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Speaker 2: Is on the air. And now a totally random week

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Speaker 1: Take a guess when this was.

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Speaker 3: My name is Richard, and I wanted to let you

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Speaker 1: Could you read the first.

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Speaker 3: Paragraph that Candy? It won't make sense to him.

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Speaker 1: Now I'll know. I got an incoming email from Richard.

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Speaker 1: The high stake show down here in Philadelphia between Vice

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Speaker 1: President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump.

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Speaker 4: And we have a president that we don't even know

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Speaker 1: We don't even know if he's a president.

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Speaker 4: Now she wants to do transgender operation or illegal aliens

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Speaker 1: The New York Times headline pundits said Harris won the

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Speaker 1: I'm surprised the Cheney family has decided to come out

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Speaker 1: Kamala Harris. Richard, you're on the Michael Berry Show. Welcome

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Speaker 3: So I think did you get those?

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Speaker 1: Is this the Genesis Project? Richard?

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Speaker 1: I saw one of them, Richard.

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Speaker 3: I I'm going to sell you a document, pree documentary.

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Speaker 3: The first one is the thirteen practice of gross for radicals.

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Speaker 1: I've been talking about these things since all the way

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Speaker 1: She said, Hi, Michael, I'm a January sixth defendant. My

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Speaker 1: Letter j the Number six J six road home dot com.

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Speaker 1: After the presidential pardons coming up on January twentieth, we

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Speaker 1: Michael Berryshow dot com Michael Berryshow dot com and you

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Speaker 2: Hi Michael, thank you for having me on.

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Speaker 1: You're a spunky little thing. I like you already.

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Speaker 2: Well, I thank you. I am all right.

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Speaker 1: I want you. I got a lot to cover. I

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Speaker 2: I went to the Capitol on January sixth in order

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Speaker 2: I was wearing a Trump flag as a cape. I

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Speaker 1: So well, thank you. How long before you were able

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Speaker 2: So it took ten months from when they arrested me

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Speaker 2: No, sir. Actually I sold my flower shop in order

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Speaker 2: Moved here in September of twenty three three.

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Speaker 1: You miss it? No, sir, No, it was hard work.

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Speaker 2: It was hard work. This this is also hard work.

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Speaker 2: Now I have a bed and breakfast and we also

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Speaker 1: Okay, so importantly, we're going to get to J six

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Speaker 1: let me find your I'm going to minimize that. Where

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Speaker 1: I think I've somebody has sent me something about you before. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I've seen this before. How long would you buy this?

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Speaker 1: He looks like he will whip somebody's ass. Oh my god,

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Speaker 1: I would not mess with that fella at all. Looks

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Speaker 2: Eight rooms, Yes, sir, tell him.

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Speaker 1: I love his star skin Hutch colored el Camino. I

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Speaker 2: Is wonderful. This is a beautiful that that will take

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Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, this is a beautiful property. Jenny, This

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Speaker 1: Hold on. Jenny is worried these Jay sixers are going

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Speaker 1: Moved the receipt, all right, Lessen for the dio tone.

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Speaker 1: our guest. She pled out for stupid charge on January sixth,

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Speaker 2: To accomplish, Yes, sir, so we believe that God brought

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Speaker 2: Many of them have lost everything, have lost their small business,

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Speaker 2: we've already raised twenty thousand dollars in a week since

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Speaker 2: because we already have two J sixers coming here. One

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Speaker 2: so we need a house to put them in and

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Speaker 2: then they're going to help us build the next house

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Speaker 1: You know, when I was younger, I thought that everybody

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Speaker 1: I wish you the absolute best. Your website for your

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Speaker 1: They're one of my favorite places to get a very

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the program. Oh, Maria, Yes, welcome to the program.

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm honored that you would join us. What is

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Speaker 6: How is it God?

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Speaker 2: You like?

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Speaker 1: How would you greet someone that you respect.

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Speaker 1: Kanye's? Yes, okay, I like it. Tell me about your husband,

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Speaker 5: Oh, my husband is the basic guy. I meet through

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Speaker 6: One year? I come to United States nineteen seventy four.

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Speaker 6: No, sir, it's barbecue place.

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Speaker 5: My fresh restaurant is for name on a good Lands

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Speaker 5: And then open another one and open another one? A

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Speaker 1: And that is on five twenty nine at Eldridge. Yes, sir,

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Speaker 6: My lamb chops and my lambsack.

