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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 Little Lady
I was coming to bred Christians.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
We're all gonna be like three little fanzies here and
what's fanzie like?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Hell on y Linda, what's body like?
Speaker 3 (00:45):
What?
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Who wrecked the mundo?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
And that's what we're gonna be.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
You selling pictures?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Couldn't close an umbrella? What's happening in my special partner?
Speaker 5 (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.
He's not scoring goals. That's not his role. But if
someone says that they have impressed with prowess in academics
(02:18):
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.
If you tell me that three kids were being disrespectful
(02:42):
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, and I
(03:03):
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 had
(03:23):
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.
(03:44):
The people who don't get the credit is to stay
at home mom. They don't have a gala this year.
Naming her Mom of the Year used to bother me.
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.
(04:09):
And they have a black tie event and everybody goes
and they're all excited, and they sell tables and it's
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. Now let me ask
(04:30):
you this. You think the guy 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 3 (04:43):
It is.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Easier for a 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
(05:06):
home in his fifteen year old car, changing out of
his overalls to put to put his 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
(05:29):
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 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,
(05:51):
and that guy's actually trying to coach twelve kids into
young men. You think about the influence you have. This
is beyond even this election, but by god, it is
relevant to this election. You don't realize teachers, the kids
(06:13):
in your school, Sunday school teachers, the people in your
Sunday school class pastors. Some pastors get so caught up
in how they can squeeze more money out of their
congregants that they forget that is a flock you are tending.
(06:37):
You got such a wonderful opportunity every week to truly
minister to these people, and not just during church service.
Our pastor would come when one of us was in
the hospital. That's a big deal. Hospital visits are a
(06:57):
big deal. 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
(07:19):
at the funeral. 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, fulfilling their needs, anticipating their needs,
(07:45):
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 service specialist or should be.
(08:06):
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.
What could they teach? Your job is to wave your
hand over your face when you walk into the doors
(08:27):
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 event this week, when you're at work,
(08:48):
your mind should only be at work, But when you
get home, your mind should only be at home on
those kids and your spouse. Marco Berry's shop vile.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Omahall, Pete, you are on the Michael Berry Show, Sir.
Speaker 3 (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 2 (09:38):
You're very clear. Why don't you explain that further, because
I think you're on a very good point, Pete.
Speaker 3 (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
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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 2 (11:02):
Could you be that mentor, Pete, I can.
Speaker 3 (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 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
(11:28):
I 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.
(11:52):
But 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 2 (12:04):
You can do it by firs. How do you do
in the Hill Country?
Speaker 3 (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 2 (12:15):
Oh okay, where do you fly out of.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Homa? So home?
Speaker 2 (12:22):
You fly Houston to Homa or do you drive to Homo?
Speaker 3 (12:25):
No? I it's about a seven and a half hour
drive for me to drive down there, so they fly me.
How is your schedule?
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Three on? And how many on?
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Twenty eight and twenty now twenty eight and twenty eight,
twenty eight and twenty twenty eight? Twenty eight day rotations?
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Okay, but I didn't hear if the next number was
twenty eight or twenty.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Yes, sir, yes, sir, twenty eight.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Oh, twenty eight and twenty eight. How do you like that?
Speaker 3 (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? Twenty eight off's easy? But the twenty eight
on what's something that you that the rest of us
would take for granted?
Speaker 3 (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 2 (13:24):
Yeah. 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 4 (13:32):
His father on restoring classic cars a lot of times,
and he just likes motors, so he.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Thought he'd give Diesel a shot.
Speaker 4 (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. What hours is he available?
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Immune to?
Speaker 4 (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 2 (13:59):
Was he have to quit it five?
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Oh? He doesn't.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
He doesn't, and the lady it goes. It's fun.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
I love it. I love it. Did you write this
email for him? Pam? Don't you lie to me?
Speaker 3 (14:11):
No, we work together on it.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Okay, all right, I'll go with that was the proficiency word?
Your choice or his?
Speaker 3 (14:21):
That was mine?
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Would he ever say proficiency?
Speaker 5 (14:24):
He would?
Speaker 3 (14:25):
He would.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
He's articulate, okay, and he.
