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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Arry Show is on the airy.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Little Lady I was coming to bred Christians.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
We're all gonna be like three little fansies here and
what's Fanzie like?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Hell on y Linda, what's FONDI like?
Speaker 4 (00:45):
What?
Speaker 5 (00:45):
Who wrecked the mundo?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
And that's what we're gonna be. You selling pictures? Couldn't
close an umbrella? What's happening in my special partner?
Speaker 6 (00:53):
I'm dank now we are in trump.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Woman emailed me to tell me that she had a
great experience with Aztec Rentols, dealing with a manager planning
a big party, a lot of money, and those sorts
of things, and she said she commented to the woman
that your customer service skills are phenomenal. And the lady said,
(01:34):
I used to work at a restaurant called Gringos for
years and that's where I learned it. Never underestimate the
influence you have in this world. The children you're raising
under your roof, what they're going to go off and be.
If a teacher says your son got an a or
(01:56):
a coach says your son made a great tackle, or
for Crockett, if a coach says your son scored a goal,
I'd say, well, that's weird because he's a defensive midfielder.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
He's not scoring goals. That's not his role.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
But if someone says that they have impressed with prowess
in academics or sports, Okay, I'm not jumping over the moon.
But if you tell me there was a bully picking
on a weak kid in class and my kid stepped
in and made it stop, decisively, definitively, that makes me proud.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
If you tell me that three.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Kids were being disrespectful to an adult and my kid
was not only respectful but made it stop the other kid,
that matters to me. I was an all a student,
top of my class. I got that out of my system.
There were people, there were parents who told their kids
that I was the best. I was great, be like Michael,
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and I ate it up. Of course I did. Why
wouldn't you? But I now realize that's not the sign
of a good person. That's not a sign of your worth.
That's not a ranking in society, and by the way,
neither is your bank account. I commit this situation having
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had a great deal of success in a lot of
different things, and I'm grateful for that. I'm grateful for
the God given abilities. I'm really grateful for all the
people who help me get there, a lot of people,
including you. But it's also made me step back and realize,
wait a second, that doesn't make you any different than
anybody else. The people who don't get the credit is
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to stay at home mom. They don't have a gala
this year. Naming her Mom of the Year.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Used to bother me.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Every year they have black tie galas in downtown Houston
for we call them the Disease Ball Cancer Leukemia MSMD,
and they're supposed to be raising money for some charitable function.
And they have a black tie event and everybody goes
and they're all excited, and they sell tables and it's
(04:14):
ten twenty five thousand dollars a table, and they'll name
someone father of the year. Well, it turns out the
guy they named father of the year is the head
of the biggest bank in town.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Now let me ask you this. You think the guy.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
That's the head of the biggest bank in town is
the best dad in town? Because I can almost assure
you he's not.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
It is.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Easier for a.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Camel to pass through the eye of a needle than
for that fella to be the best dad in town.
But the best dad in town, he's pulling a paycheck
over in dear part and getting in early that day
to turn wrenches so he can rush home in his
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fifteen year old car, changing out of his overalls to put.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
To put his.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Eagles or Tigers or whatever their team is t shirt on,
and his tennis shoes. And he brought his glove to
work with him because he's swooping by the house to
pick up his kid, or maybe because he can't get
there early enough. Mom's dropping his kid off at the ballpark.
And he's the coach or assistant coach, and he's that
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rare breed of coach or assistant coach who's not there
to make sure that his son is pitching the maximum
number of innings and being the leadoff batter. That's you,
David Crook, and that guy's actually trying to coach twelve
kids into young men. You think about the influence you have.
(06:02):
This is beyond even this election, but by god, it
is relevant to this election. You don't realize teachers, the
kids in your school Sunday school teachers, the people in
your Sunday school class pastors. Some pastors get so caught
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up in how they can squeeze more money out of
their congregants that they forget that is a flock you
are tending. You got such a wonderful opportunity.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Every week to truly.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Minister to these people, and not just during church service.
Our pastor would come when one.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Of us was in the hospital. That's a big deal.
Hospital visits are a big deal.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
I can't do it anymore. I know too many people,
which makes life more complicated. But I do go when
an officer's shot, and it always means something to somebody.
