1 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:11,159 Speaker 1: It's that time time time, time, luck and load. So 2 00:00:11,360 --> 00:00:35,400 Speaker 1: Michael Verie Show is on the air. One other Veterans 3 00:00:35,479 --> 00:00:41,479 Speaker 1: Day note, you will remember I was seeking a donor 4 00:00:42,720 --> 00:00:47,159 Speaker 1: because Vinny Tortorella at Muscle Cars of Houston had a 5 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:54,080 Speaker 1: situation and there was a woman who was in Iraq 6 00:00:54,920 --> 00:00:59,840 Speaker 1: and she was saved by another I think it was 7 00:00:59,880 --> 00:01:02,640 Speaker 1: a marine, but I'm not positive. That might have been 8 00:01:02,640 --> 00:01:08,120 Speaker 1: the army. And she is see if I have it 9 00:01:08,160 --> 00:01:13,080 Speaker 1: written down here, I don't think I do. Anyway, her 10 00:01:13,160 --> 00:01:18,240 Speaker 1: legs had been had. She lost her legs. She was 11 00:01:18,280 --> 00:01:23,000 Speaker 1: bleeding out, she was dying, and the guy who was 12 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:26,600 Speaker 1: saving her was She said, I have nothing to live for, 13 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:28,880 Speaker 1: no on my legs, and he said, no, I want 14 00:01:28,880 --> 00:01:30,360 Speaker 1: to stay with me. We're gonna get you back. You're 15 00:01:30,360 --> 00:01:33,400 Speaker 1: gonna You're gonna make it through this. And the only 16 00:01:33,440 --> 00:01:35,440 Speaker 1: thing he knew to talk to her about was that 17 00:01:35,600 --> 00:01:39,160 Speaker 1: he loved old vehicles. He said, you like old vehicles. 18 00:01:39,240 --> 00:01:42,280 Speaker 1: I've got a I've got a Bronco. I'd say it 19 00:01:42,319 --> 00:01:44,160 Speaker 1: was a seventy eight. I don't remember what it was, 20 00:01:44,400 --> 00:01:48,280 Speaker 1: late seventies. I got a seventy eight Bronco that I've 21 00:01:48,280 --> 00:01:52,160 Speaker 1: been wanting to restore and she said, I love it. 22 00:01:52,160 --> 00:01:56,440 Speaker 1: Turns out she loved old she loved this type of thing. 23 00:01:56,960 --> 00:01:59,520 Speaker 1: He said, I tell you what, if you'll survive, I 24 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:02,920 Speaker 1: promise I will restore that Bronco and I will give 25 00:02:02,960 --> 00:02:05,360 Speaker 1: it to you. And she said, you're just say that. 26 00:02:05,560 --> 00:02:10,280 Speaker 1: He said, no, he did it, and so she she 27 00:02:10,480 --> 00:02:15,840 Speaker 1: survived and he donates it. And so they go to 28 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:19,760 Speaker 1: Vinnie Tortorella and it's going to cost about I think 29 00:02:19,760 --> 00:02:22,320 Speaker 1: it was seventy thousand dollars. And Vinnie said, look, I'm 30 00:02:22,320 --> 00:02:26,239 Speaker 1: doing this myself. It's going to cost me hard money, 31 00:02:26,280 --> 00:02:29,000 Speaker 1: seventy grand in addition to labor and things that I 32 00:02:29,080 --> 00:02:32,200 Speaker 1: can eat. But if you could find me a donor, 33 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:35,160 Speaker 1: it would help. So I put it out n a 34 00:02:35,200 --> 00:02:39,600 Speaker 1: fellow named Mark Katie. There's a company called Arclateech's Financial Services. 35 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:42,160 Speaker 1: He and his wife said we'll do the whole thing. 36 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:45,520 Speaker 1: And so I drove over that afternoon and met them 37 00:02:45,520 --> 00:02:51,040 Speaker 1: at their offices on I tend somewhere around Gessner and 38 00:02:51,080 --> 00:02:54,359 Speaker 1: there was the check and send it to Vinnie and 39 00:02:54,400 --> 00:02:56,960 Speaker 1: they got to work on it. And you know that 40 00:02:57,040 --> 00:03:02,560 Speaker 1: work is slow going, but it's done, and she will ride. 41 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:05,960 Speaker 1: She picked up her Bronco this morning. Sonya Broadway's her name, 42 00:03:06,320 --> 00:03:09,200 Speaker 1: and she's going to ride in the Veterans' Day Parade 43 00:03:09,240 --> 00:03:13,079 Speaker 1: today in Alvin. And after the parade, she's coming back 44 00:03:13,120 --> 00:03:16,680 Speaker 1: to Muscle Cars of Texas and she's going to meet 45 00:03:16,720 --> 00:03:20,919 Speaker 1: Mark Katie and his wife and get photos with him 46 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:23,560 Speaker 1: and give him a big hug and a thanks for 47 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:26,880 Speaker 1: what he did. So pretty cool story. I just I 48 00:03:26,880 --> 00:03:28,720 Speaker 1: don't always get a chance to come back and wrap 49 00:03:28,760 --> 00:03:31,640 Speaker 1: stories up for you, but some of you will remember 50 00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:35,160 Speaker 1: that when it all went down, and great news all 51 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:39,280 Speaker 1: the way around. William Dylan Powell is our guest. He 52 00:03:39,320 --> 00:03:42,400 Speaker 1: has written a book about Houston's lost treasures called Lost 53 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:44,120 Speaker 1: Treasures of Houston. 54 00:03:44,160 --> 00:03:47,680 Speaker 2: Welcome to the program, Sir Boring, thanks for having me. 55 00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:50,000 Speaker 1: Well, I must say that you came to my attention 56 00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:51,840 Speaker 1: because someone and I don't know who. I don't know 57 00:03:51,880 --> 00:03:54,400 Speaker 1: if it was Marla, I don't know who the person was, 58 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:56,560 Speaker 1: but somebody sent me something I can't find it now 59 00:03:56,880 --> 00:04:00,480 Speaker 1: that the RCC was in there, and it was a 60 00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:03,320 Speaker 1: great it was a great little write up, and I said, well, 61 00:04:03,360 --> 00:04:04,840 Speaker 1: let's if we can get him on the air. So 62 00:04:04,880 --> 00:04:06,560 Speaker 1: I don't know how you came to put the RCC 63 00:04:06,680 --> 00:04:07,440 Speaker 1: in there. But thank you. 64 00:04:08,680 --> 00:04:10,760 Speaker 2: Oh you're welcome. Well, I'll tell you one thing that's 65 00:04:10,840 --> 00:04:13,440 Speaker 2: changed over over the years is, uh, you know, there 66 00:04:13,440 --> 00:04:16,080 Speaker 2: aren't that many great country bars here here in town. 67 00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:19,400 Speaker 2: East to had Gillies, we had Blancos, we had uh 68 00:04:19,760 --> 00:04:23,480 Speaker 2: like the Postok Branch and Red Lane Coungery. Cull was 69 00:04:23,520 --> 00:04:27,520 Speaker 2: great for a concert. So that one hurt. 70 00:04:28,440 --> 00:04:29,240 Speaker 1: Did you come out? 71 00:04:30,800 --> 00:04:32,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, I've been there yet, you know. 72 00:04:33,080 --> 00:04:33,560 Speaker 1: I want to do. 73 00:04:33,680 --> 00:04:37,680 Speaker 2: The Spasmatics used to play there. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 74 00:04:37,680 --> 00:04:40,280 Speaker 2: I saw the Spasmatics there and uh yeah. It was 75 00:04:40,320 --> 00:04:41,880 Speaker 2: only like twenty minutes from my house. But I love 76 00:04:41,920 --> 00:04:43,920 Speaker 2: the whole vibe, the old lawn chairs and the journaly. 