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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Arry Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Tony ed Hello.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
You must be legit because I've heard from about thirty
different cop friends of mine from every different agency, from
DPS to multiple counties to federal, all up and down
the road. They all know you, and not one of
them said you were a bad guy.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Thank you, thank you, sir.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
So Ramondo tells me that you were seven feet from
President Trump when he got shot in the head in Butler.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Exactly, Sir. I have pictures, I have videos, and I
was seven feet away. I'm a big support from mister Trump.
I'm the founder of the United Republican of Texas and
I for the last fifteen years I'm involved. I will
die for this country. I will die for this flag.
It's a big honor to be living and being in
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the United States.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
I will take a bullet.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Instead, mister trumplety, I will take that bullet. I will
die for this country. I'm a conservative, I'm a Christian.
I'm Catholic, and I left my country thirty seven years
ago because I'm a Christian, and I came to the
United States and it's to me, it's a freedom it's heaven.
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It's like I want a billion of dollars like a
lottery ticket for me. I raised a beautiful family and
I'm living in the United States.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
This is an honor for me to be here in
the United States.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Tony. I have spent a disturbing amount of time studying
what happened to Lebanon and Iran, particularly those two countries,
but others, and how far they have fallen, and the
diaspora that left, what they went on to do. It is.
(02:27):
It is very, very sad to me to think that
those were two wonderful countries, great countries. They were countries
of tourism and cuisine and culture and art and science
and and and advancement, and they just collapsed, and that
that people had to leave it is. It is terrible, Tony.
(02:49):
I'm going to come visit you in Hempstead. You got
to track there leave.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Uh track.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Yeah, we want to test out some of the v
because just for quality control.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Of course, you can do anything you want. Consider this,
Spacing viewers, mister Barry.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Tony, you're the best I knew. I liked you. Hold On,
Ramon's going to get your number, okay from I'm going
to get a gun turt installed on my friend's vehicle,
the one that's going to belong to my friend. We
had asked Jim to set up a conversation, and I
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gotta find my notes on that. Can you play music
for a second. It's a lot going on on the
show today. I'm a little little discombobulated here. Let's see here.
I got so fired up over those cop cars. Let's
see here. Can I get some music? Ramond? Let me
just see if I can find this email. Here we
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are time.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
You know it's me.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
When I got.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Through your towel, I'm going to ride around.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
I'm going to drive everybody while also.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
For any aspiring radio personalities out there. Here's the trick.
I'm gonna tell our trick early on in the game.
Prepare yourself for any eventuality. So if you go in
trying to put on a perfect show, tight, precise, every
word in its place, never a moment of dead air.
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Then the first time you make a mistake, they go
you don't do that. You build in right on. Hey,
look that we're doing this thing live. We're gonna have
some fun with it. We're not gonna stress out because
a lot of people you wouldn't believe this. A lot
of people doing what we do are tense. They're puckered up,
Oh my goodness, and one little thing goes wrong and
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they're end up in a nine line bind and don't
know what's happened. Whereas we were described within the industry
as being flossom, which is kind of a cheesy term,
but I like it, which was that we screw everything
up all the time, Embrace it, talk about it, and
everybody likes it and it's accessible. Asher Kasmin is the
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big dog. They didn't give me his title at locksolutions
dot com. The story behind this is I put the
word out the Houston Business Journal, which I think does
a wonderful job. It's a must read for me. They
do a digital version and a print version. And Emily
brings the mail in every day at eleven when we finish,
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and she brings the Houston Business Journal, and sometimes I
will forward articles to her that the digital comes out
before the print, obviously because the print has to print
and mail. And she'll hand me the paper and she'll say,
why do you still read the paper. You've already read
the digital. I know that because you sent me an
article and told me to call that guy. Well, I'm
fifty three. I kind of in that bridge between the
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old and the young. The digital is nice because and
then it's I can forward it and I like that
and I can retain it. But the print is nice
because I like to hold on to it and I
like to tear things out and send people a note
with it on there, or at least I intend to anyway. So,
Houston Business Journal does something called the Fast fifty, and
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it's companies that have had explosive growth over the last
two years, year over year growth. So I took a
photo of the Fast fifty list, and we've talked to
some of those folks and we'll be talking to more.
And I posted that to Facebook. I said, if anybody
knows any of these people, have them reach out to
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me Michael at Michael Berryshow dot com or you can
just go directly to Michael Berryshow dot com. And out
of fifty, I probably heard from ten. You always hear
from somebody that knows of those people with them. I'm
not going to go tracking them down, but there were
probably seven people all in up to today whoa to
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me within the company of Locke Solutions. I have no
idea what they do, but I can tell you that
they understand. Okay, let me just give you this. He
saimal Tony may not be a retail seller of vehicles,
but Tony's going to get dozens of calls today and
he'll probably sell some units out of it. If Tony
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didn't take that call, he doesn't sell those units. So
what people will do is they sit in meetings all
day try to figure out how to grow their business.
I'll tell you how to grow your business. If everybody
in the world knows who you are and what you
do and how to reach you, the rest will take
care of himself. Just do what you do well. But
if you don't tell anybody what you do, businesses die
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because nobody knows what they do, much more so than
that they're not good at what they do. Restaurants die
not because the food's not good, the people don't try,
the chef didn't create because there's so many other places
to go. It is a constant battle. You see how
often Mac is in the news. Do you know what
that costs, not only in time but in energy. If
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you are not doing everything you can to remind people
you're here, you're dying. Competition is a beautiful thing, but
it's also vicious. Businesses are dying every single day, other
businesses are growing at the same time. It's not accidental,
it's not luck. So asher Kasmin? Is it Kasmin? Is
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that how you pronounce it?
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Yeah? That's correct.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Is that Jewish?
Speaker 4 (08:40):
It is? Actually?
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Where are they Ashkenazi Jews? Where are they from?
