1 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:11,320 Speaker 1: It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. The 2 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:30,080 Speaker 1: Michael Very Show is on the air. How about this. 3 00:00:31,360 --> 00:00:32,800 Speaker 1: I'm not going to give his name because he didn't 4 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:36,560 Speaker 1: author rest of it, but an HPD officer sent me 5 00:00:36,600 --> 00:00:41,440 Speaker 1: an email and he described where he works, which is 6 00:00:41,479 --> 00:00:46,560 Speaker 1: Sunnyside day shift, and which he's done for quite some time. 7 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:48,640 Speaker 1: I don't want to give any identifying details because I 8 00:00:48,680 --> 00:00:53,960 Speaker 1: didn't get some officers are coming weird about that. But 9 00:00:54,080 --> 00:00:56,800 Speaker 1: he said he loves the spirit of Joyce to save 10 00:00:56,880 --> 00:00:59,920 Speaker 1: your Sunnyside and if I felt comfortable, if I would 11 00:01:00,040 --> 00:01:04,280 Speaker 1: connect him, he would be happy to drive by and 12 00:01:04,319 --> 00:01:06,440 Speaker 1: do occasional checks on her and give her his cell 13 00:01:06,480 --> 00:01:09,240 Speaker 1: phone number for when she needs anything. Now, how nice 14 00:01:09,280 --> 00:01:11,839 Speaker 1: is that? That's a pretty first class wouldn't you say? 15 00:01:12,440 --> 00:01:16,200 Speaker 1: Pretty first class? We're going to go back to Joe 16 00:01:16,280 --> 00:01:20,839 Speaker 1: the petticab driver. But you know that guy that called 17 00:01:20,840 --> 00:01:28,120 Speaker 1: in earlier, Mike something about that, My friend, the Aggie plumber, 18 00:01:28,160 --> 00:01:35,600 Speaker 1: Michael Robinson said, said, you know, regarding helo pilots, Vietnam 19 00:01:35,720 --> 00:01:38,280 Speaker 1: was almost the sole source of an entire generation of 20 00:01:38,319 --> 00:01:45,360 Speaker 1: helicopter pilots. Every city tour, beach flyover service logging skycrane service. 21 00:01:45,920 --> 00:01:48,720 Speaker 1: If it involved a helicopter, one of those guys was 22 00:01:48,760 --> 00:01:52,000 Speaker 1: in the pilot's seat. I wonder if they're aging out 23 00:01:52,200 --> 00:01:55,520 Speaker 1: has caused a shortage in the industry. You know, that's true. 24 00:01:55,560 --> 00:01:59,560 Speaker 1: I hadn't thought about that. Somebody was a helo pilot 25 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:02,080 Speaker 1: for a long time. They were a Vietnam veteran. That's 26 00:02:02,080 --> 00:02:04,240 Speaker 1: where they learned to do it. All right, So here's 27 00:02:04,760 --> 00:02:09,480 Speaker 1: Joe Joseph, Yes, Michael, all right, So Ramon and I 28 00:02:09,520 --> 00:02:13,040 Speaker 1: have put together a little program here. Okay, here's what 29 00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:15,840 Speaker 1: we got. We're gonna We're not gonna do it. Somebody's 30 00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:19,760 Speaker 1: gonna do this. We're gonna build a website and people 31 00:02:19,840 --> 00:02:23,480 Speaker 1: are going to take a photo with you at when 32 00:02:23,600 --> 00:02:26,720 Speaker 1: when they when they're riding with you at events and 33 00:02:26,840 --> 00:02:29,160 Speaker 1: send them to you and the webmaster is going to 34 00:02:29,200 --> 00:02:30,560 Speaker 1: be able to post them so you'll be able to 35 00:02:30,560 --> 00:02:32,360 Speaker 1: see like people will want to take their photo with you. 36 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:35,320 Speaker 1: We do a website, We're going to get a dedicated phone. 37 00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:38,000 Speaker 1: Somebody else is going to do this. We're just we're 38 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:42,280 Speaker 1: just putting the program together here. Dedicated phone that will 39 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:45,920 Speaker 1: be just for this, uh. A website which will just 40 00:02:45,960 --> 00:02:49,600 Speaker 1: be a landing page, and we got to come up 41 00:02:49,639 --> 00:02:51,919 Speaker 1: with the name, which we'll talk about in a second. 42 00:02:52,919 --> 00:03:00,359 Speaker 1: And what did I do with my notes? Ramone? There 43 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:03,640 Speaker 1: was something else I was going to do and now 44 00:03:03,840 --> 00:03:08,160 Speaker 1: I have forgotten. Okay, well, anyway we're gonna get so. 45 00:03:08,520 --> 00:03:14,320 Speaker 1: First things first, we got to come up with a name. Joe, okay, Joseph. 46 00:03:14,320 --> 00:03:15,840 Speaker 1: Here's some of the first ones that came in. I 47 00:03:15,880 --> 00:03:19,760 Speaker 1: thought were pretty good. This first one. I shouldn't start 48 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:23,680 Speaker 1: with this because it's pretty good one Ramon, the Houston Sprocket. 49 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:29,000 Speaker 1: I like the Houston Sprocket. That's Brian Sower. Whoever gives 50 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:32,720 Speaker 1: the winning name is getting a free gift card to Gringos. 51 00:03:33,240 --> 00:03:35,120 Speaker 1: Do you know that? Russell says the reason I can't 52 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:37,520 Speaker 1: own a restaurant is I would give all, give everything 53 00:03:37,520 --> 00:03:40,080 Speaker 1: away and gift cards. I love gift cards. I love them, 54 00:03:40,200 --> 00:03:42,880 Speaker 1: love them, love them. I buy gift cards. I just 55 00:03:42,880 --> 00:03:44,560 Speaker 1: bought a bunch of gift cards to Tea, one, ETAs 56 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:46,440 Speaker 1: and Orange while we were there this weekend, five thousand 57 00:03:46,440 --> 00:03:49,200 Speaker 1: dollars worth. Because when people do nice things for my parents, 58 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:51,560 Speaker 1: I write them a note on my Tsar note card 59 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:53,640 Speaker 1: and I put one hundred dollars gift card in there 60 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:58,320 Speaker 1: and it makes me so happy. Let's see, Oh, this 61 00:03:58,360 --> 00:04:02,600 Speaker 1: is somebody donating a website. Somebody. We got to get 62 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:05,040 Speaker 1: somebody to donate a phone. We need a dedicated phone 63 00:04:05,080 --> 00:04:06,640 Speaker 1: for just this, because it's going to blow up. It 64 00:04:06,640 --> 00:04:08,720 Speaker 1: needs to be an iPhone with a dedicated number that 65 00:04:08,840 --> 00:04:14,640 Speaker 1: is just for this. Joe's Marine one not bad, not bad? Okay, 66 00:04:15,080 --> 00:04:17,840 Speaker 1: biker Joe. Where there's another one? I gotta find it. 67 00:04:18,680 --> 00:04:20,400 Speaker 1: I want to give the guy credit. I think it 68 00:04:20,480 --> 00:04:21,279 Speaker 1: was Petta Joe. 69 00:04:22,520 --> 00:04:23,520 Speaker 2: What's that right? 