1 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:11,840 Speaker 1: It's that time time, time, lock and load. So Michael 2 00:00:11,920 --> 00:00:25,040 Speaker 1: Berry Show is on the air. My favorite new song 3 00:00:25,079 --> 00:00:28,400 Speaker 1: I've heard in the last five years. Christ I don't 4 00:00:28,440 --> 00:00:28,840 Speaker 1: listen to. 5 00:00:28,760 --> 00:00:29,480 Speaker 2: The musical. 6 00:00:32,280 --> 00:00:36,320 Speaker 3: When it comes to bad luck, I got perfect time 7 00:00:36,479 --> 00:00:47,760 Speaker 3: in all the Stars just line, Mad Trouble. We're old friends. 8 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:57,440 Speaker 3: We understand the other fine because it's hard love and 9 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:11,839 Speaker 3: circumstances that bribe me him ride, don't go, I might. 10 00:01:13,560 --> 00:01:13,800 Speaker 2: Fail. 11 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:18,160 Speaker 1: One of my charming attributes is that when people suggest 12 00:01:18,319 --> 00:01:20,480 Speaker 1: I listen to new music, I call him an idiot 13 00:01:20,480 --> 00:01:24,880 Speaker 1: and refuse. It's real charming. You'd love to be my friend. 14 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:26,640 Speaker 4: So me. 15 00:01:29,680 --> 00:01:32,959 Speaker 1: That song right there is hard luck and circumstances in 16 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:38,160 Speaker 1: the artist's Charlie Crockett. So my buddy Cody Johnson, not 17 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:43,160 Speaker 1: the owner of garage Door Doctor dot Biz, because he's 18 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:48,120 Speaker 1: also Cody Johnson, and not the singer Cody Johnson who 19 00:01:48,200 --> 00:01:50,520 Speaker 1: has the Wrangler line, who once did a free show 20 00:01:50,560 --> 00:01:52,400 Speaker 1: for me at the House of Blues. I will forever 21 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:57,680 Speaker 1: be thankful for that. Neither of those two Cody Johnson's. 22 00:01:57,720 --> 00:01:59,680 Speaker 1: But there's I have three Cody Johnson friends. This is 23 00:01:59,760 --> 00:02:03,559 Speaker 1: true story. I mean, it's not so shocking because there's 24 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:07,520 Speaker 1: a certain generation of white dudes that live in Texas 25 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:12,440 Speaker 1: that they're named Josh, Justin or Cody just the way 26 00:02:12,480 --> 00:02:15,880 Speaker 1: it is, and Johnson's a pretty common name, so it's 27 00:02:15,919 --> 00:02:20,760 Speaker 1: not shocking, but that I would have three friends that 28 00:02:20,840 --> 00:02:24,720 Speaker 1: I regularly text with named Cody Johnson is weird. So 29 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:27,799 Speaker 1: sometimes if I'm sitting somewhere and I get a text 30 00:02:27,840 --> 00:02:30,160 Speaker 1: and says Cody Johnson, people go, oh, I love his music, Well, 31 00:02:30,160 --> 00:02:32,680 Speaker 1: it's not that Cody Johnson. And then I feel bad 32 00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:35,840 Speaker 1: because I'll say, you know, if we're getting a few 33 00:02:35,840 --> 00:02:39,280 Speaker 1: guys together to drink bourbon and smoke cigars, I'll go 34 00:02:39,600 --> 00:02:41,560 Speaker 1: and who else going to be here? Which I hate 35 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:44,560 Speaker 1: that question? Why does that matter? But anyway, I'll say, well, 36 00:02:44,600 --> 00:02:45,840 Speaker 1: it's going to be so and so and so and 37 00:02:45,840 --> 00:02:48,000 Speaker 1: so on Cody Johnson. Oh I can't, well, I loved 38 00:02:48,040 --> 00:02:50,320 Speaker 1: I love Well, it's not that Cody Johnson. And then 39 00:02:50,360 --> 00:02:52,600 Speaker 1: I feel like it's kind of a bummer because my 40 00:02:52,639 --> 00:02:55,400 Speaker 1: other two Cody Johnson friends that are coming people are 41 00:02:55,440 --> 00:02:58,400 Speaker 1: sort of like, oh, nice, and mein's you Cody Johnson? 42 00:02:58,440 --> 00:03:02,240 Speaker 1: And I thought you were Cody Johnson. Cody Johnson. Anyway, 43 00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:05,239 Speaker 1: so my friend Cody Johnson is actually the most interesting 44 00:03:05,280 --> 00:03:09,000 Speaker 1: of the three to know because Cody Johnson, the garage 45 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:11,519 Speaker 1: door guy, can fix your garage door and he's really 46 00:03:11,560 --> 00:03:14,320 Speaker 1: good at it. Cody Johnson the singer is always on tour, 47 00:03:14,639 --> 00:03:16,840 Speaker 1: so you know you're not gonna hang out very often. 48 00:03:16,960 --> 00:03:21,000 Speaker 1: But he's pretty what he could probably fix a garage door. 49 00:03:21,040 --> 00:03:24,280 Speaker 1: He's a cowboys cowboy. I will tell you this. Cody 50 00:03:24,360 --> 00:03:28,960 Speaker 1: Johnson the singer songwriter is like George Strait, a real cowboy, 51 00:03:29,440 --> 00:03:35,280 Speaker 1: like a legitimate rodeo participant cowboy. He's not just one 52 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:37,920 Speaker 1: of even tightler talk like that at taw Hayden fails 53 00:03:37,960 --> 00:03:41,360 Speaker 1: from founds. He's legit a cowboy. He's out riding the 54 00:03:41,360 --> 00:03:45,680 Speaker 1: horse right now, guarantee you anyway. So the third Cody Johnson, 55 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:49,120 Speaker 1: bless his heart, he is the most interesting of the three. 56 00:03:50,320 --> 00:03:53,040 Speaker 1: His family owns the largest ranch in Fort Benne County. 57 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:57,720 Speaker 1: It's like, uh, what is it? Eighty eight billion trillion acres? 58 00:03:57,880 --> 00:04:02,840 Speaker 1: I mean it's I once went out there. First time 59 00:04:02,840 --> 00:04:06,680 Speaker 1: Crockett went out there with me. I said, uh, we're 60 00:04:06,720 --> 00:04:08,560 Speaker 1: going to visit Uncle Cody, and you're going to go 61 00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:12,080 Speaker 1: out there, and he's we're going to bait, the alligator trap, 62 00:04:12,240 --> 00:04:15,640 Speaker 1: and you know you're gonna see a bunch of cool 63 00:04:15,680 --> 00:04:18,040 Speaker 1: stuff on this ranch. It really is. It is literally 64 00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:20,680 Speaker 1: the largest ranch in Fortman County. And it's I don't 65 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:22,640 Speaker 1: know how many hundred thousand eight or however, I don't 66 00:04:22,680 --> 00:04:25,119 Speaker 1: want to get the number wrong. It's massive. It's bigger 67 00:04:25,160 --> 00:04:29,279 Speaker 1: than county, some entire counties. We start when we enter 68 00:04:29,520 --> 00:04:31,960 Speaker 1: the edge of the property. As we're driving along the highway, 69 00:04:32,279 --> 00:04:35,279 Speaker 1: I said, that's where the rant, their family ranch begins. 