1 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:11,319 Speaker 1: It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. So 2 00:00:11,520 --> 00:00:14,080 Speaker 1: Michael Verie Show is on the air. 3 00:00:26,440 --> 00:00:30,760 Speaker 2: The wonderful piece by Martin Gury. Then I'm going to 4 00:00:30,840 --> 00:00:32,519 Speaker 2: read tonight about. 5 00:00:34,080 --> 00:00:37,680 Speaker 3: The expectations of Trump and how he won his coalition, 6 00:00:37,800 --> 00:00:41,440 Speaker 3: and it's really really interesting. There's a paragraph I'll read 7 00:00:41,479 --> 00:00:44,400 Speaker 3: to you because I'm gonna read the entire article online tonight, 8 00:00:44,440 --> 00:00:46,720 Speaker 3: but I want to get back to what's going Don't 9 00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:48,040 Speaker 3: let me forget before this. 10 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:49,360 Speaker 2: Hour is up. Fromont to do that. 11 00:00:50,280 --> 00:00:53,160 Speaker 3: So Amy Davis deserves a lot of credit at KPRC TV. 12 00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:57,240 Speaker 3: Here was her story back in October. A month later, 13 00:00:57,440 --> 00:01:02,280 Speaker 3: the Houston Housing Authority CEO resigned. Of course, he still 14 00:01:02,280 --> 00:01:05,039 Speaker 3: gets paid six months. Do you get six months severance? 15 00:01:05,959 --> 00:01:09,000 Speaker 3: I know people that don't get six months severance when 16 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:13,600 Speaker 3: they're laid off and they did nothing wrong. This guy's 17 00:01:13,600 --> 00:01:18,720 Speaker 3: basically caught red handed, and they go, oh, I know 18 00:01:18,800 --> 00:01:21,520 Speaker 3: we're not allowed to fire you because you're black, but 19 00:01:21,640 --> 00:01:25,000 Speaker 3: this could get bad. You know some really bad stuff here. 20 00:01:25,120 --> 00:01:28,440 Speaker 3: Millions and millions of dollars have been stolen, and you 21 00:01:28,840 --> 00:01:31,200 Speaker 3: hired all your buddies who you claim not to know 22 00:01:31,319 --> 00:01:36,600 Speaker 3: from Chicago, and now all these poor people in public housing, 23 00:01:37,560 --> 00:01:40,520 Speaker 3: you were supposed to replace their air conditioning unit and 24 00:01:40,600 --> 00:01:43,800 Speaker 3: you didn't do it. I mean some of these cases 25 00:01:44,200 --> 00:01:46,399 Speaker 3: the air conditioning unit was falling out of the window 26 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:48,840 Speaker 3: or it got pushed into the They didn't even know 27 00:01:48,840 --> 00:01:54,640 Speaker 3: how to put a window air conditioning unit, and they 28 00:01:54,680 --> 00:01:59,240 Speaker 3: got a contract to do hundreds, if not thousands of them. 29 00:01:59,480 --> 00:02:07,680 Speaker 3: I mean, it's you, it's galling. There's no end, there's 30 00:02:07,720 --> 00:02:11,880 Speaker 3: no limit to what they're willing to do. They're unashamed. 31 00:02:11,960 --> 00:02:14,760 Speaker 3: They'll just steal it in broad daylight and then claim 32 00:02:14,760 --> 00:02:18,399 Speaker 3: you're racist for catching them. But here here was KPRC 33 00:02:18,919 --> 00:02:21,679 Speaker 3: TV's Amy Davis. She deserves a lot of credit for 34 00:02:21,720 --> 00:02:23,440 Speaker 3: breaking this story October of this year. 35 00:02:24,240 --> 00:02:27,720 Speaker 4: Larry Grisby has lived here at Cuney Homes for eight years. 36 00:02:28,040 --> 00:02:31,960 Speaker 4: It's the city's oldest public housing development, opened in nineteen 37 00:02:32,080 --> 00:02:35,200 Speaker 4: forty three. But Larry, like other people who live in 38 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:38,600 Speaker 4: this third world neighborhood, was looking forward to some promised 39 00:02:38,720 --> 00:02:40,800 Speaker 4: upgrades from the Houston Housing Authority. 40 00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:42,240 Speaker 1: It poutly have been two benches. 41 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:45,000 Speaker 5: Hem pould have been a bench hemp and a bench 42 00:02:45,080 --> 00:02:48,680 Speaker 5: right there, and it pould have been a table right there. 43 00:02:48,800 --> 00:02:52,160 Speaker 4: But all that's here are these concrete pads with screws 44 00:02:52,360 --> 00:02:56,080 Speaker 4: attached to nothing. KPRC to obtain these renderings of what 45 00:02:56,120 --> 00:02:59,800 Speaker 4: the landscape improvement project connecting Cuney Homes to the Columbia 46 00:02:59,840 --> 00:03:03,680 Speaker 4: Town Trail was supposed to look like. The estimated cost 47 00:03:03,840 --> 00:03:07,360 Speaker 4: six hundred forty three thousand, five hundred dollars, the Houston 48 00:03:07,400 --> 00:03:10,920 Speaker 4: Housing Authority actually paid contractors more than seven hundred and 49 00:03:10,919 --> 00:03:13,919 Speaker 4: sixty six thousand dollars. That's one hundred and twenty three 50 00:03:13,919 --> 00:03:17,160 Speaker 4: thousand bucks over budget. And this is what the people 51 00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:19,960 Speaker 4: at Quney Holmes got. They were supposed to come back 52 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:20,600 Speaker 4: and add more. 53 00:03:20,720 --> 00:03:22,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, they supposed to come back and put the table 54 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:23,400 Speaker 1: and the other bent. 55 00:03:23,880 --> 00:03:24,560 Speaker 6: What happened? 56 00:03:24,840 --> 00:03:25,400 Speaker 7: I don't know. 57 00:03:26,240 --> 00:03:28,600 Speaker 1: I just hand I didn't I don't know. 58 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:29,960 Speaker 4: They never came back. 59 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:31,000 Speaker 1: They never said nothing. 60 00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:35,840 Speaker 4: In our search for Grisbee's benches and this chess table 61 00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:40,520 Speaker 4: and your money, we knocked on doors searching for the 62 00:03:40,560 --> 00:03:46,520 Speaker 4: contractors paid for this work. Lamntre Woods owns Elite Project Managers. 63 00:03:46,600 --> 00:03:49,840 Speaker 4: He registered the company with the state on January ninth, 64 00:03:50,160 --> 00:03:53,200 Speaker 4: and signed this contract with the Houston Housing Authority just 65 00:03:53,240 --> 00:03:57,000 Speaker 4: two months later, on March fourth. The registered address for 66 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:00,520 Speaker 4: his business took us to this humble apartment complex. We 67 00:04:00,640 --> 00:04:03,280 Speaker 4: left the business card, but he never called us back. 68 00:04:03,720 --> 00:04:06,760 Speaker 4: Our next stop was to the Houston Housing Authority to 69 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:10,280 Speaker 4: find the other man who signed this deal. Houston Housing 70 00:04:10,320 --> 00:04:13,880 Speaker 4: Authority CEO David northerns, can you tell us how you 71 00:04:13,960 --> 00:04:17,280 Speaker 4: know Lamentre Woods and how he was chosen? 