At that moment, it means something to somebody. Somebody close
to you dies. You notice who shows up at the funeral.
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You know that, and that's a person you've seen two
hundred times in the last ten years. But at that moment,
it mattered to you to know that you trained a
waiter server who took the skills you learned in pleasing customers,
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fulfilling their needs, anticipating their needs, providing a good experience.
Where are people learning that? Do you realize how few
people ever learn that? We should teach that in school,
We should teach it at home. We should teach it first.
They of every job, every single person is a customer
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service specialist or should be. You walk into businesses, even
in the hospitality industry, and you can tell that person
hasn't been trained one bit. You see some people who
are the trainers, the manager or assistant manager, and they
don't have any skills either.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
What could they teach.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Your job is to wave your hand over your face
when you walk into the doors of that workplace and
put on a smile, no matter your mood, no matter
your finances, no matter your home life. Your job is
to present an experience, to provide an experience for those
people period industory. Like Officer Fikes said at the HPD
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event this week, when you're at work, your.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Mind should only be at work.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
But when you get home, your mind should only be
at home on those kids and your spouse.
Speaker 6 (08:54):
Marco Berry's shop vile.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Omahall, Pete, you are on the Michael Berry Show, Sir.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
Good morning, Michael. I just wanted to add to think
to what you're talking about as far as the uh,
the fact that not everybody has to go to college,
but I think where like us. I'm I'm Mexican, so
the minority group. We don't mentor each other to be
able to to guide them to be able to better themselves.
(09:34):
I don't know if I'm making myself a little bit,
you know, a little.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
You're very clear.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Why don't you explain that further, because I think you're
on a very good point, Pete.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
So a perfect example is like my son. We he
did well in high school and he ended up joining
the military. But we gave him the option. We said,
you can go to you can go to college, but
he was dead said he did not want to go
to college. And at the beginning when he told us
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that he wanted to go into the military, my wife
and I kind of both buck the idea. But that's
what he wanted to do. And after a while I said, okay,
well that's fine. I don't want to spend money on
the college education that he's not one hundred. I don't
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want to invest in that because he's not going to
be invested. So he went to the military. He's doing
quite well. Whereas my nephew. I try to tell him,
why don't you go to why don't you go to
the military, But my sister doesn't support that, and he
doesn't have a role model, a male role model to
guide him. He's doing well, but not that well if
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he doesn't have a mentor to guide him in the
right direction.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Could you be that mentor, Pete, I can.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
I should have been hindsight, but I wasn't. So. But
now that he's my nephew is a little bit older.
He's right around twenty six. He's the same age as
my son. But I talked to him more and try
to because he did go to welding school. But I
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tried to encourage him to to expand and do things
instead of, you know, just coming home after a hard
day's work, you know, kind of push him a little
bit where at home he doesn't. You know, his mom
does the same thing. She works hard, she's he inherited
her work ethic, which she's a very hard worker. But
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he does want nicer thinking. And I'm like, well, you
have to work for that. You know. I live in
the Hill Country and they live in Houston, so it's
kind of hard for me to be there and have that.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
You can do it by firs. How do you do
in the Hill Country?
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Yeah, I Well, we moved here from Houston about four
years ago because I got fed up with it, but
I work off shore.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Oh okay, where do you fly out of.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Homa?
Speaker 3 (12:21):
So home fly Houston to Homa or do you drive
to Homo?
Speaker 4 (12:25):
No? I it's about a seven and a half hour
drive for me to drive down there, so they fly me.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
How is your schedule three on? And how many on?
Speaker 4 (12:33):
Twenty eight and twenty now twenty eight and twenty.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Eight, twenty eight and twenty.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
Twenty eight? Twenty eight day rotations?
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Okay, but I didn't hear if the next number was
twenty eight or twenty.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Yes, sir, yes, sir, twenty eight, Oh.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Twenty eight and twenty eight. How do you like that?
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Yes? I love it. I wouldn't have any any other way.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
What is the hardest part about twenty eight on, twenty
eight off?
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Twenty eight off's easy?
Speaker 2 (13:02):
But the twenty eight on what's something that you that
the rest of us would take for granted?