70 00:04:23,560 --> 00:04:33,400 Speaker 1: Let's see Astro rocket Cruiser not bad TC on Magnum P. 71 00:04:33,520 --> 00:04:39,479 Speaker 1: I was a Vietnam vet. Where is this? Several people 72 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:44,479 Speaker 1: have offered to set up the website, and I'm culling 73 00:04:44,520 --> 00:04:46,520 Speaker 1: through that because I don't want you to have to 74 00:04:46,520 --> 00:04:48,800 Speaker 1: pay anything. We're going to make this a little group project. 75 00:04:49,080 --> 00:04:52,280 Speaker 1: Whoever does it is going to cover setting up the 76 00:04:52,320 --> 00:04:55,880 Speaker 1: domain and building just a basic landing page with basic 77 00:04:55,960 --> 00:04:58,080 Speaker 1: operability where you can send them a photo, they can 78 00:04:58,080 --> 00:05:00,880 Speaker 1: put it up, and it'll have a dedicate email address. 79 00:05:00,880 --> 00:05:03,160 Speaker 1: It could just be a Gmail address where people can 80 00:05:03,160 --> 00:05:06,080 Speaker 1: book you in advance, and a dedicated phone number. Let's 81 00:05:06,080 --> 00:05:08,039 Speaker 1: see what other kind of names we got coming in here. 82 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:17,240 Speaker 1: Let's see here, Joseph and the Technicolor dream Bike. All right, 83 00:05:17,440 --> 00:05:20,120 Speaker 1: you know the the Andrew Lloyd Webber fanboy and me. 84 00:05:20,480 --> 00:05:23,040 Speaker 1: We can appreciate you that the astro. 85 00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:24,839 Speaker 3: My mother would like that one. 86 00:05:25,279 --> 00:05:29,000 Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, poor poor Joseph. What you're gonna do? 87 00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:34,799 Speaker 1: Let's see that's the song in the musical? Sorry, Joe Ped, 88 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:37,320 Speaker 1: here was one that I like. How about Joe Ped? 89 00:05:38,320 --> 00:05:40,400 Speaker 1: You like Moped? You don't like Joe Ped? Okay? 90 00:05:40,680 --> 00:05:43,080 Speaker 4: I like the houston Sprocket. I'm gonna lie to you. 91 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:45,800 Speaker 4: Houston'sprocket is sounding good. Right now, Let's throw it open 92 00:05:45,839 --> 00:05:49,080 Speaker 4: real quick. Tell Jeff on the black line hang up. 93 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:51,080 Speaker 4: We'll call him back in a minute. We're gonna take 94 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:56,760 Speaker 4: calls on a name. We got one segment here for 95 00:05:56,839 --> 00:05:58,240 Speaker 4: a name, and then we got to move on to 96 00:05:58,279 --> 00:06:00,000 Speaker 4: the other things we need out of this program. 97 00:06:00,080 --> 00:06:03,200 Speaker 1: Here, we're going to get you booked. Does your back 98 00:06:03,279 --> 00:06:05,160 Speaker 1: or your legs or anything like that hurt? And this 99 00:06:05,320 --> 00:06:08,080 Speaker 1: is a repeat injure, I mean a repeat muscle movement. 100 00:06:08,120 --> 00:06:09,719 Speaker 1: It seems like after a while a wear and tear 101 00:06:09,760 --> 00:06:10,359 Speaker 1: would get to you. 102 00:06:12,680 --> 00:06:16,720 Speaker 3: I'm pretty resilient. I've again before I even petticabed, I 103 00:06:16,760 --> 00:06:18,159 Speaker 3: was a very avid bike rider. 104 00:06:18,279 --> 00:06:20,239 Speaker 1: Yeah, how old gabber. 105 00:06:21,240 --> 00:06:22,360 Speaker 3: I'm forty seven right now. 106 00:06:22,440 --> 00:06:25,599 Speaker 1: Oh okay, so you're not a spring chicken. No, no, 107 00:06:25,760 --> 00:06:27,120 Speaker 1: but uh what's your night weight? 108 00:06:28,839 --> 00:06:31,680 Speaker 3: Five ten? I'm not sure what my weight is. I 109 00:06:31,760 --> 00:06:33,400 Speaker 3: might be around like one to ninety right now. 110 00:06:33,920 --> 00:06:36,120 Speaker 1: Is that muscle? Because five ten one ninety you might 111 00:06:36,160 --> 00:06:37,280 Speaker 1: you could be a little chubby. 112 00:06:39,360 --> 00:06:42,320 Speaker 3: Well, because I'm forty seven, it's put a little weight. 113 00:06:42,440 --> 00:06:47,000 Speaker 3: But overall I'm I'm in good shape. Overall I can 114 00:06:47,040 --> 00:06:48,360 Speaker 3: handle my own bud. 115 00:06:48,640 --> 00:06:52,000 Speaker 1: I am fifty three years old, six feet tall. Shut 116 00:06:52,040 --> 00:06:55,400 Speaker 1: your mouth bone, I am sixth solid. Do not even 117 00:06:55,440 --> 00:06:59,040 Speaker 1: do it. You know that irritates me one hundred and 118 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:02,480 Speaker 1: seventy eight pounds, and I will tell you it is 119 00:07:02,520 --> 00:07:06,880 Speaker 1: a daily struggle. It is. If I was, If I was, 120 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:10,080 Speaker 1: if I ate the way I ate and worked out 121 00:07:10,080 --> 00:07:13,720 Speaker 1: the way I work out now, when I was twenty five, 122 00:07:14,240 --> 00:07:16,480 Speaker 1: I wouldn't weigh one seventy at I weigh won sixty five, 123 00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:20,640 Speaker 1: I would be lean and muscle at fifty three. You are, man, 124 00:07:21,040 --> 00:07:23,160 Speaker 1: You're battling it in forty seven. Eight ain't far behind me. 125 00:07:23,160 --> 00:07:24,760 Speaker 1: All right, let's see what kind of names we got here. 126 00:07:25,200 --> 00:07:27,160 Speaker 1: We got to get our name first, and then we 127 00:07:27,240 --> 00:07:29,360 Speaker 1: got to put the whole program. And by the way, 128 00:07:30,160 --> 00:07:32,480 Speaker 1: y'all be thinking about for the rest of the show today, 129 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:35,920 Speaker 1: what kind of marketing we can do, and I mean 130 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:38,080 Speaker 1: self marketing. We got to have some Do we have 131 00:07:38,120 --> 00:07:41,920 Speaker 1: any placards or anything on there on the on the petticab. 132 00:07:43,800 --> 00:07:46,320 Speaker 3: Not on mind other than just basic things with the 133 00:07:46,400 --> 00:07:49,239 Speaker 3: rates and okay, are you opposed. 134 00:07:48,760 --> 00:07:50,600 Speaker 1: To us kind of taking this program over? 135 00:07:52,840 --> 00:07:56,280 Speaker 3: Honestly, I was talking to your guy on when you're 136 00:07:56,280 --> 00:07:58,800 Speaker 3: off the air, I'd have about till ten thirty and 137 00:07:58,840 --> 00:08:00,280 Speaker 3: then I have to leave because there is as an 138 00:08:00,280 --> 00:08:02,080 Speaker 3: Astros game today that I need to head out to 139 00:08:02,240 --> 00:08:02,520 Speaker 3: the world. 