1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:02,840 Speaker 1: All right, line Fred from by Tom Rue the two 2 00:00:02,880 --> 00:00:03,920 Speaker 1: two five. You're up? 3 00:00:06,040 --> 00:00:10,160 Speaker 2: Well, hello mister Barry, Yes, sir Fred, Yeah, I was 4 00:00:10,280 --> 00:00:12,520 Speaker 2: just calling to talk about a little a little bit 5 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:16,320 Speaker 2: of music. I guess. I'm sure you know the song 6 00:00:16,520 --> 00:00:19,880 Speaker 2: Man of Constant So yes, yeah, it was played in 7 00:00:19,960 --> 00:00:23,120 Speaker 2: that in that crazy movie. But did you know that 8 00:00:23,160 --> 00:00:24,880 Speaker 2: there was a rock version of that song? 9 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:26,960 Speaker 1: It was a Soggy Mountain Boys. What is it? Soggy 10 00:00:26,960 --> 00:00:31,720 Speaker 1: Mountain Boys? Yeah, soggy bottom Boys. Uh, yes, I do. 11 00:00:32,080 --> 00:00:32,800 Speaker 1: Who did it? 12 00:00:33,840 --> 00:00:35,800 Speaker 2: The charm City Devils? 13 00:00:37,880 --> 00:00:40,599 Speaker 1: Okay? Is it a good version? Oh? 14 00:00:40,720 --> 00:00:42,440 Speaker 2: I think so. I mean when I first heard it, 15 00:00:42,440 --> 00:00:44,240 Speaker 2: I thought I lost my other love and mind that. 16 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:45,199 Speaker 3: You know. 17 00:00:45,240 --> 00:00:47,519 Speaker 1: I have a theory, Fred, that two thirds of the 18 00:00:47,520 --> 00:00:49,720 Speaker 1: people that know that song know it because of the 19 00:00:49,720 --> 00:00:52,240 Speaker 1: movie Old Brother Where Art though, which was really good? 20 00:00:52,360 --> 00:00:53,720 Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure, really good. 21 00:00:54,520 --> 00:00:56,240 Speaker 1: You got it? Roman, All right, here we go. Hold on, Fred, 22 00:01:04,240 --> 00:01:08,399 Speaker 1: I haven't heard this kind of swamp rock feel to it. 23 00:01:13,160 --> 00:01:31,840 Speaker 1: I mean, and you know when it kind of minister Boss, 24 00:01:35,080 --> 00:01:38,160 Speaker 1: it goes kind of headbanger. It comes out of swamp 25 00:01:38,240 --> 00:01:43,680 Speaker 1: rock and goes headbanger. I like that. This is like 26 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:49,960 Speaker 1: what thirty eight Special could have been. Yeah, like Asus Spades. Uh, 27 00:01:52,720 --> 00:01:57,360 Speaker 1: you're not thinking a lemon. You're nothing of Motor Hill. Yeah. Yeah, 28 00:01:57,800 --> 00:02:00,240 Speaker 1: although motor that doesn't have a Southern vibe. This has 29 00:02:00,240 --> 00:02:05,600 Speaker 1: a little bit of a swampy somewhere between. Somewhere between 30 00:02:05,840 --> 00:02:09,519 Speaker 1: Wayne Tubs and Tom Petty. Might be along the It 31 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:12,520 Speaker 1: might be on the Flora Bama coast or something. Pirates 32 00:02:12,520 --> 00:02:16,360 Speaker 1: of the Caribbean. H Anyway, why'd you bring that up? Fred? 33 00:02:18,040 --> 00:02:23,280 Speaker 2: Oh? I don't know. I just thought about we were talking. 34 00:02:23,320 --> 00:02:25,400 Speaker 2: You were talking about music one day, I don't know, 35 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:29,280 Speaker 2: last week or something, and that song jumped into my 36 00:02:29,600 --> 00:02:30,320 Speaker 2: into my mind. 37 00:02:30,360 --> 00:02:30,560 Speaker 4: You know. 38 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:34,919 Speaker 1: I love the fact that the phone call. You know, Fred, 39 00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:38,639 Speaker 1: My boys are now fifteen and sixteen, and so they 40 00:02:38,680 --> 00:02:40,600 Speaker 1: know that when we go places, people are gonna come 41 00:02:40,680 --> 00:02:43,160 Speaker 1: up and say hello. And they've stopped saying it. But 42 00:02:43,240 --> 00:02:46,920 Speaker 1: they used to say to me. They'd say, Dad, you 43 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:49,399 Speaker 1: know that guy? And I say no. He said, why 44 00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:50,760 Speaker 1: did he just come up and start talking to you? 45 00:02:50,760 --> 00:02:52,480 Speaker 1: And I said, well he listens to me. Well how's 46 00:02:52,480 --> 00:02:53,880 Speaker 1: he know what you look like? He looked me up 47 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:56,640 Speaker 1: and I say, but these people talk to you like 48 00:02:56,680 --> 00:03:00,160 Speaker 1: they know you. I said, Michael, if your dad does 49 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:02,840 Speaker 1: his job. Well, then that's the way I want people 50 00:03:02,919 --> 00:03:05,880 Speaker 1: to feel that way. The way we do our show. 51 00:03:07,040 --> 00:03:09,440 Speaker 1: The stage is not elevated. Right, we're in the round 52 00:03:09,480 --> 00:03:12,880 Speaker 1: and everyone is around us like break dancing and everyone. 