1 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:09,399 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. 2 00:00:11,240 --> 00:00:16,520 Speaker 2: So Michael Very Show is on the air. The Democratic 3 00:00:16,600 --> 00:00:21,800 Speaker 2: nominee for Vice President, Governor Tim Walls. 4 00:00:20,960 --> 00:00:27,160 Speaker 3: Hide, Hi, I feel pretty, oh so pretty. 5 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:30,160 Speaker 4: I feel pretty and witty. 6 00:00:29,960 --> 00:00:31,960 Speaker 5: And Governor Walls. 7 00:00:31,960 --> 00:00:33,880 Speaker 6: Are you a progressive or are you a centrist? 8 00:00:34,960 --> 00:00:38,080 Speaker 5: I'm a progressive. I'm a knucklehead at times. 9 00:00:38,360 --> 00:00:43,240 Speaker 4: I feel charming. Who so charming? It's a love how 10 00:00:43,360 --> 00:00:47,920 Speaker 4: charming I do? I'm so pretty? 11 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:52,680 Speaker 2: Believe somebody said, what's next? 12 00:00:52,920 --> 00:00:53,640 Speaker 5: Child labor? 13 00:00:53,840 --> 00:00:54,840 Speaker 6: Hell yeah, it's in there. 14 00:00:55,080 --> 00:00:57,600 Speaker 5: That's what they've got in there. You see states doing that, 15 00:00:57,880 --> 00:01:00,760 Speaker 5: putting our children at risk. That's what they do. I 16 00:01:00,800 --> 00:01:02,840 Speaker 5: think we need to push back on this. There's no 17 00:01:02,960 --> 00:01:06,440 Speaker 5: guarantee of free speech on misinformation or or hate speech. 18 00:01:06,520 --> 00:01:11,800 Speaker 4: I feels stunny and entruancy. Do you like running and dancing? 19 00:01:15,120 --> 00:01:25,160 Speaker 3: What she's always done it with energy, with passion, and 20 00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:25,800 Speaker 3: with joy. 21 00:01:26,959 --> 00:01:30,000 Speaker 5: Don't ever shy away from our progressive values. One person's 22 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:34,280 Speaker 5: socialism is another person's neighborliness. The Vice President has made 23 00:01:34,319 --> 00:01:37,120 Speaker 5: it clear that she has policies that make a difference. 24 00:01:37,160 --> 00:01:41,399 Speaker 5: Her border policies are the most strongest, the fairest we've 25 00:01:41,440 --> 00:01:43,960 Speaker 5: seen you previously oppose an assault weapons ban. 26 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:46,560 Speaker 7: But it's only later in your political career did you 27 00:01:46,640 --> 00:01:47,440 Speaker 7: change your position? 28 00:01:47,520 --> 00:01:49,720 Speaker 5: Why so, I've become friends with school shooters. 29 00:01:49,800 --> 00:01:54,120 Speaker 4: I feel stunny and in truancy. Do you like running 30 00:01:54,240 --> 00:01:54,960 Speaker 4: and dancing? 31 00:01:55,040 --> 00:01:55,560 Speaker 6: Emo? 32 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:04,000 Speaker 2: Petrow sends me a message for every new client. This 33 00:02:04,080 --> 00:02:09,200 Speaker 2: one kind of spoke to me. He started sponsoring the 34 00:02:09,320 --> 00:02:14,280 Speaker 2: podcast in addition to the show recently, and the first 35 00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:17,880 Speaker 2: person that called in was a guy in Brownsville, fifty 36 00:02:17,919 --> 00:02:23,200 Speaker 2: one year old man, recent kidney transplant and his donor, 37 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:30,520 Speaker 2: the kidney donor is his wife. And he said, I 38 00:02:30,560 --> 00:02:32,519 Speaker 2: feel like I owe it to my wife to take 39 00:02:32,560 --> 00:02:36,280 Speaker 2: care of my health now we got two young kids. 40 00:02:36,360 --> 00:02:39,880 Speaker 2: She gave me her kidney, pretty big sacrifice. I feel 41 00:02:39,960 --> 00:02:43,600 Speaker 2: like I need to take care of this for her. 42 00:02:44,120 --> 00:02:46,440 Speaker 2: We got to laugh out of that. That's pretty good one. 43 00:02:47,120 --> 00:02:48,720 Speaker 2: We're going to open the phone line seven one three 44 00:02:48,840 --> 00:02:51,200 Speaker 2: nine nine nine one thousand if you have a squirrel story. 45 00:02:52,160 --> 00:02:54,600 Speaker 2: I was trying to remember his name. I cannot remember 46 00:02:54,600 --> 00:02:57,960 Speaker 2: his name. He was Gary. Somebody out there will know him. 47 00:02:59,040 --> 00:03:01,480 Speaker 2: I used to play tennis every morning at the Metropolitan 48 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:05,160 Speaker 2: Racket Club in downtown. It was above I think three 49 00:03:05,240 --> 00:03:09,120 Speaker 2: Allen Center. When you came into downtown off fifty nine. 50 00:03:09,400 --> 00:03:12,400 Speaker 2: Right there you could see it. 51 00:03:11,639 --> 00:03:11,880 Speaker 6: It was. 52 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:17,000 Speaker 2: It was the rooftop of a downtown office building. And 53 00:03:17,040 --> 00:03:22,239 Speaker 2: I played every morning at six o'clock. And from when 54 00:03:22,280 --> 00:03:25,200 Speaker 2: I started as a baby lawyer, that was how I 55 00:03:25,240 --> 00:03:27,640 Speaker 2: got into downtown early and forced me to get up 56 00:03:27,639 --> 00:03:30,239 Speaker 2: and get my exercise in early. Because you might be 57 00:03:30,280 --> 00:03:32,200 Speaker 2: stuck at the office till midnight, you never get your 58 00:03:32,200 --> 00:03:36,480 Speaker 2: work out in. So I would have a standing group 59 00:03:36,560 --> 00:03:38,360 Speaker 2: that I would play with every day at six am, 60 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:41,800 Speaker 2: and it would rotate every day. And there was a 61 00:03:41,840 --> 00:03:48,440 Speaker 2: fella whose last name was Anderson, and he owned Anderson Oil, 62 00:03:48,600 --> 00:03:51,120 Speaker 2: and I think probably his father or his grandfather had 63 00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:55,560 Speaker 2: owned it. He was one of these guys that smart 64 00:03:55,680 --> 00:04:00,960 Speaker 2: enough but not nerdy by any stretch, social enough, but 65 00:04:01,040 --> 00:04:02,840 Speaker 2: didn't need to make a lot of friends. There's a 66 00:04:02,840 --> 00:04:06,720 Speaker 2: lot of these guys that went to Kincaid Second Baptist. 67 00:04:07,040 --> 00:04:12,120 Speaker 2: Some of them memorial come from oil families. Smart guys, 68 00:04:12,360 --> 00:04:13,280 Speaker 2: likable guys. 69 00:04:13,880 --> 00:04:14,000 Speaker 5: Uh. 70 00:04:14,120 --> 00:04:17,120 Speaker 2: They seem like they're not trying, but they are. They 71 00:04:17,240 --> 00:04:19,599 Speaker 2: just they're just not overly pushy about it. They're never 72 00:04:19,760 --> 00:04:21,839 Speaker 2: they're never going to try to sell you anything, and 73 00:04:21,880 --> 00:04:24,719 Speaker 2: you never really know what they do for a living anyway, 74 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:28,480 Speaker 2: Anderson Oil. I don't know if it's still there. Used 75 00:04:28,520 --> 00:04:37,119 Speaker 2: to be on let's say, wood Way at about trying 76 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:41,440 Speaker 2: to think where that would be. Woodway at about Post 77 00:04:41,480 --> 00:04:53,880 Speaker 2: Oak remove, you know where the you know where the 78 00:04:53,880 --> 00:05:00,320 Speaker 2: the tower there is. Giorgio Borlini started it. Okay, let's 79 00:05:00,360 --> 00:05:04,440 Speaker 2: go from the GALLERYA. Let's come south on Uh sorryt's 80 00:05:04,440 --> 00:05:07,600 Speaker 2: go north on Post Oak. We're gonna pass Mac on 81 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:09,119 Speaker 2: the right and go up and go to the corners 82 00:05:09,240 --> 00:05:11,800 Speaker 2: the Whole Foods. Right, make a left right there, so 83 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:16,880 Speaker 2: we're gonna start west on uh Sam Philippy all right. 