1 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:06,080 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time. 2 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:08,479 Speaker 2: Time, luck and load. 3 00:00:11,240 --> 00:00:13,880 Speaker 1: So Michael darry Show is on the air. 4 00:00:34,640 --> 00:00:41,960 Speaker 3: Jolie, Jolie, Jolie, Jolie. I'm begging of you, please don't 5 00:00:42,080 --> 00:00:50,400 Speaker 3: take my man. Jolie, Jolie, Jolie and Jolie. 6 00:00:52,120 --> 00:00:56,840 Speaker 1: Please don't take him just because you can. Tyler mayhon 7 00:00:57,080 --> 00:01:03,800 Speaker 1: Co has podcast where he goes very deep into country 8 00:01:03,880 --> 00:01:09,600 Speaker 1: music and I've never heard anything like it. It's just amazing. 9 00:01:11,160 --> 00:01:13,119 Speaker 1: I since I don't want to speak out of school, 10 00:01:13,120 --> 00:01:19,280 Speaker 1: but I sense he is in his personal mental place, 11 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:24,480 Speaker 1: not necessarily good or stable, and he seems to struggle 12 00:01:24,840 --> 00:01:29,280 Speaker 1: to get the podcast out, which as you know, can 13 00:01:29,360 --> 00:01:33,919 Speaker 1: often happen with highly talented people. It is the best 14 00:01:34,120 --> 00:01:41,160 Speaker 1: podcast I have ever heard in any field, across any host, 15 00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:47,199 Speaker 1: you name it. It's a niche because it's country music. 16 00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:50,080 Speaker 1: But the less and that's part of the charm of 17 00:01:50,120 --> 00:01:56,320 Speaker 1: it is that the amount of research and analysis and 18 00:01:56,480 --> 00:02:00,320 Speaker 1: perspective he brings to bear on a subject that is 19 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:04,480 Speaker 1: mostly not written down. This is kind of almost an 20 00:02:04,600 --> 00:02:10,520 Speaker 1: oral history industry country music. You know, if he did 21 00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:15,800 Speaker 1: this on science, there would be scientific journals to pull from, 22 00:02:15,919 --> 00:02:20,959 Speaker 1: or politics there would be articles written, but in this case, 23 00:02:21,240 --> 00:02:26,560 Speaker 1: so much of it in how a particular you know, 24 00:02:28,040 --> 00:02:37,520 Speaker 1: guitarist at a particular Quanston Hut in Nashville affected these songs, 25 00:02:37,560 --> 00:02:40,200 Speaker 1: which went on to affect these songs which went on too. 26 00:02:40,639 --> 00:02:44,200 Speaker 1: It's really amazing, it's absolutely incredible. And I say all 27 00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:49,120 Speaker 1: that to say this he uses as his theme song Joelene. 28 00:02:49,600 --> 00:02:52,079 Speaker 1: But what hits me about that is, I don't if 29 00:02:52,080 --> 00:02:56,200 Speaker 1: I remember correctly, he's only done two episodes, I mean 30 00:02:56,440 --> 00:03:00,080 Speaker 1: two seasons, and it takes him quite a while to 31 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:02,839 Speaker 1: do one of these seasons, and so his first one 32 00:03:02,919 --> 00:03:06,239 Speaker 1: was like his lifetime of work. And then I think 33 00:03:06,280 --> 00:03:08,320 Speaker 1: he was shocked how well it took off and how 34 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:10,919 Speaker 1: well he was able to monetize it. And maybe a 35 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:12,480 Speaker 1: year and a half later he came back with U 36 00:03:12,520 --> 00:03:16,280 Speaker 1: say it was called Cocaine and Rhinestones by Tyler Mayhan 37 00:03:16,480 --> 00:03:19,839 Speaker 1: co Coe's David allen Coe's son. He doesn't make much 38 00:03:19,880 --> 00:03:22,560 Speaker 1: of that to talk about his dad really almost ever. 39 00:03:23,200 --> 00:03:25,720 Speaker 1: He certainly doesn't use that as a as a way 40 00:03:25,760 --> 00:03:28,840 Speaker 1: to get special access, for sure, So it's not like 41 00:03:28,919 --> 00:03:31,120 Speaker 1: he's embarrassed of it's just something he doesn't feel a 42 00:03:31,160 --> 00:03:36,840 Speaker 1: need to throw into conversation. But in the intro and 43 00:03:37,600 --> 00:03:43,360 Speaker 1: outro to the show, he uses the opening bed of Joelene. 44 00:03:43,480 --> 00:03:48,520 Speaker 1: And I never noticed the gravity of the sound of 45 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:52,680 Speaker 1: that song, because all I ever thought about was was 46 00:03:54,000 --> 00:04:00,680 Speaker 1: Dolly Parton's sort of plaintive but resolved but resul well 47 00:04:00,760 --> 00:04:06,280 Speaker 1: resolved voice in that right, this desperate woman doing everything 48 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:09,200 Speaker 1: she can to keep her man. And I really think 49 00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:11,680 Speaker 1: she played it off. Maybe it came naturally to her. 50 00:04:11,720 --> 00:04:14,280 Speaker 1: Man I've been her personal story, but she'd seen enough 51 00:04:14,320 --> 00:04:17,000 Speaker 1: of it. But anyway, play the opening few seconds of 52 00:04:17,040 --> 00:04:21,239 Speaker 1: that again, Ramon. When every episode of that podcast begins 53 00:04:21,279 --> 00:04:25,040 Speaker 1: in this arts, I remind myself, damn, that is a 54 00:04:25,240 --> 00:04:36,200 Speaker 1: strong opening if you don't think of it as we're 55 00:04:36,240 --> 00:04:39,599 Speaker 1: about to go into a Dolly Parton song. It has 56 00:04:39,680 --> 00:04:45,640 Speaker 1: this almost like gun battle about to happen, you know, okay, 57 00:04:45,800 --> 00:04:50,920 Speaker 1: corral level drama about to occur. That there's a lot 58 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:55,240 Speaker 1: of intensity to it, even though it is relatively simple, 59 00:04:55,680 --> 00:05:00,479 Speaker 1: something big is about to happen, and I never notice that. 60 00:05:00,760 --> 00:05:03,000 Speaker 1: But this is a guy who's heard every country music 61 00:05:03,040 --> 00:05:06,080 Speaker 1: song ever recorded. For him to have chosen that, I 62 00:05:06,120 --> 00:05:10,000 Speaker 1: remember thinking, huh, that's odd he chose Joelene. And the 63 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:12,520 Speaker 1: more times I would hear an episode because I binge listen. 