1 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:04,840 Speaker 1: It's that time. 2 00:00:05,080 --> 00:00:09,440 Speaker 2: Time time, time, Luck and load. 3 00:00:11,280 --> 00:00:13,400 Speaker 1: The Michael Verie Show is. 4 00:00:13,280 --> 00:00:13,880 Speaker 3: On the air. 5 00:00:27,160 --> 00:00:33,240 Speaker 1: Most public pranks, most public pranks that are carried out 6 00:00:34,600 --> 00:00:36,920 Speaker 1: for the purpose of getting I don't mean you know 7 00:00:36,960 --> 00:00:39,200 Speaker 1: when you when you pull a prank on your buddy 8 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:43,280 Speaker 1: at the office, or your kid or your spouse. But 9 00:00:43,360 --> 00:00:50,360 Speaker 1: when they're done in public, they're often, if not usually, 10 00:00:53,920 --> 00:01:00,000 Speaker 1: more problem than funny, especially when it's high school kids. 11 00:01:01,880 --> 00:01:07,000 Speaker 1: And it never ceases to amaze me the decision making 12 00:01:07,120 --> 00:01:14,760 Speaker 1: tree of most high school kids. How on earth did 13 00:01:14,760 --> 00:01:20,160 Speaker 1: they think that that was a good idea. Now I've 14 00:01:20,160 --> 00:01:22,080 Speaker 1: been lucky, and I don't take the credit for this. 15 00:01:22,160 --> 00:01:25,559 Speaker 1: I give it to my wife. I am far more 16 00:01:25,760 --> 00:01:29,440 Speaker 1: likely to do something stupid because I think it'll be 17 00:01:29,520 --> 00:01:34,640 Speaker 1: funny than my kids are. My kids have had adult 18 00:01:34,760 --> 00:01:39,880 Speaker 1: sensibilities since pretty early in their life, and frankly, so 19 00:01:39,959 --> 00:01:42,320 Speaker 1: did I when I was younger, and then as I 20 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:46,080 Speaker 1: got older, I decided that I needed to live a 21 00:01:46,120 --> 00:01:48,840 Speaker 1: little so I don't live in fear that my kids 22 00:01:48,840 --> 00:01:52,000 Speaker 1: will do something stupid like that. Fortunately, now they have 23 00:01:52,080 --> 00:01:56,840 Speaker 1: some friends that I wouldn't be surprised. But they're good kids. 24 00:01:57,200 --> 00:02:02,280 Speaker 1: They just, you know, decision making with that in mind. 25 00:02:02,760 --> 00:02:08,400 Speaker 1: There was a great prank pulled by two silly high 26 00:02:08,440 --> 00:02:13,000 Speaker 1: school students that is absolutely unobjectionable. There's nobody that could 27 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:15,600 Speaker 1: have a problem with it, and you have to at 28 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:21,680 Speaker 1: least at least have a chuckle as a result. They 29 00:02:21,720 --> 00:02:25,760 Speaker 1: made a sign, a decent size sign that goes up. 30 00:02:25,840 --> 00:02:27,920 Speaker 1: Let's see, his kid's close to six feet tall, so 31 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:32,440 Speaker 1: it's about six feet tall, and it says coming soon, 32 00:02:33,120 --> 00:02:39,280 Speaker 1: late twenty twenty five. And they put the ChB logo, 33 00:02:39,720 --> 00:02:43,799 Speaker 1: so at the top it's a big chib logo. Then 34 00:02:43,919 --> 00:02:49,840 Speaker 1: underneath it coming soon. Then underneath that late twenty twenty five. 35 00:02:51,080 --> 00:02:54,240 Speaker 1: There are two eighteen year old kids named Connor Wells 36 00:02:55,200 --> 00:02:59,720 Speaker 1: and Land and Soda Lac or Soda loc presuming probably 37 00:02:59,720 --> 00:03:04,400 Speaker 1: good Polish name out in Sealy. They made the sign 38 00:03:04,520 --> 00:03:07,000 Speaker 1: and then they planted it in an empty field near 39 00:03:07,040 --> 00:03:12,320 Speaker 1: their school. By eight point thirty the next morning, the sign, 40 00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:16,680 Speaker 1: with the near replica of the grocery chain's hyphenated red lettering, 41 00:03:17,240 --> 00:03:20,080 Speaker 1: had created a buzz on social media that took Wells 42 00:03:20,120 --> 00:03:24,600 Speaker 1: in Sodilac a little by surprise. Sotiac tells the Houston 43 00:03:24,639 --> 00:03:27,840 Speaker 1: Chronicle quote, we knew the backstory to the town wanting 44 00:03:27,880 --> 00:03:31,320 Speaker 1: an HB. We just wanted to do a senior prank 45 00:03:31,360 --> 00:03:34,480 Speaker 1: that wasn't destructive. We didn't realize it was going to 46 00:03:34,520 --> 00:03:38,600 Speaker 1: get this big. Well Sealy does not have an HB 47 00:03:39,560 --> 00:03:42,400 Speaker 1: from the Houston Chronicle quote, Rumors of the grocery chain 48 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:44,440 Speaker 1: coming to Seely had been a source for hope and 49 00:03:44,480 --> 00:03:48,240 Speaker 1: disappointment to its residents for over fifteen years. According to 50 00:03:48,280 --> 00:03:51,800 Speaker 1: Wells's mother, Crystal Cuban, who was in on the ruse 51 00:03:51,840 --> 00:03:53,760 Speaker 1: from the beginning and had posted the photo of the 52 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:57,480 Speaker 1: sign to her social media, users began sharing the post 53 00:03:57,480 --> 00:04:00,800 Speaker 1: immediately and commenting on the butter tortillas and other signature 54 00:04:01,040 --> 00:04:05,520 Speaker 1: HB favorites. It was crazy, she said. It got to 55 00:04:05,560 --> 00:04:08,200 Speaker 1: the point where people were calling the city to find 56 00:04:08,200 --> 00:04:11,880 Speaker 1: out if it was true. Bill Atkinson of Sealy's Economic 57 00:04:11,920 --> 00:04:14,960 Speaker 1: Development and Tourism office said city staff filled at a 58 00:04:14,960 --> 00:04:17,600 Speaker 1: barrage of calls that morning with residents asking about the 59 00:04:17,640 --> 00:04:20,559 Speaker 1: sign and when the news store was coming. The city 60 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:23,159 Speaker 1: eventually tracked down the source of all the excitement and 61 00:04:23,240 --> 00:04:26,760 Speaker 1: saw how much attention it had generated. Quote from an 62 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:30,760 Speaker 1: economic development standpoint, it's great, Atkinson said, it really got 63 00:04:30,760 --> 00:04:35,279 Speaker 1: the community reinvigorated by the idea of HB coming hib 64 00:04:35,440 --> 00:04:39,320 Speaker 1: didn't respond to a request for comment. For some users 65 00:04:39,360 --> 00:04:42,159 Speaker 1: on Facebook, it was too good to be true. What 66 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:47,440 