1 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:11,119 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, Luck and load. The 2 00:00:11,320 --> 00:00:41,760 Speaker 1: Michael Very Show is on the air. We ended the 3 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:46,360 Speaker 1: segment in our conversation with Christina Ann Vargo of the 4 00:00:46,479 --> 00:00:52,720 Speaker 1: Vargos Black Angus restaurant family with Ellen, Ron, Kevin, and 5 00:00:52,840 --> 00:00:56,920 Speaker 1: David on hold, and for some reason we lost Ellen. 6 00:00:57,360 --> 00:00:59,600 Speaker 1: I don't know if she hung up. I don't know. 7 00:00:59,680 --> 00:01:03,280 Speaker 1: She was a doctor's office and they said miss Price 8 00:01:03,440 --> 00:01:06,200 Speaker 1: or whatever her last name is, and she needed to go, 9 00:01:06,319 --> 00:01:08,760 Speaker 1: oh excuse me, and she turned her phone off. I 10 00:01:08,800 --> 00:01:11,959 Speaker 1: don't know if she just couldn't commit the time. But 11 00:01:12,080 --> 00:01:14,360 Speaker 1: now I find myself in a prodigal son sort of way, 12 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:17,199 Speaker 1: wondering what happened to Ellen? What do you think happened 13 00:01:17,240 --> 00:01:19,840 Speaker 1: to Ellen? Jim? Do you think she had to go 14 00:01:20,880 --> 00:01:22,640 Speaker 1: and she hung up? Or do you think she just 15 00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:28,640 Speaker 1: said nah because she was next? Where do you come 16 00:01:28,720 --> 00:01:33,880 Speaker 1: up with this stuff? She didn't think she had explosive diarrhea. 17 00:01:34,360 --> 00:01:36,119 Speaker 1: I don't know that there's any reason to I mean, 18 00:01:36,160 --> 00:01:39,319 Speaker 1: that could happen. Maybe she didn't want to be on 19 00:01:39,520 --> 00:01:43,080 Speaker 1: I don't know who knows. I did get a message 20 00:01:43,120 --> 00:01:47,319 Speaker 1: from Petrew during the break. He said, if these old 21 00:01:47,360 --> 00:01:49,840 Speaker 1: timers want to keep driving their best bet is to 22 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:57,400 Speaker 1: start strength training. No, seriously, oh, Petrew will always be closing, 23 00:01:57,600 --> 00:02:00,760 Speaker 1: will always be closing. He's right, but it's kind of funny. 24 00:02:00,880 --> 00:02:05,440 Speaker 1: Let's go Ron, Kevin and David. You know, Ron is 25 00:02:05,480 --> 00:02:09,000 Speaker 1: another one of those names that everybody was named Ron 26 00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:11,880 Speaker 1: and then nobody was named Ron. You know did? I 27 00:02:11,919 --> 00:02:14,160 Speaker 1: don't think they named kids Ron anymore. I don't know 28 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:19,960 Speaker 1: what happened Ron, Ronald Ronnie Hello, I don't know what 29 00:02:20,040 --> 00:02:22,520 Speaker 1: year it happened Ron. But there's just no more Ron. 30 00:02:22,560 --> 00:02:25,120 Speaker 1: They just don't name Ron. They're going to die out. 31 00:02:25,960 --> 00:02:26,320 Speaker 2: I guess. 32 00:02:26,440 --> 00:02:32,600 Speaker 3: So a great show today and a great topic and input. 33 00:02:33,840 --> 00:02:35,480 Speaker 1: I've got a contribute to that. 34 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:40,640 Speaker 3: I'll try. On a personal note, and I'm out walking 35 00:02:40,720 --> 00:02:43,639 Speaker 3: my four mile morning walk, so if it gets noisy, 36 00:02:43,880 --> 00:02:48,119 Speaker 3: tell me I'll move over out of the way. Worries anyway. 37 00:02:48,760 --> 00:02:52,680 Speaker 3: Personal note, at seventy nine, I know how tough it 38 00:02:52,720 --> 00:02:55,880 Speaker 3: is to give up stuff. Check it off your list. 39 00:02:56,320 --> 00:03:00,840 Speaker 3: Within the last year, I had to sell forty foot 40 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:04,440 Speaker 3: RV because probably time for me to quit pulling that 41 00:03:04,720 --> 00:03:09,120 Speaker 3: with a vehicle behind it. And last time I went 42 00:03:09,440 --> 00:03:15,639 Speaker 3: downhill snow skiing with my is and grandkids, I fell 43 00:03:15,720 --> 00:03:18,400 Speaker 3: a few times which I wouldn't normally have done and 44 00:03:19,040 --> 00:03:21,679 Speaker 3: messed up my hip a little bit. So maybe I've 45 00:03:21,680 --> 00:03:24,960 Speaker 3: had I'm now crossing downhill skiing off of my list, 46 00:03:25,040 --> 00:03:26,919 Speaker 3: so I know it's a tough. 47 00:03:26,680 --> 00:03:29,280 Speaker 1: Thing to have to do to Where did you? 48 00:03:30,760 --> 00:03:34,280 Speaker 3: I'm mostly out in sun Dance in Park City. 49 00:03:34,720 --> 00:03:37,360 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I've not been there, but it's supposed to be. 50 00:03:38,040 --> 00:03:42,720 Speaker 1: Oh it's wonderful snow, wonderful families down Deer Valley, Park 51 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:47,640 Speaker 1: City and sun Dance. Yeah, great places. Utah has just 52 00:03:47,640 --> 00:03:49,560 Speaker 1: got a lot of great got a lot of great, 53 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:50,920 Speaker 1: great mountains. 54 00:03:51,720 --> 00:03:57,760 Speaker 3: Anyway, I have a friend who's ten years older than me, 55 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:04,000 Speaker 3: lives in Tulsa, and he's I'm up with a reason 56 00:04:04,080 --> 00:04:08,880 Speaker 3: to keep driving at old age, about his mid eighties. 57 00:04:09,160 --> 00:04:11,160 Speaker 3: He said, hey, Ron, come up here. I want to 58 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:15,200 Speaker 3: show you something. So we went up to Tulsa. He 59 00:04:15,480 --> 00:04:18,160 Speaker 3: put me into his Tesla. It turned on his autopilot 60 00:04:18,240 --> 00:04:20,600 Speaker 3: or auto drive, whatever it's called, and it took us 61 00:04:21,520 --> 00:04:23,560 Speaker 3: to two or three places that he told it to 62 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:26,440 Speaker 3: take us here and I said, well that's kind of cool. 63 00:04:26,640 --> 00:04:29,000 Speaker 3: He says, here you get behind the wheel and I said, 64 00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:32,599 Speaker 3: oh no, I don't think I can do this, and 65 00:04:32,640 --> 00:04:34,960 Speaker 3: he says, Yep, get behind it and he'll be comfortable. 