72 00:04:21,480 --> 00:04:24,280 Speaker 1: He's one of the contractors there. I don't know him personally. 73 00:04:24,360 --> 00:04:25,960 Speaker 4: You don't know him personally. And did you know that 74 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:28,440 Speaker 4: his business was just formed two months before he got 75 00:04:28,440 --> 00:04:29,040 Speaker 4: that contract. 76 00:04:29,080 --> 00:04:31,680 Speaker 1: No, we were only here to discuss fifty million dollars grand. 77 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:33,359 Speaker 3: If you have any questions on more than every to 78 00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:34,599 Speaker 3: take him and then we can respond. 79 00:04:34,640 --> 00:04:36,839 Speaker 1: Today we're doing questions. 80 00:04:37,240 --> 00:04:39,159 Speaker 4: You have my cell phone number, and I have plenty 81 00:04:39,200 --> 00:04:41,560 Speaker 4: more questions. I just think, I mean, can you can 82 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:45,120 Speaker 4: you at all address those? You're the director. Northern did 83 00:04:45,160 --> 00:04:47,640 Speaker 4: agree to meet with me off camera days later, but 84 00:04:47,760 --> 00:04:50,960 Speaker 4: he had few answers. He said he didn't know this 85 00:04:51,080 --> 00:04:56,039 Speaker 4: project was incomplete. These contracts we've obtained show all work 86 00:04:56,200 --> 00:05:00,320 Speaker 4: was to conclude on or before April first. AJJ has 87 00:05:00,360 --> 00:05:03,240 Speaker 4: paid Elite all of the money under its contract and 88 00:05:03,279 --> 00:05:07,239 Speaker 4: then some back at Cuney Holmes Grisbee is still missing 89 00:05:07,360 --> 00:05:11,919 Speaker 4: the chess table, solar lights, and benches. Documents show Elite 90 00:05:11,920 --> 00:05:16,279 Speaker 4: project managers asked for another extension until May seventh, and 91 00:05:16,320 --> 00:05:20,160 Speaker 4: an extra seventeen five hundred dollars to order the items. 92 00:05:20,440 --> 00:05:23,240 Speaker 4: That was five months ago. We finally got in touch 93 00:05:23,279 --> 00:05:26,679 Speaker 4: with the Lamnentree Woods by phone this week. He says 94 00:05:26,839 --> 00:05:28,920 Speaker 4: he's been in touch with someone at the housing authority 95 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:31,719 Speaker 4: every week, but he wouldn't say who it is he's 96 00:05:31,720 --> 00:05:35,480 Speaker 4: speaking to. He also wouldn't say why the chess table, 97 00:05:35,560 --> 00:05:39,000 Speaker 4: the benches, and the correct lighting haven't been installed here 98 00:05:39,240 --> 00:05:40,840 Speaker 4: months after we paid for them. 99 00:05:41,120 --> 00:05:42,919 Speaker 7: I tell CARE a lot of people, they say your money, 100 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:44,560 Speaker 7: somebody ran off with the money. 101 00:05:45,080 --> 00:05:45,920 Speaker 1: I tell Care a load. 102 00:05:46,200 --> 00:05:48,520 Speaker 8: And to hear that, you know, thousands of dollars have 103 00:05:48,600 --> 00:05:52,000 Speaker 8: been spent for work that wasn't done, some that was 104 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:54,599 Speaker 8: done shoddily, is again very disturbing. 105 00:05:54,920 --> 00:05:59,280 Speaker 4: At Large, City Councilman Julian Ramirez says taxpayers deserve. 106 00:05:59,040 --> 00:06:03,960 Speaker 8: Answers' questions about why certain vendors were hired to do 107 00:06:04,080 --> 00:06:08,080 Speaker 8: project management and hired to do work that was either 108 00:06:08,120 --> 00:06:11,560 Speaker 8: done shoddily or not completed, yet the money was paid out. 109 00:06:11,960 --> 00:06:13,680 Speaker 8: A lot of important questions raised. 110 00:06:14,080 --> 00:06:16,240 Speaker 4: We did reach out to the chairman of the Houston 111 00:06:16,279 --> 00:06:19,080 Speaker 4: Housing Authority Board this week. He told me the board 112 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:22,279 Speaker 4: has called a special meeting for Wednesday where they'll go 113 00:06:22,320 --> 00:06:26,520 Speaker 4: into executive session to discuss personnel matters and the performance 114 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:29,000 Speaker 4: of the President and CEO, David Northern. 115 00:06:30,120 --> 00:06:33,920 Speaker 3: Meanwhile, Box twenty six with a story that yet another 116 00:06:34,400 --> 00:06:38,560 Speaker 3: Houston defense attorney has been arrested for smuggling drugs into 117 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:41,520 Speaker 3: the Harris County jail. This is the third attorney in 118 00:06:41,640 --> 00:06:45,520 Speaker 3: recent months that has been arrested for smuggling drugs through 119 00:06:45,880 --> 00:06:46,360 Speaker 3: the jail. 120 00:06:47,240 --> 00:06:51,320 Speaker 9: Defense attorney Hunter Simmons improbable class court for his own case. 121 00:06:51,640 --> 00:06:53,880 Speaker 9: The thirty nine year old lawyer, along with forty year 122 00:06:53,920 --> 00:06:57,080 Speaker 9: old t Niche Butler and twenty two year old Joshua Piper, 123 00:06:57,240 --> 00:07:00,560 Speaker 9: are facing smuggling charges, accused of bringing drugs to a 124 00:07:00,560 --> 00:07:01,560 Speaker 9: Harris County inmate. 125 00:07:01,880 --> 00:07:06,640 Speaker 10: Legal documents or some type of documents go into the 126 00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:10,240 Speaker 10: jail that were lace or gifted in some type of 127 00:07:10,280 --> 00:07:14,040 Speaker 10: control of substance and that occurred. 128 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:17,760 Speaker 9: Court document state the investigation dates back to March twenty 129 00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:20,920 Speaker 9: twenty four, with recorded jail calls between an inmate, Joseph 130 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:23,760 Speaker 9: Dunn and Butler about payments and a plan to get 131 00:07:23,760 --> 00:07:27,840 Speaker 9: Attorney Simmons to deliver the narcotics laced paper. Investigators say 132 00:07:27,920 --> 00:07:31,520 Speaker 9: jail cameras show Simmons visiting that same inmate delivering a 133 00:07:31,520 --> 00:07:34,040 Speaker 9: stack of papers to them in a visitation booth. 134 00:07:34,360 --> 00:07:37,360 Speaker 11: It just makes no sense to me that someone who 135 00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:39,720 Speaker 11: would take the time, the effort, to energy, and the 136 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:42,240 Speaker 11: great amount of cost it takes to get through law 137 00:07:42,280 --> 00:07:45,640 Speaker 11: school and become a lawyer would throw it all away 138 00:07:46,480 --> 00:07:47,960 Speaker 11: for something this stupid. 