Speaker 4 (13:12):
I think I think that once, once you get on
the rig and you fall into a routine, that's the
easy part. The hardest party is trying to get there
and get home out of your mind.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
I could see etereo the butterflies with the maclary.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
They're all duncans. And you know duncan means yo yo.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
His father on restoring classic cars a lot of times,
and he just likes motors, so he thought.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
He'd give Diesel a shot.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
I love They had a seat open when it was
time to register.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
All right, I've got his email popped up. Somebody out
there is going to hire him as a favorite to
me in the afternoons.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
What hours is he available?
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Immune to?
Speaker 5 (13:53):
Five? Might be twelve thirty by the time he drives
back from the college. It's out at North Paris that campus.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Was he have to quit it five?
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (14:02):
He doesn't. He doesn't.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
And the lady it goes.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
It's fun.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
I love it. I love it. Did you write this
email for him? Pam? Don't you lie to me?
Speaker 4 (14:11):
No, we work together on it.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Okay, all right, I'll go with that was the proficiency word?
Your choice or his?
Speaker 4 (14:21):
That was mine?
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Would he ever say proficiency?
Speaker 6 (14:24):
He would?
Speaker 4 (14:25):
He would.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
He's articulate, okay, and he.
Speaker 6 (14:34):
Is.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
You can't say a white person is articulate. The only
time the word articulate is ever used is for a
black person who speaks like this. So white people, when
they're trying to tell you he doesn't drop his g's
and mis conjugate the beaverb They'll say, oh, yes.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
You must meet this this man. He dresses well. He
he's very articulate.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
That's how people describe a black person who doesn't speak,
doesn't speak ghetto articulate white person.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
We're gonna find him something, Pam. I like it. He's
on a good course. I love it. I wish more
kids would do.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
This because I got nothing going on down there.
Speaker 7 (15:09):
Probably friend that Maggie plumber Michael Robinson sent me an
emails subject line are you from Cornwall?
Speaker 2 (15:26):
And then he said, what does he say?
Speaker 3 (15:34):
You pronounce it?
Speaker 2 (15:36):
And no, he says it's pronounced diesel. So I said, well,
how did I say.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
It is a diesel? How do you say it? Ramon?
You say it with an S ra z? Yeah, you
say it with a Z Diesel. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Just because you drive a diesel truck doesn't mean that
you get to decide how it's pronounced. And you know what,
I was going to leave that alone, but I don't
fight fair. So my buddy called me the other day
and he had to make a run to Houston to
pick up some parts he works out in college. Station's
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got a plumbing air conditioning shop, and he said, what
you got going on today and grab a beer this evening?
And I said, well, my sweet wife. He knows her
very well. She adores him. He adores her. He said,
I said, she spoke to my mom this morning, and
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she's just worried about my mom. She's just she's her
lung capacity is way down, which means she's tired. She's
not able to leave, she's not able to drive, not
able to get her hair dead, not able to get
her nails dead. And you know, you're sitting in the
living room with your husband of one hundred years. You
start getting on each other's nerves. And she said, my
wife would never ask me, could she?
Speaker 4 (16:59):
Alway?
Speaker 2 (17:00):
He thinks I keep too long of hours anyway, And
she said, I hate to ask you this, but I
think you need to go see your mom. And I said, well,
if you say that, then I do. That's just that's
there's no doubt. So he asked what I was.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Doing that day, and I totally him.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
I said, I need to go see my parents, and
it's the right thing to do, and I need to
do it for them, but I also need to do
it for me. I just need to lay eyes on them,
and so he said, well, I got to come into
Houston get some parts. I could rearrange my schedule. You
want me to drive you, I would love that, but
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but I was really looking forward to smoking a cigar
on the way and back, and he said, you can
smoke a cigar in my vehicle. And little did I know,
I didn't think about him being a plumber with a
bunch of parts in this filthy truck of his.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
It's when big old diesel trucks.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
I mean it's a regular truck, but it's a diesel
powered truck, should I say? And little did I know,
he's got pro paine and everything in the back, and
there I am fire and stuff up, but he said
it wasn't gonna blow up, and it didn't blow up,
so it must be safe. So anyway, he very kindly
shows up, and he even cleaned it up a little
bit like by which I mean he took all the
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boxes in his passenger seat and.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Threw them in the back.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
And his wife texted and said, oh my god, y'all
are going to see your mom in his filthy truck.