Speaker 3 (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, you
must meet this this man. He dresses well. He he's
very articulate. That's how people describe a black person who
(14:57):
doesn't speak, doesn't speak ghetto articulate white person. 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 3 (15:08):
This because I got nothing going on down there.
Speaker 6 (15:09):
Probably friend Aggie 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? You pronounce it?
And no, he says it's pronounced diesel. So I said, well,
how did I say it is a diesel? How do
you say it? Ramon? You say it with an S
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ra z? Yeah, you say it with a Z Diesel.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
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
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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 3 (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 doing
that day, and I totally him. I said, I need
to go see my parents, and it's the right thing
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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 but I was really looking
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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. It's when big old diesel trucks.
I mean it's a regular truck, but it's a diesel
powered truck, should I say? And little did I know,
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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
boxes in his passenger seat and threw them in the back.
And his wife texted and said, oh my god, y'all
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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
College station, and it took him about four hours to
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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, you
teach the children and every ded you don't realize they're
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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 got some environmental regulation that there's a filter in
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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. So your truck, it'd
be 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
(19:57):
in a simulation and there's some do watching up there,
and he's like, hey, hey, what we watch his little
cat and mouse I'm to do. See this guy right here.
Let's get Let's let them get good out of Houston.
Let's get them through chambers. Let's get you know about
where the alligators are on the left right there. Uh
an a whack. Let's just shut that thing down, but
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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. I run out
of gas in seven countries. I've running out of gas.
It's not a problem for me. 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
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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 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
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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. He can
solve physical problems that I can't. And I said, Michael,
I don't want to be a distraction like a child
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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
coming back. We're going to Orange. Oh no. This was
when I wish I had Uncle Jerry. But Uncle Jerry
was in College Station, oddly enough, because he was selling
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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 we're Chinese. So there we go,
and I said, just I got my hands over my head.
I said, just just for my own sanity. It doesn't
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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,
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.
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And then we come back and 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
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the middle, and you got black people driving like maniacs
in the left lane. And I don't know what the
Mexicans do, but we'll focus on what we got here.
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 Little Lady
I was coming to bred Christians.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
We're all gonna be like three little fanzies here and
what's fanzie like?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Hell on y Linda, what's body like?
Speaker 3 (00:45):
What?
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Who wrecked the mundo?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
And that's what we're gonna be.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
You selling pictures?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Couldn't close an umbrella? What's happening in my special partner?
Speaker 5 (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.
He's not scoring goals. That's not his role. But if
someone says that they have impressed with prowess in academics
(02:18):
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.
If you tell me that three kids were being disrespectful
(02:42):
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, and I
(03:03):
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 had
(03:23):
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.
(03:44):
The people who don't get the credit is to stay
at home mom. They don't have a gala this year.
Naming her Mom of the Year used to bother me.
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.
(04:09):
And they have a black tie event and everybody goes
and they're all excited, and they sell tables and it's
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. Now let me ask
(04:30):
you this. You think the guy 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 3 (04:43):
It is.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Easier for a 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
(05:06):
home in his fifteen year old car, changing out of
his overalls to put to put his 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
(05:29):
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 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,
(05:51):
and that guy's actually trying to coach twelve kids into
young men. You think about the influence you have. This
is beyond even this election, but by god, it is
relevant to this election. You don't realize teachers, the kids
(06:13):
in your school, Sunday school teachers, the people in your
Sunday school class pastors. Some pastors get so caught up
in how they can squeeze more money out of their
congregants that they forget that is a flock you are tending.
(06:37):
You got such a wonderful opportunity every week to truly
minister to these people, and not just during church service.
Our pastor would come when one of us was in
the hospital. That's a big deal. Hospital visits are a
(06:57):
big deal. 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
(07:19):
at the funeral. 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, fulfilling their needs, anticipating their needs,
(07:45):
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 service specialist or should be.
(08:06):
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.
What could they teach? Your job is to wave your
hand over your face when you walk into the doors
(08:27):
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 event this week, when you're at work,
(08:48):
your mind should only be at work, But when you
get home, your mind should only be at home on
those kids and your spouse. Marco Berry's shop vile.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Omahall, Pete, you are on the Michael Berry Show, Sir.