139 00:07:48,200 --> 00:07:50,920 Speaker 9: Simmons is now the third attorney in the last year 140 00:07:50,960 --> 00:07:54,480 Speaker 9: to be arrested for smuggling charges, Ronald Lewis last November 141 00:07:54,520 --> 00:07:58,200 Speaker 9: and Jason Johnson in August. Sheriff had Gonzalez announced his 142 00:07:58,240 --> 00:08:01,640 Speaker 9: department's commitment to crack down on this problem. Legal expert 143 00:08:01,680 --> 00:08:04,840 Speaker 9: Chris Tritico says, this makes it tougher for lawyers to 144 00:08:04,880 --> 00:08:06,320 Speaker 9: communicate with their clients. 145 00:08:06,680 --> 00:08:09,280 Speaker 11: You make it harder for all of us who are 146 00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:11,800 Speaker 11: doing it right to go down and meet with clients 147 00:08:11,840 --> 00:08:14,880 Speaker 11: who unfortunately can't get out of jail, can't bond out. Now, 148 00:08:14,920 --> 00:08:17,200 Speaker 11: we can't make it even harder for us to get 149 00:08:17,240 --> 00:08:20,360 Speaker 11: our job done because you were too stupid to follow 150 00:08:20,360 --> 00:08:20,720 Speaker 11: the law. 151 00:08:22,280 --> 00:08:24,400 Speaker 3: But yeah, sure, keep voting on RAIS. It's working out 152 00:08:24,400 --> 00:08:29,480 Speaker 3: real well. The SpaceX Starship Flight six will be at 153 00:08:29,520 --> 00:08:32,600 Speaker 3: around four o'clock this afternoon. There is a window within 154 00:08:32,679 --> 00:08:35,000 Speaker 3: which they can do this and it is weather related. 155 00:08:35,720 --> 00:08:40,480 Speaker 3: You can watch it on X which is Twitter. Go 156 00:08:40,559 --> 00:08:44,920 Speaker 3: to the space X account space x on Twitter or 157 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:48,280 Speaker 3: x starting in around four and you can see it 158 00:08:48,320 --> 00:08:49,840 Speaker 3: all today. 159 00:08:50,600 --> 00:08:52,040 Speaker 7: The government made money off of it. 160 00:08:52,440 --> 00:08:55,600 Speaker 3: We didn't get nothing the hard time to Michael Berry show, 161 00:08:55,840 --> 00:08:56,880 Speaker 3: it's a damn shame. 162 00:08:56,960 --> 00:08:57,920 Speaker 1: It's a damn shame. 163 00:08:58,040 --> 00:09:00,559 Speaker 3: It's a damn shame. 164 00:08:59,320 --> 00:09:05,960 Speaker 4: All rise and I never seen the setting. Love you 165 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:10,240 Speaker 4: won't hear me why it's not just a far plea. 166 00:09:11,360 --> 00:09:12,480 Speaker 1: You love a good story. 167 00:09:12,600 --> 00:09:15,480 Speaker 3: Sometimes look up the story of Penny in the Quarters, 168 00:09:16,360 --> 00:09:22,319 Speaker 3: which is who this song is. It's it's worth your time. 169 00:09:23,280 --> 00:09:27,640 Speaker 3: It's been it's been documented. This was a This was 170 00:09:27,679 --> 00:09:30,800 Speaker 3: a take of an album that was never released, and 171 00:09:30,880 --> 00:09:35,280 Speaker 3: it was in a stack of a bend full of pressings, 172 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:40,040 Speaker 3: as happens in the music business, and somebody, I forget 173 00:09:40,040 --> 00:09:44,160 Speaker 3: who it was was, was looking through material as often happens, 174 00:09:45,360 --> 00:09:47,960 Speaker 3: and they're putting things on, going how's this sound, how's 175 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:48,360 Speaker 3: this sound? 176 00:09:48,559 --> 00:09:49,199 Speaker 1: How's this sound? 177 00:09:50,280 --> 00:09:54,880 Speaker 3: And they come across this and they love it, and 178 00:09:54,960 --> 00:09:59,640 Speaker 3: at that time, it's say forty years old. I think 179 00:09:59,679 --> 00:10:01,880 Speaker 3: this is around twenty twenty, but I could be wrong 180 00:10:01,920 --> 00:10:02,439 Speaker 3: on the timing. 181 00:10:03,040 --> 00:10:04,400 Speaker 1: We discovered it a couple of years ago. 182 00:10:05,920 --> 00:10:09,280 Speaker 3: So they try to track down Penny in the Quarters, 183 00:10:09,280 --> 00:10:12,000 Speaker 3: and nobody knows who that is. There's no other details, 184 00:10:13,920 --> 00:10:18,120 Speaker 3: so it takes say two years to find them. And 185 00:10:18,160 --> 00:10:20,680 Speaker 3: when they find Penny in the Quarters, Penny has just 186 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:24,280 Speaker 3: died a couple months ago. And this song would end 187 00:10:24,360 --> 00:10:28,960 Speaker 3: up being released and it would be used on a 188 00:10:29,040 --> 00:10:33,200 Speaker 3: TV commercial, some money would be made. Penny never made 189 00:10:33,240 --> 00:10:34,800 Speaker 3: a penny off. 190 00:10:34,600 --> 00:10:37,200 Speaker 2: Of the music business. 191 00:10:36,520 --> 00:10:38,960 Speaker 3: And little did she know she had a hit on 192 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:41,959 Speaker 3: her hands, but she would die not knowing that. 193 00:10:42,160 --> 00:10:43,800 Speaker 1: Crazy. 194 00:10:44,280 --> 00:10:48,720 Speaker 3: Speaking of which, I was watching a documentary on the 195 00:10:48,800 --> 00:10:51,240 Speaker 3: song locomotion. You know who wrote that. 196 00:10:52,960 --> 00:10:53,400 Speaker 1: Very good? 197 00:10:53,520 --> 00:10:58,199 Speaker 3: Carol King? Yep, Carol King and her husband Jerry I 198 00:10:58,280 --> 00:11:03,880 Speaker 3: remember his name, So they were mostly songwriters for a while. 199 00:11:03,920 --> 00:11:06,560 Speaker 3: She was say twenty one, twenty two years old, her 200 00:11:06,640 --> 00:11:09,400 Speaker 3: husband was about the same. Two little babies at home, 201 00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:14,120 Speaker 3: a two year old and a newborn, and they hire 202 00:11:14,559 --> 00:11:18,040 Speaker 3: this woman named Eva. I forget her last name. Young 203 00:11:18,440 --> 00:11:21,960 Speaker 3: black lady nineteen years old. They're living in New York. 204 00:11:22,040 --> 00:11:26,320 Speaker 3: She comes in, she's living with them, she's sleeping with 205 00:11:26,360 --> 00:11:29,760 Speaker 3: the babies, with the babies in one bedroom, and then 206 00:11:29,840 --> 00:11:33,760 Speaker 3: they're in the other and they write this song Locomotion, 207 00:11:34,800 --> 00:11:40,280 Speaker 3: and Carol King sang it, and they're trying to make 208 00:11:40,320 --> 00:11:42,760 Speaker 3: a they're trying to pitch it to get somebody to 209 00:11:42,800 --> 00:11:48,120 Speaker 3: cover it, and Eva is cleaning the house, vacuuming or whatever, 210 00:11:48,160 --> 00:11:50,200 Speaker 3: taking care of the baby, and when the song keeps 211 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:52,480 Speaker 3: coming on, she keeps dancing to it because it has 212 00:11:52,480 --> 00:11:57,480 Speaker 3: a you know, it's a dance song, and they can't 213 00:11:57,480 --> 00:12:00,600 Speaker 3: get anybody to cover its. A woman I think is Sharp. 214 00:12:00,600 --> 00:12:02,920 Speaker 3: I forget DD's last name, but she was a pretty 215 00:12:02,960 --> 00:12:06,640 Speaker 3: serious singer at the time. They can't get anybody serious 216 00:12:07,200 --> 00:12:10,680 Speaker 3: to pick up the song, so Eva sings it and 217 00:12:10,720 --> 00:12:13,920 Speaker 3: they release it under the name Little Eva and it 218 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:21,440 Speaker 3: becomes a huge hit, huge, and Little Eva and Carol 219 00:12:21,520 --> 00:12:25,560 Speaker 3: King get crossways, and she claims she was paid fifty 220 00:12:25,600 --> 00:12:29,640 Speaker 3: dollars for this whole thing and that she never made 221 00:12:29,800 --> 00:12:34,400 Speaker 3: another dime. I don't know. Fox twenty six is Randy Wallace. 