1 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:11,319 Speaker 1: It's that time time time, time, luck and load. The 2 00:00:11,520 --> 00:00:13,400 Speaker 1: Michael Arry Show is. 3 00:00:13,280 --> 00:00:13,880 Speaker 2: On the air. 4 00:00:33,320 --> 00:00:37,240 Speaker 1: I'm a completely hutter idiot. I screwed that whole story up. 5 00:00:37,880 --> 00:00:39,000 Speaker 1: That's completely on me. 6 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:44,879 Speaker 3: Nelson Beckett, the ninety year old World War Two veteran 7 00:00:46,520 --> 00:00:53,960 Speaker 3: who was murdered by this turd who already had a 8 00:00:53,960 --> 00:01:03,680 Speaker 3: criminal record, and the judge let him out. I'm looking 9 00:01:03,720 --> 00:01:10,480 Speaker 3: for the judge's name. I'll see if we can find that, 10 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:18,039 Speaker 3: because I want that judge to be responsible when we 11 00:01:18,200 --> 00:01:21,560 Speaker 3: played the story. I don't always watch a story. I 12 00:01:21,600 --> 00:01:24,480 Speaker 3: often listen to stories. I try to watch them all, 13 00:01:24,640 --> 00:01:28,160 Speaker 3: but I just I can't. Our team is always pulling 14 00:01:28,440 --> 00:01:31,720 Speaker 3: things and sometimes they'll tell me what's in a story 15 00:01:31,840 --> 00:01:34,120 Speaker 3: that I don't have a chance to see. Before I 16 00:01:34,240 --> 00:01:39,319 Speaker 3: discussed in this case, I didn't realize that the person 17 00:01:39,560 --> 00:01:44,640 Speaker 3: talking about Nelson Beckett's death and saying I never imagined 18 00:01:44,680 --> 00:01:48,920 Speaker 3: he would die this way. I don't know why I 19 00:01:49,080 --> 00:01:53,840 Speaker 3: thought that the murderer, that that was the murderer. I 20 00:01:53,840 --> 00:01:58,040 Speaker 3: think I was so angry at the death of this 21 00:01:58,160 --> 00:02:03,640 Speaker 3: man in such an unde dignified manner by a guy 22 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:07,080 Speaker 3: who has brought nothing but pain to other people. This 23 00:02:07,280 --> 00:02:13,280 Speaker 3: turd arsenal. I think that clouded my judgment. The person 24 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:17,080 Speaker 3: saying I never expected him to die this way was 25 00:02:17,120 --> 00:02:21,440 Speaker 3: his son. The reason I feel I need to correct 26 00:02:21,520 --> 00:02:24,160 Speaker 3: that is now I feel like I've dishonored the son, 27 00:02:24,600 --> 00:02:28,440 Speaker 3: and that is not my intention. My intention is to 28 00:02:28,520 --> 00:02:32,800 Speaker 3: express anger at the fact that his father did not 29 00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:39,320 Speaker 3: deserve this, and I find that infuriating. I am tired 30 00:02:40,200 --> 00:02:48,720 Speaker 3: of people in this country being dishonored by turds. They're 31 00:02:48,720 --> 00:02:53,639 Speaker 3: fellow Democrats, the media, illegal aliens. 32 00:02:54,360 --> 00:02:55,799 Speaker 1: I am tired of it. 33 00:02:56,360 --> 00:03:01,840 Speaker 3: I want it to stop, and I am willing to 34 00:03:01,840 --> 00:03:06,320 Speaker 3: do whatever it takes to make it stop. I am 35 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:12,160 Speaker 3: tired of these people. I've had enough, and that means action. 36 00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:20,679 Speaker 3: It means action. I genuinely hope that every turd who 37 00:03:20,760 --> 00:03:23,600 Speaker 3: pulls a gun on someone to steal their money, to 38 00:03:23,639 --> 00:03:25,960 Speaker 3: steal their car, to break in, I hope every one 39 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:29,320 Speaker 3: of them is killed. And I hope every one of 40 00:03:29,320 --> 00:03:35,600 Speaker 3: you answers your jury summons shows up and no bills them, 41 00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:39,720 Speaker 3: and every one of you that has an opportunity to 42 00:03:39,760 --> 00:03:42,560 Speaker 3: be on a grand jury no bills them. And I 43 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:46,280 Speaker 3: hope every one of you who serves on a jury 44 00:03:47,320 --> 00:03:53,000 Speaker 3: finds the Joe Horns of the world not guilty, and 45 00:03:53,040 --> 00:03:58,560 Speaker 3: finds the turds guilty of the highest charge and gives 46 00:03:58,600 --> 00:04:01,800 Speaker 3: them the maximum. 47 00:04:01,960 --> 00:04:03,160 Speaker 1: That's the only way that stops. 48 00:04:04,600 --> 00:04:08,720 Speaker 3: There's a lot of turds out there, and there will 49 00:04:08,760 --> 00:04:11,960 Speaker 3: be a lot of turds out there, but one by one, 50 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:16,440 Speaker 3: you get them off the streets. One by one, you 51 00:04:16,480 --> 00:04:19,960 Speaker 3: get them off the streets, and then they can't hurt 52 00:04:19,960 --> 00:04:25,720 Speaker 3: anybody more and we can get back to living. 53 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:27,839 Speaker 1: One by one, you get the bad. 54 00:04:27,680 --> 00:04:31,279 Speaker 3: Teachers out of the schools, and our children can be 55 00:04:31,320 --> 00:04:36,600 Speaker 3: safe and free to learn. Oh, it ain't easy, understand folks, 56 00:04:38,360 --> 00:04:43,040 Speaker 3: It is not easy. They're going to push back. They 57 00:04:43,040 --> 00:04:44,599 Speaker 3: are powerful and passionate. 58 00:04:46,600 --> 00:04:48,039 Speaker 1: They believe in what they do. 59 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:54,160 Speaker 3: They believe in their right to indoctrinate your children that 60 00:04:54,240 --> 00:04:56,440 Speaker 3: boys need to be girls and girls need to be boys. 61 00:04:56,960 --> 00:05:00,640 Speaker 3: They believe in their ability, and they're right. They see 62 00:05:00,640 --> 00:05:02,760 Speaker 3: it as it's not even there, right, it's their ministry, 63 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:08,760 Speaker 3: it's their purpose in life to confuse your child for life, 64 00:05:10,320 --> 00:05:13,080 Speaker 3: to lead them down a path to suicide, which is 65 00:05:13,120 --> 00:05:17,400 Speaker 3: what that off, what's what often happens with early sex changes, 66 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:20,880 Speaker 3: to lead them to a life of mental health problems, 67 00:05:22,440 --> 00:05:27,520 Speaker 3: to take a momentary disorientation or confusion and capitalize on 68 00:05:27,560 --> 00:05:34,600 Speaker 3: that and push them, encourage them, coax them, seduce them 69 00:05:35,160 --> 00:05:41,320 Speaker 3: into a decision that is irreparable for the rest of 70 00:05:41,360 --> 00:05:46,080 Speaker 3: your life. It's a big deal. You buy a car 71 