66 00:04:35,400 --> 00:04:38,160 Speaker 3: So I got behind the wheel. He punched in an address, 67 00:04:38,240 --> 00:04:40,440 Speaker 3: it took us there. I got to say it was 68 00:04:40,440 --> 00:04:44,159 Speaker 3: pretty impressive. And this isn't an advertisement for Tesla. But 69 00:04:44,720 --> 00:04:49,800 Speaker 3: his argument is, hey, this ability with the autopilot is 70 00:04:49,839 --> 00:04:51,720 Speaker 3: going to keep me behind the wheel. Tell I'm in 71 00:04:51,760 --> 00:04:54,719 Speaker 3: my mid nineties, because I get in in my driveway, 72 00:04:55,279 --> 00:04:57,000 Speaker 3: I punched in the address I want to go to, 73 00:04:57,120 --> 00:05:01,800 Speaker 3: whether it's the doctor grocery store, or to his condo 74 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:05,880 Speaker 3: and Gulf Shores or wherever he wants to go, and 75 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:08,479 Speaker 3: the car takes him there. He doesn't do anything but 76 00:05:08,520 --> 00:05:12,719 Speaker 3: sit back and relax. So he said, look, I know, 77 00:05:12,800 --> 00:05:15,440 Speaker 3: as you get older, you're not as good a driver 78 00:05:15,560 --> 00:05:17,839 Speaker 3: as he wants to work. He says, so this is 79 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:20,160 Speaker 3: the way for me to make it safer for myself, 80 00:05:21,120 --> 00:05:24,800 Speaker 3: my wife and the people on the street. And he's 81 00:05:24,880 --> 00:05:28,760 Speaker 3: convinced that bill as long as he's kicking by his 82 00:05:28,839 --> 00:05:32,159 Speaker 3: mid nineties, he'll stupid. Letting is Desla driving where he 83 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:32,680 Speaker 3: wants to go. 84 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:36,800 Speaker 1: I like the idea of him having the flexibility to 85 00:05:37,440 --> 00:05:39,960 Speaker 1: move about as he likes. Thank you, Ron. You know 86 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:43,040 Speaker 1: what's funny, talking about him being from Tulsa, and in 87 00:05:43,080 --> 00:05:47,000 Speaker 1: my mind, I started singing the old Bob Willson take 88 00:05:47,080 --> 00:05:49,560 Speaker 1: me back to Tulsa. I'm too young to marry. And 89 00:05:49,880 --> 00:05:52,520 Speaker 1: as long as going through the words, and there's a 90 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:56,960 Speaker 1: there's a line later in the song that says, I 91 00:05:56,960 --> 00:05:59,239 Speaker 1: think the girl's name is Susie walk and talks. Susie 92 00:05:59,240 --> 00:06:02,760 Speaker 1: walk and talk, Susie walk and talk. So he just 93 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:05,719 Speaker 1: repeats that refrain a bunch of times. It was just 94 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:10,000 Speaker 1: kind of funny and ironic because you're walking and talking 95 00:06:10,160 --> 00:06:13,480 Speaker 1: as we talk about him being from Tulsa. Maybe that's 96 00:06:13,480 --> 00:06:17,359 Speaker 1: a stretch, but I find it funny. Kevin eure Rope, Kevin, 97 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:18,159 Speaker 1: what say you, sir? 98 00:06:19,520 --> 00:06:22,040 Speaker 2: Thank you Michael. So this was kind of a learning experience. 99 00:06:23,520 --> 00:06:25,960 Speaker 2: We're let her do my parents. So my mom's eighty 100 00:06:26,040 --> 00:06:28,159 Speaker 2: six and she gave up driving on her own about 101 00:06:28,160 --> 00:06:30,159 Speaker 2: six seven years ago just because she's like driving in 102 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:35,040 Speaker 2: Houston's too crazy for me. But our dad, he just 103 00:06:35,080 --> 00:06:37,280 Speaker 2: passed away six weeks ago. But about two or three 104 00:06:37,320 --> 00:06:40,799 Speaker 2: years ago, he would brun little errands to Bargaret Pharmacy 105 00:06:40,960 --> 00:06:43,960 Speaker 2: or Randalls and he'd come home. Well, one day he 106 00:06:44,080 --> 00:06:47,120 Speaker 2: left the house around eleven and our mom finally called 107 00:06:47,160 --> 00:06:48,880 Speaker 2: and said, hey, your dad hadn't come home and it's 108 00:06:48,920 --> 00:06:52,320 Speaker 2: been about five or six hours, so of course I 109 00:06:52,400 --> 00:06:56,520 Speaker 2: run over there. I called the Mamarel Villages police and 110 00:06:56,520 --> 00:06:58,599 Speaker 2: they couldn't do much at the time. So we knew 111 00:06:58,600 --> 00:07:02,400 Speaker 2: he had eighteen phone on him, so I called AT 112 00:07:02,480 --> 00:07:05,920 Speaker 2: and T and we didn't know his user name, password, 113 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:08,560 Speaker 2: pen number, so they said, unless you have that information, 114 00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:12,080 Speaker 2: we can't help you track him, although we got the 115 00:07:12,120 --> 00:07:14,880 Speaker 2: technology and the ability, so we said, well, what do 116 00:07:14,960 --> 00:07:17,320 Speaker 2: we do? They said, well, if you contact my Moral 117 00:07:17,400 --> 00:07:22,120 Speaker 2: Villages police, we can talk to them directly and teing 118 00:07:22,200 --> 00:07:24,600 Speaker 2: your dad every ten minutes and then they can tell 119 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:27,800 Speaker 2: you where he is. So every ten minutes they would 120 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:30,480 Speaker 2: tell my More Villages where my dad was. I was 121 00:07:30,520 --> 00:07:32,040 Speaker 2: with my mom at home and I would tell my 122 00:07:32,040 --> 00:07:34,600 Speaker 2: brother's sister, he's here, he's here, he's here. They finally 123 00:07:34,640 --> 00:07:36,920 Speaker 2: caught up to him about he had been calling him 124 00:07:36,920 --> 00:07:39,800 Speaker 2: almost seven hours. He was running on fumes and they 125 00:07:39,840 --> 00:07:41,760 Speaker 2: pulled up next to him and he's like, oh, hey, 126 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:45,520 Speaker 2: what are y'all doing here? You know, and we immediately 127 00:07:45,560 --> 00:07:47,840 Speaker 2: after we got him home, I took the keys away 128 00:07:47,880 --> 00:07:50,440 Speaker 2: from him and he was fitting mad about it, but 129 00:07:51,040 --> 00:07:53,800 Speaker 2: it was you know, after that we learned, you know, 130 00:07:53,880 --> 00:07:56,640 Speaker 2: one we didn't have the three sixty tracker on his phone, 131 00:07:57,440 --> 00:07:59,840 Speaker 2: we didn't have any of his user names password ten. 132 00:08:00,440 --> 00:08:02,560 Speaker 2: So we scrambled obviously to get all that for our 133 00:08:02,600 --> 00:08:05,600 Speaker 2: mom and everybody else we care about. But it was 134 00:08:05,640 --> 00:08:07,120 Speaker 2: an interesting process. 135 00:08:07,520 --> 00:08:10,920 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's tough. It's tough, and thank you for the call, Kam. 136 00:08:11,480 --> 00:08:16,040 Speaker 4: Sometimes we have to do Sometimes loving somebody is the 137 00:08:16,080 --> 00:08:20,720 Speaker 4: hardest thing that Briargrove Pharmacy didn't mention Sam Philsey that 138 00:08:20,720 --> 00:08:21,840 Speaker 4: that is a little treasure. 139 00:08:21,880 --> 00:08:24,320 Speaker 1: When that thing closes, there will be some very sad people. 