Speaker 4 (08:46):
That is amazing. I did a twenty three and meters
and it is it is Ashcanazi and I think it's
kind of Eastern European.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Well that's where the ashcan Nazis were, But you don't
know where Russia Poland.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
No, I really don't, and I really don't. I don't
go back. I'm a Christian myself, but I don't go
back and know a whole lot on that side of
the family.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
I'll do it for you, don't worry. We'll do that
when we get off the air. What does Lock Solutions do?
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Yeah, so we are a pre cast concrete manufacturing company.
And so to kind of put it in a little
bit more plainer terms, when you see manhole covering.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Ashure hold on, we were so flowsome that we missed
a break. Wait right there, so you goofball, what were
you doing. You were looking up as company we were
supposed to go to break Are you in need of
any pre cast concrete, doomstones or cop cars or something.
I don't I still don't know what they do. Michael
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Berry show.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
It was born one morning when the sun didn't shine.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Tell me earlier. She said. Our whole office, her and
her nurses. Our whole office is laughing about you talking
about the nurses and what we do every day. She said,
I guess I feel that way about the guy who
had to come up and pick come and pick up
the dead dog in the road on our street. I said, yeah,
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I guess those are kind of the same thing, and
she said, no, they're not. Nurses and doctors get to
see the rewards of our efforts. There's nothing better. It's
highly gratifying. But the dog person, well, I guess he's
glad that the little old lady's happy that the dead
dog's not out in the middle of the yard, in
the middle of the road in the summer, in one
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hundred and six degree heat, where he has swelled up
and then exploded all over. Yeah. I mean, I guess
that's gratifying when that's gone. Locke l O c k
E Solutions dot Com. Asher Kasmin is our guest. Asher,
I'm just gonna be honest. You don't look like a guy.
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You don't dress and present yourself like a guy who
runs a company like that. You seem more kind of
like a finance company like you obviously have a custom hairdoo.
You know you're kind of styled. You know what I mean?
Don't you know who looks like the CEO of your company?
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Michael Luck? He's got more of the look hey, out
of out of your senior guys, Asher Kasman, Michael Luck,
David Aspino, he'd be a Spiino would be the guy
I most want to have a beer with. He looks
real cheered, a real chilled, but my guess is beer
is not his thing. He seems kind of more like
a four to two oh guy, Richard Burke Chelsea and chat.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Huh, he's more of a tequila guy.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Okay, I can see that he'd be the guy, just
judging by the look I'd most want to have a
drink with, because he seems like he's got he seems
like he has some interest, like maybe he's got a
resto mod you know, truck or a sixty seven Cadillac
one inch off the ground. He seems like he'd be
a cool cat. Out of those six, only one of
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y'all has the university from which you graduated in your
bio on the our team section. Can you guess who
that is? It's not you? Hmm maybe huh?
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Is it Michael Luck?
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Nope? This tells you everything you need to know about
this university.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
It's chat Arp and he's an aggie and so am I.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Oh, well, you don't tell it. I probably don't want
him hitting you up because they got to pay that
seventy five million dollars they pay Jimbo to leave, and
they've already cut the baseball field and had There's only
so many George Straight concerts you can have to make
up the difference. He's the only one that tells you
everything you need to know about that university. I don't
care what happens on that campus. You can argue over
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which university is the best. And this There is no
place that the graduates will introduce themselves the trademark Howdy
like they do. There's LSU, Harvard, Yale, Miami Alabama. There
is no place that people are prouder that they are
from than Texas. A and M. That's the fact.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
Yep, when you when you go there, you realize why
it's hard. It's hard to tell from the outside. That's
what they say.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
So you kind of bragged with the PE after your
name professional engineer. What is your engineering degree? In what year?
And why don't you have A and M on your bio?
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Well, and I'm not sure which bio you're referring to,
but I'm on your website.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Oh, would you like to read to you? You probably
don't know, You'll probably have some With over two decades
of designing structural precast products and concrete mix designs for
the electrical, power, communication, water, and industrial sectors, Asher is
focused on creating solutions in the construction industry. More importantly,
he is dedicated to helping make a positive impact in
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the lives of his friends and family, including his coworkers, customers,
and vendor partners. Our focus as a company is to
create an environment that challenges our people and provides them
opportunities to grow personally and in their careers. We continue
to build a team and culture aligned with our values,
which has in turn created a high functioning organization with
a focus on responsive customer service. We will be remembered
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as a company making a lasting impact in the lives
of our people and partners. Nothing really about you.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
Asher, Well, it's not about me. I mean, that's that's
the thing.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
I know. But when I went to that page, I
kind of wanted to know about you. That's kind of
mission Statele. Also, Asher doesn't sound like the kind of
name of a guy that's in pre cast concrete.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
Well, I'm trying to change that.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
That's kind of that's kind of a New York private
equity guy. Look him up. See Ramon agrees. So did
you start this company?
Speaker 4 (15:19):
I did? I did it. Yeah, I founded it back
in twenty thirteen. And and actually Michael luck was he
was employee number two and a guy I had worked
with for a while. And yeah, we started from nothing
from scratch.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Well, y'all have obviously done very well.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
It's been good. We've had a good we've had our
growth spurts over the years. I mean, we're about to
be at twelve years at the end of this year,
and we've gone through some really good patches and you know,
but to be honest, there's been a lot of challenges
as well. So it hasn't been all roses the whole time,
but we've definitely, especially over the last several years, have
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seen a lot of growth obviously, and you know, but
really it is you go back to that bio, it's
really the team that's gotten us there. That the growth
of our company really started to accelerate when I I think,
what I realized, I need to get out of the
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way and stop being such a bottleneck and start you know,
letting our team really you know, grow the business. And
that's when we started seeing this acceleration. So that leadership
team you just talked about huge part of why we've
made this list this year.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Asher take exactly sixty seconds and explain what pre cast
concrete is, Ramon, can you count us down sixty seconds.