140 00:08:02,520 --> 00:08:04,520 Speaker 1: I'm just saying, if we come up with this whole program, 141 00:08:04,640 --> 00:08:05,920 Speaker 1: or you willing to implement it. 142 00:08:09,040 --> 00:08:12,960 Speaker 3: Possibly, but the baseball season is ending and the slow 143 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:15,080 Speaker 3: season is about to start, so it's almost a little 144 00:08:15,280 --> 00:08:16,720 Speaker 3: a little too late right now in the year. 145 00:08:19,680 --> 00:08:21,960 Speaker 1: Joseph, I don't know how to say this. We kind 146 00:08:21,960 --> 00:08:26,400 Speaker 1: of have a lot of people that listen. Yeah, yeah, 147 00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:28,920 Speaker 1: it could, it could get big. We might have to 148 00:08:28,920 --> 00:08:30,960 Speaker 1: grow this thing, like we might have to bring you 149 00:08:31,040 --> 00:08:34,880 Speaker 1: might have to be the big dog leverage this thing. Okay, 150 00:08:35,840 --> 00:08:39,400 Speaker 1: multi level biking kind of deal. You know, we got 151 00:08:39,440 --> 00:08:45,880 Speaker 1: people under you. Copy Don's sort of deal. What's going 152 00:08:45,880 --> 00:08:48,040 Speaker 1: on at ten thirty? 153 00:08:49,280 --> 00:08:52,000 Speaker 5: Oh, ten thirty? I have to go to work? Oh okay, 154 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:55,839 Speaker 5: all right, hold on, maybe somehow done Michael Berry show. 155 00:08:56,920 --> 00:09:03,160 Speaker 5: It's not good for my egoleicycle. 156 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:07,280 Speaker 4: I want to ride myle. 157 00:09:09,080 --> 00:09:13,320 Speaker 1: I want to ride my bys. I want to ride 158 00:09:13,400 --> 00:09:18,360 Speaker 1: my bike. I want to ride my by. I want 159 00:09:18,400 --> 00:09:19,240 Speaker 1: to ride it. 160 00:09:19,480 --> 00:09:25,160 Speaker 6: Where right, I say, white and. 161 00:09:27,520 --> 00:09:31,840 Speaker 1: Seat. There's a crazy old man. He's probably seventy five, 162 00:09:32,280 --> 00:09:34,840 Speaker 1: but he terrorizes the neighborhood. He scared to death of 163 00:09:34,880 --> 00:09:36,600 Speaker 1: me because I had to yell at him one day. 164 00:09:36,920 --> 00:09:41,920 Speaker 1: But he rides around, terrorizing people and yelling at them 165 00:09:41,960 --> 00:09:45,360 Speaker 1: on his bicycle. And he rides on the cul de 166 00:09:45,440 --> 00:09:48,040 Speaker 1: Sac at this very high rate of speed, and we 167 00:09:48,200 --> 00:09:51,480 Speaker 1: root for him to crash. Unfortunately he never does. But 168 00:09:51,520 --> 00:09:54,800 Speaker 1: as that started, he came riding through the and he's 169 00:09:54,840 --> 00:09:57,800 Speaker 1: a stoner. I didn't know this, but Emily told me. 170 00:09:58,360 --> 00:10:01,880 Speaker 1: Apparently there's this thing that stoner do Joe, are you 171 00:10:01,960 --> 00:10:05,000 Speaker 1: a pothead by any chance? Probably not, because no, I'm 172 00:10:05,040 --> 00:10:05,880 Speaker 1: not edible. 173 00:10:06,120 --> 00:10:08,079 Speaker 3: No, no, not no. 174 00:10:08,080 --> 00:10:08,240 Speaker 2: No. 175 00:10:08,520 --> 00:10:11,760 Speaker 1: A lot of veterans are. That's the only reason I asked. 176 00:10:11,960 --> 00:10:12,480 Speaker 5: A lot are. 177 00:10:12,559 --> 00:10:14,080 Speaker 3: I know quite a few that are. 178 00:10:14,400 --> 00:10:16,040 Speaker 1: Yeah, vape anything like that. 179 00:10:17,360 --> 00:10:19,320 Speaker 3: No, don't smoke, don't drink, never have. 180 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:23,400 Speaker 1: Are we scaring you with all this, you know, building 181 00:10:23,400 --> 00:10:24,400 Speaker 1: your business up stuff? 182 00:10:25,640 --> 00:10:28,160 Speaker 3: No? No, I just like keep thinking simple. 183 00:10:28,559 --> 00:10:33,559 Speaker 1: No, we're not trying to So I need somebody and 184 00:10:33,679 --> 00:10:36,520 Speaker 1: it needs to be somebody I know to reach out 185 00:10:36,559 --> 00:10:38,920 Speaker 1: to me that will run point on this thing. I 186 00:10:38,960 --> 00:10:40,800 Speaker 1: want to help your business, but I don't want to 187 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:44,640 Speaker 1: like overstep my bounds here. But here's what I would propose. 188 00:10:45,440 --> 00:10:48,280 Speaker 1: We'll get a website donated, you don't have to do anything. 189 00:10:48,640 --> 00:10:51,600 Speaker 1: We'll get a phone and service donated. It will be 190 00:10:51,640 --> 00:10:53,680 Speaker 1: dedicated to the phone so people can text or call 191 00:10:53,720 --> 00:10:55,400 Speaker 1: on that so you can turn it off when you 192 00:10:55,440 --> 00:11:01,240 Speaker 1: and your girl are watching a movie. And we get 193 00:11:01,240 --> 00:11:04,960 Speaker 1: an Instagram account set up so when people are with you, 194 00:11:05,520 --> 00:11:08,040 Speaker 1: they take a photograph with you and then they put 195 00:11:08,040 --> 00:11:09,960 Speaker 1: it on Instagram and that becomes its own. I'm not 196 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:14,000 Speaker 1: a I mean I will post because our station will 197 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:15,960 Speaker 1: make a video out of what we talk about, but 198 00:11:15,960 --> 00:11:18,079 Speaker 1: I'm not a big Instagram guy. I'm much more active 199 00:11:18,120 --> 00:11:20,719 Speaker 1: on Facebook and Twitter, but I'm just anyway. But I'm 200 00:11:20,720 --> 00:11:23,079 Speaker 1: told by the women especially that that would be that's 201 00:11:23,120 --> 00:11:27,320 Speaker 1: where your marketing would best be dedicated is on Instagram. 202 00:11:27,600 --> 00:11:31,480 Speaker 1: So somebody that can handle that and then if you're 203 00:11:31,520 --> 00:11:35,800 Speaker 1: comfortable with it, a dedicated you know, shirt or something 204 00:11:35,800 --> 00:11:39,719 Speaker 1: that makes you very identifiable that like people will go there. 205 00:11:39,760 --> 00:11:43,160 Speaker 1: He is, all right, so that's all. We'll do you 206 00:11:43,200 --> 00:11:43,600 Speaker 1: good with that. 207 00:11:46,800 --> 00:11:47,760 Speaker 2: I'll never say never. 208 00:11:47,960 --> 00:11:51,240 Speaker 1: Okay, all right, So here's the names with he's really 209 00:11:51,240 --> 00:11:53,040 Speaker 1: into this. Here's the names that have been submitted them on. 210 00:11:53,080 --> 00:11:58,200 Speaker 1: There's some good ones in here. Astro Glide, that's what okay, 211 00:11:58,240 --> 00:12:02,160 Speaker 1: I mean, it's funny though. Joe's game shuttle to and 212 00:12:02,240 --> 00:12:05,480 Speaker 1: fro Joe. I like that, And that's clever, right, everybody 213 00:12:05,520 --> 00:12:07,679 Speaker 1: likes to and fro Joe. It doesn't roll off. That 214 00:12:07,800 --> 00:12:10,040 Speaker 1: is the Houston Sprocket. You know what I like about 215 00:12:10,040 --> 00:12:12,280 Speaker 1: the Houston Sprocket has the in front so it makes 216 00:12:12,360 --> 00:12:13,559 Speaker 1: him kind of like, you know. 217 00:12:13,640 --> 00:12:16,280 Speaker 6: Oh, that's the Housless Brocket. I rode with the Housless 218 00:12:16,280 --> 00:12:20,800 Speaker 6: Brocket yesterday. Hey, is that the Housless Brocket. Since it's 219 00:12:20,880 --> 00:12:23,320 Speaker 6: manual powered. He could say, the only manny petty you 220 00:12:23,320 --> 00:12:23,880 Speaker 6: ever need. 221 00:12:24,160 --> 00:12:26,800 Speaker 1: But it's not bad. Sprocket Man like the Elton John 222 00:12:26,920 --> 00:12:33,040 Speaker 1: song Home Run Taxi Astro Joe Express. I like this one, 223 00:12:33,960 --> 00:12:37,800 Speaker 1: Joe Ryder. I'm not saying we go with that. I'm 224 00:12:37,840 --> 00:12:41,320 Speaker 1: just saying it was clever. It's clever. Joe's Stros Toe 225 00:12:41,360 --> 00:12:43,640 Speaker 1: and Go. I don't roll off the tone, but it's funny. 