140 00:08:24,360 --> 00:08:28,640 Speaker 1: It's it's San Philippy, just east of Voss. That's a 141 00:08:28,720 --> 00:08:35,600 Speaker 1: that's a. So what prompted this conversation was that a 142 00:08:35,679 --> 00:08:39,560 Speaker 1: friend had sent me a message it I won't know 143 00:08:39,559 --> 00:08:41,480 Speaker 1: if I had any thoughts or advice, which I don't. 144 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:45,240 Speaker 1: By the way, he had taken the fuse out of 145 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:47,920 Speaker 1: his father's I thought it was a truck as a van. 146 00:08:48,200 --> 00:08:51,840 Speaker 1: You'd taken the fuse out of his father's astro van 147 00:08:52,520 --> 00:08:58,880 Speaker 1: And no, he's not Hispanic, and he uh to keep 148 00:08:58,920 --> 00:09:04,040 Speaker 1: his father, aging father from driving. And you know it 149 00:09:04,120 --> 00:09:08,240 Speaker 1: was it's kind of a dear abby type question. And 150 00:09:08,320 --> 00:09:10,079 Speaker 1: my answer was, I can't give you an answer. I 151 00:09:10,120 --> 00:09:11,640 Speaker 1: don't know what kind of shape he's in. I mean, look, 152 00:09:12,120 --> 00:09:15,160 Speaker 1: if he looks like a stumbling drunk driving every time 153 00:09:15,200 --> 00:09:18,439 Speaker 1: he gets behind the wheel, then yeah, you saved his 154 00:09:18,480 --> 00:09:20,480 Speaker 1: life or more importantly, a bunch of other people's lives. 155 00:09:20,920 --> 00:09:23,800 Speaker 1: If you're just kind of uncomfortable, then maybe you're a 156 00:09:23,800 --> 00:09:26,760 Speaker 1: little heavy handed, which I think all of us can 157 00:09:26,800 --> 00:09:30,800 Speaker 1: tend to do that. So we're just basically having a conversation. 158 00:09:30,880 --> 00:09:32,559 Speaker 1: There is no one size fits all because you don't 159 00:09:32,600 --> 00:09:34,720 Speaker 1: know what kind of shape somebody's in, and the number 160 00:09:34,760 --> 00:09:40,280 Speaker 1: doesn't matter. My dad's eighty six, and in some ways, 161 00:09:40,920 --> 00:09:42,880 Speaker 1: you know, he's in better shape than some of the 162 00:09:42,920 --> 00:09:45,560 Speaker 1: people in the Old Folks Home who are ten years younger. 163 00:09:46,240 --> 00:09:50,880 Speaker 1: Certainly mentally he's lost a step, to be sure, but 164 00:09:51,400 --> 00:09:56,040 Speaker 1: he mostly has his faculties. And one of the things 165 00:09:56,040 --> 00:10:02,920 Speaker 1: my wife does it's twofold, is ask questions about So 166 00:10:02,960 --> 00:10:05,320 Speaker 1: we watched the Elvis movie last night, So she's going 167 00:10:05,400 --> 00:10:08,880 Speaker 1: to go in and ask him if he ever saw Elvis, 168 00:10:08,920 --> 00:10:11,160 Speaker 1: and if he's ever been to Graceland, just test him 169 00:10:11,559 --> 00:10:14,200 Speaker 1: some things. She doesn't know the answer to and she's 170 00:10:14,280 --> 00:10:17,920 Speaker 1: enjoying hearing stories. But other things is she knows the 171 00:10:17,960 --> 00:10:21,040 Speaker 1: answer from me, and she just wants to see, you know, 172 00:10:21,040 --> 00:10:23,280 Speaker 1: how his memory is and it lets him tell stories 173 00:10:23,280 --> 00:10:27,160 Speaker 1: that we're big on telling stories. So anyway, David, you're first, 174 00:10:27,160 --> 00:10:30,840 Speaker 1: And Joe Anne Demen Jim Connors, who is the organist 175 00:10:30,880 --> 00:10:32,719 Speaker 1: I was talking about, because I'll spend a lot of 176 00:10:32,720 --> 00:10:33,720 Speaker 1: time with him, so I want to get the other 177 00:10:33,720 --> 00:10:37,400 Speaker 1: two calls done first. David, you're up, Go ahead, Good morning, Michael. 178 00:10:37,720 --> 00:10:41,240 Speaker 5: I had a story about my grandmother years ago, became 179 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:46,080 Speaker 5: trying to talk about giving up the keys, and we'd 180 00:10:46,080 --> 00:10:49,600 Speaker 5: had a family gathering over to her house, me and 181 00:10:49,640 --> 00:10:53,320 Speaker 5: one of my siblings and my parents were there, excuse me, 182 00:10:53,920 --> 00:10:58,480 Speaker 5: and uh so my parents had a talk with her 183 00:10:58,520 --> 00:11:01,800 Speaker 5: about giving up the keys, and of course she was 184 00:11:01,880 --> 00:11:04,400 Speaker 5: not receptive about that. And she was a widow. She 185 00:11:04,480 --> 00:11:07,880 Speaker 5: was not in great health, but not particularly bad help. 186 00:11:08,160 --> 00:11:13,719 Speaker 5: She had shown signs of dementia, a little bit forgetfulness 187 00:11:13,720 --> 00:11:17,280 Speaker 5: and things like that, but she did have a not 188 00:11:17,400 --> 00:11:20,120 Speaker 5: so stellar track record with her drive and nothing major, 189 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:25,679 Speaker 5: but she would frequently back into cars or objects. This 190 00:11:25,760 --> 00:11:28,880 Speaker 5: happened four or five times over a period of maybe 191 00:11:28,920 --> 00:11:31,360 Speaker 5: a year. So it was getting bad and found to 192 00:11:31,400 --> 00:11:35,160 Speaker 5: do something anyway, she was not recepted to my parents, 193 00:11:35,400 --> 00:11:38,560 Speaker 5: and as my mother and father were lave and my 194 00:11:38,679 --> 00:11:41,280 Speaker 5: dad asked me to please have a word with her, 195 00:11:42,480 --> 00:11:49,359 Speaker 5: and so I did, and all she had to say, well, well, David, 196 00:11:48,960 --> 00:11:51,600 Speaker 5: if I can't drive, I can't do the things that 197 00:11:51,679 --> 00:11:53,840 Speaker 5: I'm here on earth to do. She was very active 198 00:11:53,840 --> 00:11:57,000 Speaker 5: in a church. She had taught English as a second 199 00:11:57,080 --> 00:12:00,600 Speaker 5: language for many years, but she was very active, evolved 200 00:12:00,600 --> 00:12:03,959 Speaker 5: in meals on wheels at the age of eighty two, 201 00:12:04,720 --> 00:12:08,600 Speaker 5: and she said, I don't want to be selfish. This 202 00:12:08,640 --> 00:12:11,079 Speaker 5: isn't out of anger, but if I can't be doing 203 00:12:12,320 --> 00:12:14,840 Speaker 5: things to be in service of other people, I wish 204 00:12:14,960 --> 00:12:18,280 Speaker 5: God would take me now. And Michael two or three 205 00:12:18,320 --> 00:12:23,040 Speaker 5: days later, as she was leaving a hair salon. We 206 00:12:23,080 --> 00:12:25,200 Speaker 5: don't know exactly what happened. On all tops she was 207 00:12:25,240 --> 00:12:29,480 Speaker 5: not performed, but her car suddenly lurched forward and she 208 00:12:30,080 --> 00:12:32,360 Speaker 5: raced down the street and hit a telephone pole and 209 00:12:32,559 --> 00:12:36,720 Speaker 5: was killed. And I firmly believed the Lord honored her 210 00:12:36,720 --> 00:12:39,760 Speaker 5: wish and took her, because she truly felt that she 211 00:12:39,880 --> 00:12:41,160 Speaker 5: was here to serve others. 212 00:12:41,400 --> 00:12:47,080 Speaker 1: Yep, thank you for sharing that, David, Joanne. E're up, 213 00:12:47,160 --> 00:12:47,960 Speaker 1: go ahead, sweetheart. 214 00:12:48,760 --> 00:12:51,800 Speaker 6: Hi dare hi, thank you for taking my call. You bet, 215 00:12:51,880 --> 00:12:55,120 Speaker 6: I wanted to share. My mother has passed away now, 216 00:12:55,280 --> 00:12:58,199 Speaker 6: but when she was driving in her eighties, we became 217 00:12:58,240 --> 00:12:59,959 Speaker 6: concerned and she had kind of like a little finder. 