Let's hear your elevator. This is to your kids fourth
grade class.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Go. So there's a lot of precast, prefabricated concrete out there,
but what we do, what we focus on is mainly
structures that are underground that are used for accessing and
protecting a lot of the underground utility. So when you're
running power lines, underground communication fiber, when you have dorm
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water drainage going underground, there's a whole system under there,
and so we we design and manufacture the concrete structures
that are all underground. So when you see a manhole
cover or you see a door in the roadway, what's
under there is a concrete room of some size and
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that's what we're making. And so our focus is really
on more specially custom engineered structures, and we typically we
find ourselves doing a lot of industrial type projects facility.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
I know you're going to think I'm kidding you, but
I'm not. I think that's fascinating. All the stuff that
goes on that we never see in the brain power
it goes by.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Or this country.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
I will die for disclass to Michael Berry shows the
big honor to be living in the United States.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Okay, I'll buy it. What does this have to do
with Astra Chasmon and lock SAgs?
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Hard rock?
Speaker 6 (18:36):
Okay, Okay, I'm always aggravated when I can't figure it.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Very well done, Okay, yeah, I'll see it. I'll see
what you did. Then, how did you come up with
the name Locke? L O C K E. Is that
for John Locke? Is it trustworthy?
Speaker 4 (18:54):
It's a it's a real It felt like it's a
real solid name. But it's actually the name of my
my first my firstborn, my son, Locke, who's thirteen years.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Old, Locke Sebenhauser. What was his name? I always wonder
when people do that, when you name the company after
your kid, what are the other kids think?
Speaker 4 (19:15):
Yeah, that's you're right, My wife would tell me. I
was pretty shortsighted. I've got two girls who are younger,
but at the time when I actually created the name,
I only had one. But the two other girls later
on were not very happy when they kind of started
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to realize what happened.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
So I normally like to start a conversation where somebody
doesn't know where we're going with some kind of off putting,
awkward questions just to see how they handle them, and
then we get into the normal stuff. So I'm going
to move to phase two with your permission. All right,
was anything I asked sort of awkward or you thought
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to yourself? How did we end up there?
Speaker 4 (20:03):
No? No, not at all.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Uh So so tell me who are your biggest clients?
Who who buys this stuff?
Speaker 4 (20:12):
We are are bigger clients, so we deal.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
With I got they all said you could you could
tell their name they don't mind.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
Uh. Well, I mean generally speaking that we work with
firms that are dealing with industrial and really heavy commercial projects.
So a lot of of EPC engineering procurement, construction firms.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Okay, I'm a big boy, get a contract.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
Well, okay, I mean just to give you some examples,
some some people like the Bechdels, the Floors, Zachary's, McCarthy's,
those kind of companies that those they do, they are
and they do complex projects. And uh and that's where
we find ourselves because of the custom nature, you know
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of our work. We find ours in those kind of projects.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
I asked my friend Dane Berson. He owns a company
called Accurate meter in Supply and they do like meter boxes,
underground pipes and things like that. And I said, do
you know Locke Solutions. It's a precast concrete concrete product company.
Is it a competitor or a supplier? And he said,
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we use their competitors And I said who is that?
And he said rock Solid, del Zato, Oldcastle, South Houston Precast.
So I said why not Lock and he said, well,
we were already using the others when they were starting,
and Lock tends to be more electrical and communication type projects.
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Is that perception true?
Speaker 4 (21:48):
That is true. So when we first started, you know,
those were the areas that we focused on. But those
other precasters you just named, those are good companies. We
don't compete directly with most of them, so there's a
lot of pre cast type products you can make. Those
particular companies tend to do more standard, what I consider
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commodity type products.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
You see what he's doing, and thathing's like, they're not
really competitors. They're great guys if you want boring trash.
What we do is specialized, value added, highly sophisticated. But
those guys are great. I mean sometimes you need you know,
your basic run of the mill. I love that aster
keep going.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
You couldn't have said it better. But that's the truth.
And that's that's typical of the pre cast industry to
be efficient, make the same product day in, day out.
But we're in a little bit of a niche, so
we focus on areas that other pre cast companies really
don't don't want to go play in.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
So if one of these bands, like a Bechtel, makes
a purchase from you and we're talking, you're you not
sending out a po or invoice for you know, four
thousand dollars. We're talking a million, four million, eight million
a pop.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
Yeah. The projects, Yeah, the projects we get involved in now,
I will tell you we do. We will do projects
that are four thousand dollars, but we'll do projects that
are twenty million dollars, so anywhere in between. But but yeah,
we tend to find ourselves on those larger, more complex
projects that require you know, really custom engineered product.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Yeah, not that run of the mill stuff like those
other companies. All right, I got a minute and a half.
I want to ask you this twenty thirteen. This, this
business requires a lot of capital. How did you start?
Did you have equity behind you? Do you have investors?
What did you do?
Speaker 4 (23:47):
I went out and convinced the bank to give me
a small business loan, which I did have a few
uh wells Fargo is actually the one I started with. Okay,
and a few friends and family that put in some
of the she'll see money with me, and and that's
how we started it. Yeah. Really a lot of capital. Good,
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there's a lot of capital involved, You're right, the equipment,
you know, just the nature of manufacturing and bringing in
like I mean I'm.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Looking at what y'all do. What was your initial raise?
Speaker 4 (24:17):
We started with a million dollars?
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Are you serious to do what y'all do? That's uh,
that's aggressive. Good for you, and you don't get paid
till the back end. That business is terrible for that.
It's worse in restaurants.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
The cast cycle is very difficult.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Yes, what did y'all make even this year?
Speaker 4 (24:37):
We did fifty four million?
Speaker 1 (24:38):
And what will you do this year?
Speaker 4 (24:41):
We'll do north of sixty Wow.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
How many employees.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
We've got about one hundred and eighty five right now?
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Is I saw you had a plant? Do people call
that instead of Alvarado? Do they call that Alvaredo? Have
I heard that? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (24:57):
We say Alvaredo.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Okay, yeah, I heard that. I don't know why that is.
