheaper. Like I said, it's only about
fifty cents per gallon for the raw product, and then
it's for us to get it into the vehicles as
cheap as possible, and with volume that gets spread, the
overhead gets spread across all those gallons, and then you
can get it down. I try it if I can
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get it down to as close to a dollar per
gallon as I can. If the station is not doing
very well, then I can't. I don't have a bunch
of volume to spread that overhead across but that's the cheapest.
The natural gas being four dollars per m and b
tou gets us eight gallons worth of fuel. That's probably
the biggest thing. And natural gas over the last few
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years has been down below two dollars. So in the
last year it went from a dollars seventy up to
right now it's about four to forty. So that has
caused me to raise my prices a little bit because
of the cost of the raw product has gone up.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
So you're selling compressed natural gas right now for a
gallon for how much.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
We're doing two forty nine right.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Now, And what's the price of gas right now.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
About two fifty it's about the same.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Oh that's not good for you.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Yeah, so we need to have a differential now for
diesel compared to diesel trucks. You know, diesel trucks, they're
paying at the truck stops about three fifty right now.
So compared to the diesel prices and the large trucks,
it is a very good deal still so standard, especially
if they get a contract with us, because then we
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are able to give them a lesser price.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Stand to endorset, right, what type of mileage can a
vehicle get for gallon. I know it'll vary depending on
the weight, but give me a comparison with diesel, right.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
That's okay, So that's a very good question. So we
measure our natural gas when we dispense it in a
gasoline gallon equivalent, so it has the same amount of
energy as a gasoline gallon. They also measure it in
a diesel gallon equivalent, which is about I think about
sixteen percent more natural gas equals a gallon of diesel,
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and it'll so the mileage for like my pickups of Silverado,
I use CNG, and it also switches to gasoline if
I run out of CNG. But I get the same
mileage approximately on the natural gas as I do on gasoline,
because it's a gasoline gallon equivalent of energy.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Interesting a fellow.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
And so diesel same thing, So it's a little bit more,
but you don't I never see it sold as a
diesel gallon equivalent.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Fellow by the name of Fred Delgadillo wrote me saying,
this guy, Bob Baldwin sounds a lot like your friend
Nick Cercy, And many of you will know Nick Cercy
as a famous actor. So we put Jim Mudd our
creative director on the case, and y'all can decide for yourself.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Our model that I came up with, which has not
been a very good model by the way.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Well there, all that permission I was asking was before
I got into your NAV system and figured out exactly
where your car was at the moment Bill Nichols was killed.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
We would build compressed natural gas stations on existing truck
stops where there's a natural gas pipeline close by.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Now, we don't have a lot of time here. You
got one chance, exactly one, to tell me what you did.
All right, we'll stick the old testament then. You know,
back in the old days, we used to use the phone.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Book, you know what, and finding those was somewhat difficult.
But most of the people that around that time, we're
so excited about natural gas, that's the build it will come.
And after they realized they could put their own station
in their own and they're own your hard they started
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doing that and we lost a lot of those customers.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Noel Burkene, who's a bodybuilder, emailed me ask if they
can odorize it with mint or cinnamon, anything other than
swamp snake farts. I mean, I know, if you smell gas.
It's not a good thing. But does it have to
smell so bad?
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Yeah, it's very distinct. You can tell. What if there's
a natural gathlete in the area and you don't like it?
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Yeah, well, I guess that's the point, right, It's it's
the it's the chirping. It's a chirping alarm going off
in the background. Well, that's annoying when you hear that.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Well, they didn't used to sell it with autorized and
then there was a big explosion at a school here
in Texas and that forced them to autorize it.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
So, so when when you go out and you fuel
these fleets, are you do they have some sort of
a receptacle to catch this that you're you're you're not
fueling the individual units when you go out.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Yeah. So, well, and for one one of our fleets,
that is only ten of them, we do what you
call wet hosing, where you pull up to the vehicle,
stretch a hose over to it, fill it, go to
the next vehicle, fill it. But down at the Fort
ben School District, if you look at our website and
scroll down a ways, you'll see how we're filling thirty
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buses at one time. We connect thirty hoses to thirty buses,
record their pressures at the beginning, and then we feel
them all and then we record their pressures at the
end and disconnect all the hoses for them so they
The bus raverage is simply come in the morning, the
buses are ready.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
To go, and you do this every day.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
They're running twice twice a day. We do it for
thirty buses in the morning and thirty buses in the evening.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
And then how employees do you have?
