1 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:06,080 Speaker 1: It's that time time time. 2 00:00:05,960 --> 00:00:08,520 Speaker 2: Time, luck and load. 3 00:00:11,240 --> 00:00:13,400 Speaker 1: So Michael Varry Show is. 4 00:00:13,280 --> 00:00:13,880 Speaker 2: On the air. 5 00:00:22,560 --> 00:00:23,639 Speaker 3: How you daring this show? 6 00:00:23,640 --> 00:00:24,360 Speaker 1: The Cube Liquor. 7 00:00:24,480 --> 00:00:29,280 Speaker 3: I am the constituency congress Lady at large of Rage, Texas, 8 00:00:29,360 --> 00:00:34,120 Speaker 3: Micah berry hometown. I had went to this discovery conference 9 00:00:34,360 --> 00:00:38,920 Speaker 3: on the Democrat Party that Crackett Lady Cockade Jasmine or 10 00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:41,800 Speaker 3: whatever name is. She was giving us tips on how 11 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:44,199 Speaker 3: to act black. I never had that there before. But 12 00:00:44,280 --> 00:00:48,559 Speaker 3: she said, okay, number one, use the word play especially, 13 00:00:48,720 --> 00:00:51,720 Speaker 3: don't play with me. She said, that's the number one rule. 14 00:00:51,840 --> 00:00:54,400 Speaker 3: Number two she said, don't touch me. She said that 15 00:00:54,600 --> 00:00:58,200 Speaker 3: somehow invoke your constitutional rights to be not bothered by 16 00:00:58,200 --> 00:01:00,320 Speaker 3: the police. Do not touch me. 17 00:01:00,680 --> 00:01:02,320 Speaker 1: What she has a said a number three. 18 00:01:03,360 --> 00:01:07,520 Speaker 3: Oh, when you try and make a parent about something, 19 00:01:07,640 --> 00:01:10,679 Speaker 3: even if you do not know what you is talking about, 20 00:01:11,080 --> 00:01:15,399 Speaker 3: it is impertinent to clap your hands. Just don't matter 21 00:01:15,440 --> 00:01:19,200 Speaker 3: whether you testifying in Congress or is you a Supreme 22 00:01:19,240 --> 00:01:22,200 Speaker 3: Court justice, or if you just a colored lady. Want 23 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:25,520 Speaker 3: to have a dispute with the manager at Popeye's Girl, 24 00:01:27,480 --> 00:01:30,480 Speaker 3: It's like finding that I got some clearance from a 25 00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:32,199 Speaker 3: woman who know what they're doing. 26 00:01:32,360 --> 00:01:35,440 Speaker 4: Could I ask this question yes, what Tessa? What you 27 00:01:35,520 --> 00:01:41,320 Speaker 4: got Why she talk like she erudite and speak English 28 00:01:41,360 --> 00:01:45,000 Speaker 4: when she get on the road and have her fingernail 29 00:01:45,120 --> 00:01:47,600 Speaker 4: dead and then she gonna talk like she from. 30 00:01:47,440 --> 00:01:48,320 Speaker 1: The fifth ward. 31 00:01:48,720 --> 00:01:52,400 Speaker 3: She's an actress. Do you understand what the actress is? 32 00:01:53,040 --> 00:01:53,640 Speaker 1: Actress? 33 00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:56,640 Speaker 3: Because a lady who do a thing that they not 34 00:01:56,760 --> 00:02:01,640 Speaker 3: meant to to revolve and revolving revolution theyselves. 35 00:02:01,800 --> 00:02:05,200 Speaker 5: Okay, I don't really care. I don't care about the news, 36 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:08,320 Speaker 5: but I need my EVT car. I got to have 37 00:02:08,520 --> 00:02:12,959 Speaker 5: my Sniker Boys and a Pepsi cola and all these 38 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:16,840 Speaker 5: other things. My snowballs is and my Moss Boys is 39 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:22,440 Speaker 5: sheredy qre. You can guarantee me that I can't guarantee 40 00:02:22,480 --> 00:02:23,360 Speaker 5: a damn thing. 41 00:02:23,520 --> 00:02:29,000 Speaker 3: These days, girls tell up from the flow up seez. 42 00:02:31,160 --> 00:02:31,440 Speaker 2: Zara. 43 00:02:31,480 --> 00:02:33,440 Speaker 1: I'm sure you've seen it, but if you haven't, On 44 00:02:33,480 --> 00:02:36,640 Speaker 1: the front page of this morning's Houston Chronicle is a 45 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:41,560 Speaker 1: story about snap. Look at the picture of cars waiting 46 00:02:41,600 --> 00:02:45,320 Speaker 1: for food. The one in the picture is a late 47 00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:49,280 Speaker 1: madel Mercedes. I'm sure they didn't pay attention to it 48 00:02:49,320 --> 00:02:53,920 Speaker 1: and it slipped by the editors. That tells the whole story. 49 00:02:57,120 --> 00:03:02,800 Speaker 1: We have people in our society who live better than 50 00:03:02,880 --> 00:03:06,400 Speaker 1: people who work for a living. You know, the guy 51 00:03:06,440 --> 00:03:12,040 Speaker 1: that works at the warehouse driving the forklift, busting ass. 52 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:18,079 Speaker 1: His wife is at home raising the kids, maybe their 53 00:03:18,080 --> 00:03:24,880 Speaker 1: first generation Hispanic here legally busting but and she's working 54 00:03:24,960 --> 00:03:28,360 Speaker 1: just as hard at home with these kids. And she 55 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:32,080 Speaker 1: comes up. Maybe they don't have a car, or maybe 56 00:03:32,120 --> 00:03:34,080 Speaker 1: he has the one car, and he takes it to work, 57 00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:36,720 Speaker 1: and she takes the bus to bring him a little tiffing, 58 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:42,680 Speaker 1: a little tupperware of his lunch and sits there with 59 00:03:42,760 --> 00:03:47,160 Speaker 1: him while he eats it. And they are struggling. Not 60 00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:52,320 Speaker 1: a benefit one. And then you've got this whole sister class. 61 00:03:52,800 --> 00:03:58,080 Speaker 1: Oh they are special. They're out at the bars, they're 62 00:03:58,160 --> 00:04:05,640 Speaker 1: driving range rovers, they're wearing nice threads, they've got websites, 63 00:04:06,320 --> 00:04:12,280 Speaker 1: they're posting on Instagram, and they don't work. What are 64 00:04:12,320 --> 00:04:15,360 Speaker 1: you doing? We have created so much slough in our 65 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:20,080 Speaker 1: system that people that know they call it hustling. It 66 00:04:20,080 --> 00:04:26,120 Speaker 1: ain't hustling. It ain't hustling. In the Pete Rose turn third, 67 00:04:27,080 --> 00:04:30,800 Speaker 1: head home, get there as fast as you can and 68 00:04:30,920 --> 00:04:35,760 Speaker 1: crush the guy, or dive for a ball. Hustling. It's 69 00:04:35,880 --> 00:04:39,800 Speaker 1: hustle and flow hustling. It is being a hustler, like 70 00:04:39,880 --> 00:04:44,279 Speaker 1: a pool hustler. That's what it is. It's scamming, it's frauding, 71 00:04:44,880 --> 00:04:49,120 Speaker 1: it's fronting. That's what it is. That is very common. 