77 00:04:44,080 --> 00:04:45,159 Speaker 2: It was just fantastic. 78 00:04:45,640 --> 00:04:48,520 Speaker 1: We used to have the Spasmatics three to four times 79 00:04:48,520 --> 00:04:51,320 Speaker 1: a year, and that's a lot. You normally want to 80 00:04:51,320 --> 00:04:54,479 Speaker 1: have somebody no more than once a year. But it 81 00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:56,960 Speaker 1: wasn't that it was the grand reveal of the Spasmatics. 82 00:04:57,040 --> 00:04:59,680 Speaker 1: She knew what you were getting. But the Spasmatics tended 83 00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:02,320 Speaker 1: to be a slightly younger crowd. And that was for us, 84 00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:05,560 Speaker 1: by which I mean which would be thirties and forties 85 00:05:05,560 --> 00:05:08,840 Speaker 1: and even fifties, and it was more dancing than we 86 00:05:08,839 --> 00:05:11,200 Speaker 1: were used to, more vodka sales than we were used to. 87 00:05:11,560 --> 00:05:14,240 Speaker 1: It was it was the young you know, there were 88 00:05:14,240 --> 00:05:16,479 Speaker 1: a lot of families that would come out that would 89 00:05:16,480 --> 00:05:18,480 Speaker 1: be you know, the kids would be in the thirties 90 00:05:18,480 --> 00:05:20,839 Speaker 1: and forties and the parents would be in the sixties 91 00:05:20,839 --> 00:05:23,320 Speaker 1: and seventies, and they would sometimes come out together. But 92 00:05:23,360 --> 00:05:26,960 Speaker 1: the spasmatics were when the younger side of those families 93 00:05:27,200 --> 00:05:29,839 Speaker 1: would come out and just they just absolutely loved it. 94 00:05:30,279 --> 00:05:33,280 Speaker 1: So to take you to write The Lost Treasures of 95 00:05:33,320 --> 00:05:34,679 Speaker 1: Houston took. 96 00:05:34,520 --> 00:05:37,280 Speaker 2: Me about six months. And the difficult part was photographs 97 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:40,480 Speaker 2: because you know, today we all have a editorial quality 98 00:05:40,520 --> 00:05:43,560 Speaker 2: phone in our you know, in our pocket that can 99 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:45,760 Speaker 2: take amazing pictures. But you know, back in the day 100 00:05:45,839 --> 00:05:48,840 Speaker 2: we'rerolling around nookia foot phones. No one's taking a picture 101 00:05:48,880 --> 00:05:52,440 Speaker 2: of city streets in the nineties. So psotimetry was tough. 102 00:05:53,120 --> 00:05:55,640 Speaker 1: So what did you do? You just Internet? Did you 103 00:05:55,680 --> 00:05:57,880 Speaker 1: have any sources that became particularly useful to you? 104 00:05:58,760 --> 00:06:03,120 Speaker 2: Word of mouth really, just telling people about the projects, 105 00:06:03,120 --> 00:06:06,320 Speaker 2: getting decided about it. People I had I talked to 106 00:06:06,320 --> 00:06:10,160 Speaker 2: at least fifty people. They shared their family photos and 107 00:06:10,279 --> 00:06:11,920 Speaker 2: it was really the only way this book was gonna 108 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:13,599 Speaker 2: get made. So in a way, it doesn't even feel 109 00:06:13,640 --> 00:06:16,440 Speaker 2: like my book was sort of a collective effort. How 110 00:06:16,440 --> 00:06:20,440 Speaker 2: old are you, I'm fifty two. Fifty two, No, I'm 111 00:06:20,440 --> 00:06:22,680 Speaker 2: fifty three. I just turned since my birthday was this weekend. 112 00:06:23,080 --> 00:06:25,560 Speaker 1: Well there you go. I had a birthday yesterday. So 113 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:27,000 Speaker 1: I'm with you. We've aged years. 114 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:27,240 Speaker 2: Have you? 115 00:06:27,760 --> 00:06:29,720 Speaker 1: Did you? Did you grow up in Houston? 116 00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:33,040 Speaker 2: Now? Actually we wound up here because my family's in 117 00:06:33,040 --> 00:06:35,800 Speaker 2: the old business, and that's what happened. So my mom's 118 00:06:35,800 --> 00:06:38,760 Speaker 2: family are occasions from Louisiana. My father's family, they're from 119 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:41,760 Speaker 2: Red Dirick Country in East Texas, and they actually both 120 00:06:42,320 --> 00:06:43,839 Speaker 2: grew up a big portion of the lives in the 121 00:06:43,839 --> 00:06:45,600 Speaker 2: Golden Triangle, where I spent some time. 122 00:06:45,720 --> 00:06:48,800 Speaker 1: So so where was your childhood spent? 123 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:50,400 Speaker 3: Oh? 124 00:06:50,520 --> 00:06:53,600 Speaker 2: Well, wherever there was oil for a bit. But we 125 00:06:53,680 --> 00:06:56,880 Speaker 2: moved a lot. We wound up here in Houston twenty 126 00:06:56,920 --> 00:06:58,800 Speaker 2: six years ago. And you know, at one point you 127 00:06:58,880 --> 00:07:01,320 Speaker 2: just kind of decided to to make somewhere home and 128 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:02,320 Speaker 2: then we chose Houston. 129 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:04,799 Speaker 1: So good for you. And do you have a day job? 130 00:07:06,240 --> 00:07:07,080 Speaker 1: I do? I do. 131 00:07:07,520 --> 00:07:10,440 Speaker 2: I'm a crave director. At a company that helps other 132 00:07:10,520 --> 00:07:13,760 Speaker 2: businesses grow, like technical companies help help them grow. So 133 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:15,760 Speaker 2: is where I'm also a writer and a creative guy. 134 00:07:15,840 --> 00:07:17,640 Speaker 1: So what is that company called? 135 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:19,559 Speaker 2: Pland them black? 136 00:07:20,400 --> 00:07:23,920 Speaker 1: Okay, I note, I mean they're almost shoots. 137 00:07:23,960 --> 00:07:25,480 Speaker 2: I want to say sixteen years now. 138 00:07:26,600 --> 00:07:29,280 Speaker 1: I note in one of the pieces one day, you're 139 00:07:29,360 --> 00:07:32,560 Speaker 1: eating those free little sweet rolls that came with strawberry 140 00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:36,440 Speaker 1: butter before your meal at the Strawberry Patch. And the 141 00:07:36,480 --> 00:07:39,920 Speaker 1: funny thing about that is the Texas Business Hall of 142 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:43,520 Speaker 1: Fame honored my friend Gary Peterson last week or the 143 00:07:43,520 --> 00:07:47,440 Speaker 1: week before with the Hall of Fame and one of 144 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:50,920 Speaker 1: the other inductees was Harris and Chris Pappas, and it 145 00:07:51,040 --> 00:07:52,840 Speaker 1: was talking about how, you know, they had the Dot 146 00:07:52,880 --> 00:07:55,000 Speaker 1: Diner and they had the refrigeration business, but that was 147 00:07:55,040 --> 00:07:58,360 Speaker 1: their first kind of sit down. That was the beginning 148 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:01,320 Speaker 1: for Chris and Harris of the portion of what became 149 00:08:01,440 --> 00:08:03,880 Speaker 1: the papast that we know of with you know, something 150 00:08:03,920 --> 00:08:06,600 Speaker 1: like eighteen thousand employees or something. It's just crazy how 151 00:08:06,640 --> 00:08:10,560 Speaker 1: many employees they have. But I'd forgotten the Strawberry Patch. 