70 00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:38,280 Speaker 1: And it's thirty minutes later, and he goes, I thought 71 00:04:38,279 --> 00:04:42,280 Speaker 1: we were there already. No, it's it's big. It's a big, 72 00:04:42,520 --> 00:04:46,320 Speaker 1: big ranch anyway, So years ago, I mean, I don't know, 73 00:04:46,360 --> 00:04:50,719 Speaker 1: this must be five, six, seven years ago. He said, Hey, 74 00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:55,120 Speaker 1: you like Charlie Crockett. No, why not, because I don't 75 00:04:55,120 --> 00:04:58,200 Speaker 1: know anything about him. Oh you got to listen. No, 76 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:02,279 Speaker 1: I've got so much, so many deep cuts of Jim 77 00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:05,839 Speaker 1: ed Brown and Verne Gosden that I haven't even gotten 78 00:05:05,839 --> 00:05:07,680 Speaker 1: to yet. That last thing I need to do is 79 00:05:07,760 --> 00:05:10,560 Speaker 1: mess with anything new. There's nothing new under the sun 80 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:12,760 Speaker 1: that I need to Got it, got it, got it? 81 00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:15,159 Speaker 1: So he would just keep trying, and I wouldn't and 82 00:05:15,200 --> 00:05:19,480 Speaker 1: trying and I wouldn't, and it just kept coming up 83 00:05:19,480 --> 00:05:21,640 Speaker 1: that people would say, may you heard Charlie Crockett. No, 84 00:05:21,680 --> 00:05:24,560 Speaker 1: I don't like anything new, but he's not new, that's 85 00:05:24,680 --> 00:05:28,160 Speaker 1: just it. So finally I give in and I start 86 00:05:28,200 --> 00:05:32,320 Speaker 1: listening to his music and I love it right, And 87 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:36,560 Speaker 1: he played over at Goods Armadilla Palace. He did this 88 00:05:36,680 --> 00:05:40,839 Speaker 1: deal to and it was a great PR campaign, and 89 00:05:40,880 --> 00:05:44,880 Speaker 1: the deal was the tickets are too expensive, and so 90 00:05:44,960 --> 00:05:47,760 Speaker 1: he did this what are you doing? Are you? 91 00:05:47,839 --> 00:05:49,479 Speaker 3: What are you doing? 92 00:05:49,760 --> 00:05:52,000 Speaker 1: No, I want you to go back and sit down. 93 00:05:53,080 --> 00:05:55,000 Speaker 1: I might need you to push a button or hit 94 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:59,239 Speaker 1: a dinger or something. So anyway, he did this tour, 95 00:05:59,800 --> 00:06:02,039 Speaker 1: the ten dollars tour, and every ticket was ten dollars, 96 00:06:02,080 --> 00:06:05,320 Speaker 1: which meant the venue lost their ass. I think LEVI 97 00:06:05,520 --> 00:06:07,719 Speaker 1: lost like fifteen grand on this deal. But he did 98 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:10,640 Speaker 1: it as a you know, you do it because you 99 00:06:10,680 --> 00:06:12,480 Speaker 1: want people to come to your venue, but you never 100 00:06:12,520 --> 00:06:14,919 Speaker 1: want to lose money on an event. But the venue 101 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:17,279 Speaker 1: is all bitched about it, but the fans loved it. 102 00:06:17,320 --> 00:06:19,960 Speaker 1: A ten dollars ticket, wow, they were all general admission. 103 00:06:21,120 --> 00:06:23,680 Speaker 1: So I start reading about Charlie Crockett. Well, if you 104 00:06:23,720 --> 00:06:26,560 Speaker 1: look at him, you think he's black. But I knew 105 00:06:26,560 --> 00:06:29,800 Speaker 1: he was a descendant of Davy Crockett, the literal direct 106 00:06:29,800 --> 00:06:33,800 Speaker 1: line descendant of Davy Crockett, And so I thought, how's 107 00:06:33,839 --> 00:06:37,440 Speaker 1: a black guy. Oh, Davy got the jungle fever? Okay, 108 00:06:37,480 --> 00:06:41,960 Speaker 1: all right, yeah, all right. So I see an interview 109 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:46,320 Speaker 1: with him where he's asked if he's black, and he says, no, 110 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:51,760 Speaker 1: I'm white. And they said, but you have black lineage, 111 00:06:51,839 --> 00:06:55,480 Speaker 1: and he said, yeah, but I have more white than black. 112 00:06:56,520 --> 00:06:59,000 Speaker 1: I see myself as white, but I don't know that 113 00:06:59,040 --> 00:07:02,680 Speaker 1: it matters. And they were trying to make him black 114 00:07:02,800 --> 00:07:08,039 Speaker 1: because it's a better story. Charlie pride if he's a 115 00:07:08,160 --> 00:07:12,520 Speaker 1: black Darius Rucker, a black guy singing country music. And 116 00:07:12,560 --> 00:07:15,760 Speaker 1: he said, no, I don't. I'm just a person. But 117 00:07:15,840 --> 00:07:19,680 Speaker 1: what I found fascinating, and this really caught my attention, 118 00:07:20,640 --> 00:07:23,720 Speaker 1: is it would help his career if he's black, because 119 00:07:23,760 --> 00:07:25,480 Speaker 1: every white guy would love to go I like old 120 00:07:25,520 --> 00:07:28,520 Speaker 1: Charlie Crockett, you know, because oh I like the black guy. 121 00:07:29,040 --> 00:07:31,760 Speaker 1: They got enough white guys already. But he chose not 122 00:07:31,960 --> 00:07:34,480 Speaker 1: to take that course, and that really made me admire him. 123 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:36,840 Speaker 1: He also lived out of his truck for years, which 124 00:07:36,920 --> 00:07:40,320 Speaker 1: you know, that's kind of real street cred. So I 125 00:07:40,360 --> 00:07:43,440 Speaker 1: get a message from the Rodeo. They used to sponsor 126 00:07:43,480 --> 00:07:47,240 Speaker 1: my show. They don't sponsor us anymore. No hard feelings, 127 00:07:47,440 --> 00:07:51,120 Speaker 1: you know. I'm obviously butt heart over it for whatever reason. 128 00:07:51,960 --> 00:07:56,440 Speaker 1: Prob Well, anyway, I do like I really like the 129 00:07:56,480 --> 00:07:59,240 Speaker 1: guy who's the head of Rodeo right now. I like 130 00:07:59,320 --> 00:08:02,040 Speaker 1: him a lot, and I liked executive committee. I think 131 00:08:02,080 --> 00:08:04,800 Speaker 1: the marketing committee is probably you know, women in their 132 00:08:04,840 --> 00:08:07,240 Speaker 1: early twenties who don't know who I am. Their dad 133 00:08:07,280 --> 00:08:09,960 Speaker 1: listens to us, so they don't realize how you know 134 00:08:10,080 --> 00:08:13,560 Speaker 1: our listeners. But I get a message from the Rodeo, Hello, 135 00:08:15,640 --> 00:08:18,360 Speaker 1: would you be willing to interview Charlie Crockett? He's got 136 00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:21,600 Speaker 1: a show come well, yeah, just to piss off all 137 00:08:21,680 --> 00:08:24,600 Speaker 1: my friends. Yes, so we're gonna talk to Charlie Crockett, 138 00:08:24,640 --> 00:08:26,280 Speaker 1: but first we're gonna talk to you. It calls coming up. 139 00:08:27,800 --> 00:08:29,120 Speaker 5: Form the. 140 00:08:31,640 --> 00:08:32,280 Speaker 6: Wats up? 141 00:08:32,320 --> 00:08:41,080 Speaker 5: It send anybody go into the same zone, misoona. Then 142 00:08:41,280 --> 00:08:44,959 Speaker 5: it passes out as long as I well, if. 143 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:46,000 Speaker 3: I'm never. 144 00:08:49,360 --> 00:08:51,480 Speaker 1: I'm gonna let that play. Let's just take a moment 145 00:08:53,320 --> 00:09:00,959 Speaker 1: and contemplate my favorite supergroup of all time. Well, I 146 00:09:00,960 --> 00:09:06,520 Speaker 1: don't know you got highwaymen, but imagine you got Flo 147 00:09:06,920 --> 00:09:14,679 Speaker 1: n s Freddie Fender, My memory ain't what it used 148 00:09:14,720 --> 00:09:24,720 Speaker 1: to be, Doug song and uh Algi Myers. Yeah, so Flacco, Freddy, 149 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:36,320 Speaker 1: Doug som augimeris you got four legit legends under one roof. 150 00:09:38,720 --> 00:09:41,000 Speaker 1: I mean, you got guys that can play con junto 151 00:09:42,559 --> 00:09:46,360 Speaker 1: Northanio classic country. 