53 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:14,960 Speaker 1: Well it sounded good, you know, because you're in the round. 54 00:03:15,320 --> 00:03:19,160 Speaker 1: So everyone is around and we're all there together. Right, 55 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:21,280 Speaker 1: we're at the bar and everybody has a seat, nobody's 56 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:23,880 Speaker 1: higher or lower than anyone else, and we're talking about 57 00:03:23,919 --> 00:03:26,720 Speaker 1: things that people feel comfortable with. So great call, Fred, 58 00:03:26,720 --> 00:03:29,320 Speaker 1: Where do you live in Baton Rouge? 59 00:03:29,440 --> 00:03:30,040 Speaker 2: Where they live? 60 00:03:30,960 --> 00:03:33,239 Speaker 3: Since? And where's that? 61 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:37,360 Speaker 2: God? I don't even know what to me about subdivision? 62 00:03:38,080 --> 00:03:40,000 Speaker 2: It's near what's hospital? 63 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:43,640 Speaker 1: Oh? Okay? Are you from Baton Rouge originally? 64 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:48,960 Speaker 2: No? No, no, North Carolina? Where Greensboro? 65 00:03:49,880 --> 00:03:52,040 Speaker 1: You don't like to ask answering personal questions, Fred, I 66 00:03:52,080 --> 00:03:56,680 Speaker 1: like that. Do you know there's a new head of 67 00:03:56,720 --> 00:03:59,480 Speaker 1: the West Baton Rouge Chamber of Commerce. She's our friend. 68 00:03:59,480 --> 00:04:04,080 Speaker 1: That's how I know, Anna Johnson. Oh no, sir, you 69 00:04:04,120 --> 00:04:05,720 Speaker 1: should call up there and say I hear y'all have 70 00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:09,240 Speaker 1: a new director and she's really good, Anna Johnson. Fred, 71 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:11,400 Speaker 1: thanks for the call, my man. I love that he 72 00:04:11,480 --> 00:04:13,680 Speaker 1: just picked up the phone. Hey, have you heard this song? 73 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:17,640 Speaker 1: That's perfect to me? Brother Bill and Brian, you're up? 74 00:04:17,680 --> 00:04:18,080 Speaker 1: Go ahead? 75 00:04:19,120 --> 00:04:22,000 Speaker 3: Hey, amen, what you just said? You know why you're 76 00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:24,960 Speaker 3: so personable because I feel like your family, Michael, and 77 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:26,479 Speaker 3: that's how Rush used to be. And I know we 78 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:29,240 Speaker 3: don't like you to compare to Rush. That's exactly how 79 00:04:29,279 --> 00:04:31,840 Speaker 3: you are. You tell us about your kids. You don't 80 00:04:31,880 --> 00:04:33,920 Speaker 3: talk about your dog. I guess you don't have a dog, 81 00:04:33,960 --> 00:04:34,440 Speaker 3: but your gun. 82 00:04:34,480 --> 00:04:35,640 Speaker 2: I mean, you talk about everything. 83 00:04:35,680 --> 00:04:38,200 Speaker 3: That's why we all love you. But anyway, hold on. 84 00:04:38,240 --> 00:04:39,919 Speaker 1: I just want to make something to her because people 85 00:04:39,920 --> 00:04:42,840 Speaker 1: say this often. It's not that I don't want to 86 00:04:42,880 --> 00:04:46,039 Speaker 1: be compared to Rush. That's the highest honor. I feel 87 00:04:46,200 --> 00:04:49,200 Speaker 1: awkward if someone I don't want anybody thinking that I 88 00:04:49,320 --> 00:04:54,080 Speaker 1: myself do that because that is presumptuous and I am 89 00:04:54,120 --> 00:04:56,800 Speaker 1: not a humble man or immodest, but I feel that 90 00:04:56,800 --> 00:05:00,680 Speaker 1: that would be a little bit overstepping my bounds, or 91 00:05:00,680 --> 00:05:03,400 Speaker 1: maybe a lot over. But I appreciate that I got it. 92 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:06,880 Speaker 3: And I never would have found you if we wouldn't 93 00:05:06,880 --> 00:05:08,919 Speaker 3: have lost Rush, because I was just hooked the Rush 94 00:05:08,920 --> 00:05:11,760 Speaker 3: and I needed someone else. Although you're not on between 95 00:05:11,760 --> 00:05:13,800 Speaker 3: eleven and two that's how I found you. I'm so 96 00:05:13,800 --> 00:05:20,320 Speaker 3: glad I did. But so Gringoes, Old's Jerky, and oh, 97 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:22,760 Speaker 3: your your knowledge, you know I'm in the convenience store business. 98 00:05:22,760 --> 00:05:26,159 Speaker 3: Your knowledge of Aga Khani's and the Smileyes, I'm just fascinated. 99 00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:28,800 Speaker 3: You're just so right on a lot. And that's another thing. 100 00:05:29,080 --> 00:05:31,039 Speaker 3: Rush knew what he was talking about, and so do you. 101 00:05:31,120 --> 00:05:34,360 Speaker 3: But tell me about Gringoes. There's a lot of Mexican restaurants. 