152 00:08:10,880 --> 00:08:14,080 Speaker 1: What a neat Pugshan and the pictures of great it 153 00:08:14,120 --> 00:08:16,720 Speaker 1: looked so it looked so it made it made it 154 00:08:16,760 --> 00:08:18,360 Speaker 1: put a smile on my face. How about that? More 155 00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:21,040 Speaker 1: coming up? Lost Treasures of Houston In time when you're 156 00:08:21,040 --> 00:08:25,920 Speaker 1: listening to the Michael Berry Show, it was Eric Myers, 157 00:08:25,960 --> 00:08:29,920 Speaker 1: wasn't it? What happened to him? He moved to Arkansas? 158 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:33,640 Speaker 1: I think you gotta eat mine alligat. Oh that's far 159 00:08:33,679 --> 00:08:37,840 Speaker 1: more interesting. Well, that's interesting. Did they ever find anything? 160 00:08:38,440 --> 00:08:41,880 Speaker 1: It all? In huh Okay? Here was the entrance to 161 00:08:41,960 --> 00:08:45,559 Speaker 1: the Lost Treasures of Houston for the Redneck Country Club. 162 00:08:46,280 --> 00:08:48,840 Speaker 1: For live music and laid back Southern charm. The Redneck 163 00:08:48,840 --> 00:08:53,040 Speaker 1: Country Club couldn't be beat concepted Concepted by radio celebrity, 164 00:08:53,080 --> 00:08:56,880 Speaker 1: well like celebrity Michael Berry at eleven eleven, zero eleven 165 00:08:57,280 --> 00:08:59,600 Speaker 1: and one to ten West Airport Boulevard and Stafford, the 166 00:08:59,720 --> 00:09:05,439 Speaker 1: rc featured legendary country performers and an old school atmosphere 167 00:09:05,920 --> 00:09:11,200 Speaker 1: promoting respect for veterans, American values, and Texas pride. Music 168 00:09:11,240 --> 00:09:14,480 Speaker 1: greats Charlie Pride, Merle Haggard, Bellamy Brothers, the Oakridge Boys, 169 00:09:14,640 --> 00:09:17,840 Speaker 1: Ray Wiley, Hubbard, Willie Nelson, and many more laid the 170 00:09:17,920 --> 00:09:22,360 Speaker 1: RCC touches like lawn chairs, kitschye Trader decor and an 171 00:09:22,400 --> 00:09:25,880 Speaker 1: actual General Lead Dodge charger, along with homegrown events like 172 00:09:26,040 --> 00:09:29,280 Speaker 1: Armadillo Races, made it a genuine Houston treasure. The club 173 00:09:29,320 --> 00:09:32,960 Speaker 1: eventually rebranded as Republic Country Club and Barbecue, but closed 174 00:09:32,960 --> 00:09:35,040 Speaker 1: permanently in March of twenty twenty as a result of 175 00:09:35,040 --> 00:09:39,400 Speaker 1: the government shutdowns during the COVID nineteen pandemic. That a 176 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:44,520 Speaker 1: part of Lost Treasures of Houston by William Dylan Powell, 177 00:09:44,720 --> 00:09:47,360 Speaker 1: our guest. Welcome to the program, will William, welcome back. 178 00:09:47,400 --> 00:09:49,440 Speaker 1: Glad to have you. Thank you for the nice mention, 179 00:09:51,320 --> 00:09:54,520 Speaker 1: so wouldn't be complete without it. Well, thank you who. 180 00:09:55,080 --> 00:09:58,360 Speaker 1: We've got a series of appearances William's going to make 181 00:09:58,640 --> 00:10:00,240 Speaker 1: if you would like to get him to sign a 182 00:10:00,280 --> 00:10:03,480 Speaker 1: copy of your book, and we will include those in 183 00:10:03,520 --> 00:10:06,440 Speaker 1: the blast today and I'll post them to Facebook. They 184 00:10:06,440 --> 00:10:10,199 Speaker 1: will be December sixth at Cactus Music, December eleventh, that 185 00:10:10,280 --> 00:10:14,720 Speaker 1: Good on Paper on Nineteenth Street, December thirteenth at Houston 186 00:10:14,760 --> 00:10:20,960 Speaker 1: Book Warehouse, and January fifteenth at Brass Bookstore on Missinette, 187 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:23,920 Speaker 1: also a very nice bookstore. I can't believe Brasis has 188 00:10:23,920 --> 00:10:25,000 Speaker 1: made it all these years. 189 00:10:25,600 --> 00:10:26,560 Speaker 2: I know, good on them. 190 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:30,000 Speaker 1: It's a yeah it's a treasure it's been I hope 191 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:33,199 Speaker 1: it doesn't add to the lost treasures, but it is 192 00:10:33,240 --> 00:10:37,360 Speaker 1: a Houston treasure. So how did you decide? Did you 193 00:10:37,440 --> 00:10:40,520 Speaker 1: have people feeding you ideas, did you do some internet searches, 194 00:10:40,559 --> 00:10:41,800 Speaker 1: a little of everything. 195 00:10:42,520 --> 00:10:44,960 Speaker 2: Little everything. I did a phase where I was I 196 00:10:45,120 --> 00:10:48,240 Speaker 2: just took about a month and I was going to 197 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:51,880 Speaker 2: just do a call for what impacted people. So a 198 00:10:51,880 --> 00:10:54,840 Speaker 2: little bit of a mix of instinct and impact. You know, 199 00:10:55,160 --> 00:10:57,760 Speaker 2: if there's someone walking around with a Powatool T shirt 200 00:10:57,800 --> 00:10:59,800 Speaker 2: thirty years later, I think, okay, I might want to 201 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:03,760 Speaker 2: about putting that in where there's a Facebook group about something. 202 00:11:04,720 --> 00:11:06,840 Speaker 2: The view we're still talking about. That was an easy 203 00:11:06,880 --> 00:11:09,840 Speaker 2: ad And so I had these little bit of instinct, 204 00:11:09,880 --> 00:11:12,280 Speaker 2: a little bit of asking around, and of course asked 205 00:11:12,280 --> 00:11:14,800 Speaker 2: a lot of Navy Ustonians, you know, what they felt 206 00:11:14,800 --> 00:11:17,200 Speaker 2: would meet the cut. But it took a good months 207 00:11:17,240 --> 00:11:19,200 Speaker 2: and a half to just get a list together. And 208 00:11:19,320 --> 00:11:20,400 Speaker 2: I tell you, I thought it was going to be 209 00:11:20,480 --> 00:11:23,560 Speaker 2: tough to find things, but the real tough part was 210 00:11:23,679 --> 00:11:26,280 Speaker 2: carrying them down. Yeah, because I included about two hundred things, 211 00:11:26,280 --> 00:11:28,120 Speaker 2: it could have been four hundred. Yeah, we lost a 212 00:11:28,120 --> 00:11:28,960 Speaker 2: lot over the years. 213 00:11:29,360 --> 00:11:32,680 Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm very excited. I don't know what day it's 214 00:11:32,880 --> 00:11:37,160 Speaker 1: going to actually it's going to be available to the public. 215 00:11:37,200 --> 00:11:38,920 Speaker 1: But there was a new movie coming out called Love 216 00:11:38,960 --> 00:11:42,120 Speaker 1: You Bum that is about Boom Phillips and the Love 217 00:11:42,160 --> 00:11:44,880 Speaker 1: You Blue Oilers and it's pretty cool deal. And I 218 00:11:44,880 --> 00:11:47,600 Speaker 1: am excited because I'm part of it. But I'm excited 219 00:11:47,640 --> 00:11:49,240 Speaker 1: about the story. I think it's I think it's a 220 00:11:49,280 --> 00:11:51,319 Speaker 1: great story. It's about the Phillips family, Bum and then 221 00:11:51,600 --> 00:11:53,560 Speaker 1: his son Wade, who coached with him, and then his 222 00:11:53,679 --> 00:11:56,199 Speaker 1: son Wes, who's still coaching in the NFL today. It's 223 00:11:56,200 --> 00:11:58,320 Speaker 1: a pretty pretty amazing story. But I know you've got 224 00:11:58,360 --> 00:11:59,600 Speaker 1: some Love You Blue stuff in there. 