72 00:04:49,520 --> 00:04:54,039 Speaker 1: There's entire TV shows with these people now, and there 73 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:58,600 Speaker 1: is the whole the whole point of it is to 74 00:04:58,720 --> 00:05:01,839 Speaker 1: do things so that you can post it so other 75 00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:05,599 Speaker 1: people will think you're rich and important. It's the most 76 00:05:05,680 --> 00:05:09,240 Speaker 1: vapid thing I've ever seen. You go to a nice restaurant, 77 00:05:09,240 --> 00:05:12,440 Speaker 1: now you will see at a table next to you, 78 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:16,200 Speaker 1: there is some girl who'll come in with her man. 79 00:05:17,720 --> 00:05:21,000 Speaker 1: You're not sure if he's gay or not, and he's 80 00:05:21,040 --> 00:05:23,719 Speaker 1: not sure if he's gared not. But he's holding her person, 81 00:05:23,760 --> 00:05:28,240 Speaker 1: taking her pictures, and she's posing as they eat. She's 82 00:05:28,279 --> 00:05:33,440 Speaker 1: got her champagne flute and she's got it up and 83 00:05:34,480 --> 00:05:38,120 Speaker 1: his job is to take photos, which, when you stop 84 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:42,120 Speaker 1: and think about it, the whole point of these slutty 85 00:05:42,120 --> 00:05:48,000 Speaker 1: photos is to take the photo so that other dudes 86 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:51,760 Speaker 1: will want to do her. So this dude is taking 87 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:55,080 Speaker 1: the photos for her so that she can put up 88 00:05:55,960 --> 00:06:01,960 Speaker 1: so that other dudes can do her. My goodness, can 89 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:08,000 Speaker 1: you cut hold my purse? That's awful. I mean, good night. 90 00:06:08,880 --> 00:06:13,640 Speaker 1: That is some kind of bad. Meanwhile, let's check in 91 00:06:13,680 --> 00:06:15,080 Speaker 1: on John Wayne mccorny, shall we. 92 00:06:19,160 --> 00:06:23,480 Speaker 2: John Wayne mccornan is one of us. He woke up 93 00:06:23,520 --> 00:06:27,400 Speaker 2: on Monday, felt that humidity in the air, gathered his 94 00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:33,000 Speaker 2: lasso and roped this cool front straight down to you, Texas. 95 00:06:33,960 --> 00:06:36,960 Speaker 2: John Wayne mccornan is so close to Donald J. Trump 96 00:06:37,120 --> 00:06:40,719 Speaker 2: that when Trump headed to Japan, mccornan ate sushi for 97 00:06:40,800 --> 00:06:44,520 Speaker 2: a week and pretended to love that hot wine they 98 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:48,559 Speaker 2: call sake. When Trump headed to China, mccornan ate rice 99 00:06:48,640 --> 00:06:53,479 Speaker 2: with chopsticks an impossible feet and just thirty minutes later 100 00:06:53,560 --> 00:07:00,000 Speaker 2: after that Chinese buffet, he was hungry again for you. 101 00:07:06,480 --> 00:07:12,760 Speaker 1: Yes, John Wayne mccornyn. The John Wayne mccornyn folks have 102 00:07:12,840 --> 00:07:18,520 Speaker 1: turned their artillery away from Paxton. Now they're attacking Wesley Hunt. 103 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:25,600 Speaker 1: It's quite interesting. John Wayne mccornyn was to have had 104 00:07:26,440 --> 00:07:38,160 Speaker 1: this week in DC a closed door supposed to be well, 105 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:44,760 Speaker 1: a closed door session with the big donors. And my 106 00:07:44,960 --> 00:07:50,760 Speaker 1: understanding on somewhat reliable authority is that the donors are 107 00:07:50,760 --> 00:07:56,280 Speaker 1: telling him you need to get out. Well, here's the problem. 108 00:07:57,240 --> 00:08:00,960 Speaker 1: If he gets out his donors are going to Wesley Hunt. 109 00:08:02,080 --> 00:08:05,800 Speaker 1: So in that sense, Wesley Hunt is a much bigger 110 00:08:05,880 --> 00:08:12,360 Speaker 1: threat today to John Cornyn than Paxton is, because Wesley 111 00:08:12,440 --> 00:08:15,800 Speaker 1: Hunt can take some of those donors, and Wesley Hunt 112 00:08:15,840 --> 00:08:20,000 Speaker 1: gives those donors an alternative to Paxton and an alternative 113 00:08:20,040 --> 00:08:23,440 Speaker 1: to Cornyn. So Cornyn right now is fighting off Hunt 114 00:08:23,520 --> 00:08:26,120 Speaker 1: in the short term before he can even bother to 115 00:08:26,160 --> 00:08:32,120 Speaker 1: get to Paxton. The Michael Barry Show. You learn a 116 00:08:32,160 --> 00:08:39,360 Speaker 1: lot about artists when you run a concert venue, because 117 00:08:39,400 --> 00:08:44,880 Speaker 1: when you book an artist, you notice whether they sell 118 00:08:44,920 --> 00:08:51,079 Speaker 1: tickets quickly or not. And when you book the artists 119 00:08:52,320 --> 00:08:54,839 Speaker 1: and they do a meet and greet, you learn that 120 00:08:54,960 --> 00:08:58,200 Speaker 1: some people are very eager to meet their fans, and 121 00:08:58,280 --> 00:09:01,280 Speaker 1: some people don't don't want to be around the fans. 122 00:09:02,800 --> 00:09:06,080 Speaker 1: You learn that some people are creating almost like an 123 00:09:06,120 --> 00:09:14,640 Speaker 1: amusement park, an immersive experience in you know Cory Morrow 124 00:09:14,760 --> 00:09:17,160 Speaker 1: or Pat Green or Tracy Bird or the bellowin Brother 125 00:09:17,280 --> 00:09:21,720 Speaker 1: or whoever that is, that it's an evening of that 126 00:09:22,200 --> 00:09:26,440 Speaker 1: person's area, right, Yeah, I want to meet them before 127 00:09:26,520 --> 00:09:29,880 Speaker 1: the show, I want to meet them after the show. 128 00:09:30,440 --> 00:09:33,360 Speaker 1: And then you see when they come on stage, you 129 00:09:33,400 --> 00:09:36,040 Speaker 1: can see how much of themselves. They give to the 130 00:09:36,040 --> 00:09:42,080 Speaker 1: crowd they're fans, and then you see the people for 131 00:09:42,200 --> 00:09:45,360 Speaker 1: whom and some of these are stars, I mean big 132 00:09:45,679 --> 00:09:52,160 Speaker 1: stars that they show up, they go out and they 133 00:09:52,240 --> 00:09:54,720 Speaker 1: might as well turn their back to the audience, which 134 00:09:54,760 --> 00:09:58,280 Speaker 1: is kind of one of the famous moves in music history. 