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Speaker 5: The lamb chops is a mighty name before I cook everything.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, y'are yah yah? Okay, remember ya ya Mary's That

442
00:24:56,160 --> 00:24:58,960
Speaker 1: was Chris Pappus's love letter to his grandmother. Yes, and

443
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Speaker 1: you're yah yah. What was her first name?

444
00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:04,000
Speaker 6: Maria?

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Speaker 1: She was Maria also? And your mother, my mother is Melpo.

446
00:25:11,119 --> 00:25:13,200
Speaker 1: Do you have a Greek Orthodox church you go to

447
00:25:13,359 --> 00:25:14,040
Speaker 1: here in Houston?

448
00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:15,640
Speaker 6: Yes?

449
00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:16,400
Speaker 1: Which one?

450
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Speaker 6: San ps.

451
00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:24,920
Speaker 1: Andrich On Eldridge? Okay, and you said something else, You

452
00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:27,120
Speaker 1: said you do the Greek? Do you do the lamb

453
00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:29,399
Speaker 1: chops and then what's the other dish you do? That

454
00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:30,200
Speaker 1: was lamb.

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Speaker 6: Lambsack.

456
00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:37,000
Speaker 5: I do the musaka, I do the pastichio, and do

457
00:25:37,280 --> 00:25:38,480
Speaker 5: the Greek dormades.

458
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Speaker 1: I'm getting hungry, Maria. Can you hold on just a minute.

459
00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:44,639
Speaker 1: I want to keep talking to you, but we have

460
00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:48,399
Speaker 1: a quick break. Can you hold with me? Yes, okay,

461
00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:51,879
Speaker 1: wait right there, I'll crush about four.

462
00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:56,360
Speaker 2: George sleep I can't you excited?

463
00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:02,840
Speaker 1: We are the nice Greek lady of Athena's Greek Kitchen

464
00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:05,720
Speaker 1: on five twenty nine as our guest, Maria, do you

465
00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:08,679
Speaker 1: know this guy named Daniel Calcote or Calcote?

466
00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:11,080
Speaker 6: Yes?

467
00:26:11,680 --> 00:26:12,159
Speaker 1: Who is he?

468
00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:17,400
Speaker 6: This is my customers from my restaurant.

469
00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:20,160
Speaker 1: Is he a good customer?

470
00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:21,920
Speaker 2: Yes?

471
00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:24,440
Speaker 1: What do you do in there? Are you mostly in

472
00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:26,800
Speaker 1: the kitchen? Are you out front? Are you going table

473
00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:28,480
Speaker 1: to table? Are you yelling at people?

474
00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:28,920
Speaker 2: What do you do?

475
00:26:29,359 --> 00:26:36,359
Speaker 5: I'll do everything here? Yeah, everything, Yes, cook talks to

476
00:26:36,480 --> 00:26:39,680
Speaker 5: my customers, cleans the temples, I do everything.

477
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Speaker 1: How many of what percentage of your customers that come

478
00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:51,680
Speaker 1: in or Greek? Are you serious?

479
00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:53,440
Speaker 6: Yes?

480
00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:57,920
Speaker 1: That's a lot. Yes, I didn't know we had that

481
00:26:58,080 --> 00:27:00,280
Speaker 1: many Greeks because most of the Greeks are read in

482
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Speaker 1: the restaurant business.

483
00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:06,320
Speaker 6: And everybody all the Greek is the rest of a business.

484
00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:10,120
Speaker 1: You're right, How are Greek customers different than the rest

485
00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:12,200
Speaker 1: of us? Do they tip more or less?

486
00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:19,360
Speaker 5: Yes?

487
00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:19,800
Speaker 6: Greek?

488
00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:29,680
Speaker 5: No same thik support more American people is good everybody?

489
00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:32,240
Speaker 5: If you good, honor, you're dealing with everybody.

490
00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:36,080
Speaker 1: Okay, all right? What's the number one thing people order

491
00:27:36,119 --> 00:27:38,040
Speaker 1: when they come into Athenis Greek kitchen?

492
00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:42,239
Speaker 6: How much money or what do you mean?

493
00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:44,000
Speaker 1: What dish do they order?

494
00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:53,200
Speaker 5: Most popularized my cheeky kebob, pik kebob, my hero sandwich, pastichio,

495
00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:55,800
Speaker 5: my mushaka, my.

496
00:27:57,520 --> 00:27:58,560
Speaker 6: Greek their mothers?

497
00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:04,320
Speaker 1: What else do you do?