218 00:13:00,360 --> 00:13:02,720 Speaker 6: Didn't hurt anyone, didn't hurt herself or anything, but we 219 00:13:02,720 --> 00:13:05,880 Speaker 6: were concerned. And so it's really my brother that came 220 00:13:05,960 --> 00:13:08,400 Speaker 6: up with this great idea. At Christmas, he gave her 221 00:13:08,800 --> 00:13:12,640 Speaker 6: a gift card to a limo service and anytime she 222 00:13:12,800 --> 00:13:15,120 Speaker 6: wanted to go somewhere to call this and it was 223 00:13:15,160 --> 00:13:17,560 Speaker 6: in Louvick and it's a small more like a taxi 224 00:13:17,640 --> 00:13:20,760 Speaker 6: cab limo company, not a big stretch limo swing up 225 00:13:20,800 --> 00:13:23,000 Speaker 6: at her house. But she could call them to take 226 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:25,199 Speaker 6: her to the hair salon because you know they went 227 00:13:25,240 --> 00:13:29,160 Speaker 6: every week back then and went, oh yeah, the grocery store, 228 00:13:29,280 --> 00:13:31,640 Speaker 6: wherever she wanted to go. So they gave it, gave 229 00:13:31,720 --> 00:13:34,640 Speaker 6: her the choice of what she wanted to do, and 230 00:13:34,720 --> 00:13:37,480 Speaker 6: is time passed, she used that all the time. So 231 00:13:37,520 --> 00:13:40,600 Speaker 6: it Sully moved from her driving to having this car 232 00:13:40,720 --> 00:13:43,680 Speaker 6: service that would come and take her wherever she wanted 233 00:13:43,679 --> 00:13:46,080 Speaker 6: to go, and we all all five kids contributed to 234 00:13:46,120 --> 00:13:49,000 Speaker 6: it to keep it going so that she always had 235 00:13:49,040 --> 00:13:51,240 Speaker 6: that And it was the best gift ever that actually 236 00:13:51,280 --> 00:13:52,120 Speaker 6: my brother thought of. 237 00:13:53,080 --> 00:13:54,640 Speaker 1: It's a great idea. It's fantastic. 238 00:13:54,760 --> 00:13:55,760 Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a great idea. 239 00:13:55,800 --> 00:13:59,160 Speaker 1: And thank you, thank you for the call. 240 00:13:59,240 --> 00:13:59,400 Speaker 2: Join. 241 00:14:02,200 --> 00:14:05,720 Speaker 1: Money can can solve some problems like that. It's it's 242 00:14:05,760 --> 00:14:09,640 Speaker 1: it's it's a lot more difficult issue when the situation 243 00:14:09,840 --> 00:14:13,680 Speaker 1: is the family cannot afford uh to pay for somebody 244 00:14:13,720 --> 00:14:17,760 Speaker 1: to come and drive and and everybody's finances are are different. 245 00:14:18,200 --> 00:14:21,000 Speaker 1: There are so many things available today that there were 246 00:14:21,040 --> 00:14:28,000 Speaker 1: not that were not available before for people, uh, for 247 00:14:28,160 --> 00:14:32,080 Speaker 1: elderly care to try to make their lives a little better. 248 00:14:32,600 --> 00:14:34,400 Speaker 1: And you know, I got to tell you the old 249 00:14:34,400 --> 00:14:37,640 Speaker 1: Folks Home where my dad is, My wife and I 250 00:14:37,680 --> 00:14:39,120 Speaker 1: we get a kick out it. We bring home the 251 00:14:39,560 --> 00:14:41,400 Speaker 1: schedule of events and I think a lot of them 252 00:14:41,440 --> 00:14:45,840 Speaker 1: are this way. There are activities all day every day. 253 00:14:45,880 --> 00:14:48,120 Speaker 1: My dad chooses not to go to them, and so 254 00:14:48,240 --> 00:14:51,200 Speaker 1: my wife sometimes will kind of push him to you know, hey, Dad, 255 00:14:51,200 --> 00:14:53,520 Speaker 1: why aren't you They're going to have this, this, and this, 256 00:14:54,240 --> 00:14:57,240 Speaker 1: uh today, why don't you won't you go and do that? 257 00:14:57,560 --> 00:14:59,800 Speaker 1: I don't do that. And and the funny thing is 258 00:14:59,800 --> 00:15:03,440 Speaker 1: it you don't know this until you're there. The ratio 259 00:15:03,760 --> 00:15:06,960 Speaker 1: is about ten to one of women to men because 260 00:15:07,600 --> 00:15:10,520 Speaker 1: in a relationship the man is typically older, especially in 261 00:15:10,600 --> 00:15:14,880 Speaker 1: the older folks that was really really done. And secondly, 262 00:15:15,320 --> 00:15:19,400 Speaker 1: men have typically have more strenuous jobs, They're more exposed 263 00:15:19,880 --> 00:15:23,040 Speaker 1: to risk, they're more likely to smoke and drink to excess. 264 00:15:23,480 --> 00:15:27,400 Speaker 1: So a lot of different reasons women outlive them. So 265 00:15:27,480 --> 00:15:29,320 Speaker 1: if you're a man in the old Folks Home, depending 266 00:15:29,360 --> 00:15:31,080 Speaker 1: on how you look at it, you are you're in 267 00:15:31,120 --> 00:15:34,160 Speaker 1: the catbirdcy. And so I've just put that on Michael 268 00:15:34,160 --> 00:15:42,080 Speaker 1: Barrison Michael Berry's show. So I mentioned a fellow who 269 00:15:42,120 --> 00:15:45,440 Speaker 1: plays it my Dad's Old Folks Home earlier. I said 270 00:15:45,480 --> 00:15:47,280 Speaker 1: his name was Jim. I couldn't remember his last name, 271 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:50,720 Speaker 1: and he has been kind enough to call. I met 272 00:15:50,800 --> 00:15:56,040 Speaker 1: Jim at Gallery Furniture because he was playing there. He 273 00:15:56,160 --> 00:15:58,480 Speaker 1: used to be the organist for the Astros. Before I 274 00:15:58,480 --> 00:16:00,960 Speaker 1: go to Jim real quick, I got a nice email 275 00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:04,400 Speaker 1: from a lady named Jacqueline, and she said, you must 276 00:16:04,480 --> 00:16:07,840 Speaker 1: have many stories about what a compassionate, generous person mattress. 277 00:16:07,840 --> 00:16:11,440 Speaker 1: Mac is hope you have time for one more. Last evening, 278 00:16:11,440 --> 00:16:14,800 Speaker 1: we stopped by gallery to look and as usual, got 279 00:16:14,840 --> 00:16:18,400 Speaker 1: a greeting from Mac at the front desk. My thirty 280 00:16:18,400 --> 00:16:21,880 Speaker 1: seven year old son is mentally challenged, and he followed 281 00:16:21,880 --> 00:16:25,040 Speaker 1: Mac when Max started walking around the store. After I 282 00:16:25,080 --> 00:16:27,400 Speaker 1: took a picture, I told Brendan he could look around, 283 00:16:27,440 --> 00:16:30,880 Speaker 1: but he couldn't bother Mac. But kids don't listen. This 284 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:33,120 Speaker 1: morning I found out Mac had put his cell phone 285 00:16:33,200 --> 00:16:36,720 Speaker 1: number in Brendan's phone so he could text big brother's 286 00:16:36,880 --> 00:16:40,000 Speaker 1: roofing business card. Mac told my son they were friends 287 00:16:40,040 --> 00:16:42,840 Speaker 1: now and to keep his number. I felt like I 288 00:16:42,920 --> 00:16:45,640 Speaker 1: was talking to a celebrity and didn't mention my gallery 289 00:16:45,680 --> 00:16:48,520 Speaker 1: furniture history. We moved to Houston in eighty two so 290 00:16:48,560 --> 00:16:51,240 Speaker 1: my husband could work at Sapata. It was an oil company. 