64 00:05:13,120 --> 00:05:15,000 Speaker 1: The more times I would hear an episode, the more 65 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:18,920 Speaker 1: times I would go Wow. Of all the songs his ear, 66 00:05:18,960 --> 00:05:23,160 Speaker 1: he's a musician himself, but of all the songs he 67 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:28,520 Speaker 1: knew that song a seemingly you know, light song had 68 00:05:28,560 --> 00:05:30,760 Speaker 1: that level of gravitas to it. One more time, Remo 69 00:05:39,160 --> 00:05:42,000 Speaker 1: and stop. So when she comes in, it becomes Dolly 70 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:45,440 Speaker 1: Parton singing and then you don't notice that that intro 71 00:05:46,400 --> 00:05:50,479 Speaker 1: sh It's amazing. He teaches you to notice things like that. 72 00:05:50,560 --> 00:05:54,480 Speaker 1: It's a wonderful podcast if you like classic country and 73 00:05:54,960 --> 00:05:59,240 Speaker 1: you like the drama of George and Tammy and what 74 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:04,040 Speaker 1: really happened or how George did he stop loving her today? 75 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:07,920 Speaker 1: Or the old Nashville sound you know from Hank Senior 76 00:06:08,360 --> 00:06:12,080 Speaker 1: up through it it is man, it is something special. 77 00:06:12,160 --> 00:06:18,320 Speaker 1: Cocaine and rhinestone rhyin stones Tyler mahon co. So we 78 00:06:18,400 --> 00:06:21,400 Speaker 1: asked for somebody to call up and explain the Dolly 79 00:06:21,400 --> 00:06:24,280 Speaker 1: Pardon situation, and Carolyn was on, but we lost her. 80 00:06:24,839 --> 00:06:28,159 Speaker 1: Apparently she had kidney stones and it doesn't appear that 81 00:06:28,279 --> 00:06:30,920 Speaker 1: she wanted anyone else speaking on her behalf. We have 82 00:06:30,960 --> 00:06:33,599 Speaker 1: a clip of her play in a moment. It doesn't 83 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:37,039 Speaker 1: appear she wanted anyone speaking on her behalf or asking 84 00:06:37,080 --> 00:06:39,920 Speaker 1: for prayers on her behalf. You know, I have found 85 00:06:39,960 --> 00:06:43,240 Speaker 1: that some people use the asking for prayers as a 86 00:06:43,320 --> 00:06:47,520 Speaker 1: way to themselves, inuate them insinuate themselves into a situation. 87 00:06:47,920 --> 00:06:50,640 Speaker 1: I've seen that with church groups with us, say, please 88 00:06:50,800 --> 00:06:53,919 Speaker 1: pray for Roberto. As y'all know, he's gotten three women 89 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:56,560 Speaker 1: pregnant outside of his own marriage, and his wife is 90 00:06:56,600 --> 00:07:01,120 Speaker 1: suicidal and his son is a highlight addicted to drugs. 91 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:04,880 Speaker 1: Can can we all uh, can we all please pray 92 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:09,560 Speaker 1: for Roberto? Y'all remember he's been divorced three times and 93 00:07:09,880 --> 00:07:12,040 Speaker 1: he's really wanting to be a godly man and make 94 00:07:12,080 --> 00:07:15,640 Speaker 1: his marriage work this time. But he has slipped into 95 00:07:15,680 --> 00:07:18,320 Speaker 1: some really bad situations. And so since we all love 96 00:07:18,360 --> 00:07:20,240 Speaker 1: him so much, we want to pray for him. I 97 00:07:20,280 --> 00:07:23,400 Speaker 1: think that's a gossip circles. What that is? Here's what 98 00:07:23,520 --> 00:07:30,560 Speaker 1: Dolly had to say. This right here, what Dolly had 99 00:07:30,560 --> 00:07:33,440 Speaker 1: to say. This is Dolly saying what Dolly had to say. 100 00:07:34,080 --> 00:07:38,240 Speaker 1: This is the audio being played. Oh really, that's it. 101 00:07:38,280 --> 00:07:39,760 Speaker 1: Now you're going to do Dolly partner personation? 102 00:07:39,840 --> 00:07:40,000 Speaker 4: Now? 103 00:07:40,960 --> 00:07:43,920 Speaker 1: This was the moment in the program where if Ramon 104 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:46,320 Speaker 1: had fired the Dolly Parton audio, you would be listening 105 00:07:46,400 --> 00:07:47,080 Speaker 1: to Dolly Parton. 106 00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:51,000 Speaker 4: I want to say something one of today's October the eighth, 107 00:07:51,080 --> 00:07:54,880 Speaker 4: And obviously I'm here doing some commercials for the grand 108 00:07:54,920 --> 00:07:58,080 Speaker 4: Ola Lobbry, which is why I'm griss, kind of like 109 00:07:58,160 --> 00:08:01,840 Speaker 4: old country Western girl. But before I got started, I 110 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:06,360 Speaker 4: wanted to say, I know lately everybody thinks that I 111 00:08:06,400 --> 00:08:08,840 Speaker 4: am sicker than I am. Do I look sick to you? 112 00:08:09,320 --> 00:08:13,360 Speaker 4: I'm working hard here anyway. I wanted to put everybody's 113 00:08:13,440 --> 00:08:15,720 Speaker 4: mind at ease, those of you that seemed to be 114 00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:20,360 Speaker 4: real concern, which I appreciate. And I appreciate your prayers. 115 00:08:20,400 --> 00:08:23,640 Speaker 4: Because I'm a person of faith. I can always use 116 00:08:23,760 --> 00:08:24,360 Speaker 4: the prayers. 117 00:08:25,160 --> 00:08:27,480 Speaker 5: This time, bred. 118 00:08:32,320 --> 00:08:37,520 Speaker 1: Scott writes, good day, Michael. I'm from Australia. We call 119 00:08:37,600 --> 00:08:40,599 Speaker 1: them prawns. Tell about shrimp, and no one uses the 120 00:08:40,679 --> 00:08:43,319 Speaker 1: term shrimp. I hadn't heard of the term shrimp till 121 00:08:43,360 --> 00:08:46,400 Speaker 1: I came here from Australia. With the guy trying to 122 00:08:46,400 --> 00:08:48,280 Speaker 1: pill for the shrimp, how was he going to carry 123 00:08:48,320 --> 00:08:52,360 Speaker 1: twenty pounds on his bicycle? I think you better carry 124 00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:56,560 Speaker 1: twenty pounds on the subject of shrimp art rights. Don's 125 00:08:56,679 --> 00:09:01,520 Speaker 1: Seafood was the best. No, not that Jibra Floyd's in 126 00:09:01,559 --> 00:09:04,920 Speaker 1: Beaumont had the best fried fish. Their seafood Gumboat may 127 00:09:04,920 --> 00:09:07,720 Speaker 1: also be the best ever, but I still do it better. 