498
00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:04,879
Speaker 5: You do?

499
00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:05,439
Speaker 2: Va?

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00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:10,399
Speaker 6: My best? I'll make you.

501
00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:14,920
Speaker 1: Maria. I went to law school at the University of

502
00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:20,360
Speaker 1: Texas in Austin, and just just north of the campus

503
00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:25,399
Speaker 1: at twenty six there was a little deli. There was

504
00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:28,719
Speaker 1: a restaurant that it was just simple sandwiches, but there

505
00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:31,680
Speaker 1: was a very old Greek man and I would go

506
00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:33,359
Speaker 1: in and talk to him every day when I finished

507
00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:36,040
Speaker 1: my classes, and I would have a cup of coffee

508
00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:38,120
Speaker 1: and it was like motor oil. It was really thick

509
00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:41,440
Speaker 1: coffee and he made home baklava that he would bring

510
00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:43,440
Speaker 1: up there and I would buy it every day and

511
00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:47,160
Speaker 1: it was the best baklava ever. And he said, always

512
00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:50,720
Speaker 1: buy your baklava from a Greek because we make the

513
00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:54,200
Speaker 1: best baklava. Now I'm going to ask you is that true?

514
00:28:55,680 --> 00:29:00,200
Speaker 6: This is true? Yes, yes, come try my baca and

515
00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:02,920
Speaker 6: is the best? All Austo.

516
00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:06,160
Speaker 1: Who is that that's helping you in the back with

517
00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:08,600
Speaker 1: translations and things? Who is that person?

518
00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:11,480
Speaker 6: This is a one nay.

519
00:29:13,040 --> 00:29:14,560
Speaker 2: Friend to me, friend to you.

520
00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:19,000
Speaker 1: She's not like a relative or anything. Yes, do you

521
00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:19,720
Speaker 1: have children?

522
00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:22,400
Speaker 6: I've got to envoy.

523
00:29:23,080 --> 00:29:28,280
Speaker 1: And what's his name? George Leras George, good Greek name.

524
00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:29,480
Speaker 1: Does he work with you?

525
00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:35,320
Speaker 6: Yes, sir, he's not my son. If he's not for

526
00:29:35,520 --> 00:29:40,120
Speaker 6: my son, I can hand he because very very very

527
00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:42,520
Speaker 6: much for me but myself.

528
00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:44,680
Speaker 1: And how many days a week are y'all open?

529
00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:47,640
Speaker 6: Seven days a week?

530
00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:50,480
Speaker 1: And what are your hours?

531
00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:58,000
Speaker 5: I'm here sometimes it's seven, sometimes nine, And I'm here

532
00:29:58,160 --> 00:30:00,600
Speaker 5: seven days a week until Halle.

533
00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:05,680
Speaker 6: To nine sometimes to ten, Maria, that's a long day.

534
00:30:07,320 --> 00:30:08,640
Speaker 5: It's would I make me happy?

535
00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:09,440
Speaker 1: Yeah?

536
00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:11,080
Speaker 6: I love my customers.

537
00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:12,840
Speaker 5: I love my restaurant.

538
00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:15,000
Speaker 6: So it makes me so happy.

539
00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:16,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, but that's hard work.

540
00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:20,080
Speaker 6: For me. It's easy.

541
00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:23,360
Speaker 5: Because I love the job a day.

542
00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:27,120
Speaker 1: How often do you go visit Greece?

543
00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:35,080
Speaker 5: I used to go every two years, but now I

544
00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:37,040
Speaker 5: can go because it's my restaurant.

545
00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:40,320
Speaker 6: I know. I leave my restaurant to go. I love

546
00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:40,880
Speaker 6: this job.

547
00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:43,520
Speaker 1: And where in Greece? Are you from?

548
00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:45,520
Speaker 6: Chios?

549
00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:47,320
Speaker 1: And where is that.

550
00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:53,000
Speaker 6: Serremans for instables?

551
00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:54,480
Speaker 1: From Istanbul?

552
00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:55,520
Speaker 2: And what is what?

553
00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:58,600
Speaker 1: What is it famous for? What is that that place famous?

554
00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:03,400
Speaker 6: For us? The Hughes is more favored for the sweets

555
00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:04,680
Speaker 6: and for the.

556
00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:07,240
Speaker 1: Chewing gum, chewing gum.

557
00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:10,200
Speaker 6: Yes, and you call Mastia?