226 00:12:44,760 --> 00:12:48,640 Speaker 1: Houston Sprocket by Brian Sower. That's still my favorite. Uh, 227 00:12:49,440 --> 00:12:53,040 Speaker 1: let's see Joe's Marine one. There's some good ones that 228 00:12:53,080 --> 00:12:54,600 Speaker 1: came in in here. I can't keep up with all 229 00:12:54,640 --> 00:12:56,800 Speaker 1: of them. Do you have the permit? 230 00:12:58,720 --> 00:12:58,920 Speaker 5: Yes? 231 00:12:59,080 --> 00:12:59,840 Speaker 1: How much supermit? 232 00:13:02,320 --> 00:13:05,920 Speaker 3: I think the permit costs. I want to see the 233 00:13:05,960 --> 00:13:07,959 Speaker 3: permit itself, sin. 234 00:13:09,920 --> 00:13:13,560 Speaker 1: And where do you go to fill it out? What 235 00:13:13,800 --> 00:13:17,720 Speaker 1: just happened? He dropped? I think we have scared them, 236 00:13:17,720 --> 00:13:20,880 Speaker 1: but Jesus out of Joseph Fuelant, the truth is that 237 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:25,720 Speaker 1: him back? All right, James, what's your name? What's the 238 00:13:25,760 --> 00:13:32,160 Speaker 1: name you got? Sprocket Rocket, Sprocket Rocket, Hector, what's your name? 239 00:13:34,800 --> 00:13:41,000 Speaker 2: Let's try the pedaler pedaling your ass to the event. Okay, Susan, 240 00:13:41,080 --> 00:13:45,559 Speaker 2: what you got I have a Rodeo petticab story. 241 00:13:45,679 --> 00:13:49,000 Speaker 1: Okay with Joseph No. 242 00:13:49,160 --> 00:13:50,960 Speaker 2: I just emailed it to You's you going to read it? 243 00:13:50,960 --> 00:13:52,280 Speaker 2: But it's hilarious. 244 00:13:52,880 --> 00:13:54,800 Speaker 1: Hold on, what's the name that came in under. 245 00:13:57,240 --> 00:14:03,200 Speaker 2: Susan D. A Walt at yahoo dot com And I 246 00:14:03,200 --> 00:14:07,440 Speaker 2: said petty cab Rodeo story in the subject. 247 00:14:08,200 --> 00:14:10,880 Speaker 1: I'm scanning through about two hundred emails just in the 248 00:14:10,960 --> 00:14:11,440 Speaker 1: last couple of. 249 00:14:11,440 --> 00:14:13,240 Speaker 2: Minutes, so you well like them to say it real quick? 250 00:14:13,400 --> 00:14:14,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, go ahead. 251 00:14:15,400 --> 00:14:17,160 Speaker 2: Okay, so we all know if you've ever been to 252 00:14:17,240 --> 00:14:20,040 Speaker 2: the Rodeo, how horrible parking is. Right. And I was 253 00:14:20,040 --> 00:14:22,200 Speaker 2: on a committee for years, so I always had a pass. 254 00:14:22,800 --> 00:14:25,080 Speaker 2: Last year I did not. I take my fourteen year 255 00:14:25,080 --> 00:14:27,840 Speaker 2: old daughter her two friends. I'm thinking I'm going to 256 00:14:27,880 --> 00:14:30,120 Speaker 2: be the cool mom, you know, we go see luc 257 00:14:30,160 --> 00:14:33,120 Speaker 2: Brian said this over. We're rushing to the parking lot 258 00:14:33,400 --> 00:14:36,240 Speaker 2: and this petty cab just like appears out of nowhere. Okay, 259 00:14:36,920 --> 00:14:40,840 Speaker 2: we hop on. I look down, he has no shoes on. 260 00:14:41,920 --> 00:14:44,400 Speaker 2: My daughter looks down, he has no shoes on, and 261 00:14:44,440 --> 00:14:47,360 Speaker 2: I'm thinking he's on drugs. We're going to die. I 262 00:14:47,400 --> 00:14:51,720 Speaker 2: start praying he's goingly fast. A police officer yells at 263 00:14:51,800 --> 00:14:54,600 Speaker 2: him and says, I told you not to come back here. 264 00:14:54,640 --> 00:14:56,960 Speaker 2: And I'm thinking my life is over and I have 265 00:14:57,040 --> 00:15:00,960 Speaker 2: these precious girls, you know, with me. So we finally 266 00:15:01,360 --> 00:15:06,880 Speaker 2: get to the parking lot safely. And now whenever we 267 00:15:06,920 --> 00:15:09,920 Speaker 2: see a petty cab after an Astros game or whatever, 268 00:15:10,600 --> 00:15:12,960 Speaker 2: I'm like, I tell my daughter, Oh, let's get on. 269 00:15:13,040 --> 00:15:15,760 Speaker 2: It'd be so much easier. He has shoes on, And 270 00:15:15,840 --> 00:15:18,320 Speaker 2: my daughter said, I am never getting on a petty 271 00:15:18,320 --> 00:15:22,120 Speaker 2: cab the rest of my life. 272 00:15:23,040 --> 00:15:26,680 Speaker 1: But the guy's problem wasn't that he wasn't wearing shoes, right, 273 00:15:26,720 --> 00:15:28,640 Speaker 1: He'd probably done something to piss the cops off. 274 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:32,640 Speaker 2: Oh I know what I'm saying. I knew that he 275 00:15:32,800 --> 00:15:35,560 Speaker 2: had a story. Once I see he doesn't have shoes 276 00:15:35,600 --> 00:15:37,960 Speaker 2: and the cops yelling at him to never come back, 277 00:15:38,320 --> 00:15:42,320 Speaker 2: I'm thinking, what have I? Who is this guy? But 278 00:15:42,680 --> 00:15:45,960 Speaker 2: I would love to be a member of Joe's petticab 279 00:15:46,400 --> 00:15:49,800 Speaker 2: business where I pay in advance. It's a frequent fire 280 00:15:49,840 --> 00:15:50,840 Speaker 2: thing or something. 281 00:15:51,840 --> 00:15:57,400 Speaker 1: I hadn't even thought about that I think I would like. Well, 282 00:15:57,560 --> 00:16:00,080 Speaker 1: I don't want to probe too deep because you don't know, 283 00:15:59,880 --> 00:16:02,800 Speaker 1: you know this, this poor guy woke up this morning 284 00:16:02,840 --> 00:16:05,000 Speaker 1: to his brother suggesting he'd be on the air as 285 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:08,400 Speaker 1: a petty cabin. Now he's, you know, in danger of 286 00:16:08,440 --> 00:16:10,680 Speaker 1: having a front page story and the chronicle written about him. 287 00:16:10,680 --> 00:16:13,920 Speaker 1: Some people like to stay off the grid and keep 288 00:16:13,960 --> 00:16:17,280 Speaker 1: it that way, and I do actually understand that. I 289 00:16:17,360 --> 00:16:21,600 Speaker 1: just think it's fun to lock down on something and 290 00:16:21,960 --> 00:16:27,000 Speaker 1: you know, and everybody donate their resources and come together 291 00:16:27,120 --> 00:16:28,960 Speaker 1: and it's like a cause and it's fun and we're 292 00:16:28,960 --> 00:16:30,680 Speaker 1: all in on it. But he may not want it. 293 00:16:30,680 --> 00:16:32,960 Speaker 1: He may not have accidentally dropped. He may be is 294 00:16:32,960 --> 00:16:37,080 Speaker 1: that him? He may be out. It's okay too. If 295 00:16:37,160 --> 00:16:44,080 Speaker 1: josephs out, we'll find somebody else. Huh what he's back? Okay, Yeah, 296 00:16:44,400 --> 00:16:46,440 Speaker 1: maybe he wants to stay off the grid, and that's 297 00:16:46,480 --> 00:16:49,320 Speaker 1: perfectly fine. Those guys, a lot of those guys have 298 00:16:49,400 --> 00:16:52,560 Speaker 1: a backstory, you know. They just whether it's a social 299 00:16:52,600 --> 00:16:55,720 Speaker 1: anxiety or you know, just don't want