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:47,960 Speaker 3: you don't like, you trade in and get another one. 72 00:05:50,240 --> 00:05:53,760 Speaker 3: You're in a bad marriage, you can divorce and start over. 73 00:05:53,880 --> 00:05:57,320 Speaker 3: Not easy, but you can do it. You change your sex, 74 00:05:57,480 --> 00:06:02,760 Speaker 3: your very identity. Wow, I see the work before us 75 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:08,880 Speaker 3: to fix our country, being the result of a nation 76 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:14,880 Speaker 3: that has allowed the dust to build up for too long, 77 00:06:16,040 --> 00:06:22,599 Speaker 3: and now it is complete and utter filth. If you 78 00:06:23,120 --> 00:06:31,040 Speaker 3: maintain your car, your body, your house, your business consistently, 79 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:37,120 Speaker 3: just a little work consistently will keep you at a 80 00:06:37,120 --> 00:06:42,040 Speaker 3: steady pace. But if you put it off, the longer 81 00:06:42,120 --> 00:06:46,679 Speaker 3: you put it off. If you do basic strength training, 82 00:06:46,839 --> 00:06:50,960 Speaker 3: exercise and show basic restraint, you don't have to be 83 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:58,640 Speaker 3: on a diet with a name to it, and engage 84 00:06:58,720 --> 00:07:05,520 Speaker 3: in basic health habits, you'll probably be in pretty good shape. 85 00:07:05,680 --> 00:07:08,599 Speaker 3: But if day in and day out, you let that 86 00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:12,480 Speaker 3: slide a pound a month, so easy to do, a 87 00:07:12,560 --> 00:07:16,840 Speaker 3: pound adding a pound a month not even noticeable, and 88 00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:19,560 Speaker 3: you wake up and you're twenty and thirty then forty 89 00:07:20,080 --> 00:07:23,920 Speaker 3: some cases two three four hundred pounds above where you 90 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:28,720 Speaker 3: graduated high school. Now you've got to do something drastic. Well, 91 00:07:28,720 --> 00:07:33,960 Speaker 3: that's kind of where we are as a nation. This 92 00:07:35,640 --> 00:07:42,160 Speaker 3: has degraded and declined to such a point that we're 93 00:07:42,240 --> 00:07:45,600 Speaker 3: going to have to take drastic measures, and there's going 94 00:07:45,680 --> 00:07:49,440 Speaker 3: to be a lot of screeching. They don't want change. 95 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:51,480 Speaker 3: They got bail reformed, they don't want to do away 96 00:07:51,520 --> 00:07:56,560 Speaker 3: with it. They cheat in the elections. Oh, they're calling Paxston. 97 00:07:57,720 --> 00:08:01,160 Speaker 3: There'll be another effort to get out of office, and 98 00:08:01,200 --> 00:08:06,120 Speaker 3: they'll use Republicans to do it. There are Republicans in 99 00:08:06,240 --> 00:08:10,960 Speaker 3: on this mess. I remember feeling so betrayed when I 100 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:14,960 Speaker 3: found out when I got on city council that a 101 00:08:15,120 --> 00:08:21,559 Speaker 3: longtime Republican donor had funded Lee Brown's mayoral re election 102 00:08:21,760 --> 00:08:26,600 Speaker 3: campaign and given him and raised for him a ton 103 00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:29,120 Speaker 3: of money. And I confronted him about it when he 104 00:08:29,160 --> 00:08:31,160 Speaker 3: asked for a meeting because now I was on city council, 105 00:08:32,480 --> 00:08:35,560 Speaker 3: and he said, you got to pay the play. And 106 00:08:35,600 --> 00:08:38,319 Speaker 3: that's been twenty three years ago and it's. 107 00:08:38,120 --> 00:08:43,360 Speaker 4: Still But you talk about good government and Republicans and 108 00:08:43,520 --> 00:08:49,120 Speaker 4: conservative Yeah, but I have a business around it there. 109 00:08:51,120 --> 00:08:55,040 Speaker 1: I felt like graveheart when Robert the Bruce Michael bad 110 00:08:59,480 --> 00:09:01,800 Speaker 1: Rights Sorr. I listened to your show every day. 111 00:09:03,040 --> 00:09:06,640 Speaker 3: I drive for a living, and I was doing transport 112 00:09:06,760 --> 00:09:11,680 Speaker 3: yesterday too, Rosenberg, so I listened to the interview with 113 00:09:11,720 --> 00:09:15,720 Speaker 3: the owner of Another Time Soda Fountain. I always packed 114 00:09:15,720 --> 00:09:19,400 Speaker 3: my lunch, but I decided to try something different. Absolutely 115 00:09:19,440 --> 00:09:22,280 Speaker 3: incredible is all I can say. I did not order 116 00:09:22,320 --> 00:09:25,000 Speaker 3: the traditional or the blue plate. I ordered the steak 117 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:27,199 Speaker 3: and cheese sandwich, which is very much like a Philly 118 00:09:27,280 --> 00:09:32,240 Speaker 3: cheese steak, the best Philly cheese steak I've had in forever. 119 00:09:33,040 --> 00:09:36,440 Speaker 3: Sandwich and fries so hot it literally would burn my fingers. 120 00:09:37,080 --> 00:09:40,680 Speaker 3: The staff was so courteous and professional. I told them 121 00:09:41,080 --> 00:09:44,679 Speaker 3: that I was there because of the interview that they 122 00:09:44,760 --> 00:09:47,400 Speaker 3: explained that she had been sitting two seats over while 123 00:09:47,440 --> 00:09:51,320 Speaker 3: speaking on your show. I highly recommend this to everyone. 124 00:09:52,080 --> 00:09:54,600 Speaker 3: I live in Huffman. I'll be making a trip there 125 00:09:54,640 --> 00:09:58,040 Speaker 3: with my grandchildren so they can experience an old fashioned 126 00:09:58,120 --> 00:10:01,400 Speaker 3: shop with real food like it. 127 00:10:01,320 --> 00:10:01,800 Speaker 1: Used to be. 128 00:10:03,440 --> 00:10:08,040 Speaker 3: How about that Ramon, Oh, we've got Jake the bluebell Man. 129 00:10:09,559 --> 00:10:12,520 Speaker 3: He's the bluebell delivery guy, right, he's her Bluebell delivery 130 00:10:12,520 --> 00:10:13,320 Speaker 3: guy Jake. 131 00:10:13,360 --> 00:10:17,439 Speaker 1: Welcome to the program, sir, Oh, thank you for having me. 132 00:10:17,679 --> 00:10:19,720 Speaker 3: So you're the one that told Renee I was trying 133 00:10:19,720 --> 00:10:24,680 Speaker 3: to track her down yesterday. 134 00:10:22,679 --> 00:10:26,120 Speaker 5: Yes, sir, it just happened to work out timing perfect. 135 00:10:26,360 --> 00:10:27,240 Speaker 1: How old are you. 136 00:10:28,840 --> 00:10:29,720 Speaker 5: I am forty four. 137 00:10:30,080 --> 00:10:31,200 Speaker 1: Does blue Bell pay well? 138 00:10:32,800 --> 00:10:33,440 Speaker 5: Yes, it does. 139 00:10:33,559 --> 00:10:34,680 Speaker 1: Do you know Rob Hungate? 140 00:10:37,040 --> 00:10:38,280 Speaker 5: It sounds very familiar. 