128 00:09:08,160 --> 00:09:11,800 Speaker 1: I'm sure you went there many times I did. Don's 129 00:09:11,920 --> 00:09:19,480 Speaker 1: Seafood on Ien was the ultimate fried seafood place for 130 00:09:19,600 --> 00:09:22,040 Speaker 1: people who lived in the Golden Train. I don't know 131 00:09:22,040 --> 00:09:27,760 Speaker 1: if they had better fried seafood in Houston, but that's 132 00:09:27,760 --> 00:09:30,960 Speaker 1: what we ate, and by God, we liked it. We 133 00:09:31,160 --> 00:09:36,240 Speaker 1: liked it a lot. It was good. Let's see West 134 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:39,640 Speaker 1: writes of several hats I've worn in the past. I 135 00:09:39,720 --> 00:09:44,640 Speaker 1: was an NAMS certified and SAMs accredited marine surveyor. One 136 00:09:44,679 --> 00:09:47,240 Speaker 1: of my duties as a surveyor was to appraise the 137 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:50,959 Speaker 1: work vessel being surveyed according to the uniform Standards for 138 00:09:51,040 --> 00:09:54,079 Speaker 1: Professional Appraisal practice. You, being an attorney and having a 139 00:09:54,080 --> 00:09:58,080 Speaker 1: real estate license, likely know it well. In past decades, 140 00:09:58,320 --> 00:10:03,959 Speaker 1: frozen farm raised trimp absolute crap became increasingly more commercially available, 141 00:10:04,160 --> 00:10:06,920 Speaker 1: and it was detrimental to the local fishing industry. In 142 00:10:07,200 --> 00:10:10,839 Speaker 1: five and also eight, diesel prices spike to a staggering level. 143 00:10:11,320 --> 00:10:15,880 Speaker 1: Most one hundred foot steel golf shrimping vessels hold twenty 144 00:10:15,960 --> 00:10:19,920 Speaker 1: thousand to thirty thousand gallons of fuel. These things together 145 00:10:19,960 --> 00:10:23,360 Speaker 1: put the industry in bankruptcy mode. We wound up representing 146 00:10:23,400 --> 00:10:26,840 Speaker 1: the commercial fishing companies in bankruptcy courts, devaluing the vessels 147 00:10:26,880 --> 00:10:30,680 Speaker 1: according to their inability as a tool to earn income. 148 00:10:31,360 --> 00:10:34,080 Speaker 1: I always felt for these folks. They're just hard working 149 00:10:34,080 --> 00:10:36,640 Speaker 1: people trying to scratch together a living. They don't make 150 00:10:36,679 --> 00:10:39,240 Speaker 1: a ton of money, but they love what they were doing. 151 00:10:39,600 --> 00:10:41,760 Speaker 1: I refused to buy frozen crap, and I wish we 152 00:10:41,760 --> 00:10:45,040 Speaker 1: could put a financial hurt on the importers. Golf seapfood 153 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:48,800 Speaker 1: is hands down the world's best, unbeatable. Still keeping up 154 00:10:48,800 --> 00:10:52,320 Speaker 1: with you on our tour. I can't remember where he's touring, 155 00:10:52,360 --> 00:10:55,480 Speaker 1: but he's touring Ramon. You need to know that, Michael 156 00:10:55,679 --> 00:10:59,679 Speaker 1: writes Czar. Someone is already rounding up the homeless and 157 00:10:59,679 --> 00:11:03,920 Speaker 1: put them all in one place. The Bayous Dan writes 158 00:11:04,960 --> 00:11:08,560 Speaker 1: funny Kenny Rodgers' story. My parents had season tickets to 159 00:11:08,559 --> 00:11:10,400 Speaker 1: the shows at the Arena. Theater are located at the 160 00:11:10,440 --> 00:11:13,160 Speaker 1: corner of the Southwest Freeway at Fondren They would pass 161 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:15,280 Speaker 1: along tickets to my wife and I occasionally, and we 162 00:11:15,320 --> 00:11:18,600 Speaker 1: scored a pair of Kenny Rogers tickets circa early nineties 163 00:11:18,720 --> 00:11:22,160 Speaker 1: or so. By then Kenny had evolved into the duets era, 164 00:11:22,240 --> 00:11:25,280 Speaker 1: which I found to be grading. We also got the 165 00:11:25,520 --> 00:11:29,880 Speaker 1: knowen to Holdems Lucille, Reuben James and Coward of the 166 00:11:29,920 --> 00:11:33,080 Speaker 1: County songs that I much preferred. The show was excellent. 167 00:11:33,520 --> 00:11:36,160 Speaker 1: At the very end, he discussed growing up in Houston 168 00:11:36,760 --> 00:11:38,800 Speaker 1: and said he wanted to remember the next few songs 169 00:11:38,800 --> 00:11:41,640 Speaker 1: from his first band, the first edition that some fans 170 00:11:41,679 --> 00:11:44,720 Speaker 1: may not remember. The first song the band broke into 171 00:11:44,880 --> 00:11:47,959 Speaker 1: was just dropped in and at least half the audience 172 00:11:48,040 --> 00:11:50,800 Speaker 1: ran for the exits. He finished and laughed and said, 173 00:11:50,840 --> 00:11:53,640 Speaker 1: well that happens a lot. And yes, as members of 174 00:11:53,640 --> 00:11:56,080 Speaker 1: the RCC, we attended his last show there. You know, 175 00:11:56,360 --> 00:12:00,720 Speaker 1: it amazes to me. It amazes me people lose any 176 00:12:00,760 --> 00:12:06,800 Speaker 1: sense of humanity when it comes to a singer an athlete. 177 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:12,000 Speaker 1: You know, if a person likes coca cola, they love cocoa. 178 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:15,240 Speaker 1: I do anything cocla, I love it. But if you 179 00:12:15,559 --> 00:12:19,720 Speaker 1: show them a pepsi, they may say. They may use 180 00:12:19,880 --> 00:12:23,319 Speaker 1: terms like urine or trash or that you know, very 181 00:12:23,440 --> 00:12:26,959 Speaker 1: very harsh terms. Okay, let's find it's product. Nobody's feelings 182 00:12:26,960 --> 00:12:30,040 Speaker 1: are hurt. I mean maybe the people who make this stuff, 183 00:12:30,080 --> 00:12:32,320 Speaker 1: but they know it's PEPSI, they know it's not any good. 184 00:12:33,160 --> 00:12:35,240 Speaker 1: Why you have to pay places to keep it on 185 00:12:35,320 --> 00:12:38,199 Speaker 1: stock and not carry coke or people wuld always choose coke. 186 00:12:38,720 --> 00:12:41,360 Speaker 1: But what amazes to me is the complete lack of 187 00:12:41,440 --> 00:12:46,160 Speaker 1: humanity toward human beings that someone who claims to be 188 00:12:46,240 --> 00:12:52,520 Speaker 1: a fan will exhibit. For instance, you have a concert 189 00:12:52,760 --> 00:12:55,120 Speaker 1: and there will be people who will say I'm your 190 00:12:55,160 --> 00:12:59,480 Speaker 1: biggest fan. I am your biggest fan. Person will say, okay, 191 00:12:59,520 --> 00:13:01,680 Speaker 1: thank you. Do you mind not calling out so I 192 00:13:01,720 --> 00:13:02,320 Speaker 1: can do the show? 193 00:13:02,600 --> 00:13:02,679 Speaker 6: Do you? 194 00:13:04,120 --> 00:13:06,679 Speaker 1: But I'm your biggest fan? Okay? I think this might 195 00:13:06,679 --> 00:13:10,120 Speaker 1: be about you and not the artist. Now you need 196 00:13:10,120 --> 00:13:12,880 Speaker 1: some attention, sho. We got a green room. Let's take 197 00:13:12,920 --> 00:13:14,840 Speaker 1: you back in the green room while he sings, and 198 00:13:14,920 --> 00:13:16,640 Speaker 1: we'll off uss over you and we'll ask you where 199 00:13:16,640 --> 00:13:19,600 Speaker 1: you're from and what your favorite color is, and you know, 200 00:13:19,679 --> 00:13:21,520 Speaker 1: give you some chalk and you'll do some things like that. 201 00:13:21,559 --> 00:13:23,440 Speaker 1: Because this seems to be about you and not him. 202 00:13:23,960 --> 00:13:27,320 Speaker 1: But that person doesn't realize that in that person's mind, 203 00:13:27,600 --> 00:13:30,680 Speaker 1: I'm his biggest fan, so I can interrupt this whole show. 204 00:13:30,920 --> 00:13:32,640 Speaker 1: In fact, I can do anything I want. I can 205 00:13:32,679 --> 00:13:34,160 Speaker 1: cut in line, I can go to the green room 206 00:13:34,160 --> 00:13:36,120 Speaker 1: if I don't have a ticket, I can walk down front. 