to be bothered 300 00:16:55,880 --> 00:16:59,200 Speaker 1: or crazy ex wife, you just you know, or maybe 301 00:16:59,240 --> 00:17:02,360 Speaker 1: just they're just not guy that wants to make money, 302 00:17:02,440 --> 00:17:07,640 Speaker 1: make money. I'm gonna eat you got Joe back, Joe, 303 00:17:07,840 --> 00:17:10,520 Speaker 1: I'm back. Let's talk about your headspace right now? Are 304 00:17:10,560 --> 00:17:13,080 Speaker 1: you like be honest with me. Are you just kind 305 00:17:13,080 --> 00:17:15,480 Speaker 1: of freaked out by all this, or are you like 306 00:17:16,040 --> 00:17:18,520 Speaker 1: I just woke up, I haven't had my coffee, or 307 00:17:19,200 --> 00:17:21,760 Speaker 1: you thinking I just got to get to the game. 308 00:17:22,119 --> 00:17:22,800 Speaker 1: What's going on? 309 00:17:24,040 --> 00:17:26,800 Speaker 3: Oh No, I'm not freaked out. I'm just well, I 310 00:17:26,880 --> 00:17:28,959 Speaker 3: do I would like to get to the game at 311 00:17:28,960 --> 00:17:31,240 Speaker 3: some point. It's the last game of the season. You 312 00:17:31,320 --> 00:17:33,800 Speaker 3: loved astros yees another thing? 313 00:17:33,920 --> 00:17:34,280 Speaker 5: I think. 314 00:17:34,640 --> 00:17:35,000 Speaker 2: I just. 315 00:17:36,640 --> 00:17:39,040 Speaker 3: I've been doing it since twenty twelve. I found my niche, 316 00:17:39,040 --> 00:17:43,600 Speaker 3: I found it works for me. I'm not opposed to help, 317 00:17:43,680 --> 00:17:45,280 Speaker 3: but I do pretty well. 318 00:17:46,119 --> 00:17:48,040 Speaker 1: Oh we don't. We're not saying you don't. We just 319 00:17:48,240 --> 00:17:52,159 Speaker 1: like all kind of secretly excited. Oh okay, does that 320 00:17:52,200 --> 00:17:55,359 Speaker 1: make sense? Most of us had boring day jobs and 321 00:17:55,400 --> 00:17:57,680 Speaker 1: we're just thinking, man, any kind We want to give 322 00:17:57,720 --> 00:18:02,000 Speaker 1: ideas and like people would love our listeners would love 323 00:18:03,160 --> 00:18:06,560 Speaker 1: to be heading to the game and say, hey, uh 324 00:18:06,760 --> 00:18:08,879 Speaker 1: I got you know, remember the Houston sprocket. It was 325 00:18:08,920 --> 00:18:11,480 Speaker 1: on the Michael Berry Show. I got him set up 326 00:18:11,520 --> 00:18:15,400 Speaker 1: to pick us up at Federal American Grill at six 327 00:18:15,520 --> 00:18:17,960 Speaker 1: thirty and we got to be there at six thirty. 328 00:18:18,080 --> 00:18:19,600 Speaker 1: Or let's see if we let's go see if we 329 00:18:19,600 --> 00:18:22,600 Speaker 1: can find him and ride with him. Like that's all 330 00:18:22,640 --> 00:18:24,159 Speaker 1: we do, thinking, I know, you got to get to 331 00:18:24,200 --> 00:18:24,440 Speaker 1: the game. 332 00:18:24,480 --> 00:18:24,760 Speaker 5: My man. 333 00:18:24,800 --> 00:18:25,720 Speaker 1: We're gonna be in touch. 334 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:29,280 Speaker 3: Okay, all right, all right, you're talking to Michael. 335 00:18:29,400 --> 00:18:32,160 Speaker 1: He's kind of come around. I think maybe he woke 336 00:18:32,160 --> 00:18:36,040 Speaker 1: a couple of No, don't give me Steve. He's coming around. 337 00:18:36,080 --> 00:18:38,639 Speaker 1: He did Michael Sperry Show. Thought I was selling him 338 00:18:38,640 --> 00:18:39,160 Speaker 1: a time share. 339 00:18:39,320 --> 00:18:52,160 Speaker 7: So all right, stop what you're doing because I'm about 340 00:18:52,160 --> 00:18:54,399 Speaker 7: to ruin the image and the style that you're used to. 341 00:18:54,720 --> 00:18:58,200 Speaker 7: I looked funny, but yo, I'm making money. See so yo, Well, 342 00:18:58,280 --> 00:18:59,240 Speaker 7: I hope you're ready for. 343 00:18:59,160 --> 00:18:59,959 Speaker 3: Me, and I got the run. 344 00:19:00,600 --> 00:19:02,399 Speaker 1: We've got some folks who have offered to kind of 345 00:19:02,400 --> 00:19:05,480 Speaker 1: take over the program for Joe, but I need to 346 00:19:05,520 --> 00:19:07,720 Speaker 1: talk to him off eric, make sure that he is 347 00:19:08,880 --> 00:19:13,280 Speaker 1: comfortable with that. He may just kind of be you know. 348 00:19:13,359 --> 00:19:15,680 Speaker 1: One day I was talking to my buddy Michael Robinson, 349 00:19:15,720 --> 00:19:21,919 Speaker 1: the Aggie Plumber, and I was pastoring everybody in the 350 00:19:22,160 --> 00:19:24,800 Speaker 1: that I knew in the college station area commercial accounts 351 00:19:24,840 --> 00:19:28,879 Speaker 1: to use him, and I realized at some point he 352 00:19:28,960 --> 00:19:31,680 Speaker 1: was like, hey, look, I've got a good life. I 353 00:19:32,720 --> 00:19:34,919 Speaker 1: worked the right amount of hours to get to be 354 00:19:35,160 --> 00:19:38,080 Speaker 1: home and have dinner with my family every night, not 355 00:19:38,200 --> 00:19:40,320 Speaker 1: have to add any more employees than I already have. 356 00:19:41,160 --> 00:19:45,720 Speaker 1: I have good fundamentals in my business. I make a 357 00:19:45,760 --> 00:19:48,320 Speaker 1: good living. I'm not trying to. I don't know any 358 00:19:48,359 --> 00:19:51,520 Speaker 1: debts and never have, and I don't buy anything I 359 00:19:51,520 --> 00:19:55,120 Speaker 1: don't need. So I appreciate it, but don't spend your 360 00:19:55,119 --> 00:19:57,800 Speaker 1: time on somebody else. I'm in a good spot. And 361 00:19:57,880 --> 00:20:01,800 Speaker 1: I realized, you know, some people are desperately trying to grow, grow, grow, 362 00:20:02,760 --> 00:20:07,280 Speaker 1: or a lot of businesses are failing, and it's more 363 00:20:07,320 --> 00:20:11,520 Speaker 1: businesses than you realize. It's probably most businesses. You just 364 00:20:11,600 --> 00:20:15,600 Speaker 1: don't notice it because somebody else is bailing them out. 365 00:20:15,840 --> 00:20:20,239 Speaker 1: So if a woman has a dress shop, it's like 366 00:20:20,520 --> 00:20:23,879 Speaker 1: Sassy Styles or sweet and Sassy, or you know what 367 00:20:23,920 --> 00:20:26,679 Speaker 1: I'm talking about. And you go in and it smells 368 00:20:26,680 --> 00:20:31,080 Speaker 1: a pumpkin spice, and you know there's women in there 369 00:20:31,119 --> 00:20:34,560 Speaker 1: wearing moo moos, and how can we help you? And 370 00:20:33,359 --> 00:20:37,479 Speaker 1: there that that business is losing money. That is a 371 00:20:37,520 --> 00:20:42,720 Speaker 1: passion project for a woman whose kids have reached their 372 00:20:42,760 --> 00:20:45,160 Speaker 1: teenage years and they don't need mom that much anymore, 373 00:20:45,960 --> 00:20:50,000 Speaker 1: and she's always wanted to do this, and she likes 374 00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:52,359 Speaker 1: to go to those stores, so she's going to open 375 00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:54,840 Speaker 1: her own. And this is there's nothing wrong with it. 376 00:20:55,480 --> 00:20:57,560 Speaker 1: Don't get your feelings hurt if that's you, because it's 377 00:20:57,600 --> 00:21:00,960 Speaker 1: a lot of you. Every drunk one wants to own 378 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:04,080 Speaker 1: a bar, every food he wants to own a restaurant. 