1 00:00:02,360 --> 00:00:11,000 Speaker 1: It's that time time time lucking load. So Michael Arry Show, 2 00:00:11,400 --> 00:00:19,880 Speaker 1: it's on the air. Guys looking into mic week. 3 00:00:20,360 --> 00:00:23,800 Speaker 2: Gotta feed every beard. I don't plan to shave, and 4 00:00:23,920 --> 00:00:29,120 Speaker 2: it's good thing, but I just gotta see I'm doing 5 00:00:29,280 --> 00:00:35,960 Speaker 2: all right? Will you go make support me's beating verdict. 6 00:00:36,680 --> 00:00:37,840 Speaker 1: That's the true. 7 00:00:38,800 --> 00:00:42,080 Speaker 3: It's either drinking the drug and stool. 8 00:00:42,400 --> 00:00:44,080 Speaker 2: I'm just doing all right. 9 00:00:45,280 --> 00:00:47,600 Speaker 4: It's a great dad be. 10 00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:52,640 Speaker 3: I know suns still shining in a close eyes. It's 11 00:00:53,240 --> 00:00:57,800 Speaker 3: hot times in the neighborhood. But why king every day 12 00:00:58,200 --> 00:01:16,160 Speaker 3: just seen years silent? 13 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:21,399 Speaker 4: Apparently, the court ordered him to wear an ankle monitor. 14 00:01:25,120 --> 00:01:31,280 Speaker 4: A monitor monitor, That joke required some knowledge of biology. 15 00:01:33,160 --> 00:01:35,680 Speaker 1: No, no, not. 16 00:01:37,319 --> 00:01:40,280 Speaker 4: Furniture store salesman told me this sofa will see five 17 00:01:40,319 --> 00:01:42,120 Speaker 4: people without any problems. And I said, where am I 18 00:01:42,120 --> 00:01:50,200 Speaker 4: gonna find find five people without any problems. Therapist asked 19 00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:52,320 Speaker 4: the wife why she wanted to end her marriage. She 20 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:56,360 Speaker 4: said she hated all his constant star wars day puns. 21 00:01:58,280 --> 00:02:00,800 Speaker 4: The husband looked at the therapist and said, divorce is 22 00:02:00,880 --> 00:02:09,919 Speaker 4: wrong with this one. We got a state legislature in 23 00:02:09,960 --> 00:02:12,720 Speaker 4: session every two years, one hundred and fifty days. 24 00:02:12,760 --> 00:02:13,560 Speaker 1: If you don't get it, done. 25 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:17,400 Speaker 4: Then it doesn't get done, and they're talking about everything, 26 00:02:17,440 --> 00:02:18,680 Speaker 4: but what's important? 27 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:19,800 Speaker 1: What's important? 28 00:02:21,160 --> 00:02:24,440 Speaker 4: I drove to Santon this weekend and we still have people, 29 00:02:24,480 --> 00:02:27,200 Speaker 4: maybe more than ever, driving slow in the left lane. 30 00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:31,280 Speaker 4: We still have people driving slow in the left lane. 31 00:02:31,639 --> 00:02:34,280 Speaker 4: There has got to be a solution to this. There 32 00:02:34,280 --> 00:02:37,280 Speaker 4: has got to be a better way. I'm not looking 33 00:02:37,360 --> 00:02:39,000 Speaker 4: to drive one hundred miles an hour on the freeway 34 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:42,240 Speaker 4: like some people. I know, I'm not, but I've got 35 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:44,200 Speaker 4: to be able to drive the speed limit plus seven. 36 00:02:44,480 --> 00:02:48,200 Speaker 4: That's got to happen. And we can't do it. We 37 00:02:48,440 --> 00:02:52,360 Speaker 4: just can't do it because there's somebody over there. There's 38 00:02:52,480 --> 00:02:57,160 Speaker 4: always somebody over there, and it drives me just about insane. 39 00:02:57,360 --> 00:02:59,320 Speaker 4: But I'm gonna tell you something. I'm gonna tell you 40 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:01,320 Speaker 4: right now. I studied my theory that I offered a 41 00:03:01,320 --> 00:03:04,519 Speaker 4: few weeks ago. You know why people stay in that 42 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:07,200 Speaker 4: lane and won't go over to the right twenty seven 43 00:03:07,240 --> 00:03:09,359 Speaker 4: percent of the time is because if they go into 44 00:03:09,400 --> 00:03:10,680 Speaker 4: the slow lane. 45 00:03:10,440 --> 00:03:11,960 Speaker 1: You won't let them back in the fast lane. 46 00:03:12,919 --> 00:03:16,480 Speaker 4: What ends up happening is you got an eighteen wheeler 47 00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:18,960 Speaker 4: and I don't want them driving crazy, right they they 48 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:20,480 Speaker 4: can do a lot of harm up here, all right. 49 00:03:20,720 --> 00:03:22,720 Speaker 4: So they're kind of steady iss she goes. They're doing 50 00:03:22,760 --> 00:03:27,440 Speaker 4: about sixty eight and trucking along literally, and you're trying 51 00:03:27,440 --> 00:03:31,680 Speaker 4: to go around them. But as you're in the slow lane, 52 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:33,800 Speaker 4: you're not driving the fast lane. You're not supposed to 53 00:03:33,840 --> 00:03:36,120 Speaker 4: us just to pass. You pull up to go around, 54 00:03:36,360 --> 00:03:40,360 Speaker 4: and there's somebody and he's humming and he doesn't want 55 00:03:40,400 --> 00:03:42,680 Speaker 4: to pump the brakes even one time for you to 56 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:45,360 Speaker 4: get in, so he doesn't let you in. The guy 57 00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:47,440 Speaker 4: doesn't behind you, doesn't let so you're going slower. And 58 00:03:47,480 --> 00:03:49,280 Speaker 4: so because you're having to come down to the speed 59 00:03:49,880 --> 00:03:53,400 Speaker 4: of that truck and nobody will let you in. 60 00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:54,160 Speaker 1: Not a chance. 61 00:03:54,480 --> 00:03:56,800 Speaker 4: They're not about to be inconvenience for one second by 62 00:03:56,840 --> 00:03:59,440 Speaker 4: letting you in. So you stay over there for a while, 63 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:02,440 Speaker 4: ten minutes over there, and all those cars go past you, 64 00:04:03,520 --> 00:04:05,480 Speaker 4: and you wanted to pass and get past that truck. 65 00:04:06,200 --> 00:04:08,800 Speaker 4: So what do you do? You go, Okay, they get over, 66 00:04:08,840 --> 00:04:11,400 Speaker 4: I just stay there. And that's what people do. They 67 00:04:11,440 --> 00:04:12,840 Speaker 4: get in that lane and they stay in that lane 68 00:04:12,840 --> 00:04:14,440 Speaker 4: because you won't let them back in. And that's the 69 00:04:14,480 --> 00:04:16,120 Speaker 4: fact I've seen it. Send it in my own two 70 00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:23,239 Speaker 4: Eyes Fiesta Fiesta Texas in San Antono over the weekend. 