207 00:13:36,320 --> 00:13:38,080 Speaker 1: I can take photos when I'm not supposed to. I 208 00:13:38,080 --> 00:13:39,800 Speaker 1: can go up on the stage when I'm not supposed to. 209 00:13:41,520 --> 00:13:45,160 Speaker 1: And then that same person, if he won't play the 210 00:13:45,200 --> 00:13:49,920 Speaker 1: song that they want or in some way accommodate their desire, Hey, 211 00:13:50,240 --> 00:13:52,600 Speaker 1: come over here and take a picture of my sister. 212 00:13:52,760 --> 00:13:55,960 Speaker 1: She likes you. Cross over the rope, come across the 213 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:58,720 Speaker 1: bridge down under there up here and take ten men. 214 00:13:58,880 --> 00:14:00,199 Speaker 1: Come over here and do what I want you to 215 00:14:00,240 --> 00:14:03,319 Speaker 1: do right now, because I'm your biggest fan. And when 216 00:14:03,360 --> 00:14:06,920 Speaker 1: the person doesn't, they go from biggest fan to hating 217 00:14:06,960 --> 00:14:12,440 Speaker 1: that person. Maybe, just maybe this whole fandom thing is 218 00:14:12,559 --> 00:14:15,839 Speaker 1: not what it's cracked up to be. And that's why 219 00:14:15,920 --> 00:14:19,400 Speaker 1: you see so many times somebody getting into a fight 220 00:14:19,920 --> 00:14:23,040 Speaker 1: with someone who is supposed to be their fan because 221 00:14:23,040 --> 00:14:25,960 Speaker 1: that person has no The Kenny Rogers concert is such 222 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:30,640 Speaker 1: a great example. Kenny Rogers had as great a body 223 00:14:30,680 --> 00:14:34,800 Speaker 1: of work as almost any artist in American history, and 224 00:14:34,880 --> 00:14:38,400 Speaker 1: certainly in the top ten for his overall body of work. 225 00:14:38,440 --> 00:14:44,440 Speaker 1: It's amazing. It's absolutely incredible. It's staggering. It's not just 226 00:14:44,520 --> 00:14:48,680 Speaker 1: the best in a year, it's the best in multiple years. 227 00:14:49,080 --> 00:14:53,120 Speaker 1: It's so much better than so many people that were 228 00:14:53,200 --> 00:14:57,400 Speaker 1: famous and were big. It's you have to stop and 229 00:14:57,800 --> 00:15:00,080 Speaker 1: really take a look at what he was able to 230 00:15:00,120 --> 00:15:06,320 Speaker 1: accomplish and the longevity of it. His popularity, particularly in 231 00:15:06,360 --> 00:15:10,200 Speaker 1: the eighties, is as big as any artist's popularity at 232 00:15:10,240 --> 00:15:13,880 Speaker 1: any time. You say the Beatles, but his was longer. 233 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:18,720 Speaker 1: I mean, you know, it doesn't matter who's top. Let's 234 00:15:18,720 --> 00:15:22,200 Speaker 1: just say he's in the conversation, right. So you go 235 00:15:22,320 --> 00:15:27,160 Speaker 1: to see him in a relatively intimate venue, the Arena 236 00:15:28,680 --> 00:15:30,760 Speaker 1: if you've probably all been there. It's called the arena 237 00:15:30,800 --> 00:15:32,600 Speaker 1: because it's an arena. You know, you got the artists 238 00:15:32,640 --> 00:15:37,240 Speaker 1: in the middle and the I think most nights the 239 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:43,480 Speaker 1: stage would would would swivel and like the Montleon in 240 00:15:43,960 --> 00:15:48,160 Speaker 1: New Orleans, and the audience is, you know, the darn 241 00:15:48,200 --> 00:15:51,760 Speaker 1: thing doesn't go twenty rows deep. Maybe, so everybody has 242 00:15:51,800 --> 00:15:55,120 Speaker 1: a very intimate seat. You're listening to Kenny Rodgers. He's 243 00:15:55,200 --> 00:15:59,000 Speaker 1: played all the hits for you, not like he's saying, hey, 244 00:15:59,040 --> 00:16:02,240 Speaker 1: I got a new album. Oh no, Billy Corgan. We 245 00:16:02,240 --> 00:16:04,360 Speaker 1: don't want to hear new smashing pumpanies want to hear 246 00:16:04,400 --> 00:16:07,280 Speaker 1: what you've always done. But the minute he plays a 247 00:16:07,320 --> 00:16:11,440 Speaker 1: song that, by the way, was a massive hit, this 248 00:16:11,480 --> 00:16:13,760 Speaker 1: guy from Houston performing in Houston toward the end of 249 00:16:13,760 --> 00:16:17,000 Speaker 1: his career, and people get up and leaves. I mean 250 00:16:17,400 --> 00:16:21,000 Speaker 1: that you're a fan, I mean really like, I really 251 00:16:21,040 --> 00:16:25,840 Speaker 1: like it, so that one second, I don't. I need 252 00:16:25,880 --> 00:16:29,720 Speaker 1: to find the clip of Kenny Rogers telling the story 253 00:16:29,880 --> 00:16:35,480 Speaker 1: at a I don't know if it was Kenny Rogers tribute, 254 00:16:35,480 --> 00:16:39,400 Speaker 1: if it was Lone Richie tribute, but he tells the 255 00:16:39,440 --> 00:16:42,920 Speaker 1: story with Lone Ritchie on the front row about Lionel 256 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:46,600 Speaker 1: Richie writing that song, and he tells it better than 257 00:16:46,640 --> 00:16:51,400 Speaker 1: I will, but I'll give you the abbreviated version. Kenny. 258 00:16:51,520 --> 00:16:55,760 Speaker 1: Whatever Kenny Rogers whispered into a microphone was gonna go 259 00:16:56,320 --> 00:16:59,440 Speaker 1: to the top ten and sell a bunch of songs. 260 00:16:59,760 --> 00:17:03,600 Speaker 1: At certain point in the eighties, he was the hottest 261 00:17:03,680 --> 00:17:07,560 Speaker 1: thing in the market, so they had to find songs 262 00:17:07,600 --> 00:17:13,119 Speaker 1: for him, and they bring in Linel Richie and Line Richie. 263 00:17:13,440 --> 00:17:18,600 Speaker 1: Much like Barry Gibb, his career has kind of dropped 264 00:17:18,600 --> 00:17:22,720 Speaker 1: off with the end of disco. But he's a great songwriter. 