So you have two plants and you have one hundred
and eighty five employees. How many of those are in operations,
I mean non sales, non admin.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Yeah, so we actually have three operations. We have another
one down by by Victoria, Texas as well. But out
of those one hundred and eighty five, I would say
about one hundred and twenty or you know, producing on
the floor, producing product.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
I'm impressed. I love these stories. Asher all kidding asides.
It's very impressive what you've done. Good for you.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
I think we should be friends with me. They're on
I'll meet a Janoe. You want to go to her
with me? If I have if they'll probably want to
have a lunch park? What would be something?
Speaker 4 (25:49):
Must be right?
Speaker 1 (25:50):
You are listening to Michael Berry. I can see them.
Don't say I'm Barry, can see him, you can see her.
It's a him and her Asprian Simpson is it. I
did not think those contact. It sounds like a soap maker.
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You want to know, you want to hear. You want
to create a time capsule of black versus white sexual tension.
In a song, these two are making a baby with
you know, kind of turning their head into the mic
ever so often to sing in the middle of it. Right,
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it's hot, it's steamy, it's sweaty. Their bodies are slapping
right on our side. You've got Kenny and Dolly describing
her him seeing her laying in the bathtub. It's there's
nothing wrong with it, don't get me wrong. That's Allen's
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in the stream. Uh, there's nothing wrong with it. It's
just very different. Steve Harvey has a bit uh comparing
white people funerals and black people funerals, and he said,
the first time we went to a white people funeral
and the people were going, oh, that's so sad. Gertrude
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was a good person. And then they go home and
they have a chicken salad lunch with everybody, and then
they you know, they leave it. He said, we're diving
off into the casket. You got to pull us out. Oh,
Richard Pryor, Yeah, yeah, yes, Prior, you're right up. Good call,
thank you.
Speaker 5 (27:41):
There's a difference in the funerals. Like white people have
funerals they love, they deal the party, but their funerals
be different.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
They don't give it up easy, you know, they hold
it until they get home. Maybe they go they faint.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
Black people let it hang out right, and then they
fall on your ass.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
They don't have a faint. They is lean on your ass.
Speaker 5 (28:18):
You got to carry them to the car and you say,
you know, you know, you got to kill me.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
He goes that mother mad.
Speaker 5 (28:29):
My grandmother said, you all like that scared out of
you at a funeral, right, my father, And she said what.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Wants the Madamma.
Speaker 5 (28:38):
I thought maybe he raised up or something.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
You know, you know, talking about these used cop cars
got me thinking about the Blues Mobile. Remember from the
Blues Brothers. Guy's got a lot of pickup's.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Got a cop motor of four hundred and forty cubic
inch plant that's got the cop tires, cop suspension, cop shocks,
some model named before the catalytic converters.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
So I'll run good on regular. Guess what do you say?
Is it the new Blues Mobile or white texts a
cigarette ladder? Man that cigarette lighter? How many times did
you burn yourself on that cigarette lighter?
Speaker 4 (29:22):
That was?
Speaker 1 (29:24):
I'm still to There's two things that blow my mind
that sometimes just I'll get to thinking on for no
good reason, and I will I will dedicate a great
deal of brain power whatever I have. It may not
be that much, but it's the two things that I
think about a lot. One of them is how fast
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that cigarette lighter could heat up and how hot it
got in your in your vehicle back in the day.
And the other one is how fast when the bank
or your credit card sends you that number to log in.
It's so fast that before you can get to your
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phone and in fact, I study it. I will, I will,
I'll go to it and I'll have my phone and
by that when I hit send it, by the time
my eyes can look over to my phone book, there
it is. That's incredible, those two things. It's so lightning fast.
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How can it communicate that fast? Pull the number and
send it to you. Now there's people who go that's
artificial intelligence. It's all of those things. But let me
explain this to you. So let's say the concord. For
those of you who what I just said, you want
those people that now you ciphering on. Oh, I hadn't
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thought about that. For those of you who drive a
truck or you let your mind wander into things and
you like to learn various things that for no reason
of the than the learning in itself, I'm gonna give
you a little tip right now, and then if this
tip was useful to you, you send me one. Just
a tip, just a tip, just real quick, just a tip.
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That's it, I promise, just a tip. You go look
up the concord and you spend five minutes reading on
the concord. It's gonna it's gonna blow your mind. How fast,
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how amazing the concord is. And then it's gonna make
you start thinking, Wait a minute, is life better today
than it was in nineteen seventy four? In so many
ways it's not. And I don't just mean political correctness,
the quality of any product in your house. Oh, sure,
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they're more electric now, we had a Curtis Mathis TV
for I don't want to exaggerate fifteen years. I don't
know because I left home and they still had it.
Now TV's like, I don't know when the last time
I bought a TV was, but I know because nobody
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buys them. They just steal them from Target. Let me
see if I can phone Yeah, retired Anglo French. First
of all, two countries coming together, right. Can you imagine
Saint Crispin's day speech if he had said, you men
are fighting to the death West Morland. You will give
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your life and one day these two people will join
together as they should have been all along, and they
will make the world's greatest aircraft.
Speaker 6 (32:49):
You got sued aviation, which was later Arow Spotsial and
British aircraft coming together starting in nineteen fifty four.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
And creating the concord. Let me see if I can
find it, it could maintain a super cruise up to
mock two point oh four. You know how fast that is?
Remo me neither? Why did you read? You gnawed like?
Oh I fail? Huh fifteen hundred months twice a speed
of sound. But huh, that's so fast. This is one
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of those days I wish Eddie just let us keep going. Oh,
by the way, we just found out they don't tell
me anything. Addie Martinez just does things. So apparently they're
playing Michael Berry Rewind, which is the best of our
morning show at seven o'clock at ninth from seven to nine.
And if you don't like that they're doing that, I
don't want to hear about it, because it's not my decision.
(33:46):
I don't run the stations. We do the award winning
Michael Berry Show for five hours a day. We smoke cigars,
we drink beer, We drive out to Waller and hang
out with people and yeah and yeah, this is what
we do.