102 00:05:34,600 --> 00:05:35,880 Speaker 3: What's your what's your thoughts? 103 00:05:36,720 --> 00:05:39,920 Speaker 1: Well, full disclosure. The owner, Russell Lebara, is a very 104 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:43,440 Speaker 1: very close friend of mine. He's he's like family. He 105 00:05:43,520 --> 00:05:47,159 Speaker 1: really is family, as is Jonathan Kim, his wife Monica, 106 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:50,080 Speaker 1: his kids, Derek, I don't know Stephen as well, but 107 00:05:50,160 --> 00:05:53,159 Speaker 1: his son Derek, and Skyler his wife. I mean, the 108 00:05:53,200 --> 00:06:00,520 Speaker 1: whole family. I know all the cousins, brothers, Moises, Roland, Chris, 109 00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:04,440 Speaker 1: his sister, the whole family, like they are family. You know. 110 00:06:04,560 --> 00:06:06,640 Speaker 1: I will tell you something that I've told Russell over 111 00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:08,760 Speaker 1: the years, and my wife said it's rude the way 112 00:06:08,800 --> 00:06:10,680 Speaker 1: I say it, but I'm going to say it and 113 00:06:10,880 --> 00:06:15,000 Speaker 1: understand that I mean it as a compliment. I don't 114 00:06:15,120 --> 00:06:21,080 Speaker 1: understand why they're so successful, but of the text mechs 115 00:06:21,279 --> 00:06:25,279 Speaker 1: empires in Houston. I don't think there is a tex 116 00:06:25,440 --> 00:06:29,839 Speaker 1: Mex restaurant in Houston, and Taco Bell doesn't count. I 117 00:06:29,839 --> 00:06:32,000 Speaker 1: don't think there's a tex Mex restaurant in the greater 118 00:06:32,080 --> 00:06:38,719 Speaker 1: Houston area that does a higher gross sales than Gringos 119 00:06:38,760 --> 00:06:41,039 Speaker 1: and Jimmy Chungo's. It's the same guy, same company that 120 00:06:41,120 --> 00:06:43,560 Speaker 1: it just kind of changed the concept a little. And 121 00:06:43,640 --> 00:06:47,839 Speaker 1: I say to him, Russell, I don't understand what you 122 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:52,640 Speaker 1: do so much better. Is it a lower price point? Maybe, 123 00:06:52,640 --> 00:06:55,440 Speaker 1: but guess what, there are people with a lower price point. 124 00:06:55,839 --> 00:06:59,480 Speaker 1: Is it your location? Maybe other people could locate right 125 00:06:59,520 --> 00:07:02,880 Speaker 1: next to you and they're in you know, they're on Fuquay, 126 00:07:03,400 --> 00:07:06,919 Speaker 1: they're out off Mushki. So it's very hard to be 127 00:07:07,080 --> 00:07:10,720 Speaker 1: in all different areas of Houston. They're League City. You know, 128 00:07:10,800 --> 00:07:12,600 Speaker 1: if you're sitting in New York and you're trying to 129 00:07:12,640 --> 00:07:15,920 Speaker 1: sell product to League City, you think that League City 130 00:07:15,920 --> 00:07:18,080 Speaker 1: in Texas City would be the same. No, they're very 131 00:07:18,080 --> 00:07:21,640 Speaker 1: different demographics. You might think that League City and Tomball 132 00:07:21,680 --> 00:07:24,440 Speaker 1: are the same. No, they might be equidistant from town, 133 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:27,840 Speaker 1: but they're very different. Magnolia is a little different than Tomball. 134 00:07:28,760 --> 00:07:32,520 Speaker 1: The Woodlands is different than Cyprus. The Woodlands is its 135 00:07:32,520 --> 00:07:36,080 Speaker 1: own beast. So I don't know what he does so 136 00:07:36,200 --> 00:07:39,040 Speaker 1: much better, but I know he does it better on 137 00:07:39,080 --> 00:07:42,960 Speaker 1: a larger scale than anybody, and nobody knows they do. 138 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:44,640 Speaker 1: I think one hundred and thirty five million dollars a 139 00:07:44,720 --> 00:07:49,960 Speaker 1: year in sales, that's an insane amount of money. Insane, 140 00:07:50,520 --> 00:07:52,640 Speaker 1: and he's got to be good, or Tilman would go 141 00:07:52,640 --> 00:07:55,360 Speaker 1: into that space. The fact that Tilman doesn't go into 142 00:07:55,360 --> 00:07:57,560 Speaker 1: that space, I think they've closed the Cadillac bars that. 143 00:07:57,800 --> 00:08:00,000 Speaker 1: The fact that Tilman does not go into that space 144 00:08:00,160 --> 00:08:03,280 Speaker 1: tells you something right and how good he is. And 145 00:08:03,320 --> 00:08:06,120 Speaker 1: when I say I don't understand why they're so successful, 146 00:08:06,480 --> 00:08:09,280 Speaker 1: it is because they're so good at what they do 147 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:12,160 Speaker 1: without having to yell at you about it or announce. 