152 00:09:48,520 --> 00:09:48,720 Speaker 4: Rock. 153 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:02,320 Speaker 1: You ever wonder what it would be like. 154 00:10:02,400 --> 00:10:02,959 Speaker 4: To sit. 155 00:10:04,679 --> 00:10:07,400 Speaker 1: In the presence of police guys? All right, guy, this 156 00:10:07,559 --> 00:10:09,400 Speaker 1: was a crazy idea. We're gonna do it. We've gotta 157 00:10:09,400 --> 00:10:12,319 Speaker 1: be good now, all right, what do you throw something out? 158 00:10:12,360 --> 00:10:16,120 Speaker 1: Let's let's let's just try to let's try to start 159 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:19,560 Speaker 1: a song here. What do y'all think are the traveling 160 00:10:19,559 --> 00:10:23,960 Speaker 1: Whilbery's What do you do? I mean, how weird would 161 00:10:24,200 --> 00:10:26,640 Speaker 1: how weird would you? How small would you feel in 162 00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:27,160 Speaker 1: that room? 163 00:10:30,400 --> 00:10:31,080 Speaker 4: I mean you just. 164 00:10:35,040 --> 00:10:39,440 Speaker 1: The highwaymen, Well, where do you stand? Who's on the end, 165 00:10:39,480 --> 00:10:45,120 Speaker 1: who's in the middle. All right, we're gonna do the highwayman. 166 00:10:45,559 --> 00:10:47,079 Speaker 1: What we're gonna do is have each one of you 167 00:10:48,160 --> 00:10:49,679 Speaker 1: and you know they're all looking at each other, going, 168 00:10:50,120 --> 00:10:51,839 Speaker 1: you're not gonna let Chris have a part on it. 169 00:10:52,720 --> 00:10:55,400 Speaker 1: You're not gonna let Chris singe, are you? Oh dear god, 170 00:10:56,200 --> 00:10:57,160 Speaker 1: it's gonna be weird. 171 00:10:57,760 --> 00:10:58,800 Speaker 4: All right, to the phone. 172 00:10:58,640 --> 00:11:03,360 Speaker 1: Lines we go. By the way, our friend Holmes Williams, 173 00:11:04,440 --> 00:11:13,120 Speaker 1: an expert on all things Texas history, Texas women, Texas booze. 174 00:11:13,920 --> 00:11:17,160 Speaker 1: Of course, hunting. What do I always call him? And 175 00:11:17,200 --> 00:11:19,480 Speaker 1: he gets he's a professional hunter? Is that the term? 176 00:11:20,280 --> 00:11:22,480 Speaker 1: He gets very upset if I don't use the right term. 177 00:11:23,400 --> 00:11:26,800 Speaker 1: I always say he's a hunting guide or something whatever 178 00:11:26,840 --> 00:11:28,720 Speaker 1: comes natural to me, and he gets anged. A fresh 179 00:11:28,760 --> 00:11:31,920 Speaker 1: professional hunter. I don't know how the dude makes a living, 180 00:11:32,040 --> 00:11:34,040 Speaker 1: but he lives well. I know he gets paid a 181 00:11:34,080 --> 00:11:36,600 Speaker 1: lot of money. And all he's ever doing is hanging 182 00:11:36,640 --> 00:11:40,079 Speaker 1: out with rich people, putting them on some exotic thing 183 00:11:40,160 --> 00:11:41,480 Speaker 1: and telling them, all right, when I tell you to 184 00:11:41,520 --> 00:11:43,679 Speaker 1: pull the trigger. I think he cites the whole thing in, 185 00:11:44,320 --> 00:11:46,679 Speaker 1: gets it all set up, and they pull it and 186 00:11:46,679 --> 00:11:48,520 Speaker 1: they take a picture of them, and you know, some 187 00:11:49,160 --> 00:11:52,560 Speaker 1: four thousand pounds beasts, like they did the work. They 188 00:11:52,679 --> 00:11:57,559 Speaker 1: scared it up. Anyway, he says, he sent me a 189 00:11:57,600 --> 00:11:59,920 Speaker 1: message and said, it's not just how fast they built it, 190 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:02,240 Speaker 1: it's how they built it. Bunch of y'all apparently know 191 00:12:02,320 --> 00:12:05,839 Speaker 1: the story, Susan writes, Zar, it's the Hilton Plasio del Rio. 192 00:12:05,920 --> 00:12:07,839 Speaker 1: It's what we were talking about earlier. They built it 193 00:12:07,960 --> 00:12:12,640 Speaker 1: using helicopters to lower individual prefab units into the structure. 194 00:12:13,120 --> 00:12:15,360 Speaker 1: That was nineteen sixty eight. It's almost sixty years ago. 195 00:12:15,559 --> 00:12:18,040 Speaker 1: We couldn't do that today. Do you realize that in 196 00:12:18,200 --> 00:12:22,480 Speaker 1: nineteen sixty eight they built prefab units, hooked them to 197 00:12:22,559 --> 00:12:26,960 Speaker 1: a helicopter, brought them and placed them in place. In fact, 198 00:12:27,120 --> 00:12:31,160 Speaker 1: Holmes had a great description of that process. He said, 199 00:12:33,160 --> 00:12:37,559 Speaker 1: imagine a massive game of Tetris. Pretty well, pretty good description, 200 00:12:38,720 --> 00:12:41,280 Speaker 1: Sassy Rights. I believe it's a Hilton. It was built 201 00:12:41,320 --> 00:12:44,840 Speaker 1: by HB. Zachary for the sixty eight World's Fair. Modules 202 00:12:44,880 --> 00:12:47,040 Speaker 1: were built off site and then lifted into place to 203 00:12:47,160 --> 00:12:49,640 Speaker 1: quickly build the hotel. I guarantee you we couldn't do 204 00:12:49,720 --> 00:12:55,880 Speaker 1: that today. Our DEI government, our DEI companies, we could 205 00:12:55,960 --> 00:12:59,280 Speaker 1: not do that today, Sarah Wrights, Zar, have you been 206 00:12:59,320 --> 00:13:01,760 Speaker 1: to nine a hn these lecture slash tour of Texas 207 00:13:01,840 --> 00:13:04,360 Speaker 1: history at Tastes of Texas? I went recently with a 208 00:13:04,400 --> 00:13:07,160 Speaker 1: group of friends and it was so interesting and I 209 00:13:07,280 --> 00:13:09,840 Speaker 1: had forgotten that the original doors to the Alamo Chapel 210 00:13:09,880 --> 00:13:14,520 Speaker 1: are right inside the entrance to Taste of Texas. You know, folks, 211 00:13:15,559 --> 00:13:18,840 Speaker 1: when you're having a bad day, make yourself a list 212 00:13:19,760 --> 00:13:24,280 Speaker 1: of things. When you're having a me day where you're 213 00:13:24,320 --> 00:13:26,000 Speaker 1: not going to go to work because you just your 214 00:13:26,320 --> 00:13:30,720 Speaker 1: headspace is not there. Your dog died, your best friend died, 215 00:13:31,440 --> 00:13:34,160 Speaker 1: have yourself a list of things you can do that 216 00:13:34,240 --> 00:13:36,400 Speaker 1: will put you in a good mood. There's so many 217 00:13:36,480 --> 00:13:39,719 Speaker 1: good things happening around and most of it nobody knows 218 00:13:39,760 --> 00:13:43,200 Speaker 1: about because it's not marketed. How could it be? I mean, 219 00:13:43,240 --> 00:13:46,160 Speaker 1: you got a restaurant here. Ed and nine A Hindi 220 00:13:46,320 --> 00:13:52,160 Speaker 1: are are treasures, absolute treasures. I mean the best thing 221 00:13:52,160 --> 00:13:54,360 Speaker 1: I can say about Ed and nine A Hindi in 222 00:13:54,440 --> 00:13:57,520 Speaker 1: addition their pro life movement, they're all the things. They 223 00:13:57,760 --> 00:14:01,520 Speaker 1: great restaurant tours. Is it my buddy Matt Brice opens 224 00:14:01,559 --> 00:14:05,040 Speaker 1: a restaurant a hop skipping a jump down from them 225 00:14:05,200 --> 00:14:08,719 Speaker 1: that is also a steakhouse? And do they worry about it? 226 00:14:08,880 --> 00:14:08,920 