141 00:10:39,120 --> 00:10:41,880 Speaker 3: He's a Bluebell guy. I think he's kind of head 142 00:10:41,880 --> 00:10:42,800 Speaker 3: a blue Bell for this. 143 00:10:42,760 --> 00:10:44,040 Speaker 1: Region, for the Houston region. 144 00:10:45,600 --> 00:10:46,360 Speaker 5: Yes, there he is. 145 00:10:46,400 --> 00:10:50,959 Speaker 3: He looks like looks just like Randy Delay, Tom DeLay's brother. 146 00:10:51,240 --> 00:10:54,040 Speaker 3: If you ever met Tom DeLay's brother, Randy Delay, I 147 00:10:54,120 --> 00:10:55,559 Speaker 3: have actually mixed the two of. 148 00:10:55,520 --> 00:10:56,480 Speaker 1: Them up on occasion. 149 00:10:58,559 --> 00:10:58,959 Speaker 5: Excellent. 150 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:00,480 Speaker 1: Do you know Robate? 151 00:11:02,120 --> 00:11:08,439 Speaker 5: I do not. I'm way out here in Needville And because. 152 00:11:07,280 --> 00:11:08,120 Speaker 1: Kind of said you did it? 153 00:11:08,280 --> 00:11:08,480 Speaker 5: Yeah? 154 00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:11,959 Speaker 3: Are you sure I think he's married into the family. 155 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:14,360 Speaker 3: I'm not positive on that. I think he's married into 156 00:11:14,400 --> 00:11:14,880 Speaker 3: the family. 157 00:11:16,720 --> 00:11:17,120 Speaker 5: Awesome. 158 00:11:17,920 --> 00:11:20,440 Speaker 1: How long have you worked for them? Did you say? 159 00:11:21,120 --> 00:11:24,400 Speaker 5: I have been here about eight to nine years. 160 00:11:24,600 --> 00:11:25,760 Speaker 1: And what were you doing before that? 161 00:11:27,760 --> 00:11:28,200 Speaker 4: Oh? 162 00:11:28,360 --> 00:11:34,480 Speaker 5: Man, I worked for almost all the distributors, Coke, dr Pepper, 163 00:11:34,600 --> 00:11:38,480 Speaker 5: Silver Eagle, and now Bluebell, which is by far the 164 00:11:38,520 --> 00:11:39,199 Speaker 5: best company. 165 00:11:39,920 --> 00:11:43,719 Speaker 1: But you can make good money with Silver Eagle, Yes, 166 00:11:44,040 --> 00:11:44,320 Speaker 1: and I. 167 00:11:44,360 --> 00:11:46,680 Speaker 5: Did, and it was just time to move on to 168 00:11:46,720 --> 00:11:50,240 Speaker 5: another one. And here we are, and what it has 169 00:11:50,320 --> 00:11:55,400 Speaker 5: been the best. I drive a box truck. It's just 170 00:11:55,440 --> 00:11:58,479 Speaker 5: a six wheel box truck. 171 00:11:58,720 --> 00:12:00,880 Speaker 1: So you're have to load. 172 00:12:00,679 --> 00:12:03,880 Speaker 5: It, yes, sir, and I have ELK. 173 00:12:04,640 --> 00:12:07,720 Speaker 3: So where do you go? You don't go to Brenham. 174 00:12:07,760 --> 00:12:09,640 Speaker 3: You'll have a distribution here. I'm assuming. 175 00:12:10,920 --> 00:12:13,080 Speaker 5: Park Row, Katie sexes, Okay. 176 00:12:12,840 --> 00:12:16,160 Speaker 3: So you go to park Road, park Row? And what 177 00:12:16,200 --> 00:12:17,040 Speaker 3: time do you get there? 178 00:12:17,080 --> 00:12:17,600 Speaker 1: Every morning? 179 00:12:19,320 --> 00:12:21,679 Speaker 5: It depends. I do not go every morning. I'm a 180 00:12:21,720 --> 00:12:24,760 Speaker 5: satellite driver, so I go two to three times a week. 181 00:12:24,920 --> 00:12:29,199 Speaker 5: It'll be Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays if we're on AD 182 00:12:29,559 --> 00:12:35,439 Speaker 5: or have a special and load it. Then just make 183 00:12:35,520 --> 00:12:36,720 Speaker 5: dreams hat and sell. 184 00:12:36,559 --> 00:12:40,280 Speaker 3: All that ice cream and then but you're only fulfilling 185 00:12:40,320 --> 00:12:43,400 Speaker 3: the order. You're not you're not in any way selling 186 00:12:43,559 --> 00:12:45,800 Speaker 3: per se directly. I mean you're fulfilling the order the 187 00:12:45,840 --> 00:12:47,960 Speaker 3: way you would have at Silver Eagle. You can you 188 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:50,760 Speaker 3: can get them to buy more. But you're showing up 189 00:12:50,800 --> 00:12:54,280 Speaker 3: with a with a poop sheet that says a manifest 190 00:12:54,400 --> 00:12:57,160 Speaker 3: or whatever you call it that says, here's what you 191 00:12:57,760 --> 00:12:58,800 Speaker 3: order and here's what you have. 192 00:13:00,600 --> 00:13:03,120 Speaker 5: I have a computer that has everything that I have 193 00:13:03,200 --> 00:13:06,600 Speaker 5: on the truck. So when you go into atb Kroger 194 00:13:06,960 --> 00:13:10,719 Speaker 5: that assortment one of those stores, everything that you have 195 00:13:10,760 --> 00:13:14,240 Speaker 5: on the truck you can sell to them and you 196 00:13:14,280 --> 00:13:16,080 Speaker 5: just try to pack it out as much as possible 197 00:13:16,120 --> 00:13:18,560 Speaker 5: for the customer to be to be able to buy 198 00:13:18,600 --> 00:13:23,760 Speaker 5: as much as possible. And it's by far the If 199 00:13:23,760 --> 00:13:25,920 Speaker 5: you have a sale, you can sell them more if 200 00:13:25,960 --> 00:13:28,240 Speaker 5: you need to, if they need the volume. 201 00:13:29,679 --> 00:13:34,679 Speaker 3: But you're not expected to sell anymore. Are you compensated 202 00:13:34,720 --> 00:13:35,800 Speaker 3: more if you upsell? 203 00:13:37,640 --> 00:13:40,560 Speaker 5: It is a percentage, okay of what you sell. 204 00:13:41,200 --> 00:13:46,120 Speaker 3: So when you leave for the day, do you sell 205 00:13:46,200 --> 00:13:47,440 Speaker 3: everything on that truck? 206 00:13:49,240 --> 00:13:53,719 Speaker 5: No, sir, you sell as much as you can and 207 00:13:53,760 --> 00:13:56,120 Speaker 5: then the next day obviously if you sell as much 208 00:13:56,120 --> 00:13:58,000 Speaker 5: as you can, and then you go in and load 209 00:13:58,040 --> 00:14:03,319 Speaker 5: the trust. That's the commercial that I live by. 210 00:14:03,360 --> 00:14:06,319 Speaker 1: Can you keep some for yourself if you want? 211 00:14:07,400 --> 00:14:08,360 Speaker 5: You can buy it at the plant. 212 00:14:08,400 --> 00:14:11,280 Speaker 1: Yes, No, no, Blake, you can't. 213 00:14:11,360 --> 00:14:15,640 Speaker 3: Just Hey, guys, I'm gonna sign out for some pistachio almond. 214 00:14:17,160 --> 00:14:18,920 Speaker 5: No. I mean they have sheets at the plant that 215 00:14:18,960 --> 00:14:22,840 Speaker 5: you could buy some if you want. Obviously, it's employee pricing. 216 00:14:24,480 --> 00:14:27,120 Speaker 1: So do you drive all the way to Park Road 217 00:14:27,120 --> 00:14:27,920 Speaker 1: to get that truck? 