225 00:12:00,760 --> 00:12:03,880 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you know, isn't it hard to have? I 226 00:12:03,920 --> 00:12:06,240 Speaker 2: grew up an Oilers fan. That's hard. That's a hard 227 00:12:06,240 --> 00:12:08,199 Speaker 2: place in the world. Today, we love the Texans. It's 228 00:12:08,200 --> 00:12:10,800 Speaker 2: not quite the same. I mean, there was the Buffalo 229 00:12:10,840 --> 00:12:12,679 Speaker 2: game that hurt, but still there's a lot of love 230 00:12:12,760 --> 00:12:16,120 Speaker 2: for the Oilers and especially those Bumfiller's days. He was 231 00:12:16,559 --> 00:12:17,760 Speaker 2: what a gentleman, right. 232 00:12:18,320 --> 00:12:21,840 Speaker 1: I think in terms of glory days of Houston. That's 233 00:12:21,880 --> 00:12:24,480 Speaker 1: what at least today people really think of, is that 234 00:12:24,840 --> 00:12:28,960 Speaker 1: that late seventies early eighties, as Houston was really exploding 235 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:34,280 Speaker 1: on the national screen with Urban Cowboy, with Nolan Ryan Houston, 236 00:12:35,040 --> 00:12:40,720 Speaker 1: the space program oil had exploded. Then you had the oilers, 237 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:44,040 Speaker 1: the astros, the rockets. There were just so many things 238 00:12:44,040 --> 00:12:47,400 Speaker 1: going on. You had a presidential candidate from here, he 239 00:12:47,480 --> 00:12:50,040 Speaker 1: had the convention that would eventually come here. I think 240 00:12:50,080 --> 00:12:52,160 Speaker 1: it was just a moment where Houston was really kind 241 00:12:52,200 --> 00:12:55,680 Speaker 1: of wedging itself into the national conversation and saying, you know, 242 00:12:55,720 --> 00:12:59,120 Speaker 1: we're here and in a bigger way than it had 243 00:12:59,160 --> 00:13:01,400 Speaker 1: ever done before. And that's pretty cool. You have some 244 00:13:01,520 --> 00:13:05,240 Speaker 1: personalities in there, like Marvin Zendler and Alvin Van Black. 245 00:13:06,880 --> 00:13:09,040 Speaker 2: That's true. Yeah, I learned so much about the people 246 00:13:09,080 --> 00:13:09,520 Speaker 2: in the city. 247 00:13:09,559 --> 00:13:09,760 Speaker 4: You know. 248 00:13:10,559 --> 00:13:13,240 Speaker 2: For me, Marvin Ziller was the sign n ice machine 249 00:13:13,240 --> 00:13:16,760 Speaker 2: guy sort of consumer affairs for my parents generation. Of course, 250 00:13:16,800 --> 00:13:19,320 Speaker 2: he was the investigative journalist behind the Chicken ranch and 251 00:13:19,360 --> 00:13:21,200 Speaker 2: you know, vessel of whorehouse in Texas and all that. 252 00:13:21,559 --> 00:13:23,440 Speaker 2: But I didn't know this before that he was a 253 00:13:23,440 --> 00:13:26,360 Speaker 2: prior service marine and he used to be a crime 254 00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:30,040 Speaker 2: beat reporter, so who knew that? And Howard Hughes Junior 255 00:13:30,280 --> 00:13:32,640 Speaker 2: learned something about him too. He was of course, he 256 00:13:32,679 --> 00:13:35,200 Speaker 2: was a famous playboy. But you know, he flew an 257 00:13:35,200 --> 00:13:38,680 Speaker 2: experimental airplane and crashed it in Beverly Hills and wound 258 00:13:38,760 --> 00:13:40,439 Speaker 2: up in the hospital for a long time, broke a 259 00:13:40,440 --> 00:13:42,320 Speaker 2: lot of the bones at his body, and was an 260 00:13:42,360 --> 00:13:44,520 Speaker 2: engineer do when he was second Hospital Dead, he designed 261 00:13:44,520 --> 00:13:47,640 Speaker 2: a better hospital dead that's still in use today. So 262 00:13:47,640 --> 00:13:50,160 Speaker 2: so many things to learn about the people from Houston's past. 263 00:13:50,640 --> 00:13:56,160 Speaker 1: Howard Hughes is he is unfortunately reduced by so many 264 00:13:56,679 --> 00:14:00,520 Speaker 1: for his neuroses and his quirkiness. But if you can 265 00:14:00,640 --> 00:14:02,840 Speaker 1: if you can get past that, and granted that's that's 266 00:14:02,840 --> 00:14:08,160 Speaker 1: a big ask. The man was so incredibly amazing at 267 00:14:08,559 --> 00:14:13,280 Speaker 1: the breadth and depth of his knowledge and his experiments 268 00:14:13,360 --> 00:14:17,560 Speaker 1: and his successes and his vision. Really you're hard pressed 269 00:14:17,559 --> 00:14:20,960 Speaker 1: to find his peer in any field. It's it's an amazing, 270 00:14:21,480 --> 00:14:25,640 Speaker 1: amazing story. Alvin van Black is in is in the book. 271 00:14:27,200 --> 00:14:31,920 Speaker 2: Yes, man, if you were in his heyday having a 272 00:14:31,960 --> 00:14:36,280 Speaker 2: party and you saw Alvin Van Black's tuxedo visage at 273 00:14:36,280 --> 00:14:37,680 Speaker 2: the party, you know you have made it. 274 00:14:37,840 --> 00:14:40,640 Speaker 1: You've made it. You're going to be on TV tonight. Well, 275 00:14:40,880 --> 00:14:42,960 Speaker 1: I mean, you're not old enough, and I'm not old 276 00:14:43,080 --> 00:14:46,240 Speaker 1: enough to remember it, but I have listeners who are 277 00:14:46,320 --> 00:14:48,880 Speaker 1: a generation older than you and I, You and me, 278 00:14:49,520 --> 00:14:52,920 Speaker 1: and they will tell me about him being on the radio, 279 00:14:53,080 --> 00:14:56,360 Speaker 1: which is where he was. His stardom was was really big. 280 00:14:56,400 --> 00:14:58,280 Speaker 1: And then of course by the time he was doing 281 00:14:58,320 --> 00:15:00,560 Speaker 1: Alvin Van Black for the local new and he was 282 00:15:00,560 --> 00:15:02,280 Speaker 1: out at the parties, it was a big deal when 283 00:15:02,280 --> 00:15:07,000 Speaker 1: he would come rolling up. Indeed, for sure. Uh more 284 00:15:07,640 --> 00:15:12,720 Speaker 1: with William Dylan Powell. The book is Lost Treasures of Houston. 285 00:15:12,760 --> 00:15:14,720 Speaker 1: Will tell you where to get it and win coming 286 00:15:14,800 --> 00:15:22,120 Speaker 1: up is Nicky Gey and you listen to this season 287 00:15:22,760 --> 00:15:30,640 Speaker 1: radio Michael Berry, Yeah, Josh to you good times. Lost 288 00:15:30,640 --> 00:15:34,680 Speaker 1: Treasures of Houston is the book. William Dylon Powell WDP 289 00:15:35,880 --> 00:15:40,040 Speaker 1: is the author. William is the book available now? 290 00:15:41,360 --> 00:15:44,400 Speaker 2: It just dropped, so it should be available. If it's 291 00:15:44,400 --> 00:15:46,640 Speaker 2: not in your book shore were usually buy books, it's 292 00:15:46,640 --> 00:15:48,760 Speaker 2: going to be there soon. I actually have using a copy, 293 00:15:48,880 --> 00:15:49,800 Speaker 2: but it is available. 294 00:15:50,160 --> 00:15:53,160 Speaker 1: I am a bookstore dork. Obviously I would hope folks 295 00:15:53,200 --> 00:15:55,720 Speaker 1: would buy it from the bookstore. But for those folks 296 00:15:55,720 --> 00:15:58,120 Speaker 1: who don't have one nearby. Is it available on your 297 00:15:58,120 --> 00:15:59,360 Speaker 1: website or anywhere else? 298 00:16:00,240 --> 00:16:03,080 Speaker 2: It is available on Amazon or all the online retailers. 