222 00:12:35,160 --> 00:12:37,560 Speaker 3: If you didn't think things were bad in Houston, Harris 223 00:12:37,600 --> 00:12:42,800 Speaker 3: County before nineteen year old who pleaded guilty to stealing 224 00:12:42,840 --> 00:12:48,600 Speaker 3: catalytic converters allowed to remain on probation, even though he's 225 00:12:48,679 --> 00:12:54,040 Speaker 3: picked up three new felony charges while on probation, including 226 00:12:54,360 --> 00:13:00,840 Speaker 3: no big deal possession of a machine gun. Harris Democrat 227 00:13:00,960 --> 00:13:03,320 Speaker 3: Judge Chris Morton is who you have to thank for 228 00:13:03,360 --> 00:13:04,400 Speaker 3: this one. 229 00:13:04,640 --> 00:13:07,160 Speaker 12: For a two year period, Houston led the state, if 230 00:13:07,200 --> 00:13:11,040 Speaker 12: not the nation, and catalytic converter thefts after Harros County 231 00:13:11,080 --> 00:13:14,280 Speaker 12: Shriffs Dewtie Darren amnde Res was gunned down trying to 232 00:13:14,320 --> 00:13:19,960 Speaker 12: stop catalytic converter thieves. His widow testified before lawmakers. 233 00:13:19,400 --> 00:13:23,480 Speaker 1: So my Hausin gave up his life for me, and 234 00:13:23,600 --> 00:13:24,320 Speaker 1: that's just for me. 235 00:13:24,880 --> 00:13:28,280 Speaker 12: For the community, The governor and others vowed offenders would 236 00:13:28,320 --> 00:13:29,760 Speaker 12: be met with prison time. 237 00:13:30,040 --> 00:13:32,880 Speaker 5: Very rarely have I seen anyone actually go to prison 238 00:13:33,840 --> 00:13:36,240 Speaker 5: for being convicted of catalytic converter theft. 239 00:13:36,440 --> 00:13:39,600 Speaker 12: Take nineteen year old Deontae Norman. He made headlines last 240 00:13:39,679 --> 00:13:42,920 Speaker 12: January as part of the catalytic theft ring that was 241 00:13:42,960 --> 00:13:45,320 Speaker 12: caught in the act at this North. 242 00:13:45,160 --> 00:13:46,040 Speaker 1: Side cor lot. 243 00:13:46,160 --> 00:13:50,360 Speaker 5: There was over forty thousand dollars worth of catalytic converters 244 00:13:50,360 --> 00:13:53,280 Speaker 5: that were taken from cars in the car dealership. 245 00:13:53,600 --> 00:13:56,480 Speaker 12: Last July, Norman pled guilty and got probation. 246 00:13:56,840 --> 00:14:01,600 Speaker 5: While on probation, he gets charged three months later with 247 00:14:01,720 --> 00:14:02,800 Speaker 5: two more felonies. 248 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:07,000 Speaker 12: Norman is arrested and charged again for possessing a machine gun. 249 00:14:07,320 --> 00:14:10,720 Speaker 12: Instead of having his probation revoked, Norman is free from 250 00:14:10,800 --> 00:14:15,199 Speaker 12: jail on bonds totaling sixty five thousand dollars. Last year, 251 00:14:15,240 --> 00:14:19,080 Speaker 12: we told you about career of habitual offender Robert James Williams. 252 00:14:19,160 --> 00:14:22,640 Speaker 5: He had fourteen felony convictions. Now he's charged with theft 253 00:14:22,680 --> 00:14:25,000 Speaker 5: of a catalytic converter and he got out on a 254 00:14:25,040 --> 00:14:25,680 Speaker 5: pr bot. 255 00:14:25,960 --> 00:14:29,400 Speaker 12: One of williams bond conditions he couldn't have a chainsaw, 256 00:14:29,680 --> 00:14:33,720 Speaker 12: which is used to steal catalytic converters. Like Deontay Norman, 257 00:14:33,840 --> 00:14:38,160 Speaker 12: Williams got zero prison time. He was sentenced to probations. 258 00:14:38,320 --> 00:14:42,120 Speaker 5: These guys should actually be doing time in prison, especially 259 00:14:42,160 --> 00:14:44,840 Speaker 5: Williams with fourteen prior felony convictions. 260 00:14:46,680 --> 00:14:49,560 Speaker 12: Now, even though Deontay Norman has the financial needs to 261 00:14:49,600 --> 00:14:54,440 Speaker 12: post a sixty five thousand dollars bond, we the taxpayers 262 00:14:54,480 --> 00:14:58,360 Speaker 12: are paying for his attorney. His next scheduled court appearance 263 00:14:58,760 --> 00:15:00,600 Speaker 12: is December nineteenth. 264 00:15:00,640 --> 00:15:05,360 Speaker 3: Another Randy Wallace report, at least five inmates released early 265 00:15:05,400 --> 00:15:11,040 Speaker 3: from prison due to medical issues are now wanted fugitives 266 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:16,040 Speaker 3: the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. They won't give us 267 00:15:16,160 --> 00:15:19,720 Speaker 3: any information on them until you file a Freedom of 268 00:15:19,760 --> 00:15:23,280 Speaker 3: Information Act request. There's no reason you should you should 269 00:15:23,320 --> 00:15:24,440 Speaker 3: have that information. 270 00:15:25,360 --> 00:15:27,360 Speaker 1: I've never seen anything like this before. 271 00:15:27,640 --> 00:15:32,960 Speaker 12: Every decade, the State Sunset Advisory Commission audits different state agencies. 272 00:15:33,280 --> 00:15:36,120 Speaker 12: A deep dive into the Texas Department of Criminal Justice 273 00:15:36,320 --> 00:15:38,240 Speaker 12: brought a strange dilemma to light. 274 00:15:38,760 --> 00:15:40,320 Speaker 1: It involves prison. 275 00:15:40,040 --> 00:15:43,720 Speaker 12: Inmates who are released early due to terminal illnesses. 276 00:15:44,040 --> 00:15:45,120 Speaker 1: You got to be kidding me. 277 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:49,240 Speaker 5: How do you go from getting released when you're supposedly 278 00:15:49,320 --> 00:15:52,160 Speaker 5: on death door to now we don't even know where 279 00:15:52,200 --> 00:15:52,600 Speaker 5: you are? 280 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:55,960 Speaker 12: The Sunset Commission found as of the third quarter and 281 00:15:56,000 --> 00:16:01,400 Speaker 12: fiscal year twenty twenty four, five medically recommended intensive supervision 282 00:16:01,520 --> 00:16:07,120 Speaker 12: releases had absconded, which means TDCJ cannot locate the releases 283 00:16:07,400 --> 00:16:11,760 Speaker 12: because they have left their approved residents. Conversely, inmates have 284 00:16:11,880 --> 00:16:14,960 Speaker 12: died from their conditions shortly after they have been denied 285 00:16:15,200 --> 00:16:19,240 Speaker 12: MRIs and others have been approved for MRIs only to 286 00:16:19,400 --> 00:16:20,720 Speaker 12: die before release. 287 00:16:21,160 --> 00:16:24,280 Speaker 1: What are their offenses? What are you doing to find them? 288 00:16:24,640 --> 00:16:24,840 Speaker 3: You know? 289 00:16:24,920 --> 00:16:26,600 Speaker 1: Should the public be notified? 