558
00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:14,200
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, okay if you say so. Do you

559
00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:16,720
Speaker 1: eat at the restaurant every day because you don't leave?

560
00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:18,960
Speaker 5: Yes?

561
00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:21,120
Speaker 6: I need to my food because it's the best food

562
00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:22,960
Speaker 6: than the all over in the war.

563
00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:27,400
Speaker 1: That makes sense. And y'all have a full bar there?

564
00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:31,120
Speaker 5: No, No, I don't got bad. I've got to beer

565
00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:31,720
Speaker 5: and white.

566
00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:33,320
Speaker 1: Okay, Well that's good enough for me.

567
00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:36,000
Speaker 6: Come over.

568
00:31:36,520 --> 00:31:39,880
Speaker 1: I'm gonna come and visit and I look forward to meeting. Now.

569
00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:42,440
Speaker 1: I'm a hugger, Maria. Is that gonna be weird? If

570
00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:44,200
Speaker 1: I give you a big hug first time I meet you,

571
00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:51,800
Speaker 1: I'm more hugger. You don't hug, Yes too much? You

572
00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:54,440
Speaker 1: do hug? Okay, okay, all right. How many employees do

573
00:31:54,520 --> 00:31:56,080
Speaker 1: you have at Athena's Greek Kitchen?

574
00:31:57,760 --> 00:31:58,800
Speaker 6: I got but ten.

575
00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:04,760
Speaker 1: Well that's a lot. That's a lot of payroll. What

576
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:07,800
Speaker 1: is the hardest part about running a restaurant that that

577
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:11,080
Speaker 1: customers don't understand that would surprise them?

578
00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:16,200
Speaker 6: Yes, the buzzing.

579
00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:20,680
Speaker 5: Me need to handle everybody, you know, because I have

580
00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:22,960
Speaker 5: to talk to my customers, the dogs.

581
00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:26,000
Speaker 6: I need to have call my customers just coming here.

582
00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:30,400
Speaker 5: Yeah, And everybody called me by my name, and I

583
00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:33,560
Speaker 5: like that because I'm very friendly to my customers.

584
00:32:34,840 --> 00:32:37,600
Speaker 1: And they do they call you miss Maria or Dounia

585
00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:39,400
Speaker 1: Maria or what do they call you?

586
00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:39,680
Speaker 2: No?

587
00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:44,000
Speaker 6: No, no, Maria. I love you, Maria, you the best?

588
00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:45,240
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness.

589
00:32:45,760 --> 00:32:47,040
Speaker 6: How you call me ya ya?

590
00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:50,480
Speaker 1: Everybody they call you ya ya like grandmother? How will

591
00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:54,760
Speaker 1: I know which one you are? If I go in there, You're.

592
00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:59,120
Speaker 5: Gonna see me, Okay, you're gonna sume that the time

593
00:32:59,280 --> 00:33:02,440
Speaker 5: you come to the though, You're gonna me Maria.

594
00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:05,480
Speaker 1: That has to be Maria. That's Yaya right there. There's

595
00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:09,360
Speaker 1: no chance that would be anybody other than Yahya. Well, Maria,

596
00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:11,960
Speaker 1: I have enjoyed talking to you. I hope y'all have

597
00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:15,480
Speaker 1: a good business today. You are an inspiration.

598
00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:19,880
Speaker 5: I thank you uddy much and I wait to meet you.

599
00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:22,120
Speaker 1: Ramon wanted me to ask you how old you are,

600
00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:24,320
Speaker 1: and I said, I'm not gonna do it, but however

601
00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:25,600
Speaker 1: old you are, it's impressive.

602
00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:29,840
Speaker 5: Did I need to kid your old? I am yes, sixty.

603
00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:32,440
Speaker 1: Eight sixty eight. Well you know what, you keep going strong.

604
00:33:32,560 --> 00:33:36,400
Speaker 1: Maria Athena's Greek Kitchen on five twenty nine, which is

605
00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:42,160
Speaker 1: also Spencer Road and North Eldridge kind of northwest Houston.

606
00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:46,160
Speaker 1: What a tree, What a treasure. Daniel cal Kot, thank

607
00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:49,800
Speaker 1: you for sending me that email. I feel like my

608
00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:53,640
Speaker 1: day is better for talking to Jenny McCombs and Maria

609
00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:56,920
Speaker 1: at the Athene's Greek Kitchen. Mon did you get her

610
00:33:57,040 --> 00:34:00,360
Speaker 1: last name? Because I didn't? Kind of zero