1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:04,040 Speaker 1: I got an email from a listener last name Kuchera. 2 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:09,399 Speaker 1: It was a Kuchera who helped us like you wouldn't believe. 3 00:00:09,440 --> 00:00:12,480 Speaker 1: And we built the RCC in a soft spot for 4 00:00:12,520 --> 00:00:18,239 Speaker 1: that family. And he says, are my sister and her 5 00:00:18,360 --> 00:00:23,320 Speaker 1: husband own a restaurant in Kerrville. It's called Grape Juice. 6 00:00:24,680 --> 00:00:28,560 Speaker 1: They've been fortunate to not only not have any flood 7 00:00:28,640 --> 00:00:32,880 Speaker 1: damage or loss, so they've been working around the clock, 8 00:00:32,920 --> 00:00:37,360 Speaker 1: feeding anybody who needs a meal, even delivering by helicopter 9 00:00:37,479 --> 00:00:40,440 Speaker 1: thanks to one of their customers. I love them both 10 00:00:40,760 --> 00:00:43,160 Speaker 1: so much, and this is very much who they are. 11 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:46,280 Speaker 1: They help anybody in need as much as they can. 12 00:00:47,680 --> 00:00:50,919 Speaker 1: I said, send me hisnrmer. Derek Easton is his name. 13 00:00:50,960 --> 00:00:51,760 Speaker 1: Welcome to the program. 14 00:00:51,800 --> 00:00:54,320 Speaker 2: Derek. Hey, what's up man? 15 00:00:54,640 --> 00:00:56,160 Speaker 1: How did you end up in Kerrville? 16 00:00:57,360 --> 00:00:59,720 Speaker 2: How did I end up in Curville? Well, like, honestly, 17 00:01:00,240 --> 00:01:03,319 Speaker 2: I'm not in the brightest part of my life. I am. 18 00:01:04,720 --> 00:01:07,720 Speaker 2: I struggled with many issues for many years, so I 19 00:01:07,800 --> 00:01:12,280 Speaker 2: ended I ended up here, uh because I couldn't control 20 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:16,399 Speaker 2: my consumption of controlled substances. So you just celebrated eight 21 00:01:16,440 --> 00:01:19,080 Speaker 2: years sober yesterday. You uh? 22 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:21,720 Speaker 1: Are you on a Bluetooth or a speakerphone or something. 23 00:01:22,920 --> 00:01:26,960 Speaker 2: I am on just a phone. I can probably put 24 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:28,840 Speaker 2: you on speaker No no, no, no, no no no. 25 00:01:29,560 --> 00:01:31,480 Speaker 1: If you're on a phone and you're speaking right into 26 00:01:31,480 --> 00:01:32,720 Speaker 1: the microphone. 27 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:35,360 Speaker 2: Yes sir, Okay, all right, we're good. There we go. 28 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:40,080 Speaker 1: So, so you had a control substance problem a lot 29 00:01:40,120 --> 00:01:43,240 Speaker 1: of people do, and you decided that you needed to 30 00:01:43,240 --> 00:01:46,200 Speaker 1: get out of town and just clear your head and 31 00:01:45,959 --> 00:01:47,400 Speaker 1: and and get some fresh air. 32 00:01:48,760 --> 00:01:52,040 Speaker 2: Yes, sir, Well, Curve it has a pretty strong recovery community. 33 00:01:53,360 --> 00:01:55,040 Speaker 2: There's a lot of good people helping a lot of 34 00:01:55,040 --> 00:01:58,000 Speaker 2: good people around here. And uh, and so it kind 35 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:00,840 Speaker 2: of was like on my radar as I was struggling 36 00:02:00,920 --> 00:02:04,680 Speaker 2: in and out of like different institutions, and so then 37 00:02:04,720 --> 00:02:06,280 Speaker 2: that I kind of that's how I made my way 38 00:02:06,280 --> 00:02:10,720 Speaker 2: to Currville is through that. And then, funnily enough, it's 39 00:02:10,760 --> 00:02:13,040 Speaker 2: like I get to sober, I get out of treatment, 40 00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:15,880 Speaker 2: I go to sober living, I get uh, I get 41 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:18,120 Speaker 2: hired as a busser at the very restaurant I own today. 42 00:02:18,200 --> 00:02:21,960 Speaker 2: I just kept working and falling upwards and and uh, 43 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:27,280 Speaker 2: eventually it came, you know, my life changed. Uh, the 44 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:30,359 Speaker 2: people around me change my prospective change. My connection to 45 00:02:30,440 --> 00:02:32,840 Speaker 2: something the greater than myself changed, and I kind of 46 00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:38,320 Speaker 2: just uh uh really really had a transformative experience. And 47 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:40,639 Speaker 2: so you know, my life's been a blessing ever since 48 00:02:40,680 --> 00:02:42,400 Speaker 2: I did this, and and one of those things is 49 00:02:42,440 --> 00:02:44,160 Speaker 2: just keep doing the next right thing, and that's what 50 00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:44,840 Speaker 2: this really is. 51 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:50,160 Speaker 1: Wow, that's an incredible story, Derek. 52 00:02:52,919 --> 00:02:54,840 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's uh, it's been a it's been a it's 53 00:02:54,880 --> 00:02:58,959 Speaker 2: been a roller coaster. But I will say, if it 54 00:02:59,120 --> 00:03:02,680 Speaker 2: if it wasn't from that, like that that initial uh, 55 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:06,160 Speaker 2: that initial willingness and desperation in the first couple of 56 00:03:06,200 --> 00:03:08,720 Speaker 2: months I arrived in town to really like get it 57 00:03:08,760 --> 00:03:12,080 Speaker 2: together and and figure out how I could uh be 58 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:14,680 Speaker 2: a productive member of society if you will, I'm like, 59 00:03:14,720 --> 00:03:17,080 Speaker 2: none of this would be possible. So I hold a 60 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:19,800 Speaker 2: lot of credit to the people in the very beginning 61 00:03:19,800 --> 00:03:23,040 Speaker 2: of this story, you know, eight years ago that really 62 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:26,640 Speaker 2: like helped me, uh get get sober and get connected 63 00:03:26,680 --> 00:03:29,239 Speaker 2: to not only something bigger than myself, but a community 64 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:30,560 Speaker 2: and some principles to live by. 65 00:03:32,200 --> 00:03:38,080 Speaker 1: I have watched so many people in the throes of 66 00:03:38,120 --> 00:03:44,040 Speaker 1: addiction who and very few people make it out. And 67 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:47,800 Speaker 1: when I see someone who does I recognize that journey, 68 00:03:48,400 --> 00:03:51,320 Speaker 1: in that difficulty, in that struggle, and it's an ongoing struggle. 69 00:03:51,360 --> 00:03:55,000 Speaker 1: It never goes away, and I just, yeah, it gives 70 00:03:55,040 --> 00:03:59,360 Speaker 1: me so much hope. It gives me such happiness to 71 00:03:59,480 --> 00:04:02,760 Speaker 1: see and what an inspiration. There's a reason God puts 72 00:04:02,760 --> 00:04:05,640 Speaker 1: you on our show today, and it's only partly because 73 00:04:05,640 --> 00:04:08,360 Speaker 1: you're feeding the people in Currville. Tell me about grape. 