290 00:16:26,680 --> 00:16:30,040 Speaker 12: TDCJ won't give us any info about the wanted inmates, 291 00:16:30,040 --> 00:16:34,040 Speaker 12: including their names. During a sunset commissioneering in Austin, State 292 00:16:34,080 --> 00:16:39,440 Speaker 12: Representative Lacey Hall pressed TDCJ Chairman Brian Collier for more info. 293 00:16:39,960 --> 00:16:44,520 Speaker 4: How many in total offenders released on medical parole do 294 00:16:44,640 --> 00:16:48,400 Speaker 4: we not know, like the location for and have absconded. 295 00:16:48,600 --> 00:16:50,280 Speaker 1: I can get you numbers and I can go back 296 00:16:50,720 --> 00:16:51,600 Speaker 1: roughly ten years. 297 00:16:51,680 --> 00:16:55,040 Speaker 12: This is the first time TDCJ has lost track of 298 00:16:55,120 --> 00:16:59,160 Speaker 12: an inmate claiming to be gravely ill. In nineteen ninety eight, 299 00:16:59,240 --> 00:17:02,440 Speaker 12: Stephen J. Als It was granted a special medical parole, 300 00:17:02,800 --> 00:17:06,720 Speaker 12: but his disease was bogus. He ended up going back 301 00:17:06,760 --> 00:17:10,720 Speaker 12: to prison after trying to fake his own death. TDCJ 302 00:17:10,880 --> 00:17:13,480 Speaker 12: told us we needed to file an open records request 303 00:17:13,760 --> 00:17:16,320 Speaker 12: to get the names and mug shots of the now 304 00:17:16,480 --> 00:17:17,679 Speaker 12: wanted inmates. 305 00:17:20,920 --> 00:17:24,480 Speaker 3: They're making a mockery of us. And by the way, 306 00:17:24,680 --> 00:17:29,119 Speaker 3: this isn't Houston Harris County anymore. Your governor could do 307 00:17:29,160 --> 00:17:37,000 Speaker 3: something about this. If every single elected official was a 308 00:17:37,080 --> 00:17:41,480 Speaker 3: victim of the criminals who they are continually releasing and 309 00:17:41,640 --> 00:17:49,040 Speaker 3: covering for they'd changed their tune, but they're not. The 310 00:17:49,160 --> 00:17:52,440 Speaker 3: victims are mainly the people who live around them, who 311 00:17:52,440 --> 00:17:56,520 Speaker 3: were related to them, who can't afford to leave, who 312 00:17:56,520 --> 00:18:08,080 Speaker 3: can't afford to get away, guy but doesn't care. 313 00:18:11,280 --> 00:18:23,280 Speaker 7: I had a fine box, Michael Berry, I remember now. 314 00:18:25,600 --> 00:18:29,159 Speaker 3: So she would dance to it, and Carol Keene told her, 315 00:18:30,600 --> 00:18:33,320 Speaker 3: you got to create a dance to go with it, 316 00:18:33,560 --> 00:18:40,399 Speaker 3: specific dance, and so that's where she's mentioning that. And 317 00:18:40,440 --> 00:18:44,200 Speaker 3: then they picture a mashed potato song because mashed potato 318 00:18:44,240 --> 00:18:44,960 Speaker 3: was big at that time. 319 00:18:46,520 --> 00:18:48,360 Speaker 2: And then there was another dance. 320 00:18:48,080 --> 00:18:50,480 Speaker 3: Song, and she felt like she was getting type cast 321 00:18:50,520 --> 00:18:56,680 Speaker 3: into dance songs. Bitch, you're the maid, sing what they 322 00:18:56,720 --> 00:19:04,639 Speaker 3: give you. It's always amazing to me how people will say, yeah, 323 00:19:04,920 --> 00:19:08,280 Speaker 3: I should have made more money. You know, I had 324 00:19:08,320 --> 00:19:10,080 Speaker 3: three number one hits, and you know I should have 325 00:19:10,080 --> 00:19:13,439 Speaker 3: made more money. When they discovered you you were living 326 00:19:13,480 --> 00:19:17,120 Speaker 3: in a culvert Okay, I'm not sure how much more 327 00:19:17,200 --> 00:19:20,000 Speaker 3: you should have made if somebody had said to you 328 00:19:20,080 --> 00:19:25,080 Speaker 3: at that point, you're gonna make X and you're gonna 329 00:19:25,080 --> 00:19:28,080 Speaker 3: get to be on the biggest stage in America. You 330 00:19:28,119 --> 00:19:32,439 Speaker 3: wouldn't have said, naw, I'll stay here in this covert 331 00:19:32,800 --> 00:19:36,679 Speaker 3: till y'all get this right. I'm going to read the 332 00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:41,040 Speaker 3: entirety of this piece tonight, but I wanted to just 333 00:19:41,080 --> 00:19:43,000 Speaker 3: share something with you I read that I thought was 334 00:19:43,040 --> 00:19:47,000 Speaker 3: pretty good. It's by a fellow named Martin Jury, and 335 00:19:47,040 --> 00:19:49,920 Speaker 3: it's in the Free Press Today, which is edited by 336 00:19:49,920 --> 00:19:52,960 Speaker 3: Barry Weiss. It's a new publication that came out she 337 00:19:53,040 --> 00:19:56,240 Speaker 3: left The New York Times during COVID. It's an attempt 338 00:19:56,240 --> 00:20:02,600 Speaker 3: to get a more balanced journalistic organ It's entitled Our 339 00:20:02,680 --> 00:20:07,199 Speaker 3: Countercultural Revolution. Trump has become the definitive avatar of the 340 00:20:07,240 --> 00:20:10,679 Speaker 3: revolt of the public, of the public, not republic, the 341 00:20:10,680 --> 00:20:14,639 Speaker 3: revolt of the public. Will he be enough to justify Americans' 342 00:20:15,040 --> 00:20:19,280 Speaker 3: hunger for change? And four pages in I came across 343 00:20:19,320 --> 00:20:23,160 Speaker 3: this paragraph. I wanted to share it with you. Podcaster 344 00:20:23,359 --> 00:20:27,240 Speaker 3: Joe Rogan emerged during the campaign as a sort of 345 00:20:27,359 --> 00:20:35,159 Speaker 3: emissary from a forgotten demographic, restless males who found the 346 00:20:35,240 --> 00:20:43,119 Speaker 3: culture's obsession with racial and sexual minutia incomprehensible. Rogan is 347 00:20:43,160 --> 00:20:45,960 Speaker 3: nothing like a preacher. He's just a dude. With a 348 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:51,480 Speaker 3: microphone at the opposite end of the complexity scale from 349 00:20:51,520 --> 00:20:56,760 Speaker 3: the giant digital platforms, and almost this is the line. 350 00:20:57,160 --> 00:21:05,800 Speaker 3: An almost transcendental normality is his superpower. His method relies 351 00:21:05,840 --> 00:21:11,280 Speaker 3: on duration. The podcast go on for hours, much too 352 00:21:11,400 --> 00:21:18,320 Speaker 3: long for scripted answers. Under Rogan's gentle prodding, the self 353 00:21:18,400 --> 00:21:23,800 Speaker 3: protective phrases are pushed aside, and an actual human being 354 00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:30,280 Speaker 3: is revealed. Trump, who chatted with Rogan for three hours, 355 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:36,879 Speaker 3: seemed surprisingly self aware, recalling with awe his first arrival 356 00:21:36,920 --> 00:21:40,560 Speaker 3: at the White House and labeling his own meandering style 357 00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:46,880 Speaker 3: of speaking quote the weave. The podcast placed this humanized 358 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:53,080 Speaker 3: version of the usually blustering former president before an audience 359 00:21:53,119 --> 00:21:58,240 Speaker 3: of tens of millions. Meantime, Kamala Harris, reportedly following the 360 00:21:58,280 --> 00:22:03,160 Speaker 3: directives of her ormy averse staffers, refused to go on 361 00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:08,080 Speaker 3: the show. Many in that audience belong to Rogan's tribe 362 00:22:08,080 --> 00:22:12,040 Speaker 3: of normy males, an arcane community. I won't attempt to 363 00:22:12,080 --> 00:22:14,719 Speaker 3: describe other than to note that it involves a rugged 364 00:22:14,840 --> 00:22:20,000 Speaker 3: competitive spirit, whether in sports or online gaming, a lot 365 00:22:20,040 --> 00:22:24,840 Speaker 3: of cussing, and a contempt for fakery, somehow balanced by 366 00:22:24,920 --> 00:22:30,560 Speaker 3: admiration for a good bser. The Normies believe they embody 367 00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:36,960 Speaker 3: the ideals and character that built America. Hollywood evidently disagrees. 