135 00:09:58,600 --> 00:09:59,719 Speaker 1: But they might as well turn their back to the 136 00:09:59,760 --> 00:10:02,720 Speaker 1: audio and said sing to the backwall. They're not singing 137 00:10:02,760 --> 00:10:07,040 Speaker 1: to anyone, They're just going through the motions. And you 138 00:10:07,200 --> 00:10:12,640 Speaker 1: notice these things, and in most cases you can't know 139 00:10:12,720 --> 00:10:15,920 Speaker 1: what someone's like until you do something like that. I'll 140 00:10:15,920 --> 00:10:21,199 Speaker 1: tell you the one that really the most surprising artists 141 00:10:21,240 --> 00:10:28,200 Speaker 1: we ever had at the RCC Steve Warner. He was 142 00:10:28,200 --> 00:10:31,880 Speaker 1: twenty five thousand, which was higher than I felt like 143 00:10:32,120 --> 00:10:37,240 Speaker 1: he was worth. But we had about a three week 144 00:10:37,240 --> 00:10:39,640 Speaker 1: period that I didn't have anybody booked and I was 145 00:10:39,640 --> 00:10:44,800 Speaker 1: struggling to get somebody, and I called my buddy that 146 00:10:44,920 --> 00:10:49,800 Speaker 1: ran Nutty Jerry's in Beaumont, and I said, man, twenty 147 00:10:49,800 --> 00:10:52,880 Speaker 1: five thousand for Steve Warner seems high and he said, 148 00:10:53,520 --> 00:10:56,440 Speaker 1: you won't regret it, and he wasn't you know somebody 149 00:10:56,480 --> 00:11:00,440 Speaker 1: that promoted artists a lot? I said, okay, all right. 150 00:11:00,880 --> 00:11:05,800 Speaker 1: And then I called Sharon that ran Schrader Hall and 151 00:11:05,880 --> 00:11:08,600 Speaker 1: I said, hey, I see you have Steve Warren three 152 00:11:08,640 --> 00:11:11,400 Speaker 1: times a year. Yes, he's one of my favorites. And 153 00:11:11,480 --> 00:11:15,760 Speaker 1: Sharon did this deal before the show. She instead of 154 00:11:15,760 --> 00:11:18,199 Speaker 1: having a green room before the show, she would make 155 00:11:18,200 --> 00:11:21,520 Speaker 1: dinner for people the artist at her house. Her and 156 00:11:21,559 --> 00:11:23,880 Speaker 1: her husband would feed them at her house. It's a 157 00:11:23,920 --> 00:11:26,320 Speaker 1: small operation. She'd do it all herself. It was a 158 00:11:26,360 --> 00:11:30,360 Speaker 1: real neat, quaint kind of intimate deal. And the artist 159 00:11:30,400 --> 00:11:32,360 Speaker 1: all loved it. They thought it was the neatest thing ever. 160 00:11:33,520 --> 00:11:35,680 Speaker 1: And she said, oh, you'll love Steve Warner. I think 161 00:11:35,720 --> 00:11:37,319 Speaker 1: she might've been the one that had told me originally 162 00:11:37,400 --> 00:11:42,079 Speaker 1: to book him. So I booked them, and I had 163 00:11:42,120 --> 00:11:45,920 Speaker 1: to be out of town, so I wasn't paying attention 164 00:11:45,960 --> 00:11:48,040 Speaker 1: to ticket sales as close as I normally would have. 165 00:11:49,120 --> 00:11:55,920 Speaker 1: But I noticed that we covered which in the business everybody, 166 00:11:56,400 --> 00:12:00,720 Speaker 1: if tickets can cover the artist, you're in the good now. 167 00:12:00,760 --> 00:12:03,080 Speaker 1: If tickets can cover the artist and marketing and all that, 168 00:12:03,120 --> 00:12:05,400 Speaker 1: and that's even better. But for us, if tickets could 169 00:12:05,480 --> 00:12:09,120 Speaker 1: just cover the marketing the artists, we were good. So 170 00:12:09,320 --> 00:12:13,080 Speaker 1: we did cover twenty six like with twenty five with 171 00:12:13,200 --> 00:12:18,120 Speaker 1: maybe twenty six and everybody, not everybody, a lot of people. 172 00:12:18,600 --> 00:12:21,680 Speaker 1: By Monday, we're sending emails, please bring Steve Warner back. 173 00:12:22,640 --> 00:12:24,600 Speaker 1: That tells you a lot about what he did on stage. 174 00:12:24,600 --> 00:12:27,880 Speaker 1: You learn a lot in such a moment. And so 175 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:32,280 Speaker 1: we did about a year later, and I bet we 176 00:12:32,360 --> 00:12:35,679 Speaker 1: sold maybe thirty two in tickets because he put on 177 00:12:35,880 --> 00:12:42,080 Speaker 1: such a great such a great show. And then you 178 00:12:42,120 --> 00:12:44,440 Speaker 1: see the guys that just all right, just pay me 179 00:12:44,480 --> 00:12:47,240 Speaker 1: my check. I'm out of here. But anytime I hear 180 00:12:47,280 --> 00:12:51,280 Speaker 1: Tracy Burder, I always think to myself about conversation the 181 00:12:51,280 --> 00:12:53,360 Speaker 1: first time I ever said to him, you know, do 182 00:12:53,400 --> 00:12:55,560 Speaker 1: you realize how proud you should be all these years 183 00:12:55,600 --> 00:12:59,120 Speaker 1: after you were charting, and people are still coming out 184 00:12:59,160 --> 00:13:01,839 Speaker 1: to see you, and they still love your music, and 185 00:13:01,880 --> 00:13:03,680 Speaker 1: they still want to hear you because he wasn't cutting 186 00:13:03,679 --> 00:13:05,600 Speaker 1: a lot of new stuff. He did cut a new album, 187 00:13:06,559 --> 00:13:11,479 Speaker 1: but they're coming out to hear songs that at this point, 188 00:13:11,640 --> 00:13:14,840 Speaker 1: you know, mid nineties, these songs were twenty years old. 189 00:13:15,760 --> 00:13:18,600 Speaker 1: They were only being played on the Classic Country. But 190 00:13:18,679 --> 00:13:21,080 Speaker 1: they wanted to hear Tracy sing them, and they wanted 191 00:13:21,080 --> 00:13:23,400 Speaker 1: to be around Tracy, and they wanted to see Tracy perform, 192 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:27,239 Speaker 1: and there's just something about when you provide that experience. 193 00:13:28,760 --> 00:13:30,800 Speaker 1: I saw Corey Morrill go through a period where I 194 00:13:30,840 --> 00:13:33,840 Speaker 1: think he probably got a little burned out, and he 195 00:13:33,920 --> 00:13:37,160 Speaker 1: was still doing his show, still touring, but I have 196 00:13:37,360 --> 00:13:41,160 Speaker 1: noticed in him a passion again that has come back, 197 00:13:42,120 --> 00:13:46,880 Speaker 1: and a thrill to make music and evangelize. He looks 198 00:13:46,880 --> 00:13:48,760 Speaker 1: at it as, hey, I got a second chance on life. 199 00:13:48,800 --> 00:13:50,280 Speaker 1: I want to tell people what the Lord did for 200 00:13:50,400 --> 00:13:52,920 Speaker 1: me and which is kind of cool. And he says, 201 00:13:53,120 --> 00:13:57,000 Speaker 1: you know, I hope they'll listen without me, without me 202 00:13:57,600 --> 00:14:00,880 Speaker 1: being too preachy. I get a chance to tell my 203 00:14:00,960 --> 00:14:03,280 Speaker 1: story and support my family and make my art, and 204 00:14:03,320 --> 00:14:05,640 Speaker 1: I enjoy it. It's a pretty unique deal if you 205 00:14:05,679 --> 00:14:10,680 Speaker 1: think about it. Let's go to Who's up next? Taylor? 