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Speaker 1: Verie Show is on the air. Paul Jacob the Third.

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Speaker 2: Is the owner and pitmaster of Jacob's J. A. C. O. S.

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Speaker 2: Barbecue in Hiram Clark just south of the Astrodome or

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Speaker 2: Energy Stadium. Y'all need to understand that even when they

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Speaker 2: tear the astrodome down, I'm still going to refer to

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Speaker 2: that as the astronaut the Energy said it would.

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Speaker 1: Just be That's just what I'll call it.

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Speaker 2: They were hit multiple times by bad guys overnight and

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Speaker 2: stealing their brisket of all things Cardinal sin. They've also

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Speaker 2: busted up, banged up and messed with the gate. Paul, I,

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Speaker 2: I'm going to put the word out for somebody to

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Speaker 2: come out and donate the repair and or replacement of

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Speaker 2: your gate so we can get a good quality gate there,

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Speaker 2: or pick up the expense for your guy to do it,

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Speaker 2: whatever you desire and we'll work that out. Do you

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Speaker 2: need to close that door or put your seat belt?

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Speaker 1: Tome?

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Speaker 3: Uh?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm good, I'm good. I'm listening to your tam. Mike.

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Speaker 1: That's uh, what are you doing? I don't I don't

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Speaker 1: have words right now what are you doing, sir, I'm

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Speaker 1: going back and forth from the store and the pit.

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Speaker 2: So jim So, my creative director, called the store and

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Speaker 2: Martha answered, does she go into the to the to

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Speaker 2: the store before she goes.

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Speaker 1: To work delivering? Now, yes, sir, that's the keeper there.

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Speaker 3: She's one of the hardest working Yeah. Oh man, she's

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Speaker 3: one of the hardest working women.

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Speaker 1: I know. That's why I can't stop. As long as

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Speaker 1: she going, I'm going to continue to go. You'll got

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Speaker 1: kid woman, you know we did, sir. We Uh. We

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Speaker 1: have a daughter that just graduated college Texas State. Uh.

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Speaker 3: She's working at the restaurant. Okay, what's her name, helping

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Speaker 3: us until she uh.

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Speaker 1: Amaya Jacob okay Amaya Jacob.

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Speaker 2: Well, until she's good. Why can't she stay at the

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Speaker 1: Well, I mean that's up to her. I don't you know.

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Speaker 1: I don't force anything on the kids. You know, I

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Speaker 1: want them to do what makes them happy, right, and

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Speaker 1: I don't want to, you know, interfere with their their goals,

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Speaker 2: I love going into the family restaurant. LEVI I good

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Speaker 2: good friend of mine.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 2: He took over for his for his father, Jim Good

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Speaker 2: and has done extraordinarily well. And you see this with families.

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Speaker 2: I love that idea. You know, lots of families used

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Speaker 2: to do that, but then the kids went off to

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Speaker 2: college and thought they got they were too good to

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Speaker 2: work for for the family business. I'm not saying that's

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Speaker 2: that's a Mayas situation. I notice your brisket is twenty

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Speaker 2: eight dollars a pound, which is kind of consistent with

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Speaker 2: with you know, the Inner Loop barbecue joints a little

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Speaker 2: a pound, which is much lower than other folks. If

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Speaker 2: you order for twenty five or more, what is the

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Speaker 1: Well, we do it by person, right, because we do

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Speaker 3: We do a lot of catering. Moosse folks. Normally it's

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Speaker 1: Okay, but that's just that's that's what we're.

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Speaker 3: Doing different than other restaurants because a lot of the

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Speaker 3: other restaurants I think are overpriced, right, you know, I

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Speaker 3: mean maybe I need to get like them.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. Mister Barry. But I'm trying to be different.

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to make it.

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Speaker 3: You know, we're a blue follow worker who is making

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Speaker 3: you know, forty five fifty thousand dollars coming Fetus family.

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Speaker 3: You know some some of the best barbecue, according to

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Speaker 3: what thousands of people have told me, you know, can

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Speaker 3: get some delicious food for their family at a reasonable price.