368 00:22:37,800 --> 00:22:42,080 Speaker 3: In films and television, their kind is invariably portrayed as 369 00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:46,879 Speaker 3: fools or brutes. Progressives seem to hold them responsible for 370 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:53,720 Speaker 3: every crime in our history. In other words, contemporary culture 371 00:22:53,840 --> 00:22:56,560 Speaker 3: is at war with these men, who would prefer to 372 00:22:56,600 --> 00:23:01,200 Speaker 3: be left alone then fight back. Trump represented the temptation 373 00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:06,560 Speaker 3: to revolt. Trump's physical courage, demonstrated after being nicked by 374 00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:10,720 Speaker 3: an assassin's bullet, strongly appealed to the values of the group. 375 00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:14,679 Speaker 3: The bond between Trump and rogan I, suspect, gave millions 376 00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:19,160 Speaker 3: of Normies, including those who considered themselves democrats are apolitical, 377 00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:25,760 Speaker 3: permission to join the MAGA movement. In the a event, 378 00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:29,560 Speaker 3: Trump received fifty five percent of the mail vote, while 379 00:23:29,680 --> 00:23:33,280 Speaker 3: younger men aged eighteen to twenty nine swung in his 380 00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:39,240 Speaker 3: direction by nearly thirty percent compared to twenty twenty. Popularity 381 00:23:39,280 --> 00:23:44,760 Speaker 3: among men helped peel off typically Democrat minority voters. Trump 382 00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:47,520 Speaker 3: increased his share of Latino males to fifty five percent 383 00:23:47,560 --> 00:23:52,320 Speaker 3: and of Black males to twenty one percent, to everyone's surprise. 384 00:23:53,040 --> 00:23:58,320 Speaker 3: The normies turned out to be a multi racial tribe. 385 00:23:58,560 --> 00:24:01,440 Speaker 3: I'm going to read the entire piece. I think it's wonderful, 386 00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:07,320 Speaker 3: but it speaks about things in a slightly more high brow, 387 00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:13,320 Speaker 3: if pretentious manner than they are usually spoken about, because 388 00:24:13,359 --> 00:24:18,399 Speaker 3: the Normies, as he jokingly refers to them, are criticized 389 00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:22,960 Speaker 3: or dismissed offhandedly by the C and n's and the 390 00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:27,040 Speaker 3: MSNBC's under Rachel Maddows and the Anderson Coopers. And I'll 391 00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:30,119 Speaker 3: tell you what's happening. I sense it, I feel it. 392 00:24:30,119 --> 00:24:30,560 Speaker 1: I see it. 393 00:24:32,560 --> 00:24:37,600 Speaker 3: Real men, normal men who make up the vast majority 394 00:24:37,640 --> 00:24:43,760 Speaker 3: of men in this country. Straight guy trying to make 395 00:24:43,760 --> 00:24:50,600 Speaker 3: a living, uh, trying to figure it all out, trying 396 00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:57,359 Speaker 3: to mate with someone, maybe have a family, maybe have 397 00:24:57,440 --> 00:25:03,639 Speaker 3: a career, deal with all the emotions and the anxieties 398 00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:08,480 Speaker 3: and the expectation. The average guy is trying to figure 399 00:25:08,520 --> 00:25:14,040 Speaker 3: it all out, and all they see portrayed are feminized men's, 400 00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:17,160 Speaker 3: stupid men. And I think after a while it gets 401 00:25:17,160 --> 00:25:17,920 Speaker 3: to be too much. 402 00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:23,040 Speaker 5: What flavor monk and chocolate them, Michael Berry, I'm a 403 00:25:23,119 --> 00:25:24,080 Speaker 5: chocolate freaking. 404 00:25:25,359 --> 00:25:38,920 Speaker 13: Out Good afternoon, and welcome to the planet. Term I'm 405 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:40,639 Speaker 13: your hosts is Shirley Q liquor. 406 00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:43,080 Speaker 6: I would like to ask everybody to move forward and 407 00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:46,840 Speaker 6: take their seat. Y'all can sit on the floor over here, ladies. 408 00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:49,560 Speaker 6: Wearing depends that the acces sit on the benches, because 409 00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:51,960 Speaker 6: I'm the one had to come in here and backum 410 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:54,400 Speaker 6: after y'all. Though, this is my first day of working 411 00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:57,160 Speaker 6: up in here, so y'all will excuse me if I'm 412 00:25:57,160 --> 00:26:00,040 Speaker 6: not familiar with all the correct terms. Okay, what a 413 00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:04,440 Speaker 6: wonderful universe we live? And look how many at stars 414 00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:06,840 Speaker 6: it is up yonder? Cut the light off in here? 415 00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:09,800 Speaker 6: Shi could cut the damn light. I'm trying to do 416 00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:13,520 Speaker 6: my speech on cut of the stars. Okay, where I 417 00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:17,439 Speaker 6: wull Okay, if you will focus your eyes up yonder, 418 00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:19,080 Speaker 6: look and see at the moon? 419 00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:22,600 Speaker 1: Do it being full moon? How many say yeah? 420 00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:23,800 Speaker 6: How many say no? 421 00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:24,760 Speaker 13: Okay? 422 00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:27,760 Speaker 6: Ladies Germans, at this time we exit those of you 423 00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:30,600 Speaker 6: who is very prone to vomit, King, we ask that 424 00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:34,800 Speaker 6: you leave, Please leave this picture. Have been knowed to 425 00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:37,480 Speaker 6: make some lady sake if their stomach and nose, King, 426 00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:40,560 Speaker 6: and I do not care for I am not putting 427 00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:42,400 Speaker 6: up with it. And if you do it, you're gonna 428 00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:46,080 Speaker 6: mop it up. Yourself now that have been warned. I 429 00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:48,719 Speaker 6: asked that you sit back and joined the movement. I 430 00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:51,440 Speaker 6: saw it already this morning. It's in this voma. Go ahead, 431 00:26:51,560 --> 00:26:54,560 Speaker 6: smoke me a cigarette. Thank you, and enjoying your trip 432 00:26:54,800 --> 00:26:56,000 Speaker 6: to the planter. 