291 00:16:51,800 --> 00:16:54,360 Speaker 1: Bought a house full of furniture for Mac himself from 292 00:16:54,360 --> 00:16:57,440 Speaker 1: Mac himself in a tent on forty five. Many years later, 293 00:16:57,440 --> 00:16:59,400 Speaker 1: I toured his big house for charity and saw some 294 00:16:59,440 --> 00:17:01,920 Speaker 1: of the same inn expensive furniture we had bought. I 295 00:17:01,960 --> 00:17:04,119 Speaker 1: became a widow and delivered newspaper so I could be 296 00:17:04,160 --> 00:17:07,280 Speaker 1: available for my son during the day saw Mack regularly 297 00:17:07,320 --> 00:17:10,000 Speaker 1: at five am at a donut shop on nineteen sixty, 298 00:17:10,240 --> 00:17:12,760 Speaker 1: always in a tiny Issuzu pickup truck with a big 299 00:17:12,800 --> 00:17:15,560 Speaker 1: smile for the clerk in the paper girl. Things got better, 300 00:17:15,600 --> 00:17:18,800 Speaker 1: and my older son and I became ADT dealers. The 301 00:17:19,040 --> 00:17:21,840 Speaker 1: home security scored a low rent, big office in front 302 00:17:21,840 --> 00:17:23,760 Speaker 1: of the entrance in a big bank building and filled 303 00:17:23,800 --> 00:17:28,000 Speaker 1: it with gallery furniture. People in the building and visitors 304 00:17:28,080 --> 00:17:30,359 Speaker 1: liked to come in with their coffee, eat a homemade muffin, 305 00:17:30,400 --> 00:17:33,240 Speaker 1: and sit on the over stuffed, comfortable leather furniture. Good 306 00:17:33,280 --> 00:17:35,359 Speaker 1: for our business, and every single person asked where we 307 00:17:35,400 --> 00:17:39,280 Speaker 1: bought such great furniture. Regional ADT regional director asked me 308 00:17:40,119 --> 00:17:41,920 Speaker 1: how a young guy and a woman who was still 309 00:17:41,920 --> 00:17:44,480 Speaker 1: delivering papers could afford such a nice office and furniture. 310 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:46,600 Speaker 1: I told him God is good, and don't put all 311 00:17:46,600 --> 00:17:48,960 Speaker 1: your eggs in one basket. I'm an elderly lady in 312 00:17:48,960 --> 00:17:51,560 Speaker 1: a wheelchair now. I dress from Coal's and I don't 313 00:17:51,560 --> 00:17:54,240 Speaker 1: wear makeup. I parked my Kia in a big handicapped 314 00:17:54,240 --> 00:17:56,840 Speaker 1: spot by the door last night. Two guys rushed out 315 00:17:56,880 --> 00:18:00,600 Speaker 1: to help me go in. They didn't know my son 316 00:18:00,680 --> 00:18:04,520 Speaker 1: gave me land by his house so he can build 317 00:18:04,600 --> 00:18:07,359 Speaker 1: us a smaller eighty a house. I told the salesman tighter, 318 00:18:07,359 --> 00:18:09,200 Speaker 1: I couldn't afford to buy there. I was just looking. 319 00:18:09,920 --> 00:18:11,720 Speaker 1: He still checked on me, and of course left with 320 00:18:11,720 --> 00:18:14,200 Speaker 1: a receipt for a beautiful maid in the USA furniture. 321 00:18:14,680 --> 00:18:16,359 Speaker 1: And then she goes on about how Mac is. But 322 00:18:17,200 --> 00:18:20,240 Speaker 1: I don't want to hear myself blubber. So anyway, great story. 323 00:18:20,800 --> 00:18:22,880 Speaker 1: You never know, you never know who you're dealing with, 324 00:18:22,920 --> 00:18:26,280 Speaker 1: you never know their history, so just be a nice person. 325 00:18:26,920 --> 00:18:30,800 Speaker 1: Jim Connors is our guest, the aforementioned organist formerly of 326 00:18:30,840 --> 00:18:33,239 Speaker 1: the Astros. Jim, how how many shows did you do 327 00:18:33,359 --> 00:18:33,760 Speaker 1: last year? 328 00:18:35,880 --> 00:18:36,080 Speaker 2: Three? 329 00:18:36,600 --> 00:18:40,199 Speaker 1: Five? Okay? I thought it shows than days, but I 330 00:18:40,240 --> 00:18:41,760 Speaker 1: thought that sounded crazy. 331 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:44,120 Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's usually do at least two or three 332 00:18:44,240 --> 00:18:48,000 Speaker 2: shows a day. I love that's a half a day. 333 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:49,160 Speaker 7: Yes. 334 00:18:50,160 --> 00:18:52,800 Speaker 2: And by the way, Mac, Mac and I have something 335 00:18:52,840 --> 00:18:56,199 Speaker 2: in common is that you know when he had his 336 00:18:56,240 --> 00:19:00,600 Speaker 2: heart surgery, uh December a year ago. Uh, it was 337 00:19:00,600 --> 00:19:04,000 Speaker 2: the same surgeon, the same exact procedure that Michael valve 338 00:19:04,119 --> 00:19:09,040 Speaker 2: repair that I had done ten years ago. I was, 339 00:19:09,359 --> 00:19:11,919 Speaker 2: you know, Mac was out of the hospital back, jumping 340 00:19:11,960 --> 00:19:13,120 Speaker 2: around doing everything he does. 341 00:19:13,280 --> 00:19:13,480 Speaker 1: Yeah. 342 00:19:13,720 --> 00:19:16,560 Speaker 2: Yeah, in a few days. I was in the hospital 343 00:19:16,600 --> 00:19:18,919 Speaker 2: I think nine days, and I had a good I 344 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:20,080 Speaker 2: had a great recovery. 345 00:19:20,560 --> 00:19:20,800 Speaker 1: Yeah. 346 00:19:20,800 --> 00:19:23,080 Speaker 2: But I know, I know. 347 00:19:23,119 --> 00:19:25,240 Speaker 1: Bud Fraser is a good friend of his and that's 348 00:19:25,240 --> 00:19:27,600 Speaker 1: who picked his doctor. Who was the doctor. 349 00:19:28,320 --> 00:19:33,560 Speaker 2: Gerald Lawry is an Australian fellow. And I run into 350 00:19:33,640 --> 00:19:36,240 Speaker 2: some of his nurses in some of the retirement communities. 351 00:19:37,160 --> 00:19:39,120 Speaker 1: You know, did you see the one who did Max? 352 00:19:39,240 --> 00:19:41,359 Speaker 1: They will yeah, oh. 353 00:19:41,240 --> 00:19:44,600 Speaker 2: Carold well l A w R. I E from Australia. 354 00:19:45,480 --> 00:19:46,000 Speaker 2: I uh. 355 00:19:47,560 --> 00:19:47,679 Speaker 4: Uh. 356 00:19:47,920 --> 00:19:51,040 Speaker 1: I checked on him with my friend Stan Dutman, who's 357 00:19:51,080 --> 00:19:53,320 Speaker 1: a cardiologist, and he said he was a good, very 358 00:19:53,320 --> 00:19:56,520 Speaker 1: good doctor. Mac has a very close and longtime friendship 359 00:19:56,560 --> 00:19:58,879 Speaker 1: with Bud Fraser, and I think that, but that was 360 00:19:58,880 --> 00:20:02,920 Speaker 1: Bud Fraser's choice to do his sort. But I don't 361 00:20:02,960 --> 00:20:04,920 Speaker 1: remember what day of the week he had his surgery on, 362 00:20:05,280 --> 00:20:08,000 Speaker 1: but I remember, I don't want to exaggerate this. I 363 00:20:08,080 --> 00:20:09,880 Speaker 1: want to say it was three, maybe it was five, 364 00:20:09,960 --> 00:20:11,320 Speaker 1: but I want to say it was three. Days later 365 00:20:11,600 --> 00:20:15,080 Speaker 1: he says to me, hey, I would like to have 366 00:20:15,520 --> 00:20:16,960 Speaker 1: some of your folks come by. 367 00:20:17,240 --> 00:20:20,160 Speaker 2: So I remember that, and I was I was trying 368 00:20:20,160 --> 00:20:23,240 Speaker 2: to call him and say what you think you're doing. 369 00:20:23,520 --> 00:20:25,160 Speaker 2: I think I was trying to call you because you're 370 00:20:25,160 --> 00:20:26,080 Speaker 2: trying to organize it. 371 00:20:26,240 --> 00:20:28,760 Speaker 1: Yeah, well, you know, I do what the man asks, 372 00:20:28,880 --> 00:20:31,639 Speaker 1: and so you know, it's it's it's it's it's for 373 00:20:31,720 --> 00:20:35,159 Speaker 1: him to decide. But he had texted me that, and 374 00:20:35,359 --> 00:20:36,840 Speaker 1: I picked up the phone and called him. And I 375 00:20:36,920 --> 00:20:38,640 Speaker 1: never talk on the phone. I don't like to talk 376 00:20:38,680 --> 00:20:41,920 Speaker 1: on the phone, and and he I said, mac, are 377 00:20:41,960 --> 00:20:44,879 Speaker 1: you sure. I don't want Linda fussing at me and 378 00:20:44,880 --> 00:20:46,879 Speaker 1: people are gonna yell at me. And he said, no, no, 379 00:20:46,880 --> 00:20:47,760 Speaker 1: I want to do it. I want to do it. 380 00:20:47,760 --> 00:20:49,920 Speaker 1: That's going to help me recover. And I had every 381 00:20:49,920 --> 00:20:52,880 Speaker 1: little old lady out there just cussing me up and down, 382 00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:56,200 Speaker 1: and I lost my cool over it because it's his decision, 383 00:20:56,240 --> 00:20:59,119 Speaker 1: not yours. Was my answer to these people. But anyway 384 00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:01,560 Speaker 1: to your back to your business. 