Speaker 4: Know? 227 00:14:09,120 --> 00:14:12,040 Speaker 1: They mentor him, they help him, They send people there, 228 00:14:12,120 --> 00:14:17,000 Speaker 1: They themselves go there. Other than Russell Lebara and Ed 229 00:14:17,080 --> 00:14:19,320 Speaker 1: Hindy in a handful of. But you don't see people 230 00:14:19,440 --> 00:14:22,560 Speaker 1: take that approach to life. You just don't. All right, 231 00:14:22,640 --> 00:14:26,760 Speaker 1: let's go to Joe Lopez. He wanted me to know 232 00:14:26,840 --> 00:14:28,920 Speaker 1: his last name was Lopez. Otherwise he wouldn't tell you. 233 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:29,720 Speaker 6: He'd just be Joe. 234 00:14:33,400 --> 00:14:34,200 Speaker 1: What you got one man? 235 00:14:34,880 --> 00:14:37,560 Speaker 7: Hi, Michael, this is Joe Lopez cay Man. I'm from 236 00:14:37,600 --> 00:14:39,960 Speaker 7: McCallen and growing up, you know the Texas history. I'm 237 00:14:39,960 --> 00:14:42,040 Speaker 7: fifty one. I would almost send in the age Texas 238 00:14:42,080 --> 00:14:43,760 Speaker 7: sisty was taught in junior highs and stuff. So you 239 00:14:43,880 --> 00:14:45,120 Speaker 7: just typical junior high kid. 240 00:14:45,400 --> 00:14:45,640 Speaker 4: Whatever. 241 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:47,640 Speaker 7: But you notice that all the schools in you where 242 00:14:47,640 --> 00:14:50,120 Speaker 7: we live were named after famous people from Texas history, 243 00:14:50,360 --> 00:14:52,960 Speaker 7: but you don't appreciate it. I get to college and 244 00:14:53,080 --> 00:14:55,160 Speaker 7: as a Mexican American and you're then if you hang 245 00:14:55,240 --> 00:14:57,440 Speaker 7: out with the wrong crowd, you're taught to hate. You know, 246 00:14:57,600 --> 00:14:59,360 Speaker 7: how Texas was stolen and all this stuff. 247 00:14:59,400 --> 00:14:59,840 Speaker 4: So whatever. 248 00:15:00,560 --> 00:15:02,400 Speaker 7: So I moved to Boston. I get my first job. 249 00:15:02,480 --> 00:15:05,360 Speaker 7: I moved to Boston. All these Bostonians are asking me 250 00:15:05,520 --> 00:15:07,280 Speaker 7: all these things about Texas c hissty. I had no 251 00:15:07,400 --> 00:15:10,600 Speaker 7: idea what they were talking about, and I'm like, wow, 252 00:15:10,720 --> 00:15:12,400 Speaker 7: Like these guys know this stuff, and I don't I 253 00:15:12,480 --> 00:15:15,600 Speaker 7: go stupid. I moved to San Diego, same thing. I 254 00:15:15,720 --> 00:15:18,400 Speaker 7: moved to Canada, same thing. I'm like, So I moved 255 00:15:18,400 --> 00:15:20,560 Speaker 7: back to Texas and here I am in Houston now 256 00:15:21,160 --> 00:15:23,120 Speaker 7: and my kid comes up to me in like two 257 00:15:23,200 --> 00:15:26,240 Speaker 7: years ago. He's in fifth grader. Now he goes, Dad, 258 00:15:26,280 --> 00:15:28,760 Speaker 7: I want this for Christmas, a bloody arm flag. I'm like, 259 00:15:28,880 --> 00:15:31,120 Speaker 7: what what are you talking about? What is this bloody 260 00:15:31,200 --> 00:15:33,040 Speaker 7: arm TEA like, you're not you know, you can't. 261 00:15:32,920 --> 00:15:33,640 Speaker 4: Wear this to school. 262 00:15:34,560 --> 00:15:36,560 Speaker 7: He falls in love with Texas sister and his name 263 00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:40,120 Speaker 7: is Johnny Cash. So I'm like, you know what, dude, Cash, 264 00:15:40,960 --> 00:15:42,720 Speaker 7: you know what, I'm going to research this. I talked 265 00:15:42,720 --> 00:15:45,160 Speaker 7: to some guys that I work with and they're like, dude, 266 00:15:45,160 --> 00:15:46,600 Speaker 7: you know you got to take them to Goliad, go 267 00:15:46,680 --> 00:15:51,280 Speaker 7: to Gonzalez. So we do this whole tour this past summer, Goliad, Gonzalez, 268 00:15:51,480 --> 00:15:55,880 Speaker 7: segein San Antonio, of course, the Alamo, all the all 269 00:15:55,920 --> 00:15:59,120 Speaker 7: the churches, all that stuff, and we end up handing 270 00:15:59,200 --> 00:16:01,480 Speaker 7: it with Santana where some kind of got captured and 271 00:16:01,520 --> 00:16:02,880 Speaker 7: that was the best thing in the world to see 272 00:16:02,960 --> 00:16:03,280 Speaker 7: my son. 273 00:16:03,680 --> 00:16:05,320 Speaker 4: I appreciate it, like I didn't. 274 00:16:07,200 --> 00:16:08,760 Speaker 1: Great called Jolophus. 275 00:16:11,720 --> 00:16:12,920 Speaker 4: The Michael Berry. 276 00:16:12,720 --> 00:16:16,000 Speaker 3: Show, and. 277 00:16:18,880 --> 00:16:21,560 Speaker 8: And Lauren, don't just sit over here singing. Why don't 278 00:16:21,560 --> 00:16:23,680 Speaker 8: you get up at once a while and serve somebody 279 00:16:23,880 --> 00:16:26,200 Speaker 8: as these ladies do. They want a Coca cola or something, 280 00:16:26,200 --> 00:16:27,920 Speaker 8: but don't get in that good stuff. Don't let him 281 00:16:27,920 --> 00:16:30,640 Speaker 8: in that cannet over yonderm how y'all doing. Listen, we're 282 00:16:30,640 --> 00:16:32,800 Speaker 8: gonna sing some moo Sama's girls. Put y'all here in 283 00:16:32,880 --> 00:16:33,520 Speaker 8: as then. 284 00:16:33,800 --> 00:16:35,840 Speaker 4: Damn no, you ain't gonna made me sing this here. 285 00:16:35,880 --> 00:16:37,320 Speaker 4: I ain't saying that's in school. 286 00:16:37,400 --> 00:16:38,080 Speaker 8: Shut up, that's how. 287 00:16:38,120 --> 00:16:40,240 Speaker 2: Don't know what the words to it is? Don't you 288 00:16:40,360 --> 00:16:41,000 Speaker 2: so ignorant? 289 00:16:41,120 --> 00:16:42,800 Speaker 8: This is the state song about the state. 290 00:16:43,520 --> 00:16:43,920 Speaker 4: Stupid. 291 00:16:44,320 --> 00:16:45,520 Speaker 7: Yeah, I got sang it over. 292 00:16:45,480 --> 00:16:53,760 Speaker 5: Hitches Hamker Texas IBA Texas is always be real nice 293 00:16:55,440 --> 00:17:02,479 Speaker 5: Texas Iba Texas Coffee Scumbo and rise. 294 00:17:04,040 --> 00:17:07,240 Speaker 3: Bow my pone author. 295 00:17:07,840 --> 00:17:13,280 Speaker 5: And stay all you kill Si. 296 00:17:14,760 --> 00:17:15,800 Speaker 2: I don't know your words. 297 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:24,280 Speaker 5: Yeah, real, real, real real nice, go head on TASiS, 298 00:17:25,240 --> 00:17:31,760 Speaker 5: you make an out days here lasting rests cheap and 299 00:17:32,040 --> 00:17:36,040 Speaker 5: until me and night you can stop and by you 300 00:17:36,400 --> 00:17:42,240 Speaker 5: up here send meeting simp the size. 301 00:17:43,640 --> 00:17:48,479 Speaker 3: Or exposed commercialized and money. 302 00:17:51,640 --> 00:17:54,480 Speaker 1: I'm sure trying Regan. 