433 00:26:56,040 --> 00:27:03,880 Speaker 3: See Burt Arby Wrights. When we were kids, we went 434 00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:06,880 Speaker 3: to Burger King and we loved it. My grandmother would 435 00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:11,000 Speaker 3: take us. She always got a quote mustard whopper. Y'all 436 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:13,000 Speaker 3: want to stop for a mustard whopper and a shake. 437 00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:17,080 Speaker 3: Can't do it now. They make slop burgers super messy, 438 00:27:17,359 --> 00:27:20,640 Speaker 3: and it's not good for the price. It's water burger 439 00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:27,359 Speaker 3: for me. We were talking earlier about these. The model 440 00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:31,359 Speaker 3: now for the fast food restaurants is to do a 441 00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:36,400 Speaker 3: much smaller footprint on the same sized lot, so they're 442 00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:39,520 Speaker 3: still tying up the same amount of real estate. But 443 00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:42,840 Speaker 3: what they're doing is they don't want you to come inside. 444 00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:46,919 Speaker 3: Russell Obara told me that for Chick fil A, eighty 445 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:52,199 Speaker 3: percent of their volume is drive through. For some of 446 00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:55,200 Speaker 3: these it's now almost one hundred percent, if not altogether 447 00:27:55,240 --> 00:28:01,400 Speaker 3: one hundred percent, because they don't want you. That don't 448 00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:05,200 Speaker 3: want you coming in. There's a place called shortstop that 449 00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:08,720 Speaker 3: you see them around town fast food place and that's 450 00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:11,280 Speaker 3: all drive through. They look they're built kind of like 451 00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:15,840 Speaker 3: a checker's maybe the same folks. Uh, it's kind of 452 00:28:15,840 --> 00:28:19,399 Speaker 3: a ghetto. Uh, kind of a ghetto fast food, but 453 00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:22,320 Speaker 3: it's it is a it's some kind of some kind 454 00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:25,280 Speaker 3: of franchise or you know there there's there's multiple loan. 455 00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:29,959 Speaker 3: But if you think about it, Sonic, which is a 456 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:34,280 Speaker 3: complicated model when when you consider how different Sonic was 457 00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:40,440 Speaker 3: is Sonic didn't have an interior area, but they did 458 00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:44,280 Speaker 3: have to have the people that bring you the food, right, 459 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:51,080 Speaker 3: and the idea would be that you would cover those 460 00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:54,880 Speaker 3: people on tips. Right, So that adds a whole because 461 00:28:54,880 --> 00:28:59,720 Speaker 3: if if nobody shows up but your kitchen, you post 462 00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:03,400 Speaker 3: to you post to tip them. Although the problem is 463 00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:08,440 Speaker 3: the problem is I think you can only tip them 464 00:29:08,440 --> 00:29:11,920 Speaker 3: in cash. Who carries cash? Yeah, you cannot put it 465 00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:16,479 Speaker 3: on your bill. So anyway, James with Southern Plumbing says 466 00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:21,080 Speaker 3: they do He's all, they are not all, but they 467 00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:25,640 Speaker 3: do a lot of He said, we tear down existing 468 00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:29,160 Speaker 3: taco bells and we rebuild them in seventy five days 469 00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:32,360 Speaker 3: or less. And I said, and what's the difference is 470 00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:36,080 Speaker 3: there no inside, only a drive through. What else, he says, 471 00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:39,800 Speaker 3: The restaurant gets all new equipment and all updates, that 472 00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:44,440 Speaker 3: includes all new utilities, a concrete parking lot, all in 473 00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:48,640 Speaker 3: less than seventy five days. You know, when you think 474 00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:52,760 Speaker 3: about it's why old apartment complexes don't get torn down, 475 00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:58,280 Speaker 3: even though the land is more valuable, because you've got 476 00:29:58,320 --> 00:30:01,680 Speaker 3: the down. If you're sitting on that out set, you've 477 00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:04,920 Speaker 3: got rent coming in every month, and you're gonna tear 478 00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:08,520 Speaker 3: it down and build a nicer one. Let's say, what 479 00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:11,480 Speaker 3: is that a year between when you tear it down, 480 00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:15,200 Speaker 3: So you lose all of that plus the construction costs 481 00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:18,000 Speaker 3: when you factor in, and the pro form or what 482 00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:21,240 Speaker 3: it's gonna take you to make money. That's why it's 483 00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:24,760 Speaker 3: gonna be years before you make money, even with a 484 00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:29,280 Speaker 3: new product and all that. It makes a big, big difference. 