71 00:04:23,800 --> 00:04:26,040 Speaker 4: I had a couple of people send me emails, Hey, 72 00:04:26,080 --> 00:04:27,800 Speaker 4: you need to be advised because I never know what 73 00:04:27,880 --> 00:04:29,160 Speaker 4: the weather's going to be, and I never know when 74 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:30,960 Speaker 4: there's gonna be a crowd. I'm always impressed. I don't 75 00:04:30,960 --> 00:04:32,599 Speaker 4: know what these people do. They just I guess they 76 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:36,000 Speaker 4: check crowd size and weather every day. People send me emails, 77 00:04:36,040 --> 00:04:37,880 Speaker 4: you need to be advised. It's gonna be you say, 78 00:04:37,920 --> 00:04:40,560 Speaker 4: gonna be in sant anton It's gonna be fiesta. And 79 00:04:40,600 --> 00:04:42,839 Speaker 4: I thought, good grief, I thought my mom died. What 80 00:04:42,880 --> 00:04:44,760 Speaker 4: are you doing here? Why do I need to know that? 81 00:04:45,960 --> 00:04:46,120 Speaker 1: Well? 82 00:04:46,160 --> 00:04:50,280 Speaker 4: I needed to know that there were people everywhere. Some 83 00:04:50,320 --> 00:04:52,839 Speaker 4: of them was white, not many, but some of them. 84 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:56,760 Speaker 4: My goodness. I brought my brother in law and sister 85 00:04:56,760 --> 00:04:59,839 Speaker 4: in law, and of course my wife. It's her sister 86 00:05:00,040 --> 00:05:03,760 Speaker 4: and her sister's husband, and I had to try to 87 00:05:03,800 --> 00:05:08,040 Speaker 4: explain to her Chicanos and Tehano's and what all that means. 88 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:12,400 Speaker 4: And about every fifteen minutes my brother law said, so 89 00:05:12,440 --> 00:05:16,920 Speaker 4: they're Mexican. Well no, we call them Mexican shorthand. Because 90 00:05:17,200 --> 00:05:18,400 Speaker 4: he'd say so, they're Mexican. 91 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:19,080 Speaker 1: No. 92 00:05:19,880 --> 00:05:22,479 Speaker 4: No, they've lived here longer than my people have. Some 93 00:05:22,520 --> 00:05:24,520 Speaker 4: of them fall on this side and at the Alamo 94 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:28,160 Speaker 4: or claim they did. Okay, so they've lived here. They 95 00:05:28,200 --> 00:05:29,919 Speaker 4: serve in the he's a military man, he was a 96 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:33,440 Speaker 4: general Army. They's a lot of them serving the Marines 97 00:05:33,960 --> 00:05:35,719 Speaker 4: and a lot of them serving the armies. Some of 98 00:05:35,720 --> 00:05:37,919 Speaker 4: them serving the Navy, but a lot of them serving 99 00:05:37,920 --> 00:05:40,719 Speaker 4: the military. A lot of them are cops. They're nice people. 100 00:05:40,760 --> 00:05:46,599 Speaker 4: They're good people, family people. They all play softball, very 101 00:05:47,080 --> 00:05:51,080 Speaker 4: you know, very loving to their kids. They're they're good people. 102 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:54,400 Speaker 4: They but they have a different culture. Well they like 103 00:05:54,520 --> 00:05:57,960 Speaker 4: they like text mex Okay, so Mexican food. No, Mexican 104 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:00,200 Speaker 4: food is different. This is text mex This is much better. 105 00:06:00,240 --> 00:06:02,160 Speaker 4: You don't want you ever get stuck somewhere and you 106 00:06:02,200 --> 00:06:04,719 Speaker 4: get Mexican food and they make a big deals Mexican 107 00:06:04,760 --> 00:06:06,560 Speaker 4: food that's not gonna any good. 108 00:06:06,720 --> 00:06:09,840 Speaker 1: Okay, So they're Mexican. No, they're not Mexican. 109 00:06:10,160 --> 00:06:14,280 Speaker 4: A tax mex The food is tax mex These are 110 00:06:14,360 --> 00:06:15,960 Speaker 4: Latinos or Hispanic changes. 111 00:06:15,960 --> 00:06:17,600 Speaker 1: It's like black people. You got to keep up. It 112 00:06:17,720 --> 00:06:20,719 Speaker 1: changed every couple of years. But just don't call them Mexicans. 113 00:06:21,160 --> 00:06:25,080 Speaker 4: Mexican is shorthand, and they will for shorthand call themselves Mexican. 114 00:06:25,720 --> 00:06:27,719 Speaker 4: They'll say, you know you're gonna have me the servesa 115 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:30,960 Speaker 4: And You're like, what, yeah, you know, I'm Mexican. Okay, Well, 116 00:06:31,080 --> 00:06:34,280 Speaker 4: but you we we live in the same nigh You've 117 00:06:34,279 --> 00:06:36,279 Speaker 4: lived in the same neighborhood for sixty you were born 118 00:06:36,760 --> 00:06:37,559 Speaker 4: in Port Arthur. 119 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:39,960 Speaker 1: How are you mean you know, I mean over Mexican. 120 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:40,640 Speaker 1: You know how we do. 121 00:06:41,440 --> 00:06:43,960 Speaker 4: So I had to explain to him the shorthand use 122 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:48,520 Speaker 4: of Mexican and not Mexican Texan And anyway, a lot 123 00:06:48,600 --> 00:06:51,599 Speaker 4: of people at Fiesta Texas, a lot of people. You 124 00:06:51,640 --> 00:06:56,200 Speaker 4: know what, I'm in awe of ver Moon the Riverwalk. Now, 125 00:06:56,240 --> 00:06:58,080 Speaker 4: I know what you're gonna say, You ain't everybody row. 126 00:06:58,320 --> 00:07:01,080 Speaker 4: I'm been in the riverwal one hundred times. There are 127 00:07:01,200 --> 00:07:03,840 Speaker 4: very few public projects that make a difference. Most of 128 00:07:03,880 --> 00:07:07,440 Speaker 4: them are stupid, like the Hemisphere, that whole needle in 129 00:07:07,480 --> 00:07:10,800 Speaker 4: the in the air for the sixty eight World World's Fair. 130 00:07:10,960 --> 00:07:12,600 Speaker 1: That was dumb, wasted money. 131 00:07:13,160 --> 00:07:15,160 Speaker 4: Most of the stadiums you built for the for the 132 00:07:15,360 --> 00:07:20,760 Speaker 4: for the Olympics dumb. Most of the big public projects, 133 00:07:20,760 --> 00:07:22,960 Speaker 4: most of the public art. I don't get public art. 134 00:07:23,080 --> 00:07:26,880 Speaker 4: It's stupid. Public art is just an opportunity to to 135 00:07:27,040 --> 00:07:31,760 Speaker 4: pay some dude that's weird as hell to cobble together something, 136 00:07:31,760 --> 00:07:33,000 Speaker 4: and everybody's so excited. 137 00:07:33,040 --> 00:07:33,840 Speaker 1: We're gonna have an. 138 00:07:33,760 --> 00:07:35,960 Speaker 4: Art installation and we're gonna reveal it, and you see 139 00:07:35,960 --> 00:07:37,720 Speaker 4: it and you go, oh God. I got to look 140 00:07:37,760 --> 00:07:41,800 Speaker 4: at that every day. What the hell is that I 141 00:07:41,920 --> 00:07:45,240 Speaker 4: used to office at eleven hundred Louisiana Downtown and that 142 00:07:45,400 --> 00:07:47,920 Speaker 4: some frinchman had made and that somehow that made it better. 143 00:07:48,040 --> 00:07:51,120 Speaker 4: He was French had made some art installation years ago, 144 00:07:51,160 --> 00:07:52,320 Speaker 4: and lord knows what they. 145 00:07:52,200 --> 00:07:52,840 Speaker 1: Had paid for it. 146 00:07:53,560 --> 00:07:58,000 Speaker 4: And it was it was like a Keith Herring painting 147 00:07:58,120 --> 00:08:00,280 Speaker 4: or something. It was the white stick figure me that 148 00:08:00,320 --> 00:08:02,800 Speaker 4: they were white, red and blue. It was idiots. I 149 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:03,840 Speaker 4: had to look at it every day, had to go 150 00:08:03,840 --> 00:08:06,280 Speaker 4: out the other door. God forbid, how much do they 151 00:08:06,280 --> 00:08:10,760 Speaker 4: pay for that? Fan Now, world when you need to 152 00:08:11,160 --> 00:08:13,680 Speaker 4: escape from the every day escape of the. 153 00:08:13,640 --> 00:08:14,600 Speaker 1: Michael Berry Show. 154 00:08:19,160 --> 00:08:23,040 Speaker 4: So I studied the Riverwalk different, not just as a 155 00:08:23,080 --> 00:08:29,680 Speaker 4: consumer or a tourist. First of all, if you say 156 00:08:29,680 --> 00:08:32,400 Speaker 4: you're going to San Anton, the two things that people 157 00:08:32,400 --> 00:08:35,600 Speaker 4: are gonna tell you got to say or expect you're 158 00:08:35,640 --> 00:08:41,440 Speaker 4: gonna say Alamo in a riverwalk, So it rises to 159 00:08:41,480 --> 00:08:44,839 Speaker 4: that level. Nobody wants to see the Spurs because their 160 00:08:44,840 --> 00:08:51,120 Speaker 4: coach is an idiot. Oh how sickening he announced his retirement. 