379 00:21:04,600 --> 00:21:08,679 Speaker 1: It's just it's what you do. And that business is 380 00:21:08,760 --> 00:21:12,440 Speaker 1: losing money before it ever starts because there's a build 381 00:21:12,440 --> 00:21:15,760 Speaker 1: out and occasionally there will be a sale here and there, 382 00:21:15,960 --> 00:21:19,800 Speaker 1: but those sales will be her best friend, or she'll 383 00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:22,320 Speaker 1: ask her best friend and the girls from church to 384 00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:24,880 Speaker 1: come work for her, and while they're working there, they'll 385 00:21:24,920 --> 00:21:28,000 Speaker 1: buy some stuff and that will be the revenues that 386 00:21:28,040 --> 00:21:30,800 Speaker 1: the business will have, and it will lose money every month. 387 00:21:31,040 --> 00:21:34,840 Speaker 1: It will always lose money. But her husband loves her 388 00:21:34,840 --> 00:21:37,520 Speaker 1: to death. She's a sweet wife and he's committed to her, 389 00:21:37,560 --> 00:21:39,920 Speaker 1: and by golly, he doesn't want the dream to die 390 00:21:39,960 --> 00:21:42,800 Speaker 1: for her. So they take money out of their four 391 00:21:42,800 --> 00:21:47,359 Speaker 1: oh one k every year until finally they've drained their 392 00:21:47,359 --> 00:21:49,439 Speaker 1: three hundred thousand dollars four oh one K down to 393 00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:52,919 Speaker 1: one hundred thousand, and he says, honey, look and we 394 00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:55,639 Speaker 1: talk about it onwinding this thing. That business been losing 395 00:21:55,680 --> 00:22:00,679 Speaker 1: money for three years. You wouldn't believe how often somebody 396 00:22:01,160 --> 00:22:06,600 Speaker 1: that runs a restaurant that that restaurant, even though it's 397 00:22:06,600 --> 00:22:11,000 Speaker 1: busy when you go in there, their dad funded it 398 00:22:11,080 --> 00:22:15,359 Speaker 1: to start them and every eighth month gives them a 399 00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:17,680 Speaker 1: little extra cash, give the down payment on their house, 400 00:22:18,240 --> 00:22:21,120 Speaker 1: and covers their car insurance and their cell phone. If 401 00:22:21,160 --> 00:22:23,600 Speaker 1: you back all that money out, that business is losing money. 402 00:22:24,359 --> 00:22:28,280 Speaker 1: And that is most businesses. It's over fifty percent of 403 00:22:28,280 --> 00:22:31,680 Speaker 1: businesses are losing money. When I say businesses, I don't 404 00:22:31,720 --> 00:22:36,280 Speaker 1: mean Exxon and VP. I mean retail shops that you 405 00:22:36,359 --> 00:22:40,440 Speaker 1: can see. Most of them are losing money. And when 406 00:22:40,480 --> 00:22:47,520 Speaker 1: they make money, the money's going to repaying repaying bills 407 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:51,400 Speaker 1: that have been run up when they're in their tough time. 408 00:22:53,320 --> 00:22:56,880 Speaker 1: FBI raids more than a dozen gaming rooms across southeast 409 00:22:56,880 --> 00:23:02,439 Speaker 1: Houston and into Gallaston County. KHOU reports that the raids 410 00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:08,080 Speaker 1: are connected to a broader investigation involving the corruption of 411 00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:15,440 Speaker 1: public officials. The story clip number nineteen ramon from KHOU. 412 00:23:16,080 --> 00:23:18,520 Speaker 8: At about four o'clock this afternoon, outside of this blue 413 00:23:18,560 --> 00:23:21,280 Speaker 8: warehouse on the thirteen thousand block of Market Street. We 414 00:23:21,359 --> 00:23:24,920 Speaker 8: watched as federal agents walked in and out of the building. 415 00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:28,280 Speaker 8: A short time later, gaming machines were wheeled out of 416 00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:33,199 Speaker 8: the warehouse then loaded onto eighteen wheelers. At almost the 417 00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:35,560 Speaker 8: exact same time, the same type of raid was happening 418 00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:38,920 Speaker 8: across other parts of South and southeast Houston, and also 419 00:23:39,040 --> 00:23:42,439 Speaker 8: in parts of Galveston County at sixteen other businesses with 420 00:23:42,480 --> 00:23:47,239 Speaker 8: gaming machines. Here at the Star Video on Broadway near 421 00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:49,960 Speaker 8: the Golf Freeway, a customer tells us what happened when 422 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:53,959 Speaker 8: the Feds showed up. Beatrice Lopez says she was playing 423 00:23:54,160 --> 00:23:56,800 Speaker 8: when the FBI agents walked in the door. She says 424 00:23:56,800 --> 00:23:58,399 Speaker 8: they told her to put her hands on top of 425 00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:01,359 Speaker 8: the machine, asked for her name, and questioned her. She 426 00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:03,360 Speaker 8: told us she comes here to play the machines for 427 00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:06,800 Speaker 8: entertainment and to relax. If you win, she says, the 428 00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:09,840 Speaker 8: woman in charge pays you cash on the spot. Tai 429 00:24:12,440 --> 00:24:15,080 Speaker 8: Lopez says she's one close to one thousand dollars total 430 00:24:15,160 --> 00:24:17,359 Speaker 8: in the year she's played the machines here, but she 431 00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:20,320 Speaker 8: says it's rare and she went back to back At 432 00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:22,560 Speaker 8: the same time as the raid on Broadway. Federal agents 433 00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:26,640 Speaker 8: we're confiscating gambling machines at businesses in Galveston County. This 434 00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:29,400 Speaker 8: is the Big Easy Game room on Oak Street in Lamark, 435 00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:32,800 Speaker 8: and this is the jungled in on Highway six and Hitchcock. 436 00:24:33,119 --> 00:24:36,200 Speaker 8: In an email statement, the FBI's Houston Field office states 437 00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:39,199 Speaker 8: the raids were part of a quote sweeping court authorized 438 00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:42,359 Speaker 8: operation and that quote due to the ongoing nature of 439 00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:46,280 Speaker 8: the federal investigation, we are unable to provide additional details 440 00:24:46,320 --> 00:24:50,000 Speaker 8: at this time. KHOU eleven sources are telling us tonight 441 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:53,399 Speaker 8: the raids are connected to a broader investigation involving the 442 00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:55,480 Speaker 8: corruption of public officials. 