74 00:04:09,880 --> 00:04:13,240 Speaker 2: So grape juice we are traditionally well. So in two 75 00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:16,599 Speaker 2: thousand and seven, Patrick and carry Wilt started this as 76 00:04:17,040 --> 00:04:18,920 Speaker 2: the original letter who started it as a wine shop. 77 00:04:18,960 --> 00:04:21,160 Speaker 2: He came from the wine distribution side of things, and 78 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:24,200 Speaker 2: he saw a need in this area to kind of 79 00:04:24,200 --> 00:04:27,480 Speaker 2: provide the Hill country with like a quality wine experience. 80 00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:30,160 Speaker 2: But that wasn't too hoity toity. The wine world can 81 00:04:30,200 --> 00:04:34,080 Speaker 2: sometimes be pretty like nose in the air when it 82 00:04:34,120 --> 00:04:37,080 Speaker 2: comes to it. But wine is, you know, one of 83 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:40,360 Speaker 2: the oldest beverages on earth and it's it's which is 84 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:44,320 Speaker 2: interesting because I come from a recovery background. So they 85 00:04:46,839 --> 00:04:51,400 Speaker 2: started it in Ingram, actually they are in the border 86 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:55,880 Speaker 2: of Ingram and Hunts So it was a wine shop 87 00:04:55,920 --> 00:04:58,680 Speaker 2: and then when they moved to downtown Kerrville, they started 88 00:04:58,680 --> 00:05:01,760 Speaker 2: serving food, and through that it's just kind of organically 89 00:05:01,760 --> 00:05:05,520 Speaker 2: involved into like a full service restaurant. I came on 90 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:11,359 Speaker 2: board eight years ago as a busser. I was bussing, 91 00:05:11,520 --> 00:05:15,560 Speaker 2: washing dishes. Uh. Then I moved into serving, and then 92 00:05:15,560 --> 00:05:17,600 Speaker 2: I moved into back of house and pretty much every 93 00:05:17,640 --> 00:05:22,160 Speaker 2: function until I've got to general management right around right 94 00:05:22,200 --> 00:05:26,560 Speaker 2: around twenty twenty, right around twenty twenty twenty twenty one. 95 00:05:26,880 --> 00:05:29,320 Speaker 2: What we do is we serve Hill Country comfort food, 96 00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:31,440 Speaker 2: but with like a Hill Country twist. So we deal 97 00:05:31,480 --> 00:05:35,920 Speaker 2: with a lot of local, local ingredients. We have a distributor, 98 00:05:36,279 --> 00:05:38,760 Speaker 2: Chris Hughes at a broken Ara ranch that gives us 99 00:05:38,800 --> 00:05:41,880 Speaker 2: South Texas antelope or nail Guy, if you're familiar with it, 100 00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:45,440 Speaker 2: and we we do ground and nail Guy braised nail Guy. 101 00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:48,000 Speaker 2: But we put that We don't do it like on 102 00:05:48,160 --> 00:05:50,920 Speaker 2: like fancy fine dining. We do it on like strictly 103 00:05:50,960 --> 00:05:55,719 Speaker 2: like working class meals. You're familiar with, tacos, hamburgers, the 104 00:05:55,880 --> 00:05:59,400 Speaker 2: like of that. We also do quail and so that's 105 00:05:59,440 --> 00:06:02,040 Speaker 2: kind of like our modus, like food you're familiar with, 106 00:06:02,240 --> 00:06:04,120 Speaker 2: but with like a little bit of a twist. It's 107 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:06,560 Speaker 2: actually really weird talking about Grape Juice. It feels like 108 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:09,880 Speaker 2: it's been four weeks since I've got to speel my 109 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:14,920 Speaker 2: business or my restaurant because of of how how quickly 110 00:06:14,920 --> 00:06:16,839 Speaker 2: we had to change on a dime, and we've essentially 111 00:06:16,920 --> 00:06:20,359 Speaker 2: become a canteen for all first responders and those affected 112 00:06:20,400 --> 00:06:22,200 Speaker 2: by the flood. But I'm happy to do it because 113 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:25,400 Speaker 2: it's really what my passion is is food service and hospitality. 114 00:06:26,839 --> 00:06:29,600 Speaker 1: What are you seeing in the people you're helping? What 115 00:06:30,320 --> 00:06:33,120 Speaker 1: from an out for outsiders, how would. 116 00:06:32,920 --> 00:06:37,440 Speaker 2: You describe, Uh, Gratitude? Mainly gratitude. It's just like a 117 00:06:37,480 --> 00:06:41,760 Speaker 2: lot of gratitude. We've we've been flood, we've been we've 118 00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:46,040 Speaker 2: been overwhelmed with uh what I'm now calling positive noise, 119 00:06:46,080 --> 00:06:48,120 Speaker 2: which is you don't really hear about that too much. Today. 120 00:06:48,560 --> 00:06:52,160 Speaker 2: Our Facebook page, our Instagram, even our phones are just 121 00:06:52,160 --> 00:06:55,240 Speaker 2: just pouring in love and support from not only the 122 00:06:55,279 --> 00:06:59,159 Speaker 2: local community but the world at large. The people that 123 00:06:59,200 --> 00:07:01,840 Speaker 2: are coming in. You know, it's it's a lot of tears, 124 00:07:01,880 --> 00:07:07,440 Speaker 2: man like grateful tears, and it's sometimes surreal and sometimes 125 00:07:07,880 --> 00:07:11,160 Speaker 2: like you're you get so we're so focused on what 126 00:07:11,240 --> 00:07:15,440 Speaker 2: we're doing that we we sometimes we have to keep 127 00:07:15,440 --> 00:07:18,040 Speaker 2: telling ourselves to take like breaks and pause and like 128 00:07:18,160 --> 00:07:21,679 Speaker 2: really like understand what we're doing, because I'll be honest, 129 00:07:21,680 --> 00:07:24,560 Speaker 2: we didn't. We didn't set out to do that. Like 130 00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:27,840 Speaker 2: we didn't. I'm a restaurant owner, a small business owner 131 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:31,640 Speaker 2: that isn't that loves his community and so it's going 132 00:07:31,680 --> 00:07:34,240 Speaker 2: to do whatever he wants he can for his community. 133 00:07:35,240 --> 00:07:37,680 Speaker 2: But I didn't. I didn't want to set out to 134 00:07:37,800 --> 00:07:41,280 Speaker 2: run a like distribution center for those need When we 135 00:07:41,320 --> 00:07:51,880 Speaker 2: initially started, the impression was that, like the call I got. 136 00:07:49,080 --> 00:07:52,320 Speaker 1: Hold on just a moment with Derecuse and they have 137 00:07:52,480 --> 00:08:00,160 Speaker 1: the a r antelope Nacho meet. That sound probably on 138 00:08:00,160 --> 00:08:07,280 Speaker 1: a pope was recorded. Derek Easton is our guest, referred 139 00:08:07,320 --> 00:08:13,400 Speaker 1: by a listener who is married to Derek Easton's bride. 140 00:08:13,480 --> 00:08:17,600 Speaker 1: Derek owns and operates Grape Juice in Purrville, which fortunately 141 00:08:17,760 --> 00:08:21,640 Speaker 1: was not it. How did you manage to avoid the floods? 