161 00:08:51,280 --> 00:08:55,240 Speaker 4: All the Spurs fans who are all idiots. You'll never 162 00:08:55,280 --> 00:08:58,079 Speaker 4: meet anybody who's a Spurs fan's not an idiot. Someone 163 00:08:58,120 --> 00:09:00,200 Speaker 4: says you they're a Spurs fan, you don't even need 164 00:09:00,240 --> 00:09:01,520 Speaker 4: to check. You already know they're an idiot. If you 165 00:09:01,520 --> 00:09:03,200 Speaker 4: don't know them that, well, just they're an idiot. 166 00:09:03,920 --> 00:09:04,400 Speaker 1: You don't need it. 167 00:09:04,440 --> 00:09:07,160 Speaker 4: Even when I'm a person. Yeah, well, okay, hello, I 168 00:09:07,200 --> 00:09:09,920 Speaker 4: think I keep that to myself. No, wouldn't I You 169 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:12,840 Speaker 4: think you should too, So I'm not even gonna say 170 00:09:12,840 --> 00:09:18,600 Speaker 4: his name. This guy, this guy with the stupidest political views, 171 00:09:18,679 --> 00:09:21,600 Speaker 4: leaving Steve Kerr the field to himself to just be stupid. 172 00:09:22,960 --> 00:09:23,800 Speaker 1: You know why they do this. 173 00:09:23,840 --> 00:09:25,400 Speaker 4: You know why Popovich and Kurt did this. 174 00:09:25,880 --> 00:09:28,560 Speaker 1: I'll tell you. 175 00:09:28,559 --> 00:09:31,559 Speaker 4: You get these guys who have all black basketball players 176 00:09:31,760 --> 00:09:37,640 Speaker 4: except for maybe one Argentinian ever Swelt, and there's a 177 00:09:38,240 --> 00:09:41,880 Speaker 4: there's a gap between them and the players. So in 178 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:45,400 Speaker 4: order to build credibility, with the guys. They come out 179 00:09:45,400 --> 00:09:49,280 Speaker 4: and say really stupid stuff with the belief that the 180 00:09:49,320 --> 00:09:50,520 Speaker 4: guys go he's. 181 00:09:50,360 --> 00:09:54,000 Speaker 1: One of us. Yeah, he's down for the cause. 182 00:09:54,600 --> 00:10:04,280 Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, well I leave that alone. So anyway, people 183 00:10:04,320 --> 00:10:09,800 Speaker 4: go to Santone for the River Road. It's one of 184 00:10:09,840 --> 00:10:12,800 Speaker 4: those places you can go from Houston that you don't 185 00:10:12,840 --> 00:10:14,640 Speaker 4: have to have tickets to any event. It doesn't have 186 00:10:14,720 --> 00:10:16,800 Speaker 4: to be a major festival going on there. It doesn't 187 00:10:16,800 --> 00:10:19,400 Speaker 4: have to be a reason. You just go there. You 188 00:10:19,440 --> 00:10:22,840 Speaker 4: don't just go to Amarillo, right, You don't just go 189 00:10:22,880 --> 00:10:27,640 Speaker 4: to Abilee. There's something going on, maybe rodeo days, a 190 00:10:27,679 --> 00:10:31,920 Speaker 4: big concert or whatever. You go to sant Anton and 191 00:10:31,960 --> 00:10:35,200 Speaker 4: you cobble together a couple things to do, maybe you 192 00:10:35,240 --> 00:10:38,160 Speaker 4: and your girl, maybe your kids when they're young, and. 193 00:10:38,160 --> 00:10:41,440 Speaker 1: You can have a good weekend of it. Except the drive, because. 194 00:10:41,240 --> 00:10:45,480 Speaker 4: The aforementioned person that drives slow in the fast lane 195 00:10:45,720 --> 00:10:51,360 Speaker 4: you got a bucky stop. I have a theory when 196 00:10:51,360 --> 00:10:54,160 Speaker 4: I would ask my mom what they were doing this 197 00:10:54,200 --> 00:10:56,120 Speaker 4: weekend or what they had done the weekend before. You know, 198 00:10:56,160 --> 00:10:59,120 Speaker 4: she said, we went to Iowa Colony for the for 199 00:10:59,240 --> 00:11:02,839 Speaker 4: the lean market, and I paused, and she would think 200 00:11:02,880 --> 00:11:05,760 Speaker 4: I was judging her. I wasn't, and she say it's 201 00:11:05,840 --> 00:11:09,800 Speaker 4: something to do. People need something to do. BUCkies is 202 00:11:09,840 --> 00:11:12,400 Speaker 4: something to do because otherwise you got the drive to 203 00:11:12,440 --> 00:11:14,520 Speaker 4: San Antoni. You're trying to put together a couple of things. 204 00:11:14,880 --> 00:11:19,080 Speaker 4: You want something to be excited about, right, BUCkies gives 205 00:11:19,080 --> 00:11:19,440 Speaker 4: you something to. 206 00:11:19,400 --> 00:11:20,640 Speaker 1: Be excited about. 207 00:11:20,880 --> 00:11:23,000 Speaker 4: And they play in and you play in. We all agree, Oh, 208 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:24,760 Speaker 4: we're having We're gonna look forward to BUCkies. They're gonna 209 00:11:24,760 --> 00:11:26,400 Speaker 4: have guests and they're gonna have signs on the way. 210 00:11:26,480 --> 00:11:29,360 Speaker 4: We're gonna pull in and everybody else it's doing. They're 211 00:11:29,400 --> 00:11:33,000 Speaker 4: doing exactly what we're doing, which is validating us. And 212 00:11:33,080 --> 00:11:39,160 Speaker 4: what exactly are we doing. We're peeing. A bathroom's pretty clean, Okay, 213 00:11:39,440 --> 00:11:43,400 Speaker 4: we're peeing. And listen if it was an awkward conversation. 214 00:11:43,440 --> 00:11:46,319 Speaker 4: Because I started into the conversation, I realized, my I 215 00:11:46,320 --> 00:11:48,240 Speaker 4: don't think my wife was Indian, but my brother in 216 00:11:48,280 --> 00:11:50,079 Speaker 4: law my sister in law are Indians. So I'm having 217 00:11:50,080 --> 00:11:52,560 Speaker 4: to explain the reason that BUCkies is so got so 218 00:11:52,640 --> 00:11:55,480 Speaker 4: popular is because the Indians and Pakistani. So I just said, 219 00:11:55,520 --> 00:11:57,640 Speaker 4: to Pakistani's because my brother law has been at war 220 00:11:57,679 --> 00:11:59,200 Speaker 4: with the pakistanis for a year. So I just said, 221 00:11:59,679 --> 00:12:03,040 Speaker 4: the BUCkies so popular because Pakistani's closed the gas station down. 222 00:12:03,679 --> 00:12:06,240 Speaker 4: They won't open the gas, they won't open the bathroom. 223 00:12:06,559 --> 00:12:09,559 Speaker 4: The bathroom is perpetually broke them. You're on it ten 224 00:12:09,600 --> 00:12:11,960 Speaker 4: and they know you're not coming back. But you know, 225 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:15,640 Speaker 4: there's an interesting thing romon. There's a gas station across 226 00:12:15,640 --> 00:12:18,520 Speaker 4: the way. There's the loves. I believe this across the way. 227 00:12:19,520 --> 00:12:22,440 Speaker 4: So I said, I gotta cipher out who's going to 228 00:12:22,480 --> 00:12:22,959 Speaker 4: this station? 229 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:24,319 Speaker 1: And my wife said, locals. 