443 00:24:58,160 --> 00:25:03,440 Speaker 1: Please Lord, let it all come to life. Please let 444 00:25:03,480 --> 00:25:06,840 Speaker 1: it all come to light. Let it be some of 445 00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:15,679 Speaker 1: the people that we have presumed based on things we know, 446 00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:22,120 Speaker 1: or engaged in all sorts of other criminal activities. Please 447 00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:25,040 Speaker 1: let it be them. Please, Dear God, let this be 448 00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:28,480 Speaker 1: the thing that finally put them over the edge that 449 00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:32,920 Speaker 1: they are. You know, it's funny. I mean, look, crime 450 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:36,520 Speaker 1: is crime, But I'm a lot less worried with somebody running. 451 00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:39,960 Speaker 1: If there's a public official running a gaming room, I'm 452 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:43,680 Speaker 1: a lot less worried about that. Than the fact that 453 00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:48,399 Speaker 1: they're letting contracts to buddies of theirs to get overpaid 454 00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:51,159 Speaker 1: by the taxpayers and never deliver the service, because that 455 00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:56,360 Speaker 1: hurts everybody. But little morality stuff. Some dude can't keep 456 00:25:56,400 --> 00:26:00,560 Speaker 1: his zipper his pants zipped. Our people will kick them 457 00:26:00,560 --> 00:26:05,000 Speaker 1: out of office in a second. Somebody steals money from 458 00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:09,200 Speaker 1: the from the treasury. Muh, maybe he did it, Maybe 459 00:26:09,240 --> 00:26:12,439 Speaker 1: he didn't. Better not be over having, better not have 460 00:26:12,520 --> 00:26:17,280 Speaker 1: his pants unzipped. It's the craziest thing. I understand that 461 00:26:17,359 --> 00:26:19,640 Speaker 1: you have to have things that you as a as 462 00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:23,000 Speaker 1: a public, that you that you say, we don't want 463 00:26:23,040 --> 00:26:27,040 Speaker 1: you doing that. But some guy getting a d w 464 00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:29,959 Speaker 1: I or unzipping his pants does not harm the public 465 00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:32,439 Speaker 1: nearly like what they're doing at Harris County or what 466 00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:35,880 Speaker 1: they've been doing at the city used in the affects. 467 00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:39,560 Speaker 1: You're not going anywhere, even if Trump does, You're not. 468 00:26:40,960 --> 00:26:45,080 Speaker 7: He war starts to Love and said, sign here is 469 00:26:45,119 --> 00:26:50,200 Speaker 7: a cal keep her at a trot and I'd ride 470 00:26:50,280 --> 00:26:57,440 Speaker 7: in a circle while lad. Then I flopped down inside 471 00:26:57,680 --> 00:27:03,560 Speaker 7: him and he he's ninety years old, little sixty three 472 00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:06,800 Speaker 7: dollar TI. 473 00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:11,119 Speaker 5: Love Lord. 474 00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:16,359 Speaker 7: I cried day died because. 475 00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:17,240 Speaker 5: I thought. 476 00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:30,679 Speaker 7: That he walked to call the water. After the story, 477 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:32,760 Speaker 7: Alan Chamblin wrote that song. 478 00:27:34,359 --> 00:27:38,120 Speaker 1: Had Alan Chamblain Chamblain in the studio back when we 479 00:27:38,119 --> 00:27:45,520 Speaker 1: were off of six ten loop and Guy's darn was 480 00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:46,920 Speaker 1: the name of the other guy. He wrote a bunch 481 00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:48,920 Speaker 1: of songs for George Strait wrote a bunch of songs 482 00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:51,240 Speaker 1: you'd know, A bunch of them, probably forty songs you 483 00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:54,000 Speaker 1: would know. And I had the two of them at 484 00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:58,160 Speaker 1: my house that night. It's kind of a living room 485 00:27:58,320 --> 00:28:04,200 Speaker 1: picking party, and it was an invitation deal. I don't 486 00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:05,800 Speaker 1: do invitation. I text people, Hey, you want to come 487 00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:09,680 Speaker 1: to the house and listen. And it always irritates me because, oh, 488 00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:13,760 Speaker 1: as if that's going to affect whether coming. Oh who's playing? Well, 489 00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:16,600 Speaker 1: Alan Shamblin, you don't know him, but you know every 490 00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:22,879 Speaker 1: song is ever. So we're all sitting around and I 491 00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:25,560 Speaker 1: kind of do a question and answer like we've done 492 00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:28,439 Speaker 1: on the air, but where we go a little deeper. 493 00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:32,000 Speaker 1: I can't remember the other guy's name, do you remember? 494 00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:36,520 Speaker 1: I can't stand when I forget things. He's the one 495 00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:39,320 Speaker 1: that did all the Bluebell commercials. He did a bunch 496 00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:46,520 Speaker 1: of songs Alan Shamblin and somebody out there will know 497 00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:54,760 Speaker 1: it anyway. It was just incredible to hear a guy 498 00:28:54,880 --> 00:29:00,680 Speaker 1: sing the songs that he wrote and you think to yourself, oh, 499 00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:04,880 Speaker 1: you're doing Randy Travis. No, Randy Travis is doing Alan Shamblin. 