142 00:08:22,440 --> 00:08:25,040 Speaker 1: I mean, what's the location, and that's what I mean 143 00:08:25,120 --> 00:08:25,480 Speaker 1: by that. 144 00:08:26,320 --> 00:08:29,280 Speaker 2: So we're at six two three Water Street off Sidney 145 00:08:29,280 --> 00:08:33,120 Speaker 2: Sydney Baker. We're like right on the corner of downtown. Right. 146 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:37,400 Speaker 2: You've probably seen some images of Louise Hayes park where 147 00:08:38,200 --> 00:08:42,840 Speaker 2: your listeners might might have where the bridge is about 148 00:08:42,880 --> 00:08:47,560 Speaker 2: thirty feet from the water, so we're about thirty to 149 00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:51,800 Speaker 2: thirty five feet. I'm not these these these metrics might 150 00:08:51,840 --> 00:08:54,360 Speaker 2: be off, but we're pretty We sit pretty high above 151 00:08:54,400 --> 00:08:58,920 Speaker 2: where the standard river flows and it's actually pretty beautiful. 152 00:08:58,960 --> 00:09:02,680 Speaker 2: It's very scenic. And then we also sit on an incline. 153 00:09:02,679 --> 00:09:06,360 Speaker 2: And where where this is, how is the buildings over 154 00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:09,240 Speaker 2: nearly one hundred years old? Over one hundred years old. 155 00:09:09,240 --> 00:09:11,200 Speaker 2: In fact, it used to be a movie theater, then 156 00:09:11,240 --> 00:09:14,520 Speaker 2: a general store, and so we sit pretty high, I 157 00:09:14,520 --> 00:09:17,760 Speaker 2: think for the main reason of getting like skipments for 158 00:09:17,920 --> 00:09:21,560 Speaker 2: the general store on a loading dot, we were like 159 00:09:21,559 --> 00:09:24,760 Speaker 2: the concessions and the general So fortunately the building sits 160 00:09:24,800 --> 00:09:27,120 Speaker 2: on an incline and we're pretty high. We didn't even 161 00:09:27,360 --> 00:09:28,839 Speaker 2: even see a need to breed or to try this 162 00:09:29,040 --> 00:09:32,600 Speaker 2: in our back parking lot. We we got We got 163 00:09:32,760 --> 00:09:34,199 Speaker 2: got blessed with that for sure. 164 00:09:37,480 --> 00:09:40,480 Speaker 1: What does B A R stand for on your menu? 165 00:09:40,920 --> 00:09:43,800 Speaker 2: It's it's so it stands for broken ra ranch. We 166 00:09:43,840 --> 00:09:48,480 Speaker 2: do it. That is what the distributor of the new Yeah, 167 00:09:47,400 --> 00:09:49,880 Speaker 2: that how do you keep how do you. 168 00:09:49,840 --> 00:09:54,319 Speaker 1: Make a B A broken arrow ranch? Antelope notcho meat 169 00:09:54,440 --> 00:09:57,439 Speaker 1: and it not be dry, because every time I've had 170 00:09:57,520 --> 00:10:00,079 Speaker 1: antelope it ends up being very dry. 171 00:10:01,360 --> 00:10:05,240 Speaker 2: Uh So so what nil guy is also referred to 172 00:10:05,520 --> 00:10:08,120 Speaker 2: as blue cow, So it's a lot it's like a 173 00:10:08,200 --> 00:10:13,079 Speaker 2: leaner beef, So we raise it. Raising really helps and 174 00:10:13,120 --> 00:10:16,360 Speaker 2: then uh like ground and cooked and braised in a 175 00:10:16,400 --> 00:10:21,079 Speaker 2: salsa verde is also like really uh really uh okay okay, 176 00:10:21,320 --> 00:10:22,480 Speaker 2: what keeps it from being dry. 177 00:10:22,559 --> 00:10:26,319 Speaker 1: There's a place in Houston called Rainbow Lodge that's kind 178 00:10:26,360 --> 00:10:33,000 Speaker 1: of famous for their various uh game, and I love 179 00:10:33,160 --> 00:10:37,240 Speaker 1: to try different meats, but I find that many of 180 00:10:37,280 --> 00:10:41,920 Speaker 1: them are extraordinarily dry. So after you get over the 181 00:10:41,960 --> 00:10:44,640 Speaker 1: concept of how neat it is that you're eating, you 182 00:10:44,720 --> 00:10:48,920 Speaker 1: almost need like a chutney or a sauce or something 183 00:10:49,520 --> 00:10:52,240 Speaker 1: separate from it exactly, which is a bummer because I 184 00:10:52,360 --> 00:10:55,040 Speaker 1: like to eat meat dry to actually get the flavor 185 00:10:55,160 --> 00:10:57,360 Speaker 1: of a meat because so many things they do. Yeah, 186 00:10:57,520 --> 00:11:02,240 Speaker 1: I understand they drown the broken arrow ranch braised venison, 187 00:11:02,320 --> 00:11:03,040 Speaker 1: tell me about that. 188 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:06,320 Speaker 2: So that is that is also going to be nil 189 00:11:06,440 --> 00:11:08,839 Speaker 2: nail guy, but it's raised in a Goga jaying sauce, 190 00:11:08,880 --> 00:11:13,520 Speaker 2: which is essentially a Korean barbecue sauce. So you got 191 00:11:13,720 --> 00:11:17,520 Speaker 2: U go Jane braised Venison, hoys Sin. It's kind of 192 00:11:17,559 --> 00:11:22,679 Speaker 2: like an Asian usion text Mex dish that kind of 193 00:11:22,720 --> 00:11:24,880 Speaker 2: like really and that's a dish. You can really taste 194 00:11:25,200 --> 00:11:27,880 Speaker 2: some of them, like the Wild Game. But again, what 195 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:31,480 Speaker 2: our our, our main goal when creating menus and using 196 00:11:31,520 --> 00:11:34,680 Speaker 2: product like that is to do introduce people that would 197 00:11:34,840 --> 00:11:38,160 Speaker 2: otherwise not be very familiar with Wild Game, Like I 198 00:11:38,200 --> 00:11:41,040 Speaker 2: grew up eating it, so I'm pretty familiar. Did I 199 00:11:41,080 --> 00:11:43,560 Speaker 2: grow up to what you're saying? I grew up in 200 00:11:43,720 --> 00:11:47,200 Speaker 2: North Houston, so the Woodlands, Texas? Okay, it was born 201 00:11:47,240 --> 00:11:49,160 Speaker 2: and raised. Yeah. 202 00:11:49,240 --> 00:11:52,800 Speaker 1: When Jim got you on the line, I had forgotten 203 00:11:52,840 --> 00:11:55,760 Speaker 1: we were doing this this discussion and he goes, hey, 204 00:11:55,800 --> 00:11:58,600 Speaker 1: don't remember, don't forget. I got Derek Easton right now 205 00:11:58,800 --> 00:12:01,680 Speaker 1: the music could started. So I completely forgot that we 206 00:12:01,679 --> 00:12:05,160 Speaker 1: were having this conversation and he goes, no, he goes 207 00:12:05,520 --> 00:12:08,680 Speaker 1: he sounds kind of like a surfer stoner dude, and 208 00:12:08,840 --> 00:12:09,439 Speaker 1: you do. 209 00:12:10,679 --> 00:12:13,199 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I get that a lot. Man. I 210 00:12:14,120 --> 00:12:19,520 Speaker 2: grew up skating, like primarily at skate parks. You know, 211 00:12:19,600 --> 00:12:23,559 Speaker 2: I'm thirty three, so kind of like that mid millennial. Uh, 212 00:12:23,600 --> 00:12:25,959 Speaker 2: so I had like a lot of my like lexicon 213 00:12:26,200 --> 00:12:30,160 Speaker 2: and like the semantics that was also influenced by like 214 00:12:30,400 --> 00:12:34,160 Speaker 2: you know, MTV, the media and the internet. You know, 215 00:12:34,840 --> 00:12:37,480 Speaker 2: so I kind of I understand most most of the 216 00:12:37,920 --> 00:12:43,880 Speaker 2: consumption of media was like revolving around like this skate scene. Yeah, no, 217 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:46,280 Speaker 2: I could you've. 218 00:12:46,160 --> 00:12:49,400 Speaker 1: Got a little bit of a reference to Yeah, that's 219 00:12:49,480 --> 00:12:52,200 Speaker 1: my dog. Yeah, I'm sure it is. 220 00:12:52,400 --> 00:12:55,040 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no, I know fast Times, the original highs. 