230 00:12:25,080 --> 00:12:27,520 Speaker 4: How you figure, she said, because locals don't want to 231 00:12:27,520 --> 00:12:29,760 Speaker 4: have to drive around and find a parking spot. Locals 232 00:12:29,760 --> 00:12:31,400 Speaker 4: don't want to walk in with all these people with this, 233 00:12:31,679 --> 00:12:34,760 Speaker 4: you know, unnaturally gleeful expression on their face, and they're 234 00:12:34,760 --> 00:12:36,440 Speaker 4: so excited they just want to get in and get out. 235 00:12:37,559 --> 00:12:41,040 Speaker 1: I said, huh, I bet you're right. I bet you're right. 236 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:44,480 Speaker 4: So anyway, we stopped at BUCkies and did the requisite 237 00:12:44,480 --> 00:12:49,320 Speaker 4: BUCkies trip. My sister in law said, so they have 238 00:12:49,360 --> 00:12:52,199 Speaker 4: a department store in here. Said, well, that's a weird 239 00:12:52,240 --> 00:12:54,480 Speaker 4: way to look at it. I mean, I guess technically 240 00:12:54,440 --> 00:12:57,640 Speaker 4: it is true. I will tell you, rmon, I am surprised. 241 00:12:58,120 --> 00:13:02,559 Speaker 4: I'm very surprised that they sell enough clothing to make 242 00:13:02,600 --> 00:13:03,839 Speaker 4: all that space worthwhile. 243 00:13:04,280 --> 00:13:06,120 Speaker 1: I think that space is at a loss. Leader. 244 00:13:07,080 --> 00:13:11,720 Speaker 4: I don't see people buy that much clothing, do you do? 245 00:13:13,320 --> 00:13:15,120 Speaker 4: I see them wear in it, yeah, but I don't 246 00:13:15,160 --> 00:13:18,160 Speaker 4: see people. It's not like you know, Pallei royal and 247 00:13:18,240 --> 00:13:19,680 Speaker 4: orange back to school time. 248 00:13:20,960 --> 00:13:21,200 Speaker 1: Now. 249 00:13:21,440 --> 00:13:23,640 Speaker 4: I think they sell a number of you know, the 250 00:13:23,679 --> 00:13:27,760 Speaker 4: beaver nuggets and the different nuts and the different things 251 00:13:27,800 --> 00:13:32,840 Speaker 4: like that. I do think they sell. But primarily I 252 00:13:32,960 --> 00:13:36,480 Speaker 4: watched people in the line because Indians are very slow, 253 00:13:36,960 --> 00:13:39,480 Speaker 4: so I watched people in line while I'm waiting on 254 00:13:39,520 --> 00:13:42,720 Speaker 4: them to come at the exit to get out. And 255 00:13:42,760 --> 00:13:45,640 Speaker 4: there was a line. You know, it's a weekend fiesta. 256 00:13:45,800 --> 00:13:48,120 Speaker 4: Last weekend of festa. It's a lot of people going 257 00:13:48,160 --> 00:13:51,600 Speaker 4: to San Antone. And I watched people, and most people 258 00:13:51,679 --> 00:13:55,240 Speaker 4: had a drink and not just a drink. Somewhere along 259 00:13:55,280 --> 00:13:58,640 Speaker 4: the way. I'm guessing it was about ninety five people 260 00:13:58,760 --> 00:14:00,840 Speaker 4: just decided I want to drink. I don't want a 261 00:14:00,880 --> 00:14:04,920 Speaker 4: gallon of it. You just you know it's gonna be 262 00:14:05,040 --> 00:14:07,840 Speaker 4: so much. I just wonder they don't have a drink holder. 263 00:14:08,640 --> 00:14:10,840 Speaker 4: Where do people put that drink? That big old drink. Well, 264 00:14:10,880 --> 00:14:13,760 Speaker 4: you put it in your crotch, right, you need an 265 00:14:13,760 --> 00:14:15,240 Speaker 4: extra long straw. You don't have to pick it up, 266 00:14:15,280 --> 00:14:17,880 Speaker 4: just draw them. You don't even need to move, just 267 00:14:18,160 --> 00:14:20,640 Speaker 4: guzzling it. Then you've got to pee again. There's not 268 00:14:20,680 --> 00:14:22,360 Speaker 4: a bucket other BUCkies on the way, unless you're on 269 00:14:22,360 --> 00:14:24,760 Speaker 4: the way back there's another BUCkies on the way. I 270 00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:27,760 Speaker 4: do think having more than one BUCkies lost, you know, 271 00:14:27,840 --> 00:14:30,520 Speaker 4: one percent of the luster. For me, it was like, oh, 272 00:14:30,520 --> 00:14:32,680 Speaker 4: you're going to Santoni. You're like, I had BUCkies. You've 273 00:14:32,720 --> 00:14:35,200 Speaker 4: been to BUCkies. That was the only BUCkies. Now there's 274 00:14:35,240 --> 00:14:41,440 Speaker 4: BUCkies everywhere, but it had to happen, so anyway, that 275 00:14:41,600 --> 00:14:45,280 Speaker 4: was BUCkies. Uh, it's not the easiest to get in 276 00:14:45,320 --> 00:14:46,800 Speaker 4: and out of. I'm go ahead and say that right now. 277 00:14:46,840 --> 00:14:48,160 Speaker 4: It's not the easiest to get in and out of. 278 00:14:50,040 --> 00:14:53,960 Speaker 4: Not terribly easy. And then you can't just park and 279 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:56,200 Speaker 4: go in. You better not need to go when you 280 00:14:56,240 --> 00:14:58,600 Speaker 4: get there. You can't just park and go in. You're 281 00:14:58,600 --> 00:15:01,320 Speaker 4: gonna you're gonna spend some time park it because people 282 00:15:01,360 --> 00:15:05,440 Speaker 4: are excited and you know they're they're walking across. There 283 00:15:05,480 --> 00:15:10,280 Speaker 4: is also an unnaturally high rate of fat people. The 284 00:15:10,440 --> 00:15:13,000 Speaker 4: number of fat people at BUCkies is double what it 285 00:15:13,080 --> 00:15:14,600 Speaker 4: is in society. And that's a lot. 286 00:15:14,840 --> 00:15:16,000 Speaker 1: That's really said a lot. 287 00:15:16,880 --> 00:15:22,360 Speaker 4: So anyway, we went from there to me Tierra, which 288 00:15:22,440 --> 00:15:23,680 Speaker 4: was always a highlight of money. 289 00:15:23,800 --> 00:15:29,240 Speaker 1: You've been to me Tierra in the market, it's Tracy Birds. 290 00:15:29,400 --> 00:15:32,560 Speaker 4: Hey, y'all, if you drink, don't drive, do the watermelon 291 00:15:32,680 --> 00:15:35,440 Speaker 4: crawl and listen to the tsar of talk, my buddy 292 00:15:35,440 --> 00:15:42,560 Speaker 4: Michael Berry. 293 00:15:40,840 --> 00:15:44,760 Speaker 5: Sinco to my own I'm getting I think I always 294 00:15:44,840 --> 00:15:49,000 Speaker 5: enjoy Every year Russell Laborrow will send me the sales 295 00:15:49,080 --> 00:15:54,880 Speaker 5: numbers uh the next day or total sales number of 296 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:56,040 Speaker 5: restaurants in. 297 00:15:56,080 --> 00:16:01,280 Speaker 4: A year over year? This year it being on Sunday noon? 298 00:16:01,360 --> 00:16:06,760 Speaker 4: How does that work the next year? So if Cinco 299 00:16:06,760 --> 00:16:08,960 Speaker 4: de Mayo is on a Monday, was it last year 300 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:09,560 Speaker 4: on Sunday? 301 00:16:10,160 --> 00:16:12,880 Speaker 1: Is that how that works? Yeah? I think that's how 302 00:16:12,920 --> 00:16:13,320 Speaker 1: it works. 