265 00:17:23,240 --> 00:17:25,480 Speaker 1: Not his greatest songwriter as Barry Gibb, but dad gumt 266 00:17:25,520 --> 00:17:29,600 Speaker 1: he's pretty good. And so they realized that his style 267 00:17:30,640 --> 00:17:33,200 Speaker 1: is perfect for Kenny, so they bring him over. The 268 00:17:33,240 --> 00:17:37,040 Speaker 1: label brings him over to write songs and they've got 269 00:17:37,040 --> 00:17:41,879 Speaker 1: to write a song and Lionel they've just thrown this 270 00:17:41,960 --> 00:17:44,600 Speaker 1: on line and he's not he doesn't have a song 271 00:17:44,600 --> 00:17:48,680 Speaker 1: in there. Studio time is very expensive and it's precious. 272 00:17:48,720 --> 00:17:50,200 Speaker 1: You know, when you have studio time. You got to 273 00:17:50,359 --> 00:17:53,320 Speaker 1: a lot of songs were rushed because they were running 274 00:17:53,320 --> 00:17:55,520 Speaker 1: short on studio time. They got to get this thing finished. 275 00:17:56,760 --> 00:18:02,160 Speaker 1: And Kenny Rogers talks about Lionel Richie not having anything, 276 00:18:02,960 --> 00:18:06,560 Speaker 1: and then he goes to the restroom and he stays 277 00:18:06,600 --> 00:18:09,080 Speaker 1: in the restroom for quite some time, which of course 278 00:18:09,119 --> 00:18:13,280 Speaker 1: means he's sitting on the pot. And he comes bounding 279 00:18:13,320 --> 00:18:18,520 Speaker 1: out and he says, I've got it, and Kenny Rogers, okay, 280 00:18:18,520 --> 00:18:21,320 Speaker 1: he's got the song. He said, all right, give me, 281 00:18:21,560 --> 00:18:24,280 Speaker 1: you know, sing it for me, and he sings the 282 00:18:24,320 --> 00:18:28,719 Speaker 1: word lady in that key just like that. He said, Okay, 283 00:18:29,520 --> 00:18:33,119 Speaker 1: what else, That's all I got so far. But he 284 00:18:33,119 --> 00:18:36,240 Speaker 1: built the song around that, and obviously it ends up 285 00:18:36,280 --> 00:18:45,040 Speaker 1: being a huge, huge hit for Kenny Rogers. But it's 286 00:18:45,080 --> 00:18:49,880 Speaker 1: just kind of a funny moment that Lionel Richie knew 287 00:18:49,960 --> 00:18:53,919 Speaker 1: he had the song because he had the concept. I 288 00:18:53,920 --> 00:18:58,880 Speaker 1: don't write my speeches out. I haven't. It comes back 289 00:18:58,920 --> 00:19:02,400 Speaker 1: to debating. In high school. You learn how to communicate 290 00:19:03,480 --> 00:19:06,919 Speaker 1: and present in a way with you keep certain things 291 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:10,720 Speaker 1: in your head. Now I do it much more extemporaneously, 292 00:19:10,880 --> 00:19:12,920 Speaker 1: but I always have a concept that I'm going to 293 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:17,200 Speaker 1: work with, and finding the concept is not a nine 294 00:19:17,240 --> 00:19:21,120 Speaker 1: percent of the work. It is the idea. I've read 295 00:19:21,119 --> 00:19:25,480 Speaker 1: books about people who like Walter Isaacson, who writes these 296 00:19:26,040 --> 00:19:29,680 Speaker 1: Tomes You a thousand page biographies of Steve Jobs and 297 00:19:31,520 --> 00:19:36,080 Speaker 1: Elon Musk and others, and he says, the biggest challenge 298 00:19:36,119 --> 00:19:39,919 Speaker 1: for me is finding the subject I'm going to write about. 299 00:19:40,480 --> 00:19:43,479 Speaker 1: The writing itself is on autopilot. I know how to 300 00:19:43,520 --> 00:19:45,560 Speaker 1: dig in and do the research and talk to the 301 00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:48,040 Speaker 1: people I needed to talk to and begin to formulate 302 00:19:48,119 --> 00:19:51,360 Speaker 1: the story. It's figuring that out. It's just interesting that 303 00:19:51,800 --> 00:19:55,120 Speaker 1: a song like that that appears out of thin air. 304 00:19:55,200 --> 00:20:00,320 Speaker 1: I am amazed by the song writing process because we 305 00:20:00,320 --> 00:20:03,000 Speaker 1: we know that songs are an important part of our lives. 306 00:20:03,440 --> 00:20:05,200 Speaker 1: You know, you go to a wedding and you see 307 00:20:05,240 --> 00:20:08,720 Speaker 1: people come off the wall and start dancing that haven't 308 00:20:08,760 --> 00:20:12,880 Speaker 1: danced in forty years because that's their song. Songs are 309 00:20:13,160 --> 00:20:18,399 Speaker 1: very powerful. They are embedded deeper. They're not surface level. 310 00:20:18,800 --> 00:20:23,240 Speaker 1: They're like the smell of Grandma's corn bread or cake, 311 00:20:23,640 --> 00:20:27,600 Speaker 1: or a certain fried chicken or a place that you've been. 312 00:20:28,160 --> 00:20:32,560 Speaker 1: They have that incredible power over you. And we don't 313 00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:36,040 Speaker 1: celebrate songwriters today the way poets were one. You know, 314 00:20:36,080 --> 00:20:39,520 Speaker 1: you ever think about that, who's a modern day poet 315 00:20:39,560 --> 00:20:42,880 Speaker 1: that you know? Oh, they elevate some black women because 316 00:20:42,920 --> 00:20:44,600 Speaker 1: we have to have, you know, a Tony Morrison ever 317 00:20:44,680 --> 00:20:48,360 Speaker 1: so often or Amaya Angelo, and that makes everybody feel good. 318 00:20:48,359 --> 00:20:51,160 Speaker 1: And that's nothing wrong with their writings. But we don't 319 00:20:51,200 --> 00:20:55,200 Speaker 1: have we still have people putting words down that reflect 320 00:20:55,240 --> 00:20:58,920 Speaker 1: our emotions. Right. I've said before how much I hate 321 00:20:58,920 --> 00:21:01,359 Speaker 1: the view and everything those dumb broad stand for. But 322 00:21:01,440 --> 00:21:06,639 Speaker 1: sometimes they say stuff so stupid. Whoopy Goldberg says, everybody 323 00:21:06,680 --> 00:21:09,439 Speaker 1: get your makeup creams and paint your faces brown so 324 00:21:09,520 --> 00:21:12,560 Speaker 1: they can't tell who to round up. Well, when there's 325 00:21:12,600 --> 00:21:15,399 Speaker 1: a chance to apply makeup. You know, our good friend 326 00:21:15,440 --> 00:21:18,440 Speaker 1: Timmy Wats got excited and just had to comment on 327 00:21:18,480 --> 00:21:19,480 Speaker 1: his weekly. 328 00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:25,480 Speaker 2: Podition, Hell My Minnesota, do minions, it's you boy, Jimmy Walls, 329 00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:29,640 Speaker 2: with a reminder, you're listening to the number one podcast 330 00:21:29,720 --> 00:21:33,359 Speaker 2: in Traverse County between midnight and three am. And do 331 00:21:33,359 --> 00:21:36,320 Speaker 2: we have a big announcement tonight. We've been picked up 332 00:21:36,359 --> 00:21:38,200 Speaker 2: by our first ever affiliate. 