Speaker 2 (08:05):
We only have five, six six, Well we're very small
company doing a lot. Uh.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
You're a great guest, Bob. I enjoyed our conversation.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
His website CNG for Compressed Natural Gas the number four
America CNG four america dot com. Allow me to introduce myself.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
My name is mitter Michael Berry Genius.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
I don't use the term advertised. I don't have advertisers.
Advertisers are what you hear when I'm not doing the
show or bragging on our show sponsors. Everything else is advertisers.
And it's very important to me that that when we
take on a new partner that they understand because some
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people frankly, you know, a home improvement company or a
medical shop or a restaurant or anything else. They just
want more business, more money, and they don't really care
how they get there. They would spend money on the
homage channel if it would get a more business. And
I'm not mad at them for that. That's their business.
That's how they do business. But that's not what we do.
And we're twenty years into this now and the model works.
(09:23):
And when I started in radio, I could get this wrong,
but it doesn't matter because by the time Eddie Martinez
tells me I got it wrong, I moved on to
the next thing, and I really don't care. So there's
a certain creative license. But I believe this to be correct.
When I started in radio, there was no podcast, there
was no digital, there was no streaming, so nobody went
(09:47):
to the websites, not really at that time. Nobody listened
on their phone or their iPad or their computer. You
listened through the radio. That was the same way you'd
always listen since Marconi days. And at that time, thirty
percent of all revenues or what was then Clear Channel
(10:08):
now iHeart Houston was automotive, and that was car and
truck dealers and that that dominated the radio advertising. Those
are air quotes Business two thousand and eight hits car
dealerships fall off side of the earth. I mean, heck,
(10:28):
when Lawrence Marshall goes under with Ray Childress the face
of it, I will tell you this the clobber line.
I don't you tell me Ramon, We'll open the phone lines.
Somebody tell me a better car or truck or RV
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marketing campaign that you remember hearing you had, cal Worthington
had some good ones. Tell me a better marketing campaign,
then Ray Childress bloberline. First of all, I've Ray Childers
is a friend, and I will tell you he is
(11:12):
one of the most charming individuals ever. It's like he's
a normal guy trapped in Lufa Rigno's body that then
took steroids for forty years. And I'm not saying Ray
took steroids. I'm saying he's not like a big guy.
He's like a normal guy in this massive body, almost
trapped there and he's real all shucks. But the thing
(11:36):
that surprised me about him, By the way, if you
got a better ad campaign, you call him tell a
seven one three, nine, nine nine one thousand. But you
got to do the campaign. I mean you got to
you know, if there was a catch line or whatever.
Seven one three, nine nine nine one thousand. Here is
the thing that surprised me about Ray Childress. Once you
get to know him very well, he is amazingly smart.
(11:57):
And I'm sorry, but I'll tell you honestly, I didn't
think he would be. I thought he'd be a big galot.
I thought he just wouldn't be wouldn't be very sharp.
So I will wait on your calls for a better
ad campaign. But here's what I wanted to tell you.
So when we started, I said, I don't just want.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
They do it.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
They called a read. In the business, you do a read,
so I'd be talking about something, talking about something, and
then this is what your host would do. Joe's Plumbing Supply.
They're really good and right now ten percent off if
you tell them that John Smith told you to call. Okay,
now back to the show, Well, that wasn't part of
the show making money. It's amazing to me how uncomfortable
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people are talking about making money. Do you understand that
a church has to have money to keep flowing, but
people don't ever want there to be talk about money.
Shouldn't always be about money. But we got to keep
the lights on here, folks. We got to keep the
music going. We got to keep the grass. But people, again,
in a lot of people, especially people who punch a clock,
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they do not like the idea that anything involves money.
It should never be talked about. Everything should be free.
You should be nice and do things for people to
be nice. You should never pay for anything. You should
never charge for anything, and you shouldn't make any money
because they've never made any money, so they're mad at
everybody else. My position is you can do good things,
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make a lot of money, and use your money to
help other people. Mac does it, Russe Lebarra does it.
I'd like to think we do it anyway. So I
get this. We get an email from the guy that
runs a company called tech Star Techstar Techstar dot com
and they're in process controls industrial automation. I told you
(13:51):
that radio that automotive went from thirty percent of radio
revenues to three percent overnight. If you hear that snapped it.
