The Michael Berry Show.

So I have, I had to climb speaking engagements these days.

I used to take every speaking engagement because I get paid good money to go speeches and

my deal with that with the kids was, as much as possible I would take one or the other

of them with me, whether it was driving travel or flight travel.

Whatever I made on a speaking engagement, I would spend on them.

So they were like, Dad, don't you have any speaking engagements?

So whatever that was, maybe it would be a trip they wanted to go on or maybe it was buy

an item they want, but that was, that was the trade-off, is it was play money.

But now they're at a point where, you know, my, my oldest son, Michael's a senior and

he's going to be graduating.

And I want to, I want to be there for every day of the senior year.

So I don't, I don't take speech requests, but I did take a speech request as a kind of

a favor to a friend of a friend.

And I remembered how much I enjoy that experience.

It was a businessmen's group.

And the businessmen are all very successful businessmen.

They've been in this group for 35 years.

And afterwards we smoked a cigar together.

And I shouldn't have because I was coming off the end of an upper respiratory infection.

But that, that for me is such a bonding thing.

And I got to meet some really neat guys.

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