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Speaker 1: So City of Houston Press release, City of Houston official release.

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Speaker 1: City to begin towing and empowerment of non permitted petticabs

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Speaker 1: beginning October one. Now listen to this. The reason they

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Speaker 1: Wait a second, so you have to have the proper

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Speaker 1: sounds like illegal immigration. Are we going to start caring

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Speaker 1: Was it Stevens and Fruit or Hudson and Harrigan.

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Speaker 2: But I ended up my name was Kamakazi Mic flying

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Speaker 2: quite a wonderful life. It's a you can't believe one

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Speaker 2: The war was hell, but the more learning how to fly.

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Speaker 1: You know who does a great cover of this song Chance?

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Speaker 1: is Joseph or Tease or Joseph or Tees. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I did not know he does that. I did not

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Speaker 1: know he does that. Jim Mudd took his dad to

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Speaker 1: And he took his dad to see Reagan yesterday. We

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Speaker 1: We watched the movie and then we went to I Hop.

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Speaker 1: Who goes to I Hoop at seven o'clock at night?

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Speaker 1: So I'm waiting on his email response as to what

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Speaker 1: he ordered at I Hop. That's oh, he said, okay,

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Speaker 1: I said, what did you? He said, we got there

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Speaker 1: chicken fajita omelet. That's weird. Yeah, that's a mother and

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Speaker 1: child reunion kind of stuff. The movie was told from

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Speaker 1: It's not a great movie, but it's a good movie.

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Speaker 1: He introduced himself as Joe Joe. Yes, Hello, are you

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Speaker 1: Joe or Joseph?

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Speaker 3: It's funny, my my brother, I think it jured is?

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Speaker 3: Does he? My family all refers to me as Joseph.

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Speaker 3: Out in the streets, out in the world, run around,

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Speaker 1: Can I call you Joseph? Because I got a lot

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Speaker 3: Joseph, Joseph works as long to pronounce it with the

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, that's why I was wondering about that. Is

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Speaker 3: My mother's grandfather Eastern European Jewish and she named me

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Speaker 1: How many famous Jewish baseball players can you name?

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Speaker 3: None? Right now, it's too early in the morning. What

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Speaker 1: He's not odd, No, But Alex Bregman is there you go,

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Speaker 1: Sandy Hank Greenberg, There you go, Jason green Yeah, Kevin Euclis.

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Speaker 1: Somebody told me eucles is married to Tom Brady's sister.

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Speaker 1: Did you know that? I didn't realize that. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: Why does your brother have a different last name from you?

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Speaker 3: Different fathers? Okay, same mother?

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Speaker 1: Would you rather be Joseph Ortiz or Joseph pop Off?

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Speaker 3: Ortiz wants oh, Artie, that's my father father's name.

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Speaker 1: I know, But in terms of introducing yourself, you know,

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Speaker 3: I've been Ortiz my entire life.

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Speaker 1: You know, how is life different for you when you

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Speaker 3: It's almost standard, you know, across all racial barriers across

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Speaker 1: Hmm, what is a resting marine?

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Speaker 1: What is a resting marine?

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Speaker 3: I'm sorry, my hearing kind off. Can you say that again?

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Speaker 1: Your brother's email said, call my brother, he's a resting marine.

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Speaker 3: four years, honorable discharge, all that good stuff. Maybe who

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Speaker 3: Usually what we say is, uh, nobody's ever an ex marine.

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Speaker 3: So even if you've been.

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Speaker 3: Late nineties, late nineties, fust time, nothing happened.

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Speaker 1: How much can you make on a good night on

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Speaker 3: It really varies. It's almost not even about the night,

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Speaker 1: Hold on, just a second, Joseph with an f I

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Speaker 1: I've touched the nerve with Jewish baseball players. I had

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Speaker 1: completely forgotten Rod Carew converted jew O. J. Simpson not

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Speaker 2: But guess who is Hall of Famer Rod Carew? He converted.

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Speaker 1: I had completely forgotten. You know, Rod Carew started at

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Speaker 1: it'd be like the player's name had an insane prime

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Speaker 1: that Bagwell was I ran his numbers against other players.

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Speaker 1: There's an argument to be made that for about a

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Speaker 1: where that came from. It's a funny story. He also

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Speaker 1: Did you know that they started at third base? He

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Speaker 1: true story, Joe Joseph. Yes, So how did you get in,

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Speaker 1: Joseph the Resting Marine? How did you get into the

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Speaker 1: So you were introduced to the what's the guy's.