206 00:14:10,679 --> 00:14:12,160 Speaker 1: You're on the Michael Berry Show. Let's say you. 207 00:14:12,160 --> 00:14:16,760 Speaker 6: Sir, Hey, Michael, can you hear me? 208 00:14:19,440 --> 00:14:19,640 Speaker 1: Hey? 209 00:14:20,400 --> 00:14:24,000 Speaker 6: I just wanted to just give a well personal point 210 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:27,760 Speaker 6: of recognition to north wind Ac. They're at my mom's 211 00:14:27,760 --> 00:14:30,080 Speaker 6: house right now and they're doing a great job. Man, 212 00:14:30,280 --> 00:14:33,920 Speaker 6: So I just really wanted to appreciate you for the recommendation. Yeah, 213 00:14:33,960 --> 00:14:39,960 Speaker 6: what was the issue one of the bedrooms in her house, 214 00:14:40,280 --> 00:14:44,080 Speaker 6: it was not cooling like the others. So while the 215 00:14:44,120 --> 00:14:46,600 Speaker 6: others were nice and cool in the summer, it was 216 00:14:46,960 --> 00:14:51,000 Speaker 6: blazing hot. And so they're making work in their magic 217 00:14:51,080 --> 00:14:54,680 Speaker 6: and go to another event in it, and actually two 218 00:14:54,720 --> 00:14:55,760 Speaker 6: other events in that room. 219 00:14:55,960 --> 00:14:58,880 Speaker 1: So right on named. 220 00:14:58,960 --> 00:15:04,640 Speaker 6: Carlos, car Carlos and Carlos and Chris. So you know, 221 00:15:05,360 --> 00:15:07,840 Speaker 6: hopefully their bosses listening. 222 00:15:08,880 --> 00:15:13,240 Speaker 1: You know, Darryl Konda listens to the show. In addition 223 00:15:13,280 --> 00:15:17,080 Speaker 1: to all the other stuff he does. He clips anytime 224 00:15:17,160 --> 00:15:20,560 Speaker 1: I or anyone else mentions a show sponsor, he sends 225 00:15:20,560 --> 00:15:23,720 Speaker 1: it to them and encourages them to share it with 226 00:15:23,800 --> 00:15:27,800 Speaker 1: the individual at the company that was responsible. So yes, 227 00:15:27,880 --> 00:15:30,360 Speaker 1: I assure you that will be duly noted. And you 228 00:15:30,400 --> 00:15:33,880 Speaker 1: know we ought to do more of that. Thank you, Ray. 229 00:15:35,040 --> 00:15:39,920 Speaker 1: I'm Sheila Jnglee the Michael Barry Show. You merely adopted 230 00:15:39,960 --> 00:15:47,080 Speaker 1: the doc I was body. The DNC is short of 231 00:15:47,160 --> 00:15:50,640 Speaker 1: cash and are trying to raise some. So trying to 232 00:15:50,680 --> 00:15:55,360 Speaker 1: do a fundraiser in San Francisco, and they thought, well, 233 00:15:55,400 --> 00:16:01,560 Speaker 1: who better to headline then Kamala Harris, right, it's where 234 00:16:01,680 --> 00:16:06,720 Speaker 1: she's from. Well, it turns out that when they went 235 00:16:06,840 --> 00:16:11,240 Speaker 1: looking for money with her as the headline, the donors 236 00:16:11,280 --> 00:16:17,880 Speaker 1: rejected it. They want no part of it. Let's see 237 00:16:17,880 --> 00:16:20,720 Speaker 1: the Wall Street General Report of the DNC has been 238 00:16:20,760 --> 00:16:23,840 Speaker 1: struggling to raise money during President Trump's second term in office, 239 00:16:23,840 --> 00:16:26,560 Speaker 1: According to several people familiar with the conversations, the DNC 240 00:16:26,640 --> 00:16:29,640 Speaker 1: attempted to reach out to major donors earlier this year 241 00:16:29,680 --> 00:16:32,480 Speaker 1: through the San Francisco based fundraiser, but most had declined. 242 00:16:33,360 --> 00:16:38,280 Speaker 1: The WSJ report reads upon receiving the invitation, one replied 243 00:16:38,320 --> 00:16:43,280 Speaker 1: with a profanity laced rejection. Others said they didn't want 244 00:16:43,320 --> 00:16:46,240 Speaker 1: to give to the party until it produced substantive plans 245 00:16:46,240 --> 00:16:51,040 Speaker 1: to win elections. Those who declined told the National Party 246 00:16:51,080 --> 00:16:56,080 Speaker 1: they had commitments and could not make it work. The 247 00:16:56,120 --> 00:16:58,680 Speaker 1: Wall Street General Report of the DNC eventually found a 248 00:16:58,720 --> 00:17:02,840 Speaker 1: donor to host the event, but it raised far less 249 00:17:02,880 --> 00:17:10,080 Speaker 1: than organizers had hoped. The article continues. A top official 250 00:17:10,119 --> 00:17:13,359 Speaker 1: at a national Democratic group said some donors remain angry 251 00:17:13,400 --> 00:17:16,480 Speaker 1: about how their money was spent in last year's presidential 252 00:17:16,520 --> 00:17:20,880 Speaker 1: election by outside groups, including on what they see as 253 00:17:21,080 --> 00:17:26,600 Speaker 1: excessive salaries for DC consultants. The official said the party 254 00:17:26,600 --> 00:17:29,840 Speaker 1: has failed to complete a public post election investigation into 255 00:17:29,880 --> 00:17:30,679 Speaker 1: what went wrong. 256 00:17:32,160 --> 00:17:32,440 Speaker 2: Humm. 257 00:17:33,680 --> 00:17:36,320 Speaker 1: Rachel Pritzker, chair of the think tank Third Way, also 258 00:17:36,400 --> 00:17:40,159 Speaker 1: told a Wall Street Journal it is shocking how little 259 00:17:40,200 --> 00:17:47,800 Speaker 1: reassessment the party and its leadership has done. Kamala's campaign 260 00:17:48,840 --> 00:17:56,800 Speaker 1: spent a billion and a half dollars in fifteen weeks. 261 00:17:56,840 --> 00:18:02,320 Speaker 1: A billion and a half dollars. You've got to work 262 00:18:02,960 --> 00:18:05,320 Speaker 1: to spend that much money. I mean, you have to 263 00:18:05,520 --> 00:18:10,120 Speaker 1: actually work to spend that much money. If you went 264 00:18:10,200 --> 00:18:15,919 Speaker 1: to the mall every day and you bought everything you saw, 265 00:18:17,160 --> 00:18:19,119 Speaker 1: you could not spend that amount of money because you 266 00:18:19,160 --> 00:18:22,280 Speaker 1: couldn't haul it out of there. You'd run out of time. 267 00:18:24,560 --> 00:18:27,680 Speaker 1: A billion and a half. They spent so much money 268 00:18:27,760 --> 00:18:33,760 Speaker 1: on Beyonce and Oprah and all these people, and think 269 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:38,280 Speaker 1: what horrors they are. Think what horrors they have to be. 270 00:18:39,200 --> 00:18:43,119 Speaker 1: You're being asked to support somebody for president. You're going 271 00:18:43,280 --> 00:18:49,479 Speaker 1: to present to the audience. I'm for this person. They're great. 