218 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:32,440 Speaker 5: No, sir, I actually park in Rosenberg. So I'm real 219 00:14:32,480 --> 00:14:36,320 Speaker 5: close to Renee and I've been servicing her stop for 220 00:14:36,400 --> 00:14:39,480 Speaker 5: about eight years and if she forgets to call me, 221 00:14:39,640 --> 00:14:42,320 Speaker 5: I will call her see if she needs something. And 222 00:14:42,840 --> 00:14:45,600 Speaker 5: like this week, she said she didn't need anything. And 223 00:14:45,640 --> 00:14:49,080 Speaker 5: then I heard you on the radio talking about her, 224 00:14:49,080 --> 00:14:51,640 Speaker 5: and I'm going, you know what, I had better go 225 00:14:51,680 --> 00:14:55,080 Speaker 5: by there today and make sure she has plenty look 226 00:14:55,080 --> 00:14:57,920 Speaker 5: at it. I'm sure after Michael Barry gets done talking 227 00:14:57,960 --> 00:15:01,640 Speaker 5: about her, she's gonna get hit this weekend. And I 228 00:15:01,760 --> 00:15:04,320 Speaker 5: called Ramon and said, you know what, Ramone, the best 229 00:15:04,360 --> 00:15:07,280 Speaker 5: banger in the world, needs to have plenty of ice cream. 230 00:15:07,320 --> 00:15:09,760 Speaker 5: So I'm going to load extra heavy this weekend just 231 00:15:09,800 --> 00:15:10,160 Speaker 5: for him. 232 00:15:10,320 --> 00:15:13,280 Speaker 1: There you go. I love it. So how many stops 233 00:15:13,280 --> 00:15:14,680 Speaker 1: do you make in a typical day. 234 00:15:16,120 --> 00:15:19,560 Speaker 5: It actually depends. Mondays and Thursdays are my heaviest days. 235 00:15:19,600 --> 00:15:25,920 Speaker 5: So you're looking at probably fourteen to eighteen, depending and 236 00:15:25,960 --> 00:15:29,000 Speaker 5: then you have Tuesdays and Fridays, which I load you 237 00:15:29,440 --> 00:15:33,360 Speaker 5: maybe about nine so I can get done earlier, drive 238 00:15:33,480 --> 00:15:35,200 Speaker 5: back that distance and fill the truck. 239 00:15:36,080 --> 00:15:38,560 Speaker 3: And then you don't have to give me the actual address. 240 00:15:38,640 --> 00:15:41,040 Speaker 3: But what kind of where do you do? You park 241 00:15:41,120 --> 00:15:43,240 Speaker 3: the truck at a bluebelt facility? 242 00:15:44,800 --> 00:15:46,080 Speaker 5: I park it at a storage lot. 243 00:15:46,480 --> 00:15:47,840 Speaker 1: Oh okayh that's interesting. 244 00:15:48,400 --> 00:15:50,800 Speaker 3: And then and so if you still have ice cream 245 00:15:50,840 --> 00:15:53,720 Speaker 3: on it is does it have like a generator on 246 00:15:53,760 --> 00:15:54,960 Speaker 3: there that it's running through the night? 247 00:15:56,800 --> 00:15:59,960 Speaker 5: No, sir, it runs just when the truck is parked. 248 00:16:00,320 --> 00:16:02,600 Speaker 5: You plug it into the you know, when you're not moving, 249 00:16:03,080 --> 00:16:06,920 Speaker 5: and it runs all night long. And then whenever you're 250 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:10,080 Speaker 5: running the route is obviously it's not running. So it'll 251 00:16:10,120 --> 00:16:13,840 Speaker 5: get warmer during the day and it'll drop a little 252 00:16:13,840 --> 00:16:15,440 Speaker 5: bit and by the time you park it, it's ready 253 00:16:15,480 --> 00:16:18,400 Speaker 5: to plug back in and freeze hard rock solid and 254 00:16:18,920 --> 00:16:19,680 Speaker 5: off we go again. 255 00:16:20,680 --> 00:16:22,720 Speaker 1: And you're doing half gallon? 256 00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:26,360 Speaker 3: What size are you primarily delivering, because I'm guessing for 257 00:16:26,480 --> 00:16:28,400 Speaker 3: the soda fountain you're doing, I don't know what you 258 00:16:28,440 --> 00:16:30,360 Speaker 3: call that size kind of the little barrel. 259 00:16:31,840 --> 00:16:35,200 Speaker 5: That's a three gallon three? And if everything else is 260 00:16:35,240 --> 00:16:40,119 Speaker 5: going to be half gallon pints? And then all your novelties, 261 00:16:40,440 --> 00:16:41,480 Speaker 5: so are you doing? 262 00:16:43,360 --> 00:16:45,640 Speaker 1: Are you do you do the grocery stores as well. 263 00:16:47,160 --> 00:16:51,360 Speaker 5: Yes, sir, I do AQB and Rosenberg, Kroger and Rosenberg, 264 00:16:51,480 --> 00:16:54,320 Speaker 5: Fiesta and Rosenberg, and then we hit gas stations, Mom 265 00:16:54,320 --> 00:16:59,480 Speaker 5: and Pops, all your restaurants that are got the ice 266 00:16:59,560 --> 00:17:01,600 Speaker 5: cream serves, We do it all. 267 00:17:02,120 --> 00:17:05,479 Speaker 3: I am fascinated by logistics because you know, when you 268 00:17:05,480 --> 00:17:08,320 Speaker 3: think about, Okay, they make a really good ice cream, 269 00:17:08,359 --> 00:17:12,400 Speaker 3: and you might even consider everything that goes into making 270 00:17:12,720 --> 00:17:16,120 Speaker 3: ice cream at the creamery, but the concept of making 271 00:17:16,480 --> 00:17:21,760 Speaker 3: a product and getting that product out consistently and everything 272 00:17:21,800 --> 00:17:23,719 Speaker 3: that all the hands that have to touch it in 273 00:17:23,800 --> 00:17:26,840 Speaker 3: the meantime and when you're gonna send it and when 274 00:17:26,880 --> 00:17:29,120 Speaker 3: they're going to receive it, and all that, especially after 275 00:17:29,119 --> 00:17:32,040 Speaker 3: the restaurant business, to see how that works. That is 276 00:17:32,119 --> 00:17:35,560 Speaker 3: to me the magic that that the consumer never gets 277 00:17:35,600 --> 00:17:36,360 Speaker 3: to see, which. 278 00:17:36,160 --> 00:17:38,360 Speaker 1: I find to be cool as help you well, thank 279 00:17:38,359 --> 00:17:41,840 Speaker 1: you for doing that. Jay Show. Let's check the bluebell Man. 280 00:17:43,800 --> 00:17:46,119 Speaker 3: You know you're growing up listening to songs like this, 281 00:17:49,200 --> 00:17:53,320 Speaker 3: and then at some point in your life. 282 00:17:53,680 --> 00:17:54,400 Speaker 1: It hits you. 283 00:17:57,400 --> 00:18:01,840 Speaker 3: That she's asking him, when did you decide you wanted 284 00:18:01,840 --> 00:18:06,560 Speaker 3: to sleep with me? And you go, wait, how come 285 00:18:06,600 --> 00:18:15,320 Speaker 3: I never noticed that before? An email from Randy Pimpler 286 00:18:17,480 --> 00:18:21,040 Speaker 3: with the line Biden nomics takes down the Garden Spot 287 00:18:21,160 --> 00:18:27,119 Speaker 3: Cafe in Caldwell, And there is a sign in the 288 00:18:27,160 --> 00:18:32,520 Speaker 3: window of presumably the Garden Spot Cafe in Caldwell, handwritten, 289 00:18:32,680 --> 00:18:39,520 Speaker 3: and it says going out of business after nine years. Thanks, 290 00:18:41,280 --> 00:18:45,320 Speaker 3: and then below the thanks it says to Biden, as 291 00:18:45,359 --> 00:18:48,800 Speaker 3: in thanks to Biden, and then to the right of 292 00:18:48,840 --> 00:18:56,200 Speaker 3: that it says vote Trump. Ramon, did you ever eat 293 00:18:56,320 --> 00:18:58,480 Speaker 3: at the Garden Spot Cafe in Caldwell? 