221 00:12:54,840 --> 00:12:58,240 Speaker 1: Man, you're a little young for that. What was your drug. 222 00:13:00,240 --> 00:13:03,600 Speaker 2: Heroin? Mainly like the opiates was like the big thing. 223 00:13:05,760 --> 00:13:09,800 Speaker 2: Like that's kind of how you know, I was what 224 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:12,280 Speaker 2: I am thirty three. So right around like the two 225 00:13:12,320 --> 00:13:17,680 Speaker 2: thousand and eight, our community really got got hit with 226 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:21,600 Speaker 2: a whole bunch of things. If obviously you remember, and 227 00:13:21,760 --> 00:13:25,080 Speaker 2: like prescription started with prescription drugs just kind of like 228 00:13:25,600 --> 00:13:28,480 Speaker 2: wholesale everybody had them, if that big of a deal. 229 00:13:29,240 --> 00:13:32,200 Speaker 2: And then opiates are are abuse, I mean, but I 230 00:13:32,200 --> 00:13:35,040 Speaker 2: mean I can assist I probably. I'm I'm of the 231 00:13:35,120 --> 00:13:39,400 Speaker 2: belief that like like substance abuse is a symptom of 232 00:13:39,440 --> 00:13:42,440 Speaker 2: a larger issue in the community. I'm a part of 233 00:13:42,559 --> 00:13:46,679 Speaker 2: belief that's like a spiritual malady. And so that's kind 234 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:49,520 Speaker 2: of like, I you know, if it wasn't gonna be heroin, 235 00:13:49,559 --> 00:13:51,679 Speaker 2: it was it could have been any in, any other vice, 236 00:13:52,440 --> 00:13:57,920 Speaker 2: but mainly opiates for a good like decade of my life, 237 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:02,080 Speaker 2: starting at probably like fourteen fis wow, and then and 238 00:14:02,120 --> 00:14:06,080 Speaker 2: then graduating to intervenious drug use probably pretty pretty quick 239 00:14:06,120 --> 00:14:09,840 Speaker 2: shortly after that. I am lucky. I do feel blessed. 240 00:14:09,920 --> 00:14:13,520 Speaker 2: I did get sober in twenty seventeen, really before this 241 00:14:13,679 --> 00:14:16,880 Speaker 2: like this spentanyl crisis that we're in right now. So 242 00:14:17,040 --> 00:14:22,440 Speaker 2: like so I feel lucky for that. Heroin is a 243 00:14:22,480 --> 00:14:26,840 Speaker 2: dangerous drug by far, but like it's nothing compared to 244 00:14:26,880 --> 00:14:30,920 Speaker 2: what we're seeing now. And so and that's just by 245 00:14:30,960 --> 00:14:33,840 Speaker 2: the grace of God. I you know, I tell people 246 00:14:33,920 --> 00:14:36,400 Speaker 2: when I tell my story that, like, you know, if 247 00:14:36,440 --> 00:14:39,000 Speaker 2: it would have even been a couple months later, it 248 00:14:39,360 --> 00:14:43,400 Speaker 2: literally finnyl hit our area, right it was already kind 249 00:14:43,400 --> 00:14:46,840 Speaker 2: of seeping in, but twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen, we really 250 00:14:46,840 --> 00:14:49,600 Speaker 2: saw it. And we saw a lot of community members 251 00:14:49,640 --> 00:14:51,560 Speaker 2: and friends I had grown up with, like the heroine 252 00:14:51,560 --> 00:14:54,920 Speaker 2: no longer with us because of that. So that was 253 00:14:54,960 --> 00:14:57,160 Speaker 2: mainly that, Yeah, that was the big but I wasn't 254 00:14:57,280 --> 00:14:59,360 Speaker 2: anything and everything type of dude. If it changed the 255 00:14:59,360 --> 00:15:02,320 Speaker 2: way I felt, I was gonna do it. But but 256 00:15:02,680 --> 00:15:06,840 Speaker 2: the grip of heroin was really, like really the main 257 00:15:06,920 --> 00:15:09,000 Speaker 2: thing that was destroying my life. 258 00:15:09,120 --> 00:15:10,480 Speaker 1: How'd you get into food service? 259 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:14,640 Speaker 2: Food service? Well, I mean it's kind of one and 260 00:15:14,720 --> 00:15:17,720 Speaker 2: the same. Man like when you when you spend your 261 00:15:17,840 --> 00:15:20,400 Speaker 2: early I didn't. I didn't really have direction as a 262 00:15:20,440 --> 00:15:24,520 Speaker 2: teenager or in the early twenties, and the food service 263 00:15:24,560 --> 00:15:27,840 Speaker 2: industry is always looking for people like that. I wouldn't 264 00:15:27,840 --> 00:15:32,840 Speaker 2: say in most contexts, it's like the greatest place to 265 00:15:33,160 --> 00:15:36,960 Speaker 2: be if you are like in early recovery. But in 266 00:15:37,040 --> 00:15:39,120 Speaker 2: Curveville it's a little bit different. A lot of a 267 00:15:39,160 --> 00:15:43,520 Speaker 2: lot of the places around here have a lot within 268 00:15:43,640 --> 00:15:46,320 Speaker 2: upper management and lower management and even on the floor 269 00:15:46,640 --> 00:15:49,120 Speaker 2: have people in recovery. So there's a little bit accountability, 270 00:15:49,160 --> 00:15:53,600 Speaker 2: but just a need to honestly pay. There's it's cash 271 00:15:53,720 --> 00:15:57,960 Speaker 2: a lot of the times, and you can get cast out. 272 00:15:59,080 --> 00:16:00,040 Speaker 2: You can get cashed out. 273 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:03,960 Speaker 1: Waiting for just a minute, Derek Easton, the restaurant is 274 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:05,240 Speaker 1: grape Juice in Kerrville. 275 00:16:05,240 --> 00:16:05,920 Speaker 2: They're feeding the. 276 00:16:05,880 --> 00:16:19,120 Speaker 1: Folks there and why I got a message by email 277 00:16:20,640 --> 00:16:23,200 Speaker 1: about a fellow whose sister and her husband run a 278 00:16:23,240 --> 00:16:29,360 Speaker 1: restaurant in Kerrville which amazingly was not devastated by the storm, 279 00:16:29,840 --> 00:16:33,640 Speaker 1: called Grape Juice, and that they're feeding the people there 280 00:16:34,240 --> 00:16:37,880 Speaker 1: for free, and that that's kind of their ministry. I 281 00:16:37,920 --> 00:16:41,200 Speaker 1: thought that was cool. So we're talking to the owner, 282 00:16:41,480 --> 00:16:43,840 Speaker 1: Derek Easton, who I guess is the brother in law. 283 00:16:49,320 --> 00:16:53,960 Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you a question, Derek, about the 284 00:16:54,080 --> 00:17:00,520 Speaker 1: kra Coronian cheese. Okay, the Krackeroni and cheese. 285 00:17:01,640 --> 00:17:04,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's our version of macaroni and cheese. It's a 286 00:17:04,040 --> 00:17:07,520 Speaker 2: shell pasta, gouda bass. You got q tam pearl onions, 287 00:17:07,600 --> 00:17:09,879 Speaker 2: cherry tomatoes, and then we use that as a base 288 00:17:09,960 --> 00:17:13,480 Speaker 2: for a variety of dishes. The chupacabra would be like 289 00:17:13,760 --> 00:17:19,439 Speaker 2: pulled pork slaw, the aforementioned Kracrooni. We have a honey 290 00:17:19,440 --> 00:17:23,359 Speaker 2: Badger which is gonna be antelope chili Kraceroni fri toes, 291 00:17:23,680 --> 00:17:26,320 Speaker 2: kind of like chili magic frito pie. And then we 292 00:17:26,440 --> 00:17:28,560 Speaker 2: just recently dropped a menu item not too long ago 293 00:17:28,680 --> 00:17:31,080 Speaker 2: called the Phoenix, which is kind of a callback to 294 00:17:31,160 --> 00:17:33,680 Speaker 2: a pass menu item, which is a broken ail or 295 00:17:33,720 --> 00:17:38,000 Speaker 2: ranch quail slaw in our Craceroni. So it's it's a 296 00:17:38,040 --> 00:17:40,359 Speaker 2: macaroni and cheese. It's a version of macaroni and cheese. 