It's that time.

Lock and load.

Lock and load.

The Michael Vary Show is on the air. I asked people to call in and share their stories if they're working more than one job because of this economy and all the lines lit up and everybody was on the line and they hung up.

I guess they had to get back to work.

Is that how that works?

So, my buddy is, I said, well how much do you make by day?

That much you make at the plant plant and because he's a contractor, not an employee,

he's 28 bucks an hour doing that. Why don't you just work more overtime because at

auto zone, he gets $12 an hour.

So why don't you work more overtime and do that?

He said, I would literally never see my wife and kids.

He's got two teenage sons that are still at home.

And this is a guy who's been willing,

over the years we keep up by text,

and he'll tell me where he's working. He's going to Louisiana to work. He's gone to Midland, a lot. He's gone to Odessa, a lot. He's gone to Odessa a lot. He's gone out west Texas to various places.

And the thing about it is, he, when we were young, he dated a girl from Mexico, he ended up marrying her, and he learned to speak Spanish, and I'm proud of my Spanish.

His Spanish, if you're not, if you're on the phone with him,

you would be certain this is a working class Mexican

because he learned to speak Spanish on concrete crews, which was when we got

out of school that's what he did for years. And then he ran concrete crews and then that

business went out of that company went out of business he speaks

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