299 00:16:03,920 --> 00:16:05,400 Speaker 2: I'm in some busy write now that they haven't got 300 00:16:05,440 --> 00:16:06,400 Speaker 2: it up on website yet. 301 00:16:06,920 --> 00:16:09,120 Speaker 1: Okay, in your website I saw it. Is it Houston 302 00:16:09,120 --> 00:16:10,320 Speaker 1: writer dot com. 303 00:16:10,920 --> 00:16:12,960 Speaker 2: I've got a couple of guys. Was one ats Houston 304 00:16:12,960 --> 00:16:14,000 Speaker 2: writer dot com and one. 305 00:16:13,920 --> 00:16:16,680 Speaker 1: That's books about Texas dot com. Okay, and it's available 306 00:16:16,720 --> 00:16:19,920 Speaker 1: or it will be available there, it will. I read 307 00:16:19,960 --> 00:16:23,680 Speaker 1: your comments on a few different things, and there was 308 00:16:23,680 --> 00:16:25,640 Speaker 1: a question if there was one place you wish you 309 00:16:25,640 --> 00:16:29,960 Speaker 1: could bring back today, and you said, Bear Creek Golf World. 310 00:16:30,040 --> 00:16:30,600 Speaker 1: Why is that? 311 00:16:32,120 --> 00:16:34,120 Speaker 2: Well, you know that was when it's kind of a 312 00:16:34,120 --> 00:16:36,560 Speaker 2: special place for my father and I. We played in 313 00:16:36,560 --> 00:16:39,840 Speaker 2: the back nine every Sunday morning for at least one decade, 314 00:16:39,880 --> 00:16:42,720 Speaker 2: maybe two. And it was great because it wasn't a 315 00:16:42,720 --> 00:16:44,760 Speaker 2: neighborhood course. It's kind of out in the country see 316 00:16:44,880 --> 00:16:48,440 Speaker 2: see deer and wild hogs and alligator and things like that, 317 00:16:48,480 --> 00:16:50,280 Speaker 2: and it was just a good time for us to 318 00:16:50,360 --> 00:16:53,080 Speaker 2: reset every week and send some time together. Of course, 319 00:16:53,120 --> 00:16:55,000 Speaker 2: Harvey wiped it out and they decided not to rebuild. 320 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:58,280 Speaker 2: But actually when they destroyed the clubhouse, I took one 321 00:16:58,280 --> 00:17:00,160 Speaker 2: of the bricks and it's sitting on my desk when 322 00:17:00,200 --> 00:17:02,000 Speaker 2: I'm writing, I'm always we've got a little piece in 323 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:02,760 Speaker 2: no clagia with me. 324 00:17:03,040 --> 00:17:04,040 Speaker 1: Is your father still alive? 325 00:17:04,880 --> 00:17:07,040 Speaker 2: He is? He is so on the web side. He's 326 00:17:07,040 --> 00:17:08,040 Speaker 2: actually a big fan of yours. 327 00:17:08,119 --> 00:17:10,119 Speaker 1: Oh well, you know, it's probably as much about the 328 00:17:10,160 --> 00:17:11,760 Speaker 1: memories with your dad as anything else. 329 00:17:12,440 --> 00:17:12,840 Speaker 2: It is. 330 00:17:13,040 --> 00:17:16,600 Speaker 1: It is you note that you had read somewhere that 331 00:17:17,160 --> 00:17:20,280 Speaker 1: Houston proper has grown one hundred and forty two percent 332 00:17:20,480 --> 00:17:24,760 Speaker 1: or so since nineteen eighty and how that has created 333 00:17:24,800 --> 00:17:26,680 Speaker 1: a change in maybe the city's spirit. 334 00:17:29,440 --> 00:17:31,880 Speaker 2: That's correct, Yeah, you know, and that's just the city 335 00:17:31,880 --> 00:17:34,640 Speaker 2: proper a bunch less than suburbs, which are just sprawling now. 336 00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:37,760 Speaker 2: You know, Yeah, I've got I'll work in Greenway five, 337 00:17:37,800 --> 00:17:39,679 Speaker 2: but I've got coworkers to live in Soulsure, you know, 338 00:17:39,760 --> 00:17:42,199 Speaker 2: it's just so smalled out everywhere. I feel like with 339 00:17:42,240 --> 00:17:44,560 Speaker 2: that many people, you know, we used to have just 340 00:17:44,640 --> 00:17:46,919 Speaker 2: Houston things that everybody enjoy it. But now everybody's got 341 00:17:46,920 --> 00:17:49,000 Speaker 2: their own little part of town. And plus everybody's on 342 00:17:49,080 --> 00:17:50,920 Speaker 2: line all the time. And I feel like that dreams 343 00:17:50,920 --> 00:17:54,600 Speaker 2: set of your energy for you know, real life interactions. 344 00:17:54,600 --> 00:17:57,000 Speaker 2: So whereas you might you might go to your local 345 00:17:57,080 --> 00:18:01,240 Speaker 2: sports bar or park to me people you know, now 346 00:18:01,280 --> 00:18:03,520 Speaker 2: it's all right a starting at their phone all day. 347 00:18:03,640 --> 00:18:07,280 Speaker 2: So it's definitely a different vibe, although some things haven't changed. Yeah, 348 00:18:07,320 --> 00:18:10,480 Speaker 2: this is still an ambitious city without a pretentious city. 349 00:18:11,440 --> 00:18:14,640 Speaker 2: Still no zoning. Everybody still comes together during a hurricane. 350 00:18:14,680 --> 00:18:16,840 Speaker 2: So it's a very different place. But we still got 351 00:18:16,840 --> 00:18:18,160 Speaker 2: some things that are laughing. 352 00:18:18,320 --> 00:18:21,120 Speaker 1: I love this description. You said. We've always been way 353 00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:23,960 Speaker 1: weirder than Austin, no matter what you've heard. And for 354 00:18:24,040 --> 00:18:26,640 Speaker 1: a big city, it's very friendly until you're on the freeway. 355 00:18:27,200 --> 00:18:30,720 Speaker 1: Jobs are everywhere, zoning is nowhere. It's still a big 356 00:18:30,840 --> 00:18:34,240 Speaker 1: mess full of surprises. What a perfect description of Houston. 357 00:18:34,520 --> 00:18:37,359 Speaker 1: A big mess ful of description of surprises. There was 358 00:18:37,400 --> 00:18:39,320 Speaker 1: another line you had, let me see if I can 359 00:18:39,359 --> 00:18:41,879 Speaker 1: find it here. Yeah, are there any lost treasures you 360 00:18:42,040 --> 00:18:44,280 Speaker 1: predict will make a comeback? You said, I mean you 361 00:18:44,320 --> 00:18:47,399 Speaker 1: can bring back whatever you want, drive in movies, old brands, 362 00:18:47,440 --> 00:18:51,159 Speaker 1: restaurant franchises. Shoot, they've already brought back in run. Someone 363 00:18:51,200 --> 00:18:54,320 Speaker 1: tried bringing back Young Bloods, fried chicken. But you can't 364 00:18:54,359 --> 00:18:56,800 Speaker 1: bring them back in context. I like this. This is 365 00:18:56,960 --> 00:18:59,720 Speaker 1: very well said. You can't bring back the times or 366 00:18:59,760 --> 00:19:03,240 Speaker 1: who you were back then. It's like that old book 367 00:19:03,320 --> 00:19:07,000 Speaker 1: the go between quote, the past is another country. They 368 00:19:07,040 --> 00:19:10,280 Speaker 1: do things differently there end quote. All we can do 369 00:19:10,359 --> 00:19:13,040 Speaker 1: is celebrate those old treasures and then do our best 370 00:19:13,040 --> 00:19:16,320 Speaker 1: to appreciate the treasures you have today. I think about 371 00:19:16,320 --> 00:19:19,800 Speaker 1: this often. If Gillies was opened today, it would not 372 00:19:19,920 --> 00:19:22,399 Speaker 1: be what it was then, even to the same people, 373 00:19:22,480 --> 00:19:24,800 Speaker 1: because they're not the same. And it wouldn't be the 374 00:19:24,840 --> 00:19:27,479 Speaker 1: same because the character of the city has changed, its 375 00:19:27,520 --> 00:19:30,480 Speaker 1: character of Pasadena, but of the community. And so we 376 00:19:30,600 --> 00:19:32,919 Speaker 1: have these things locked in our mindset. Even if we 377 00:19:32,960 --> 00:19:35,840 Speaker 1: could have them back, we wouldn't enjoy them the same 378 00:19:35,880 --> 00:19:37,600 Speaker 1: way because we're not in that same place. 