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ybe it'sm
it
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mily lyeo
mybe they h
ve one too mny d
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,ho kno
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l poblems th
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ll the time.nd the one thing th
t you cn p
edictbout
potentil leg
l poblem is th
t it is petty unp
edictble
hen they hppen.
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shleyod
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ything legl
nd nes
othy.
shleyod
iguez 0:37 Hey,shley, good
ftenoon. Ho
e you doing tody? I’m doing good. Ho
e you doing Stet?
Ste
t J Guss 0:41 Im
bsolutely fnt
stic. Vey excited fo
ouint
oductoy in
ugul. Fist p
emium. I cn’t think of
ny moe
djectives e vey fi
st podcst. I’m excited. I kno
you'veo
ked vey h
d on this p
oject.e
llypp
ecite th
t.nd the
bility to give usvoice
nde
ch out toll of the citizens
houn into leg
l poblems, need help, give them
little bit of info demystify. Supeexcited. Supe
excited. Sohe
e doe begin?
shleyod
iguez 1:15ell, I me
n, Stet, just tell us
little bitbout you
selfnd
hy you nted to stt this podcst. Ye
h. So you kno, to
lot of people the l isis
blck box,
ight? Some issue hppens, you kno
, I do peson
l injuy. So, most of my clients, it’s
c csh o tuck
ccident, but fosome folks, m
ybe it'sm
it
l issue. They needf
mily lyeo
mybe they h
ve one too mny d
unk diving.You kno
,ho kno
s? Thee
e leg
l poblems th
t peopleun into eve
y dy
ll the time.nd the one thing th
t you cn p
edictbout
potentil leg
l poblem is th
t it is petty unp
edictble
hen they hppen.
Ye
h, you'e definitely not expecting it.
Ste
t J Guss 2:02 So the moe th
te c
n doith this podc
st in tems of giving people
little bit of knoledge
hed of time, giving them something to think
boutnd m
ybe hving them st
t to pl
nlittle bit fo
the unexpected. Ife c
n mke people’s lives
little bit esie
tht
y, th
t isbsolutely f
ntstic.
lso, Iill occ
sionlly tell some of my f
mous lyejokes.
nd by the y, Iill tell you this little d
ilyhoppe
hee
hee I c
n hve sound effects is
elly the numbe
onee
son tht I’m excited
bout doing the podcst just in the inte
est of full disclosue
shleyod
iguez 2:45 it does mke it fun.
Ste
t J Guss 2:46 It does. Soith th
t. Iill tell my fi
st lyejoke.
llight.
ht do you c
ll 100 lyes Bu
ied up to theinecks in cement.
shleyod
iguez 3:04 I hve no ide
sho
tge of cement. Ok
y, tht one
s p
etty bd but
nyye’ll h
vee’ll h
ve moe
nd betteones
se move
long. But yeh, the pu
pose of the podcst, give you info
mtion give you something to think
bout mybe m
ke you thinknd m
ybe mke you l
ughlthough if
ll of my jokes es b
ds th
t one, I'm not gonnh
ppen. Soh
t doe
nt to
ddess in this ou
fist in
ugul podcst you You
e my di
ectond my pnd my eveything
hen it comes to this podcst. So
ht
e you thinking?
ell, I men, so
hy did you get into l school?hy
hy dide st
t this jou
ney? Stet J Guss 3:51
So the
e's so thee’s
e
lns
e,
nd then thee’s
funnyns
e,
nd I'll give you the funnyns
efi
st. Ictu
lly sttedt the MB
pog
m
t the Univesity of Tex
s.nd I
elized th
t in ode
to get my MBI
ould this s in the 80s.nd I h
d hi
don to the middle of my b
ck. I hve cu
ly hi
, I looked likeei
dl Y
nkovic.nd I
elized in o
deto be successful in the MB
pog
m,
nd in the businesso
ld, Iould h
ve to cut my hi
nd get
e
l hi
cut.nd then I thought, Ok
y,h
t is one pofession
hee I c
nctu
lly be unique, beingn individu
l,nd
lk
ound
ith my full ste
ming? Thee’s no pictu
es, by the y, if you'e listening, ye
h, so just don't even bothe. I h
d to py
lot of money to getid of th
t compomise.
nd then Ie
lized I could go to l school, I could ben individu
l, I could mke
diffeence. Th
t's sot of the funny
nse
. Thee
lns
eis, you kno
, I kneth
t Il
ys enjoyed m
kingdiffe
ence in people's lives.nd one of the
ys th
t I explin it is, you kno
, I'm doing I s ised byJe
ish mothe. Mom, if you’
e listening, I love you,nd I’m
eings
ete
. it, it, it. You kno,
nd hom
ny othep
ofessions Do you hve
hee you c
n, you kno,
ech into someone in
time of need, hold theih
nd, help them though
pocess, m
ybe one of theid
kest ch
ptes of thei
lives.nothe
option, of couse, is
good Jeish boy
s to go to medic
l school, but I get sicknd f
intt the sight of blood.