485 00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:32,360 Speaker 3: I don't know where the other one was. I also 486 00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:36,000 Speaker 3: think it says a lot about our culture and where 487 00:30:36,040 --> 00:30:40,479 Speaker 3: we're headed that fewer and fewer places want you to 488 00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:50,120 Speaker 3: come inside. They don't want you to come inside, they 489 00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:52,640 Speaker 3: don't want you They just want you to go to 490 00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:59,200 Speaker 3: the drive through. And I believe that is because of 491 00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:09,120 Speaker 3: the social contract breakdown. If a crazy person walks into 492 00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:16,720 Speaker 3: a restaurant, nobody feels comfortable kicking him out. I was 493 00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:20,560 Speaker 3: visiting Uncle Jerry about a year or so ago, and 494 00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:22,000 Speaker 3: I said, let me go get us a bucket of 495 00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:25,280 Speaker 3: chicken at one of my favorite, probably my favorite fast 496 00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:28,760 Speaker 3: food fried chicken in this area, and that is Poilo 497 00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:33,240 Speaker 3: Competito and it is a Guatemalan fast food restaurant. Don't 498 00:31:33,280 --> 00:31:35,840 Speaker 3: knock it till you try it. It's over on bel 499 00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:40,120 Speaker 3: Air and it is phenomenal. I mean, it is so 500 00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:45,720 Speaker 3: good and apparently it's just legendary in Guatemala. The reason 501 00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:47,719 Speaker 3: I knew about it is when I was on city council, 502 00:31:47,760 --> 00:31:51,640 Speaker 3: we had a city health inspector who the Guatemalan family 503 00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:55,240 Speaker 3: who owns the company wanted to open a Houston location. 504 00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:58,760 Speaker 3: So they funded him and they put him in that 505 00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:02,640 Speaker 3: Poilo Competito on on bel Air, and they got him 506 00:32:02,640 --> 00:32:04,479 Speaker 3: all good, and going about a year into it, they 507 00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:06,160 Speaker 3: were like, all right, that's good, and they thumped him. 508 00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:09,440 Speaker 1: Out, bounced him. 509 00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:12,040 Speaker 3: So now he lost his City of Houston job and 510 00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:16,080 Speaker 3: he lost the place anyway. So I'm in there and 511 00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:20,360 Speaker 3: this crazy homeless dude comes in, big black dude, I 512 00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:25,040 Speaker 3: mean hair out to hear, stunk like ass and crazy 513 00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:29,720 Speaker 3: and screaming and hollering and smelly and filthy, and he's 514 00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:31,720 Speaker 3: coming here. I want something, and i want something to 515 00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:35,840 Speaker 3: drag round and I'm just standing to the side watching 516 00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:39,160 Speaker 3: how this thing is going to play out, and he 517 00:32:39,280 --> 00:32:41,640 Speaker 3: will know. They ask him that the girls that speak 518 00:32:41,680 --> 00:32:44,240 Speaker 3: that work there don't speak English, so they're kind of 519 00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:46,160 Speaker 3: trying to shoot him out. Well, he's not about to 520 00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:50,040 Speaker 3: be shoot huh huh. So they're they're at there talking 521 00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:51,719 Speaker 3: to each other in Spanish. Should we call the cops? 522 00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:54,000 Speaker 3: You know, they're not gonna call the cops. So this 523 00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:57,840 Speaker 3: training working in the back as a fry cook comes out, 524 00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:01,239 Speaker 3: and it was the craziest thing because they're he's in 525 00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:03,600 Speaker 3: the back and he's going, I'm not coming out. I'm 526 00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:07,760 Speaker 3: not gonna come out. No boy, no boy, Pelago. 527 00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:10,080 Speaker 1: They're like, no, no, you have to do it. 528 00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:11,720 Speaker 3: You have to do it because you're really a boy. 529 00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:15,000 Speaker 3: And so he comes around outside and he goes all 530 00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:17,360 Speaker 3: man on him. He's got makeup and everything. He's like, 531 00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:19,680 Speaker 3: you get out of here, you get out of here 532 00:33:19,760 --> 00:33:24,520 Speaker 3: right now. Well, that set homeless crazy dude off. He 533 00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:25,520 Speaker 3: starts cackling. 534 00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:27,200 Speaker 2: True story. 535 00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:30,720 Speaker 3: But the training dude's credit, he got him to go 536 00:33:30,760 --> 00:33:33,200 Speaker 3: out like he was ready to whoop his ass. You 537 00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:35,400 Speaker 3: think I'm kidding. I mean, you can't make this up. 538 00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:38,880 Speaker 3: It's a true story. It's a true story. But you 539 00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:42,240 Speaker 3: go into a restaurant now and people act so foolish. 540 00:33:42,440 --> 00:33:45,320 Speaker 3: There's certain demographics of people that act so foolish. I 541 00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:48,000 Speaker 3: think this restaurant's along. It's why the Walgreens are closing. 542 00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:49,920 Speaker 3: Just screw it, just do a drive through.