379 00:19:39,080 --> 00:19:41,239 Speaker 2: That's very true. And you know so, I guess it's 380 00:19:41,240 --> 00:19:43,560 Speaker 2: there's something in Houston that you really appreciate. You better 381 00:19:43,800 --> 00:19:45,400 Speaker 2: show the love now before it's too late. 382 00:19:46,080 --> 00:19:49,199 Speaker 1: The book is lost Treasures of Houston. I note some 383 00:19:49,320 --> 00:19:51,040 Speaker 1: of the things that you had in there, but I 384 00:19:51,040 --> 00:19:55,040 Speaker 1: don't have the fullest astra world. The Houston oilers, Stevens 385 00:19:55,040 --> 00:19:57,320 Speaker 1: and Pruitt, the great malls of the eighties and their 386 00:19:57,359 --> 00:20:00,600 Speaker 1: great big crunchy hair. You say, some of the other 387 00:20:00,600 --> 00:20:02,200 Speaker 1: things that you think people will get a kick out 388 00:20:02,240 --> 00:20:04,120 Speaker 1: of Oh, you know. 389 00:20:04,400 --> 00:20:06,560 Speaker 2: It depends on your generation. Really. Do you remember the 390 00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:08,720 Speaker 2: old golf lollipop sign that used to be on the 391 00:20:08,720 --> 00:20:10,720 Speaker 2: top of the golf building. You either love that thing 392 00:20:10,800 --> 00:20:14,560 Speaker 2: or hated it. Man, for people that are my age, 393 00:20:14,760 --> 00:20:16,119 Speaker 2: you were a leisure learning that. 394 00:20:16,160 --> 00:20:19,000 Speaker 1: One says they hasn't thought about that that in forever? 395 00:20:20,160 --> 00:20:24,119 Speaker 1: Is that wrong? Yeah? Well, okay, all right, you just 396 00:20:24,160 --> 00:20:25,560 Speaker 1: brought back a good memory for a moment. 397 00:20:26,800 --> 00:20:30,119 Speaker 2: Nice, very good Gulph Greyhound parks. Remember that you can 398 00:20:30,240 --> 00:20:32,480 Speaker 2: spend in afternoon watching the dogs or anything. When that 399 00:20:32,520 --> 00:20:35,400 Speaker 2: when that ended, pretty much dog grace he ended here. 400 00:20:35,560 --> 00:20:38,719 Speaker 1: You know, I do like the fact that you defined Houston. 401 00:20:38,760 --> 00:20:42,359 Speaker 1: I appreciate this is the south anyway, or Texas at 402 00:20:42,400 --> 00:20:45,200 Speaker 1: least definitely the Gulf coast north of Porto Raansis and 403 00:20:45,280 --> 00:20:47,560 Speaker 1: this side of Orange. So I don't know what your 404 00:20:47,600 --> 00:20:49,840 Speaker 1: your definition of Houston was, but I've always thought of 405 00:20:49,840 --> 00:20:53,560 Speaker 1: Houston as as beyond the city, the city lines or 406 00:20:53,600 --> 00:20:54,240 Speaker 1: the city. 407 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:58,399 Speaker 2: Proper for sure. For sure, we have a long reach here. 408 00:20:59,160 --> 00:21:01,880 Speaker 1: You say that of the lost treasures you talk about 409 00:21:01,920 --> 00:21:03,800 Speaker 1: the most, it would have to be Astra World. 410 00:21:04,880 --> 00:21:07,879 Speaker 2: Yeah. I mentioned this project to somebody as I was 411 00:21:08,119 --> 00:21:10,320 Speaker 2: garnering photographs or just kind of talking about it because 412 00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:13,240 Speaker 2: it's excited about it. And they always mentioned the Astra world, 413 00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:15,840 Speaker 2: and then they sort of mentioned the oilers, and then 414 00:21:15,920 --> 00:21:18,320 Speaker 2: they mentioned about five hundred restaurants that they used to 415 00:21:18,359 --> 00:21:21,600 Speaker 2: love that aren't there anymore, right down to their favorite entree. 416 00:21:21,760 --> 00:21:23,359 Speaker 2: So you know, at the end of the project, I 417 00:21:23,359 --> 00:21:25,280 Speaker 2: had to say, oh, look, I can't include all the restaurants. 418 00:21:25,320 --> 00:21:26,760 Speaker 2: There's like a thousand restaurants. 419 00:21:27,240 --> 00:21:30,920 Speaker 1: You talk about Crack open a Grand Prize beer, there's 420 00:21:30,920 --> 00:21:32,160 Speaker 1: one from the past. 421 00:21:33,840 --> 00:21:38,320 Speaker 2: Absolutely, and it's been resurrected actually by the Saint Arnold's crew, 422 00:21:38,760 --> 00:21:40,600 Speaker 2: so you can't actually crack one open. Now. 423 00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:44,320 Speaker 1: That does not surprise me. Brock Wagner is brilliant and 424 00:21:44,600 --> 00:21:47,640 Speaker 1: not only marketing, but concepts and just how to get 425 00:21:47,760 --> 00:21:51,200 Speaker 1: products and things fun. I mean, he's fun. Oh there's 426 00:21:51,240 --> 00:21:54,480 Speaker 1: spot on. He gets it. And that's the reason I 427 00:21:54,480 --> 00:21:57,680 Speaker 1: think of the craft brewers, he sort of stole the show, 428 00:21:57,720 --> 00:21:59,960 Speaker 1: and despite all the other folks that come and go, 429 00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:02,520 Speaker 1: I think he's still at the top of that heap. 430 00:22:02,560 --> 00:22:04,960 Speaker 1: And really he's the grandfather of at all in a 431 00:22:05,040 --> 00:22:10,320 Speaker 1: relatively young industry. It was his work and his publicizing 432 00:22:10,359 --> 00:22:13,080 Speaker 1: it and then working with the legislature to get more 433 00:22:13,119 --> 00:22:17,960 Speaker 1: favorable laws that enable them to survive. But for him, 434 00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:23,080 Speaker 1: it would not be there. William Dylan Powell. We will 435 00:22:23,080 --> 00:22:25,520 Speaker 1: look forward to reading your book. I will post the 436 00:22:25,560 --> 00:22:28,560 Speaker 1: locations where he will be signing to our Facebook page 437 00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:30,320 Speaker 1: and to our blast if you don't sign up for 438 00:22:30,359 --> 00:22:32,600 Speaker 1: our blast. If you haven't, it's Michael Berryshow dot com. 439 00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:36,960 Speaker 1: It's free, it comes daily. We'll list those and otherwise 440 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:38,800 Speaker 1: you can buy it wherever you buy your books. Lost 441 00:22:38,880 --> 00:22:42,240 Speaker 1: Treasures of Houston. William Dylan Powell, thanks for spending some 442 00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:42,960 Speaker 1: time with us, my man. 443 00:22:43,480 --> 00:22:44,960 Speaker 2: Thanks, Michael, appreciate you having me. 444 00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:51,160 Speaker 1: That's fun, Ramon. I'm a nostalgia guy, so it's fun 445 00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:53,320 Speaker 1: to hear reference. You know, most of these things were 446 00:22:53,320 --> 00:22:55,560 Speaker 1: in Houston before I was here in eighty nine, but 447 00:22:55,840 --> 00:22:58,640 Speaker 1: I have this fondness as if I was there because 448 00:22:58,640 --> 00:23:00,600 Speaker 1: I've read about it, heard about it, talked about it 449 00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:09,959 Speaker 1: so much. I've kind of eternalized it. At the twenty 450 00:23:10,080 --> 00:23:15,919 Speaker 1: sixteen r NC supporting Donald Trump's first presidential run, and 451 00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:19,520 Speaker 1: he talked about making sure we take care of our 452 00:23:19,640 --> 00:23:23,840 Speaker 1: veterans as they return from war, and I think it's important. 