And I didn't mind because I only have one show sponsor,
lone Star Chevy. I don't care how many other dealers
are on the air. We do have car pro which
can help people with any But the point was I
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wanted people in unique industries that weren't just advertising everywhere,
but believed in our show and didn't worry about how
many phone calls they got. But they believed in our
show and they wanted to be a part of our show.
So that's his tech star guys, so they come on.
I was so happy because for once, it's not a
retail brand. Radio was always dominated by retail brands, electronics stores,
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car dealerships, and these guys are in process controls, industrial automation,
anything that you measure or analyze your processes, which is
what my dad did for a living. So I know,
I feel like I have a connection here. Anyway, they
just started with us, and I tell people, don't bother
me for three months just to answer the phone. Eventually
it'll start ringing. They got five calls yesterday from me
(14:57):
mentioning it one time tech tech start up two eight
one five four two two o five. Because nobody does
B to B, people do B to B in a
stupid uh. They do these trade journals so they advertise
to each other. They all spend money in the trade journal,
advertising to their own competition. And for years I have said,
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we've got a lot of guys working at a plant,
working at a construction site, uh, driving on the roads,
delivering things, selling things. We should be your number one
place to come if you want to build your business
B to B. That's where we should be, where you are,
because they think of it as well. This over here
is for the retail public. This over here is for
B to B. But those B to B audiences are
(15:38):
microscopic anyway. So I appreciate you guys, because they wouldn't
know they got five of our listeners if you hadn't
told them when you called, all right, real quick, Rob,
who's the better spot than the clobber line? Man?
Speaker 2 (15:52):
If anybody can wickersteam can and will Oh my god,
you're back home fin'd from Buna Guessa.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Oh that one I knew, Charlie wickersh I had to
okay real quick to chip what's yours?
Speaker 2 (16:06):
That was?
Speaker 1 (16:06):
That was wiggershand Ford was the deal? Ramo, you have
no idea, uh, Chip, go ahead.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
Probably before your time. But there was a fellow named
Art Grindle, big guy. He would jump around on the
cars and scream I want to sell you a car.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
You call, we'll go and knock on THESAULA.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Moved my father in yesterday. Had to block a guy
last night. He said, I ain't gonna listen to you anymore.
You moved your dad into a nursing home. So I
wrote out this reply that went, it's not a nursing home,
it's an assisted living facility. But I guess you could
call it a nursing home because he gets twenty four
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hour day care that I can't provide him at home.
And here's what I never understood. Why people Why if
you're at the right place and it's a good fit.
This one is why it works so well because we
sat down to dinner last night, and it turns out
that I knew a lot of the people at the
assistant Living center because most of my friend group is
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I'm fifty four, is twenty to forty years older than me.
It's always been the case. I've always taken on mentors
and older folks and not as many people my age,
and never anybody younger than me. It's just always been
the way it was, and especially when I was younger
and trying to make a name for myself, people my
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age didn't want to help somebody young. They were trying
to make it name themselves. But older folks were at
the point that they wanted to give back. So I
could take them for a cup of coffee, hit them
up for their support, get them to make two more introductions,
and on and on, and I could build my business
for my political career or whatever else. And I made
a lot of friends across the way. And older people
have learned things, learn things that they don't get to share.
(17:54):
And if you'll so much as listen to them, you
make a friend in the deal. So I knew quite
a few of them folks there yesterday. And oh, anyway,
the reason I blocked the guy, he said, I can't
believe you put him nursing home. And I said, well,
I wrote out this long response. I said, number one,
it's medical care that I can't have. It's doctors and
things that I can't have at my home twenty four
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hours a day. And number two, and this is something
people don't understand. When you get to be that age,
you want to be around other people that age. I
spent the afternoon with him yesterday, and they had somebody
come in and play the organ and sing songs. And
he told me that in the last month alone, he
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performed five hundred and seven gigs that songs. Sorry, last
year twenty four he performed five hundred seven gigs. He
goes from retirement home to retirement home. He called him
retirement homes. I called him old folks homes. But he
goes from one to the other. He said last week
he had seventeen of them, seven teen of them. You know,
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there's little niche businesses you wouldn't believe he hauls. He's
got a he's got an organ. Used to be the
organist for the astros. He's got an organ that he
can turn on its side. It's got wheels and then
he can roll it. You can roll it through anywhere,
and it's it's a full blown organ. And he plays
the songs that the people know and enjoy. Anyway, I
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wrote the whole thing out, and I thought, you know what,
if that guy's an idiot, why is he op? He
didn't know my situation, so I blocked it. But I
did have something funny happened yesterday. Sweet little old lady,
I'm gonna tell you something, Ramon, if you can live
long enough to be a widower who goes into an
assisted living facility. The only people who are gonna know
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how wise what I'm about to say is are people
who've been through it. If your father is a widower
and you take them in, like the first day of kindergarten,
you know, you're so nervous because there's clicks over there,
and you know, one of the nurs just referred to
the table that this table of women as the Golden Girls.