297 00:17:41,400 --> 00:17:45,600 Speaker 1: So Derek Displice has at least by the menu and 298 00:17:45,680 --> 00:17:50,480 Speaker 1: your vibe and when I get kind of heights near 299 00:17:50,640 --> 00:17:57,880 Speaker 1: West feel to it. You know, Curville, I've spent some 300 00:17:57,920 --> 00:18:01,360 Speaker 1: time in Cerville. Curville has much like Fredericksburg. A lot 301 00:18:01,359 --> 00:18:04,200 Speaker 1: of those some older folks about there for a long time. 302 00:18:04,240 --> 00:18:06,280 Speaker 1: They like their basic comfort food. And then you've got 303 00:18:06,280 --> 00:18:09,640 Speaker 1: a lot of newer folks, private equity and younger folks 304 00:18:09,680 --> 00:18:12,200 Speaker 1: maybe that living tangle wouldn't have a second home there. 305 00:18:13,640 --> 00:18:15,920 Speaker 1: How has this menu you've been received. 306 00:18:16,960 --> 00:18:21,920 Speaker 2: So excellent? I mean, I think because it's organic and 307 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:25,119 Speaker 2: because it's like give and take and we change it 308 00:18:25,240 --> 00:18:29,600 Speaker 2: every three to four months. It's just a spot where 309 00:18:29,600 --> 00:18:34,240 Speaker 2: people know they can come and get quality, locally sourced food. 310 00:18:36,480 --> 00:18:39,080 Speaker 2: They know that like that the menu is going to 311 00:18:39,119 --> 00:18:41,320 Speaker 2: get changed. They know they can come here three to 312 00:18:41,400 --> 00:18:44,359 Speaker 2: four times a week and have a different experience. And 313 00:18:44,359 --> 00:18:47,000 Speaker 2: then we've also were just trying to make like that 314 00:18:47,119 --> 00:18:52,600 Speaker 2: kind of style of food accessible to everybody because uh, 315 00:18:53,280 --> 00:18:55,720 Speaker 2: we we call it, we call it the phone warner. 316 00:18:55,920 --> 00:18:58,320 Speaker 2: And I always appreciate it's fine dining in flip fops. 317 00:18:58,640 --> 00:19:03,239 Speaker 2: I mean, my typical uniform is like vans shorts and 318 00:19:03,280 --> 00:19:05,960 Speaker 2: maybe like a punk rock T shirt and so, but 319 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:08,720 Speaker 2: we're also on the on the other side, very knowledgeable 320 00:19:08,720 --> 00:19:11,320 Speaker 2: and passionate about what we're doing, and so we make 321 00:19:11,359 --> 00:19:14,919 Speaker 2: it approachable for somebody who may feel kind of intimidated 322 00:19:14,920 --> 00:19:18,400 Speaker 2: by going into other these some other fine dining establishments, 323 00:19:18,720 --> 00:19:20,600 Speaker 2: and so it's been received. Well, we're kind of a 324 00:19:20,600 --> 00:19:26,040 Speaker 2: cultural hub here in Kerrville. We were really community focused. 325 00:19:26,440 --> 00:19:30,439 Speaker 2: I think outside of the normal summer season, we are 326 00:19:31,119 --> 00:19:33,840 Speaker 2: like I would say seventy five eighty percent of our 327 00:19:33,880 --> 00:19:38,720 Speaker 2: customer base is regulars. We always like to welcome in 328 00:19:39,160 --> 00:19:42,840 Speaker 2: new and tourists and people that maybe are traveling from 329 00:19:42,840 --> 00:19:45,520 Speaker 2: Afar that's stumbled in. But our focus is really, like 330 00:19:45,720 --> 00:19:48,639 Speaker 2: has always been serving the community that we live in 331 00:19:48,760 --> 00:19:50,240 Speaker 2: because we're a part of that community. 332 00:19:50,720 --> 00:19:53,119 Speaker 1: All right, let's let's break down the demographics of that. 333 00:19:53,200 --> 00:19:56,960 Speaker 1: I know it represents every every group, but let's take 334 00:19:57,040 --> 00:20:00,280 Speaker 1: your regulars a thousand people whatever you want to number 335 00:20:00,320 --> 00:20:03,120 Speaker 1: to be one hundred people. Unlet's round them down into percentages. 336 00:20:03,160 --> 00:20:04,679 Speaker 1: What percentage of those are retirees? 337 00:20:06,320 --> 00:20:09,320 Speaker 2: I would say probably about twenty five to. 338 00:20:09,280 --> 00:20:12,840 Speaker 1: Thirty percent of those retirees. What percentage of those lived 339 00:20:12,840 --> 00:20:15,119 Speaker 1: there for a long period of time, and what percentage 340 00:20:15,160 --> 00:20:19,280 Speaker 1: of those just the retirees moved there in retirement. 341 00:20:22,040 --> 00:20:28,520 Speaker 2: I think, like I would say it's probably about fifty fifty. 342 00:20:29,400 --> 00:20:31,000 Speaker 2: What we do end up having is a lot of 343 00:20:31,040 --> 00:20:34,520 Speaker 2: people that grew up here, went to high school here, 344 00:20:35,280 --> 00:20:37,920 Speaker 2: then went off to college, started their careers, and then 345 00:20:38,720 --> 00:20:41,679 Speaker 2: they retire back here. Yeah, if that makes sense. No, 346 00:20:41,760 --> 00:20:44,880 Speaker 2: it's like a lot of like, yeah, yeah, they come 347 00:20:44,960 --> 00:20:47,680 Speaker 2: back to home because it's just it's a beautiful place, man. 348 00:20:48,200 --> 00:20:51,520 Speaker 2: And that's really the true devastation of what just happened is, Like, 349 00:20:52,640 --> 00:20:55,360 Speaker 2: you know, I've been here ten years, but I'd say 350 00:20:55,400 --> 00:20:58,600 Speaker 2: the median age of my staff is around twenty three 351 00:20:58,760 --> 00:21:01,680 Speaker 2: twenty four. A lot of them are born and raised here, 352 00:21:02,040 --> 00:21:05,000 Speaker 2: and so it's just like I can't imagine. I was 353 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:06,720 Speaker 2: telling them, like I was talking to them last night, 354 00:21:06,880 --> 00:21:09,679 Speaker 2: I still have childhood places that I went with my 355 00:21:09,840 --> 00:21:13,080 Speaker 2: family and they still exist, and it's just not that's 356 00:21:13,119 --> 00:21:14,760 Speaker 2: not a fact for a lot of these young people. 357 00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:18,480 Speaker 1: Yeah, do you live in town or out in the 358 00:21:18,520 --> 00:21:19,239 Speaker 1: country or how far? 359 00:21:19,400 --> 00:21:24,000 Speaker 2: Yes, sir, I live. I live maybe seven minutes from 360 00:21:24,040 --> 00:21:29,119 Speaker 2: the restaurant. I live pretty close. It's awesome. The commute 361 00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:33,800 Speaker 2: is awesome. Both me and my wife work in downtown. 