333 00:21:40,240 --> 00:21:42,280 Speaker 1: Who's got the slack of who's got the plan? 334 00:21:43,080 --> 00:21:47,199 Speaker 2: Yes, Jimmy Walls, he's the many man. He did not 335 00:21:47,480 --> 00:21:53,600 Speaker 2: expect this. Welcome to New Shoreham Road Island. Now you 336 00:21:53,680 --> 00:21:55,960 Speaker 2: might be the tiniest little tiny point the way upper 337 00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:58,080 Speaker 2: East Coast, but a big. 338 00:21:58,280 --> 00:22:01,920 Speaker 5: Was applause to those four. 339 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:06,080 Speaker 2: Families that could be listening at this very moment at day. Okay, 340 00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:08,639 Speaker 2: we've got a big topic today that involves my girls 341 00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:11,600 Speaker 2: from the view that are liked by just a few. 342 00:22:12,240 --> 00:22:15,840 Speaker 2: I know, I know, Joy and my girl Whoopee are 343 00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:20,119 Speaker 2: in the news because they said that satan spawn of 344 00:22:20,160 --> 00:22:23,160 Speaker 2: a woman, Christine Oham, would be going to the Super 345 00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:27,440 Speaker 2: Bowl with her mean, ugly bullies from Ice and rounding 346 00:22:27,560 --> 00:22:31,480 Speaker 2: up people to deport all because of my eye. Bad 347 00:22:31,560 --> 00:22:33,200 Speaker 2: Bunny here, this is what they. 348 00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:35,639 Speaker 6: Say it she's threatening to go to the super Bowl 349 00:22:36,119 --> 00:22:39,120 Speaker 6: when bad Bunny is there and round up all these 350 00:22:39,160 --> 00:22:42,119 Speaker 6: people that are illegal immigrants. Do you think that she 351 00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:43,840 Speaker 6: would go if it was goth. 352 00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:47,320 Speaker 2: Brooks, Randon low Places or Eminem. 353 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:48,240 Speaker 1: Wait a minstrel minute? 354 00:22:48,320 --> 00:22:49,040 Speaker 2: Is he even white? 355 00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:50,800 Speaker 6: Or Taylor Swift or any. 356 00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:51,520 Speaker 2: Of the white labs? 357 00:22:51,560 --> 00:22:54,879 Speaker 4: To understand what you're saying, Because she's going to go 358 00:22:55,080 --> 00:22:58,200 Speaker 4: to the super Bowl and round up, how's she gonna 359 00:22:58,200 --> 00:22:58,800 Speaker 4: know who's who? 360 00:22:59,320 --> 00:23:03,240 Speaker 6: Because this Supreme Court has given permission to question anyone 361 00:23:03,320 --> 00:23:05,720 Speaker 6: who has a Spanish Accentdo has a dark skin? 362 00:23:05,920 --> 00:23:06,120 Speaker 1: Yeah? 363 00:23:06,280 --> 00:23:07,320 Speaker 6: So his wife? 364 00:23:07,480 --> 00:23:12,040 Speaker 2: Here's the whooper ass. Whoopy, everybody, get a little colo 365 00:23:12,119 --> 00:23:13,480 Speaker 2: butter set in the sun. 366 00:23:13,640 --> 00:23:14,520 Speaker 6: That's the first thing. 367 00:23:15,640 --> 00:23:18,040 Speaker 4: And then and this is the only time you can 368 00:23:18,119 --> 00:23:22,920 Speaker 4: probably ever do this, give yourself a Latin accident, you. 369 00:23:22,840 --> 00:23:24,080 Speaker 6: Know, Whoopy, that's such a. 370 00:23:24,040 --> 00:23:29,080 Speaker 5: Great deal, and see if she can tell who's who? 371 00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:33,200 Speaker 2: Now you see, that's a big molliebian my girl, Whoopy, 372 00:23:33,640 --> 00:23:37,000 Speaker 2: I love this idea. Now I am sitting in front 373 00:23:37,040 --> 00:23:40,080 Speaker 2: of my wife's vanity which he spends so much time 374 00:23:40,119 --> 00:23:42,440 Speaker 2: away from me but seems to love it. And I 375 00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:45,000 Speaker 2: am picking through some of her facial creams that I 376 00:23:45,040 --> 00:23:47,840 Speaker 2: can wear to the Super Bowl. Let's see here, we've 377 00:23:47,840 --> 00:23:52,240 Speaker 2: got nutter butter. Oh, and then there's tooty fruity. Look 378 00:23:52,280 --> 00:23:55,760 Speaker 2: at this, I could layer on the mounds of brown. 379 00:23:56,200 --> 00:24:00,000 Speaker 2: Oh and what is this here? Shimmy, shimmy coco now 380 00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:05,480 Speaker 2: mm hmm smells so nice to avoid the ice. Oh, 381 00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:09,680 Speaker 2: I'm in heaven. We're out of time again. Join us 382 00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:13,480 Speaker 2: next week with our special guest head dancing and his 383 00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:15,879 Speaker 2: thoughts on making a WHOOPI with. 384 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:31,320 Speaker 5: Whoopy hey, Miss Tracy Bird, and I tip my hand 385 00:24:32,520 --> 00:24:40,200 Speaker 5: to the keeper, the star and the sod. 386 00:24:40,359 --> 00:24:45,400 Speaker 1: Time to leave me another hellbin them to song track 387 00:24:45,440 --> 00:24:49,640 Speaker 1: of our life. We did our show sponsor event last night, 388 00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:55,240 Speaker 1: where our eighty plus show sponsors came out to Republic 389 00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:59,760 Speaker 1: Boot Company for a gathering of just them. We've gotten 390 00:24:59,760 --> 00:25:02,200 Speaker 1: big enough now that I have to work to stay 391 00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:06,000 Speaker 1: constantly in touch with these folks, even though I try 392 00:25:06,040 --> 00:25:08,640 Speaker 1: to make a phone call at least one, sometimes more 393 00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:11,920 Speaker 1: every day when I leave the studio in the middle 394 00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:16,520 Speaker 1: of the afternoon. You think about with that many, and 395 00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:21,560 Speaker 1: not on weekend days. It's twice a year that I'm 396 00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:26,359 Speaker 1: able to connect with that person by phone because there 397 00:25:26,359 --> 00:25:29,840 Speaker 1: are so many and then if I don't reach them, 398 00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:31,480 Speaker 1: the likelihood they're going to be able to reach me 399 00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:33,840 Speaker 1: because I'm in the studio and my phone is off 400 00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:37,959 Speaker 1: goes down. So it's always a treat to get together 401 00:25:38,320 --> 00:25:41,080 Speaker 1: with our folks and we always try to do We've 402 00:25:41,080 --> 00:25:45,280 Speaker 1: done that at Federal American Grill quite a few times. 