Speaker 3 (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 2 (09:38):
You're very clear. Why don't you explain that further, because
I think you're on a very good point, Pete.
Speaker 3 (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 2 (11:02):
Could you be that mentor, Pete, I can.
Speaker 3 (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 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
(11:28):
I 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.
(11:52):
But 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 2 (12:04):
You can do it by firs. How do you do
in the Hill Country?
Speaker 3 (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 2 (12:15):
Oh okay, where do you fly out of.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Homa? So home?
Speaker 2 (12:22):
You fly Houston to Homa or do you drive to Homo?
Speaker 3 (12:25):
No? I it's about a seven and a half hour
drive for me to drive down there, so they fly me.
How is your schedule?
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Three on? And how many on?
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Twenty eight and twenty now twenty eight and twenty eight,
twenty eight and twenty twenty eight? Twenty eight day rotations?
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Okay, but I didn't hear if the next number was
twenty eight or twenty.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Yes, sir, yes, sir, twenty eight.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Oh, twenty eight and twenty eight. How do you like that?
Speaker 3 (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? Twenty eight off's easy? But the twenty eight
on what's something that you that the rest of us
would take for granted?
Speaker 3 (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 2 (13:24):
Yeah. 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 4 (13:32):
His father on restoring classic cars a lot of times,
and he just likes motors, so he.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Thought he'd give Diesel a shot.
Speaker 4 (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. What hours is he available?
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Immune to?
Speaker 4 (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 2 (13:59):
Was he have to quit it five?
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Oh? He doesn't.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
He doesn't, and the lady it goes. It's fun.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
I love it. I love it. Did you write this
email for him? Pam? Don't you lie to me?
Speaker 3 (14:11):
No, we work together on it.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Okay, all right, I'll go with that was the proficiency word?
Your choice or his?
Speaker 3 (14:21):
That was mine?
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Would he ever say proficiency?
Speaker 5 (14:24):
He would?
Speaker 3 (14:25):
He would.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
He's articulate, okay, and he.
Speaker 3 (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, you
must meet this this man. He dresses well. He he's
very articulate. That's how people describe a black person who
(14:57):
doesn't speak, doesn't speak ghetto articulate white person. 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 3 (15:08):
This because I got nothing going on down there.
Speaker 6 (15:09):
Probably friend Aggie 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? You pronounce it?
And no, he says it's pronounced diesel. So I said, well,
how did I say it is a diesel? How do
you say it? Ramon? You say it with an S
(15:48):
ra z? Yeah, you say it with a Z Diesel.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
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 3 (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 doing
that day, and I totally him. I said, I need
to go see my parents, and it's the right thing
(17:22):
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 but I was really looking
(17:44):
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. It's when big old diesel trucks.
I mean it's a regular truck, but it's a diesel
powered truck, should I say? And little did I know,
(18:07):
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
boxes in his passenger seat and threw them in the back.
And his wife texted and said, oh my god, y'all
(18:30):
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
College station, and it took him about four hours to
(18:50):
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, you
teach the children and every ded you don't realize they're
(19:11):
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 got some environmental regulation that there's a filter in
(19:35):
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. So your truck, it'd
be 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
(19:57):
in a simulation and there's some do watching up there,
and he's like, hey, hey, what we watch his little
cat and mouse I'm to do. See this guy right here.
Let's get Let's let them get good out of Houston.
Let's get them through chambers. Let's get you know about
where the alligators are on the left right there. Uh
an a whack. Let's just shut that thing down, but
(20:19):
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. I run out
of gas in seven countries. I've running out of gas.
It's not a problem for me. 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
(20:42):
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 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
(21:03):
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. He can
solve physical problems that I can't. And I said, Michael,
I don't want to be a distraction like a child
(21:24):
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
coming back. We're going to Orange. Oh no. This was
when I wish I had Uncle Jerry. But Uncle Jerry
was in College Station, oddly enough, because he was selling
(21:47):
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 we're Chinese. So there we go,
and I said, just I got my hands over my head.
I said, just just for my own sanity. It doesn't
(22:09):
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,
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.
(22:32):
And then we come back and 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
(22:53):
the middle, and you got black people driving like maniacs
in the left lane. And I don't know what the
Mexicans do, but we'll focus on what we got here.
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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