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Speaker 3: We just went up on our brisket maybe two months

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Speaker 1: Where are you from? But we're still so Nicodemus, Kansas

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Speaker 1: Western Kansas. Sir, you got collared greens on the menu.

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Speaker 2: I hope you're using Martha's uh recipe because y'a don't

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Speaker 2: know anything about collared greens in Nicodemus, Kansas.

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Speaker 1: That's Marthaville. Is that Marthaville is the macan cheese and

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Speaker 2: How would you describe her potato salad? I'm not a

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Speaker 3: it's an amazing potato salad that we saw a lot of.

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Speaker 3: All our sides, I mean every last one, the mac

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Speaker 1: When when when the Food Network came out last year

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Speaker 3: Food Truck Wars was filmed here in Houston that that week.

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Speaker 3: They their crew is a crew of about thirty two

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Speaker 3: people ate at our restaurant every single day. Other people

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Speaker 1: Single side to them. What they said was award winning

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Speaker 3: So when I say there's a lot of love put

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Speaker 2: So what I'm going to charge, what I'm going to

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Speaker 2: challenge our listeners to do, uh, is to stop in

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Speaker 1: And our listeners will do it. I know they will.

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Speaker 2: I think it's perfect because we get to honor our

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Speaker 1: I've received several emails.

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Speaker 2: I'll ask you for a contact here in a minute

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Speaker 2: off air. Several emails from folks saying that they want

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Speaker 2: you to cater their company. I don't know how many

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Speaker 1: But I think this is a Our.

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Speaker 2: Listeners are very good at boycotts. Aren't fund A buycott

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Speaker 1: Hold on just a moment, Jacob's.

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Speaker 2: Barbecue, Jaco, or you can email me and we'll work

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Speaker 4: Lucky you. The Michael Berry Show continues, where.

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Speaker 1: The clock says it's time blood.

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Speaker 2: So hard to run a small business. You know this

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Speaker 1: You got all that.

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Speaker 2: Then you got to put all the equipment. Anyone believe

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Speaker 2: Know, as he said, the permits, the signs, all of

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Speaker 2: The company would come in sharpen your knives. I said,

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Speaker 2: that what you did, Paul? You turned people away when

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Speaker 1: Oh you lost him?

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Speaker 2: You thought we were done with him? The hell?

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Speaker 1: I did all that intro and then I got no guests.

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Speaker 1: What you found it interesting?

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Speaker 2: Did you write his number down? Okay, we'll call him back.

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Speaker 1: What the hell between you and my wife? I don't

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Speaker 2: Yes, say, I got mad because.

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Speaker 2: So walk me through. Let's again, these are short answers.

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Speaker 2: Site selection. How did you pick that site?

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Speaker 1: This particular site.

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Speaker 3: Was close to where my wife was raised and her

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Speaker 2: What church did she grow up in? Remus, writes church.

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Speaker 2: Jimmy Swaggers would do that.

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Speaker 2: It's an old tradition, I'm sure, but I had not

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Speaker 1: We're leasing. We're leasing here and we have two options

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Speaker 1: We've already received our.

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Speaker 2: This is the Michael Berry Show. Why I'm behind on

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Speaker 2: But I saw the first one that came in during

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Speaker 1: Cover it that day. Paul. So let's go through you.

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Speaker 1: You secured the site? How long?

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Speaker 2: But from that time to when you open the doors?

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Speaker 1: The time did I secure the site? Yeah? How much done?

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Speaker 3: This is a takeout. This is not a sit down restaurant.

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Speaker 1: That's how you're.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely. But I was just reached out to yesterday. A

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Speaker 2: Do you have any picnic tables out front?

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Speaker 3: Man, I don't have any picnic tables out front unfortunately

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Speaker 1: When did you get in here?

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Speaker 3: I'm like, man, we're barely uh, we're barely uh you know,

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Speaker 3: We don't have sweet tea, but we have a pool

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Speaker 1: White people don't take kool aid. Hey, man, you'll be surprised.

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Speaker 2: Let me tell you why. Craig Joseph and this is

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Speaker 2: and I'd say, Craig, what are you doing with hogs Mall?