84 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:21,840 Speaker 2: Then we're gonna turn right right there at the high 85 00:05:21,920 --> 00:05:25,120 Speaker 2: rise there very Jewish. They don't have a lot of balconies. 86 00:05:25,120 --> 00:05:26,560 Speaker 2: They only had a couple of balconies at the top. 87 00:05:27,360 --> 00:05:30,440 Speaker 2: At one point it was it was heavily a Jewish 88 00:05:30,560 --> 00:05:32,640 Speaker 2: kind of hoy poloy Intown. A lot of a lot 89 00:05:32,680 --> 00:05:36,279 Speaker 2: of prominent Jewish families were in this billity kind of 90 00:05:36,279 --> 00:05:39,080 Speaker 2: a reddish all glass you I'm talking about. Turn right 91 00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:42,080 Speaker 2: right there. Used to be a grocery store right there. 92 00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:45,880 Speaker 2: Maybe that was the Whole Foods. Then there was a 93 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:50,039 Speaker 2: then there was a liquor store. There was a dry 94 00:05:50,120 --> 00:05:53,160 Speaker 2: cleaner store. There's always some little food food like leaf 95 00:05:53,200 --> 00:05:55,720 Speaker 2: and grain kind of store. Always some kind of you know, 96 00:05:56,400 --> 00:06:01,240 Speaker 2: peta and hummus, uh sand which store or whatever? All right, 97 00:06:01,360 --> 00:06:04,440 Speaker 2: so you continue on right there is that Post Oak 98 00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:07,839 Speaker 2: and you would go down and on the right was 99 00:06:07,839 --> 00:06:16,000 Speaker 2: that standalone building. It's an Irani family that used to 100 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:19,240 Speaker 2: be in Larry Levin's project at the corner of Sam 101 00:06:19,240 --> 00:06:24,320 Speaker 2: Philippie and Post Oak. They had that. Uh the old 102 00:06:24,400 --> 00:06:27,320 Speaker 2: man ran it and his son was you know, a 103 00:06:27,320 --> 00:06:31,200 Speaker 2: little younger than me. Anyway, they had a they had 104 00:06:31,200 --> 00:06:33,839 Speaker 2: a kind of a catering facility there, kind of a 105 00:06:33,880 --> 00:06:37,080 Speaker 2: party planning place there. Anyway, you keep going this neighborhood 106 00:06:37,279 --> 00:06:41,719 Speaker 2: right there, you come up from there to Woodway. Okay, 107 00:06:41,760 --> 00:06:45,359 Speaker 2: you got the church on the right. You got that 108 00:06:45,480 --> 00:06:51,360 Speaker 2: big church. That's where the that's where it's kind of 109 00:06:51,440 --> 00:06:55,880 Speaker 2: Catholic light. It's maybe uh it's where people that like 110 00:06:55,960 --> 00:06:59,599 Speaker 2: to be Christian but not really ever read the Bible. Yeah, 111 00:06:59,600 --> 00:07:04,800 Speaker 2: it's it's episcopal. What's it called Saint Martin's Yes, yes, yes, 112 00:07:04,960 --> 00:07:10,480 Speaker 2: very Catholic, very very kind of country club social you know, yes, 113 00:07:10,520 --> 00:07:13,640 Speaker 2: of course where Christians kind of Christian like, you know 114 00:07:13,720 --> 00:07:16,600 Speaker 2: what I mean. I mean, we're not going to get 115 00:07:16,640 --> 00:07:20,680 Speaker 2: baptized or anything. Don't make it weird and talk about Jesus. 116 00:07:20,920 --> 00:07:22,960 Speaker 2: Right there, So if they're on the right, and you 117 00:07:23,040 --> 00:07:25,520 Speaker 2: turn to the left, so now you're going west again. 118 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:28,040 Speaker 2: Oh no, no, just turn to the right right there, 119 00:07:28,480 --> 00:07:30,720 Speaker 2: Turn to the right right there, start heading the east. 120 00:07:30,960 --> 00:07:34,120 Speaker 2: That's where Anderson Oil was. It really doesn't matter, but 121 00:07:34,200 --> 00:07:36,120 Speaker 2: now I lost track of where it was and I 122 00:07:36,200 --> 00:07:38,320 Speaker 2: had to I had to retrace my strata steps. Anyway, 123 00:07:38,880 --> 00:07:42,160 Speaker 2: So Anderson Anderson's one of these guys. I think he 124 00:07:42,160 --> 00:07:45,560 Speaker 2: probably had family money, and he might have expanded the 125 00:07:45,560 --> 00:07:49,160 Speaker 2: family money. Who knows. He don't need anybody, so he 126 00:07:49,200 --> 00:07:51,400 Speaker 2: doesn't need to be nice to anybody. So he just 127 00:07:51,480 --> 00:07:54,240 Speaker 2: kind of real grumpy guy. One morning after we played, 128 00:07:54,680 --> 00:07:59,080 Speaker 2: we're eating breakfast and he'd been up all night because 129 00:07:59,080 --> 00:08:02,760 Speaker 2: he'd shot a whole in his roof in Tanglewood because 130 00:08:03,320 --> 00:08:05,960 Speaker 2: there was a squirrel in the roof in the in 131 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:10,120 Speaker 2: the attic, and I said, Anderson, maybe Gary Anderson. What 132 00:08:11,040 --> 00:08:13,560 Speaker 2: was his name? Anyway, I said, why did you get 133 00:08:13,960 --> 00:08:14,800 Speaker 2: He said this thing? 134 00:08:14,840 --> 00:08:18,000 Speaker 1: Michael, you don't understand you got up in there they're 135 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:21,120 Speaker 1: really just rats. I know exactly what they are. So 136 00:08:21,160 --> 00:08:23,120 Speaker 1: he got into the attic because this thing had kept 137 00:08:23,200 --> 00:08:25,760 Speaker 1: him up too long. Up, they're scratching around. He starts 138 00:08:25,760 --> 00:08:29,200 Speaker 1: firing his twenty two through his attic. He's blowing holes 139 00:08:29,240 --> 00:08:31,800 Speaker 1: through the top of his head. To this day, that 140 00:08:31,840 --> 00:08:34,719 Speaker 1: story still makes me laugh, because you know, when you're 141 00:08:34,800 --> 00:08:37,760 Speaker 1: when it's late and you just you want something to 142 00:08:37,800 --> 00:08:38,920 Speaker 1: be quiet, you. 143 00:08:38,840 --> 00:08:41,880 Speaker 2: Will do things in it. It's like being drunk, but 144 00:08:41,880 --> 00:08:43,600 Speaker 2: you don't even have to be drunk. You will do 145 00:08:43,679 --> 00:08:46,240 Speaker 2: the most irrational things. And to this day, when I 146 00:08:46,280 --> 00:08:48,320 Speaker 2: see him, I still think of that story. 147 00:08:48,400 --> 00:08:49,160 Speaker 5: That makes me chuckle. 