303 00:17:56,160 --> 00:17:58,280 Speaker 7: Shell have to love. 304 00:18:00,840 --> 00:18:01,080 Speaker 4: Show. 305 00:18:01,480 --> 00:18:05,080 Speaker 1: I got an email from Robert Rees, who there's two 306 00:18:05,119 --> 00:18:07,399 Speaker 1: guys that sell our show more than anybody. There's a 307 00:18:07,400 --> 00:18:09,520 Speaker 1: lot of people that sell our show. Two guys that 308 00:18:09,680 --> 00:18:15,240 Speaker 1: sell it the most, and it's it's Grant and Robert Rees. 309 00:18:16,280 --> 00:18:21,359 Speaker 1: And he sent an email that said, hey spoke to 310 00:18:21,880 --> 00:18:24,840 Speaker 1: the owner of this company's called Arched Cabins. Spoke to 311 00:18:24,920 --> 00:18:27,200 Speaker 1: the you think of the tiny houses, you know that's 312 00:18:27,240 --> 00:18:31,000 Speaker 1: the big movement now, the tiny houses. Well, listen, I'm 313 00:18:31,040 --> 00:18:33,960 Speaker 1: not a believer in government building tiny houses. I'm not 314 00:18:34,080 --> 00:18:36,800 Speaker 1: a believer in I'm not one of these people that 315 00:18:36,880 --> 00:18:38,719 Speaker 1: because it's a lot of white liberals get into these 316 00:18:38,720 --> 00:18:41,280 Speaker 1: tiny houses. But I happen to like them. I think 317 00:18:41,320 --> 00:18:44,120 Speaker 1: they're cool. And I like the idea because we've owned 318 00:18:44,160 --> 00:18:49,720 Speaker 1: property in Carmeene and Welder. I like the idea of, 319 00:18:50,160 --> 00:18:53,879 Speaker 1: you know, buying the Citadel on two ninety. They just 320 00:18:53,960 --> 00:18:57,320 Speaker 1: dropped the price on it remote and it's on forty 321 00:18:57,359 --> 00:18:57,800 Speaker 1: eight acres. 322 00:18:57,840 --> 00:18:58,760 Speaker 6: Maybe it's sixty eight acres. 323 00:18:58,760 --> 00:19:01,359 Speaker 1: I think it's forty eight acres. And it would ruin 324 00:19:01,440 --> 00:19:05,000 Speaker 1: the esthetic, but it would be so cool to put 325 00:19:05,040 --> 00:19:07,639 Speaker 1: a bunch of these little, tiny houses out there. So 326 00:19:07,960 --> 00:19:09,760 Speaker 1: I've always thought the tiny houses were cool. There's a 327 00:19:09,800 --> 00:19:15,000 Speaker 1: place outside of Gettings that does them. And you know, 328 00:19:15,200 --> 00:19:18,600 Speaker 1: if just to have a guest cottage, you know, not 329 00:19:18,720 --> 00:19:21,040 Speaker 1: your main house, to have a guest cotage that people 330 00:19:21,080 --> 00:19:23,600 Speaker 1: come and stay at night or even two and they 331 00:19:23,680 --> 00:19:26,439 Speaker 1: got their room and it just be perfect. So anyway, 332 00:19:26,920 --> 00:19:30,159 Speaker 1: Robert re sends me an email. So Darren Whittaker was 333 00:19:32,520 --> 00:19:37,639 Speaker 1: Uncle Jerry's director of sales for Liquid Assets, and he 334 00:19:37,800 --> 00:19:39,879 Speaker 1: was in a terrible fire and it burned him real 335 00:19:39,960 --> 00:19:44,000 Speaker 1: badly and he survived. It's amazing. Nobody else would have survived. 336 00:19:46,119 --> 00:19:50,200 Speaker 1: But everybody keeps up with Everybody loves Darren Whittaker. And 337 00:19:50,680 --> 00:19:57,360 Speaker 1: he said he put Robert onto this particular potential show sponsor. 338 00:19:57,760 --> 00:20:01,280 Speaker 1: He says, I know Michael loves these little houses and 339 00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:04,040 Speaker 1: it's called arched cabins. So Robert said, hey, what do 340 00:20:04,119 --> 00:20:06,600 Speaker 1: you think about this? I talked to the owner. He 341 00:20:06,720 --> 00:20:10,120 Speaker 1: wants to be a show sponsor. It's the people who 342 00:20:10,160 --> 00:20:13,600 Speaker 1: buy these things are retired folks with weekend ranches, Deer 343 00:20:13,680 --> 00:20:18,639 Speaker 1: Lisa's lake properties, beach property, and they want to place 344 00:20:19,200 --> 00:20:22,320 Speaker 1: on their second property where guests can come and stay 345 00:20:23,040 --> 00:20:28,639 Speaker 1: and they are amazing. It's a kit so you could have, 346 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:30,760 Speaker 1: you know, a Bert Harvey put it together for you, 347 00:20:31,520 --> 00:20:35,320 Speaker 1: or looks like you can do it yourself. And they're 348 00:20:35,359 --> 00:20:38,320 Speaker 1: pretty darned cool. And then people dress them up. It's 349 00:20:38,400 --> 00:20:41,200 Speaker 1: like a tiny home. So it's like it's like a 350 00:20:41,240 --> 00:20:43,840 Speaker 1: little you know how you see these little garages they 351 00:20:43,960 --> 00:20:46,440 Speaker 1: put you ever, well, you ever go up to Home 352 00:20:46,520 --> 00:20:51,040 Speaker 1: Depot or Low's and they got those little sheds out front. 353 00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:55,520 Speaker 1: You walk up to one of those and you think, 354 00:20:55,680 --> 00:20:59,520 Speaker 1: you know, I could use some more space to store junk, 355 00:20:59,560 --> 00:21:03,080 Speaker 1: because that's all you're gonna do. I use one, probably 356 00:21:03,080 --> 00:21:03,760 Speaker 1: two hundred dollars. 357 00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:04,040 Speaker 4: Huh. 358 00:21:04,200 --> 00:21:06,000 Speaker 1: I'll walk up here and check on it. Probably a 359 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:06,880 Speaker 1: couple hundred dollars. 360 00:21:07,359 --> 00:21:07,760 Speaker 4: I do it. 361 00:21:07,880 --> 00:21:09,680 Speaker 1: I put it out back. My wife will never know. 362 00:21:09,840 --> 00:21:12,240 Speaker 1: I'll put it behind the boys room where we smokeing 363 00:21:12,280 --> 00:21:13,119 Speaker 1: on I'll be it'll put some. 364 00:21:13,160 --> 00:21:13,879 Speaker 4: More junk in it. 365 00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:17,280 Speaker 1: And you go up there and it's like seven thousand dollars. 366 00:21:18,200 --> 00:21:23,200 Speaker 1: What is going on here? It's crazy? Who is paying that? 367 00:21:23,920 --> 00:21:29,960 Speaker 1: It's insane? Anyway, It's called Arched Cabins LLLC dot com 368 00:21:30,760 --> 00:21:33,520 Speaker 1: and they're cool as hell. Some of them are just 369 00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:35,679 Speaker 1: basic metal but some of them, they really dress them 370 00:21:35,760 --> 00:21:40,480 Speaker 1: up to look like an architectural just amazing. But the pricing, 371 00:21:41,920 --> 00:21:45,720 Speaker 1: I always tell people who become show sponsors, I don't 372 00:21:45,760 --> 00:21:48,960 Speaker 1: want show sponsors who compete on lowest price because you 373 00:21:49,040 --> 00:21:51,399 Speaker 1: don't actually want the customer. Believe it or not, I 374 00:21:51,520 --> 00:21:54,159 Speaker 1: have to explain this bit. The customer who is the 375 00:21:54,320 --> 00:21:58,080 Speaker 1: most price conscious is the worst customer. That's the guy 376 00:21:58,400 --> 00:22:00,760 Speaker 1: that will that will knit pick you to dad. 377 00:22:01,400 --> 00:22:01,920 Speaker 6: That is not. 378 00:22:02,359 --> 00:22:04,080 Speaker 1: And I know people that have a lot of money, 379 00:22:04,200 --> 00:22:06,840 Speaker 1: I mean a lot of money, and it's a thrill 380 00:22:06,960 --> 00:22:09,359 Speaker 1: to them to get the cheapest deal. And that's fine, 381 00:22:09,800 --> 00:22:12,840 Speaker 1: there's nothing wrong with that being the case. But I'm 382 00:22:12,880 --> 00:22:15,280 Speaker 1: telling you, as a business owner, you don't want that. 383 00:22:15,480 --> 00:22:17,480 Speaker 1: At the RCC, when people would come up and complain 384 00:22:17,480 --> 00:22:20,800 Speaker 1: about our crisis, I would say, I completely understand. I'm 385 00:22:20,840 --> 00:22:22,399 Speaker 1: not sure why you paid for it, but here's what 386 00:22:22,440 --> 00:22:24,480 Speaker 1: I'm gonna do. You put it on your credit card. 387 00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:28,200 Speaker 1: I'm a zero out that charge and please don't come back. 388 00:22:28,920 --> 00:22:31,399 Speaker 1: Ah but I know it's my favorite place in the world. Well, 389 00:22:31,440 --> 00:22:34,399 Speaker 1: why are you bitching about your favorite place? I just 390 00:22:34,560 --> 00:22:35,000 Speaker 1: like the bitch. 