272 00:18:49,640 --> 00:18:51,760 Speaker 1: I want to see them be president. You're just paid. 273 00:18:52,840 --> 00:18:57,560 Speaker 1: You don't believe it at all. If you did believe it, 274 00:18:58,520 --> 00:19:02,159 Speaker 1: you wouldn't get paid to do it, and not just 275 00:19:02,280 --> 00:19:13,479 Speaker 1: paid paid insane amounts of money, crazy amounts of money. Well, 276 00:19:13,640 --> 00:19:16,240 Speaker 1: we've all received a rejection letter when we asked for 277 00:19:16,280 --> 00:19:19,720 Speaker 1: money before. But I bet the Kamala rejection letter, I 278 00:19:19,800 --> 00:19:21,760 Speaker 1: bet dad be a doozy. 279 00:19:22,440 --> 00:19:26,479 Speaker 2: Dear Democratic National Committee, we've received your request for funds. 280 00:19:26,560 --> 00:19:29,440 Speaker 2: Please see the following reasons we must decline your request. 281 00:19:29,680 --> 00:19:35,000 Speaker 2: Kamala Harris is a stupid who's in fact so and stupid. 282 00:19:35,280 --> 00:19:38,080 Speaker 2: She couldn't find her way out of a paper and sack. 283 00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:41,439 Speaker 2: Every in time I hear her laugh, it makes me 284 00:19:41,480 --> 00:19:44,960 Speaker 2: want to jump off a bridge and die an instant death. 285 00:19:45,440 --> 00:19:47,760 Speaker 2: Foremous regards a former DNC donner. 286 00:19:51,480 --> 00:19:54,679 Speaker 1: Last night, our friend Gary Peterson was honored in the 287 00:19:55,040 --> 00:19:59,680 Speaker 1: with induction into the Texas Business Hall of Fame. He 288 00:20:00,119 --> 00:20:07,680 Speaker 1: and Marty Phillips and Bob Zorich went in together, and 289 00:20:07,800 --> 00:20:11,440 Speaker 1: their partner David Miller, was inducted last year. The group 290 00:20:11,520 --> 00:20:14,200 Speaker 1: is called en CAP, which is short for Energy Capitalization. 291 00:20:15,520 --> 00:20:20,879 Speaker 1: They have been the most aggressive private equity source for 292 00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:25,000 Speaker 1: fracking in the Texas Shell to my knowledge, in the 293 00:20:25,040 --> 00:20:28,320 Speaker 1: last twenty five years. They have created a lot of 294 00:20:28,320 --> 00:20:33,880 Speaker 1: wealth for other people in whom they invested and for 295 00:20:33,960 --> 00:20:37,520 Speaker 1: their investors. They have a fund they've raised about fifty 296 00:20:37,560 --> 00:20:43,120 Speaker 1: billion dollars. They managed the money of several large institutions 297 00:20:43,359 --> 00:20:46,879 Speaker 1: you would recognize, and they look at deals and put 298 00:20:46,960 --> 00:20:50,040 Speaker 1: money into them, and they'll have fun number one, fund 299 00:20:50,080 --> 00:20:54,360 Speaker 1: number two, fund number three in various places, and when 300 00:20:54,480 --> 00:20:59,040 Speaker 1: the ship comes in, everybody gets rich and everybody's happy. 301 00:21:00,560 --> 00:21:07,280 Speaker 1: One of the other inductees was a woman named Thaggared. 302 00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:10,000 Speaker 1: I think I forget her first name, but she's the 303 00:21:10,080 --> 00:21:13,920 Speaker 1: one who created a product called Supergroup, which is a 304 00:21:14,280 --> 00:21:17,720 Speaker 1: sun block that supposedly doesn't have that awful feel to 305 00:21:17,760 --> 00:21:19,840 Speaker 1: it because it doesn't have all the zines in it, 306 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:22,600 Speaker 1: the oxidene and benzene and all the things that are 307 00:21:22,640 --> 00:21:24,160 Speaker 1: supposed to be so bad for you, which is why 308 00:21:24,160 --> 00:21:27,119 Speaker 1: I don't wear sunblock, because the sun block's worth worse 309 00:21:27,119 --> 00:21:28,879 Speaker 1: for you than the sun. Don't argue with me on this. 310 00:21:29,760 --> 00:21:32,840 Speaker 1: And then the next one was Ken Fisher, who's an 311 00:21:32,840 --> 00:21:36,080 Speaker 1: investment guy, and I forget out of Dallas. And then 312 00:21:36,119 --> 00:21:40,119 Speaker 1: I can't remember who the other one was. And then 313 00:21:40,160 --> 00:21:44,919 Speaker 1: it was the Pappas brothers, Harris and Chris, and I 314 00:21:44,960 --> 00:21:49,880 Speaker 1: didn't realize how many restaurants they have. It's amazing how 315 00:21:49,920 --> 00:21:53,240 Speaker 1: many restaurants they have. They started with the Strawberry Patch, 316 00:21:53,520 --> 00:21:56,320 Speaker 1: the old Strawberry Patch that was a nice concept which 317 00:21:56,320 --> 00:21:59,240 Speaker 1: felt very clean and happy. Strawberry patch. Who don't want 318 00:21:59,240 --> 00:22:03,919 Speaker 1: to go to the straw berry patch? And then and 319 00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:07,199 Speaker 1: then they were gonna start with a seafood restaurant, and 320 00:22:07,280 --> 00:22:09,600 Speaker 1: Chris Pappas said that they asked his dad, you know, 321 00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:12,160 Speaker 1: what do you think we're got to call it? And 322 00:22:12,240 --> 00:22:13,959 Speaker 1: you know they were thinking in the oh there, they 323 00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:15,840 Speaker 1: were gonna name it. They were gonna name it Shrimpy's. 324 00:22:16,040 --> 00:22:17,760 Speaker 1: That's right. They said they were gonna name it Shrimpies. 325 00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:21,680 Speaker 1: And his dad said, put your name behind it. Why 326 00:22:21,800 --> 00:22:24,680 Speaker 1: when your name is on it, you care more about 327 00:22:24,720 --> 00:22:27,120 Speaker 1: the quality, because you don't want somebody to walk into 328 00:22:27,160 --> 00:22:30,119 Speaker 1: a place that has Pappas in the name and have 329 00:22:30,200 --> 00:22:33,000 Speaker 1: a bad experience. Everywhere you go in this town, it's 330 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:39,119 Speaker 1: a small town. Everywhere you go, somebody, somebody you know 331 00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:43,720 Speaker 1: will be there that knows who you are, and they 332 00:22:43,760 --> 00:22:47,840 Speaker 1: will say, uh, hey, I was at your restaurant. If 333 00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:49,720 Speaker 1: it's got some other name on it, you can hide 334 00:22:49,760 --> 00:22:51,679 