148 00:08:49,520 --> 00:08:51,320 Speaker 2: Oh no, I love the guy. No no, I liked him 149 00:08:51,320 --> 00:08:53,240 Speaker 2: a lot to be a funny guy. Do you believe 150 00:08:53,280 --> 00:08:55,719 Speaker 2: Americans are better off than they were four years ago? 151 00:08:55,960 --> 00:08:59,959 Speaker 8: Michael Barrier, So, I was raised as a middle class kid. 152 00:09:09,600 --> 00:09:11,800 Speaker 9: Well, when I was a kid, i'd take a trip 153 00:09:11,960 --> 00:09:15,880 Speaker 9: every summer down to Mississippi to visit my grandy center and. 154 00:09:16,080 --> 00:09:17,120 Speaker 5: It bellam world. 155 00:09:18,679 --> 00:09:22,800 Speaker 9: I'd run barefooted all day long, climbing trees, free as 156 00:09:22,800 --> 00:09:26,199 Speaker 9: a song. One day I happened to catch myself a squirrel, 157 00:09:27,600 --> 00:09:30,080 Speaker 9: but I stuffed him down in an old shoe box 158 00:09:30,480 --> 00:09:32,160 Speaker 9: punched a couple holes in the top. 159 00:09:32,280 --> 00:09:33,440 Speaker 8: When Sunday came. 160 00:09:33,480 --> 00:09:35,000 Speaker 3: I snug him into the church. 161 00:09:36,679 --> 00:09:37,760 Speaker 2: I was sitting way. 162 00:09:37,640 --> 00:09:40,120 Speaker 9: Back in the very last que showing him to my 163 00:09:40,200 --> 00:09:42,679 Speaker 9: good buddy Hugh, when that squirrel got loose and went 164 00:09:42,920 --> 00:09:47,880 Speaker 9: totally berserk. Well what happened next is hard to tell. 165 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:50,120 Speaker 9: Some thought it was heaving, others thought it was hell. 166 00:09:50,200 --> 00:09:52,640 Speaker 9: But the fact that something was among us was playing 167 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:56,720 Speaker 9: to see it. As the choir sang, I surrender all 168 00:09:56,760 --> 00:09:59,240 Speaker 9: the squirrel run up hard Newlam's cover rocks, and Hard 169 00:09:59,320 --> 00:09:59,920 Speaker 9: leaped to his bea. 170 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:03,319 Speaker 2: He said, something's got a hold on me. The day 171 00:10:03,440 --> 00:10:05,880 Speaker 2: the squirrel went the circuit him. 172 00:10:05,840 --> 00:10:08,040 Speaker 9: The first self batist church in that. 173 00:10:08,160 --> 00:10:11,599 Speaker 8: Seat fend bit on town on past to love and 174 00:10:11,760 --> 00:10:14,120 Speaker 8: then was in fight for survival. 175 00:10:14,480 --> 00:10:17,719 Speaker 1: But that bok died into the d It wasn't jumping. 176 00:10:17,600 --> 00:10:22,520 Speaker 9: Hughes and shouting, had a loyah. Well, Harve hit the isles, 177 00:10:22,600 --> 00:10:25,160 Speaker 9: dashing and screaming. Some thought he had religious others thought 178 00:10:25,160 --> 00:10:26,840 Speaker 9: he had a demon. In horror, thought he had a 179 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:30,280 Speaker 9: wheat eat or loose and his spruit and blooms. He 180 00:10:30,360 --> 00:10:32,520 Speaker 9: fell to his knees to plead and beg and the 181 00:10:32,559 --> 00:10:36,080 Speaker 9: squirrel ran out of his pitching leg unobserved to the 182 00:10:36,120 --> 00:10:40,199 Speaker 9: other side of the room, all the way down to 183 00:10:40,320 --> 00:10:43,360 Speaker 9: the amen few, where sat Sister Bertha. Better than you, 184 00:10:43,440 --> 00:10:48,480 Speaker 9: who's been watching, all the commotion was subdistrictly, but shoot, 185 00:10:48,559 --> 00:10:50,360 Speaker 9: you should have seen the look in her eyes when 186 00:10:50,360 --> 00:10:52,520 Speaker 9: that squirrel jumped her gardeners and crossed her thighs. 187 00:10:52,520 --> 00:10:54,240 Speaker 2: And she jumped to her feet and said, Lord, have 188 00:10:54,440 --> 00:10:55,240 Speaker 2: percy off me. 189 00:10:56,840 --> 00:10:59,559 Speaker 9: As the squirrel made laps inside her dress she began 190 00:10:59,679 --> 00:11:02,240 Speaker 9: to cross. Had then to confess the sins that would 191 00:11:02,280 --> 00:11:06,800 Speaker 9: make a sailor plush with shade. She told of gossip 192 00:11:06,840 --> 00:11:09,280 Speaker 9: and church decision, but the thing that got the most 193 00:11:09,320 --> 00:11:11,880 Speaker 9: attention was when she talks about her love life. 194 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:13,760 Speaker 2: And then she started damon names. 195 00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:17,080 Speaker 9: But deed the squirrel went dessertant. And then the first 196 00:11:17,080 --> 00:11:21,040 Speaker 9: self Baptist church in that sleep little town of past 197 00:11:21,040 --> 00:11:21,719 Speaker 9: to Goulve. 198 00:11:22,679 --> 00:11:25,520 Speaker 6: It was in that boss Bible that. 199 00:11:25,679 --> 00:11:27,160 Speaker 2: W got into Bible. 200 00:11:27,360 --> 00:11:31,880 Speaker 8: They went up in uts and shouting had Lujah. 201 00:11:31,960 --> 00:11:34,880 Speaker 9: Well, seven deacons and the pastor got saved. That twenty 202 00:11:34,920 --> 00:11:38,559 Speaker 9: five thousand dollars got raised in fifty volunteered permissions in 203 00:11:38,640 --> 00:11:42,719 Speaker 9: the Congo on the spot and even without an invitation, 204 00:11:42,880 --> 00:11:45,960 Speaker 9: there were at least five hundred rededications, and we all 205 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:50,040 Speaker 9: got rebaptized, whether we needed it or not. Now you've 206 00:11:50,080 --> 00:11:52,800 Speaker 9: heard the Bible story, I guess how he parted the 207 00:11:52,800 --> 00:11:55,679 Speaker 9: waters from Moses to pass all the miracles God has 208 00:11:55,720 --> 00:11:59,640 Speaker 9: wrought in this old world. But the one I'll remember 209 00:11:59,720 --> 00:12:02,000 Speaker 9: till a dying day is how he put that church 210 00:12:02,120 --> 00:12:05,840 Speaker 9: back on the narrow way with a half craize Mississippi Square, 211 00:12:06,760 --> 00:12:09,920 Speaker 9: and the day of the squirrel and desert in the 212 00:12:09,920 --> 00:12:11,880 Speaker 9: first sup bides of church in. 213 00:12:11,920 --> 00:12:19,079 Speaker 8: That see little town of Baskets survival and then broke 214 00:12:19,160 --> 00:12:25,240 Speaker 8: out in were jumping us and shut Handeluga the day. 215 00:12:25,080 --> 00:12:26,440 Speaker 9: Of the squirrels. 216 00:12:27,280 --> 00:12:31,200 Speaker 8: Then the first updides church in that steep little town 217 00:12:31,320 --> 00:12:32,160 Speaker 8: of Pascagoon. 218 00:12:36,720 --> 00:12:38,840 Speaker 2: If you don't know the story of Ray Stevens, it's 219 00:12:38,880 --> 00:12:42,079 Speaker 2: a great one. He was actually born Harold Ray Ragsdale 220 00:12:42,880 --> 00:12:45,480 Speaker 2: changed his name to Ray Stevens because it was obviously 221 00:12:45,520 --> 00:12:52,000 Speaker 2: a better stage name in Clarksdale, Georgia. It was an 222 00:12:52,040 --> 00:12:59,360 Speaker 2: old Southern family in Clarksdale, Georgia, Georgia. So when he 223 00:12:59,440 --> 00:13:01,800 Speaker 2: sings about the Pasca goola Is, he comes by it 224 00:13:01,840 --> 00:13:05,200 Speaker 2: honestly boy, does he have some good stories in some 225 00:13:07,120 --> 00:13:09,520 Speaker 2: When I had a real estate brokerage in the late nineties, 226 00:13:12,080 --> 00:13:13,920 Speaker 2: I had left the practice of law to start a 227 00:13:13,920 --> 00:13:17,520 Speaker 2: real estate company, and I thought I was a pretty 228 00:13:17,559 --> 00:13:21,880 Speaker 2: smart guy, and I could negotiate parts of a real 229 00:13:21,960 --> 00:13:25,480 Speaker 2: estate contract that a broker couldn't because I was a lawyer, 230 00:13:26,800 --> 00:13:29,680 Speaker 2: and I was building a little social network for myself. 