391 00:22:35,160 --> 00:22:35,320 Speaker 4: I know. 392 00:22:35,720 --> 00:22:37,720 Speaker 1: I don't like people that bitch you liked the bitch. 393 00:22:37,800 --> 00:22:40,160 Speaker 1: I don't like people that bitch, So the best thing 394 00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:42,080 Speaker 1: for us is we part ways right now. Because I 395 00:22:42,520 --> 00:22:44,840 Speaker 1: did not come over here in a place I lose 396 00:22:44,960 --> 00:22:47,000 Speaker 1: money on that. I do because I love to do 397 00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:49,760 Speaker 1: to hear you bitch, because you enjoy bitching, Go get 398 00:22:49,800 --> 00:22:53,760 Speaker 1: a therapist or a dog or something right, an alligator something. 399 00:22:54,680 --> 00:22:58,159 Speaker 1: A fellow named Charlie Wiggins wrote me an email said, Hey, Zar, 400 00:22:58,320 --> 00:23:01,639 Speaker 1: this is Charlie Wiggins from Boma. I've been wanting to 401 00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:03,560 Speaker 1: write you for some time, but I'm probably the world's 402 00:23:03,600 --> 00:23:07,320 Speaker 1: worst enjoying the world's worse at typing out emails. But 403 00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:10,760 Speaker 1: when I do, it's because there is a need. My 404 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:13,040 Speaker 1: need is to let you know how much I enjoy 405 00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:15,160 Speaker 1: listening to your show every morning while driving to work. 406 00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:19,440 Speaker 1: I retired from Jefferson County in twenty twelve as Constable 407 00:23:19,480 --> 00:23:22,840 Speaker 1: of Precinct one. During my tenure there, I had the 408 00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:24,760 Speaker 1: pleasure of knowing your brother Chris, and what a great 409 00:23:24,800 --> 00:23:27,359 Speaker 1: guy he was. I and many of our colleagues were 410 00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:30,240 Speaker 1: very saddened with his passing. I know you were blessed 411 00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:31,800 Speaker 1: to have him, and he was so blessed to have you. 412 00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:35,919 Speaker 1: I've been to work since twenty eighteen as a deputy 413 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:39,560 Speaker 1: working for Constable Bobby Adams in Precinct seven. Thank you 414 00:23:39,640 --> 00:23:41,280 Speaker 1: again for doing what you do in all support that 415 00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:43,439 Speaker 1: you give to law enforcement. It means a lot to us. 416 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:45,880 Speaker 1: I hope to actually meet you in person one day. 417 00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:49,920 Speaker 1: Keep up the good work, Charlie Wiggins. I got that 418 00:23:50,040 --> 00:23:53,760 Speaker 1: email yesterday, but I could not read it yesterday. I 419 00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:57,920 Speaker 1: needed a day to process. But I read it today 420 00:23:59,080 --> 00:24:02,760 Speaker 1: to tell you that during the next break, take two 421 00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:10,760 Speaker 1: minutes and call somebody the wife, the widow of a 422 00:24:10,880 --> 00:24:11,639 Speaker 1: man who died. 423 00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:12,240 Speaker 4: Who was your friend? 424 00:24:12,760 --> 00:24:17,760 Speaker 1: Are the widower ladies of your girlfriend to her husband? 425 00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:20,600 Speaker 1: And y'all were girlfriends since y'all were in high school, 426 00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:22,600 Speaker 1: and she was your running buddy, and you remember when 427 00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:24,760 Speaker 1: he proposed to her, and she told you all about it, 428 00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:27,520 Speaker 1: and she was your best girlfriend of them all. And 429 00:24:28,480 --> 00:24:30,080 Speaker 1: by the way, I get emails every time I say 430 00:24:30,119 --> 00:24:32,800 Speaker 1: that my mother referred to her friends who were girls 431 00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:35,639 Speaker 1: as girlfriends. I don't know why people think that's a 432 00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:39,000 Speaker 1: lesbian term, because it's not in my mother's generation, which 433 00:24:39,080 --> 00:24:42,240 Speaker 1: is the language I use. Your girlfriend was your best friend, 434 00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:44,760 Speaker 1: who was your girl? If you were a girl, but 435 00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:47,439 Speaker 1: people don't do that because they go, well, it'll upset them, 436 00:24:47,520 --> 00:24:52,560 Speaker 1: and well, it'll bringing up that name. That person is 437 00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:55,280 Speaker 1: already thinking about the person that they missed. It's nice 438 00:24:55,320 --> 00:24:59,680 Speaker 1: to know someone else's as well. King, Well, something must 439 00:24:59,720 --> 00:25:00,199 Speaker 1: be right. 440 00:25:00,520 --> 00:25:10,840 Speaker 6: You are listening to Michael Berry. Order order representative Green, 441 00:25:11,440 --> 00:25:17,840 Speaker 6: Order representative Green. I am asking you to leave the river. No, sir, 442 00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:19,359 Speaker 6: we're taking you to the loft. 443 00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:23,840 Speaker 4: Yeah. 444 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:25,840 Speaker 6: Well, sir, you are going to be sad because you 445 00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:38,320 Speaker 6: should have sat down. I'm a man, that's it getting 446 00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:39,000 Speaker 6: him out. 447 00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:44,359 Speaker 1: You know, we got the wrong green. 448 00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:46,240 Speaker 8: Let me. 449 00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:48,720 Speaker 7: The one you. 450 00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:55,400 Speaker 4: Bill. 451 00:25:55,480 --> 00:25:59,640 Speaker 1: You're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, sir, Hey. 452 00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:01,879 Speaker 2: Michael, I was going to tell you there was been 453 00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:05,560 Speaker 2: a bit more about that. Placio del Rio. The hotel 454 00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:09,160 Speaker 2: had to be open for Hemisphere, and they were still 455 00:26:09,240 --> 00:26:12,600 Speaker 2: building on it. Actually, some floored were actually occupied due 456 00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:16,760 Speaker 2: to those stacked in rooms. It was amazing and Zachary 457 00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:19,000 Speaker 2: was the only one that took the contract because the 458 00:26:19,080 --> 00:26:21,879 Speaker 2: other contractors refused they didn't think they could make the 459 00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:26,159 Speaker 2: opening date. He won millions and in side bets on 460 00:26:26,440 --> 00:26:29,800 Speaker 2: being able to complete the hotel and one more thing. 