And I said, her name's Olivia, but he calls her
Live Live it's worse than that. So one night they
had called me on their way back from Houston to
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College station, and it took him about four hours to
get home because these son of a bitches in the
environmental movement have caused you know, your air conditioning costs
more and delivers less. There's so many aspects of your
life that are wrecked by these green people. Oh teach
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the children and every ded. You don't realize they're having
a profound impact on American manufacturing, on your quality of life,
on the cost of living, all of it, and none
of it makes a difference. So she and I are
texting while he's sitting beside me, and I'm laughing, and
because I do voice to text and he's having to
listen to me text his wife insulting him. Well, they
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got some environmental regulation that there's a filter in your vehicle.
This is to save the earth that when a particular
particulate ends up in that filter, your truck decides that
you've destroyed the earth.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
So your truck, it'd be.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Better off of the truck would just shut down, because
then I get out and call nuber. Oh no, no, no, no,
truck doesn't do that. It torments you somewhere we're all
in a simulation and there's some do watching up there,
and he's like, hey, hey, what we watch this little
cat and mouse. I'm gonna do see this guy right here.
Let's get Let's let them get good out of Houston.
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Let's get them through chambers. Let's get you know about
where the alligators are on the left right there.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Uh an a whack.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Let's just shut that thing down, but not completely. Let's
drop it down to about thirty miles an hour. Oh no,
So it goes thing ing and I said, oh, we're
out of gas.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
I run out of gas in seven countries. I've running
out of gas. It's not a problem for me.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
So I said, oh, we out of gas. You're as
bad as I am. And he goes, no, so what
does that mean? And he he does that thing we do.
We don't realize we're doing. It's kind of like the
Flintstones when they got to ramp the feet up to
get to get going, and Barney would have to help.
He does that thing where you lean in on the
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steering wheel as if somehow you're assisting. You know, you know,
you're in the stands and Carlton Fisk hits that home
run and he's trying to trying to wield the ball fair,
so he's trying to wheel the truck forward. And I
knew that is not a good sign. But he's a
very technical guy. He's a plumber, erictor. He's like my dad.
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He can solve physical problems that I can't. And I said, Michael,
I don't want to be a distraction like a child
when his dad's doing work. But what's our situation here?
There's a hot outside and he said, well, that's that
environmental thing. Remember I said, oh no, oh, we're not
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coming back.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
We're going to Orange.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Oh no. This was when I wish I had Uncle Jerry.
But Uncle Jerry was in College station, oddly enough, because
he was selling the house that his mom had lived
in before she passed. So I got no Uncle Jerry.
I got my dear friend, Michael Robinson in a truck
that's shut down to about thirty miles an hour. So
worst parties were old in the far right lane like
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we're Chinese.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
So there we go.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
And I said, just I got my hands over my head.
I said, just just for my own sanity. It doesn't
matter when we're another, Are we driving with our blinkers on?
And he said, no, I don't do that. Well, why
would you were? Are you pumping the brain? How do
we keep somebod just running over us? So we go
see my parents, and the entire time that we are there,
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I'm giving him hell. And my mother, I'm just like her.
She knows what I'm doing, so she's taking up for him.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
And then we come back and.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
His wife is just cackling that this has happened to
us in this truck. And so his answer to me
the whole next day is he said, you have bitched
so much about us driving thirty miles an hour in
the right hand lane. I mean, you've bitched so much
of us being in the you know, because you're three lanes,
and then you got Chinese people over there, you got
white people in the middle, and you got black people
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driving like maniacs in the left lane.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
And I don't know what the Mexicans do, but we'll
focus on what we got here.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
So he said, we were driving twelve feet from where
we normally drive. I said, it's not the twelve feet
that bothered me, even though I never drive in the
far right lane. That's the shoulder almost It was the
thirty miles an hour got me
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Arry Show is on the airy.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Little Lady I was coming to bred Christians.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
We're all gonna be like three little fansies here and
what's Fanzie like?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Hell on y Linda, what's FONDI like?