403 00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:48,200 Speaker 1: We still do a lot of events at Federal American Grill. 404 00:25:48,240 --> 00:25:50,600 Speaker 1: Matt Brice rolls out the red car but as he 405 00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:52,840 Speaker 1: will do for you, time to start thinking about your 406 00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:57,000 Speaker 1: Christmas party is great, great Christmas party location. And he 407 00:25:57,040 --> 00:26:00,159 Speaker 1: has been such a big supporter of our show. Oh 408 00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:02,320 Speaker 1: he was there last night. He's been such a big 409 00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:05,520 Speaker 1: supporter of our show over the years, and it has 410 00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:08,840 Speaker 1: been a lot of fun to watch him grow and develop. 411 00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:13,480 Speaker 1: He Matt Brice spent a lot of years in a 412 00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:16,600 Speaker 1: kitchen and then in front of house as a chef, 413 00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:19,919 Speaker 1: and in Milwaukee and then New York at a prize 414 00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:26,040 Speaker 1: steakhouse there, and then when he came to Houston, he 415 00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:31,359 Speaker 1: ran mose a place for hose on Post Oak, and 416 00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:36,320 Speaker 1: then when he started, when he started Federal American Grill 417 00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:41,119 Speaker 1: on Shepherd at Washington, which he still has over all 418 00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:43,480 Speaker 1: these years, that's when I got to know him. I 419 00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:46,199 Speaker 1: actually knew him from Mose the place for Hose, but 420 00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:48,840 Speaker 1: I didn't he didn't own that, he ran it, but 421 00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:51,800 Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't really know him, and I just 422 00:26:51,840 --> 00:26:54,159 Speaker 1: you just see him there. I knew Johnny V a 423 00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:56,880 Speaker 1: lot of folks in town News quite quite the personality, 424 00:26:56,920 --> 00:26:59,920 Speaker 1: and they were business partners in them. So when Matt 425 00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:05,360 Speaker 1: and his wife opened Federal American Grill on Shepherd near Washington, 426 00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:09,320 Speaker 1: I spoke for him for about a year, but it 427 00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:13,000 Speaker 1: was hard to monetize. You know, our folks if we 428 00:27:13,359 --> 00:27:16,280 Speaker 1: if we tell them about something that I enjoy and 429 00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:18,920 Speaker 1: it's something they need, they'll go there. But one location 430 00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:22,000 Speaker 1: like that, it just it didn't make sense. And the 431 00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:24,399 Speaker 1: economics were there, weren't there, and we both agreed it 432 00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:28,479 Speaker 1: wasn't a good idea. So we remained friends. And it 433 00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:32,280 Speaker 1: wasn't until you know, seven eight years later when he 434 00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:36,080 Speaker 1: opened his it location, and he opened it just before 435 00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:39,639 Speaker 1: the COVID shutdown started, and then we told the story 436 00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:41,560 Speaker 1: about him, and then of course Ed Hindi and Nina 437 00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:45,560 Speaker 1: Hindi came and all the folks in the near west side, 438 00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:48,600 Speaker 1: the villages and then Memorial and tangled what everybody supported him, 439 00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:52,840 Speaker 1: and it was really at that time it was there. 440 00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:57,280 Speaker 1: There weren't there weren't a lot of fine, fun, fine 441 00:27:57,359 --> 00:28:00,360 Speaker 1: dining locations on the west Side, so people were going 442 00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:03,120 Speaker 1: into the heights, they were going to Montrose, Midtown, downtown. 443 00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:05,199 Speaker 1: So the community was dying for it. I mean, they 444 00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:07,280 Speaker 1: were just so eager and they responded in such a 445 00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:10,159 Speaker 1: big way. And since then, of course he's opened the Katie. 446 00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:16,280 Speaker 1: The Woodlands are now the downtown next to, very close to. 447 00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:19,800 Speaker 1: It's not minute made any more, diking. I should know 448 00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:21,800 Speaker 1: that my niece works there in the marketing department. She 449 00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:24,159 Speaker 1: would not appreciate me calling it minute made. But it 450 00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:26,720 Speaker 1: was minute made for so long. Actually, I don't really 451 00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:28,440 Speaker 1: think it was minu made. I think of it as 452 00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:31,760 Speaker 1: in run and it was only inron for a minute, 453 00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:35,240 Speaker 1: and then it became minute made forever. I never thought 454 00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:36,760 