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Speaker 3: Name, Travis Stowers and what's his company called? Lone Star

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Speaker 1: I wonder if I've met him. That name sounds very

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Speaker 3: And possibly he keeps himself out there.

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Speaker 1: Possibly was he in Galveston or in Houston?

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Speaker 3: He was based out of Houston, but at the time

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Speaker 1: So did you call him and say, hey, you're the

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Speaker 3: Now? I just had a friend, you know, I was

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Speaker 3: And I wasn't introduced to him. First. I was introduced

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so you started without owning a petticab, You just

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Speaker 3: Back then? You would see maybe if you're renting a bike,

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Speaker 3: it might be twenty five percent of whatever you make,

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Speaker 1: Okay, I know you it's over a season, but on

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Speaker 3: I'll say I would say especially if it's a really

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Speaker 1: To see the Dodgers.

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Speaker 3: Well, any high profile team that comes through town, if

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Speaker 1: I know you travel around. You've ever been to Chavezravin

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Speaker 3: Funny enough because my brother and I were born in

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Speaker 1: It's my very first go ahead.

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Speaker 3: I'm sorry, yeah, yeah, my very first baseball game I

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Speaker 1: It's a it's a really cool stadium. I haven't been

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Speaker 1: So your brother said, or was it your brother? Maybe

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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, I will travel with it for sure.

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Speaker 1: And so how do you how do you carry it?

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Speaker 3: Well, a lot of the cabs because these things have

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Speaker 3: and they're made to fit almost like lego pieces, fit

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Speaker 3: You can put them on a trailer and add some

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Speaker 1: Yeah, like a horse that raises up on its haunches exactly.

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Speaker 1: So you don't own your petticab now you still drive

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Speaker 3: No, I do own now I'm cell phoned I there

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Speaker 1: Yeah, hold on saying that's the muss, not a rating.

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Speaker 1: Hold on just a second, Joseph. When it comes to

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Speaker 6: So I was raised as a middle class kid.

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Speaker 5: You ever take your own food to Dodger Stadium. You

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Speaker 1: Twy for a weeding at that.

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Speaker 7: With two fifty, you can get a loaf for bread

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Speaker 7: and baloni out on that. We can all lead, not

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Speaker 7: just you, mister selfish? Why are you crying for? You

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Speaker 1: The security guard.

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Speaker 6: Can I look in their miss you start laughing, Oh Jesus, yes,

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Speaker 6: the wet back section is over there. Over there, all

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Speaker 6: the Mexican sat on the left field pavilion. That's why

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Speaker 7: You're not playing card, as I say them, And they

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Speaker 2: Take care of what. The one day.

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Speaker 1: They don't hit any.

437
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Speaker 3: Where we sit.

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Speaker 1: It was a moment in time where George Lopez was

439
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Speaker 1: the funniest man in America and then he went off

440
00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:51,760
Speaker 1: the deep end and became an Obama nut, and he

441
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Speaker 1: had a lot of health problems along the way as well.

442
00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:55,960
Speaker 1: I think that kind of derailed his career. But he

443
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Speaker 1: I can't even I can't even look at him anymore.

444
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Speaker 1: He he looks like an aged Fernando Vealezuela now, and

445
00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:07,520
Speaker 1: I just hate everything he stands for. Joseph the petty

446
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Speaker 1: cab driver, Yes, where do you find a peta cab?

447
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Speaker 1: Like when you went, I'm sorry, you were about to

448
00:29:13,520 --> 00:29:18,640
Speaker 1: say something? Oh no, no, So where do you find

449
00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:19,680
Speaker 1: a petticab to buy?

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00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:26,720
Speaker 3: It's a thing about the petticab world is it's pretty small.

451
00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:28,960
Speaker 3: If you don't know someone, you know someone to know

452
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Speaker 3: someone nationwide. Because these are fairly specialty machines. You don't

453
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Speaker 3: just find them at a store. So you get to

454
00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:42,080
Speaker 3: make connections. You get to meet people. Yeah, somebody my

455
00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:48,160
Speaker 3: cab specifically they own. Now, there's a guy out of Sacramento, California.