148 00:08:12,400 --> 00:08:17,760 Speaker 1: They're just that good every meal. It's impressive. I mean, 149 00:08:18,240 --> 00:08:23,640 Speaker 1: it's overwhelming. It's it's Tom Brady good. Elvis would be 150 00:08:24,960 --> 00:08:31,280 Speaker 1: eighty seven. You're just okay now. Indeed, today's In his birthday, 151 00:08:31,480 --> 00:08:34,000 Speaker 1: July of nineteen seventy five, two years before his death, 152 00:08:34,040 --> 00:08:37,680 Speaker 1: Elvis was shopping for friends and family at memphisis Madison Cadillac. 153 00:08:37,800 --> 00:08:41,800 Speaker 1: His favorite dealer, a bank teller. One miny l person 154 00:08:41,960 --> 00:08:44,800 Speaker 1: was admiring Elvis's Limo parked outside. When the man himself 155 00:08:45,080 --> 00:08:48,000 Speaker 1: wandered over. He took her into the showroom and said 156 00:08:48,040 --> 00:08:51,320 Speaker 1: pick one out, and then he picked up the tab. 157 00:08:51,720 --> 00:08:56,199 Speaker 1: In total, he dropped one hundred forty thousand dollars that day. 158 00:08:57,240 --> 00:09:00,680 Speaker 1: That's the king right there. One hundred forty dollars in 159 00:09:00,760 --> 00:09:05,960 Speaker 1: nineteen seventy five. That's a lot of money today. Wo man, 160 00:09:07,760 --> 00:09:11,000 Speaker 1: there's a whole lot of money back then. Baytown Lee 161 00:09:11,080 --> 00:09:11,400 Speaker 1: eure up. 162 00:09:13,040 --> 00:09:16,360 Speaker 3: Yes, sir, you were talking about the restaurants that are 163 00:09:17,320 --> 00:09:24,120 Speaker 3: owned by Russell Ibarra. Yeah, forty five years ago. I'm 164 00:09:24,160 --> 00:09:28,280 Speaker 3: sixty five. But in my twenties and between seventeen and 165 00:09:28,360 --> 00:09:33,400 Speaker 3: twenty I used to drive from Baytown to Pasadena to 166 00:09:33,520 --> 00:09:36,520 Speaker 3: eat at a restaurant. I can't remember the name, it's 167 00:09:36,640 --> 00:09:39,199 Speaker 3: been too long ago. But on the backside of the 168 00:09:39,240 --> 00:09:41,680 Speaker 3: building it said Roy and vanzie Ibarra. 169 00:09:42,040 --> 00:09:43,120 Speaker 1: Oh, it had been El Toro. 170 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:48,120 Speaker 3: No, it was not El Toro in those days. It 171 00:09:48,200 --> 00:09:52,880 Speaker 3: was Roy and Vanjie Ibarra, unless it was the unfranchised elto. 172 00:09:53,320 --> 00:09:54,160 Speaker 3: Is that what they called it? 173 00:09:54,520 --> 00:09:57,600 Speaker 1: Well, they didn't French that they owned it. El Toro 174 00:09:57,760 --> 00:10:00,000 Speaker 1: wasn't a franchise. They owned those locations. 175 00:10:01,559 --> 00:10:04,160 Speaker 3: Okay, see, I didn't know that. I know the El Toro. 176 00:10:04,360 --> 00:10:10,000 Speaker 3: Now Here in Baytown there was a family called the Morenos, 177 00:10:10,679 --> 00:10:14,959 Speaker 3: and the Morenos ran Levante Monc and they sold their 178 00:10:15,120 --> 00:10:19,640 Speaker 3: restaurant to El Toro. But in the day back then, 179 00:10:20,640 --> 00:10:25,520 Speaker 3: you couldn't get into Wante Monc on Sunday. The line 180 00:10:25,559 --> 00:10:28,679 Speaker 3: went down the building and down the street, and everyone 181 00:10:28,760 --> 00:10:34,720 Speaker 3: wanted to eat at Morenos. So Signora Moreno was married 182 00:10:34,760 --> 00:10:43,440 Speaker 3: to Virginia. I can't remember her maiden name. But anyway, 183 00:10:43,480 --> 00:10:49,920 Speaker 3: those two families were restauranteurs and storekeepers here in Baytown 184 00:10:50,840 --> 00:10:54,360 Speaker 3: back in the back in the fifties and forties. So 185 00:10:54,480 --> 00:10:57,600 Speaker 3: I'm not sure if Roy and Vangie Ibarra sold to 186 00:10:57,760 --> 00:10:59,920 Speaker 3: El Toro or not, but I know that the the 187 00:11:01,200 --> 00:11:05,320 Speaker 3: that the Morenos did, and I can't I honestly can't 188 00:11:05,360 --> 00:11:08,280 Speaker 3: remember the name of the restaurant in Pasadena, but I 189 00:11:08,320 --> 00:11:10,600 Speaker 3: wondered if Russell Ebarra was their son. 190 00:11:10,720 --> 00:11:12,920 Speaker 1: It has to be, yeah, it has to be. 191 00:11:14,520 --> 00:11:17,800 Speaker 3: And we drove over there to Roy and Vangie's. They 192 00:11:17,880 --> 00:11:23,080 Speaker 3: had recipes that wouldn't quit. The food was delicious, and 193 00:11:23,120 --> 00:11:26,560 Speaker 3: the Marinos were the same way they had they had 194 00:11:26,600 --> 00:11:28,880 Speaker 3: And when their restaurant closed is when we started going 195 00:11:28,920 --> 00:11:29,679 Speaker 3: to Pasadena. 196 00:11:30,920 --> 00:11:31,560 Speaker 1: Uh uh. 197 00:11:32,400 --> 00:11:36,400 Speaker 3: Zamora Senor that was mister Morino's wife. She was in 198 00:11:36,480 --> 00:11:39,840 Speaker 3: Virginia's Zamora and the Zamora family and the Marino family 199 00:11:39,960 --> 00:11:43,000 Speaker 3: had this restaurant there in partnership and it was the 200 00:11:43,040 --> 00:11:46,320 Speaker 3: finest food you could eat in Baytown. And when they closed, 201 00:11:46,320 --> 00:11:50,080 Speaker 3: that's when I started going to Pasadena. And so now 202 00:11:50,120 --> 00:11:53,080 Speaker 3: it's all franchised, you know, to El Toro or whatever 203 00:11:53,760 --> 00:11:58,000 Speaker 3: is Russell uh By a part of the Eltoral franchise. 