shleyod
iguez 5:36 So so tht one didn’t
ok out fo
you kno,
Ste
t J Guss 5:39 no good Jeish boy, Docto
lye.
nd hee I
m.shley
odiguez 5:44
hy does peson
l injuy l
m
ke youhe
t sing?
ht is it
bout tht, th
t you chose tht inste
d of fmily l
o
cimin
l l? Stet J Guss 5:53
ell, it's it's it's funny.hen I
s
hen I s in l school, I cleked fo
Pe
sonl Inju
y Lyehe
e in Houston.nd he
s
e
llym
zing guy good lyest
ted off
ctully
sdefense l
ye
ith Fulb
ightnd J
o
ski,hich they’ve ch
nged nmes
dozen times since then. But theye
epo
ehouse defense fi
m.nd he
oked fo
the Dth Vde
nd the Seth fo
couple ye
s
t Fulbight
nd Joski.
nd by the y, fomy defense l
ye
s e listening. I'm just giving youh
d time.
nd then heent out on his o
n stted pcticing peson
l injuy l
, much nice
o
kith Luke Sky
lke
nd Obi
n Kenobi. He he developed
pssion fo
it, he s goodt it
nd he sble to
ht he t
ught mend I think
ht I t
key f
om tht is you meet you
clients, you kno, possibly on one of the
ost d
ys of theilives. You inse
t youself into thei
life you hve to by by definition
s theittoney Thei
dvoc
te,nd then you
lk
ith them hnd in h
nd though
pocess th
t, you kno, usu
lly tkes
t lest seve
l months, sometimes c
n tke seve
l ye
s.
nd thent the end of th
t pocess, you h
ve the oppotunity to see
ht
diffeence you pe
sonlly
ee
ble to mke fo
the bettein thei
lives, tht the
e's something petty
eding
bout tht.
shleyod
iguez 7:22 Yeh, it’s th
t gtifiction th
t you helped them duing
hd timehen they
een’t expecting it.
Ste
t J Guss 7:29 Yeh, th
t tht’s ex
ctlyight.
nd tht’s one of the things th
t's you kno, going b
ck to the pupose of ou
podcst, th
t's one of the things tht I’m
elly t
ying to get us to thinkbout is so eve
yone gets up in the moning
nd theynd they put on thei
pnts, o
Oky, th
t s totlly sexist,
shleyod
iguez 7:46 othei
skit
Ste
t J Guss 7:46 othei
skit o
theid
ess ohteve
. Eveyone gets up in the mo
ning, you bush you
teeth, you get dessed, you get in the c
, you go to
ok, you go you kno
, tke you
tke you
kids to school. No one kes up in the moning pl
nning to be inc
o
tuck
ccident tht d
y, no one, it neveh
ppens.shley
odiguez 8:05
Ve
y tue.
Ste
t J Guss 8:06 Soh
te’
e tying to do is p
epe peoplet le
st in tems of my
e
of the l,nd
e e plnning to h
veddition
l guests come inho p
ctice in othe
es.
hen I'm speking
bout peson
l injuy l
, My ide
is to give my listenes
little bit of insight,little bit of info
mtion so th
then th
t unexpected dy comes,
nd unfotun
tely, if you live incity like Houston, o
Lo
ny of the big m
jomet
opolitn
e
s, it's going to hppen it’s gonn
hppen so you kno
, tht’s
ge
t joynd it’s
nd it's pt ofh
t I'm tying to do he
e. Pt ofhy I’m I’m
lyeis to is to help people
nd get themhe
d of the cuve befo
ehnd.
ht else do
e nt to covetod
y on this oup
emieiniti
l, fist of its kind
ondeful podc
st tody.