Speaker 1: you know, How are you in the PR department at 67 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:54,240 Speaker 1: HB and you don't respond with a comment. First of all, 68 00:04:54,800 --> 00:05:02,159 Speaker 1: that is incredibly flattering. Secondly, it's funny, are you? This 69 00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:06,160 Speaker 1: is my problem with most people that are in the 70 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:15,760 Speaker 1: PR business. They hide from anything that creates a real emotional, 71 00:05:16,480 --> 00:05:23,920 Speaker 1: intimate connection. They're afraid of it, which is why they're 72 00:05:23,960 --> 00:05:28,160 Speaker 1: not good at what they do. It's why you see 73 00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:32,960 Speaker 1: bad advertising, it's why you see bad event planning and 74 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:38,080 Speaker 1: promotion because everything has to be dumbed down to the 75 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:45,080 Speaker 1: least controversial, least fun thing imaginable. This is the best 76 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:50,640 Speaker 1: PR HB could ever hope for. And it's funny, and 77 00:05:50,720 --> 00:05:57,480 Speaker 1: it's young people. When young people think you're cool, that's rare. 78 00:05:58,600 --> 00:06:04,159 Speaker 1: You're a grocery store. If this had been Bucki's Beaver, 79 00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:07,920 Speaker 1: Applan would have driven there and gotten in and put 80 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:10,800 Speaker 1: himself in the sign with them, because he's got a 81 00:06:10,880 --> 00:06:17,480 Speaker 1: sense of humor, because he's a real human being. People 82 00:06:17,480 --> 00:06:19,280 Speaker 1: were excited, but ife you were saying it had to 83 00:06:19,360 --> 00:06:22,360 Speaker 1: be a prank because of the quick timeline. Wells said, 84 00:06:23,560 --> 00:06:26,040 Speaker 1: HGB owns at least ten acres of land and Sealy. 85 00:06:26,120 --> 00:06:29,080 Speaker 1: According to Atkinson, the idea that the grocery chain could 86 00:06:29,120 --> 00:06:32,040 Speaker 1: open a location there, he said, is not an unrealistic concept. 87 00:06:32,720 --> 00:06:34,880 Speaker 1: What most on social media could not see in the 88 00:06:34,880 --> 00:06:37,479 Speaker 1: Facebook poster from the street was the small print in 89 00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:39,919 Speaker 1: free hand on the bottom right hand corner of the 90 00:06:39,960 --> 00:06:46,520 Speaker 1: sign that read Senior's Class of twenty twenty five. You know, 91 00:06:48,720 --> 00:06:53,080 Speaker 1: those kids are awesome. I think that's just fantastic, and 92 00:06:53,120 --> 00:06:56,840 Speaker 1: it reminds me when I left Orange in eighty nine. 93 00:06:57,080 --> 00:07:00,159 Speaker 1: I had to get out of the little city. I 94 00:07:00,200 --> 00:07:02,080 Speaker 1: had to go to the big city. You know, it's 95 00:07:02,120 --> 00:07:05,159 Speaker 1: just a mac Davis song for those of you who remember. 96 00:07:05,720 --> 00:07:08,680 Speaker 1: I had to get out of there. And my brother 97 00:07:08,839 --> 00:07:12,800 Speaker 1: who stayed would tell me because we talked daily, and 98 00:07:12,880 --> 00:07:17,240 Speaker 1: he'd go, hey, we got Walmart coming, like, oh, well, 99 00:07:17,560 --> 00:07:19,720 Speaker 1: and then you know I got to move back Walmart. 100 00:07:19,720 --> 00:07:20,920 Speaker 1: I got a Walmart coming. 101 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:21,600 Speaker 2: Yeah. 102 00:07:22,200 --> 00:07:24,800 Speaker 1: And then later it was hey, we got super Walmart coming, 103 00:07:24,880 --> 00:07:27,680 Speaker 1: which really just meant twenty four hours a day, but 104 00:07:27,760 --> 00:07:32,160 Speaker 1: it meant a bigger footprint and that was really really exciting. 105 00:07:32,160 --> 00:07:35,760 Speaker 1: We're getting bigger, and we're getting a I don't know, 106 00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:38,160 Speaker 1: it's Godfather's Pizza, or we're getting to this, or we're 107 00:07:38,160 --> 00:07:42,000 Speaker 1: getting to that. In small towns that don't have very 108 00:07:42,040 --> 00:07:46,400 Speaker 1: many national chains, you get really really I don't know 109 00:07:46,440 --> 00:07:49,960 Speaker 1: where people in Seeley shop for groceries. I don't know, 110 00:07:50,680 --> 00:07:53,280 Speaker 1: And I mean I would guess that there's a local, 111 00:07:54,160 --> 00:08:00,720 Speaker 1: family owned market that probably won't last to long after 112 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:04,560 Speaker 1: an HGB does open, if in fact that happens, that 113 00:08:04,720 --> 00:08:07,800 Speaker 1: has maybe you know a butcher that's been there forever 114 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:13,720 Speaker 1: and maybe they buy the local produce. But anyway, I 115 00:08:13,760 --> 00:08:15,760 Speaker 1: thought it was a great story, all in good fun. 116 00:08:16,080 --> 00:08:18,920 Speaker 1: So Connor Wells and Landing sotleact good on you. 117 00:08:19,160 --> 00:08:21,080 Speaker 2: I'll be interested. So you kids are going to be. 118 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:26,960 Speaker 1: Successful in life. This is Selvester Turner, the mayor, and 119 00:08:27,040 --> 00:08:28,080 Speaker 1: a human being. 120 00:08:28,080 --> 00:08:35,120 Speaker 2: Willa Michael Bettyshaw. In your mind. I show them to 121 00:08:35,240 --> 00:08:38,400 Speaker 2: you and you see them shine. 