362 00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:42,200 Speaker 2: She day to day runs a clothing boutique store called CJ. Copeland's. 363 00:21:42,560 --> 00:21:45,320 Speaker 2: And then I was managing this for a long time 364 00:21:45,359 --> 00:21:47,720 Speaker 2: and we in fact only I've been working here for 365 00:21:47,760 --> 00:21:50,399 Speaker 2: eight years, but we only purchased. We only purchased the 366 00:21:50,480 --> 00:21:55,320 Speaker 2: business in the beginning of April. Wow. 367 00:21:56,840 --> 00:21:59,640 Speaker 1: Yeah, when you said, well, let me ask this when 368 00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:02,800 Speaker 1: when you look around, I mean, I'm sure as you're 369 00:22:02,880 --> 00:22:05,720 Speaker 1: feeding these people, you're talking to these people, and there 370 00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:10,159 Speaker 1: are worries and concerns. Where do you see Curville a 371 00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:12,679 Speaker 1: year from now, five years from now? How does this 372 00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:14,080 Speaker 1: affect Curville? 373 00:22:15,560 --> 00:22:19,400 Speaker 2: I think I think the concerns is just the uncertainty 374 00:22:19,440 --> 00:22:21,920 Speaker 2: in that fact and even the consideration of that fact. 375 00:22:21,920 --> 00:22:25,040 Speaker 2: We don't really you know, we've been so focused on 376 00:22:25,119 --> 00:22:26,760 Speaker 2: like the short term, and that's what a lot of 377 00:22:26,800 --> 00:22:30,040 Speaker 2: the efforts I've been focused on. So our recent mission 378 00:22:30,240 --> 00:22:34,280 Speaker 2: is to kind of create long term sustainability because it's 379 00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:36,040 Speaker 2: going to be years. I've been talking to people all 380 00:22:36,040 --> 00:22:39,439 Speaker 2: over the world that I've gone through stuff like this Ashville, 381 00:22:39,800 --> 00:22:45,000 Speaker 2: Arizona kind of getting other small business advice about like 382 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:48,920 Speaker 2: like what happened in the beginning, and then what happened 383 00:22:50,040 --> 00:22:52,639 Speaker 2: months and years from then, and well a lot of 384 00:22:52,640 --> 00:22:54,240 Speaker 2: what I'm hearing, And this is one of the reasons 385 00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:55,959 Speaker 2: I'm talking to you and as many as people as 386 00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:59,240 Speaker 2: I can and getting enough eyes and ears on what's 387 00:22:59,240 --> 00:23:02,640 Speaker 2: happening now, because when the news cycle switches, something else 388 00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:05,120 Speaker 2: is going to happen. And I understand it. I get it. 389 00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:07,400 Speaker 2: I a little week ago, I was doing the same thing. 390 00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:12,719 Speaker 2: You know, I had to, and I'm ashamed of this 391 00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:14,360 Speaker 2: fact now that I've been through it, but I think 392 00:23:14,359 --> 00:23:18,360 Speaker 2: it's pretty standard and people feel didn't feel too guilty. 393 00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:21,359 Speaker 2: Like I remembered that there was floods on the East Coast. 394 00:23:21,560 --> 00:23:23,840 Speaker 2: I couldn't tell, you know, it's like as Carolina as 395 00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:25,760 Speaker 2: I think. Yeah, but now that I'm here in it, 396 00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:28,639 Speaker 2: you know what I mean, Like, I don't blame people, 397 00:23:28,760 --> 00:23:31,040 Speaker 2: but at the same time, like we need the help 398 00:23:31,119 --> 00:23:33,240 Speaker 2: now and we're going to continue to need the help. 399 00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:36,160 Speaker 2: So my focus is like getting as much help right 400 00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:40,000 Speaker 2: now and then we can delegate the rest over the 401 00:23:40,040 --> 00:23:40,679 Speaker 2: coming months. 402 00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:44,120 Speaker 1: That is very well said Derek, because I've seen this 403 00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:46,520 Speaker 1: a number of times in different ways. I served in 404 00:23:46,560 --> 00:23:49,120 Speaker 1: public office, and I can tell you that people are 405 00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:52,800 Speaker 1: very interested in something for a moment, and the error 406 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:56,560 Speaker 1: is in thinking that there is a long run projection. 407 00:23:56,640 --> 00:23:59,120 Speaker 1: If there's not, it has a very short shelf life, 408 00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:02,240 Speaker 1: and then they move on and you're completely forgotten. So 409 00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:05,720 Speaker 1: it is absolutely true. Well, I think what you're doing 410 00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:09,560 Speaker 1: is wonderful. I think you have a great story. It's 411 00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:13,560 Speaker 1: an inspiring story, both your background, how you ended up here, 412 00:24:13,760 --> 00:24:16,960 Speaker 1: your business, uh and and how you ended up with that. 413 00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:21,520 Speaker 1: You're you're dealing with addiction and you're giving back to 414 00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:24,879 Speaker 1: the community. It's a really cool story. It's a it's 415 00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:27,640 Speaker 1: a neat journey you're on and and I know you struggle, 416 00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:30,920 Speaker 1: and I know you're imperfect, but but I think it's 417 00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:34,040 Speaker 1: a really cool story. It's a very cool story. He 418 00:24:34,119 --> 00:24:35,960 Speaker 1: would be a good movie. Who would you want to 419 00:24:35,960 --> 00:24:38,160 Speaker 1: play you in the movie? I've seen a picture I'm 420 00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:43,359 Speaker 1: thinking about Sam bankman Fred or something like that, maybe 421 00:24:43,359 --> 00:24:46,120 Speaker 1: seth Rogen before he lost all that weight. Who would 422 00:24:46,119 --> 00:24:46,439 Speaker 1: you want to. 423 00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:53,840 Speaker 2: I would say, Uh, yeah, I get that's what we'll do. 424 00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:54,080 Speaker 2: That's it. 425 00:24:54,119 --> 00:25:00,159 Speaker 1: We'll cast separately. What's interesting about all of it is 426 00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:07,320 Speaker 1: that I have a fervent belief that we are going 427 00:25:07,359 --> 00:25:16,040 Speaker 1: to see an accelerated development of non urban areas. We're 428 00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:20,919 Speaker 1: already witnessing it. But it's one of those things that 429 00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:26,400 Speaker 1: the first stages move very slow, and those first stages 430 00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:30,200 Speaker 1: seed the next and then it's kind of like AI, 431 00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:36,960 Speaker 1: it