Speaker 1: from that. But when it's got your name on it. 335 00:22:52,520 --> 00:22:56,040 Speaker 1: And then he tells the story, and Mike Rizzo is 336 00:22:56,160 --> 00:22:58,080 Speaker 1: the guy who's who they've hired now to kind of 337 00:22:58,080 --> 00:23:00,920 Speaker 1: be the day to day operations Chris and prisoner stepping back, 338 00:23:01,040 --> 00:23:04,639 Speaker 1: Harris are stepping back, and Mike Rizzo confirmed this is true. 339 00:23:05,080 --> 00:23:06,960 Speaker 1: He had a tile guy that was setting tile in 340 00:23:07,040 --> 00:23:08,560 Speaker 1: a restaurant they were doing, and they were going to 341 00:23:08,600 --> 00:23:12,560 Speaker 1: do a text mix concept, and so the guy asked 342 00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:14,200 Speaker 1: him he did all his tier works, what are he 343 00:23:14,240 --> 00:23:17,400 Speaker 1: gonna name it? He said, I don't know, and they 344 00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:19,600 Speaker 1: had come up with Papa Dou. That had already done 345 00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:24,880 Speaker 1: Papa Doe and then he said, uh, he'say his first generation. 346 00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:29,040 Speaker 1: And he said, you ought to call it papasitos. And 347 00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:33,200 Speaker 1: Chris said, with cole what you ought to call it papasitos? 348 00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:38,200 Speaker 1: And he said, oh oh oh, how would that be written? 349 00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:41,440 Speaker 1: How would that? He had no idea right because he's 350 00:23:41,560 --> 00:23:44,800 Speaker 1: I mean, he's Greek, he's not Spanish speaking. And the 351 00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:47,919 Speaker 1: guy comes up with papasitos and he goes, he hasn't 352 00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:50,840 Speaker 1: paid for a meal since then. That turned out to 353 00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:54,439 Speaker 1: be pretty good. But you know, I had several people 354 00:23:54,680 --> 00:23:57,800 Speaker 1: tell me last night that they think Papa Doe is 355 00:23:57,840 --> 00:24:01,040 Speaker 1: their best concept, not the Delta Blues, not the Brisket House, 356 00:24:01,119 --> 00:24:04,280 Speaker 1: not the uh I got to tell you the steakhouse 357 00:24:04,520 --> 00:24:08,720 Speaker 1: that they do steakhouse as well as any Their steakhouse 358 00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:11,600 Speaker 1: is fantastic. If we're gonna do a steakhouse, we're gonna 359 00:24:11,600 --> 00:24:15,639 Speaker 1: do Vican Anthony's, We're gonna do uh Papos Brothers, or 360 00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:17,520 Speaker 1: we're going to go to Federal American Grill. And that's 361 00:24:17,520 --> 00:24:19,720 Speaker 1: because my wife doesn't want a steak. I want a steak, 362 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:23,000 Speaker 1: and she can get good dishes that are much lighter. 363 00:24:23,040 --> 00:24:24,960 Speaker 1: And that's hard to fire, especially stake. 364 00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:30,359 Speaker 6: Down myself and the tire. 365 00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:37,600 Speaker 1: Blowed me some holes in the wall. Little city. Of course, 366 00:24:37,840 --> 00:24:42,920 Speaker 1: Canna dedicated a monument to Billy Joe Shaver two days ago, 367 00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:47,320 Speaker 1: and it's a good looking monument. It looks like Billy 368 00:24:47,359 --> 00:24:52,280 Speaker 1: Joe and it looks happy. He's got his arms outstretched 369 00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:56,960 Speaker 1: and uh you got a big smile on his face. 370 00:24:57,359 --> 00:24:59,520 Speaker 1: It's kind of welcoming you as you walk up to 371 00:24:59,560 --> 00:25:04,280 Speaker 1: the square. It's a little more gold than I would like, 372 00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:07,880 Speaker 1: but I guess in time it will putina and kind 373 00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:10,640 Speaker 1: of bronze out and brown out and look like it's 374 00:25:10,640 --> 00:25:14,280 Speaker 1: supposed to look when you see those things. But what 375 00:25:14,320 --> 00:25:16,480 Speaker 1: they've been doing for the last couple of years is 376 00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:19,679 Speaker 1: they hired one of those guys from Bourbon Street that 377 00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:22,760 Speaker 1: they paint silver, you know, and they dressed him up 378 00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:25,600 Speaker 1: like Billy Joe Shaver and he would just stand there, 379 00:25:26,280 --> 00:25:28,040 Speaker 1: you know, and you'd walk up and take a picture 380 00:25:28,080 --> 00:25:30,600 Speaker 1: and then he'd move and oh or he would ever 381 00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:32,720 Speaker 1: saw off and change. No, they didn't. But I like 382 00:25:32,840 --> 00:25:36,239 Speaker 1: those guys, I would admit I like those guys, And 383 00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:41,639 Speaker 1: on more than one occasion, I love drama if it 384 00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:44,919 Speaker 1: doesn't involve me. I like to watch other people's drama. 385 00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:49,679 Speaker 1: And I have, on more than one occasion seen the 386 00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:52,680 Speaker 1: guys who do that fight with each other. And that's 387 00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:55,600 Speaker 1: awesome because you know they're methed out of their mind, 388 00:25:55,960 --> 00:25:59,880 Speaker 1: you know it. You know that everything is just screwed. 