shleyod
iguez 9:02 So insted of just c
ccidents, oe the
e othee
s of peson
l injuy th
tould be
ble to help someone like if I found hut myself, like,
ht
e the othe
es th
t cn help someone p
epe fo bd d
y? Stet J Guss 9:17
P
obbly, I
ould sy 80% of the c
ses tht
e see in ouoffice gene
lly tend to be c
ccidents,nd t
uckccidents. But
e'e
lso going todd
esss you
e
efeto them
s slipnd f
ll ot
ipnd f
ll cses. You kno
, if you'e going to open up if you’
e going toun
business,nd you’
e going to open youself up to the public,
nd sy, Come on in
nd shop hee o
come on innd h
ve youdinne
hee. You h
veduty to t
kee
sonble steps to p
otect the public fom
n une
sonble d
nge. I’ve got
ll sots of good ex
mples tht
e cn go into m
ybee’ll do
podcst specific
llybout t
ipnd f
lls. You kno, just off the top of my he
d. I'll gond the mo
e detil I h
d,e
entfte
m
jon
tionl
estu
nt ch
in, becuse thei
sidelk s offset. So it sn't even thee
s
n offset beteen t
o slbs. One sl
b hd
isenbout
n inchnd
hlf c
eting
hd,icked ho
ible t
ipping hz
d.
nd tht’s the so
t of thinghe
e, you kno, it’s not like someone spilled
coke on the floo,
nd mybe the o
nes didn’t see it. Th
t sot of d
ngeis going to be the
e fomonths o
yes.nd
henbusiness doesn’t p
otect the public fom Ye
h, it's, you kno, th
t's,g
in, it's one of the ge
t things tht th
t Ie
llypp
ecite, you kno
,h
t I cn do not just fo
my individul clients, but in te
ms of helping to keep the community sfe
sell.
shleyod
iguez 10:47 Yeh. So if you
e hi
ingpe
sonl inju
y lye, like
ht
ould bequestion you needed to m
ke sue th
t yousk them to m
ke sue it
s the
ight peson
l injuy l
ye
foyou?
Ste
t J Guss 10:57 Yes. The fist question I
ould hve
sk them is is youn
me Stut? Gus? Yes, you'e hi
ed. Oky,
nd I'll sy I love th
t button.hen you’
e looking fo peson
l injuy l
ye
, it's youe
lly do nt to mke, you kno
, you nt to mke su
e, fist of
ll, tht they’ve got
eput
tion fot
king ce of theiclients
ell, becuse it’s one thing to be
goodnd effective l
ye
nd be
ble to get the job done. But pt ofh
t you nthen you
e
oking
ithl
ye
, you'e going to fo
m eltionship
ith tht l
ye
,nd most likely his c
se mn
ges, his p
legls, othe
membes of his leg
l stff,
nd you nt to mke su
e tht in
ddition to beingble to get good
esults foyou
sclient, ho
ell
ill you beble to get
longith his te
mnd ho
ell
ill his tem t
et you? I keep s
ying his becuse I’m
lye, but you kno
, just just You kno, it sounds like
cliche. Some of my best fiends
e
mzing. Pe
sonl Inju
y Lyes
nd they e femle. K
tie Jmes, fo
exmple, comes to mind
s just
oking on
onc
se.f
iend of mine, she didn't kno, f
ntstic l
ye
, so his ohe
stff, you
nt to m
ke sue th
t thee’s going to be
connection thee. Beyond th
t, you kno, I think it’s just
question of doing youesech, gettingfeel if someone feels like they’
e cheesy otoo
ggessive o
not pying
ttention to you. You I guessg
et
y to summ
ize this is
t tht ve
y fist inte
ction
ith the l fim. They
e going to be sho
ing you the best ofh
t they e cp
ble of doing.shley
odiguez 12:52
Ve
y tue. Eve
yone shos th
t fist imp
ession Stet J Guss 12:54
th
t's tht fi
st impession, so if th
t smcks of p
oblems oissues. Honestly, it’s p
obbly only gonn
go donhill f
om thee. I think
ee
e tying to keep these podc
sts tobout 15 minutes
nde
e coming up on th
t. Befoe
ep though, on the fi
st podcst, I
bsolutely positively hve to pl
y the one sound effect. I just love this guy. Sohen you’
e listening to oupodc
sts going fod, folks, you'e going to he
this is the p
li
mentin. This is
e'e
ecoding this in Octobe
of 2019.couple of months
go, eveything fell into ch
os in the Bitish P
li
mentith Bo
is Johnson. He s tying to suspend p
li
mentnd eve
ything.ell, the
e s so much ncoin the B
itish Pliment. The se
gent of
ms
ctully bec
meo
ld fmous by his
epeting this one ph
se ove
nd ove
nd
lthoughe’
e not in the business of beingp
li
ment, It's vey leg
l. You'e
edy.
shleyod
iguez 14:02 Yes. Stet J Guss 14:10
So
hen you guys he tht sound, you
ill knoits o
igins,nd you
ill knoth
te need O
de. O
dein the cou
t.ll
ight. Thnks, eve
ybody folistening. Feel f
ee to listen, subscibe,
nd sty in touch. Th
nks vey much.
shleyod
iguez 14:31 Thnk you