453 00:23:25,760 --> 00:23:27,040 Speaker 4: I think it's important to say that. 454 00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:32,040 Speaker 3: We got to make sure that the hell the veterans 455 00:23:32,040 --> 00:23:33,160 Speaker 3: return from is not the hell. 456 00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:33,720 Speaker 2: To come home too. 457 00:23:33,760 --> 00:23:44,880 Speaker 4: Okay, that's what was promised and that's what's deserves period. 458 00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:48,480 Speaker 3: It also speaks volume about my generation, and I love 459 00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:51,600 Speaker 3: my generation generation the X Men was an honor to 460 00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:55,440 Speaker 3: fight along all side all yeah, and even when the 461 00:23:55,480 --> 00:23:58,000 Speaker 3: system doesn't take care of our boys, the citizens step up, 462 00:23:58,119 --> 00:24:00,960 Speaker 3: start foundations and programs to help the woundings and the 463 00:24:01,040 --> 00:24:03,600 Speaker 3: family's are the falling. So from the bottom of my 464 00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:06,360 Speaker 3: heart and literally, please know that I end every day 465 00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:08,639 Speaker 3: on my knees thanking God for for y all and 466 00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:11,680 Speaker 3: what you do and how you come it. My generation 467 00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:12,760 Speaker 3: of veterans coming home. 468 00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:22,760 Speaker 1: Yeah, that is why I'm proud to be part of 469 00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:27,720 Speaker 1: Camp Hope, part of PTSD Foundation of America and the 470 00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:30,880 Speaker 1: work they do every single day, not just on Veterans Day, 471 00:24:31,520 --> 00:24:34,959 Speaker 1: every single day for our veterans. And if there is 472 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:40,200 Speaker 1: a veteran who needs help today, if you have contemplated suicide, 473 00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:42,320 Speaker 1: if you are in a deep dark place, it will 474 00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:46,560 Speaker 1: cost you absolutely nothing. Another combat veteran will pick up 475 00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:49,240 Speaker 1: the phone when you call. That's who will answer on 476 00:24:49,280 --> 00:24:52,040 Speaker 1: the other end, not a psychiatrist, not a doctor, not 477 00:24:52,080 --> 00:24:56,200 Speaker 1: a psychologist, not a governmental employee, not a VA case 478 00:24:56,280 --> 00:25:01,000 Speaker 1: intake person, another veteran. It will cost you a absolutely nothing. 479 00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:07,119 Speaker 1: Their number is eight seven seven seven one seven PTSD 480 00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:13,080 Speaker 1: eight seven seven seven one seven PTSD eight seven seven 481 00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:17,000 Speaker 1: seven one seven PTSD. And I'll give you the numbers 482 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:21,120 Speaker 1: this time eight seven seven seven one seven seven eight 483 00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:27,080 Speaker 1: seven three. If you would like to contribute, donate to 484 00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:30,960 Speaker 1: a fundraiser for or in any other way be a 485 00:25:31,119 --> 00:25:33,840 Speaker 1: part of Camp Hope. I'm gonna give you the administrative line. 486 00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:37,439 Speaker 1: Don't call the hot line that's the veterans. This is 487 00:25:37,480 --> 00:25:40,159 Speaker 1: the administrative line. It'll run to it'll it'll be the 488 00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:43,159 Speaker 1: first building on the property up front, and that's where 489 00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:45,960 Speaker 1: the ladies will take your name and number and it'll 490 00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:47,920 Speaker 1: be handed to someone who can figure out what you're 491 00:25:47,920 --> 00:25:51,320 Speaker 1: trying to do for them. And that number is eight 492 00:25:51,400 --> 00:26:00,879 Speaker 1: three two nine one two is something? But what is that? Yeah, 493 00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:08,320 Speaker 1: it sounds it sounds like a whale is downstairs murmuring 494 00:26:08,320 --> 00:26:11,640 Speaker 1: because it's dying. It's like it's like the walls. Are 495 00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:17,080 Speaker 1: you hear it too? Okay? I feel better, all right? 496 00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:20,120 Speaker 1: The admin number is eight three two nine one two 497 00:26:20,160 --> 00:26:22,880 Speaker 1: forty four to twenty nine. Eight three two nine one 498 00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:27,159 Speaker 1: two forty four twenty nine. I will say this because 499 00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:30,000 Speaker 1: it comes up about forty five times a day. If 500 00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:34,119 Speaker 1: you are calling in a spirit of helping, then the 501 00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:36,040 Speaker 1: fact that you don't get a call back in ten minutes, 502 00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:37,719 Speaker 1: it's not a reason to reach out for me to 503 00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:39,879 Speaker 1: me in panic. I don't know. I've never understood that 504 00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:43,560 Speaker 1: you've done what you're supposed to do. You are offering 505 00:26:43,600 --> 00:26:46,680 Speaker 1: to give with that spirit. They're overwhelmed with the calls 506 00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:49,760 Speaker 1: that come in, So just just be patient. Otherwise you've 507 00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:53,000 Speaker 1: gone from being helpful to being a distraction. You'll you'll 508 00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:55,920 Speaker 1: get You'll get the callback. Eight three two nine one 509 00:26:56,000 --> 00:27:00,399 Speaker 1: two forty four twenty nine. Federal American Grill is and 510 00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:02,320 Speaker 1: I'm sure there are others doing this, but I know 511 00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:06,960 Speaker 1: of this, donating ten percent of proceeds of everything they 512 00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:11,520 Speaker 1: sell today to Camp Hope. Matt Bryce, just like Russell 513 00:27:11,560 --> 00:27:14,800 Speaker 1: Lebara at Gringoes, Matt Bryce at Federal American Grill does 514 00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:17,439 Speaker 1: a lot for our veterans at Camp Pope through the 515 00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:19,840 Speaker 1: course of the year, and this is one of those things. 