303 00:16:15,040 --> 00:16:19,680 Speaker 4: So anyway, it's always interesting to see and I he'll 304 00:16:19,680 --> 00:16:21,040 Speaker 4: know the number off the top of his head. But 305 00:16:21,720 --> 00:16:24,960 Speaker 4: their sales are up. You got to figure Bringos is 306 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:30,000 Speaker 4: always busy, so for them to be up. You know, 307 00:16:30,120 --> 00:16:32,280 Speaker 4: if a guy hadn't had a hit all year and 308 00:16:32,320 --> 00:16:34,960 Speaker 4: he gets up and gets a hit, he just blew 309 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:38,800 Speaker 4: his batting average through the roof. But if you're already batting, 310 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:41,920 Speaker 4: you know, three p thirty three and you know it's 311 00:16:41,960 --> 00:16:43,680 Speaker 4: the last game of the season, you get a hit, 312 00:16:43,720 --> 00:16:45,400 Speaker 4: you're not going to make a huge difference to your 313 00:16:45,400 --> 00:16:50,000 Speaker 4: batting average. So considering that you're your sample size is 314 00:16:50,080 --> 00:16:54,520 Speaker 4: huge already. Because Gringos is never not busy. It's crazy 315 00:16:54,560 --> 00:16:57,600 Speaker 4: to think what they do on a day like today, 316 00:16:58,720 --> 00:17:00,960 Speaker 4: and then I always look forward to that. But this year, 317 00:17:01,480 --> 00:17:03,560 Speaker 4: and he's kind enough to send me year over year, 318 00:17:04,359 --> 00:17:07,840 Speaker 4: this year will be less, I suspect than when it's 319 00:17:07,880 --> 00:17:10,520 Speaker 4: on a Friday or Saturday. When it's on Saturday, it's 320 00:17:10,600 --> 00:17:13,240 Speaker 4: huge because they'll get the lunch. They'll get a lunch 321 00:17:13,280 --> 00:17:17,440 Speaker 4: business today, but they'll get the lunch and then they'll 322 00:17:17,440 --> 00:17:19,399 Speaker 4: get the mid afternoon and the early dinner and the 323 00:17:19,440 --> 00:17:22,800 Speaker 4: dinner and all that, and they will absolutely knock it 324 00:17:22,840 --> 00:17:23,320 Speaker 4: out of the park. 325 00:17:23,320 --> 00:17:24,160 Speaker 1: If it's a Saturday. 326 00:17:24,480 --> 00:17:26,840 Speaker 4: And if it's Friday, I guess people go with their office, 327 00:17:27,080 --> 00:17:29,720 Speaker 4: they'll go to eat text Mexican. 328 00:17:30,920 --> 00:17:32,520 Speaker 1: It kind of crept up on me this year. 329 00:17:33,040 --> 00:17:35,800 Speaker 4: It's an interesting story. Sinko to miow. If you don't 330 00:17:35,800 --> 00:17:39,600 Speaker 4: know the story, it's not actually Mexican independence people think 331 00:17:39,640 --> 00:17:43,919 Speaker 4: it is. It's actually a it's actually a day to 332 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:48,520 Speaker 4: celebrate dead beats because the city of Puebla owed the 333 00:17:48,560 --> 00:17:50,879 Speaker 4: French government or the French, Yeah, I guess it was. 334 00:17:50,880 --> 00:17:54,720 Speaker 4: The French government had loaned the money and they were like, 335 00:17:54,760 --> 00:17:57,880 Speaker 4: I'm not gonna pay, and the French were like, oh, 336 00:17:57,920 --> 00:18:01,040 Speaker 4: you are going to pay the Mexicans. They went back 337 00:18:01,080 --> 00:18:05,879 Speaker 4: and forth and back and forth, and they were like, well, 338 00:18:06,600 --> 00:18:10,439 Speaker 4: a little skirmish broke out and the Mexicans won, but 339 00:18:10,520 --> 00:18:12,720 Speaker 4: they hadn't had a lot of victories at that point. 340 00:18:13,440 --> 00:18:17,600 Speaker 4: So the people of Pueblo, known as Poblano's like the Pepper. 341 00:18:18,840 --> 00:18:24,639 Speaker 4: They defeated the French and they celebrated, and that celebration 342 00:18:24,840 --> 00:18:28,440 Speaker 4: became a massive celebration because again, like Buckie's, people. 343 00:18:28,240 --> 00:18:31,000 Speaker 1: Want something to do, so single to Mayo. There you go. 344 00:18:31,080 --> 00:18:33,160 Speaker 4: You can tell that story while you're having drinks with 345 00:18:33,160 --> 00:18:33,800 Speaker 4: with the people at. 346 00:18:33,760 --> 00:18:34,320 Speaker 1: Your office to day. 347 00:18:34,359 --> 00:18:36,840 Speaker 4: You you always want to be that guy. Everybody loves 348 00:18:36,840 --> 00:18:39,600 Speaker 4: that guy. Y'all even know what singer to Maolia. 349 00:18:39,840 --> 00:18:41,320 Speaker 1: He guess another round of margeritas. 350 00:18:41,600 --> 00:18:45,359 Speaker 4: Uh yeah, dress it with tahena in one half and 351 00:18:45,640 --> 00:18:46,240 Speaker 4: salt on there. 352 00:18:46,520 --> 00:18:48,399 Speaker 1: Y'all even know what singer to Miyoi? 353 00:18:48,560 --> 00:18:51,119 Speaker 4: Can we get some ksoh, y'all even know what singer 354 00:18:51,160 --> 00:18:53,720 Speaker 4: to Mayo is Mexican of independence. 355 00:18:53,800 --> 00:18:56,479 Speaker 1: No, that's the thing about it. Nobody knows. Why are 356 00:18:56,480 --> 00:18:57,520 Speaker 1: we even here? You don't even know. 357 00:18:57,680 --> 00:18:59,720 Speaker 4: Let me tell you the story. So there was like 358 00:18:59,760 --> 00:19:06,480 Speaker 4: you Publano Peppers or something. Anyway, the river walk astounds me. 359 00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:11,440 Speaker 4: I'm trying to think of a better project, and it's 360 00:19:11,480 --> 00:19:12,600 Speaker 4: just off the top of my head. So I'm sure 361 00:19:12,600 --> 00:19:17,120 Speaker 4: there are others. Golden Gate Bridge doesn't even compare trying 362 00:19:17,160 --> 00:19:19,520 Speaker 4: to think of a public project Hoover Dan but that's 363 00:19:19,560 --> 00:19:23,280 Speaker 4: not so much a tourist attraction. Trying to think of 364 00:19:23,280 --> 00:19:31,520 Speaker 4: a public project that is, that has more utility in 365 00:19:31,640 --> 00:19:36,760 Speaker 4: terms of tourism. That thing, you know a lot of 366 00:19:36,760 --> 00:19:38,879 Speaker 4: it is an actual river. And then there's the man 367 00:19:38,960 --> 00:19:41,680 Speaker 4: made canals they made for the sixty eight World's Fair. 368 00:19:43,520 --> 00:19:46,840 Speaker 4: But when you think about the fact that you've got 369 00:19:46,880 --> 00:19:52,160 Speaker 4: all the storefronts on commerce and market in these various streets, 370 00:19:53,560 --> 00:19:57,080 Speaker 4: and that does only a people want to go down 371 00:19:57,480 --> 00:20:03,359 Speaker 4: well low grade and walk along a little canal that's 372 00:20:04,280 --> 00:20:07,239 Speaker 4: in some places three or four feet deep. But it 373 00:20:07,359 --> 00:20:13,200 Speaker 4: creates an element. It draws people in, and crowds validate 374 00:20:13,440 --> 00:20:15,520 Speaker 4: we are pack animals at the end of the day, 375 00:20:16,320 --> 00:20:16,720 Speaker 4: and so. 376 00:20:16,680 --> 00:20:17,919 Speaker 1: You just walk along. 377 00:20:17,920 --> 00:20:20,640 Speaker 4: And part of the walking along is you're you're part 378 00:20:20,680 --> 00:20:23,159 Speaker 4: of the crowd that's walking along. I must be in 379 00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:24,600 Speaker 4: the right place because a lot of other people are 380 00:20:24,600 --> 00:20:25,200 Speaker 4: in the right place. 381 00:20:25,240 --> 00:20:26,480 Speaker 1: A lot of other people are doing this. 382 00:20:27,720 --> 00:20:30,760 Speaker 4: And you think about what that does for the San 383 00:20:30,760 --> 00:20:36,240 Speaker 4: Antonin economy. It's incredible and it really is something to behold. 384 00:20:36,600 --> 00:20:39,359 Speaker 4: It's a it's a beautiful thing, the way it works 385 00:20:39,359 --> 00:20:42,040 Speaker 4: in the little the little bridges, and there's where Selena, 386 00:20:42,080 --> 00:20:46,080 Speaker 4: there's where Jennifer Lopez, uh, you know in the movie. 