122 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:43,760 Speaker 1: The song was written in Johnny Cash's living room. Read 123 00:08:43,800 --> 00:08:47,040 Speaker 1: a biography on Johnny Cash, who, by the way, did 124 00:08:47,080 --> 00:08:49,840 Speaker 1: not go by Johnny Cash. He went by the name 125 00:08:50,640 --> 00:08:56,680 Speaker 1: John Cash to his friends and family. Johnny was kind 126 00:08:56,679 --> 00:09:01,720 Speaker 1: of the stage name anyway. On Wednesday Nights, he would 127 00:09:01,760 --> 00:09:07,040 Speaker 1: have artists and friends come over and they would work 128 00:09:07,120 --> 00:09:12,640 Speaker 1: through segments of songs and song ideas and refer you know, hey, 129 00:09:12,679 --> 00:09:13,920 Speaker 1: do you know so and so came out with a 130 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:18,560 Speaker 1: new album, give that a listen. And he told the 131 00:09:18,559 --> 00:09:23,079 Speaker 1: story that Bob Dylan came with just the early parts 132 00:09:23,600 --> 00:09:25,680 Speaker 1: of that song and they kind of worked through it 133 00:09:25,720 --> 00:09:29,160 Speaker 1: at the at the Wednesday night session seven one three, 134 00:09:29,240 --> 00:09:31,560 Speaker 1: nine nine, nine, one thousand. Chris, you were on the 135 00:09:31,559 --> 00:09:32,480 Speaker 1: Michael Berry Show. 136 00:09:32,880 --> 00:09:37,680 Speaker 2: Let's say you, sir, what's up, big Mike? How you doing? Man? 137 00:09:40,320 --> 00:09:45,240 Speaker 4: Yes, sir, I'm from Sealy, and I gotta tell you, man, 138 00:09:46,040 --> 00:09:48,600 Speaker 4: those boys. First of all, my wife's a school teacher 139 00:09:48,640 --> 00:09:51,040 Speaker 4: there and she knows he's two young men. And then 140 00:09:51,240 --> 00:09:56,319 Speaker 4: just good all American kids. That prank was clean. There 141 00:09:56,400 --> 00:10:00,880 Speaker 4: was no damage. No, I mean it. It was a 142 00:10:00,920 --> 00:10:03,440 Speaker 4: perfect prank because not only did they just you know, 143 00:10:03,520 --> 00:10:07,280 Speaker 4: most pranks, senior pranks, they're designed to get the teachers 144 00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:10,000 Speaker 4: or the school or whatever. And then you had the 145 00:10:10,080 --> 00:10:14,440 Speaker 4: maintenance department pressure Washington buildings and crap like that. That's 146 00:10:14,480 --> 00:10:16,040 Speaker 4: not the right way to do it. There was no 147 00:10:16,160 --> 00:10:20,280 Speaker 4: damage if they got the entire community. So if there 148 00:10:20,320 --> 00:10:21,559 Speaker 4: was a Prank Hall of Fame. 149 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:25,319 Speaker 2: They're on it. They're top. No one's ever going to 150 00:10:25,360 --> 00:10:27,720 Speaker 2: beat that so and no risk. 151 00:10:27,559 --> 00:10:33,960 Speaker 1: Of getting arrested, expelled, anybody heard, no expense to anybody else. 152 00:10:34,600 --> 00:10:39,240 Speaker 1: They've got the grin on their face in the photo 153 00:10:39,360 --> 00:10:41,319 Speaker 1: because both of them are standing next to the sign. 154 00:10:41,360 --> 00:10:44,040 Speaker 1: I'm sure you've seen it, and they've got this grin 155 00:10:44,120 --> 00:10:46,680 Speaker 1: that they are so proud of themselves, which is exactly 156 00:10:46,720 --> 00:10:50,200 Speaker 1: the grin I would have had as well. I absolutely 157 00:10:50,200 --> 00:10:53,559 Speaker 1: love it. I think these kids are fantastic. Jim, you're 158 00:10:53,600 --> 00:10:54,560 Speaker 1: on the Michael Berry Show. 159 00:10:54,600 --> 00:11:00,000 Speaker 2: Go ahead, sir, Hey Michael, longtime listener, loved your show. 160 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:07,080 Speaker 2: I'm also from Sealy. Uh, those kids did create job. 161 00:11:07,679 --> 00:11:11,559 Speaker 2: They were in our local paper last week. And you're right, 162 00:11:11,640 --> 00:11:16,120 Speaker 2: the grin is awesome and super prank. But you mentioned 163 00:11:16,160 --> 00:11:19,920 Speaker 2: in your last segment about the grocery store in Sealy, 164 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:24,040 Speaker 2: Well there is one. It's called the Bill's Country Market. Yeah, 165 00:11:24,040 --> 00:11:28,280 Speaker 2: and I actually worked there. Okay, yeah, go ahead. I 166 00:11:28,360 --> 00:11:30,240 Speaker 2: worked there in high school for four years for the 167 00:11:30,280 --> 00:11:34,440 Speaker 2: Trumpets family and had more fun working there than I 168 00:11:34,480 --> 00:11:37,880 Speaker 2: did making money. But they've got a meat market and 169 00:11:37,960 --> 00:11:40,240 Speaker 2: next one meat market. And I'll send you an email 170 00:11:44,080 --> 00:11:47,559 Speaker 2: if you come through Sealy, Texas, I will have they 171 00:11:47,640 --> 00:11:49,720 Speaker 2: know me in the meat market and I'll have you 172 00:11:49,760 --> 00:11:53,880 Speaker 2: set up with the order of Texas strips doctored up 173 00:11:54,559 --> 00:11:57,600 Speaker 2: to anyone's liking and have them ready for you next 174 00:11:57,640 --> 00:12:00,960 Speaker 2: time you're going to Austin see your boy. Uh. They 175 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:06,280 Speaker 2: make homemade fresh pork sausage every Thursday, and it's probably 176 00:12:06,640 --> 00:12:10,200 Speaker 2: I'm a concert, I'm a conserve meat. It's probably the 177 00:12:10,240 --> 00:12:15,800 Speaker 2: best pork sausage I've ever had. And uh people Crumpets 178 00:12:15,800 --> 00:12:19,400 Speaker 2: family that owns the store. They are great stewards of 179 00:12:19,800 --> 00:12:27,800 Speaker 2: the city of Sealy. So U K R A. M. P. 180 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:28,760 Speaker 2: I t Z. 181 00:12:29,920 --> 00:12:35,400 Speaker 1: Crumpets, Okay, and and uh, so Bill's Supermarket. Several people 182 00:12:35,480 --> 00:12:37,880 Speaker 1: email me that that's where folks shop there. 183 00:12:39,480 --> 00:12:42,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, at Crumpets, go ahead. 184 00:12:42,679 --> 00:12:44,600 Speaker 1: That was my question. No, no, that was my question. Okay, 185 00:12:44,600 --> 00:12:45,600 Speaker 1: how long has that been there? 186 00:12:45,760 --> 00:12:50,400 Speaker 2: Yeah, oh, probably close to one hundred years. But at 187 00:12:50,600 --> 00:12:53,880 Speaker 2: Crumpets when he came back from World War Two, he 188 00:12:53,960 --> 00:12:56,160 Speaker 2: opened up the meat market for the family in the 189 00:12:56,160 --> 00:13:01,760 Speaker 2: grocery store, and uh, it's been excellently run for every Well, 190 00:13:01,800 --> 00:13:04,480 Speaker 2: it's been forty five years since I've been in high school. 191 00:13:04,559 --> 00:13:07,160 Speaker 1: So now, did you will? 192 00:13:07,240 --> 00:13:08,840 Speaker 2: They've always given back the community. 193 00:13:10,400 --> 00:13:10,480 Speaker 1: No. 194 00:13:10,600 --> 00:13:12,920 Speaker 2: I did everything else from A to Z in four years. 195 00:13:12,920 --> 00:13:16,360 Speaker 1: Though, what do you do now? 196 00:13:16,400 --> 00:13:18,800 Speaker 2: Every Saturday morning? Sir? 197 00:13:19,360 --> 00:13:20,240 Speaker 1: What do you do now? 198 00:13:21,960 --> 00:13:24,240 Speaker 2: I'm a real estate appraiser for forty years? 