294 00:18:59,600 --> 00:19:02,480 Speaker 1: Well? Then you're part of the problem, aren't you. Yep? 295 00:19:03,280 --> 00:19:06,919 Speaker 3: I guess we know what that see what happens, don't we? 296 00:19:07,480 --> 00:19:13,959 Speaker 3: Andrew writes zar I realized that Kamala Harris's interview skills 297 00:19:13,960 --> 00:19:17,920 Speaker 3: are like a fart, silent but deadly to America. 298 00:19:18,920 --> 00:19:22,800 Speaker 1: Happy Thursday. Did I get to. 299 00:19:22,720 --> 00:19:27,119 Speaker 3: Finish my email from Janet? That drives I guess I did. 300 00:19:28,240 --> 00:19:31,200 Speaker 3: I just think it's very quaint. I've never brought my lunch. 301 00:19:31,240 --> 00:19:33,080 Speaker 3: I hadn't brought my lunch in a very long time, 302 00:19:33,800 --> 00:19:36,560 Speaker 3: but my dad always brought his lunch and it's one 303 00:19:36,600 --> 00:19:42,359 Speaker 3: of my great memories in my life. At the we 304 00:19:42,520 --> 00:19:47,480 Speaker 3: always ate dinner together as a family, and then when 305 00:19:47,520 --> 00:19:51,280 Speaker 3: we finished eating, my dad would get up and he 306 00:19:51,320 --> 00:19:54,159 Speaker 3: would take one of those white what do they call pirene? 307 00:19:54,560 --> 00:19:59,760 Speaker 3: I forget the pyres. Maybe that the white kind of 308 00:20:00,160 --> 00:20:01,000 Speaker 3: be cardboard. 309 00:20:02,640 --> 00:20:07,360 Speaker 1: Not time you check. I'm telling a story about my dad, 310 00:20:07,840 --> 00:20:09,760 Speaker 1: and you're so reverend you interrupted. 311 00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:15,360 Speaker 3: I think they're called fire x, but I'm not positive 312 00:20:15,359 --> 00:20:19,159 Speaker 3: on that. It's like a white, heavy cardboard material and 313 00:20:19,200 --> 00:20:22,520 Speaker 3: it has little compartments, you know, like a food track. 314 00:20:23,600 --> 00:20:26,960 Speaker 3: And he would take from the foods. Very disciplined man, 315 00:20:27,440 --> 00:20:30,520 Speaker 3: very disciplined man. I wish I could be that disciplined. 316 00:20:31,800 --> 00:20:34,840 Speaker 3: Not disciplined on us, I mean discipline in his own 317 00:20:34,840 --> 00:20:35,520 Speaker 3: personal life. 318 00:20:36,240 --> 00:20:38,160 Speaker 1: And he would take. 319 00:20:39,440 --> 00:20:43,359 Speaker 3: Whatever we had and you know, fill out the little 320 00:20:43,359 --> 00:20:46,359 Speaker 3: plate and then he would pull out the aluminum foil 321 00:20:46,880 --> 00:20:49,400 Speaker 3: or as my wife says, aluminium foil, which is how 322 00:20:49,400 --> 00:20:53,960 Speaker 3: the Brits say it, oddly enough, and he would take 323 00:20:53,960 --> 00:20:58,239 Speaker 3: the aluminium and stretch it over the top of it 324 00:20:58,640 --> 00:21:02,919 Speaker 3: and tear it and then he would crimp it all 325 00:21:02,960 --> 00:21:05,000 Speaker 3: the way around the edge, and then he would. 326 00:21:04,840 --> 00:21:06,560 Speaker 1: Put it in the refrigerator. 327 00:21:07,600 --> 00:21:12,240 Speaker 3: And it was like this process, very orderly, very My 328 00:21:12,359 --> 00:21:18,520 Speaker 3: dad's is very intense about the way he does things, 329 00:21:18,680 --> 00:21:22,760 Speaker 3: very focused. There's not stuff spilling out. There's not you know, 330 00:21:22,800 --> 00:21:24,919 Speaker 3: everything is very clean. Everything is very tight. And my 331 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:26,960 Speaker 3: mom and my brother and I used to kid about that. 332 00:21:28,119 --> 00:21:32,919 Speaker 3: And then he would put his put the plate in 333 00:21:33,040 --> 00:21:37,119 Speaker 3: the in the fridge, and then in the morning he 334 00:21:37,119 --> 00:21:39,800 Speaker 3: would take that on his way out, laid laid his 335 00:21:39,920 --> 00:21:43,480 Speaker 3: shoes out the same way every day, had this little 336 00:21:43,960 --> 00:21:46,080 Speaker 3: rack and he would put his jeans that he was 337 00:21:46,080 --> 00:21:47,639 Speaker 3: going to be wearing to work the next day. He 338 00:21:47,640 --> 00:21:49,840 Speaker 3: would lay them out, he would lay his shirt out, 339 00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:52,960 Speaker 3: he'd have his shoes boom, and. 340 00:21:52,760 --> 00:21:56,320 Speaker 1: When he woke up, everything was good to go. Mark, 341 00:21:56,680 --> 00:22:01,480 Speaker 1: You're on the Michael Berry Show. Welcome to the program, sir, Well, 342 00:22:01,480 --> 00:22:03,240 Speaker 1: good morning, how you doing good? What's you got? 343 00:22:05,520 --> 00:22:08,520 Speaker 6: Well, he's kind of rain on my parade with Jake 344 00:22:08,800 --> 00:22:17,159 Speaker 6: and the old Time Diner cafe there Rosenberg and Uh, 345 00:22:17,320 --> 00:22:18,880 Speaker 6: I was just going to ask you if you had 346 00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:19,400 Speaker 6: gone yet. 347 00:22:19,440 --> 00:22:20,520 Speaker 2: It was yesterday. 348 00:22:20,600 --> 00:22:22,000 Speaker 6: When you were talking to her, it sounded like you 349 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:24,960 Speaker 6: were going to actually get out there yesterday, So. 350 00:22:24,920 --> 00:22:26,280 Speaker 2: I was trying to get your word on it. 351 00:22:26,359 --> 00:22:29,080 Speaker 6: But apparently everybody else has been there and gave it 352 00:22:29,160 --> 00:22:32,120 Speaker 6: rave reviews. So I take the wife and I will 353 00:22:32,160 --> 00:22:34,160 Speaker 6: take a road trip down there and check it out. 354 00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:40,200 Speaker 1: Where do you live, so, Mark Lubbick, love it? Where 355 00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:41,919 Speaker 1: are you from originally. 356 00:22:44,440 --> 00:22:44,800 Speaker 2: Rubbick? 357 00:22:45,440 --> 00:22:48,960 Speaker 1: No, sir, you're from somewhere else. I've got a pronunciation 358 00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:49,480 Speaker 1: on things. 359 00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:58,000 Speaker 2: Yes, I'm from Connecticut. Are you really don't kill me from? Yeah? Yeah, 360 00:22:58,200 --> 00:23:00,600 Speaker 2: all right north of the Mason Dixon Line. I'll come 361 00:23:00,600 --> 00:23:01,040 Speaker 2: out and go. 362 00:23:01,040 --> 00:23:01,879 Speaker 1: No, no, I'm not. 363 00:23:02,080 --> 00:23:04,320 Speaker 3: I just you didn't pronounce things the same way as 364 00:23:04,320 --> 00:23:06,080 Speaker 3: if you were from Lovebock. 365 00:23:06,560 --> 00:23:09,840 Speaker 1: I'm like Henry Higgins's Yeah, I hear these things. 366 00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:10,320 Speaker 5: Uh. 367 00:23:10,400 --> 00:23:11,399 Speaker 1: What brought you to love it? 368 00:23:11,920 --> 00:23:16,440 Speaker 2: Yeah? Well I moved to Arizona. I lived there. 