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Arry Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Tony ed Hello.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
You must be legit because I've heard from about thirty
different cop friends of mine from every different agency, from
DPS to multiple counties to federal, all up and down
the road. They all know you, and not one of
them said you were a bad guy.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Thank you, thank you, sir.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
So Ramondo tells me that you were seven feet from
President Trump when he got shot in the head in Butler.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Exactly, Sir. I have pictures, I have videos, and I
was seven feet away. I'm a big support from mister Trump.
I'm the founder of the United Republican of Texas and
I for the last fifteen years I'm involved. I will
die for this country. I will die for this flag.
It's a big honor to be living and being in
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the United States.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
I will take a bullet.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Instead, mister trumplety, I will take that bullet. I will
die for this country. I'm a conservative, I'm a Christian.
I'm Catholic, and I left my country thirty seven years
ago because I'm a Christian, and I came to the
United States and it's to me, it's a freedom it's heaven.
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It's like I want a billion of dollars like a
lottery ticket for me. I raised a beautiful family and
I'm living in the United States.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
This is an honor for me to be here in
the United States.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Tony. I have spent a disturbing amount of time studying
what happened to Lebanon and Iran, particularly those two countries,
but others, and how far they have fallen, and the
diaspora that left, what they went on to do. It is.
(02:27):
It is very, very sad to me to think that
those were two wonderful countries, great countries. They were countries
of tourism and cuisine and culture and art and science
and and and advancement, and they just collapsed, and that
that people had to leave it is. It is terrible, Tony.
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I'm going to come visit you in Hempstead. You got
to track there leave.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Uh track.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Yeah, we want to test out some of the v
because just for quality control.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Of course, you can do anything you want. Consider this,
Spacing viewers, mister Barry.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Tony, you're the best I knew. I liked you. Hold On,
Ramon's going to get your number, okay from I'm going
to get a gun turt installed on my friend's vehicle,
the one that's going to belong to my friend. We
had asked Jim to set up a conversation, and I
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gotta find my notes on that. Can you play music
for a second. It's a lot going on on the
show today. I'm a little little discombobulated here. Let's see here.
I got so fired up over those cop cars. Let's
see here. Can I get some music? Ramond? Let me
just see if I can find this email. Here we
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are time.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
You know it's me.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
When I got.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Through your towel, I'm going to ride around.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
I'm going to drive everybody while also.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
For any aspiring radio personalities out there. Here's the trick.
I'm gonna tell our trick early on in the game.
Prepare yourself for any eventuality. So if you go in
trying to put on a perfect show, tight, precise, every
word in its place, never a moment of dead air.
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Then the first time you make a mistake, they go
you don't do that. You build in right on. Hey,
look that we're doing this thing live. We're gonna have
some fun with it. We're not gonna stress out because
a lot of people you wouldn't believe this. A lot
of people doing what we do are tense. They're puckered up,
Oh my goodness, and one little thing goes wrong and
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they're end up in a nine line bind and don't
know what's happened. Whereas we were described within the industry
as being flossom, which is kind of a cheesy term,
but I like it, which was that we screw everything
up all the time, Embrace it, talk about it, and
everybody likes it and it's accessible. Asher Kasmin is the
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big dog. They didn't give me his title at locksolutions
dot com. The story behind this is I put the
word out the Houston Business Journal, which I think does
a wonderful job. It's a must read for me. They
do a digital version and a print version. And Emily
brings the mail in every day at eleven when we finish,
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and she brings the Houston Business Journal, and sometimes I
will forward articles to her that the digital comes out
before the print, obviously because the print has to print
and mail. And she'll hand me the paper and she'll say,
why do you still read the paper. You've already read
the digital. I know that because you sent me an
article and told me to call that guy. Well, I'm
fifty three. I kind of in that bridge between the
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old and the young. The digital is nice because and
then it's I can forward it and I like that
and I can retain it. But the print is nice
because I like to hold on to it and I
like to tear things out and send people a note
with it on there, or at least I intend to anyway. So,
Houston Business Journal does something called the Fast fifty, and
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it's companies that have had explosive growth over the last
two years, year over year growth. So I took a
photo of the Fast fifty list, and we've talked to
some of those folks and we'll be talking to more.
And I posted that to Facebook. I said, if anybody
knows any of these people, have them reach out to
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me Michael at Michael Berryshow dot com or you can
just go directly to Michael Berryshow dot com. And out
of fifty, I probably heard from ten. You always hear
from somebody that knows of those people with them. I'm
not going to go tracking them down, but there were
probably seven people all in up to today whoa to
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me within the company of Locke Solutions. I have no
idea what they do, but I can tell you that
they understand. Okay, let me just give you this. He
saimal Tony may not be a retail seller of vehicles,
but Tony's going to get dozens of calls today and
he'll probably sell some units out of it. If Tony
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didn't take that call, he doesn't sell those units. So
what people will do is they sit in meetings all
day try to figure out how to grow their business.
I'll tell you how to grow your business. If everybody
in the world knows who you are and what you
do and how to reach you, the rest will take
care of himself. Just do what you do well. But
if you don't tell anybody what you do, businesses die
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because nobody knows what they do, much more so than
that they're not good at what they do. Restaurants die
not because the food's not good, the people don't try,
the chef didn't create because there's so many other places
to go. It is a constant battle. You see how
often Mac is in the news. Do you know what
that costs, not only in time but in energy. If
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you are not doing everything you can to remind people
you're here, you're dying. Competition is a beautiful thing, but
it's also vicious. Businesses are dying every single day, other
businesses are growing at the same time. It's not accidental,
it's not luck. So asher Kasmin? Is it Kasmin? Is
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that how you pronounce it?
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Yeah? That's correct.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Is that Jewish?
Speaker 4 (08:40):
It is? Actually?
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Where are they Ashkenazi Jews? Where are they from?
Speaker 4 (08:46):
That is amazing. I did a twenty three and meters
and it is it is Ashcanazi and I think it's
kind of Eastern European.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Well that's where the ashcan Nazis were, But you don't
know where Russia Poland.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
No, I really don't, and I really don't. I don't
go back. I'm a Christian myself, but I don't go
back and know a whole lot on that side of
the family.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
I'll do it for you, don't worry. We'll do that
when we get off the air. What does Lock Solutions do?