just gets faster and faster exponentially so, and I 432 00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:43,000 Speaker 1: think that Kurville is I think we're going to see 433 00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:47,520 Speaker 1: what are we twenty twenty five by twenty and forty, 434 00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:55,119 Speaker 1: I think you would not believe how different some communities 435 00:25:55,840 --> 00:26:02,439 Speaker 1: are than they are today. And that would be that 436 00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:08,120 Speaker 1: would be Kerrville, Fredericksburg. It's already happening. I mean, if 437 00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:11,640 Speaker 1: you go outside of Austin and you take let's say 438 00:26:11,680 --> 00:26:15,840 Speaker 1: two to ninety over that Dripping Springs area all the 439 00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:18,160 Speaker 1: way over and then you go down to Blanco, if 440 00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:23,320 Speaker 1: you see what's happening in those areas with just the 441 00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:30,439 Speaker 1: residential component, well that's only going to continue because the 442 00:26:30,520 --> 00:26:35,560 Speaker 1: reason people are moving there is twofold. It's a push pull. 443 00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:41,000 Speaker 1: It is primarily a push out of the big city. 444 00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:46,080 Speaker 1: It is secondarily a pull to things that make you 445 00:26:46,119 --> 00:26:49,320 Speaker 1: fall in love the push out of the big city. 446 00:26:50,040 --> 00:26:52,960 Speaker 1: If you saw this woman, Sadie Perkins, this evil woman. 447 00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:58,240 Speaker 1: She had been a silvester turner, appointee to the Food 448 00:26:58,359 --> 00:27:05,040 Speaker 1: in Security Board, she worked for Freedman'stown Market, Farmer's Market. 449 00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:10,240 Speaker 1: And she's basically a black woman who walks around talking 450 00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:13,480 Speaker 1: about how much she hates white people. And her brand 451 00:27:13,520 --> 00:27:16,360 Speaker 1: of racism, which is which is a newer brand. This 452 00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:21,320 Speaker 1: is the younger black racist. Her brand of racism is 453 00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:27,920 Speaker 1: not to be a victim of Whitey. White He's evil. 454 00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:31,280 Speaker 1: Let's start there. Whitey is evil. We hate him. We 455 00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:35,200 Speaker 1: wish bad things upon him and his children. We wish 456 00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:38,320 Speaker 1: awful things upon him. We are He is not our countryman, 457 00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:42,240 Speaker 1: our brethren. We don't love him, none of it, none 458 00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:45,439 Speaker 1: of it. We are never comfortable in his presence, and 459 00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:50,119 Speaker 1: we wish, we wish for bad things to happen. We 460 00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:52,919 Speaker 1: would twerk in his face at his mother's funeral if 461 00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:57,520 Speaker 1: we could. Whatever we can do. There are ways we 462 00:27:57,600 --> 00:28:00,280 Speaker 1: know he doesn't like us and we don't like him. 463 00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:09,760 Speaker 1: But this younger brand of more educated, higher income brunch 464 00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:15,040 Speaker 1: on Sunday with the girlfriends, this is a new breed 465 00:28:15,080 --> 00:28:19,680 Speaker 1: of racism, a very angry breed of racism, very active 466 00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:24,240 Speaker 1: on social media, which is why people are being so 467 00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:27,200 Speaker 1: shocked that there is so much of this out there. 468 00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:31,840 Speaker 1: This is not the ghetto girl. This is a woman 469 00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:36,719 Speaker 1: who is an executive director of a nonprofit. Lot of that. 470 00:28:38,280 --> 00:28:42,200 Speaker 1: This is a woman who went to a good school, 471 00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:45,920 Speaker 1: probably on a scholarship, at a minimum on student loans, 472 00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:52,240 Speaker 1: but very likely on scholarships. She is from a family 473 00:28:52,520 --> 00:28:57,440 Speaker 1: where her father was successful himself in his own way. 474 00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:03,320 Speaker 1: Her mother may have worked also, and she has acquired 475 00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:09,400 Speaker 1: a sort of Black nationalism BLM adjacent as they say, 476 00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:17,560 Speaker 1: anger and an absolute hatred for white people in this country, 477 00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:24,560 Speaker 1: a resentment and a hatred that is absolutely seething. Well, 478 00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:28,680 Speaker 1: what has ended up happening is that a lot of 479 00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:33,760 Speaker 1: people want out of This is what our urban governments 480 00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:37,240 Speaker 1: have become. This is what the urban culture has become. 481 00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:43,240 Speaker 1: And at some point, the crime is the number one problem. 482 00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:47,400 Speaker 1: The number two is the schools. But people find private schools. 483 00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:50,120 Speaker 1: Why private school education in the Greater Houston area is 484 00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:54,440 Speaker 1: on the upswing and it's expensive. It's why you're seeing 485 00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:57,920 Speaker 1: so many new entrants to the market. The Catholic Church 486 00:29:57,960 --> 00:30:00,720 Speaker 1: being one of those, which makes all the sense in world. 487 00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:04,680 Speaker 1: You got a Catholic church that's being a structure and 488 00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:07,600 Speaker 1: a parking lot that's being used on Sunday, and you 489 00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:11,680 Speaker 1: got all these classrooms, but most religious institutions your Sunday 490 00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:17,880 Speaker 1: school classes, your marriage classes. Why wouldn't you hire a 491 00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:23,040 Speaker 1: teacher and invite your congregants and anyone else because they 492 00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:25,920 Speaker 1: end up joining the church then to go to school there. 