Speaker 4 (00:45):
What?
Speaker 5 (00:45):
Who wrecked the mundo?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
And that's what we're gonna be. You selling pictures? Couldn't
close an umbrella? What's happening in my special partner?
Speaker 6 (00:53):
I'm dank now we are in trump.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Woman emailed me to tell me that she had a
great experience with Aztec Rentols, dealing with a manager planning
a big party, a lot of money, and those sorts
of things, and she said she commented to the woman
that your customer service skills are phenomenal. And the lady said,
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I used to work at a restaurant called Gringos for
years and that's where I learned it. Never underestimate the
influence you have in this world. The children you're raising
under your roof, what they're going to go off and be.
If a teacher says your son got an a or
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a coach says your son made a great tackle, or
for Crockett, if a coach says your son scored a goal,
I'd say, well, that's weird because he's a defensive midfielder.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
He's not scoring goals. That's not his role.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
But if someone says that they have impressed with prowess
in academics or sports, Okay, I'm not jumping over the moon.
But if you tell me there was a bully picking
on a weak kid in class and my kid stepped
in and made it stop, decisively, definitively, that makes me proud.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
If you tell me that three.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Kids were being disrespectful to an adult and my kid
was not only respectful but made it stop the other kid,
that matters to me. I was an all a student,
top of my class. I got that out of my system.
There were people, there were parents who told their kids
that I was the best. I was great, be like Michael,
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and I ate it up. Of course I did. Why
wouldn't you? But I now realize that's not the sign
of a good person. That's not a sign of your worth.
That's not a ranking in society, and by the way,
neither is your bank account. I commit this situation having
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had a great deal of success in a lot of
different things, and I'm grateful for that. I'm grateful for
the God given abilities. I'm really grateful for all the
people who help me get there, a lot of people,
including you. But it's also made me step back and realize,
wait a second, that doesn't make you any different than
anybody else. The people who don't get the credit is
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to stay at home mom. They don't have a gala
this year. Naming her Mom of the Year.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Used to bother me.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Every year they have black tie galas in downtown Houston
for we call them the Disease Ball Cancer Leukemia MSMD,
and they're supposed to be raising money for some charitable function.
And they have a black tie event and everybody goes
and they're all excited, and they sell tables and it's
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ten twenty five thousand dollars a table, and they'll name
someone father of the year. Well, it turns out the
guy they named father of the year is the head
of the biggest bank in town.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Now let me ask you this. You think the guy.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
That's the head of the biggest bank in town is
the best dad in town? Because I can almost assure
you he's not.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
It is.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Easier for a.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Camel to pass through the eye of a needle than
for that fella to be the best dad in town.
But the best dad in town, he's pulling a paycheck
over in dear part and getting in early that day
to turn wrenches so he can rush home in his
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fifteen year old car, changing out of his overalls to put.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
To put his.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Eagles or Tigers or whatever their team is t shirt on,
and his tennis shoes. And he brought his glove to
work with him because he's swooping by the house to
pick up his kid, or maybe because he can't get
there early enough. Mom's dropping his kid off at the ballpark.
And he's the coach or assistant coach, and he's that
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rare breed of coach or assistant coach who's not there
to make sure that his son is pitching the maximum
number of innings and being the leadoff batter. That's you,
David Crook, and that guy's actually trying to coach twelve
kids into young men. You think about the influence you have.
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This is beyond even this election, but by god, it
is relevant to this election. You don't realize teachers, the
kids in your school Sunday school teachers, the people in
your Sunday school class pastors. Some pastors get so caught
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up in how they can squeeze more money out of
their congregants that they forget that is a flock you
are tending. You got such a wonderful opportunity.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Every week to truly.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Minister to these people, and not just during church service.
Our pastor would come when one.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Of us was in the hospital. That's a big deal.
Hospital visits are a big deal.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
I can't do it anymore. I know too many people,
which makes life more complicated. But I do go when
an officer's shot, and it always means something to somebody.
At that moment, it means something to somebody. Somebody close
to you dies. You notice who shows up at the funeral.