389 00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:05,159 Speaker 1: They're entertainers, which is already you know. You don't follow 390 00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:09,040 Speaker 1: the normal course and end up on Bourbon Street standing 391 00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:14,040 Speaker 1: on a box painted silver, holding yourself, you know, steady 392 00:26:14,119 --> 00:26:16,840 Speaker 1: for forty five seconds at a time. That's not a 393 00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:22,960 Speaker 1: normal course. Speaking of which, so Chris Pappas last night 394 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:26,840 Speaker 1: in his speech, he said, Papas Is he was talking 395 00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:30,320 Speaker 1: about the names of the businesses, and we didn't always 396 00:26:30,359 --> 00:26:33,400 Speaker 1: put our name in the first family business was retail 397 00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:37,879 Speaker 1: business because they're originally air conditioning business, sorry, refrigeration business, 398 00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:39,879 Speaker 1: like in I think nineteen twenty seven. I only remember 399 00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:41,360 Speaker 1: this because you have to learn it to work there. 400 00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:46,800 Speaker 1: They had the Dot Diner, and then they had Strawberry Patch, 401 00:26:47,359 --> 00:26:50,360 Speaker 1: and then they had something else. I forget, Oh, brisket house. 402 00:26:50,359 --> 00:26:53,320 Speaker 1: They had brisket House. That was pretty early on too. 403 00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:57,160 Speaker 1: But he said, you know, they put our name in there. 404 00:26:57,160 --> 00:26:59,960 Speaker 1: And the funny thing is, Papas isn't even really our name. 405 00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:03,640 Speaker 1: Our real name was Papa. I think it was Papa 406 00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:08,920 Speaker 1: horror Docas. I'm gonna get that wrong, but I'm trying 407 00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:13,840 Speaker 1: to remember. It's something like Papa horror Docas. So I 408 00:27:13,880 --> 00:27:16,800 Speaker 1: called Jimmy Pappas during the last break and I said, 409 00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:19,560 Speaker 1: are two breaks ago? So I can't remember exactly, and 410 00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:21,879 Speaker 1: he's very grumpy. So you can't just like ask a 411 00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:23,800 Speaker 1: question get an answer. You got to go through his 412 00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:27,639 Speaker 1: whole rigamarole to get, you know, decent bit of information 413 00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:31,720 Speaker 1: and response to your question. But I said, Chris Pappus's 414 00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:36,760 Speaker 1: last name was not Papas. It was and I paused. 415 00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:41,520 Speaker 1: When they arrived from Greece it was, and I thought, well, 416 00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:44,960 Speaker 1: I'm wondering if Jimmy Pappas, because there's a lot of 417 00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:49,359 Speaker 1: Paposes if Jimmy Pappas had the same original last name, 418 00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:53,280 Speaker 1: and they shortened his to Papas too, And he said, 419 00:27:53,320 --> 00:27:55,440 Speaker 1: I don't know what his last name was. And I said, well, 420 00:27:55,520 --> 00:27:57,520 Speaker 1: I think it was something. I think it was Chris, 421 00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:02,600 Speaker 1: Papa Horror, Papa Hard. I think it was Papa Hard Doccas, 422 00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:06,200 Speaker 1: something is very similar to that. And he said, oh, well, 423 00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:09,359 Speaker 1: our name wasn't Papas either. All right, well, can you 424 00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:11,879 Speaker 1: tell me what your name was? And he said it 425 00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:17,399 Speaker 1: was Papa Georgeiopolis. And I said, that's kind of a 426 00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:22,360 Speaker 1: cool name, right, don't you know, as the cool last name. No, no, 427 00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:25,639 Speaker 1: I think that's I'm not making a joke. Papa Georgiopolis, 428 00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:29,720 Speaker 1: I think is a cool name. Now. I wouldn't want 429 00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:33,639 Speaker 1: to be in first grade named Papa Georgeopolis. But I 430 00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:35,879 Speaker 1: wouldn't want to be Ray Hunt either, you know what 431 00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:39,840 Speaker 1: I mean, Or Beth Dick or you know, I mean, 432 00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:43,480 Speaker 1: there's a few Elizabeth Cott Glass. Well, there's some names 433 00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:45,320 Speaker 1: I would not want to be if I could help it, 434 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:52,200 Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Uh yeah, I'm just saying yeah, yeah, anyway, 435 00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:55,120 Speaker 1: if we could go ahead, and resolve something right now. 436 00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:57,800 Speaker 1: Probably lower my blood pressure and help me out a 437 00:28:57,840 --> 00:29:03,760 Speaker 1: little bit, if you would. It is uh, papas Seafood. 438 00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:10,800 Speaker 1: Papas Seafood. They say their name papas. They don't say 439 00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:16,800 Speaker 1: their name papus. The problem is after Papado and papasitos, 440 00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:21,600 Speaker 1: people then say papas and then I have to lose 441 00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:24,880 Speaker 1: my mind. So they're supposed to have a good little restaurant, 442 00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:28,400 Speaker 1: the the old you remember the old Papa Seafood on 443 00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:32,680 Speaker 1: On Shepherd, little bitty one, little bee, tiny place. Well 444 00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:36,640 Speaker 1: they've made that into Petulli Wooley or something like some 445 00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:39,560 Speaker 1: it's like Brian Caswell. What is his name of Brian 446 00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:43,080 Speaker 1: Caswell's restaurant, Pauli Etuli, something like that, Petulia I think 447 00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:46,000 Speaker 1: it is. It's some fancy name that you can't remember, 448 00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:48,520 Speaker 1: which drives me crazy. You know who else did that? 449 00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:52,400 Speaker 1: But he's French, so he can do that. That frenchman 450 00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:56,160 Speaker 1: in Uptown park a twelve. Let me tell you something. 