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Speaker 2: White people don't want to hogs Mall?

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Speaker 1: And he said, you'd be surprised, Michael.

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Speaker 2: Me. They come in here and they want to try it.

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Speaker 2: They want to try chitlings. They want to try hogs

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Speaker 2: Somebody out there, how much room do you have? How

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Speaker 3: I mean well, I mean, you know for right now,

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Speaker 1: You just kind of walk, hey can I join you on?

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Speaker 1: Anybody you know exactly.

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Speaker 3: You know, I'm looking, I'm going to got me walking

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you know, somebody's gonna email me on the

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Speaker 2: show through the website Michael Berryshow dot com and bring

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Speaker 2: you by at one four, one five to one. Hiram

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Speaker 2: sure you want me to send that to all the officers.

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Speaker 3: Tell him he had two officers, He had two offers

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Speaker 1: One of them got a bottle of rub and the other.

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Speaker 3: They all they were sampling brisket and one officer said,

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Speaker 3: We all we all chuggled when he said that. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: Well, it's my goal that we be able to feed

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Speaker 1: That's awesome, Paul. You know it's funny.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes out of bad things, good things can happen, and

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Speaker 1: But our listeners are so amazing. I think about Elbert Wood.

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Speaker 2: I think about all the things they built the RCC

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Speaker 2: let me pitch in and help this guy out. That'd

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Speaker 2: be nice. Let me pitch in and help this guy out.

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Speaker 2: That'll be nice. So yes, and maybe another location pops

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Speaker 2: He's been there for fifty three fifty fifty three years.

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Speaker 2: He married the daughter of the owner. Are like in

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Speaker 2: a bakery on the square in a great old town

438
00:23:14,920 --> 00:23:19,359
Speaker 2: that's growing and blossoming. It's perfect for somebody. It's just

439
00:23:19,640 --> 00:23:25,400
Speaker 2: you got to find that, right, young, Yes indeed, right, yeah, yes, indeed. Well, Paul,

440
00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:29,240
Speaker 2: I wish you the absolute best you and and Martha

441
00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:33,600
Speaker 2: and Amaya and Paul the fourth and I'll be in touch.

442
00:23:34,040 --> 00:23:35,920
Speaker 2: I don't know how often you check your email. Probably

443
00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:41,120
Speaker 2: not because you have uh, barbecue sauce. Okay, So I'll

444
00:23:41,119 --> 00:23:43,359
Speaker 2: be going to afford these folks along. And if you

445
00:23:43,359 --> 00:23:46,840
Speaker 2: would respond to them. Our people are not time wisters.

446
00:23:46,840 --> 00:23:49,000
Speaker 2: So if they say they're going to buy something, uh,

447
00:23:49,080 --> 00:23:51,360
Speaker 2: they're going to buy. And let's see if we can't

448
00:23:51,400 --> 00:23:53,080
Speaker 2: help you guys out, keep working hard and doing the

449
00:23:53,160 --> 00:23:53,560
Speaker 2: right thing.

450
00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:56,000
Speaker 1: Pleasure to talk to you. Thank you so much.

451
00:23:56,040 --> 00:24:00,280
Speaker 3: Mike Burry, I bluff date there.

452
00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:05,040
Speaker 4: Prepare for a complete meltdown with more of the Michael

453
00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:06,320
Speaker 4: Berry Show.

454
00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:14,080
Speaker 2: All right, I'm doing the first thousand, about second thousand,

455
00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:18,640
Speaker 2: Lewis flore at Ability Tree Services, bringing by five hundred bucks.