Speaker 1: of it as minute made or the juice box. It 455 00:28:36,760 --> 00:28:39,600 Speaker 1: was always inron Field and in my mind, in my 456 00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:43,920 Speaker 1: mind that tall building on post O Transco Tower, and 457 00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:46,120 Speaker 1: then it became Williams and I don't know what it 458 00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:50,360 Speaker 1: is now, but it'll always be Transco Tower. There's a 459 00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:52,719 Speaker 1: lot of things like that for me that I just 460 00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:55,200 Speaker 1: I'm not trying to be difficult. That's just the way 461 00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:59,000 Speaker 1: it is in my mind. I still work for Clear Channel, 462 00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:02,520 Speaker 1: have them in Clear Channel in fifteen years. It's iHeart. 463 00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:05,680 Speaker 1: It's been iHeart, but I still think of it as 464 00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:08,000 Speaker 1: Clear Channel because that was where I started. There's a 465 00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:09,920 Speaker 1: lot of those things. Send me an email as to 466 00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:12,720 Speaker 1: one of those that you still think of in that 467 00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:15,760 Speaker 1: old way. Not to be defiant, not to make the 468 00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:18,200 Speaker 1: point of I will not say the proper name. That's 469 00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:22,240 Speaker 1: just what is in my head. But anyway, we had 470 00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:25,800 Speaker 1: a show sponsor event last night and as I look 471 00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:30,360 Speaker 1: out from the stage over that group of people, it's 472 00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:33,880 Speaker 1: over eighty companies that are our show sponsors. And by 473 00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:37,680 Speaker 1: the way, advertisers are people who pay to be on 474 00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:40,400 Speaker 1: our show during the break. That doesn't make them bad people. 475 00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:42,880 Speaker 1: I'm not dismissing them, but that is not someone that 476 00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:46,680 Speaker 1: I personally endorse. Those are people who want you as 477 00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:49,680 Speaker 1: their customers. And I will tell you everybody in Houston 478 00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:54,160 Speaker 1: media knows this. It is insanely expensive even to advertise 479 00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:57,200 Speaker 1: on our show. Not because of me, but because of you. 480 00:29:57,920 --> 00:30:00,120 Speaker 1: Because you are the cream of the crop of the customer, 481 00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:04,000 Speaker 1: and this is widely discussed in media circles. You are 482 00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:08,200 Speaker 1: the qualitative buy, not the quantitative. You're the qualitative by 483 00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:11,320 Speaker 1: if you are selling them. You're not the richest you are, 484 00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:14,080 Speaker 1: but that's not the reason for it. You are the 485 00:30:14,120 --> 00:30:19,080 Speaker 1: people who restaurants, car dealerships, home and everybody wants you 486 00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:23,040 Speaker 1: as a customer. You are people who pay your bills 487 00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:28,920 Speaker 1: on time, refer customers, very polite, you can imagine. You know. 488 00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:34,120 Speaker 1: You're Trump supporting, patriotic Americans. Companies want you. Even liberals 489 00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:38,720 Speaker 1: want you as customers, even though they hate politics. So 490 00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:41,080 Speaker 1: but as I look out over that group of people 491 00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:44,200 Speaker 1: who are what I call show sponsors, not advertisers, and 492 00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:47,160 Speaker 1: I don't read for them or speak for them or 493 00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:51,560 Speaker 1: all those stupid radio terms, I endorse them, and your 494 00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:53,720 Speaker 1: emails come in to me and I forward it to them. 495 00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:55,720 Speaker 1: Many of you go directly with them, but many of 496 00:30:55,720 --> 00:30:58,200 Speaker 1: you email it into me, and I connected, and I 497 00:30:58,280 --> 00:31:00,680 Speaker 1: look out over that and I see the power of 498 00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:04,360 Speaker 1: what we that's you and me. Mostly you have built 499 00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:07,440 Speaker 1: and that every one of these people they're small business owners, 500 00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:10,640 Speaker 1: they have families, they have companies, they have a place 501 00:31:10,680 --> 00:31:13,160 Speaker 1: to work. They're not being laid off. They can be 502 00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:15,960 Speaker 1: proud of it. Many of them have grown and expanded 503 00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:19,280 Speaker 1: because of you. And that is all because you know, 504 00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:21,200 Speaker 1: we could have done this show and gotten no reaction 505 00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:24,640 Speaker 1: and we'd still be the same people. But you reacted 506 00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:27,320 Speaker 1: and continue to and you have created a family, a 507 00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:30,760 Speaker 1: community of Brigade, and we are so thankful to you.