She said, that's the Golden Girls table. And because first
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as school, I asked one of the nurses, I said, Hey,
I don't want to sit in somebody's table. Is there
a table that's open we can sit at? And she said, oh,
you can sit wherever you want. I said, I don't
believe that, because I've been here every day getting this
room ready for him. And at that table right there,
there's a group of about eight women that sit to you. Oh,
she said, oh, that's the Golden Girls. Yeah, you don't
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want to sit the Golden Girls table, But anything else
you're fine, because you know it's like your pew at
church at Old First Orange. You didn't walk into Old
First Orange and just sit down. You waited to see
there's where Ms McCabe is. There's where Miss Rees says,
you knew you didn't. Everybody had their seat. My parents
had their seat for decades, a seat where they sat.
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And God help you if as a visitor. We welcome
all visitors, but we don't welcome you to sit in
our seat. You do not sit on our pew where
we sit normally. But the sweet little lady comes up.
Her name was Nelda, and she comes up and she says,
I do so enjoy your show. And I thought, oh,
we're not that sweet. She's from South Carolina and in
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the most wonderful South Carolina acts. No, I'm gonna do it.
I'm not go with accents. This in the sweetest South
Carolina accent. She said, I do so love your show
and your music. Ramon does a great job with the music.
And I said, oh, okay, like I don't have any
part in it, but whatever, Yeah, great, I'm standing right here.
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Why do you have to split my compliment with Ramon?
He don't even here right now? She said. Now, I
tell you, of course, old people they have to nothing,
cannot be all positive. They have to tell you, you know,
nine nine percent of the time you're great, but let me
go ahead and focus on that one percent to leave
you wishing that you hadn't had this conversation. He said, Now,
I'll tell you. Sometimes you get to play and stuff
(21:52):
and I'm about ready to turn it off. I just
I get so aggravated. I'm about ready to turn it off.
And then she went positive again, like the switch switch flipped,
and she said, but it's because I don't know the song.
I said, oh, it's so sweet. Yeah, that's absolutely true.
We we turn it off when we don't know the song.
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We want we want to know, uh what it is
that that we're listening to, and when we don't like it,
we tend to not like that, not care for that
at all. You know, when I when I was little,
my mom used to say, when we get old, you're
gonna be so shad of us. You're gonna you're gonna
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wanna you're gonna put us in a home. And I said, Mom,
I'm never gonna put you in a home. Never put
you in a home. And that was her idea of Hell. Well,
they finally got to the point that they couldn't take
care of my aunt Gail, my mother's sister, who is
seventy two years old now and was not supposed to
live to be twenty. She is severely mentally and physically retarded. Uh,
she has to be bathed, she has to be cared for,
(22:58):
she has to be lifted into a wheelchair. She can
do hardly anything for herself. When my grandmother passed, then
my mother took her in and it finally got to
the point that I had to have an intervention and say, Mom,
it's not fair to dad. He cannot lift Gail at
his age any longer. There's a wonderful assistant living facility.
We could put her in there and we'll get this
(23:21):
taken care of. It'll be fine, and you can go
visit her every day. And my mother wailed, Oh, she
wailed all the way up to the day that Ain't
Gail had to be moved, and she wailed some more,
I mean teeth gnashing and lamentations. And I was a
devil for having done this, and it wasn't fair to Gail,
and it wasn't fair to Gail, and I knew Ain't
Gail would love it. A week later, my mom called
(23:42):
and said, Hugh, I hate to say it, but you
are right about what this time, because I'm always right,
she said. Gail loves it. She said, it kind of
hurts my feelings, be honest with you. She loves it.
She's made friends, they play bingo, they got social time.