204 00:11:58,559 --> 00:12:01,520 Speaker 1: Yeah, so yeah, I know you're saying franchise, which is 205 00:12:01,600 --> 00:12:07,240 Speaker 1: driving me crazy. But so his dad and mom had 206 00:12:07,360 --> 00:12:11,520 Speaker 1: the El Toro restaurants and they had the still do 207 00:12:11,720 --> 00:12:17,719 Speaker 1: the Mattador brand, Tomali's and chips, tortillas and chips and 208 00:12:17,760 --> 00:12:19,440 Speaker 1: those sorts of things, and they still do. They just 209 00:12:20,120 --> 00:12:23,560 Speaker 1: bought like a six million dollar Have I shown you this. 210 00:12:24,440 --> 00:12:26,280 Speaker 1: They just bought I think a six or eight million 211 00:12:26,360 --> 00:12:31,000 Speaker 1: dollar tortilla machine. And this thing looks like an assembly 212 00:12:31,040 --> 00:12:35,000 Speaker 1: line from General Motors. It starts with one end on 213 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:41,000 Speaker 1: one end with flour and it goes to the other end. Oh, 214 00:12:41,360 --> 00:12:44,959 Speaker 1: I just got a message from Russell. His dad's cousin 215 00:12:45,240 --> 00:12:48,840 Speaker 1: was Roy. He owned Ricardo's. That's what you're thinking of 216 00:12:48,920 --> 00:12:49,719 Speaker 1: is Ricardo's. 217 00:12:50,520 --> 00:12:53,360 Speaker 3: Ah so yea, that's what. 218 00:12:53,200 --> 00:12:56,520 Speaker 1: You're thinking of Ricardo's. And Russell said that was his 219 00:12:56,720 --> 00:13:02,199 Speaker 1: dad's cousin. But anyway, so Russussell's parents owned El Toro 220 00:13:02,679 --> 00:13:05,560 Speaker 1: and all the kids grew up in the business and 221 00:13:05,600 --> 00:13:08,720 Speaker 1: are still in the business. His sister still in the business, 222 00:13:09,800 --> 00:13:12,560 Speaker 1: his brother Moses, they're all still at El Toro. Is 223 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:19,840 Speaker 1: that El Toro? His brother Roland is there, and then 224 00:13:19,960 --> 00:13:25,120 Speaker 1: he's got other brothers. Troy I think has one, and 225 00:13:25,160 --> 00:13:27,600 Speaker 1: then he's got a brother Victor, and he's got a 226 00:13:27,600 --> 00:13:31,960 Speaker 1: brother that lives in Palestine. They are all they all 227 00:13:31,960 --> 00:13:34,000 Speaker 1: went off and they went off and did their own 228 00:13:34,840 --> 00:13:41,959 Speaker 1: and then Russell started gringoes in was it one Ramon? Oh, 229 00:13:41,960 --> 00:13:44,000 Speaker 1: here we go. My dad's cousin was Roy. He owned 230 00:13:44,080 --> 00:13:49,800 Speaker 1: Ricardo's in Pasadena. Moreno's is today the El Toro tortilla 231 00:13:49,880 --> 00:13:55,520 Speaker 1: plant and Commissary. So that's that Russell left. Russell ran 232 00:13:55,679 --> 00:14:01,360 Speaker 1: the tortilla factory and then he starts guarded his own restaurant, 233 00:14:01,400 --> 00:14:05,800 Speaker 1: which was greenos in one, and now that has I 234 00:14:05,840 --> 00:14:08,160 Speaker 1: think they do one hundred and fifty million dollars a 235 00:14:08,240 --> 00:14:11,119 Speaker 1: year in revenues, which if you think about how competitive 236 00:14:11,120 --> 00:14:16,920 Speaker 1: that space is, that is I'm just I'm blown away 237 00:14:17,120 --> 00:14:21,640 Speaker 1: when I when I look at how difficult it is 238 00:14:21,720 --> 00:14:24,600 Speaker 1: to succeed in a restaurant that you can be there for. 239 00:14:25,320 --> 00:14:29,040 Speaker 1: So my friend Arturo Buada, he owns Artural badas on 240 00:14:31,520 --> 00:14:35,120 Speaker 1: I think it's on Del Moni. It's behind Regel's Barbecue, which, 241 00:14:35,160 --> 00:14:38,240 Speaker 1: by the way, the best ruben in the entire city. Well, 242 00:14:38,560 --> 00:14:42,760 Speaker 1: Kenyan Ziggi's is good too, but on Thursdays they do 243 00:14:42,800 --> 00:14:47,720 Speaker 1: a reuben at kennyan Ziggy's, I mean at Regels Russ 244 00:14:47,760 --> 00:14:54,640 Speaker 1: Regel veteran right there at Voss and Del Money, and 245 00:14:54,680 --> 00:14:56,800 Speaker 1: they only do it on one day and they sell 246 00:14:56,840 --> 00:15:00,920 Speaker 1: out every time, and it is phenomenal. Mind. Brandon Leighew 247 00:15:00,920 --> 00:15:02,880 Speaker 1: and I were talking last night and he said, is 248 00:15:02,880 --> 00:15:04,520 Speaker 1: this the best ruben in town? I said, well, there's 249 00:15:04,560 --> 00:15:07,760 Speaker 1: two fantastic rubens in town, and one of them is 250 00:15:07,840 --> 00:15:10,200 Speaker 1: Kenny and Ziggy's, and the other one a very different 251 00:15:10,280 --> 00:15:13,360 Speaker 1: style of ruben, more of a barbecue style. Ruben is 252 00:15:13,400 --> 00:15:18,200 Speaker 1: at Regels. But anyway, directly behind there is Arturo Boadas. 