387 00:20:46,240 --> 00:20:49,520 Speaker 1: And I enjoy walking along the river Walk. 388 00:20:49,600 --> 00:20:51,800 Speaker 4: I don't know if I live there, i walk along 389 00:20:51,840 --> 00:20:55,159 Speaker 4: every day, but I do enjoy walking. And I enjoyed 390 00:20:55,560 --> 00:20:58,720 Speaker 4: getting my brother in law sister in law's reaction to 391 00:20:58,840 --> 00:21:03,080 Speaker 4: various things. We stayed in the Western Riverwalk because I 392 00:21:03,080 --> 00:21:07,359 Speaker 4: wanted them to see the Riverwalk. And it's not like 393 00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:10,040 Speaker 4: it was Motel six, but I think it was less 394 00:21:10,040 --> 00:21:13,440 Speaker 4: than tw hundred dollars for fiesta for what was a 395 00:21:13,520 --> 00:21:17,960 Speaker 4: nice room. Weston has you know a pretty good that 396 00:21:18,080 --> 00:21:20,400 Speaker 4: pre customer service and the quality of the room was good, 397 00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:23,520 Speaker 4: and I thought it was pretty good price for what 398 00:21:23,560 --> 00:21:27,520 Speaker 4: you got. And then we went to the Aliba. My 399 00:21:27,520 --> 00:21:30,120 Speaker 4: brother in law was one of the blue helmets at 400 00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:33,280 Speaker 4: Hotel Rwanda when it all went down. Nick Nolty's character 401 00:21:33,520 --> 00:21:36,800 Speaker 4: was really my brother in law. He served in Rwanda, 402 00:21:37,160 --> 00:21:40,600 Speaker 4: he served in Mozambique, he served in Kenya with the 403 00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:46,639 Speaker 4: Indian Army. He fought against the Packis, he fought against 404 00:21:46,920 --> 00:21:50,840 Speaker 4: uh well not officially because it's not official, but against 405 00:21:50,840 --> 00:21:52,679 Speaker 4: the Chinese on the eastern border. 406 00:21:53,040 --> 00:21:55,399 Speaker 1: He's seen some things, so I knew he was going 407 00:21:55,480 --> 00:21:56,160 Speaker 1: to be interested. 408 00:21:57,080 --> 00:22:00,840 Speaker 4: And Ramona, have you been since they built the new 409 00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:05,800 Speaker 4: Ralston or whatever it is building? So you know, Phil 410 00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:09,919 Speaker 4: Collins gave all this stuff. It's glorious they got stuff. 411 00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:10,800 Speaker 1: Man. 412 00:22:10,880 --> 00:22:13,600 Speaker 4: I hate I hate to think there are people who 413 00:22:13,640 --> 00:22:15,920 Speaker 4: died that never saw all the stuff Phil Collins had 414 00:22:15,960 --> 00:22:20,280 Speaker 4: for all those years. He's got what claims to be 415 00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:26,960 Speaker 4: Santa Anna's sword, Santa Anna's actual sword from eighteen thirty five. 416 00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:32,760 Speaker 1: He's got what's that it's don switchblade. 417 00:22:33,040 --> 00:22:38,040 Speaker 4: No, you see, now, you're just making cultural stereotypes. I 418 00:22:38,080 --> 00:22:40,320 Speaker 4: don't know why they dated at eighteen thirty five, Like 419 00:22:40,440 --> 00:22:43,520 Speaker 4: did he not have it at the Alamo in eighteen 420 00:22:43,560 --> 00:22:44,199 Speaker 4: thirty I don't know. 421 00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:46,520 Speaker 1: But then they got they got a little deal. 422 00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:51,199 Speaker 4: They've got a replica of the of the Alamo, and 423 00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:55,920 Speaker 4: Phil Collins narrates it and they go, you know, and 424 00:22:56,080 --> 00:22:57,800 Speaker 4: and they go, you know. At this point there was 425 00:22:57,840 --> 00:22:59,959 Speaker 4: a breach and it was like the home depot parking lot. 426 00:23:00,080 --> 00:23:01,560 Speaker 1: The Mexicans were coming over the border here. 427 00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:04,840 Speaker 4: And then they got the light and then uh, you know, 428 00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:08,359 Speaker 4: and then on this corner there was a breeze and poop, 429 00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:12,080 Speaker 4: the light pops up over there, and you can't help 430 00:23:12,119 --> 00:23:13,960 Speaker 4: but think to yourself at that point, part of the 431 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:16,240 Speaker 4: problem is the damn thing is strung out too far. 432 00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:21,560 Speaker 4: The Mexicans had them stretched too far. And but it's 433 00:23:21,640 --> 00:23:27,200 Speaker 4: really really, really cool. I mean it's really cool. I've 434 00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:29,879 Speaker 4: been obsessed for the Alamo since I was a kid. 435 00:23:29,960 --> 00:23:30,119 Speaker 1: You know. 436 00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:32,480 Speaker 4: Obviously I always wanted to have a son, and I 437 00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:35,439 Speaker 4: always want a name in Crockett. Uh, so you know this, 438 00:23:35,600 --> 00:23:37,560 Speaker 4: this this runs deep with me. But if you haven't 439 00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:41,000 Speaker 4: been to the Alamo, that the new exhibit, it's worth said. 440 00:23:42,359 --> 00:23:46,960 Speaker 2: This is Sevester Turner, the mayor and a human being. 441 00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:57,520 Speaker 1: Michael to my own, my brother in law, who has. 442 00:23:59,600 --> 00:23:59,719 Speaker 2: UH. 443 00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:04,280 Speaker 4: Toward the latter end of after he retired, he lectured 444 00:24:04,280 --> 00:24:09,479 Speaker 4: at the military colleges in India and abroad, and I 445 00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:12,280 Speaker 4: want him to come here and teach at maybe A 446 00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:17,439 Speaker 4: and M or one of the schools here that has programs. 447 00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:21,680 Speaker 4: But he's still part of a think tank in India 448 00:24:21,760 --> 00:24:29,879 Speaker 4: on this, an international think tank on war and geopolitical 449 00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:34,359 Speaker 4: peace and these sorts of things. But in any case, 450 00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:39,960 Speaker 4: he commented on the Battle of San Jacento and he said, 451 00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:46,439 Speaker 4: I don't recall a bigger, faster route in all of history. 452 00:24:47,560 --> 00:24:48,240 Speaker 1: Its in a while. 453 00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:52,719 Speaker 4: That's sansom, He said, yeah, it really is. When you 454 00:24:52,800 --> 00:24:57,680 Speaker 4: study the logistics of what happened, it really is amazing. 