516 00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:21,800 Speaker 1: So if you're not sure where to go for lunch 517 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:26,119 Speaker 1: or dinner today, let it be Federal American Grill today. 518 00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:29,840 Speaker 1: And that goes a long way toward meeting the expenses 519 00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:33,800 Speaker 1: of providing a place where veterans can help veterans heal. 520 00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:36,960 Speaker 1: And that's what Camp Hope is. It's a very very 521 00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:43,879 Speaker 1: low overhead. The administrative expenses are incredibly low. Literally treat 522 00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:48,040 Speaker 1: people from around the country. People come to Camp Hope 523 00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:50,760 Speaker 1: from across the country. So while it is Houston based 524 00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:54,480 Speaker 1: and mostly Houston folks, there are people from around the 525 00:27:54,520 --> 00:27:57,440 Speaker 1: country that don't have something like this in their community, 526 00:27:57,680 --> 00:27:59,320 Speaker 1: and so they come to Camp Hope, which is a 527 00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:02,399 Speaker 1: special place right here in Houston. In ten percent of 528 00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:06,000 Speaker 1: all Federal American Grill each of their location Shepherd, Washington, Downtown, 529 00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:11,680 Speaker 1: It Tenant, Campbell, Katie, and the Woodlands. And there will 530 00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:15,960 Speaker 1: soon be a location in what was Eloise Nichols off 531 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:19,720 Speaker 1: of West Timer at about the tracks right in there. 532 00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:23,040 Speaker 1: Matt is endeavoring to get a new location open. There 533 00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:25,760 Speaker 1: be a smaller that one's only forty four hundred square feet, 534 00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:28,280 Speaker 1: which is about I think about half what a normal 535 00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:31,679 Speaker 1: one is, So it'll be a little smaller location, but 536 00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:36,000 Speaker 1: he's looking forward to that. I would also say that 537 00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:41,120 Speaker 1: if folks are going to promise to give a portion 538 00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:47,200 Speaker 1: of what they sell to Camp Hope or any other organization, 539 00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:51,880 Speaker 1: that can be a really, really wonderful thing. But there 540 00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:55,760 Speaker 1: are some people, unfortunately, who prey on the goodness of others. 541 00:28:56,360 --> 00:28:59,760 Speaker 1: And the two things that I always advise people is, 542 00:28:59,800 --> 00:29:03,560 Speaker 1: if you're going to ask me to announce, which I 543 00:29:03,560 --> 00:29:06,400 Speaker 1: won't commit to do every one of them, that you're 544 00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:10,400 Speaker 1: going a portion of proceeds go to Camp Hope, tell 545 00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:13,680 Speaker 1: me the percentage, and be willing to show me the numbers. 546 00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:16,040 Speaker 1: Because if you say a portion of the proceeds and 547 00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:20,520 Speaker 1: you give five dollars, technically that's true, just point one percent. 548 00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:25,680 Speaker 1: It is getting people to take action for the noblest 549 00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:29,480 Speaker 1: of reasons and doing the most ignoble of things with it. 550 00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:31,360 Speaker 1: And I'm sorry to say, but I do sense that 551 00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:34,000 Speaker 1: there are certain people who do that. The other thing 552 00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:36,520 Speaker 1: is be ready to show the check that you write 553 00:29:36,560 --> 00:29:40,440 Speaker 1: at the end of it. It's not that hard if people, however, 554 00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:42,880 Speaker 1: many people came and did what they did for you, 555 00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:46,320 Speaker 1: plus you got the good will of people knowing that 556 00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:49,080 Speaker 1: you did that. Be willing the next day to say 557 00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:53,440 Speaker 1: that here's the check, and David Malsby can confirm that's right. 558 00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:55,720 Speaker 1: They wrote a check, and here is the amount of 559 00:29:55,760 --> 00:30:00,160 Speaker 1: the check, because otherwise, well, I'll leave that there. But 560 00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:04,360 Speaker 1: when someone says a portion is going to be donated, 561 00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:10,040 Speaker 1: I'd like to know what that portion is, because sometimes 562 00:30:10,080 --> 00:30:12,000 Speaker 1: I get the sense that this is being used more 563 00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:17,040 Speaker 1: for business development than to allow people yet another way 564 00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:19,760 Speaker 1: to contribute to a good cause. And I see it 565 00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:22,000 Speaker 1: done all the time. The other thing is the difference 566 00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:24,280 Speaker 1: between profits and proceeds. And there's a certain son of 567 00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:27,960 Speaker 1: a bitch in town who got me to push people 568 00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:30,840 Speaker 1: to Papa John's when an officer was killed based on 569 00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:33,120 Speaker 1: the profits going to the family. And at the end 570 00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:35,160 Speaker 1: of the day, the Czech was about ten percent what 571 00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:36,840 Speaker 1: we thought it was. And he came up and said, oh, 572 00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:39,800 Speaker 1: I meant profits, not proceeds. I have him on air 573 00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:42,960 Speaker 1: saying proceeds and everybody knows who he is. It was crappy, 574 00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:43,760 Speaker 1: crappy thing to do.