461 00:26:30,119 --> 00:26:32,560 Speaker 2: In nineteen sixty five, I had a beer bar in 462 00:26:32,720 --> 00:26:36,960 Speaker 2: San Antonio and Doug Some and Sir Douglas Quintet with 463 00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:40,600 Speaker 2: my house band. I loved what was you bar? 464 00:26:40,760 --> 00:26:43,560 Speaker 4: Name the Blue Note. 465 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:47,159 Speaker 1: I'm going to look it up. I bet that if 466 00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:49,160 Speaker 1: that was your house band, there's going to be things 467 00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:52,399 Speaker 1: written about it. That's very interesting. 468 00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:54,399 Speaker 7: Yeah it was. 469 00:26:54,560 --> 00:26:58,600 Speaker 2: It was out there on McCullough and San Pedro. I 470 00:26:58,640 --> 00:27:02,040 Speaker 2: can't remember now it's spent your damn low but right 471 00:27:02,080 --> 00:27:05,920 Speaker 2: at Hillebrand and it's that whole area has now been 472 00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:10,960 Speaker 2: turned into a a barbecue restaurant, that whole block. It's 473 00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:14,600 Speaker 2: it's one of the ben a many many over there. 474 00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:20,280 Speaker 1: How interesting. Yeah, San and Tone as a tourist city 475 00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:27,000 Speaker 1: has had a transformation. And I don't want to say 476 00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:29,359 Speaker 1: it's a bad thing, because you sound like such a 477 00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:33,080 Speaker 1: hipster to do that, but I guess I do sort 478 00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:35,119 Speaker 1: of miss the sand and Tone I grew up with, 479 00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:37,879 Speaker 1: you know that that we would drive to, and the 480 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:41,040 Speaker 1: sleepy little town with the great history. But I will 481 00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:44,960 Speaker 1: say this, pulling pulling out of the Valencia and heading 482 00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:50,639 Speaker 1: to our station in San Antone last last week, it 483 00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:55,200 Speaker 1: was interesting to me. Not usually, it reminded me it's 484 00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:59,040 Speaker 1: one of my favorite downtowns in the whole world. It's 485 00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:02,080 Speaker 1: it's such a wonderful little downtown and it's such a 486 00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:05,840 Speaker 1: unique downtown. You know, when I walk along the Quarter 487 00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:13,720 Speaker 1: in New Orleans, I feel a feeling that you're in 488 00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:18,680 Speaker 1: a special place. And by the way, San Francisco, when 489 00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:22,280 Speaker 1: you walk along in San Francisco, you're in a special place. 490 00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:28,120 Speaker 1: And and there aren't so many in America today special 491 00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:32,280 Speaker 1: places in terms of architecture and the feel and the 492 00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:35,000 Speaker 1: vibe and all that that is that is unique. There's 493 00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:39,040 Speaker 1: there's kind of this national or even global just sort 494 00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:42,440 Speaker 1: of here's the Strip Center. Here's the same set of 495 00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:45,840 Speaker 1: shops that's going to be in there, with maybe one 496 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:51,240 Speaker 1: independent Vietnamese nail salon and maybe a local hair salon, 497 00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:52,720 Speaker 1: and that's and the rest is all going to just 498 00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:55,800 Speaker 1: be those same cookie cutter franchises. But when you're in 499 00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:59,200 Speaker 1: downtown San anton there is a whole there's a whole 500 00:28:59,280 --> 00:29:02,160 Speaker 1: feeling to it. And you know you've got You've got 501 00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:05,240 Speaker 1: the Alamo, and then you got these built. There was 502 00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:08,320 Speaker 1: a Walgreen sign, it was a Neon sign on the 503 00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:12,040 Speaker 1: corner just a block away from Valencia and I'm turning left, 504 00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:16,600 Speaker 1: I can't remember what street. As I'm turning left, I 505 00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:18,520 Speaker 1: got honked out by the guy behind me. I had 506 00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:21,400 Speaker 1: become that person because I was staring at the Walgreen 507 00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:23,320 Speaker 1: sign for so long. It was the old sign that 508 00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:25,400 Speaker 1: comes out off the building, you know what I'm talking about, 509 00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:29,240 Speaker 1: in the green and reddish, and it was just, oh, 510 00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:32,920 Speaker 1: it felt so good. It felt so good. These old 511 00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:37,520 Speaker 1: buildings untouched. The old Crockett Hotel. We always took a 512 00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:39,480 Speaker 1: picture of the Crocket Hotel with the boys because I 513 00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:41,440 Speaker 1: took my boys to the Alamo. 