(07:21):
You know that, and that's a person you've seen two
hundred times in the last ten years. But at that moment,
it mattered to you to know that you trained a
waiter server who took the skills you learned in pleasing customers,
(07:42):
fulfilling their needs, anticipating their needs, providing a good experience.
Where are people learning that? Do you realize how few
people ever learn that? We should teach that in school,
We should teach it at home. We should teach it first.
They of every job, every single person is a customer
(08:03):
service specialist or should be. You walk into businesses, even
in the hospitality industry, and you can tell that person
hasn't been trained one bit. You see some people who
are the trainers, the manager or assistant manager, and they
don't have any skills either.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
What could they teach.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Your job is to wave your hand over your face
when you walk into the doors of that workplace and
put on a smile, no matter your mood, no matter
your finances, no matter your home life. Your job is
to present an experience, to provide an experience for those
people period industory. Like Officer Fikes said at the HPD
(08:46):
event this week, when you're at work, your.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Mind should only be at work.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
But when you get home, your mind should only be
at home on those kids and your spouse.
Speaker 6 (08:54):
Marco Berry's shop vile.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Omahall, Pete, you are on the Michael Berry Show, Sir.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
Good morning, Michael. I just wanted to add to think
to what you're talking about as far as the uh,
the fact that not everybody has to go to college,
but I think where like us. I'm I'm Mexican, so
the minority group. We don't mentor each other to be
able to to guide them to be able to better themselves.
(09:34):
I don't know if I'm making myself a little bit,
you know, a little.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
You're very clear.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Why don't you explain that further, because I think you're
on a very good point, Pete.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
So a perfect example is like my son. We he
did well in high school and he ended up joining
the military. But we gave him the option. We said,
you can go to you can go to college, but
he was dead said he did not want to go
to college. And at the beginning when he told us
(10:10):
that he wanted to go into the military, my wife
and I kind of both buck the idea. But that's
what he wanted to do. And after a while I said, okay,
well that's fine. I don't want to spend money on
the college education that he's not one hundred. I don't
(10:31):
want to invest in that because he's not going to
be invested. So he went to the military. He's doing
quite well. Whereas my nephew. I try to tell him,
why don't you go to why don't you go to
the military, But my sister doesn't support that, and he
doesn't have a role model, a male role model to
guide him. He's doing well, but not that well if
(10:56):
he doesn't have a mentor to guide him in the
right direction.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Could you be that mentor, Pete, I can.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
I should have been hindsight, but I wasn't. So. But
now that he's my nephew is a little bit older.
He's right around twenty six. He's the same age as
my son. But I talked to him more and try
to because he did go to welding school. But I
(11:29):
tried to encourage him to to expand and do things
instead of, you know, just coming home after a hard
day's work, you know, kind of push him a little
bit where at home he doesn't. You know, his mom
does the same thing. She works hard, she's he inherited
her work ethic, which she's a very hard worker. But
(11:53):
he does want nicer thinking. And I'm like, well, you
have to work for that. You know. I live in
the Hill Country and they live in Houston, so it's
kind of hard for me to be there and have that.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
You can do it by firs. How do you do
in the Hill Country?
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Yeah, I Well, we moved here from Houston about four
years ago because I got fed up with it, but
I work off shore.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Oh okay, where do you fly out of.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Homa?
Speaker 3 (12:21):
So home fly Houston to Homa or do you drive
to Homo?
Speaker 4 (12:25):
No? I it's about a seven and a half hour
drive for me to drive down there, so they fly me.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
How is your schedule three on? And how many on?
Speaker 4 (12:33):
Twenty eight and twenty now twenty eight and twenty.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Eight, twenty eight and twenty.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
Twenty eight? Twenty eight day rotations?
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Okay, but I didn't hear if the next number was
twenty eight or twenty.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Yes, sir, yes, sir, twenty eight, Oh.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Twenty eight and twenty eight. How do you like that?
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Yes? I love it. I wouldn't have any any other way.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
What is the hardest part about twenty eight on, twenty
eight off?
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Twenty eight off's easy?
Speaker 2 (13:02):
But the twenty eight on what's something that you that
the rest of us would take for granted?