385 00:21:01,720 --> 00:21:04,680 Speaker 2: So you again, you keep saying I'm an I am 386 00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:06,760 Speaker 2: an organist. I've been an organist. I've been playing in 387 00:21:06,840 --> 00:21:09,720 Speaker 2: church since I was nine. I'm classically trained. That's what 388 00:21:09,800 --> 00:21:12,320 Speaker 2: brought me to Houston fifty years ago this year to 389 00:21:12,480 --> 00:21:15,560 Speaker 2: study organ at you at University of Houston, and I. 390 00:21:15,520 --> 00:21:22,159 Speaker 1: Didn't say you were Penis. 391 00:21:20,440 --> 00:21:23,159 Speaker 2: Would you you would suggest that, yes you did. But 392 00:21:23,280 --> 00:21:26,639 Speaker 2: I'm a singer. I I twelve twelve years ago. I 393 00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:28,960 Speaker 2: got shamed into singing. I never knew that I could 394 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:31,159 Speaker 2: sing and play at the same time. I had this 395 00:21:31,280 --> 00:21:35,439 Speaker 2: block in my head, and I uh brought me in 396 00:21:35,720 --> 00:21:39,399 Speaker 2: Brodney Anderson, who lives up Flake Connor now that he 397 00:21:39,440 --> 00:21:44,080 Speaker 2: had the the Crescent Moon Line bar up in the Woodlands, 398 00:21:44,560 --> 00:21:47,600 Speaker 2: and he had he had music like five six nights 399 00:21:47,600 --> 00:21:49,920 Speaker 2: a week. And I've kept pestering him and I took 400 00:21:49,960 --> 00:21:53,480 Speaker 2: a you know, I don't mind knocking on doors trying 401 00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:55,560 Speaker 2: to get business, and that's what that's what I'm So 402 00:21:56,400 --> 00:22:01,000 Speaker 2: I took him a huge cupcake because I'd been going 403 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:02,840 Speaker 2: in and he kept saying no. Because I was at 404 00:22:02,840 --> 00:22:05,280 Speaker 2: the time, I wasn't playing in the retirement communities other 405 00:22:05,359 --> 00:22:07,760 Speaker 2: than just you know, a happy hour somewhere a couple 406 00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:10,440 Speaker 2: of times a week. But I was starting to play 407 00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:13,760 Speaker 2: in restaurants. I used to sell church organs and that 408 00:22:13,840 --> 00:22:16,399 Speaker 2: kind of tanked out as far as my you know, 409 00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:21,919 Speaker 2: owned business back in I guess that twenty ten, twenty eleven, 410 00:22:22,680 --> 00:22:25,240 Speaker 2: and so I was I was playing restaurants. I've always played, 411 00:22:25,480 --> 00:22:28,760 Speaker 2: you know, and pop music as well as as well 412 00:22:28,800 --> 00:22:34,479 Speaker 2: as classical in church, and so I kept pestering him. 413 00:22:34,560 --> 00:22:36,840 Speaker 2: I went in. Finally I took this, like one of these, 414 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:40,399 Speaker 2: you know, big fancy cupcakes that had a clear front 415 00:22:40,440 --> 00:22:43,000 Speaker 2: and a clear top on it. And I happened to 416 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:46,840 Speaker 2: walk in there when his little five year old granddaughter 417 00:22:47,720 --> 00:22:48,480 Speaker 2: was visiting. 418 00:22:48,760 --> 00:22:48,960 Speaker 3: You know. 419 00:22:49,320 --> 00:22:51,040 Speaker 2: It was in the morning, you know, before the rest, 420 00:22:51,160 --> 00:22:56,679 Speaker 2: before the place opened, and hey, you know, I handed 421 00:22:56,680 --> 00:22:59,639 Speaker 2: that to him, and immediately he handed it to his 422 00:22:59,720 --> 00:23:02,920 Speaker 2: grand daughter. He says, okay, how about if that book 423 00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:05,920 Speaker 2: give th uh you know. And it was the dead 424 00:23:05,960 --> 00:23:10,119 Speaker 2: of the summer, Tuesday nights, uh six to nine, and 425 00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:14,439 Speaker 2: I played the first time and he called me at 426 00:23:14,520 --> 00:23:17,919 Speaker 2: nine o'clock the next morning. That changed my life. And 427 00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:20,920 Speaker 2: I'll always be grateful to him. Oh uh, you know, 428 00:23:21,080 --> 00:23:23,840 Speaker 2: because he said, hey, I can't have you. Hey. I 429 00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:26,720 Speaker 2: loved everything he played. He did a great job, but man, 430 00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:29,760 Speaker 2: I can't have you back. And I said, well, what 431 00:23:30,320 --> 00:23:34,400 Speaker 2: do you mean you get every back? And he says, uh, yeah, 432 00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:37,040 Speaker 2: we got to have I thought you were going to sing, man, 433 00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:39,159 Speaker 2: I said, yeah, I do. I don't know. 434 00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:46,160 Speaker 3: I didn't. 435 00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:51,800 Speaker 1: For better or for worse. I read every email gets 436 00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:54,800 Speaker 1: harder and harder as we've now crossed over one hundred 437 00:23:54,840 --> 00:23:58,800 Speaker 1: stations across the country, and some people can't grasp the 438 00:23:58,920 --> 00:24:02,600 Speaker 1: idea of how many I read per day. So I 439 00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:05,000 Speaker 1: tend to get a little annoyed because people will send 440 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:08,920 Speaker 1: me an out of context email and it'll go like this, 441 00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:14,120 Speaker 1: I mean, do you think he would really do that? Oh? 442 00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:14,640 Speaker 2: God? 443 00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:19,160 Speaker 1: So sometimes I just blocked the person because I've decided 444 00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:23,119 Speaker 1: they're increasing my blood pressure. But normally I'll say, how 445 00:24:23,119 --> 00:24:26,000 Speaker 1: about I throw a thousand emails at you? And some 446 00:24:26,040 --> 00:24:28,800 Speaker 1: of them will be a random question with no context, 447 00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:34,240 Speaker 1: how would you like that? But I'm committed to reading 448 00:24:34,280 --> 00:24:38,359 Speaker 1: them because I enjoy them and it makes me feel 449 00:24:38,359 --> 00:24:41,880 Speaker 1: connected to you, and I learn a lot. I learn 450 00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:44,399 Speaker 1: a lot because people are very open with me, and 451 00:24:44,440 --> 00:24:47,719 Speaker 1: they'll tell me, they'll tell me stories. This is not 452 00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:50,439 Speaker 1: such an example. I got an email from Kenny Allen 453 00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:54,160 Speaker 1: during the break and some of you will remember Kenny Allen. 