253 00:15:18,720 --> 00:15:25,760 Speaker 1: Arturo had Besso, he had not Selero. What was it? 254 00:15:25,760 --> 00:15:28,400 Speaker 1: It was named the number one restaurant in the country 255 00:15:28,680 --> 00:15:34,600 Speaker 1: by Esquire magazines. Celero, oh, how can I not forget this? Anyway, 256 00:15:34,640 --> 00:15:37,480 Speaker 1: Then they had Basso, Then he had Arturo's in Uptown, 257 00:15:37,520 --> 00:15:40,600 Speaker 1: and now he has Arturo Boadas, which is smaller, and 258 00:15:40,640 --> 00:15:46,000 Speaker 1: it's him and his nephew is the lead waiter. And 259 00:15:46,240 --> 00:15:48,360 Speaker 1: Arturo's in the kitchen and they have a small staff 260 00:15:48,360 --> 00:15:51,880 Speaker 1: in small bistro style place, and he kills it. Every 261 00:15:51,920 --> 00:15:56,360 Speaker 1: meal is phenomenal. But literally every meal Arturo makes. What 262 00:15:56,520 --> 00:16:00,440 Speaker 1: has to be the most difficult thing is to builds 263 00:16:00,480 --> 00:16:07,520 Speaker 1: where your restaurant can kill it for every plate, for 264 00:16:07,680 --> 00:16:12,040 Speaker 1: every customer, night after night, day after day, with the 265 00:16:12,080 --> 00:16:18,080 Speaker 1: interchangeable parts of different cooks coming in, different bus boys, 266 00:16:18,640 --> 00:16:22,120 Speaker 1: different waiters, different you think about, Okay, here it is 267 00:16:22,360 --> 00:16:26,760 Speaker 1: Victor owns Iguana Joe's, and I think that's out North 268 00:16:26,920 --> 00:16:31,720 Speaker 1: Houston somewhere like Barber's Hill or somewhere there. And Troy 269 00:16:31,840 --> 00:16:36,960 Speaker 1: owns Johnny Tomas Tomamas, you know those Hispanic families like that, 270 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:40,680 Speaker 1: the big Hispanic entrepreneurial families. You don't see that the 271 00:16:40,680 --> 00:16:43,000 Speaker 1: way you used to. They'd own restaurants, the whole family 272 00:16:43,040 --> 00:16:44,800 Speaker 1: would come up in it, and then they go off and 273 00:16:44,840 --> 00:16:47,520 Speaker 1: start new families. There's a lot of those in Houston. 274 00:16:48,680 --> 00:16:50,320 Speaker 1: It's kind of a downer of a song, I will 275 00:16:50,360 --> 00:16:56,800 Speaker 1: admit that. But he's an Irishman. You know, so many 276 00:16:56,880 --> 00:17:00,720 Speaker 1: irishmen had to leave Ironman because the economy collapsed over 277 00:17:00,800 --> 00:17:03,360 Speaker 1: a long period of time, and they ended up mostly 278 00:17:03,440 --> 00:17:06,520 Speaker 1: in Europe and the United States. And he's gone to 279 00:17:06,560 --> 00:17:12,000 Speaker 1: France and he's sitting down beside a graveside of some 280 00:17:12,080 --> 00:17:18,520 Speaker 1: guy that Willie McBride. Listen, sweetheart, did you leave us 281 00:17:18,600 --> 00:17:19,720 Speaker 1: wife or a sweetheart behind? 282 00:17:19,880 --> 00:17:26,600 Speaker 4: And some faithful heart is your shrine? I'll do you 283 00:17:26,880 --> 00:17:34,320 Speaker 4: died back in nineteen sixteen, and that faithful heart? Are 284 00:17:34,359 --> 00:17:35,640 Speaker 4: you forever. 285 00:17:35,720 --> 00:17:37,360 Speaker 1: Nineteen it's so beautiful? 286 00:17:39,119 --> 00:17:43,800 Speaker 4: Or are you stranger without even name? 287 00:17:44,440 --> 00:17:49,359 Speaker 1: Because when someone dies young, they remained that age for 288 00:17:49,480 --> 00:17:52,399 Speaker 1: you for the rest of your life. So he's talking 289 00:17:52,440 --> 00:18:01,040 Speaker 1: about the photo she has this day and faith in 290 00:18:01,160 --> 00:18:07,199 Speaker 1: the brown, an old photograph, torn battered and stained and faded, 291 00:18:07,200 --> 00:18:14,560 Speaker 1: the yellow with an old coaltee stains strong. He's sitting 292 00:18:14,560 --> 00:18:16,600 Speaker 1: down at the graveside of a man he never met 293 00:18:17,359 --> 00:18:19,720 Speaker 1: and wondering what could have become of his life. And 294 00:18:19,840 --> 00:18:26,720 Speaker 1: is there some woman back in County Court missing him today? 295 00:18:26,840 --> 00:18:31,399 Speaker 1: Has she moved on? Is he forever remembered his man? 296 00:18:32,040 --> 00:18:35,879 Speaker 1: Irish poetry is the best. Don't even come at me. 297 00:18:38,080 --> 00:18:41,040 Speaker 1: They got another one called The Grand Affair. It's about 298 00:18:41,040 --> 00:18:43,040 Speaker 1: an irishman who's gone to Europe and he's made a 299 00:18:43,040 --> 00:18:45,360 Speaker 1: lot of money. He's become very successful, but he remembers 300 00:18:45,400 --> 00:18:51,399 Speaker 1: the early days when when he was struggling. You got it, 301 00:18:51,520 --> 00:18:54,240 Speaker 1: Oh man, this is thank y'all for indulging me. But 302 00:18:54,320 --> 00:19:01,920 Speaker 1: this is this is really deep, good stuff. I'm coming 303 00:19:01,960 --> 00:19:06,160 Speaker 1: through the glass. Play the Grand Affair. I got it? Bono. Yes, 304 00:19:06,240 --> 00:19:11,480 Speaker 1: we play a lot of YouTube. So everybody knows there. 