369 00:23:16,480 --> 00:23:20,080 Speaker 6: I did about nine years there, six uh, And I 370 00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:23,399 Speaker 6: moved out there to ride bike twenty four all year round. 371 00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:26,960 Speaker 6: And I met my wife out there, and she is 372 00:23:26,960 --> 00:23:30,040 Speaker 6: from Lubbock, so she wanted to move back home. 373 00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:31,359 Speaker 2: So that's how I ended up here. 374 00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:32,280 Speaker 1: And what are you doing? 375 00:23:32,359 --> 00:23:34,960 Speaker 5: Love It? Yeah? 376 00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:39,080 Speaker 6: I worked for the Parks Direct department park respector. 377 00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:40,720 Speaker 1: You're not a rup ranger, are you? 378 00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:47,000 Speaker 2: Yeah? No? Okay, no, I said. 379 00:23:47,040 --> 00:23:51,760 Speaker 6: We have eighty three usual parks in town, and I 380 00:23:52,080 --> 00:23:55,119 Speaker 6: have about five contractors out monetary make sure they do 381 00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:58,800 Speaker 6: their stuff and moaning and trash and other things and 382 00:23:58,840 --> 00:24:02,560 Speaker 6: make sure they do their stuff and write reports and whatnot. 383 00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:04,120 Speaker 1: Mark when we. 384 00:24:05,720 --> 00:24:08,720 Speaker 3: When we were contacted by the folks at kf YO, 385 00:24:09,119 --> 00:24:13,840 Speaker 3: the station there that carries our station. Uh, most of 386 00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:17,080 Speaker 3: our affiliates are for the evening show, not the morning show. 387 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:18,280 Speaker 1: Uh. 388 00:24:18,320 --> 00:24:19,840 Speaker 3: And the ones that are the morning show have been 389 00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:23,400 Speaker 3: on with us for a long time Alabama. And and 390 00:24:23,520 --> 00:24:27,520 Speaker 3: so I didn't know, I didn't know what kind of 391 00:24:27,520 --> 00:24:31,680 Speaker 3: talk radio market Lubbock was. All I knew of Lubbock 392 00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:37,080 Speaker 3: was Texas Tech. And I've had a lot of friends 393 00:24:37,080 --> 00:24:39,280 Speaker 3: over the years that are from Texas Tech. And I 394 00:24:39,359 --> 00:24:44,840 Speaker 3: consider Texas Tech graduates to be very similar to Aggie graduates. 395 00:24:46,040 --> 00:24:50,800 Speaker 3: And they're they're very passionate about their school. Uh, They're 396 00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:55,679 Speaker 3: they're very honorable people. They're very proud Texans. They're not 397 00:24:55,960 --> 00:24:59,240 Speaker 3: showy kind of people, but very successful. 398 00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:06,639 Speaker 1: And I have been shocked how much positive reaction we 399 00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:08,840 Speaker 1: have gotten from the people of Love. It's become one 400 00:25:08,880 --> 00:25:14,200 Speaker 1: of my favorite markets. Some well, something must be right. 401 00:25:14,520 --> 00:25:16,320 Speaker 1: You are listening to Michael Barry. 402 00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:20,080 Speaker 3: Won't scolded me. Apparently I ended our call before you 403 00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:21,600 Speaker 3: got to the point you wanted to make. 404 00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:23,240 Speaker 1: So I would like to offer you. 405 00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:27,399 Speaker 2: That I do appreciate that. 406 00:25:27,560 --> 00:25:30,919 Speaker 3: Make an amendment. I will accept a friendly amendment to 407 00:25:31,040 --> 00:25:31,800 Speaker 3: your proposal. 408 00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:34,639 Speaker 2: Okay, thank you. 409 00:25:35,119 --> 00:25:36,960 Speaker 6: So I was going to tell you I've ever been 410 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:40,080 Speaker 6: to the China Garden downtown Houston on Leland Street. 411 00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:44,760 Speaker 3: Probably I know you're about five hundred tons. 412 00:25:46,359 --> 00:25:48,840 Speaker 2: Yes, okay, I love it you agree with me on 413 00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:49,360 Speaker 2: that day? 414 00:25:50,160 --> 00:25:51,080 Speaker 1: Do you know Carol? 415 00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:56,040 Speaker 2: Okay, yes, yes, weld you My wife and I freak 416 00:25:56,080 --> 00:25:56,600 Speaker 2: with that place. 417 00:25:56,760 --> 00:25:58,160 Speaker 1: Okay. Did you know her mom? 418 00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:02,880 Speaker 6: She's a beautiful Yes, yes, I met her mom several times. 419 00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:06,040 Speaker 6: She's a wonderful lady. And then wonderful lady, Carol. 420 00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:09,600 Speaker 3: I love an Adoor, but my favorite is Richard, her brother. 421 00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:15,399 Speaker 3: And I say that because they both listen and I 422 00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:18,120 Speaker 3: want her to have to hear that Richard is my favorite. 423 00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:20,560 Speaker 1: Because Richard is a contributor to the show. 424 00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:23,199 Speaker 3: He will often send me when I can't remember the 425 00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:27,000 Speaker 3: name of a restaurant or a person, or when something happened, 426 00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:31,480 Speaker 3: Richard will send me a message and. 427 00:26:31,119 --> 00:26:33,960 Speaker 1: It'll always be correct. But they're wonderful. 428 00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:34,639 Speaker 5: You know. 429 00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:37,560 Speaker 1: There are so many people more. I don't know. How 430 00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:39,159 Speaker 1: did you discover China Garden. 431 00:26:41,359 --> 00:26:43,639 Speaker 6: I was in Houston for a long weekend, and I 432 00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:47,200 Speaker 6: googled it and trove there, and we go back several 433 00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:48,840 Speaker 6: times a year. 434 00:26:49,359 --> 00:26:51,440 Speaker 2: We'll just trive down there to go eat, spend a night, and. 435 00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:52,560 Speaker 1: Come back for folks. 