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Yeah, so we are a pre cast concrete manufacturing company.
And so to kind of put it in a little
bit more plainer terms, when you see manhole covering.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Ashure hold on, we were so flowsome that we missed
a break. Wait right there, so you goofball, what were
you doing. You were looking up as company we were
supposed to go to break Are you in need of
any pre cast concrete, doomstones or cop cars or something.
I don't I still don't know what they do. Michael
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Berry show.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
It was born one morning when the sun didn't shine.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Tell me earlier. She said. Our whole office, her and
her nurses. Our whole office is laughing about you talking
about the nurses and what we do every day. She said,
I guess I feel that way about the guy who
had to come up and pick come and pick up
the dead dog in the road on our street. I said, yeah,
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I guess those are kind of the same thing, and
she said, no, they're not. Nurses and doctors get to
see the rewards of our efforts. There's nothing better. It's
highly gratifying. But the dog person, well, I guess he's
glad that the little old lady's happy that the dead
dog's not out in the middle of the yard, in
the middle of the road in the summer, in one
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hundred and six degree heat, where he has swelled up
and then exploded all over. Yeah. I mean, I guess
that's gratifying when that's gone. Locke l O c k
E Solutions dot Com. Asher Kasmin is our guest. Asher,
I'm just gonna be honest. You don't look like a guy.
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You don't dress and present yourself like a guy who
runs a company like that. You seem more kind of
like a finance company like you obviously have a custom hairdoo.
You know you're kind of styled. You know what I mean?
Don't you know who looks like the CEO of your company?
(11:34):
Michael Luck? He's got more of the look hey, out
of out of your senior guys, Asher Kasman, Michael Luck,
David Aspino, he'd be a Spiino would be the guy
I most want to have a beer with. He looks
real cheered, a real chilled, but my guess is beer
is not his thing. He seems kind of more like
a four to two oh guy, Richard Burke Chelsea and chat.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Huh, he's more of a tequila guy.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Okay, I can see that he'd be the guy, just
judging by the look I'd most want to have a
drink with, because he seems like he's got he seems
like he has some interest, like maybe he's got a
resto mod you know, truck or a sixty seven Cadillac
one inch off the ground. He seems like he'd be
a cool cat. Out of those six, only one of
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y'all has the university from which you graduated in your
bio on the our team section. Can you guess who
that is? It's not you? Hmm maybe huh?
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Is it Michael Luck?
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Nope? This tells you everything you need to know about
this university.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
It's chat Arp and he's an aggie and so am I.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Oh, well, you don't tell it. I probably don't want
him hitting you up because they got to pay that
seventy five million dollars they pay Jimbo to leave, and
they've already cut the baseball field and had There's only
so many George Straight concerts you can have to make
up the difference. He's the only one that tells you
everything you need to know about that university. I don't
care what happens on that campus. You can argue over
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which university is the best. And this There is no
place that the graduates will introduce themselves the trademark Howdy
like they do. There's LSU, Harvard, Yale, Miami Alabama. There
is no place that people are prouder that they are
from than Texas. A and M. That's the fact.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
Yep, when you when you go there, you realize why
it's hard. It's hard to tell from the outside. That's
what they say.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
So you kind of bragged with the PE after your
name professional engineer. What is your engineering degree? In what year?
And why don't you have A and M on your bio?
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Well, and I'm not sure which bio you're referring to,
but I'm on your website.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Oh, would you like to read to you? You probably
don't know, You'll probably have some With over two decades
of designing structural precast products and concrete mix designs for
the electrical, power, communication, water, and industrial sectors, Asher is
focused on creating solutions in the construction industry. More importantly,
he is dedicated to helping make a positive impact in
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the lives of his friends and family, including his coworkers, customers,
and vendor partners. Our focus as a company is to
create an environment that challenges our people and provides them
opportunities to grow personally and in their careers. We continue
to build a team and culture aligned with our values,
which has in turn created a high functioning organization with
a focus on responsive customer service. We will be remembered
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as a company making a lasting impact in the lives
of our people and partners. Nothing really about you.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
Asher, Well, it's not about me. I mean, that's that's
the thing.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
I know. But when I went to that page, I
kind of wanted to know about you. That's kind of
mission Statele. Also, Asher doesn't sound like the kind of
name of a guy that's in pre cast concrete.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
Well, I'm trying to change that.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
That's kind of that's kind of a New York private
equity guy. Look him up. See Ramon agrees. So did
you start this company?
Speaker 4 (15:19):
I did? I did it. Yeah, I founded it back
in twenty thirteen. And and actually Michael luck was he
was employee number two and a guy I had worked
with for a while. And yeah, we started from nothing
from scratch.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Well, y'all have obviously done very well.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
It's been good. We've had a good we've had our
growth spurts over the years. I mean, we're about to
be at twelve years at the end of this year,
and we've gone through some really good patches and you know,
but to be honest, there's been a lot of challenges
as well. So it hasn't been all roses the whole time,
but we've definitely, especially over the last several years, have
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seen a lot of growth obviously, and you know, but
really it is you go back to that bio, it's
really the team that's gotten us there. That the growth
of our company really started to accelerate when I I think,
what I realized, I need to get out of the
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way and stop being such a bottleneck and start you know,
letting our team really you know, grow the business. And
that's when we started seeing this acceleration. So that leadership
team you just talked about huge part of why we've
made this list this year.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Asher take exactly sixty seconds and explain what pre cast
concrete is, Ramon, can you count us down sixty seconds.