493 00:30:26,280 --> 00:30:29,920 Speaker 1: You mark it up and keep the profits. It makes 494 00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:32,720 Speaker 1: all It's a business model. You've got the parking, you've 495 00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:37,280 Speaker 1: got the structure. So people now, I think the thing 496 00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:40,720 Speaker 1: that will accelerate this more than anything else is the 497 00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:44,960 Speaker 1: worsening divide between a percentage of blacks. There are a 498 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:48,120 Speaker 1: lot of blacks that none of this. It's all crazy 499 00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:51,720 Speaker 1: that they can't understand why other black people are so angry. 500 00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:54,240 Speaker 1: They're just trying to live a normal life. But there 501 00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:57,480 Speaker 1: is no doubt you have this group of people and 502 00:30:58,120 --> 00:31:02,160 Speaker 1: they're very bitter and very angry and very aggressive. Couple 503 00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:07,360 Speaker 1: that with violent crime. Couple that with the handcuffing of 504 00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:11,880 Speaker 1: police after George Floyd, the defunding of police, the resources 505 00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:17,440 Speaker 1: being down, the district attorneys being owned by sorrows, the 506 00:31:17,480 --> 00:31:21,680 Speaker 1: court system being owned by sorrows. So people, a lot 507 00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:27,240 Speaker 1: of people, mostly white, not exclusively white, and Hispanic are 508 00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:29,280 Speaker 1: seeking to get out of the big city. 509 00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:29,760 Speaker 2: Now. 510 00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:32,400 Speaker 1: For years, that meant going to the woodlands, that meant 511 00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:36,320 Speaker 1: going to sugar Land, that meant going to Katie. But 512 00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:41,160 Speaker 1: in time people started noticing that you weren't fully getting 513 00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:43,960 Speaker 1: away from the problem. You were still too close to 514 00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:47,520 Speaker 1: the problem. And you saw it in eruptions in the schools, 515 00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:50,800 Speaker 1: for instance, and you saw it in a skirmish here 516 00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:55,120 Speaker 1: and there, and so people kept moving. That's Republic Grand Ranch. 517 00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:58,360 Speaker 1: People wanted out of the city, but close enough that 518 00:31:58,440 --> 00:32:02,960 Speaker 1: they could come into work. But the great accelerator in 519 00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:07,920 Speaker 1: all of this is technology, and the stay at home 520 00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:14,080 Speaker 1: lockdown movement really changed everything for everybody. In fact, I 521 00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:15,600 Speaker 1: keep saying we're going to do a show on this 522 00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:17,640 Speaker 1: because I want to hear people's calls. Not right now, 523 00:32:19,080 --> 00:32:21,840 Speaker 1: but I know people. I know women who stayed home 524 00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:26,360 Speaker 1: and worked from home, and their babies who in the 525 00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:28,960 Speaker 1: past they would have put in a daycare, were with 526 00:32:29,040 --> 00:32:31,360 Speaker 1: a nanny there at their home because they make good money, 527 00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:34,440 Speaker 1: their husbands make good money, and lo and behold with 528 00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:37,480 Speaker 1: the baby screaming the other room. The maternal pull was 529 00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:41,320 Speaker 1: too much and they quit work. I know a lot 530 00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:44,040 Speaker 1: of people that went from full time to halftime. I 531 00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:47,440 Speaker 1: know a lot of people who made drastic changes during 532 00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:50,680 Speaker 1: that period of time. But with technology the way it 533 00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:53,440 Speaker 1: is now, so many people don't need to go into 534 00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:56,440 Speaker 1: an office, and still don't go into an office. That's 535 00:32:56,480 --> 00:32:59,720 Speaker 1: why companies had really had to crack down. Once you 536 00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:02,160 Speaker 1: told old people they could work from home, it made 537 00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:06,400 Speaker 1: it quite difficult to get many of them back. I 538 00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:08,520 Speaker 1: don't understand it because I'm not a work from home guy. 539 00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:11,120 Speaker 1: We went to the studio every single day. But Jim 540 00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:15,080 Speaker 1: worked from home, and a lot of people work from 541 00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:19,480 Speaker 1: home and absolutely love it. And once you realize you 542 00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:21,560 Speaker 1: can work from home and you're not in constant meetings 543 00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:25,040 Speaker 1: because meetings are stupid, then you start looking at well, 544 00:33:25,040 --> 00:33:28,760 Speaker 1: why wouldn't we get some acreage in Kerrville or outside 545 00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:33,760 Speaker 1: of Fredericksburg Crabapple or Goss or Lukenbuck or Stonewall or 546 00:33:33,840 --> 00:33:38,160 Speaker 1: Morris Ranch or Harper and those areas. As those rooftops come, 547 00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:40,320 Speaker 1: the retail's gonna come, and it will change it for 548 00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:42,920 Speaker 1: the worst, there's no doubt. But that's that's what's happening.