199 00:13:24,640 --> 00:13:26,599 Speaker 1: Oh well, okay, you said, I'm sorry I interrupt you. 200 00:13:26,640 --> 00:13:29,520 Speaker 1: Every Saturday morning, what would y'all do at Bill's Supermarket? 201 00:13:29,800 --> 00:13:31,960 Speaker 2: We'd be there. We'd be there at six. We had 202 00:13:31,960 --> 00:13:36,840 Speaker 2: a zamboni machine. We'd you know, clean the floors and 203 00:13:36,840 --> 00:13:40,040 Speaker 2: then we'd wax them every Saturday morning at six and 204 00:13:40,120 --> 00:13:41,240 Speaker 2: the store would open at seven. 205 00:13:42,760 --> 00:13:43,600 Speaker 1: Oh I love that. 206 00:13:44,240 --> 00:13:48,439 Speaker 2: I love that. And there's a cash here. There's a cashire. 207 00:13:48,480 --> 00:13:51,880 Speaker 2: Her name is Dorothy Browne. She's probably worked there for 208 00:13:51,920 --> 00:13:56,040 Speaker 2: over sixty years. She's ninety years old, and she looks 209 00:13:56,040 --> 00:13:58,440 Speaker 2: the same today she did when I was fifteen. 210 00:14:00,600 --> 00:14:01,520 Speaker 1: And her name is what. 211 00:14:03,440 --> 00:14:04,440 Speaker 2: Dorothy Broom? 212 00:14:05,360 --> 00:14:09,360 Speaker 1: Okay, all right, do me a favor. I am. I 213 00:14:09,400 --> 00:14:16,720 Speaker 1: am driving Jim from Houston, and I am westbound and 214 00:14:17,120 --> 00:14:21,280 Speaker 1: I'm coming in to Seeley. Direct me with as specific 215 00:14:21,480 --> 00:14:25,920 Speaker 1: directions as you can with streets, roads and distances as 216 00:14:26,080 --> 00:14:28,840 Speaker 1: and and and landmarks on how to get there. Take 217 00:14:28,880 --> 00:14:31,200 Speaker 1: me there from from get me there from Katie. 218 00:14:31,200 --> 00:14:33,080 Speaker 2: All right, I will, I will, I will do that 219 00:14:33,160 --> 00:14:33,880 Speaker 2: as an appraiser. 220 00:14:34,200 --> 00:14:34,320 Speaker 1: Uh. 221 00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:39,280 Speaker 2: And I've got that ability. And it's right downtown in 222 00:14:39,320 --> 00:14:43,040 Speaker 2: the central Business district, so it's impossible not to find it. 223 00:14:43,240 --> 00:14:46,240 Speaker 1: But it's but like, okay, so I'm driving around in 224 00:14:46,280 --> 00:14:47,360 Speaker 1: west Where am I going to turn? 225 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:53,600 Speaker 2: You're going to exit thirty six more? Okay? All right, 226 00:14:53,640 --> 00:14:57,600 Speaker 2: there's a four way intersection at where the bank is 227 00:14:57,640 --> 00:15:01,840 Speaker 2: in downtown. The block before the bank, You're gonna turn 228 00:15:01,920 --> 00:15:04,920 Speaker 2: right and go one block and you'll run right into 229 00:15:04,960 --> 00:15:08,880 Speaker 2: the store. And there's a big directional sign there on thirty six. 230 00:15:09,720 --> 00:15:11,320 Speaker 1: What is the street I'm gonna turn right on? 231 00:15:14,600 --> 00:15:18,520 Speaker 2: You're gonna turn right on. Don't get me the line. 232 00:15:18,560 --> 00:15:20,600 Speaker 2: I don't even remember. Oh, you're gonna take a right 233 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:22,760 Speaker 2: on on Fourth Street. 234 00:15:24,360 --> 00:15:28,080 Speaker 1: So I received a number of emails from people who said, 235 00:15:28,360 --> 00:15:31,400 Speaker 1: I didn't know the word as Celians, but that's the word. 236 00:15:31,560 --> 00:15:34,240 Speaker 1: I'm assuming that's that they weren't joking when they said that. 237 00:15:34,680 --> 00:15:39,720 Speaker 1: Who said Celians shop at Bill's Supermarket and someone else 238 00:15:39,800 --> 00:15:45,840 Speaker 1: said correct. Several people said, we don't need an h 239 00:15:45,920 --> 00:15:49,680 Speaker 1: GiB because we have a wally World, a Walmart and 240 00:15:49,720 --> 00:15:52,840 Speaker 1: We have a Mama Pop grocery store called Bill's. They 241 00:15:52,840 --> 00:15:57,120 Speaker 1: have an awesome meat market. If we need hib we 242 00:15:57,160 --> 00:16:01,000 Speaker 1: can go to Brenham or Columbus or Katie Keep Seely 243 00:16:01,120 --> 00:16:04,440 Speaker 1: a small town. Several people said they don't want an HIV. 244 00:16:05,040 --> 00:16:07,200 Speaker 1: But why do you think people are saying they do 245 00:16:07,240 --> 00:16:07,960 Speaker 1: want an HIV? 246 00:16:08,120 --> 00:16:12,760 Speaker 2: What? What is? Well, Seeley's gonna grow so fast in 247 00:16:12,800 --> 00:16:15,920 Speaker 2: the next ten years. It's the population of the over 248 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:20,640 Speaker 2: thirty pounds you can't shoots. 249 00:16:19,320 --> 00:16:38,080 Speaker 1: It's the zamboney you side. You know, there's five million 250 00:16:38,400 --> 00:16:50,680 Speaker 1: love songs, and then there's songs about love songs, and 251 00:16:50,720 --> 00:16:55,080 Speaker 1: then there's the you know, Randy Travis song about love 252 00:16:55,160 --> 00:16:57,680 Speaker 1: songs and how this one was different because there's still 253 00:16:57,800 --> 00:17:06,200 Speaker 1: just love songs Protestations of love. And you think to yourself, 254 00:17:06,640 --> 00:17:11,080 Speaker 1: if you're a songwriter, I understand that's the most popular 255 00:17:11,160 --> 00:17:14,240 Speaker 1: because then you know, people when they're in love will 256 00:17:14,240 --> 00:17:17,320 Speaker 1: want to play your song. Well, you think of how 257 00:17:17,400 --> 00:17:22,040 Speaker 1: many other life experiences are out there that you could 258 00:17:22,040 --> 00:17:27,840 Speaker 1: write about. Who I can't speak for girls because they're 259 00:17:27,840 --> 00:17:33,359 Speaker 1: wired differently, and thank God for that. But what dude 260 00:17:33,400 --> 00:17:38,720 Speaker 1: hadn't wanted to drive the zamboni? I have a friend 261 00:17:38,800 --> 00:17:45,800 Speaker 1: named David Sapristein and his daughter married of Greek fellow. 262 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:50,000 Speaker 1: I mean, he's American, but the family's Greek. And his 263 00:17:50,119 --> 00:17:56,160 Speaker 1: name is Tasso or Tasso's it's a very common Greek name. Apparently, 264 00:17:57,400 --> 00:18:04,000 Speaker 1: super nice guy. And he David invested in his company 265 00:18:04,640 --> 00:18:10,080 Speaker 1: which runs ice rinks around America. And so he was 266 00:18:10,119 --> 00:18:14,280 Speaker 1: telling us at dinner, my wife and I years ago 267 00:18:14,760 --> 00:18:20,200 Speaker 1: about his son's company. And they invested in ice rinks. 