Speaker 4 (13:12):
I think I think that once, once you get on
the rig and you fall into a routine, that's the
easy part. The hardest party is trying to get there
and get home out of your mind.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
I could see etereo the butterflies with the maclary.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
They're all duncans. And you know duncan means yo yo.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
His father on restoring classic cars a lot of times,
and he just likes motors, so he thought.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
He'd give Diesel a shot.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
I love They had a seat open when it was
time to register.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
All right, I've got his email popped up. Somebody out
there is going to hire him as a favorite to
me in the afternoons.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
What hours is he available?
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Immune to?
Speaker 5 (13:53):
Five? Might be twelve thirty by the time he drives
back from the college. It's out at North Paris that campus.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Was he have to quit it five?
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (14:02):
He doesn't. He doesn't.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
And the lady it goes.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
It's fun.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
I love it. I love it. Did you write this
email for him? Pam? Don't you lie to me?
Speaker 4 (14:11):
No, we work together on it.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Okay, all right, I'll go with that was the proficiency word?
Your choice or his?
Speaker 4 (14:21):
That was mine?
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Would he ever say proficiency?
Speaker 6 (14:24):
He would?
Speaker 4 (14:25):
He would.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
He's articulate, okay, and he.
Speaker 6 (14:34):
Is.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
You can't say a white person is articulate. The only
time the word articulate is ever used is for a
black person who speaks like this. So white people, when
they're trying to tell you he doesn't drop his g's
and mis conjugate the beaverb They'll say, oh, yes.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
You must meet this this man. He dresses well. He
he's very articulate.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
That's how people describe a black person who doesn't speak,
doesn't speak ghetto articulate white person.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
We're gonna find him something, Pam. I like it. He's
on a good course. I love it. I wish more
kids would do.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
This because I got nothing going on down there.
Speaker 7 (15:09):
Probably friend that Maggie plumber Michael Robinson sent me an
emails subject line are you from Cornwall?
Speaker 2 (15:26):
And then he said, what does he say?
Speaker 3 (15:34):
You pronounce it?
Speaker 2 (15:36):
And no, he says it's pronounced diesel. So I said, well,
how did I say.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
It is a diesel? How do you say it? Ramon?
You say it with an S ra z? Yeah, you
say it with a Z Diesel. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Just because you drive a diesel truck doesn't mean that
you get to decide how it's pronounced. And you know what,
I was going to leave that alone, but I don't
fight fair. So my buddy called me the other day
and he had to make a run to Houston to
pick up some parts he works out in college. Station's
(16:15):
got a plumbing air conditioning shop, and he said, what
you got going on today and grab a beer this evening?
And I said, well, my sweet wife. He knows her
very well. She adores him. He adores her. He said,
I said, she spoke to my mom this morning, and
(16:38):
she's just worried about my mom. She's just she's her
lung capacity is way down, which means she's tired. She's
not able to leave, she's not able to drive, not
able to get her hair dead, not able to get
her nails dead. And you know, you're sitting in the
living room with your husband of one hundred years. You
start getting on each other's nerves. And she said, my
wife would never ask me, could she?
Speaker 4 (16:59):
Alway?
Speaker 2 (17:00):
He thinks I keep too long of hours anyway, And
she said, I hate to ask you this, but I
think you need to go see your mom. And I said, well,
if you say that, then I do. That's just that's
there's no doubt. So he asked what I was.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Doing that day, and I totally him.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
I said, I need to go see my parents, and
it's the right thing to do, and I need to
do it for them, but I also need to do
it for me. I just need to lay eyes on them,
and so he said, well, I got to come into
Houston get some parts. I could rearrange my schedule. You
want me to drive you, I would love that, but
(17:41):
but I was really looking forward to smoking a cigar
on the way and back, and he said, you can
smoke a cigar in my vehicle. And little did I know,
I didn't think about him being a plumber with a
bunch of parts in this filthy truck of his.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
It's when big old diesel trucks.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
I mean it's a regular truck, but it's a diesel
powered truck, should I say? And little did I know,
he's got pro paine and everything in the back, and
there I am fire and stuff up, but he said
it wasn't gonna blow up, and it didn't blow up,
so it must be safe. So anyway, he very kindly
shows up, and he even cleaned it up a little
bit like by which I mean he took all the
(18:20):
boxes in his passenger seat and.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Threw them in the back.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
And his wife texted and said, oh my god, y'all
are going to see your mom in his filthy truck.