454 00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:58,359 Speaker 1: His greatest hit, which we play often, the Great Waller 455 00:24:58,359 --> 00:24:59,920 Speaker 1: Meth Lab explosion of nineteen ninety. 456 00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:04,119 Speaker 8: Go ahead, Jim his here is a great Waller County 457 00:25:04,119 --> 00:25:09,280 Speaker 8: meth lab explosion of nineteen ninety six. There was these 458 00:25:09,320 --> 00:25:13,680 Speaker 8: two fellas of cooking up drain all and as a 459 00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:17,879 Speaker 8: vedron they could get their hands on. They had bottles 460 00:25:18,040 --> 00:25:22,440 Speaker 8: of profane and with the batteries and one center and 461 00:25:23,240 --> 00:25:24,919 Speaker 8: then boom they were gone. 462 00:25:27,040 --> 00:25:30,440 Speaker 1: Truly beautiful story. I can't hear it enough. But Ken 463 00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:33,480 Speaker 1: he sent me a message and he said, zart one 464 00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:36,480 Speaker 1: of your listeners and the one time a show sponsor. 465 00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:41,240 Speaker 1: Gary Lakamu, who owns Texas Analyne Dye which he inherited 466 00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:45,280 Speaker 1: from his father of Himstead also runs a limo service. 467 00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:48,399 Speaker 1: I think it's called Diamond. I think he's right. He 468 00:25:48,520 --> 00:25:53,000 Speaker 1: drives elderly folk to doctor's appointments and gets their groceries, 469 00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:55,840 Speaker 1: to get groceries and things like that. He does a 470 00:25:55,880 --> 00:25:59,680 Speaker 1: traditional limo service as well proms and weddings and whatnot. 471 00:25:59,840 --> 00:26:02,600 Speaker 1: But I think a lot of his business is elderly services, 472 00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:08,320 Speaker 1: and I believe that to be true. If you email me, 473 00:26:08,359 --> 00:26:10,680 Speaker 1: I'll connect him to you because it sounds like this 474 00:26:10,760 --> 00:26:14,119 Speaker 1: is something that a lot of people are in need of. 475 00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:18,920 Speaker 1: A lot of people are in need of. Got a 476 00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:24,639 Speaker 1: lot of emails regarding this subject, and obviously none of 477 00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:27,959 Speaker 1: it is. None of it is easy to deal with us. 478 00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:31,440 Speaker 1: See if I could find this email from Tana. Here 479 00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:36,880 Speaker 1: we go Tana Chavez rights. So are your timing read 480 00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:40,600 Speaker 1: your topic? This morning was perfect. God had to have 481 00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:42,600 Speaker 1: a hand in us listening at just the right time. 482 00:26:42,720 --> 00:26:45,560 Speaker 1: Thank you. This morning, my husband had an appointment at 483 00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:51,160 Speaker 1: the Veterans Administration Clinic in Tomball at ten minutes up 484 00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:54,280 Speaker 1: two forty nine from where we live. I was going 485 00:26:54,320 --> 00:26:56,560 Speaker 1: to meet him there after I left school at eight am. 486 00:26:57,080 --> 00:26:58,600 Speaker 1: I called him to let him know I was on 487 00:26:58,640 --> 00:27:00,240 Speaker 1: my way, and he said he was part worked in 488 00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:03,680 Speaker 1: a circle K parking lot on Spring Cypress at Student Airline. 489 00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:07,359 Speaker 1: He had somehow gotten turned around and lost, and he 490 00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:09,719 Speaker 1: didn't know where he was. He was able to get 491 00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:11,520 Speaker 1: out and see the street sign so he could tell 492 00:27:11,560 --> 00:27:14,000 Speaker 1: me the cross streets so that I could find him. 493 00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:16,040 Speaker 1: He was upset with himself, but I was able to 494 00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:18,120 Speaker 1: find him, and we just rescheduled his appointment to when 495 00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:20,680 Speaker 1: I could drive him. This has happened once before when 496 00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:23,240 Speaker 1: he had driven to the Debate clinic. Thank goodness, he 497 00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:25,280 Speaker 1: was able to eventually find his way home. That was 498 00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:29,520 Speaker 1: way over a year ago. You mentioned three sixty tracking 499 00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:32,199 Speaker 1: and we're putting this on our phones today. Thank you 500 00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:34,800 Speaker 1: again so much for your godsend of a perfect timing 501 00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:39,200 Speaker 1: show this morning. Tana Chavez aught and Rick ot Hey, Look, 502 00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:43,520 Speaker 1: it's it's not ideal, it's not how you planned it, 503 00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:46,480 Speaker 1: it's not what you want. But that's where we are. 504 00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:52,919 Speaker 1: And you know, you get through these things. You you 505 00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:55,719 Speaker 1: manage somehow some way to get through these things, and 506 00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:59,400 Speaker 1: that's just all there is to it. The only clothes. 