(24:04):
She gets bathed as many times as she wants to.
She's got this and she's got that. And she's just
as happy as my mom, said Michael, she has never
been happier. Well, lo and behold. In my dad's documentary
that Heritage Films made Chance McLean's company, he talked about
the fact that after we put my aunt in there
(24:25):
next door to her, the room next door, we put
my grandmother who lived to be one hundred just short
of one hundred ninety nine, the one that Ramon put
the googly eyes on her on her funeral. Damn still
not over that. And he talked about how happy she
was because it was ten years ago. She was ninety
six at the time. He talked about how happy she
was in this assistant living facility. And he talked about
Aunt Gale and he said, you know, she just sat
(24:46):
at home and watched TV and now she's engaged. And
so anyway, there is a time and place for everything,
and this has worked out well, so for all your prayers,
thank you.
Speaker 6 (24:54):
We put every.
Speaker 7 (24:55):
Printable picture and if you don't like them, we'll reprint
them or refund your money.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
At her, who's.
Speaker 8 (25:00):
Fault it is?
Speaker 5 (25:02):
Show your photo matters when it all goes crazy and the.
Speaker 7 (25:16):
Telly is God's gataining and the knights cablong when you
get that happy and you were gone to stemming at
your seats and.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Thinking of you hold up, hold on for just saying.
I saw an interview with the lead singer of this band, Firefall,
and in a it was a four year period, Firefall
had eleven hits. Firefall was a juggernaut in a in
(25:48):
about a four year period with just uh, with hits
that were so big they you are the woman. You
know that, you know you are the woman just well,
this guy was an unapologetic I'm not even sure it
was former the way he said it. Course, he's in
his seventies. Now, I've never heard somebody so unapologetically talk
about their drug use. And he was saying that so
(26:13):
the song just Remember I Love You. He was explaining
that song was a defensive song because what happened was
he'd been up on coke for three days in a row,
and from what I understand, people just they never go
to sleep. In fact, friends of mine who've done it say, Michael,
you could never touch that because it would be your
wonder drug because I already don't sleep because I don't
(26:36):
want to go to sleep. There's things I want to do,
and it would be a struggle anyway. So he's three
days on this and his wife comes down to see
to the foot of the stairs and she says, are
you going to come upstairs and make love to me
like a husband should? Are you going to stay down
here with your guitar and your cocaine for the fourth
(26:58):
day in a row? He said, give me just a minute.
Not the right answer. She goes upstairs and he's working
on it, and he realizes he's noodling on a song
and he's got it, and it's like this, you know,
it's the five pound bass. He's got it on the line.
He can't just walk off, so he said, I stayed
up all night. And she came downstairs at nine o'clock
(27:22):
and she looked at me. She said, I cannot believe you.
I cannot believe you. And he said, will you just
listen to the song, And he said. The whole song
was written as a challenge of I have to have
something by nine o'clock. It was say midnight at that time.
That will make it okay that I didn't come upstairs.
Now play the opening of it.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
When it all goes crazy and the till is gone,
the day's gat.
Speaker 7 (27:49):
Raining and the nights gat along, when you get that
fel and you were gone to staring at your seat
and thinking of you up blues when there's so much.
Speaker 5 (28:07):
Tut you on a cry the world has crumbled.
Speaker 7 (28:11):
And you dumbed a while in yours off it and
they can be bound queens atween lech down, just remember
I love you little beyond.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Some great harmonies on this song. We don't think of
fire Fall because you know, they're not led Zeppelin there.
It's kind of soft a s. But they're really talented
writers and and it was Rolling Stone Cover that called
them the poor Man's supergroup because they had h they
(28:52):
had been each of them had been with another band
and had great accomplishments when they came in. It wasn't Toto,
but but they were kind of in that way a supergroup.
Totally random. But there's a piece of audio that I
would like to share, and it's very timely. The US
beat Canada, just beat the snot out of them fighting,
and then beat them in hockey on the on the
(29:13):
on the ice. And then there was the next matchup
and we lost bummer. But Shirley q Lickor had some
comments on it, and this doesn't make any sense a
year from now and I forgot to play it then.
So let's just pretend that this was the right time
to play.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
That this is the lated my church, my whole life
is taken back to design Church of Guarding Cross down
here on Third and Joy Streaking.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
And she from Nova Scotia.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
She's claimed she is halfway Canadian.