231 00:13:29,720 --> 00:13:32,480 Speaker 2: I didn't have any I didn't have anybody that I'd 232 00:13:32,520 --> 00:13:34,880 Speaker 2: gone to high school with. So you know a lot 233 00:13:34,920 --> 00:13:39,120 Speaker 2: of people in their first and early jobs, whether they're 234 00:13:39,160 --> 00:13:45,080 Speaker 2: selling real estate or insurance or commercial tenant representation, they 235 00:13:45,120 --> 00:13:47,720 Speaker 2: call upon their high school friends. Well, I didn't have that. 236 00:13:48,040 --> 00:13:51,040 Speaker 2: I hadn't I didn't have a Saint John's or Kincaid 237 00:13:51,120 --> 00:13:59,480 Speaker 2: or Memorial or Saint Thomas or whatever episcopal set of 238 00:13:59,520 --> 00:14:04,720 Speaker 2: friends drawn and I didn't. I wasn't an old family, 239 00:14:05,320 --> 00:14:08,200 Speaker 2: so I wasn't one of the families that you know, 240 00:14:08,280 --> 00:14:13,840 Speaker 2: everybody knew in town. And I hadn't gone to University 241 00:14:13,880 --> 00:14:15,640 Speaker 2: of Texas or A and M. I hadn't been in 242 00:14:15,640 --> 00:14:19,000 Speaker 2: the fraternity. So I'm out there on my own trying 243 00:14:19,040 --> 00:14:21,960 Speaker 2: to trying to build this network. Any food can sell 244 00:14:21,960 --> 00:14:24,760 Speaker 2: a house. It's getting the listing. It's hard, so I 245 00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:29,600 Speaker 2: would be competing and I kept coming up against the 246 00:14:29,680 --> 00:14:32,880 Speaker 2: name Jane Giamalva. She was very, very, very well respected. 247 00:14:32,920 --> 00:14:34,560 Speaker 2: I think she was at John Doherty at the time, 248 00:14:34,560 --> 00:14:38,600 Speaker 2: but the big three firms at the time were real 249 00:14:38,680 --> 00:14:43,680 Speaker 2: estate firms were John Dougherty, h Mark the Turner, Property Ease, 250 00:14:44,320 --> 00:14:47,800 Speaker 2: and that was how the woman answered the phone. And 251 00:14:47,840 --> 00:14:50,600 Speaker 2: this one was fascinating. They had an office. I think 252 00:14:50,600 --> 00:14:52,000 Speaker 2: it was five to two oh nineteen eighty one, I 253 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:54,840 Speaker 2: don't know. I remember that they had an office on 254 00:14:54,880 --> 00:14:58,320 Speaker 2: West Timer. It was a standalone office and you would 255 00:14:58,360 --> 00:15:00,400 Speaker 2: call to arrange a showing. You know, you had a 256 00:15:00,400 --> 00:15:02,400 Speaker 2: client that wanted to see the house at three o'clock 257 00:15:02,440 --> 00:15:04,200 Speaker 2: that afternoon, so you'd call over and she'd pick up 258 00:15:04,200 --> 00:15:07,160 Speaker 2: the phone seven one three nineteen eighty one, Mark the 259 00:15:07,160 --> 00:15:13,080 Speaker 2: Turner Properties. And I remember I had to go over 260 00:15:13,120 --> 00:15:15,480 Speaker 2: to their building to drop off a contract or pick 261 00:15:15,520 --> 00:15:18,040 Speaker 2: up a check or whatever else. And I go walking 262 00:15:18,080 --> 00:15:20,200 Speaker 2: in and I can't wait to see who this lady 263 00:15:20,280 --> 00:15:23,800 Speaker 2: is that has this very distinct way of answering the phone, 264 00:15:24,080 --> 00:15:29,720 Speaker 2: Mark the Turner Properties. Walking in, there's this heavy set 265 00:15:29,800 --> 00:15:33,520 Speaker 2: black woman sitting behind the counter. And I thought, oh, man, 266 00:15:34,080 --> 00:15:36,640 Speaker 2: whoever answers the phone's not here today. I wanted to 267 00:15:36,680 --> 00:15:39,960 Speaker 2: see what she looks like. So I go over and 268 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:41,680 Speaker 2: I said, do you have the check? All right, here's 269 00:15:41,720 --> 00:15:43,680 Speaker 2: this check, and I need to get this contract and 270 00:15:43,840 --> 00:15:45,840 Speaker 2: she hands it to hold on just a second, hold 271 00:15:45,880 --> 00:15:50,440 Speaker 2: on ring ring mark the Turner properties. It was a 272 00:15:50,440 --> 00:15:54,600 Speaker 2: black woman. I would have never in my life. Yes, 273 00:15:55,200 --> 00:15:58,680 Speaker 2: and I have told that story over the years, and 274 00:15:58,720 --> 00:16:01,280 Speaker 2: I have had more agents. I forget her name, Penny 275 00:16:01,520 --> 00:16:05,760 Speaker 2: or whatever, Oh that was Penny. Everybody knew this woman. 276 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:08,920 Speaker 2: Everybody loved this woman, even if you didn't work for 277 00:16:08,960 --> 00:16:13,600 Speaker 2: Martha Turner anyway. The three big firms were John Dougherty 278 00:16:13,640 --> 00:16:16,640 Speaker 2: and John had built that firm into like a River Oaks. 279 00:16:17,400 --> 00:16:21,080 Speaker 2: It had a reputation more like a more like a 280 00:16:22,040 --> 00:16:23,520 Speaker 2: Judge Elkins insurance company. 281 00:16:23,520 --> 00:16:24,240 Speaker 5: What was what was. 282 00:16:24,160 --> 00:16:27,920 Speaker 2: The the prestigious insurance company that was owned Alan Parkway 283 00:16:28,200 --> 00:16:33,360 Speaker 2: from on they sold out. Everybody knows what I'm talking about. 284 00:16:33,760 --> 00:16:36,200 Speaker 2: It was like a g but it was. It was 285 00:16:36,240 --> 00:16:40,000 Speaker 2: a Houston institution, very very well regarded or one of 286 00:16:40,040 --> 00:16:46,840 Speaker 2: the what's the one that was like Marsh Insurance? It 287 00:16:46,960 --> 00:16:49,680 Speaker 2: was real, real, real, but you know, money management, and 288 00:16:49,800 --> 00:16:51,680 Speaker 2: there are these firms like these blue blood firm, but 289 00:16:51,720 --> 00:16:54,040 Speaker 2: there hadn't been a real estate company like that until 290 00:16:54,120 --> 00:16:57,040 Speaker 2: John Doherty did it. And then a lot of people 291 00:16:57,080 --> 00:16:59,680 Speaker 2: called it John Dotttery and that drove me crazy. So 292 00:16:59,720 --> 00:17:03,160 Speaker 2: that was our turn of properties, John Doherty and Greenwood King, 293 00:17:03,800 --> 00:17:06,959 Speaker 2: and Greenwood King was sort of West Houston. It was. 294 00:17:08,880 --> 00:17:12,359 Speaker 2: It was Robin Robin, Meck Robin something. She had a 295 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:15,200 Speaker 2: firm out there called house Hunters, and they came inside 296 00:17:15,200 --> 00:17:17,000 Speaker 2: the Loop and boy, that was not good for me. 297 00:17:17,680 --> 00:17:21,840 Speaker 2: They bought the they rented the space that was the 298 00:17:21,840 --> 00:17:26,280 Speaker 2: bank space on Kirby that was this bank lobby. Oh 299 00:17:26,359 --> 00:17:28,159 Speaker 2: my good. You did not want your clients to go 300 00:17:28,200 --> 00:17:30,560 Speaker 2: over there. I had a little tiny office in Rice 301 00:17:30,640 --> 00:17:34,919 Speaker 2: Village and we were running development, construction, apartments and real 302 00:17:35,040 --> 00:17:37,440 Speaker 2: estate out of that. So I didn't have enough offen. 