Let's hear your elevator. This is to your kids fourth
grade class.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Go. So there's a lot of precast, prefabricated concrete out there,
but what we do, what we focus on is mainly
structures that are underground that are used for accessing and
protecting a lot of the underground utility. So when you're
running power lines, underground communication fiber, when you have dorm
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water drainage going underground, there's a whole system under there,
and so we we design and manufacture the concrete structures
that are all underground. So when you see a manhole
cover or you see a door in the roadway, what's
under there is a concrete room of some size and
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that's what we're making. And so our focus is really
on more specially custom engineered structures, and we typically we
find ourselves doing a lot of industrial type projects facility.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
I know you're going to think I'm kidding you, but
I'm not. I think that's fascinating. All the stuff that
goes on that we never see in the brain power
it goes by.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Or this country.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
I will die for disclass to Michael Berry shows the
big honor to be living in the United States.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Okay, I'll buy it. What does this have to do
with Astra Chasmon and lock SAgs?
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Hard rock?
Speaker 6 (18:36):
Okay, Okay, I'm always aggravated when I can't figure it.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Very well done, Okay, yeah, I'll see it. I'll see
what you did. Then, how did you come up with
the name Locke? L O C K E. Is that
for John Locke? Is it trustworthy?
Speaker 4 (18:54):
It's a it's a real It felt like it's a
real solid name. But it's actually the name of my
my first my firstborn, my son, Locke, who's thirteen years.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Old, Locke Sebenhauser. What was his name? I always wonder
when people do that, when you name the company after
your kid, what are the other kids think?
Speaker 4 (19:15):
Yeah, that's you're right, My wife would tell me. I
was pretty shortsighted. I've got two girls who are younger,
but at the time when I actually created the name,
I only had one. But the two other girls later
on were not very happy when they kind of started
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to realize what happened.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
So I normally like to start a conversation where somebody
doesn't know where we're going with some kind of off putting,
awkward questions just to see how they handle them, and
then we get into the normal stuff. So I'm going
to move to phase two with your permission. All right,
was anything I asked sort of awkward or you thought
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to yourself? How did we end up there?
Speaker 4 (20:03):
No? No, not at all.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Uh So so tell me who are your biggest clients?
Who who buys this stuff?
Speaker 4 (20:12):
We are are bigger clients, so we deal.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
With I got they all said you could you could
tell their name they don't mind.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
Uh. Well, I mean generally speaking that we work with
firms that are dealing with industrial and really heavy commercial projects.
So a lot of of EPC engineering procurement, construction firms.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Okay, I'm a big boy, get a contract.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
Well, okay, I mean just to give you some examples,
some some people like the Bechdels, the Floors, Zachary's, McCarthy's,
those kind of companies that those they do, they are
and they do complex projects. And uh and that's where
we find ourselves because of the custom nature, you know
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of our work. We find ours in those kind of projects.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
I asked my friend Dane Berson. He owns a company
called Accurate meter in Supply and they do like meter boxes,
underground pipes and things like that. And I said, do
you know Locke Solutions. It's a precast concrete concrete product company.
Is it a competitor or a supplier? And he said,
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we use their competitors And I said who is that?
And he said rock Solid, del Zato, Oldcastle, South Houston Precast.
So I said why not Lock and he said, well,
we were already using the others when they were starting,
and Lock tends to be more electrical and communication type projects.
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Is that perception true?
Speaker 4 (21:48):
That is true. So when we first started, you know,
those were the areas that we focused on. But those
other precasters you just named, those are good companies. We
don't compete directly with most of them, so there's a
lot of pre cast type products you can make. Those
particular companies tend to do more standard, what I consider
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commodity type products.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
You see what he's doing, and thathing's like, they're not
really competitors. They're great guys if you want boring trash.
What we do is specialized, value added, highly sophisticated. But
those guys are great. I mean sometimes you need you know,
your basic run of the mill. I love that aster
keep going.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
You couldn't have said it better. But that's the truth.
And that's that's typical of the pre cast industry to
be efficient, make the same product day in, day out.
But we're in a little bit of a niche, so
we focus on areas that other pre cast companies really
don't don't want to go play in.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
So if one of these bands, like a Bechtel, makes
a purchase from you and we're talking, you're you not
sending out a po or invoice for you know, four
thousand dollars. We're talking a million, four million, eight million
a pop.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
Yeah. The projects, Yeah, the projects we get involved in now,
I will tell you we do. We will do projects
that are four thousand dollars, but we'll do projects that
are twenty million dollars, so anywhere in between. But but yeah,
we tend to find ourselves on those larger, more complex
projects that require you know, really custom engineered product.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Yeah, not that run of the mill stuff like those
other companies. All right, I got a minute and a half.
I want to ask you this twenty thirteen. This, this
business requires a lot of capital. How did you start?
Did you have equity behind you? Do you have investors?
What did you do?
Speaker 4 (23:47):
I went out and convinced the bank to give me
a small business loan, which I did have a few
uh wells Fargo is actually the one I started with. Okay,
and a few friends and family that put in some
of the she'll see money with me, and and that's
how we started it. Yeah. Really a lot of capital. Good,
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there's a lot of capital involved, You're right, the equipment,
you know, just the nature of manufacturing and bringing in
like I mean I'm.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Looking at what y'all do. What was your initial raise?
Speaker 4 (24:17):
We started with a million dollars?
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Are you serious to do what y'all do? That's uh,
that's aggressive. Good for you, and you don't get paid
till the back end. That business is terrible for that.
It's worse in restaurants.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
The cast cycle is very difficult.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Yes, what did y'all make even this year?
Speaker 4 (24:37):
We did fifty four million?
Speaker 1 (24:38):
And what will you do this year?
Speaker 4 (24:41):
We'll do north of sixty Wow.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
How many employees.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
We've got about one hundred and eighty five right now?
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Is I saw you had a plant? Do people call
that instead of Alvarado? Do they call that Alvaredo? Have
I heard that? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (24:57):
We say Alvaredo.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Okay, yeah, I heard that. I don't know why that is.
So you have two plants and you have one hundred
and eighty five employees. How many of those are in operations,
I mean non sales, non admin.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Yeah, so we actually have three operations. We have another
one down by by Victoria, Texas as well. But out
of those one hundred and eighty five, I would say
about one hundred and twenty or you know, producing on
the floor, producing product.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
I'm impressed. I love these stories. Asher all kidding asides.