305 00:19:11,320 --> 00:19:17,959 Speaker 5: Is a Jewish diaspora, the Sephardics who fled in the 306 00:19:17,960 --> 00:19:21,719 Speaker 5: Middle East of Northern Africa, and the Asconaism who fled 307 00:19:23,080 --> 00:19:32,880 Speaker 5: Germany obviously Russia, Hungary, Romania, Poland, but it's not been 308 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:38,840 Speaker 5: as widely written about, but it should be the Irish diaspora. 309 00:19:40,080 --> 00:19:43,280 Speaker 1: And we know the Irish came here. You know the 310 00:19:43,320 --> 00:19:47,520 Speaker 1: blood the Hudson flows green. The biggest Saint Patrick's Day 311 00:19:47,560 --> 00:19:50,640 Speaker 1: parade is in New York City. Ever tell you that story? 312 00:19:50,680 --> 00:19:54,600 Speaker 1: Moone was living in England. I said, oh, I'm just 313 00:19:54,640 --> 00:19:59,399 Speaker 1: a puddle jump over to Dublin. I'm gonna go to 314 00:19:59,440 --> 00:20:03,000 Speaker 1: the Saint pat Street Stay parade in Ireland. I've got 315 00:20:03,040 --> 00:20:06,280 Speaker 1: Irish blood in me. This is gonna be great. And 316 00:20:06,359 --> 00:20:10,560 Speaker 1: you get there and our Independence Day parade in Orange 317 00:20:10,600 --> 00:20:15,359 Speaker 1: was bigger, and I'm standing around, going, what the living 318 00:20:15,600 --> 00:20:20,199 Speaker 1: hell on Saint Patrick's Day? Every year I see in 319 00:20:20,320 --> 00:20:22,680 Speaker 1: New York it's the biggest parade of the year. What's 320 00:20:22,720 --> 00:20:26,679 Speaker 1: going on? And They're like, we're Irish. We don't need 321 00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:29,200 Speaker 1: to celebrate it. We're Irish three and sixty five days 322 00:20:29,240 --> 00:20:33,080 Speaker 1: a year. Everyone's Irish. What are we gonna do to Cera? 323 00:20:33,160 --> 00:20:35,359 Speaker 6: We're really, really, really really really Irish. 324 00:20:36,040 --> 00:20:39,840 Speaker 1: If you're Irish in a town that's Italian and Jewish 325 00:20:39,240 --> 00:20:43,800 Speaker 1: and French and Dominican and Puerto Rican, I'm all right. 326 00:20:44,920 --> 00:20:47,600 Speaker 1: But if you're Irish in Ireland, you don't need to 327 00:20:47,600 --> 00:20:52,879 Speaker 1: do that. Isn't that funny? But the Irish diaspora, because 328 00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:55,880 Speaker 1: the economy collapsed for so long they're doing better now, 329 00:20:56,680 --> 00:21:01,800 Speaker 1: but you had to leave to find you from Orange. 330 00:21:01,840 --> 00:21:03,639 Speaker 1: That was the case for a long time. You had 331 00:21:03,640 --> 00:21:06,800 Speaker 1: to leave to go somewhere. And there is a certain 332 00:21:07,880 --> 00:21:16,320 Speaker 1: kindred spirit, a fraternity to leaving, having to leave, not 333 00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:19,280 Speaker 1: wanting to leave, but having to leave to go and 334 00:21:19,400 --> 00:21:22,920 Speaker 1: find work and send money home and that sort of thing. 335 00:21:23,760 --> 00:21:26,399 Speaker 1: And a lot of the Irish went to Amsterdam. It 336 00:21:26,440 --> 00:21:31,360 Speaker 1: was very popular because of the ocean going traffic and Amsterdam, 337 00:21:31,520 --> 00:21:35,760 Speaker 1: well Rotterdam really, but Amsterdam is a big seaport. So 338 00:21:35,800 --> 00:21:37,760 Speaker 1: they would come over on the ships that they'd be 339 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:40,600 Speaker 1: working on and hop off and they would find work. 340 00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:45,600 Speaker 1: You know, the Dutch are great businessmen, and they became 341 00:21:46,920 --> 00:21:51,800 Speaker 1: the Mexicans of Amsterdam. They became the working class, you 342 00:21:51,840 --> 00:21:56,240 Speaker 1: know that they became the day laborers and those sorts 343 00:21:56,240 --> 00:21:58,159 Speaker 1: of things, and so a lot of the music that 344 00:21:58,240 --> 00:22:02,040 Speaker 1: came out of that, which makes sense, you know, Mexicans 345 00:22:02,040 --> 00:22:04,320 Speaker 1: coming to this country and to a lesser degree, Hunt Duran, 346 00:22:04,400 --> 00:22:07,800 Speaker 1: Guatemalan's El Salvadorans and the culture and all that sort 347 00:22:07,840 --> 00:22:11,040 Speaker 1: of stuff that's not unique to Texas or the United States. 348 00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:15,159 Speaker 1: That you go to a restaurant in Norway and your 349 00:22:15,560 --> 00:22:18,720 Speaker 1: your hostess or your waiter is from Sweden and they're 350 00:22:18,760 --> 00:22:20,239 Speaker 1: trying to get the hell out of Sweden. But they 351 00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:23,080 Speaker 1: can't get citizenship yet, so they've come and legally and 352 00:22:23,080 --> 00:22:25,240 Speaker 1: they're having to earn there. It goes on all over 353 00:22:25,280 --> 00:22:32,120 Speaker 1: the world. Uh, LeAnn, you're up, go Leanne, you're up. 354 00:22:32,160 --> 00:22:35,040 Speaker 2: Go there. 