303 00:17:37,480 --> 00:17:39,760 Speaker 2: I had fourteen people. I didn't have enough offices for 304 00:17:39,880 --> 00:17:42,000 Speaker 2: my people. So I'd say, you know, just work from 305 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:44,119 Speaker 2: home and meet people at Starbucks and just say, you know, 306 00:17:44,160 --> 00:17:45,600 Speaker 2: we're a new kind of firm. We don't we don't 307 00:17:45,600 --> 00:17:47,199 Speaker 2: meet it to the office because we didn't have all 308 00:17:47,200 --> 00:17:50,280 Speaker 2: we didn't have enough office space. It cost me too much. Anyway, 309 00:17:50,720 --> 00:17:54,119 Speaker 2: Janet gm Alva was a legend in the business and 310 00:17:54,160 --> 00:17:57,399 Speaker 2: you could never win against her. Now she's a listener. 311 00:17:57,480 --> 00:17:59,040 Speaker 2: She's kind of funny. It's like I never thought I'd 312 00:17:59,040 --> 00:18:01,639 Speaker 2: be friends with Jenjmo. She sent me an email. Remember, 313 00:18:01,680 --> 00:18:02,879 Speaker 2: I asked you which what was the name of the 314 00:18:02,920 --> 00:18:05,399 Speaker 2: Anderson boy? I couldn't remember his name. She said there 315 00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:08,320 Speaker 2: were four boys, Neil, Scott, Kevin, and Craig Scott. Anderson 316 00:18:08,400 --> 00:18:11,320 Speaker 2: was his name. Neil recently passed away a few months ago. 317 00:18:11,359 --> 00:18:13,560 Speaker 2: Great family, and yes, the oil and gas company is 318 00:18:13,600 --> 00:18:16,920 Speaker 2: still there across from Saint Martin's. There was a time 319 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:21,320 Speaker 2: when you did not want to go into Tanglewood and 320 00:18:21,440 --> 00:18:25,000 Speaker 2: compete for a listing appointment with Jenny jim Alma because 321 00:18:25,040 --> 00:18:27,280 Speaker 2: I mean it may still be because she's she's lived 322 00:18:27,280 --> 00:18:29,640 Speaker 2: there her entire life. But you were not going to win. 323 00:18:29,800 --> 00:18:32,879 Speaker 2: She was just too good, too well established, and she 324 00:18:32,920 --> 00:18:35,399 Speaker 2: knew everybody's wife, she knew, she knew the family, she 325 00:18:35,480 --> 00:18:36,880 Speaker 2: knew the You just wanted. 326 00:18:36,640 --> 00:18:41,320 Speaker 6: Annoying nobody who became mental and peed. Michael Berry Tamala 327 00:18:41,920 --> 00:18:42,920 Speaker 6: was born that way. 328 00:18:43,160 --> 00:18:44,480 Speaker 5: Yeah, to the end to the peace. 329 00:18:45,040 --> 00:18:48,919 Speaker 6: Let me tell you a true story a lady had 330 00:18:48,960 --> 00:18:55,600 Speaker 6: a little pet squirrel. She loved the little squirrel. Neighbors 331 00:18:55,640 --> 00:18:58,960 Speaker 6: would come and watch the little squirrel gust of pakhan 332 00:18:59,119 --> 00:19:01,600 Speaker 6: hose when it's a little mouth, and they thought it 333 00:19:01,760 --> 00:19:05,200 Speaker 6: was cute. One day she was in the supermarket and 334 00:19:05,320 --> 00:19:10,400 Speaker 6: she saw some beautiful pecans already whole in a beautiful 335 00:19:10,520 --> 00:19:14,720 Speaker 6: cellophane bag. Said, oh, and a shame that my little 336 00:19:14,800 --> 00:19:19,640 Speaker 6: squirrel's been working for its food. I'll feed my little 337 00:19:19,720 --> 00:19:23,680 Speaker 6: squirrel the whole pecans. 338 00:19:24,760 --> 00:19:25,240 Speaker 1: She did. 339 00:19:26,440 --> 00:19:30,119 Speaker 6: Five weeks later, the squirrel got sick. She carried to 340 00:19:30,200 --> 00:19:34,760 Speaker 6: the veterinarian. The veterinarian said, I can't understand what in 341 00:19:34,840 --> 00:19:37,920 Speaker 6: the world is happening. The teeth of this squirrel has 342 00:19:38,080 --> 00:19:43,320 Speaker 6: grown longer than normal. What have you been feeding it 343 00:19:44,440 --> 00:19:48,760 Speaker 6: shell pecans? Said, We'll feed it pecans where it can. 344 00:19:48,760 --> 00:19:49,760 Speaker 10: Bust the hugs. 345 00:19:49,880 --> 00:19:54,520 Speaker 6: That's the way God made some of his creatures was 346 00:19:54,640 --> 00:20:01,240 Speaker 6: to wear. She put the pecans over in the cage. Unfortunately, 347 00:20:01,640 --> 00:20:04,639 Speaker 6: she had loved the little squirrel so much that she 348 00:20:04,760 --> 00:20:08,160 Speaker 6: didn't want it to work, but she loved it to death. 349 00:20:09,040 --> 00:20:10,000 Speaker 2: She deprived it. 350 00:20:11,600 --> 00:20:15,640 Speaker 6: Of what it should have done, and the fan couldn't 351 00:20:15,720 --> 00:20:21,119 Speaker 6: shoot and would not eat, and the little squirrel died 352 00:20:21,800 --> 00:20:27,040 Speaker 6: grave yard dead. The morrow of this story is, if 353 00:20:27,080 --> 00:20:31,120 Speaker 6: you're able body, you go negotiate for you a job 354 00:20:31,800 --> 00:20:34,639 Speaker 6: and go to work. You might have to drive up 355 00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:37,960 Speaker 6: and down the street and find the yard it needs mowing. 356 00:20:39,880 --> 00:20:45,760 Speaker 6: But people America needs its citizens if they're able to 357 00:20:45,960 --> 00:20:46,639 Speaker 6: go to work. 358 00:20:50,960 --> 00:20:53,479 Speaker 2: It seems like we need Jerry Cloarer now more than ever. 359 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:58,879 Speaker 2: The blue blood established Houston gold plate. Name that I 360 00:20:59,040 --> 00:21:02,000 Speaker 2: was thinking of was John L. Wortham. No, you don't 361 00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:04,440 Speaker 2: have names like that anymore. You know. When I came 362 00:21:04,480 --> 00:21:08,000 Speaker 2: to Houston in eighty nine and I started studying, you know, 363 00:21:08,040 --> 00:21:11,959 Speaker 2: where's the power? Who are the big names who can 364 00:21:12,080 --> 00:21:16,080 Speaker 2: move mountains? And I started coming up with people like 365 00:21:16,240 --> 00:21:18,879 Speaker 2: Jack Trotter. Jack Trotter didn't have I don't think he 366 00:21:18,920 --> 00:21:21,000 Speaker 2: had his name on a building. But Jack Trotter was 367 00:21:21,040 --> 00:21:25,360 Speaker 2: a guy that I needed to know he was. Jack 368 00:21:25,480 --> 00:21:31,960 Speaker 2: Trotter was powerful. People respected him. You start studying the 369 00:21:32,480 --> 00:21:37,560 Speaker 2: the roy Hawfins's and the people behind them. I went. 370 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:41,240 Speaker 2: I took Louis Welch to former mayor on an all 371 00:21:41,320 --> 00:21:45,399 Speaker 2: day fishing trip, and I just nuggets would fall out 372 00:21:45,440 --> 00:21:47,719 Speaker 2: of his mouth of people to talk to it who 373 00:21:47,800 --> 00:21:52,399 Speaker 2: I needed to know. It's fascinating because the blue blood names, 374 00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:58,760 Speaker 2: the Houston names