It's very impressive what you've done. Good for you.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
I think we should be friends with me. They're on
I'll meet a Janoe. You want to go to her
with me? If I have if they'll probably want to
have a lunch park? What would be something?
Speaker 4 (25:49):
Must be right?
Speaker 1 (25:50):
You are listening to Michael Berry. I can see them.
Don't say I'm Barry, can see him, you can see her.
It's a him and her Asprian Simpson is it. I
did not think those contact. It sounds like a soap maker.
(26:22):
You want to know, you want to hear. You want
to create a time capsule of black versus white sexual tension.
In a song, these two are making a baby with
you know, kind of turning their head into the mic
ever so often to sing in the middle of it. Right,
(26:43):
it's hot, it's steamy, it's sweaty. Their bodies are slapping
right on our side. You've got Kenny and Dolly describing
her him seeing her laying in the bathtub. It's there's
nothing wrong with it, don't get me wrong. That's Allen's
(27:03):
in the stream. Uh, there's nothing wrong with it. It's
just very different. Steve Harvey has a bit uh comparing
white people funerals and black people funerals, and he said,
the first time we went to a white people funeral
and the people were going, oh, that's so sad. Gertrude
(27:24):
was a good person. And then they go home and
they have a chicken salad lunch with everybody, and then
they you know, they leave it. He said, we're diving
off into the casket. You got to pull us out. Oh,
Richard Pryor, Yeah, yeah, yes, Prior, you're right up. Good call,
thank you.
Speaker 5 (27:41):
There's a difference in the funerals. Like white people have
funerals they love, they deal the party, but their funerals
be different.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
They don't give it up easy, you know, they hold
it until they get home. Maybe they go they faint.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
Black people let it hang out right, and then they
fall on your ass.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
They don't have a faint. They is lean on your ass.
Speaker 5 (28:18):
You got to carry them to the car and you say,
you know, you know, you got to kill me.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
He goes that mother mad.
Speaker 5 (28:29):
My grandmother said, you all like that scared out of
you at a funeral, right, my father, And she said what.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Wants the Madamma.
Speaker 5 (28:38):
I thought maybe he raised up or something.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
You know, you know, talking about these used cop cars
got me thinking about the Blues Mobile. Remember from the
Blues Brothers. Guy's got a lot of pickup's.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Got a cop motor of four hundred and forty cubic
inch plant that's got the cop tires, cop suspension, cop shocks,
some model named before the catalytic converters.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
So I'll run good on regular. Guess what do you say?
Is it the new Blues Mobile or white texts a
cigarette ladder? Man that cigarette lighter? How many times did
you burn yourself on that cigarette lighter?
Speaker 4 (29:22):
That was?
Speaker 1 (29:24):
I'm still to There's two things that blow my mind
that sometimes just I'll get to thinking on for no
good reason, and I will I will dedicate a great
deal of brain power whatever I have. It may not
be that much, but it's the two things that I
think about a lot. One of them is how fast
(29:46):
that cigarette lighter could heat up and how hot it
got in your in your vehicle back in the day.
And the other one is how fast when the bank
or your credit card sends you that number to log in.
It's so fast that before you can get to your
(30:07):
phone and in fact, I study it. I will, I will,
I'll go to it and I'll have my phone and
by that when I hit send it, by the time
my eyes can look over to my phone book, there
it is. That's incredible, those two things. It's so lightning fast.
(30:28):
How can it communicate that fast? Pull the number and
send it to you. Now there's people who go that's
artificial intelligence. It's all of those things. But let me
explain this to you. So let's say the concord. For
those of you who what I just said, you want
those people that now you ciphering on. Oh, I hadn't
(30:48):
thought about that. For those of you who drive a
truck or you let your mind wander into things and
you like to learn various things that for no reason
of the than the learning in itself, I'm gonna give
you a little tip right now, and then if this
tip was useful to you, you send me one. Just
a tip, just a tip, just real quick, just a tip.
(31:12):
That's it, I promise, just a tip. You go look
up the concord and you spend five minutes reading on
the concord. It's gonna it's gonna blow your mind. How fast,
(31:34):
how amazing the concord is. And then it's gonna make
you start thinking, Wait a minute, is life better today
than it was in nineteen seventy four? In so many
ways it's not. And I don't just mean political correctness,
the quality of any product in your house. Oh, sure,
(31:57):
they're more electric now, we had a Curtis Mathis TV
for I don't want to exaggerate fifteen years. I don't
know because I left home and they still had it.
Now TV's like, I don't know when the last time
I bought a TV was, but I know because nobody
(32:18):
buys them. They just steal them from Target. Let me
see if I can phone Yeah, retired Anglo French. First
of all, two countries coming together, right. Can you imagine
Saint Crispin's day speech if he had said, you men
are fighting to the death West Morland. You will give
(32:39):
your life and one day these two people will join
together as they should have been all along, and they
will make the world's greatest aircraft.
Speaker 6 (32:49):
You got sued aviation, which was later Arow Spotsial and
British aircraft coming together starting in nineteen fifty four.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
And creating the concord. Let me see if I can
find it, it could maintain a super cruise up to
mock two point oh four. You know how fast that is?
Remo me neither? Why did you read? You gnawed like?
Oh I fail? Huh fifteen hundred months twice a speed
of sound. But huh, that's so fast. This is one
(33:26):
of those days I wish Eddie just let us keep going. Oh,
by the way, we just found out they don't tell
me anything. Addie Martinez just does things. So apparently they're
playing Michael Berry Rewind, which is the best of our
morning show at seven o'clock at ninth from seven to nine.
And if you don't like that they're doing that, I
don't want to hear about it, because it's not my decision.
(33:46):
I don't run the stations. We do the award winning
Michael Berry Show for five hours a day. We smoke cigars,
we drink beer, We drive out to Waller and hang
out with people and yeah and yeah, this is what
we do.
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