507 00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:04,919 Speaker 1: With a little reference to the runoffs that will be 508 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:08,440 Speaker 1: in May, I will be releasing my ballot, which is 509 00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:10,959 Speaker 1: who I'm voting for and in cases where I can't vote, 510 00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:14,280 Speaker 1: who I would be voting for. That includes Don Hooper 511 00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:19,440 Speaker 1: for Harris County Party chair. We have got to fill 512 00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:22,879 Speaker 1: every judicial seat, period, end of story. That is the 513 00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:27,760 Speaker 1: number one responsibility of the party chair and we have 514 00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:31,800 Speaker 1: in the past had party chairman who did that and 515 00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:34,240 Speaker 1: that's not being done now. I don't think the party 516 00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:36,520 Speaker 1: chairman is a bad person. I think she's actually a 517 00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:39,800 Speaker 1: very nice person. But I think this is something that 518 00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:42,920 Speaker 1: has to be done and it's not being done. And 519 00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:47,400 Speaker 1: I don't care if Dan Patrick or Paul Bettencourt, who 520 00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:51,400 Speaker 1: basically runs the party himself. I don't care how many 521 00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:56,920 Speaker 1: people endorse the current party chairman. You cannot say that 522 00:28:56,960 --> 00:29:00,120 Speaker 1: we're filling all the seats. You've got to go out 523 00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:04,800 Speaker 1: and get people. And I have known of people, or 524 00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:07,240 Speaker 1: I have heard that's not true. I have heard stories 525 00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:10,360 Speaker 1: of people who have wanted to run for office and 526 00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:14,280 Speaker 1: they were told by the party chair that they wouldn't 527 00:29:14,280 --> 00:29:16,400 Speaker 1: be a good candidate, that they wouldn't, they wouldn't that. 528 00:29:17,640 --> 00:29:19,560 Speaker 1: I'm going to find some of those emails and read them, 529 00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:24,040 Speaker 1: because it's unfair to say that unless I can, unless 530 00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:25,480 Speaker 1: I can point to an email and read to it, 531 00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:28,040 Speaker 1: let me let me stop there. That's not fair to her. 532 00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:30,840 Speaker 1: But again, I don't need to tell you somebody is 533 00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:32,920 Speaker 1: a bad person to say that I think someone else 534 00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:36,080 Speaker 1: could do the job better. I think we too often 535 00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:38,000 Speaker 1: get to that. So I do not think Cindy Siegel 536 00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:40,080 Speaker 1: is a bad person. I have no reason to believe that. 537 00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:41,560 Speaker 1: In fact, I have every reason believe she's a very 538 00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:44,680 Speaker 1: nice lady, and I think there's some nice people at 539 00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:50,000 Speaker 1: the party. However, I think we have to improve our 540 00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:54,440 Speaker 1: candidate recruitment into every position. The Democrats do it, and 541 00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:57,040 Speaker 1: we must as well. In order to win. This guy 542 00:29:57,080 --> 00:29:59,880 Speaker 1: who got out and this guy who was let loosen 543 00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:02,840 Speaker 1: and killed this woman in the heights as she was 544 00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:06,400 Speaker 1: looking for a parking spot. Just brutal, just awful, horrible. 545 00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:10,200 Speaker 1: We have to do that. I will be releasing my ballot. 546 00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:14,040 Speaker 1: It will be closer to election day. As you can imagine, 547 00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:16,520 Speaker 1: it will include Ken Paxton. I saw that Steve Toath 548 00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:20,640 Speaker 1: endorsed Ken Paxton yesterday. There's a lot of wheeling and 549 00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:23,880 Speaker 1: dealing going on right now regarding endorsements. I know that. 550 00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:28,880 Speaker 1: But anyway, John Cornyn is looking to serve six more years, 551 00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:32,200 Speaker 1: which would make it thirty years, and I got a 552 00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:35,280 Speaker 1: problem with that. You know, John WAYN. Mccorny's just like you, listen, DC. 553 00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:35,640 Speaker 2: Just like you. 554 00:30:39,760 --> 00:30:43,280 Speaker 7: Jean Wayne mccornyan is one of us. He believes in 555 00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:48,160 Speaker 7: the things we believe in, things like apple pie, only 556 00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:52,560 Speaker 7: opening one present on Christmas Eve, courtesy flushes, and of 557 00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:57,560 Speaker 7: course term limits. That's why he's only asking for six 558 00:30:57,640 --> 00:31:01,160 Speaker 7: more years. He believes, from the bottom of his boots 559 00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:04,200 Speaker 7: that no man should serve more than thirty years, no 560 00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:09,240 Speaker 7: woman either, Just like you, Because John Wayne mccornyn has 561 00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:12,840 Speaker 7: lived a life just like yours. When he steps in 562 00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:15,560 Speaker 7: a pile of dog crap. He has a moment of 563 00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:22,000 Speaker 7: involuntary rage, followed by helpless frustration, so he finds a 564 00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:25,560 Speaker 7: stick to clean it out. Has to get in there 565 00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:29,720 Speaker 7: between the grooves and treads of his maximum comfort, wide fit, 566 00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:33,480 Speaker 7: orthopedic friendly new balance walking sneakers. 567 00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:35,520 Speaker 1: No different than you, no. 568 00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:39,960 Speaker 7: Different than me, because John Wayne mccornyn is one of us. 569 00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:42,920 Speaker 8: John Wayne's Garden 570 00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:45,360 Speaker 5: Of