456
00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:21,120
Speaker 2: I'm doing a thousand. I know we'll have some other

457
00:24:21,160 --> 00:24:27,280
Speaker 2: folks who want to contribute. Swing by there and drop

458
00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:29,920
Speaker 2: off your check and take a photo with Paul. Make

459
00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:31,920
Speaker 2: sure he knows who you are and why you're there,

460
00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:35,520
Speaker 2: and that you're supporting him, and we'll put this these

461
00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:39,280
Speaker 2: cases of thievery at his restaurant behind him. You know,

462
00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:42,560
Speaker 2: you get down when you're a small business owner. I

463
00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:45,760
Speaker 2: never made my living off the RCC, but you get down,

464
00:24:46,840 --> 00:24:50,280
Speaker 2: you get really down. By the way, that first fifteen hundred,

465
00:24:50,320 --> 00:24:52,240
Speaker 2: five hundred from lowis in one thousand for me is

466
00:24:52,280 --> 00:24:57,280
Speaker 2: for police officers. So Captain Holliday at Southeast Station and

467
00:24:57,600 --> 00:25:01,000
Speaker 2: all the Southeast officers there. You guys, make sure you

468
00:25:01,040 --> 00:25:04,040
Speaker 2: go buy in any other law enforcement, not just HPD

469
00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:07,440
Speaker 2: sheriff's deputies. Now, when the money runs out, the money

470
00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:10,120
Speaker 2: runs out. I can't ask the restaurant to feed you free.

471
00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:12,720
Speaker 2: They took enough of a loss from these last two hits.

472
00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:15,439
Speaker 2: But first one is there and they open at eleven,

473
00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:17,639
Speaker 2: and hopefully I'll get some other folks to tell me

474
00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:18,960
Speaker 2: they're going to contribute and.

475
00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:22,639
Speaker 1: Will be in good shape. I'd like to run them

476
00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:23,359
Speaker 1: out of barbecue.

477
00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:25,800
Speaker 2: You know that's the model, right, that's the model for

478
00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:30,679
Speaker 2: bakeries and barbecue is you know, you make all this

479
00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:33,439
Speaker 2: food before anybody comes in, and then it rains supposed

480
00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:35,560
Speaker 2: to rain all day till noon today, but it's not

481
00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:38,800
Speaker 2: really rain. It's wet out there. But anyway, you got

482
00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:41,960
Speaker 2: to anticipate your par levels. And that's very difficult because

483
00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:46,040
Speaker 2: you got spoilage. Bakery business. That's a tough part, man.

484
00:25:46,680 --> 00:25:49,040
Speaker 2: You know, I've watched people get so angry they go

485
00:25:49,119 --> 00:25:53,320
Speaker 2: into a bakery or a barbecue and they're out of something.

486
00:25:54,640 --> 00:26:00,280
Speaker 1: How entitled do you have to be? How entitled you

487
00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:00,639
Speaker 1: have to be?

488
00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:03,880
Speaker 2: Or show up when the restaurant is closed, say restaurant

489
00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:06,880
Speaker 2: close at nine, Bang on the door, I'm here, I'm here.

490
00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:09,760
Speaker 2: Treat me like I'm in. You're not important. The customer

491
00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:13,520
Speaker 2: is not always right. They've already mopped all that. It

492
00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:16,240
Speaker 2: took them an hour and a half to clean that restaurant.

493
00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:19,920
Speaker 2: But I'm the customer. Get lost. Customers like you are

494
00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:23,800
Speaker 2: the nightmare of owning a business. And I'll say it,

495
00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:26,399
Speaker 2: other people won't because it comes off as arrogant. You

496
00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:29,280
Speaker 2: know who else will say it. Ricky Bobby, Ricky Craig

497
00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:32,879
Speaker 2: at Hubcap Grill, he puts signs up. If you're in

498
00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:34,760
Speaker 2: a hurry, there's a water burger down the street that

499
00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:37,000
Speaker 2: we ain't that kind of place. If you came here,

500
00:26:37,119 --> 00:26:41,120
Speaker 2: drink cup of beers, eat a burger, have some fries,

501
00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:46,040
Speaker 2: relax and calm down a minute. If you did that,

502
00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:48,520
Speaker 2: then we're your right place. But we're not here to

503
00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:50,440
Speaker 2: be yelled at. You're not gonna yell at my staff.

504
00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:52,600
Speaker 2: And people need to check themselves.

505
00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:54,440
Speaker 1: Not y'all. I know you're not that kind of person,

506
00:26:54,520 --> 00:26:55,639
Speaker 1: but you see those kind of people.