456
00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:53,440
Speaker 3: Smash is his name, and he makes Smash cabs. And

457
00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:56,920
Speaker 3: so the guy Travis I talked about earlier put me

458
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Speaker 3: in contact with Smash and I was able to buy

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Speaker 3: my own cab from Smash. And how much though there's

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Speaker 3: you can find a new petticab generally around five thousand,

461
00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:13,320
Speaker 3: and you can find some used ones for depending on

462
00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:18,280
Speaker 3: the wear and tear, two thousand to four thousand.

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Speaker 1: Okay, wait a minute, Joe, there's no engine on it.

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Speaker 1: How's it five thousand dollars?

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Speaker 3: Because it's such a specialty item. If you think about

466
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Speaker 3: like a normal bicycle, if you buy high end bicycles,

467
00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:37,000
Speaker 3: you can find some around those ranges. But because this

468
00:30:37,160 --> 00:30:39,920
Speaker 3: is such a specialty item, there's not like there's a

469
00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:42,960
Speaker 3: ton of cabs out there to pick and choose from.

470
00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:45,120
Speaker 3: So a lot of times when they're built, they're built

471
00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:49,040
Speaker 3: specifically right then and there like the guy. A lot

472
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Speaker 3: of times the guy's starting from scratch when he's building them.

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Speaker 3: So when you fait fackering costs, labor, profit margin, and

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Speaker 3: a rarity of these things, it makes a bit sense

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Speaker 3: of that there'll be that much.

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Speaker 1: My wife bought me for my fiftieth birthday a bicycle

477
00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:07,720
Speaker 1: that you could drop from thirty feet in the air

478
00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:10,120
Speaker 1: with you on top of it. And I think you

479
00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:13,400
Speaker 1: you'd be fine because of the shocks and suspension and

480
00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:17,760
Speaker 1: all that. And it was five thousand dollars, but guess

481
00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:21,360
Speaker 1: what else? When I don't want a pedal, I hit

482
00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:25,360
Speaker 1: a button and he goes for hundreds of miles. You

483
00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:28,440
Speaker 1: don't even have an engine. It five thousand dollars.

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00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:30,640
Speaker 3: Yep, yep.

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00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:33,320
Speaker 1: Did you have to borrow that? Or had you saved

486
00:31:33,320 --> 00:31:33,600
Speaker 1: it up?

487
00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:38,840
Speaker 3: Saved it up? Saved up? And uh, I can be

488
00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:41,600
Speaker 3: pretty frugal, and uh, pretty good at saving my money

489
00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:43,160
Speaker 3: and just saved up and got one.

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Speaker 1: You're an interesting cat.

491
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Speaker 3: I try.

492
00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:51,960
Speaker 1: I don't think you try. I think you just live.

493
00:31:52,800 --> 00:31:57,560
Speaker 1: And for people that like me who just kind of

494
00:31:57,640 --> 00:32:00,320
Speaker 1: study your life, I think you're Where do you live now?

495
00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:07,560
Speaker 3: I live in Houston by yourself, me and my girlfriend

496
00:32:08,120 --> 00:32:09,000
Speaker 3: and a few dogs.

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00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:10,240
Speaker 1: How many dogs?

498
00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:13,320
Speaker 3: You got? Two? All right?

499
00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:15,120
Speaker 1: So let's how many events do you think you how

500
00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:17,600
Speaker 1: many nights a year you think you ride?

501
00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:24,760
Speaker 3: I would say when it's baseball season, I try to

502
00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:28,080
Speaker 3: hit every single home game. So however many games that

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00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:30,560
Speaker 3: would be in a year? Yeah, yeah, eighty one. So

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00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:35,200
Speaker 3: if I know a football season starts, I'm going out

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00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:40,520
Speaker 3: there and I'm hitting the football games if I know. Yeah, Concerts,

506
00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:43,000
Speaker 3: if there's a concert at Minute May Park or at

507
00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:47,440
Speaker 3: NRG Stadium or at Toyota Center or anywhere kind of big.

508
00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:52,200
Speaker 3: I'll head out and work those concerts as well. During

509
00:32:52,320 --> 00:32:57,080
Speaker 3: the livestock showing rodeo, which is usually late February to March,

510
00:32:57,560 --> 00:32:59,920
Speaker 3: I go out every single night if possible.

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Speaker 1: So sad and then any go ahab sorry, go ahead,

512
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Speaker 1: I'd say.

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Speaker 3: Then any other little thing I might see it pops up.

514
00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:08,840
Speaker 3: If I see something that looks like it might be

515
00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:13,239
Speaker 3: worth going out, I'll check it out. So I've never

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00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:15,360
Speaker 3: counted how many nights I work, but I'll work a lot.