455 00:24:58,040 --> 00:25:04,119 Speaker 4: It's an incredible thing that that that this happened. You know, 456 00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:08,000 Speaker 4: Santa Anna did a real disservice to Mexicans, the whole 457 00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:12,080 Speaker 4: Siesta thing. It's one thing to lose a battle, but 458 00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:15,159 Speaker 4: you're sleeping in the middle of the afternoon, it just 459 00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:18,399 Speaker 4: it doesn't and you hold up with a woman. It 460 00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:21,200 Speaker 4: just doesn't look good. But it's not a good look. 461 00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:24,000 Speaker 4: There's no way around it. It's it's not a good look, 462 00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:27,240 Speaker 4: I should tell you so you're not angry with me. 463 00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:33,719 Speaker 4: The new the new portion of the Alamo. I'm a 464 00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:40,080 Speaker 4: tactile person. I my wife loved the new portion because 465 00:25:40,080 --> 00:25:43,200 Speaker 4: you get to see, you know, because there's there's there's 466 00:25:43,240 --> 00:25:47,000 Speaker 4: a level of depth to the research that's brought to it. 467 00:25:48,119 --> 00:25:50,760 Speaker 4: But for me, what appeals to me is the same 468 00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:52,200 Speaker 4: thing it appealed to me when I was eight years 469 00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:55,600 Speaker 4: old when I went the first time, and that is 470 00:25:56,560 --> 00:25:57,080 Speaker 4: the church. 471 00:25:57,680 --> 00:26:01,679 Speaker 1: When you enter the church, and and when you. 472 00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:08,000 Speaker 4: See the facade of the Alamo, when you walk the grounds, 473 00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:14,439 Speaker 4: when you see where the stone has weathered. That that 474 00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:20,360 Speaker 4: appeals to me. Seeing you know, the research. I've done 475 00:26:20,359 --> 00:26:22,040 Speaker 4: the research on my own. I don't need to go 476 00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:25,159 Speaker 4: into an air conditioned building and do that. But my 477 00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:27,880 Speaker 4: wife loved it. She thought that this was our first 478 00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:30,000 Speaker 4: time to see the whole new and if you don't know, 479 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:34,440 Speaker 4: it's it's a big new museum. But I find museums 480 00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:38,560 Speaker 4: themselves to be mostly sterile and clinical, not because the 481 00:26:38,560 --> 00:26:42,640 Speaker 4: information isn't useful, but because it's almost never the case 482 00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:45,480 Speaker 4: that I go into a museum that I haven't already 483 00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:49,399 Speaker 4: read it all on the internet, so I can. 484 00:26:49,880 --> 00:26:52,040 Speaker 1: Read everything I'm going to read. 485 00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:54,639 Speaker 4: Standing around other people, breathing down my neck, waiting to 486 00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:56,879 Speaker 4: get into that space and look at it. You know, 487 00:26:56,920 --> 00:27:00,240 Speaker 4: smoking a cigar on the back porch in the from 488 00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:02,920 Speaker 4: my own home and I probably usually have so it 489 00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:06,040 Speaker 4: wasn't my thing, but my wife really enjoyed it. I 490 00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:10,320 Speaker 4: don't enjoy seeing the little things they had as much 491 00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:12,320 Speaker 4: as my wife does. And my brother in law, did 492 00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:15,600 Speaker 4: you know this is his knife and this is his razor, 493 00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:19,280 Speaker 4: and okay, I'd rather look at Okay, that's the wall 494 00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:22,560 Speaker 4: they scaled. Okay, okay, and that's where you know, an 495 00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:28,840 Speaker 4: amazing thing ramon the Alamo. It's not like the Alamo fell. 496 00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:32,960 Speaker 4: San de Sento. You know, Goliad happens, San Decento happens, 497 00:27:34,359 --> 00:27:36,560 Speaker 4: We win the battle, but lose a war with Mexico. 498 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:43,560 Speaker 4: We you know, become independent and everything that happens there, 499 00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:49,960 Speaker 4: and you know, the the Alamo becomes this historic site. 500 00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:53,919 Speaker 4: Far from it, I mean it was. It had a 501 00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:58,199 Speaker 4: number of commercial uses. I mean, it's hard to believe 502 00:27:59,160 --> 00:28:03,400 Speaker 4: that people, well, that things were happening there that were 503 00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:06,880 Speaker 4: not treating the Alamo as the sacred space we see 504 00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:10,880 Speaker 4: it as today. I did get a little aggravated. 505 00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:12,399 Speaker 1: I was. 506 00:28:14,119 --> 00:28:18,120 Speaker 4: I go down these rabbit holes. So I was leaning 507 00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:22,920 Speaker 4: against a wall inside the habitation, which is the rooms 508 00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:25,119 Speaker 4: to the side when you enter to the to the left. 509 00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:26,320 Speaker 1: This is free to the public. 510 00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:31,720 Speaker 4: And I'm leaning against the wall in reading about the 511 00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:36,879 Speaker 4: particular that that particular place and thing, and some docent 512 00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:39,480 Speaker 4: screams at me, can't lean. 513 00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:44,080 Speaker 1: On the wall. Oh okay, all right, all right. 514 00:28:44,760 --> 00:28:48,240 Speaker 4: So my immediate reaction is to accommodate. Oh, I'm sorry, Yeah, 515 00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:51,080 Speaker 4: all right, she's just doing her job. I go ten 516 00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:54,400 Speaker 4: more steps in the next room, docent leaning on the wall, 517 00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:59,000 Speaker 4: and I thought to myself, you are really lucky I 518 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:02,000 Speaker 4: hadn't had at least one pop, because I'd have been like, 519 00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:05,040 Speaker 4: do you know, because it's the spook effect, you know, 520 00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:07,640 Speaker 4: when you f you're you're trying to read, and you're like, 521 00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:10,640 Speaker 4: you feel like there might be Mexicans around any corner. 