268 00:18:22,040 --> 00:18:24,480 Speaker 1: Who you never meet somebody who owns an ice rink? 269 00:18:25,119 --> 00:18:25,320 Speaker 2: Right? 270 00:18:25,440 --> 00:18:29,359 Speaker 1: Miss Virture, my seventh grade, seventh and eighth grade math 271 00:18:29,440 --> 00:18:35,840 Speaker 1: teacher who was really more famous for giving licks. She loved. 272 00:18:36,520 --> 00:18:42,479 Speaker 1: She loved to paddle errant young boys like me and 273 00:18:42,520 --> 00:18:45,679 Speaker 1: Ben Wernig and Craig Hobbs and Toby Schultz and Stephen 274 00:18:45,760 --> 00:18:53,720 Speaker 1: Bradley and Jimmy Barker. And famously you would choose which 275 00:18:53,840 --> 00:18:59,680 Speaker 1: paddle you were gonna get your whipping from, and she 276 00:18:59,680 --> 00:19:04,679 Speaker 1: she say, you can have a thunderbolt from a lightning stroke, 277 00:19:04,920 --> 00:19:08,160 Speaker 1: or maybe it was reverse. You would pick, and so 278 00:19:08,240 --> 00:19:10,720 Speaker 1: she you know you had done something wrong, and she 279 00:19:10,760 --> 00:19:13,119 Speaker 1: would call you up and she would put them out 280 00:19:13,160 --> 00:19:15,159 Speaker 1: on her desk and you would pick which one you 281 00:19:15,160 --> 00:19:18,520 Speaker 1: were about to get your butt whipped with, and with 282 00:19:18,680 --> 00:19:21,240 Speaker 1: both of them, it was a loser because she gave 283 00:19:21,280 --> 00:19:31,320 Speaker 1: the hardest licks at the school did misvirture and she 284 00:19:31,480 --> 00:19:34,720 Speaker 1: own she opened We had an old in orange Field. 285 00:19:35,040 --> 00:19:39,760 Speaker 1: We had an old roller ring, the old wooden roller ring, 286 00:19:39,960 --> 00:19:47,399 Speaker 1: you know, with with the tiny slat wood floors. And 287 00:19:47,760 --> 00:19:51,080 Speaker 1: she got out there in her coveralls and she she 288 00:19:51,160 --> 00:19:52,760 Speaker 1: got a lease on it for a little or nothing 289 00:19:52,800 --> 00:19:55,919 Speaker 1: because the building had been vacant for so long, and 290 00:19:56,000 --> 00:19:59,160 Speaker 1: she brought it back to life and it was open. 291 00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:01,200 Speaker 1: I don't know how long. It was not very long. 292 00:20:02,320 --> 00:20:05,240 Speaker 1: She threw a misspacked man in there, and maybe a 293 00:20:05,240 --> 00:20:08,080 Speaker 1: pac Man and a Galagher. That's really all I needed. 294 00:20:08,119 --> 00:20:11,880 Speaker 1: Maybe a couple pinball machines. And we were gonna We're 295 00:20:11,880 --> 00:20:17,760 Speaker 1: gonna have a roller rink in an Orangefield. And I 296 00:20:18,480 --> 00:20:21,000 Speaker 1: don't think there were enough people to keep the roller 297 00:20:21,080 --> 00:20:23,480 Speaker 1: rink going. But so I did know somebody owned a 298 00:20:23,560 --> 00:20:26,760 Speaker 1: roller rink, but I never know anybody I own it. 299 00:20:27,320 --> 00:20:31,040 Speaker 1: So I would tell David, I want to drive the Zamboni, 300 00:20:31,800 --> 00:20:34,400 Speaker 1: and he told Tassa Orangeosso, said yes, you can do it. 301 00:20:34,440 --> 00:20:38,760 Speaker 1: And I never followed through on driving the zamboni. I 302 00:20:38,760 --> 00:20:40,560 Speaker 1: suppose I still could, because far as I know, he 303 00:20:40,600 --> 00:20:44,120 Speaker 1: probably still owns it. But you think about how many 304 00:20:44,160 --> 00:20:46,840 Speaker 1: songs are there about the fact that I want to 305 00:20:46,920 --> 00:20:53,000 Speaker 1: drive a zamboni. So somehow Ramon knew that song we're 306 00:20:53,040 --> 00:20:55,679 Speaker 1: talking about. The guy called in and he drove the 307 00:20:55,720 --> 00:20:58,720 Speaker 1: zamboni at the at the grocery store every Saturday morning 308 00:20:58,760 --> 00:21:01,760 Speaker 1: when they would clean the floor. And I bet a 309 00:21:01,800 --> 00:21:04,360 Speaker 1: good number of men listening to the to the show. 310 00:21:04,480 --> 00:21:08,040 Speaker 1: Maybe women too, I just don't know, thought to themselves, Man, 311 00:21:08,040 --> 00:21:10,959 Speaker 1: I like to drive zamboni. I'd go work on Saturday 312 00:21:10,960 --> 00:21:13,400 Speaker 1: morning and just drive a zambone. It'd be fun, right, 313 00:21:14,720 --> 00:21:18,919 Speaker 1: But nobody writes songs like that except for one. So 314 00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:23,240 Speaker 1: maybe instead of trying to figure out another way to say, 315 00:21:23,480 --> 00:21:26,679 Speaker 1: you know, I want to hump you, or you know, 316 00:21:27,119 --> 00:21:32,399 Speaker 1: my heart flutters in your presence, or you're fine, maybe 317 00:21:32,440 --> 00:21:35,280 Speaker 1: a couple more songs about stuff like that that's not 318 00:21:35,320 --> 00:21:38,480 Speaker 1: being written about but needs to be written about because 319 00:21:38,480 --> 00:21:43,040 Speaker 1: it's important. Because everybody wants to drive the zamboni, right, 320 00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:48,679 Speaker 1: I mean, it seems reasonable to spend a little bit 321 00:21:48,720 --> 00:21:51,800 Speaker 1: of time on that. Is Melanie still on the line, 322 00:21:51,840 --> 00:21:54,840 Speaker 1: Ramone all right, Melanie, you're on the Michael Berry Show. 323 00:21:54,840 --> 00:21:55,600 Speaker 1: Go ahead, Dear. 324 00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:05,120 Speaker 3: Michael. My daughter her senior year. She graduated in twenty ten, 325 00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:09,479 Speaker 3: and they were trying to come up with the way 326 00:22:09,840 --> 00:22:12,600 Speaker 3: to get their senior prank off without getting in trouble. 327 00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:19,720 Speaker 3: So where we lived in Sioux Falls, they have a statue, 328 00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:25,119 Speaker 3: a naked statue of David in downtown Sioux Falls. So 329 00:22:26,320 --> 00:22:32,879 Speaker 3: they made a toga using the school colors and dressed 330 00:22:32,960 --> 00:22:36,679 Speaker 3: David up in a toga. 331 00:22:36,960 --> 00:22:38,000 Speaker 1: How was that received? 