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Speaker 1: So one hundred and fifty days a year sounds like possibly.

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00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:23,960
Speaker 3: More than that, because I'll also go to other markets

519
00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:28,480
Speaker 3: like Austin City Limits ACL vessels coming up, and I'm

520
00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:30,920
Speaker 3: going to Austin for the two weekends to work that.

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00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:36,880
Speaker 3: I have a permit and license in that city. Coachella,

522
00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:38,640
Speaker 3: that's a big event that happens in April. I'll go

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00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:41,040
Speaker 3: out there and i'll work that event. If I get

524
00:33:41,080 --> 00:33:44,080
Speaker 3: an invite from writers in other cities to work an event,

525
00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:46,240
Speaker 3: I'll go out and work those. I have a pretty

526
00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:48,760
Speaker 3: good reputation, so sometimes people ask me to come and

527
00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:49,280
Speaker 3: work events.

528
00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:52,160
Speaker 1: What new poople that like if somebody's listening and going

529
00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:54,760
Speaker 1: I think that guy might have driven me. What do

530
00:33:54,840 --> 00:33:55,560
Speaker 1: they know you as?

531
00:33:57,120 --> 00:34:01,560
Speaker 3: Usually? When I if I were to drop off customer

532
00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:03,120
Speaker 3: and he said, hey, can I get a ride back

533
00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:05,040
Speaker 3: after the game or whatever, I'll give him my phone

534
00:34:05,080 --> 00:34:07,200
Speaker 3: number to them, Hey, put in Joe bike Bike Joe,

535
00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:10,080
Speaker 3: Joe the bike guy, something like that. So if they

536
00:34:10,120 --> 00:34:11,560
Speaker 3: know of me as anything, they know me as Joe

537
00:34:11,640 --> 00:34:14,960
Speaker 3: the bike guy. Joe.

538
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:16,880
Speaker 1: Would you be opposed to us coming up with a

539
00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:19,399
Speaker 1: name for you, because Joe the Bike Guy's not doing

540
00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:19,759
Speaker 1: it for me.

541
00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:22,480
Speaker 3: I know, if you want to come up with a name,

542
00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:22,920
Speaker 3: go for it.

543
00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:24,880
Speaker 1: But if I come up with a name, you have

544
00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:27,240
Speaker 1: to embrace the name, like we're gonna get a shirt

545
00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:29,839
Speaker 1: made with your name on it, because I mean, look,

546
00:34:29,880 --> 00:34:31,640
Speaker 1: we don't have many games left with you know, you

547
00:34:31,840 --> 00:34:36,120
Speaker 1: just have the the playoffs and everything, but we could probably,

548
00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:38,839
Speaker 1: like you got a big, big game tonight, we could

549
00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:40,800
Speaker 1: get you a shirt with it. Do you have some

550
00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:43,680
Speaker 1: sort of identifying or door you just wear whatever you wear?

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00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:48,320
Speaker 3: Uh? Probably most identifying thing I do is I'm always

552
00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:51,600
Speaker 3: wearing my orange astro's hat, and to protect myself from

553
00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:55,719
Speaker 3: the sun, I'll cover myself with a light scarf, all right.

554
00:34:55,680 --> 00:34:57,400
Speaker 1: We got to figure out, you know, kind of a

555
00:34:57,480 --> 00:35:02,480
Speaker 1: green lantern or flash. Huh, Joe's pedal powers.

556
00:35:03,760 --> 00:35:04,120
Speaker 3: There you go.

557
00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:07,600
Speaker 1: No, no, no, Joe, that's dumb. No, we're not doing

558
00:35:07,719 --> 00:35:13,560
Speaker 1: Joe's Pedal Power. No, that's your contribution, all right. Hold on,

559
00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:16,479
Speaker 1: we got it. We got We're gonna build a brand.

560
00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:18,319
Speaker 1: We're gonna deal. We're gonna build the whole thing. We're

561
00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:20,360
Speaker 1: gonna build a website. I need somebody to donate a

562
00:35:21,080 --> 00:35:24,320
Speaker 1: simple landing page. We're gonna have a dedicated phone number.

563
00:35:24,719 --> 00:35:26,320
Speaker 1: We're gonna blow this thing up. Joe, hold on, we

564
00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:28,120
Speaker 1: got one hour to do this. We're about to build

565
00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:30,239
Speaker 1: a business on the air right now. Hold on,