514 00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:41,760 Speaker 6: Romo. 515 00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:45,280 Speaker 1: Yeah, I took my boys to the Alamo. They learned 516 00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:47,040 Speaker 1: the story of the Alamo when they were young enough 517 00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:48,960 Speaker 1: that they would still revere it. And now it's burned 518 00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:53,520 Speaker 1: into their DNA, it's baked in. But you, this is 519 00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:56,520 Speaker 1: really this has been a this has really been a 520 00:29:57,760 --> 00:30:00,320 Speaker 1: revelation that you haven't taken your kids to the Alm. 521 00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:03,360 Speaker 1: I'll do a GoFundMe for you on this. If we've 522 00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:07,160 Speaker 1: got to good our gifts, send go. Let's go to Chuck. Chuck, 523 00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:08,160 Speaker 1: you're on the Michael Berry Show. 524 00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:12,080 Speaker 4: Go ahead, sir, Good morning, sir. Hey, I'd like to 525 00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:15,400 Speaker 4: point out, please we have a window of opportunity for 526 00:30:15,560 --> 00:30:18,920 Speaker 4: businesses and to bring back manufacturing and so forth. Sir, 527 00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:23,720 Speaker 4: Dark Country, these tariffs at a more level business playing field. 528 00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:27,240 Speaker 4: That should like to put a plea out man with 529 00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:35,280 Speaker 4: our businesses, our opportunities. Please please reconsider expanding hiring during 530 00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:36,200 Speaker 4: this wonderful time. 531 00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:42,400 Speaker 1: Good point, ma man. I'm going to go ahead and 532 00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:46,240 Speaker 1: say it, because apparently the Wall Street Journal doesn't understand it. 533 00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:53,240 Speaker 1: People are panicked over the tariffs and it's caused. It 534 00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:56,280 Speaker 1: caused a momentary panic in the market, and we're going 535 00:30:56,320 --> 00:30:58,440 Speaker 1: to see more of that. By the way, So the 536 00:30:58,520 --> 00:31:01,000 Speaker 1: tariff's going into a fact, goes on hold right now. 537 00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:04,520 Speaker 1: Twenty five percent is a punitive tariff. There's no doubt 538 00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:07,880 Speaker 1: about that. These tariffs, if they stayed in effact for 539 00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:13,480 Speaker 1: ten years, they would reconfigure the playing field. There would 540 00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:18,160 Speaker 1: be winners and losers created out of these tariffs. And 541 00:31:18,240 --> 00:31:20,640 Speaker 1: the Wall Street Journal is decrying this as the end 542 00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:22,920 Speaker 1: of the world. Economy is going to collapse and everything. 543 00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:29,120 Speaker 1: This is the art of the deal. This is a negotiation. Okay, 544 00:31:30,520 --> 00:31:38,120 Speaker 1: Let the tariffs run. Trump has to show Mexico, Canada, 545 00:31:38,320 --> 00:31:41,600 Speaker 1: and China individually, and China's going to be the hardest. 546 00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:45,080 Speaker 1: He has to show them that this is not an 547 00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:49,080 Speaker 1: empty threat. He has to show them that the tariffs 548 00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:52,320 Speaker 1: will go into effect and they will stay in effect. 549 00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:57,400 Speaker 1: And what China in particular is doing is working behind 550 00:31:57,440 --> 00:32:00,280 Speaker 1: the scenes to get the Democrats to say, the refs 551 00:32:00,280 --> 00:32:03,360 Speaker 1: are going to destroy America. Everyone's gonna die. You didn't 552 00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:05,480 Speaker 1: vote for this, And so they keep putting these people 553 00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:09,360 Speaker 1: on TV and they go, here's a farmer in Nebraska 554 00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:13,320 Speaker 1: and he voted for Trump, but he sure doesn't. Won't 555 00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:15,040 Speaker 1: these these tariffs? 556 00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:15,680 Speaker 4: Do you? 557 00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:19,440 Speaker 1: No, I don't. And he's got some accent like a 558 00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:21,960 Speaker 1: New Yorker was put on the cast of Hethu and said, 559 00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:25,520 Speaker 1: just talk to the heell billies. It's very annoying and 560 00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:29,040 Speaker 1: it's not legitimates, not authentic, and we see through it. 561 00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:37,760 Speaker 1: The tariffs are a tool to whip into shape Canada, Mexico, 562 00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:40,040 Speaker 1: and China to do what we want them to do. 563 00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:44,440 Speaker 1: That includes, but is not limited to securing our northern 564 00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:48,760 Speaker 1: and southern borders, and with China, it's a number of things. 565 00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:54,000 Speaker 1: And Trump has that tool, that that arrow in his quiver. 566 00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:58,000 Speaker 1: But if he doesn't employ it, he can't get out 567 00:32:58,040 --> 00:33:00,800 Speaker 1: of these nations. What we need for anybody who says 568 00:33:00,840 --> 00:33:02,680 Speaker 1: this is the Michael. You say you don't want the 569 00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:05,680 Speaker 1: government involved in the economy, but this is the government 570 00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:08,840 Speaker 1: getting involved. Well yeah, but the problem is the government 571 00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:12,160 Speaker 1: is already so involved. What you're taking as the status 572 00:33:12,280 --> 00:33:16,640 Speaker 1: quo was created over many years of bad governmental policies, 573 00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:20,560 Speaker 1: so it's unfortunately going to take. You can't just undo 574 00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:25,680 Speaker 1: what was done overnight because Mexico, Canada, and China don't 575 00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:28,560 Speaker 1: want to renegotiate their deal with us. They got a 576 00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:31,200 Speaker 1: good deal. Like Jerry Klower's wife, you know, she can 577 00:33:31,280 --> 00:33:34,240 Speaker 1: have her breakfast wherever she wants, and she can you know, 578 00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:36,520 Speaker 1: drive her Cadillac wherever she wants. And he tells the 579 00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:43,720 Speaker 1: she coun don't mess with the deal mama's got. Send 580 00:33:43,760 --> 00:33:45,080 Speaker 1: me an email if you want to join us at 581 00:33:45,120 --> 00:33:45,880 Speaker 1: three for the meet up