355 00:22:35,720 --> 00:22:37,399 Speaker 1: Well, Warren, you're up. 356 00:22:37,440 --> 00:22:37,480 Speaker 4: Go. 357 00:22:39,480 --> 00:22:39,600 Speaker 1: Uh. 358 00:22:40,320 --> 00:22:42,800 Speaker 6: It's a small thing. I love you, but you got 359 00:22:42,840 --> 00:22:47,120 Speaker 6: to correct this. It's not Muski road, it's Miski Road. 360 00:22:47,960 --> 00:22:50,240 Speaker 6: I grew up at Emmanuel Lutheran Church in the Heights 361 00:22:50,240 --> 00:22:53,040 Speaker 6: and mister misk I was taught as a young boy 362 00:22:53,119 --> 00:22:57,240 Speaker 6: to be highly respected and a great great man. I 363 00:22:57,280 --> 00:22:59,280 Speaker 6: always had to go up and shake his hand. But 364 00:22:59,520 --> 00:23:01,960 Speaker 6: I think I founders out there. But it's kind of 365 00:23:01,960 --> 00:23:04,159 Speaker 6: like kuk and Doll. Nobody calls it kok and dogs, 366 00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:08,520 Speaker 6: kirkan doll. It's not Mushki road Mishki road, but I like. 367 00:23:08,560 --> 00:23:13,240 Speaker 1: The way Muskie sounds better. No, please, don't please. 368 00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:18,360 Speaker 6: I don't come to Erne, Texas, right. 369 00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:21,040 Speaker 1: No, But that's why we say Arne. When Shirley Q. 370 00:23:21,160 --> 00:23:25,200 Speaker 1: Looker first started saying Erne, everybody in Orange now says Arne. 371 00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:27,720 Speaker 1: And we know it's wrong. But it became this fun 372 00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:30,160 Speaker 1: thing that we do. How about this, how about from 373 00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:32,439 Speaker 1: now on, every time I say mushki because I like 374 00:23:32,440 --> 00:23:37,840 Speaker 1: to sound a moushki, you'll go, damn it, he knows better, right, Okay, 375 00:23:38,119 --> 00:23:41,040 Speaker 1: that I'm gonna put you know, I'm gonna put mushki 376 00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:44,280 Speaker 1: Warren right here, and I'm gonna think of mister Mishk 377 00:23:44,680 --> 00:23:46,560 Speaker 1: living on muski. How about that? 378 00:23:46,760 --> 00:23:49,439 Speaker 6: I thinks out there, I really do. I think they 379 00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:50,120 Speaker 6: were the earliest. 380 00:23:50,119 --> 00:23:52,960 Speaker 1: But anyway, well, no, I have the greatest respect for 381 00:23:53,119 --> 00:23:56,520 Speaker 1: mister Mishki who lived on mushki. And that's how that's 382 00:23:56,520 --> 00:23:58,120 Speaker 1: how we'll do that. And that'll be for Warren. See, 383 00:23:58,119 --> 00:24:00,520 Speaker 1: that'll be our little inside you know how Carolnette would 384 00:24:00,520 --> 00:24:02,840 Speaker 1: pull her her her ear. From now on you'll know. 385 00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:04,880 Speaker 1: And by the way, I've been told this before, but 386 00:24:04,920 --> 00:24:07,520 Speaker 1: by the way, you'll know that when I say muski, 387 00:24:07,520 --> 00:24:10,400 Speaker 1: you'll go, that dumb ass, how long has he lived here? 388 00:24:10,440 --> 00:24:12,920 Speaker 1: He doesn't know how to pronounce it? And you'll go, oh, 389 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:16,280 Speaker 1: he does. It's just an irritating thing he does. And 390 00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:19,240 Speaker 1: that'll be it, right, Alex, you're up. 391 00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:21,480 Speaker 3: Go I'm sorry. 392 00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:23,280 Speaker 7: I was laughing at the cook and doll joke. My 393 00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:24,199 Speaker 7: mom says cook and doll. 394 00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:26,320 Speaker 1: And the way he said cook and doll was pretty funny. 395 00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:30,359 Speaker 7: That's funny. I've not heard that. Yeah, look, Mike, I wondered. 396 00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:32,360 Speaker 7: I wondered if Michael, I wanted to thank you for 397 00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:36,720 Speaker 7: your sponsors. You know they're great people. Uh, you created 398 00:24:36,760 --> 00:24:40,520 Speaker 7: a niche of It's like a circle. It's like a 399 00:24:40,560 --> 00:24:43,520 Speaker 7: family of honest businesses that we can go out and 400 00:24:43,520 --> 00:24:46,119 Speaker 7: deal with. I gotta tell you, as I'm using almost 401 00:24:46,160 --> 00:24:48,680 Speaker 7: everybody Ashley has bent over backwards for us on our. 402 00:24:48,560 --> 00:24:51,320 Speaker 1: Business credit card. 403 00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:54,680 Speaker 7: Yes, Connie, what what? 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