507
00:26:56,600 --> 00:26:59,480
Speaker 2: They go in so demanding, like I'm giving my money

508
00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:01,760
Speaker 2: to somebody, so I get to boss them around and

509
00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:04,040
Speaker 2: they have to they have to be my slave. No,

510
00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:07,280
Speaker 2: that is not how it works. Ramon, Who among our

511
00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:11,240
Speaker 2: friends would be most likely to deliver three picnic tables

512
00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:13,520
Speaker 2: to Paul at J COB's barbecue?

513
00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:14,160
Speaker 1: Who a, mom?

514
00:27:14,680 --> 00:27:16,919
Speaker 2: The people, We don't think on that. Think on that

515
00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:21,000
Speaker 2: for a second. So my friend Michael Robinson, the Aggie plumber,

516
00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:27,879
Speaker 2: what mattress Matt He probably has some picnic tables and

517
00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:32,320
Speaker 2: he's got box trucks. Holy smacks. How do you think

518
00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:34,400
Speaker 2: on that level it's so fat because you have anything

519
00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:37,960
Speaker 2: else to do? Okay, yeah, I bet you, Mattress. I'm

520
00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:43,600
Speaker 2: pretty sure he has picnic tables out front. I'm trying

521
00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:46,840
Speaker 2: to think. You know, when you walk up, I feel

522
00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:49,560
Speaker 2: like there's picnic tepl there's some kind of seating right there,

523
00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:51,880
Speaker 2: because kind of like a food truck. You know, if

524
00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:54,240
Speaker 2: you just have a place to rest your legs for

525
00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:57,680
Speaker 2: a minute in each barbecue, you know, that's really all

526
00:27:57,680 --> 00:27:59,440
Speaker 2: you need. You want to know what's on the menu.

527
00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:02,240
Speaker 1: I know you do. I know you do.

528
00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:05,920
Speaker 2: You got brisket, mac and cheese, dirty rice, green beans,

529
00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:08,840
Speaker 2: potato salad, baked beans, collared greens dressed. Let me tell

530
00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:12,960
Speaker 2: you something, Roman, this is an admirable story. This fella's

531
00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:15,600
Speaker 2: he's got it. He's got it down real simple. There's

532
00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:18,760
Speaker 2: no pork ribs, there's no chicken. I like barbecue. Che's

533
00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:20,960
Speaker 2: my favore. Barbecue is barbecue chicken. People don't appreciate how

534
00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:25,640
Speaker 2: to good barbecue chicken is. Yeah, he only has Let's

535
00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:27,480
Speaker 2: see what he's got on the catering minion. I guess

536
00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:30,840
Speaker 2: the catering menu because it's prepaid. No, he's keeping it simple.

537
00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:35,560
Speaker 2: He is straight up brisket, holy mackerel. That is commitment.

538
00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:39,440
Speaker 2: I mean there's no there's no ribs. This is straight

539
00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:40,160
Speaker 2: up brisket.

540
00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:40,840
Speaker 1: Wow.

541
00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:45,720
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, you do you Paul Jacob. I thought

542
00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:47,640
Speaker 2: it was gonna be a white Jewish dude, last name

543
00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:51,160
Speaker 2: Jacob right or Jacob's, but it wasn't clear. And then

544
00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:53,200
Speaker 2: I glanced at Jacob's barbecue, and I thought it was

545
00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:56,120
Speaker 2: Jacob's barbecue, and I thought, man, you have to respect

546
00:28:56,160 --> 00:28:58,800
Speaker 2: Jewish people going into a black neighborhood like that. Harn

547
00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:02,080
Speaker 2: Clark is black and going into a black neighborhood like

548
00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:07,000
Speaker 2: that and doing barbecue Jewish. And then when he came on,

549
00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:10,560
Speaker 2: I thought, well, he could still be Jewish, you know,

550
00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:17,160
Speaker 2: Sandy Kofax style. Uh, But he said he was black.

551
00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:18,400
Speaker 2: I'm gonna have to take his word for it. And

552
00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:22,360
Speaker 2: then I went to the photo and what he did

553
00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:24,560
Speaker 2: call me Mike, but he was mister Barry before that.