that were so respected back then, most 375 00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:02,280 Speaker 2: of them have been sold off private equity, bottom they closed, 376 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:05,320 Speaker 2: or they're just not known like that. When I was 377 00:22:05,359 --> 00:22:11,359 Speaker 2: a baby lawyer, the names Vincent and Elkins, Baker, Botts, 378 00:22:13,119 --> 00:22:16,480 Speaker 2: Fulbright and Jeworski, and maybe just because I was a 379 00:22:16,520 --> 00:22:21,680 Speaker 2: little lawyer geek, but even out in society, boy Lock 380 00:22:22,040 --> 00:22:26,119 Speaker 2: of Ladell, Sap, Ziviley, Hell and Laboon. Walter Zivley was 381 00:22:26,240 --> 00:22:30,200 Speaker 2: my mentor. When people knew that, they looked at me, 382 00:22:30,520 --> 00:22:34,879 Speaker 2: You're Walter Zibley's boy like that that there was something 383 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:39,600 Speaker 2: to that. That guy was regarded and respected. We don't 384 00:22:39,640 --> 00:22:43,320 Speaker 2: have people like that anymore. I knew ken Lay when 385 00:22:43,359 --> 00:22:46,040 Speaker 2: he was at the top of the heap. When when 386 00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:51,360 Speaker 2: ken Lay was you know, when you needed something done 387 00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:56,600 Speaker 2: in this town, ken Lay was it. Jennifer writes, I 388 00:22:56,760 --> 00:22:58,639 Speaker 2: was talking about the lay that Martha Turner property is. 389 00:22:58,920 --> 00:23:02,280 Speaker 2: She said, I remember that she ran into my red 390 00:23:02,359 --> 00:23:06,359 Speaker 2: Mustang in the nineties. She had a swank Mercedes Benz. 391 00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:09,080 Speaker 2: It happened in front of Bearra Parrettes on West Gray. 392 00:23:09,119 --> 00:23:11,920 Speaker 2: You remember that beara parettes You know Jonathan Kim worked there. 393 00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:14,680 Speaker 2: R Jonathan Kim Green goes, yeah, like thirty years ago. 394 00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:18,359 Speaker 2: She didn't want the popo involved and I didn't either. 395 00:23:19,119 --> 00:23:20,879 Speaker 2: I suspect she was just having as much of a 396 00:23:20,960 --> 00:23:23,600 Speaker 2: good time as I did that night. She did pay 397 00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:32,040 Speaker 2: cash for my repairs. How about that? So when over 398 00:23:32,119 --> 00:23:36,320 Speaker 2: the years we've never done a syndication deal, and the 399 00:23:36,440 --> 00:23:40,440 Speaker 2: radio business is not intuitive in every sense of the word, 400 00:23:41,560 --> 00:23:45,440 Speaker 2: but up until a few weeks ago, we were self syndicated, 401 00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:49,240 Speaker 2: and there were a lot of reasons for that, but 402 00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:52,680 Speaker 2: one of them was I didn't want our show to 403 00:23:52,840 --> 00:23:57,720 Speaker 2: be only a syndicated show where the business model was 404 00:23:57,800 --> 00:24:02,879 Speaker 2: not tied to Houston and our station here. And so 405 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:05,960 Speaker 2: what we've done now is a hybrid that I don't 406 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:07,600 Speaker 2: think has been done anywhere else. I don't think he's 407 00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:10,359 Speaker 2: ever been done before. And part of the reason for 408 00:24:10,440 --> 00:24:12,159 Speaker 2: that people say, why do you do I mean, you 409 00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:14,800 Speaker 2: could only do one show a day now, Yes, I could, 410 00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:20,080 Speaker 2: But what I wanted to retain it took us a 411 00:24:20,160 --> 00:24:22,119 Speaker 2: long time to get to where we had the clout 412 00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:25,080 Speaker 2: to do this is I wanted to do the evening show, 413 00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:28,600 Speaker 2: which is a national show, little bit of a focus 414 00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:31,320 Speaker 2: on Texas, but really a national show so that somebody 415 00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:35,600 Speaker 2: in Florida, California, New York listens and they wouldn't just go, oh, 416 00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:37,880 Speaker 2: it's a showdown in Houston. I don't want to listen. 417 00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:41,720 Speaker 2: They would say this show competes with every other national 418 00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:45,760 Speaker 2: show talking about national issues. And I enjoy that, right, 419 00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:48,159 Speaker 2: you need to do that to be considered in the 420 00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:51,320 Speaker 2: big leagues. But I don't love that the way I 421 00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:54,840 Speaker 2: do spread in Houston gossip and talking about County Commissioner's 422 00:24:54,840 --> 00:24:58,960 Speaker 2: Court and sharing stories of Houston City Hall, and talking 423 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:01,399 Speaker 2: about the lady that worked that Martha Turner properties and 424 00:25:02,080 --> 00:25:05,360 Speaker 2: comparing John Doherty with Greenwood King and Martha Turner properties 425 00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:10,560 Speaker 2: and uh, you know those sorts Akerbloom and those sorts 426 00:25:10,560 --> 00:25:14,000 Speaker 2: of things. So that was the worry when we signed 427 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:16,679 Speaker 2: our big national deal, was is the Houston Show going 428 00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:18,720 Speaker 2: to go away? The Houston Show will never go away, 429 00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:21,920 Speaker 2: because that's this is what I love to do. That's 430 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:25,600 Speaker 2: why if you listen to both shows increasingly they sound 431 00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:28,680 Speaker 2: like two different shows. This is because the city of 432 00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:32,040 Speaker 2: Houston should have a Houston centric show that's this one, 433 00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:34,840 Speaker 2: and then the evening show is where we compete against 434 00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:38,320 Speaker 2: everybody else. Imagine what that would look like us. 435 00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:40,520 Speaker 10: You try. 436 00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:45,440 Speaker 2: Well, scoll, scoll sell well. 437 00:25:55,119 --> 00:25:58,520 Speaker 7: As well. Just went with Molly, who is nursing back 438 00:25:58,560 --> 00:26:00,879 Speaker 7: to life. A blind squirrel that was picked up in 439 00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:03,800 Speaker 7: East Texas dropped off in El Paso at a wildlife 440 00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:06,720 Speaker 7: animal rescue run by missus Julie. Got to meet this 441 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:10,480 Speaker 7: blind squirrel who's slowly regaining its sight. 