451 00:29:56,760 --> 00:29:59,640 Speaker 1: You walk into that restaurant, you feel like you're in 452 00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:04,120 Speaker 1: a Dick novel. That dude's about six y three. He 453 00:30:04,240 --> 00:30:08,360 Speaker 1: hasn't bathed in four years. His name is like Francois 454 00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:11,240 Speaker 1: or something like that. Of course it is Pierre Philippe. 455 00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:16,480 Speaker 1: He's probably got eight names, Pierre Philippe, Francois, Enrie. He 456 00:30:16,600 --> 00:30:20,160 Speaker 1: comes out and he smells, and he doesn't smell bad. 457 00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:22,520 Speaker 1: I'm not saying the man smells, but he's got that 458 00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:28,320 Speaker 1: gascone air about him. He's got the big chef's code 459 00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:30,800 Speaker 1: on that hasn't been washed in four years, and I 460 00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:32,920 Speaker 1: don't want him to wash it. It's like it's he's 461 00:30:32,920 --> 00:30:34,960 Speaker 1: a character out of a movie, and I love characters 462 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:36,840 Speaker 1: out of a movie. And he comes out and he's 463 00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:39,520 Speaker 1: got these big hands that are like mits, and he 464 00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:42,440 Speaker 1: asks you, I'm not gonna do my French accent, but 465 00:30:42,560 --> 00:30:45,840 Speaker 1: he asks you, you know, are you having a good time? 466 00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:48,760 Speaker 1: Is everything okay? What can I cook for y'all today? 467 00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:52,360 Speaker 1: And he's just just got like the steam of the 468 00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:55,440 Speaker 1: kitchen and the food and the muscles on him. You know, 469 00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:59,560 Speaker 1: he's been steaming muscles and wine and all this, and 470 00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:04,240 Speaker 1: he's just streaking of it. It's a gastronomical experience when 471 00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:06,760 Speaker 1: he comes out to talk to you, and I like it. 472 00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:10,240 Speaker 1: Don't think I'm criticizing. I'm not afraid of criticizing, but 473 00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:13,440 Speaker 1: I like the guy. Anyway, it's a hell of a meal. 474 00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:16,520 Speaker 1: It's a hell of a meal. And then you walk 475 00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:19,480 Speaker 1: out of there and you realize, Wow, I couldn't eat 476 00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:22,680 Speaker 1: like that every day. I could not eat that way 477 00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:25,720 Speaker 1: every day. I just it's a lot. It's like going 478 00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:30,480 Speaker 1: to Tony's. You can't. You can't do that every day. 479 00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:34,880 Speaker 1: You've got to pace yourself. But anyway, so they have 480 00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:37,160 Speaker 1: that little restaurant over on Shepherd. I was gonna tell you, 481 00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:41,800 Speaker 1: and then there was one other Pappus updates and tell 482 00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:46,320 Speaker 1: you about. Well, funny thing, Mike Rizzo, who's now their CEO. 483 00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:50,680 Speaker 1: Mike Rizzo worked at Little Papacito's a year before me, 484 00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:54,160 Speaker 1: same location for Terry Mitchell, down across from the Astronome. 485 00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:57,280 Speaker 1: They moved his location and he said, we barely missed 486 00:31:57,280 --> 00:31:59,400 Speaker 1: each other. I said, how do you know that? He goes. 487 00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:02,960 Speaker 1: Everybody knows your story. They love that you worked at Papas, 488 00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:05,680 Speaker 1: that Pappas. They love that you worked at Papas and 489 00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:09,200 Speaker 1: you tell the story that you worked at Papasitos. Yeah. 490 00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:11,880 Speaker 1: So anyway, and he went on to be the CEO. 491 00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:15,960 Speaker 1: And here I am sitting across looking at ramon Rolas 492 00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:19,360 Speaker 1: two woods diverged in a two roads diverged in a 493 00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:21,920 Speaker 1: wood than I took the one less travel by, and 494 00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:26,400 Speaker 1: that has made all the difference. I bet Rizzo drives 495 00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:29,600 Speaker 1: a Rolls Royce or something, I bet he does. They 496 00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:31,600 Speaker 1: got more employees than you think. They got something like 497 00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:34,160 Speaker 1: fifteen thousand employees. That's big.