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The Michael Berry Show

Our Friends At Sparx Engineering Answered The Call To Help A Crossing Guard Named Herb

The Michael Berry Show

KTRH

Society & Culture, News, Politics

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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0:15.1

The Michael Berry show a fellow named Herb what's her his last name helm herb helm I got an email from a fella and he seemed like the sweetest fellow ever and it just it's kind of one those things that I wanted to help and he said Zara I'm a crossing guard for Clear Creek Independent School District and I hold my stop

0:19.6

sign. These guys a little yellow vest it's reflective vest, and hold my stop sign up.

0:23.8

And when the wind gets to blowing, it's hard to hold it up, my arm aches, my back aches, the whole deal,

0:29.2

I don't want to lose my sign, trying to get the kids across.

0:31.5

And I think crossing, I across and I think crossing guards mail carriers

0:35.7

there's just certain people that you know I like more than maybe I should and

0:40.1

he said I'm wondering if you can help me figure something out, because I told people, if you got a problem send it, if I can help you.

0:47.0

So I call the guys at sparksengineering.com, SPARX, and this is what they do. They find solutions for companies. Like there was a

0:55.8

listener in Wisconsin that owns a massive milk operation and they got to go in and milk these cows. And so if the cow needs to be

1:07.8

milked at 2 o'clock in the morning they got to go in and milk the cow and they're getting kicked and pooped on and all this

1:14.4

sorts or they go out there and the cow's not ready to be milk it's going to be another two hours.

1:18.2

They created an automated milker that says ding ding dang she's ready it's all girls that need to be

1:24.5

mill and I mean but anyway so they created the whole thing and they show me this whole

1:30.3

graphic in this setup and it like it only milks when she's ready

1:34.5

it's less intrusive like they just solve problems

1:37.6

oil companies need to go down in you know down hold boring tools and all that you and they go oh well you need some

1:44.5

AI to go in there and figure out what to do and be able to have the brain to go well and

1:48.1

this is what they do all day so this was a little below their pay grade but it was kind of one of those fun projects that they all jumped on.

1:55.0

Herb?

1:57.0

Yes.

1:58.0

Okay, so when you sent me that email, I call Paul Hoop and Garner and I said hey little below your pay grade is a personal

2:05.8

I need you do me a solid see this sweet fellow right here and this is his challenge

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