554
00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:27,080
Speaker 2: He's older than I am. I don't feel like it's

555
00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:28,920
Speaker 2: my older than me should be called me mister.

556
00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:32,480
Speaker 1: Uh. It's funny because my.

557
00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:35,640
Speaker 2: Wife heard we have a family friend named Zu Fallen

558
00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:37,400
Speaker 2: and she has a son named Prince.

559
00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:38,560
Speaker 1: He was actually named after me.

560
00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:42,720
Speaker 2: He's Prince Christian Garva Selassi and he was born on

561
00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:45,560
Speaker 2: the day Prince died and she was a huge prince fan.

562
00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:49,240
Speaker 2: So anyway, he was over the house this weekend for Easter.

563
00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:53,160
Speaker 2: They come over every year, and he, uh, he asked

564
00:29:53,160 --> 00:29:57,640
Speaker 2: for something and I gave it to him, and he

565
00:29:57,680 --> 00:29:59,840
Speaker 2: calls me Abba bah, which in Ethiopian is is that

566
00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:02,880
Speaker 2: he cause my wife amma. But where because they're family,

567
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:05,440
Speaker 2: that's what we do in Indian culture. You call every

568
00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:11,400
Speaker 2: man uncle and very every woman aunty. But anyway, I

569
00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:13,920
Speaker 2: gave him whatever it was, and I walked off and

570
00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:16,160
Speaker 2: I didn't hear this, but my wife said. Both Michael

571
00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:20,600
Speaker 2: T and Crockett said, Prince, when an adult gives you something,

572
00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:23,640
Speaker 2: you say thank you. And apparently he was kind of

573
00:30:23,640 --> 00:30:25,800
Speaker 2: like why or whatever else he would have known that,

574
00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:30,120
Speaker 2: And they said, and you say, anytime you say yes,

575
00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:33,040
Speaker 2: you say sir. Anytime you say no, you say sir.

576
00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:36,240
Speaker 2: And when Aah blah blah asked you that, when you

577
00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:39,240
Speaker 2: asked Ababa to repeat himself, you said, what don't say

578
00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:41,760
Speaker 2: what to an adult you say sir. If it's a woman,

579
00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:44,440
Speaker 2: you say ma'am. And I'm going to tell you something.

580
00:30:44,720 --> 00:30:47,680
Speaker 2: You remember those bumper stickers. My kid, my parents had it.

581
00:30:48,120 --> 00:30:52,120
Speaker 2: My son is an honor roll Bobcat, orange Field, Bobcats.

582
00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:53,920
Speaker 1: My son is an honor man.

583
00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:56,360
Speaker 2: My kids do grade in school, and they work hard

584
00:30:56,440 --> 00:30:59,600
Speaker 2: to do it, and they study long hours and all

585
00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:02,600
Speaker 2: the things that you know, you love the work ethic

586
00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:05,640
Speaker 2: and all that. But I don't care about the GPA

587
00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:09,520
Speaker 2: nearly as much as a story like that. Knowing that

588
00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:14,880
Speaker 2: your kids are respectful, honorable, honest man.

589
00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:17,720
Speaker 1: That's if we raise our kids like that.

590
00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:22,680
Speaker 2: If when somebody gets if this black owned barbecue joint

591
00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:27,040
Speaker 2: in a predominantly black neighborhood gets hit by a black

592
00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:30,600
Speaker 2: and separately Hispanic thief, and we step in and show

593
00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:33,600
Speaker 2: them as a community, right is right and wrong is wrong,

594
00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:36,520
Speaker 2: and we're going to support you. That's how you solve

595
00:31:36,560 --> 00:31:38,800
Speaker 2: the problems with society. That's how you fix it.

596
00:31:38,760 --> 00:31:40,120
Speaker 1: It won't be fixed overnight.

597
00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:45,480
Speaker 2: And if we buy Brisket or Halliday, Captain Halliday and

598
00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:48,120
Speaker 2: all his officers at Southeast and anybody else who shows

599
00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:50,120
Speaker 2: up there today, that goes a long way.