Speaker 9 (29:42):
She don't sound like she sounded like she's from pod also,
but she always talking about Canada.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
This is Canada dead.
Speaker 5 (29:48):
I said, girl, they fit to play the US. Say
night y'all, go boo aba nasha anthems.
Speaker 9 (29:52):
She said, well maybe we we I said, well, well
maybe we will blow our ass out the water.
Speaker 7 (29:56):
We will see what happens.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Had it.
Speaker 9 (29:59):
I feel like all the eyes, why they keep changing
their national anthem.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
It's for the Transnessica. It always is now, it's always
the transsexicals. President Trump will address a joint Session tonight
at eight o'clock. The Joint Session is not the State
of the Union, but it's basically the state of the Union.
(30:25):
The first state of the Union is at the beginning
of your second year as president. Your inaugural address is
what takes place is instead of the State of the Union,
He's given his inaugural address, and now we will get
his address to the Joint Session of Congress tonight at
eight o'clock. I will tell you we haven't talked about
(30:47):
the border in a minute, but it's working. Border patrol
is telling me there's nobody. They're just it's not nobody.
It's minuscule. It's acceptable the number of people who are
coming over. And what nobody's talking about is the self
deportation story Fox twenty six, a Honduran woman and her
children decided, all right, we're we're just going back.
Speaker 9 (31:12):
I'm a bit nervous and scared because of the situation
with my two youngest daughters documentation, but I'm trusted in
God and with his help, we're going to get through this.
Speaker 8 (31:20):
Ahlica Castillo is a Hunduran native that arrived to the
United States seven months ago with her five children and husband.
All was going well until last month. Her husband was
arrested and detained by Ice despite not having a criminal record.
Castilla was able to talk with her husband before her
immigration court hearing.
Speaker 9 (31:36):
But I mean, I'm happy because I was able to
see him and see that he's doing well, he says.
Others have been deported, but he's still detained. He says
he gets impatient because he wants to be with his
family and see his daughters.
Speaker 8 (31:48):
Anxious and nervous, Castillo stood before an immigration judge with
her attorney c V. A.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Mintz.
Speaker 8 (31:52):
Castile had already decided that she wanted to leave the
country and self deport and the judge granted her wish. Today.
Speaker 6 (31:58):
It was a very important because we were asking the
judge to give us pray conclusionary departure, which means before
we even have a hitting on the merits, she wants
to leave.
Speaker 8 (32:10):
Minutes before her court hearing, her husband called her and
told her he had finally signed documents to be deported.
He will be flown to him. There is in two
weeks for Castillo. The judge gave her until June twenty
sixth to leave the country.
Speaker 9 (32:22):
And soon we will be reunited and give each other
a big hug after going through all of this, because
both of us and the kids have suffered during this
time we've been separated, and I do not want to
be here in this country if it's not with him
and all of our kids.
Speaker 8 (32:34):
And Helica says she has no regrets, but would not
embark on the journey again, and her attorney advised these
undocumented immigrants to show up for their court hearings.
Speaker 6 (32:42):
Don't be afraid to show up to their court hearings,
to don't be afraid to follow up because there might
be options. It's worse if they don't show up to
their heating and there is an order of deportation and absentia,
because then they will be in more legal trouble.
Speaker 8 (32:58):
Alica said she use this next four month to get
all her documentation in order so that she is able
to travel back to her home country and be reunited
with her family and her husband.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Eh.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
This poor guy, This poor guy. I feel sorry for
this guy. Most guys go fishing. Maybe they go to
the bar to get some time to themselves. This guy's like,
I've had it, I'm out of here, honey, Sorry, but
I got departed.
Speaker 10 (33:27):
He's finally gonna get some alone time. He's finally headed out.
He's finally gonna get some alone time. But no, she
can't give him that. She goes to the court and
asks to deport her too, just to.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Ruin his alone time. It's like that scene in Goodfellas.
Nobody goes to jail unless they want to.
Speaker 8 (33:47):
Oh, I don't know if.
Speaker 9 (33:48):
They could live like that, God's forbid. What would happen
if you had to go to prison trying?
Speaker 6 (33:57):
Mickey said that Janie's husband, You know why Genie's been
went to the can because of Genie, because.
Speaker 5 (34:02):
He wanted to get away from her.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
That's why. Let me tell you something.
Speaker 9 (34:06):
Nobody goes to jail unless they want to.
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