436 00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:56,359 Speaker 2: But actually the daughter, the daughter and I were going 437 00:26:56,400 --> 00:26:56,960 Speaker 2: to set up. 438 00:26:56,920 --> 00:26:58,720 Speaker 6: A gig where she was going to send me food 439 00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:03,680 Speaker 6: with dry ice and container whenever I wanted it. She would, 440 00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:06,720 Speaker 6: I just haven't gotten I know she would. She was 441 00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:08,800 Speaker 6: all for it and she was ready to do it 442 00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:11,320 Speaker 6: for me, But I just haven't gotten a place around 443 00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:14,000 Speaker 6: locally close to her that sells dry ice. I can't 444 00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:17,480 Speaker 6: find any place that sells dry ice near her. So 445 00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:20,440 Speaker 6: she lives in Katie, So I looked at I looked 446 00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:22,000 Speaker 6: at Katie and carround Houston. 447 00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:25,200 Speaker 2: I just couldn't find anything around there that has dry ice. 448 00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:29,760 Speaker 2: So well, keep I know, Todd, isn't it. I googled 449 00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:31,480 Speaker 2: dry ice in there and I couldn't find anything. 450 00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:32,640 Speaker 1: Keep stay tuned. 451 00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:36,359 Speaker 3: We're on the air for another hour. Somebody will know 452 00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:39,560 Speaker 3: where you can find dryes and get her the dryes and. 453 00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:40,200 Speaker 1: She can send it. 454 00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:43,320 Speaker 3: But what I was going to tell you is for 455 00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:47,680 Speaker 3: folks that don't know where China Garden is if you 456 00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:53,840 Speaker 3: go to a Rockets game and you are let me orient, Uh, 457 00:27:54,160 --> 00:28:00,959 Speaker 3: you are east bound? Okay, No, you're you're you're going 458 00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:04,520 Speaker 3: to be coming down. I think I'm gonna get this right. 459 00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:07,159 Speaker 3: You're going to be out in front of the George R. 460 00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:07,480 Speaker 2: Brown. 461 00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:11,639 Speaker 3: So you're staring at the front of the George R. Brown, 462 00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:15,640 Speaker 3: which means you are looking eastward. You are now going 463 00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:20,440 Speaker 3: to travel southbound on Plaza Day America's No, you're gonna 464 00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:23,920 Speaker 3: have to go up one block maybe. Anyway, when you're 465 00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:27,240 Speaker 3: in front of the George R. Brown, go south for 466 00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:32,960 Speaker 3: about two or three blocks, and there's one entrance. It 467 00:28:33,040 --> 00:28:37,200 Speaker 3: is the north west entrance to Toyota Center. 468 00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:39,120 Speaker 1: But if you just. 469 00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:44,720 Speaker 3: Keep heading south, the Toyota Center parking and the center 470 00:28:44,720 --> 00:28:47,920 Speaker 3: will be on your left, your southbound and then you're 471 00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:51,240 Speaker 3: going to make a left and you're going to be 472 00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:55,880 Speaker 3: eastbound with the stadium to your left, which is north 473 00:28:55,920 --> 00:28:58,920 Speaker 3: of you, and just to your right right there is 474 00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:02,160 Speaker 3: going to be a very un assuming, old. 475 00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:08,720 Speaker 1: Fashioned Chinese restaurant. Is it Leland? You're so good Ramon. 476 00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:13,560 Speaker 3: It's about once every three years, but you will offer 477 00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:17,000 Speaker 3: some bit of insight that I go, oh, that's that's 478 00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:21,480 Speaker 3: the reason he's here because that so Yeah, take three 479 00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:24,760 Speaker 3: years off. It's fantastic, thank you. 480 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:27,120 Speaker 1: He's so proud of himself. He's all puffed up. He 481 00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:30,000 Speaker 1: doesn't even realize he's been insulted, Like, well, look I did, 482 00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:32,720 Speaker 1: Yeah it is Leland. A good call. Did you look 483 00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:36,520 Speaker 1: it up? You're lying? I believe you. Okay, if you 484 00:29:36,560 --> 00:29:39,680 Speaker 1: said he didn't look it up, you swear, pinky swear, Okay, 485 00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:44,320 Speaker 1: it is Leland. I'm I'm pretty sure it's Leland anyway, 486 00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:45,160 Speaker 1: right there, and you're right. 487 00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:52,200 Speaker 3: Is an old fashion Chinese restaurant in the way that 488 00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:54,160 Speaker 3: Chinese restaurants. 489 00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:55,200 Speaker 1: Would have been in the fifties. 