And I said, her name's Olivia, but he calls her
Live Live it's worse than that. So one night they
had called me on their way back from Houston to
(18:46):
College station, and it took him about four hours to
get home because these son of a bitches in the
environmental movement have caused you know, your air conditioning costs
more and delivers less. There's so many aspects of your
life that are wrecked by these green people. Oh teach
(19:08):
the children and every ded. You don't realize they're having
a profound impact on American manufacturing, on your quality of life,
on the cost of living, all of it, and none
of it makes a difference. So she and I are
texting while he's sitting beside me, and I'm laughing, and
because I do voice to text and he's having to
listen to me text his wife insulting him. Well, they
(19:31):
got some environmental regulation that there's a filter in your vehicle.
This is to save the earth that when a particular
particulate ends up in that filter, your truck decides that
you've destroyed the earth.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
So your truck, it'd be.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Better off of the truck would just shut down, because
then I get out and call nuber. Oh no, no, no, no,
truck doesn't do that. It torments you somewhere we're all
in a simulation and there's some do watching up there,
and he's like, hey, hey, what we watch this little
cat and mouse. I'm gonna do see this guy right here.
Let's get Let's let them get good out of Houston.
(20:09):
Let's get them through chambers. Let's get you know about
where the alligators are on the left right there.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Uh an a whack.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Let's just shut that thing down, but not completely. Let's
drop it down to about thirty miles an hour. Oh no,
So it goes thing ing and I said, oh, we're
out of gas.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
I run out of gas in seven countries. I've running
out of gas. It's not a problem for me.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
So I said, oh, we out of gas. You're as
bad as I am. And he goes, no, so what
does that mean? And he he does that thing we do.
We don't realize we're doing. It's kind of like the
Flintstones when they got to ramp the feet up to
get to get going, and Barney would have to help.
He does that thing where you lean in on the
(20:55):
steering wheel as if somehow you're assisting. You know, you know,
you're in the stands and Carlton Fisk hits that home
run and he's trying to trying to wield the ball fair,
so he's trying to wheel the truck forward. And I
knew that is not a good sign. But he's a
very technical guy. He's a plumber, erictor. He's like my dad.
(21:16):
He can solve physical problems that I can't. And I said, Michael,
I don't want to be a distraction like a child
when his dad's doing work. But what's our situation here?
There's a hot outside and he said, well, that's that
environmental thing. Remember I said, oh no, oh, we're not
(21:36):
coming back.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
We're going to Orange.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Oh no. This was when I wish I had Uncle Jerry.
But Uncle Jerry was in College station, oddly enough, because
he was selling the house that his mom had lived
in before she passed. So I got no Uncle Jerry.
I got my dear friend, Michael Robinson in a truck
that's shut down to about thirty miles an hour. So
worst parties were old in the far right lane like
(22:01):
we're Chinese.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
So there we go.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
And I said, just I got my hands over my head.
I said, just just for my own sanity. It doesn't
matter when we're another, Are we driving with our blinkers on?
And he said, no, I don't do that. Well, why
would you were? Are you pumping the brain? How do
we keep somebod just running over us? So we go
see my parents, and the entire time that we are there,
(22:25):
I'm giving him hell. And my mother, I'm just like her.
She knows what I'm doing, so she's taking up for him.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
And then we come back and.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
His wife is just cackling that this has happened to
us in this truck. And so his answer to me
the whole next day is he said, you have bitched
so much about us driving thirty miles an hour in
the right hand lane. I mean, you've bitched so much
of us being in the you know, because you're three lanes,
and then you got Chinese people over there, you got
white people in the middle, and you got black people
(22:54):
driving like maniacs in the left lane.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
And I don't know what the Mexicans do, but we'll
focus on what we got here.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
So he said, we were driving twelve feet from where
we normally drive. I said, it's not the twelve feet
that bothered me, even though I never drive in the
far right lane. That's the shoulder almost It was the
thirty miles an hour got me
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