522 00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:12,280 Speaker 1: You know, you're getting ready, and. 523 00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:16,880 Speaker 4: You know Travis has written his letter, how you're getting 524 00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:19,960 Speaker 4: all fired up, And then all of a sudden, Oh, 525 00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:23,480 Speaker 4: you didn't need to be like that, you know, you 526 00:29:23,480 --> 00:29:26,240 Speaker 4: You could have been a little softer, could have politely, 527 00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:28,440 Speaker 4: could have been a librarian voice you could have done 528 00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:29,320 Speaker 4: the librarian voice. 529 00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:32,440 Speaker 1: That would have been nice. Anyway, I urge you to 530 00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:32,880 Speaker 1: go see it. 531 00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:36,760 Speaker 4: The area around there, they've even done some things to 532 00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:40,920 Speaker 4: the old historic manger UH. But the area around there 533 00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:44,360 Speaker 4: is they've really spruced it up. I guess they're redoing 534 00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:47,920 Speaker 4: the UH hotel across the street. I meant to check, 535 00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:51,080 Speaker 4: but I didn't see. San Antonia has had a lot 536 00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:59,120 Speaker 4: of updates. It's really really it's it's fantastic now. I 537 00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:03,400 Speaker 4: did see some home homeless people in downtown. It ain't 538 00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:05,640 Speaker 4: a Austin or Portland, don't get me wrong, or Houston, 539 00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:09,280 Speaker 4: but I don't recall ever seeing homeless people. Maybe I'm 540 00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:12,240 Speaker 4: more conscious now, but I did see some homeless people, 541 00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:17,120 Speaker 4: and I hope that's not going to continue. I really 542 00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:19,920 Speaker 4: hope that's not going to get because that will ruin everything. 543 00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:22,280 Speaker 4: Nobody wants to bring their kids around that because they 544 00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:26,320 Speaker 4: were aggressive homeless. You know, they were panhandling and just 545 00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:31,200 Speaker 4: basically being a menace. They were at the point they're 546 00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:33,560 Speaker 4: at a nuisance. But it doesn't take long and you 547 00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:35,080 Speaker 4: get a few of them together and they just start 548 00:30:35,080 --> 00:30:41,080 Speaker 4: acting crazy. So weekend at sant Anton I highly recommend 549 00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:43,960 Speaker 4: if I get around to it, which will probably not happen, 550 00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:46,640 Speaker 4: I will post everywhere we went. I will say this 551 00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:49,640 Speaker 4: from I went to meet Tierra on the way and 552 00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:53,280 Speaker 4: I had a speech to give in San Anton a 553 00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:56,680 Speaker 4: couple of months ago, and my wife couldn't make it 554 00:30:57,160 --> 00:31:00,920 Speaker 4: because Crockett had exams and all that, And she said, 555 00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:04,320 Speaker 4: won't you take Michael Robinson? So my buddy, the Aggie Plumber, 556 00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:05,720 Speaker 4: and I he was kind enough to go with me, 557 00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:10,120 Speaker 4: and he drove when I smoked, and we went to 558 00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:11,440 Speaker 4: Metierra and it was fine. 559 00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:14,040 Speaker 1: I didn't think anything of it, but. 560 00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:19,400 Speaker 4: I took my brother law, sister in law, and I 561 00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:23,200 Speaker 4: metierr has always been part of my visit to San Anton. 562 00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:25,960 Speaker 4: Food was cold, they put us in the back corner. 563 00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:27,680 Speaker 4: They didn't take our order for twenty minutes. It just 564 00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:33,080 Speaker 4: the service wasn't good. The experience wasn't good. The food 565 00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:35,640 Speaker 4: was not good. And that's even the cas I wasn't good. 566 00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:37,680 Speaker 4: And I said to my wife later asked, because I 567 00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:39,520 Speaker 4: wouldn't never ruin a meal at that time, I said, 568 00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:42,600 Speaker 4: this feels odd to say, but the food wasn't And 569 00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:44,200 Speaker 4: I never say I have a bad meal. I just 570 00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:45,520 Speaker 4: tell myself I had a good meal, and I had 571 00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:47,680 Speaker 4: a good meal. I said the food wasn't really good. 572 00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:52,160 Speaker 4: Did you notice that? And she goes, You're spoiled by gringoes, 573 00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:55,160 Speaker 4: and I thought, part of the reason I can't move 574 00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:57,160 Speaker 4: out of Houston. Do you ever try to eat text 575 00:31:57,160 --> 00:32:01,440 Speaker 4: meac somewhere else? But it was disappointing because Metier as legendary. 576 00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:05,640 Speaker 4: We had Lafonda on Sunday. It's one of my favorite places. 577 00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:08,760 Speaker 4: We had a place called Tokyo Cowboy, which was a 578 00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:11,240 Speaker 4: Japanese text mex fusion sounds goofy. 579 00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:14,760 Speaker 1: You been there? Really good? I mean a little little 580 00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:15,120 Speaker 1: fussy 581 00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:17,600 Speaker 4: But it was good.