490 00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:59,240 Speaker 3: It's like they embrace all the stereotypes and have fun 491 00:29:59,280 --> 00:29:59,560 Speaker 3: with it. 492 00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:03,400 Speaker 1: And uh uh so. 493 00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:06,720 Speaker 3: The woman who's is very strong personality. Carol Ju is 494 00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:11,080 Speaker 3: her name, j I j I U. She's married to 495 00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:17,200 Speaker 3: a police officer, and she's just just just this very 496 00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:21,560 Speaker 3: strong personality. Everybody in town knows her. She's kind of 497 00:30:21,560 --> 00:30:24,000 Speaker 3: a who's who if you go to if you're a 498 00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:26,840 Speaker 3: Rocket season ticket holder, you've been there hundreds of times. 499 00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:29,920 Speaker 3: If you're a cop, it's a big cop hangout. So 500 00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:31,560 Speaker 3: if you got warrants, out for you arrest. I'd say 501 00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:36,040 Speaker 3: stay away from there, but it's a huge, huge cop hangout. 502 00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:40,640 Speaker 3: And so there's Carol, and then there was Mama, who 503 00:30:40,680 --> 00:30:43,280 Speaker 3: she would call Mama. Everybody knew her as Mama, who 504 00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:47,600 Speaker 3: was this old Chinese woman who would be kind of 505 00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:49,920 Speaker 3: fussing around there and she'd come in love on you 506 00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:56,280 Speaker 3: and everybody loved her. And then there's Richard, Carol's brother, 507 00:30:56,880 --> 00:30:59,640 Speaker 3: and he's the co owner, and he'll be out in 508 00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:04,280 Speaker 3: the park parking lot because parking is a big part 509 00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:07,440 Speaker 3: of their business. If they don't if they don't watch 510 00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:11,080 Speaker 3: their parking, then people will pull in there and park 511 00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:13,960 Speaker 3: for the Rockets game, and then they can't run their restaurant. 512 00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:14,960 Speaker 1: So Richard is. 513 00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:20,160 Speaker 3: Kind of the ambassador outside monitoring and handling the parking 514 00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:25,160 Speaker 3: lot and anyway. It's just it's one of those treasures 515 00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:27,480 Speaker 3: that when it's gone and one day will all be gone, 516 00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:31,520 Speaker 3: but when it's gone, it will be sorely, sorely missed. 517 00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:36,600 Speaker 3: It's one of those treasures that you just you don't 518 00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:39,280 Speaker 3: rebuild and you don't make new and you can't just 519 00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:41,680 Speaker 3: you know, in the middle of a shopping center, open 520 00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:43,000 Speaker 3: another China garden and. 521 00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:43,600 Speaker 1: It be like that. 522 00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:48,880 Speaker 3: It has to be this standalone restaurant that you know, 523 00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:51,160 Speaker 3: they don't get rich on the restaurant. I know that, 524 00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:55,520 Speaker 3: but it's on a piece of property that's worth I mean, 525 00:31:55,560 --> 00:31:58,720 Speaker 3: it would be staggering what this piece of property is worth. 526 00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:03,640 Speaker 3: And Carolyn Richards's mom and dad came to this country 527 00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:06,479 Speaker 3: when they're when those kids were little. And when you 528 00:32:06,560 --> 00:32:10,560 Speaker 3: talk about an immigrant work ethic, this is not saying 529 00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:15,720 Speaker 3: that that white people or black people or Hispanic multi 530 00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:18,280 Speaker 3: you know, second third generation. It's not to say that 531 00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:21,640 Speaker 3: anybody else doesn't work hard, because people do work hard. 532 00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:25,720 Speaker 3: It is to say that there I've just seen so 533 00:32:25,760 --> 00:32:28,280 Speaker 3: many of these cases where people come here as immigrants 534 00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:31,560 Speaker 3: and they have nothing. I grew up around a bunch 535 00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:35,000 Speaker 3: of Vietnamese. I had a lot of Vietnamese classmates who 536 00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:42,360 Speaker 3: were dear friends. And yes they're all named Win. It's yes, 537 00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:46,480 Speaker 3: a couple of domes and a couple of trands, but 538 00:32:46,520 --> 00:32:52,040 Speaker 3: mostly Wins. Not that kind of trans stop. But to 539 00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:55,640 Speaker 3: see how those people worked. They had plant nurseries, some 540 00:32:55,680 --> 00:32:59,440 Speaker 3: of them were fishermen. They run shrimp boats, and some 541 00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:03,400 Speaker 3: of them worked on the family. They had a I 542 00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:06,680 Speaker 3: think it was Don's nursery and you go there and 543 00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:08,240 Speaker 3: you could buy cheap plants. 544 00:33:09,080 --> 00:33:11,480 Speaker 1: Working class people, you really don't want the fancy stuff. 545 00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:12,920 Speaker 1: But I admire that. 546 00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:16,080 Speaker 3: I admire and Carol and Retchard, I mean they're not 547 00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:18,640 Speaker 3: They've lived in this country almost their entire life. They 548 00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:21,280 Speaker 3: still work like that, they still have that work ethic, 549 00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:22,000 Speaker 3: and I love it.