332 00:22:40,840 --> 00:22:48,280 Speaker 3: It was received rather well. Actually I didn't think it would, 333 00:22:48,359 --> 00:22:52,960 Speaker 3: you know, make the news or anything like that, but yeah, 334 00:22:53,840 --> 00:22:55,800 Speaker 3: you know, the local news crew was out there taking 335 00:22:55,840 --> 00:22:58,600 Speaker 3: pictures of you know, David dressed up in this orange 336 00:22:58,600 --> 00:23:05,760 Speaker 3: and black toga and nobody's been able to top it 337 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:11,359 Speaker 3: since then. So I give her kudos, uh, because she's 338 00:23:11,359 --> 00:23:14,240 Speaker 3: the seamstress of her friend group, So they sent a 339 00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:17,879 Speaker 3: week gathering all the materials to sow there's toga together. 340 00:23:19,040 --> 00:23:22,119 Speaker 1: Well, I mean, you got to give them some credit 341 00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:26,680 Speaker 1: for the effort, right, you know, thank you for the call, sweetheart. 342 00:23:27,960 --> 00:23:31,280 Speaker 1: I had some friends who I ran with. They were 343 00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:32,959 Speaker 1: very good friends of mine. Not going to say their 344 00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:36,760 Speaker 1: name at this point, for this particular thing. But they 345 00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:42,280 Speaker 1: went out mailbox bashing, and you know, there wasn't anything 346 00:23:42,280 --> 00:23:44,480 Speaker 1: to do in Orange, especially not out where we where 347 00:23:44,520 --> 00:23:46,680 Speaker 1: we lived here out in the country, and they went 348 00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:51,639 Speaker 1: along and they smashed mailboxes, and our mailbox was one 349 00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:56,240 Speaker 1: of the mailboxes that got smashed. And somehow they got caught, 350 00:23:56,680 --> 00:24:01,280 Speaker 1: I don't remember how. And so I come home from 351 00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:05,240 Speaker 1: school and they are sitting in the living room and 352 00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:07,640 Speaker 1: they're having to apologize to my parents and I'm having 353 00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:11,000 Speaker 1: to see my friends, and I feel horrible for them, 354 00:24:11,119 --> 00:24:13,040 Speaker 1: horrible because they were such good friends of mine, and 355 00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:15,160 Speaker 1: I mean, I wasn't mad at them, and it was 356 00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:18,560 Speaker 1: it was just it was it was a prank gone wrong. 357 00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:19,560 Speaker 1: And we still laugh about it. 358 00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:23,840 Speaker 2: To this day. Whoscar don'ts nips and dazers with without 359 00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:24,600 Speaker 2: the scooter. 360 00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:26,760 Speaker 3: Stick or one single whistling kiddy chaser. 361 00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:35,679 Speaker 1: Ramon told me during the break that he used to 362 00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:40,040 Speaker 1: go to the Houston Arrows games the ice hockey team, 363 00:24:40,359 --> 00:24:44,600 Speaker 1: and that during intermission, when the zamboni guy would come. 364 00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:46,800 Speaker 2: Out, he would. 365 00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:55,280 Speaker 1: He would they would play that song because who really 366 00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:59,720 Speaker 1: didn't want to drive the zamboni If you're at an 367 00:24:59,760 --> 00:25:02,320 Speaker 1: event or you're just I mean, even if you're just 368 00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:06,359 Speaker 1: in the old days. When I came to Houston, my 369 00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:08,320 Speaker 1: wife and I would go to the Galleria and just 370 00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:11,879 Speaker 1: walk around at the galleria because it was cool. I 371 00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:14,720 Speaker 1: mean it was we didn't have anything like that, you know, 372 00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:17,760 Speaker 1: Park Dell Mall just didn't measure up. And we'd go 373 00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:21,840 Speaker 1: to the galleria and it was so super cool and 374 00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:26,320 Speaker 1: we would watch, you know, the ice skating, and eventually 375 00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:31,280 Speaker 1: we would rent the skates. Boy, if you if you 376 00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:36,920 Speaker 1: want to feel stupid and you've never ice skated, go 377 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:39,639 Speaker 1: rent you some skates and get out there with your girl. 378 00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:46,280 Speaker 1: And then there's always some gay dude skating passed and 379 00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:51,960 Speaker 1: at the galleria that they that dude is there preparing 380 00:25:52,040 --> 00:25:55,960 Speaker 1: for some Scott Hammel competition he's got going on this weekend. 381 00:25:56,760 --> 00:26:01,119 Speaker 1: And he goes fluttering past you. And thank god he 382 00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:04,600 Speaker 1: doesn't look like the Marlboro Man or act like the 383 00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:06,960 Speaker 1: Marlboro Man, because you don't have to worry your girl's 384 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:10,560 Speaker 1: gonna you know, he's gonna steal your girl because he 385 00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:13,760 Speaker 1: wants to be your girl. Like he's all, you know, 386 00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:18,400 Speaker 1: soft and fluttery. But it makes you look bad on 387 00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:22,280 Speaker 1: your skates because you know, you're just stomping around and stay, 388 00:26:22,359 --> 00:26:25,200 Speaker 1: you know, holding onto the rail as hard as you can. 389 00:26:26,440 --> 00:26:30,000 Speaker 1: I was a decent roller skater. My brother was a 390 00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:32,760 Speaker 1: superstar at it. He could skate backwards. I could never 391 00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:36,280 Speaker 1: skate backwards. I'm not sure it's a you know, really 392 00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:38,880 Speaker 1: important life skill when you get right down to it, 393 00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:43,439 Speaker 1: because other than doing a couple skate, there's really no 394 00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:46,520 Speaker 1: reason to skate backwards other than to just show off. 395 00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:52,000 Speaker 1: But there comes an age where you can't just hold 396 00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:57,200 Speaker 1: hands with the girl and couple skate with her both 397 00:26:57,240 --> 00:27:01,520 Speaker 1: of you facing forward. That just there an age where 398 00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:07,199 Speaker 1: you need to figure this thing out. And so I did. No, 399 00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:11,560 Speaker 1: I didn't learn to skate backwards. I would only ask 400 00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:15,280 Speaker 1: girls to couple skate if she could skate backwards. Yeah, 401 00:27:15,920 --> 00:27:18,720 Speaker 1: and I would hope nobody would notice. But you got 402 00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:22,040 Speaker 1: to figure people notice if you're a dude and you're 403 00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:25,080 Speaker 1: skating back you're skating with the girl during the couple skate, 404 00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:29,280 Speaker 1: and she's the one skating backwards. You gotta figure you're 405 00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:33,400 Speaker 1: not holding up your dude role and you can't skate backwards. 406 00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:37,439 Speaker 1: And so I don't know how many people knew that 407 00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:42,040 Speaker 1: I chose my couple skate partner based on a confirmed 408 00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:47,080 Speaker 1: sighting of her skating backwards. Maybe people looked like that, dude, 409 00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:49,680 Speaker 1: Dayton is skating with that girl because she can skate 410 00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:52,359 Speaker 1: backwards and he can't. I don't know how many people 411 00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:54,480 Speaker 1: that was the case, but that was the case. That 412 00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:57,439 Speaker 1: was my strategy, and frankly, I'm kind of proud of it. 413 00:27:57,520 --> 00:28:00,399 Speaker 1: I think that's a way that you know, is really 414 00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:04,600 Speaker 1: thinking ahead, because you know, when you're when you're eight 415 00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:07,720 Speaker 1: years old, you can you can do the you know, 416 00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:10,760 Speaker 1: hokey poke and you can you can skate uh in 417 00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:14,280 Speaker 1: circles holding her hand. Y'all are both looking forward. But 418 00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:16,720 Speaker 1: you get to be well into high school. When we 419 00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:19,800 Speaker 1: were still you know, the Brown's roller rink was the 420 00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:22,080 Speaker 1: place to go or spinning wheels. That was the two 421 00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:25,359 Speaker 1: You You need to be able to skate backwards, and 422 00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:30,000 Speaker 1: I couldn't. Anyway. You go to the roller rink, I 423 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:32,439 Speaker 1: mean you go to the ice skating and you you 424 00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:35,439 Speaker 1: go get your skates and you look like a fool. 425 00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:39,760 Speaker 1: My kids. Actually, at one point we used to live 426 00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:45,800 Speaker 1: right next to uh the Gallery of and we lived 427 00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:50,680 Speaker 1: in these brownstones that were on Hidalgo. You entered you 428 00:28:50,920 --> 00:28:55,800 Speaker 1: entered off of Hidalgo. We lived directly behind the waterfall 429 00:28:56,400 --> 00:29:01,360 Speaker 1: at what used to be called trans It'll always be 430 00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:04,120 Speaker 1: transcoding me. Then it became William's Tower, and I don't 431 00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:07,280 Speaker 1: know what it is now, but we live directly behind there. 432 00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:10,480 Speaker 1: And so Michael and I and most of the time 433 00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:13,360 Speaker 1: my wife, this before Crock came home. We would walk 434 00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:15,640 Speaker 1: over in the evenings when I got off the air, 435 00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:22,760 Speaker 1: we would walk over and skate. And it didn't take long. 436 00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:25,959 Speaker 1: My kids are much more athletic than I am, and 437 00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:28,560 Speaker 1: it didn't take long till Michael t got to where 438 00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:31,560 Speaker 1: he could burn it up, and he loved to ice skate, 439 00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:36,120 Speaker 1: and so there I'd be grabbing on the You remember 440 00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:39,800 Speaker 1: that scene in Rocky Ramon, You remember the scene where 441 00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:45,280 Speaker 1: they go ice skating and he's terrible at it. Yeah, 442 00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:48,720 Speaker 1: well that's kind of you. Just you feel like such 443 00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:56,520 Speaker 1: a goof Velina, who is our polka dancer? Listener says 444 00:29:57,280 --> 00:30:01,880 Speaker 1: new residents in Sealy. We've been property shopping for three years. 