500 00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:12,640 Speaker 1: It's a whole different. There was a world where I 501 00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:14,840 Speaker 1: thought he walked on water, or he walked on water, 502 00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:18,120 Speaker 1: I think the name of the song. There was a 503 00:29:18,120 --> 00:29:24,040 Speaker 1: world where that song didn't exist, and it would have 504 00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:26,560 Speaker 1: been the case that that song would never have existed 505 00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:33,960 Speaker 1: except that Alan Shamblin sat down and wrote it, and 506 00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:39,520 Speaker 1: because he had an established reputation with the labels, they 507 00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:43,320 Speaker 1: picked it up. And then I forget what the title 508 00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:46,239 Speaker 1: of the term for the guys are that sing that 509 00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:49,000 Speaker 1: song for the label when they would send out the 510 00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:51,320 Speaker 1: cassette to the artists and go, hey, you know, we're 511 00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:53,400 Speaker 1: trying out this song. What do you think? And that 512 00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:54,920 Speaker 1: guy would be the guy that would sing it the 513 00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:59,239 Speaker 1: way he interpreted it, and sometimes the singer would end 514 00:29:59,320 --> 00:30:01,280 Speaker 1: up singing it that way. Sometimes they would personalize it 515 00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:03,000 Speaker 1: to themselves, but that would give them a sense of 516 00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:06,920 Speaker 1: how the song was going to sound. And I just 517 00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:11,640 Speaker 1: imagine what a glorious thing that is and just listen 518 00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:16,480 Speaker 1: to a podcast on Shakespeare. And in the year sixteen hundred, 519 00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:19,160 Speaker 1: Shakespeare was the biggest thing in the world, a globe theater, 520 00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:24,400 Speaker 1: and people would come from far and he was, you know, 521 00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:29,600 Speaker 1: honored for his greatness with the pen that here we are, 522 00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:33,959 Speaker 1: you know, over four hundred years later, we're still quoting 523 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:38,120 Speaker 1: the words he introduced into our day to day some 524 00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:44,520 Speaker 1: of these songwriters, their turn of phrase, their storytelling. It 525 00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:50,040 Speaker 1: just it moves me so deeply because these are universal experiences. 526 00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:54,160 Speaker 1: I thought he walked on water is I mean, who 527 00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:58,840 Speaker 1: didn't have an old man in your life who you know, 528 00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:04,160 Speaker 1: with an old mop made it into it. You know, 529 00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:06,840 Speaker 1: he took an old mop and made it a pony 530 00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:09,280 Speaker 1: and said, you know, keep her at a trot and 531 00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:11,760 Speaker 1: don't go too fast on her. And you're a little key. 532 00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:17,600 Speaker 1: You think, what a what a wonderful, wondrous moment that is. 533 00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:20,920 Speaker 1: And then to go back one time and say hello 534 00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:22,880 Speaker 1: to that person, you know, you think how cool that 535 00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:27,560 Speaker 1: would be. And that he reduced that to two words, 536 00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:33,880 Speaker 1: that he was able to to do that, I'm thinking 537 00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:38,440 Speaker 1: of a Shirley cu lickor that I was seen about 538 00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:40,640 Speaker 1: right in the middle of that, and it was a 539 00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:44,800 Speaker 1: story that Shirley cue Licker had told that seemed like 540 00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:48,960 Speaker 1: it could have been you know what, I'm thinking of. 541 00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:54,320 Speaker 1: Something in that story sparked me to think about Shirley 542 00:31:54,360 --> 00:31:59,160 Speaker 1: cue Licker. And I can't remember. I was sitting on 543 00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:04,360 Speaker 1: the back porch last night contemplating and listening to Randy 544 00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:10,240 Speaker 1: Travis songs, and I had three bourbons. Now hold on, 545 00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:15,600 Speaker 1: mister Judgy Joe, three bourbons. I do a two fingered bourbon. 546 00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:19,360 Speaker 1: It's not a heavy poor do I drink my bourbons 547 00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:22,680 Speaker 1: and neat chance McLain was over. We're sitting out on 548 00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:25,000 Speaker 1: the porch. I have a TV out on the porch, 549 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:28,000 Speaker 1: but the TV wasn't working for whatever reason. Because that's 550 00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:31,120 Speaker 1: the reason technology exists, is so just about the time 551 00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:33,840 Speaker 1: you like it, it breaks. It's just the way it works. 552 00:32:35,120 --> 00:32:38,840 Speaker 1: And so we sat outside and looked through the glass 553 00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:42,240 Speaker 1: into the living room and watched the game the Astros 554 00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:46,440 Speaker 1: and had a couple of bourbons and talked about our 555 00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:49,280 Speaker 1: moms and talked about business, and talked about life, and 556 00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:53,560 Speaker 1: talked about the seventies Astros and you know, went through 557 00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:56,680 Speaker 1: each player and then went through you know how much 558 00:32:56,760 --> 00:32:59,520 Speaker 1: we love Dan Pastuni and boring stuff, but it's our 559 00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:03,880 Speaker 1: little thing. 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