442 00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:18,080 Speaker 2: Like his pad level James. 443 00:26:19,320 --> 00:26:20,520 Speaker 3: Runner o Heart fail Runner. 444 00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:24,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, hey, look at him, go the twenty. 445 00:26:25,280 --> 00:26:26,359 Speaker 3: Where's he might do it? 446 00:26:27,080 --> 00:26:30,000 Speaker 6: Where's he's going to do it? Oh my goodness, buddy, 447 00:26:30,080 --> 00:26:31,480 Speaker 6: do it? Do it? Do it? 448 00:26:32,160 --> 00:26:33,000 Speaker 8: God damn. 449 00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:36,440 Speaker 2: Man, he's my favorite squirrel. 450 00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:38,199 Speaker 4: Look at him. 451 00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:39,080 Speaker 10: Oh poor guys. 452 00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:42,600 Speaker 2: Tia Horn celebration. We're going to sell it for worn out. 453 00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:46,880 Speaker 4: Honey. 454 00:26:56,680 --> 00:27:00,920 Speaker 2: Disney's doing a Rocky and Bullwink will remake. Yeah, they're 455 00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:02,919 Speaker 2: gonna Rocky's gonna be a black squirrel. 456 00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:11,920 Speaker 10: The truth as I am and I have gotten into squirrels, 457 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:14,480 Speaker 10: and now I'm going to get you into squirrels. I'm 458 00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:19,120 Speaker 10: not kidding. I learned a fun fact about squirrels. Squirrels 459 00:27:20,119 --> 00:27:24,160 Speaker 10: cannot find eighty percent of the nuts they hide. 460 00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:28,440 Speaker 4: Are you kidding me? 461 00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:34,040 Speaker 10: Is that the greatest thing you've ever heard in your life. 462 00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:40,760 Speaker 10: First of all, animals aren't supposed to make mistakes. But secondly, 463 00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:45,200 Speaker 10: hold your skulls in because your brains are gonna explode. 464 00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:56,240 Speaker 10: That's how trees are planted, are you That's how trees 465 00:27:56,359 --> 00:27:59,800 Speaker 10: are planted. God or the universe or nature or whatever 466 00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:07,480 Speaker 10: the created this anxiety ridden haronoid coke head. 467 00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:10,760 Speaker 6: I think got a. 468 00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:20,480 Speaker 2: Message from Mac about fifteen minutes ago, said, Hey, Cindy Siegel, 469 00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:25,879 Speaker 2: she's the chairman of the Harris Kenny Republican Party. Just 470 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:30,760 Speaker 2: contact me. They want to do a Trump rally tomorrow 471 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:37,560 Speaker 2: to counter program the Kamala rally in town. What do 472 00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:46,560 Speaker 2: you think? Good idea, great idea. So be at Gallery 473 00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:49,320 Speaker 2: Furniture tomorrow morning at ten. I think it starts at 474 00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:52,920 Speaker 2: ten thirty. If you've ever been to anything like this, 475 00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:55,920 Speaker 2: if you arrive when it starts, just don't even go 476 00:28:56,480 --> 00:28:58,640 Speaker 2: because you'll spend your whole time trying to get to 477 00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:01,520 Speaker 2: this that you'll never get there. So get there at 478 00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:04,719 Speaker 2: ten o'clocks, not even really early. But that is tomorrow 479 00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:08,600 Speaker 2: at Gallery furnashaw On from what's address again? I forty 480 00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:12,960 Speaker 2: five between Tidwell and Parker, you can't miss it. You 481 00:29:13,040 --> 00:29:15,480 Speaker 2: probably have to get there early to park. I don't 482 00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:18,080 Speaker 2: know what they're gonna do, because you know, you got 483 00:29:18,120 --> 00:29:21,520 Speaker 2: those deep ditches on the side. That's where there's going 484 00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:24,120 Speaker 2: to be. That's where all the truck they'll straddle it, 485 00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:30,840 Speaker 2: the big trucks, because there'll be plenty of those. What oh, 486 00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:32,840 Speaker 2: you think he'll fill it up with punch. That's a 487 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:36,480 Speaker 2: very Mac thing to do. Wouldn't it be fun to 488 00:29:36,520 --> 00:29:41,080 Speaker 2: program for Mac? Because everything you do has to be crazy, right? 489 00:29:42,840 --> 00:29:47,520 Speaker 2: Carrie Strug breaks her ankle, wins the gold. How much 490 00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:52,000 Speaker 2: will it cost us to have her brought into the 491 00:29:52,120 --> 00:29:58,760 Speaker 2: press conference in our chair with our guys carrying her 492 00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:04,640 Speaker 2: like queen feeding her grapes. Well, it's going to be 493 00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:06,720 Speaker 2: a quarter million bucks. But she doesn't like the grape thing. 494 00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:08,600 Speaker 2: Kill the grapes. Kill the grapes. 495 00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:13,080 Speaker 1: You think about the things this dude has done over 496 00:30:13,120 --> 00:30:20,480 Speaker 1: the years, I mean, honestly, never a dull day, Always something. 