445 00:30:03,040 --> 00:30:06,880 Speaker 1: Finally chose a house in Sealy, eighties construction just inside 446 00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:10,320 Speaker 1: the city limits. We hope Sealy can stay the quality town. 447 00:30:10,360 --> 00:30:13,560 Speaker 1: We fell in love with Bills is great. We want 448 00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:16,400 Speaker 1: to keep them in our new town. Ace Hardware is 449 00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:20,719 Speaker 1: great with knowledgeable help and stuff in stock. Our new 450 00:30:20,760 --> 00:30:24,560 Speaker 1: neighbors act like people acted forty years ago. Polka Dance 451 00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:27,720 Speaker 1: has still happened frequently with people calling from all the 452 00:30:27,760 --> 00:30:31,959 Speaker 1: neighbor neighboring towns together. We saved for fifteen years, wishing 453 00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:34,120 Speaker 1: to get away from the big city mentality that has 454 00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:39,000 Speaker 1: taken over a Leaf and Sugarland, HB and Columbus or 455 00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:44,040 Speaker 1: Katie are plenty close. In other words, they moved to 456 00:30:44,040 --> 00:30:47,280 Speaker 1: Sealy and they don't want Seely to change. And I 457 00:30:47,280 --> 00:30:49,240 Speaker 1: think that's what's going to happen. I mean, look at 458 00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:54,680 Speaker 1: the movement of people. These trends, they're ever occurring, but 459 00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:58,440 Speaker 1: I think you're going to see the massive growth. We've 460 00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:02,440 Speaker 1: got a show sponsor called Hawk Foreign Capital and they're 461 00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:05,440 Speaker 1: a private equity firm base based in downtown Houston, and 462 00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:07,800 Speaker 1: if you're an a credited investor, you can invest with them. 463 00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:10,920 Speaker 1: And what they do is they buy land in places 464 00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:14,360 Speaker 1: like Belleville Sea Lee because that's where people are heading 465 00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:22,520 Speaker 1: and there is a crime component and a school district component. 466 00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:25,640 Speaker 1: People don't want to be around democrats. That's why the 467 00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:27,120 Speaker 1: urban areas are all Democrats. 468 00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:27,360 Speaker 3: Now. 469 00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:30,880 Speaker 1: It's not that everybody changed to being Democrats, it's that 470 00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:33,640 Speaker 1: Republicans moved out of urban areas. And then when the 471 00:31:33,640 --> 00:31:36,080 Speaker 1: Republicans move out, there's nobody to bring about change. So 472 00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:39,600 Speaker 1: you're left with Sylvester Turner and Sheila Jackson leed kind 473 00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:42,600 Speaker 1: of leadership, and so you're left with the worst of 474 00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:46,200 Speaker 1: black racial politics. And so you've got you've got black 475 00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:50,720 Speaker 1: activist types and you've got white liberal types. And that's 476 00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:53,200 Speaker 1: what you're seeing with Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass. And 477 00:31:53,560 --> 00:31:57,600 Speaker 1: that's what has happened with all the major American cities, 478 00:31:57,600 --> 00:32:04,520 Speaker 1: in all the major urban areas municipalities across the country. 479 00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:07,880 Speaker 1: And that's why these protests happened there. So we can 480 00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:11,440 Speaker 1: win state governors' races, we can win the presidential elections, 481 00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:15,080 Speaker 1: but the cities are lost. They're just lost, and people 482 00:32:15,120 --> 00:32:18,160 Speaker 1: moved to the suburbs. The problem is the Democrats are 483 00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:21,200 Speaker 1: chasing people into the suburbs. So now people are moving 484 00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:25,040 Speaker 1: into areas, and a lot of times they didn't necessarily 485 00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:28,080 Speaker 1: want a true small town experience. They just wanted to 486 00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:32,280 Speaker 1: be safe, they didn't want crime, they didn't want bad 487 00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:35,040 Speaker 1: school districts. They didn't want those sorts of things. So 488 00:32:35,120 --> 00:32:40,160 Speaker 1: I think you're gonna see areas like Chapel Hill, Belleville, Sealy, 489 00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:42,960 Speaker 1: and it makes it look it makes the people in 490 00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:46,240 Speaker 1: those communities crazy because they moved out there to get 491 00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:49,320 Speaker 1: away from Houston, and the Houstons of the world are 492 00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:51,760 Speaker 1: coming out there. That's Waco, Sealy, all of them. That's 493 00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:52,280 Speaker 1: what's happening.