497 00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:24,720 Speaker 2: Trump's the same way you think of the stuff Trump 498 00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:28,800 Speaker 2: has done. I mean, I was impressed. So much has 499 00:30:28,840 --> 00:30:33,040 Speaker 2: happened since then. I was impressed when after he's shot 500 00:30:33,080 --> 00:30:37,400 Speaker 2: in the head a couple days later, you get the 501 00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:40,920 Speaker 2: news Trump's gonna have another rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. 502 00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:42,360 Speaker 6: Of course he is. 503 00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:46,520 Speaker 2: Why didn't I think of that? And I like to 504 00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:49,320 Speaker 2: think I'm an idea man, But I'll tell you this, 505 00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:55,479 Speaker 2: having these ideas and executing on them, that's the danger 506 00:30:56,360 --> 00:30:58,400 Speaker 2: because you get this idea. Do you know what we 507 00:30:58,520 --> 00:31:01,840 Speaker 2: ought to do is to have eighteen million people show 508 00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:07,960 Speaker 2: up and we'll have Trump a zip line across the 509 00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:10,560 Speaker 2: top and what do it? And then at the end 510 00:31:10,560 --> 00:31:12,240 Speaker 2: of you go, how are we gonna get eighteen million people? 511 00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:14,440 Speaker 2: How are we gonna get him in there? How we're 512 00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:18,000 Speaker 2: gonna gethim parked? Who's gonna be there? But Mac doesn't 513 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:20,960 Speaker 2: give a damn. So right now, every one of Max's 514 00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:24,600 Speaker 2: sellers who's trying to figure out what the inventory on 515 00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:28,600 Speaker 2: the floor is today, he's this is Mac. He's called 516 00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:32,080 Speaker 2: everybody together and you better run to get there. He's 517 00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:38,280 Speaker 2: called everybody together, and he's like, Gerald, you're on parking, Uh, Opie, 518 00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:44,760 Speaker 2: you got bathrooms? What's the hispanic guy? That's my salesman? 519 00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:53,960 Speaker 2: Oh not Louise, got it? You've got whatever? I mean 520 00:31:54,320 --> 00:31:58,800 Speaker 2: that to make something like that happen, if you show up, 521 00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:02,400 Speaker 2: you just think it happen, So Gerald McNeil, who is 522 00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:08,200 Speaker 2: what's my guy's name? I can't remember it anyway, So 523 00:32:08,360 --> 00:32:13,480 Speaker 2: that is tomorrow morning at ten o'clock. Lucy Franklin was 524 00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:18,000 Speaker 2: our receptionist at Martha Turner Properties, which is now Sotheby's International. 525 00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:20,880 Speaker 2: She recently retired, and you wouldn't believe how many people 526 00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:22,920 Speaker 2: would come into our offices over the years to either 527 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:25,520 Speaker 2: try to hire her or just to meet her. You 528 00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:30,440 Speaker 2: imitated her to a t Martha Turner Properties, FYI thank 529 00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:33,400 Speaker 2: you for your nice words. Stephen Rackling just called and 530 00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:36,880 Speaker 2: I've received emails and texts. Yes, I am still working 531 00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:42,320 Speaker 2: as a real estate broker. That was Jenna Gamova with 532 00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:48,360 Speaker 2: Martha Turner Properties now Softhee's International. But I guess Marta 533 00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:51,360 Speaker 2: Turner Properties. You know, the first time she said that, 534 00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:54,040 Speaker 2: Martha must have loved it. You know what Martha had 535 00:32:54,080 --> 00:32:58,360 Speaker 2: done before she started that real estate firm, so school teacher. 536 00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:06,800 Speaker 2: That was before the days of the kind of blue chip, 537 00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:12,800 Speaker 2: gold star real estate firm. That would be the name 538 00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:16,760 Speaker 2: of somebody in town. Greenwood King was Julie Greenwood, and 539 00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:20,400 Speaker 2: I forget King's first name, John Daugherty. Obviously Martha Turner 540 00:33:21,520 --> 00:33:25,400 Speaker 2: there were these Acker Blum was Gloria Acker and Jerry Blum. 541 00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:29,800 Speaker 2: There were these firms that were in Michael Berry properties. 542 00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:33,040 Speaker 2: But yeah, it was that was the name of our firm. 543 00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:37,080 Speaker 2: But then the big boys came in and now it's 544 00:33:37,160 --> 00:33:41,520 Speaker 2: all Compass or Keller Williams or whatever else. I kind 545 00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:46,400 Speaker 2: of miss those days. You can slug this one Houston 546 00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:51,760 Speaker 2: reminiscing remembrances of Houston. Did I tell you it was 547 00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:54,920 Speaker 2: John L Wortham that was That was the That was 548 00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:59,600 Speaker 2: the insurance, the well regarded insurance company. Well, y'all didn't 549 00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:02,280 Speaker 2: do a thing for me. On Frank Lorenzo, I had 550 00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:04,840 Speaker 2: a few people who said they were stewardess is when 551 00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:06,560 Speaker 2: he owned Continental. So I guess I'm gonna have to 552 00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:10,279 Speaker 2: wean this one opening question. Mister Lorenzo, I thought you 553 00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:14,120 Speaker 2: were dead, so to start with this interview is something 554 00:34:14,520 --> 00:34:18,279 Speaker 2: of a miracle. To be honest with you. If he 555 00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:20,960 Speaker 2: says reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated, we're gonna 556 00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:21,360 Speaker 2: be friends.