1 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:09,200 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. 2 00:00:11,080 --> 00:00:13,720 Speaker 2: The Michael Verie Show is on the air. 3 00:00:32,200 --> 00:00:35,080 Speaker 3: This nice fellow had said that he wished he had 4 00:00:35,080 --> 00:00:40,199 Speaker 3: called Chance McClain to do a heritage film before his 5 00:00:40,320 --> 00:00:44,239 Speaker 3: dad passed and the time passed and he didn't get 6 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:46,040 Speaker 3: it done, and now you don't. You don't have that 7 00:00:46,120 --> 00:00:49,159 Speaker 3: opportunity again. And it's it's a bummer because you know, 8 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:51,320 Speaker 3: you wish you had that for your kids and grandkids. 9 00:00:52,320 --> 00:00:54,480 Speaker 3: So he said he was he was cleaning out the 10 00:00:54,880 --> 00:00:59,520 Speaker 3: garage and he came across his his clean ass mom's garage, 11 00:00:59,560 --> 00:01:02,560 Speaker 3: came across his dad's old cowboy hat and it's in 12 00:01:02,600 --> 00:01:05,160 Speaker 3: bad shape, but he wants to restore it. So we're 13 00:01:05,160 --> 00:01:09,240 Speaker 3: talking about cowboy hats. And I said that Republic Boot 14 00:01:09,280 --> 00:01:11,559 Speaker 3: Company is our show sponsor, and they make beautiful hats. 15 00:01:12,080 --> 00:01:16,440 Speaker 3: I don't think they do repair of severely damaged hats, 16 00:01:17,920 --> 00:01:21,240 Speaker 3: but several people recommended the Hat Store, which is owned 17 00:01:21,240 --> 00:01:25,360 Speaker 3: by Russell Molina, a great guy, and Buddy Mine Texas 18 00:01:25,959 --> 00:01:28,600 Speaker 3: bren In Bess, who's a Texas Ranger, works with them, 19 00:01:29,200 --> 00:01:32,760 Speaker 3: and that is over at Richmond. 20 00:01:32,480 --> 00:01:36,680 Speaker 2: And Chimney Rock. Would that be right? You used to 21 00:01:36,680 --> 00:01:38,679 Speaker 2: have a good old Italian restaurant down there at the end. 22 00:01:39,040 --> 00:01:42,040 Speaker 3: And then they have a restaurant called Rooster, which is 23 00:01:42,920 --> 00:01:44,959 Speaker 3: like vietname is something, but it gets it gets really 24 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:45,600 Speaker 3: good reviews. 25 00:01:45,600 --> 00:01:50,279 Speaker 2: Been there forever you been there? Are you serious? Ramo? 26 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:55,040 Speaker 3: You it's rue stars? Is that how you pronounced that? Okay, 27 00:01:55,120 --> 00:01:57,120 Speaker 3: it's a ar Okay, I admit I don't know. 28 00:01:57,200 --> 00:01:57,680 Speaker 2: You don't have to. 29 00:01:57,920 --> 00:02:01,320 Speaker 3: You know, occasionally you know something and like my brother 30 00:02:01,400 --> 00:02:03,120 Speaker 3: Chris used to do, you'd like to lord it over me. 31 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:04,920 Speaker 3: If I did that for you all the time, it 32 00:02:04,960 --> 00:02:10,079 Speaker 3: would be I'd get fifteen yards for excessive dancing. Anyway, 33 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:14,040 Speaker 3: he continued with I also have an antique clock that 34 00:02:14,120 --> 00:02:17,200 Speaker 3: needs to be fixed, so if you have any recommendations 35 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:21,760 Speaker 3: on who to have repair that as well. A couple 36 00:02:21,760 --> 00:02:24,240 Speaker 3: of times a year I get an email from somebody. 37 00:02:25,080 --> 00:02:28,320 Speaker 3: The requests are wide and varied, and I like to 38 00:02:28,320 --> 00:02:31,200 Speaker 3: find somebody somebody because then you're also in addition to 39 00:02:31,240 --> 00:02:34,079 Speaker 3: helping that person, even if it's not a show sponsor, 40 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:36,959 Speaker 3: you're helping somebody that might be you know, some old 41 00:02:36,960 --> 00:02:38,840 Speaker 3: guy that works in his garage behind his house and 42 00:02:38,919 --> 00:02:41,480 Speaker 3: turns out he's the clock repair guy and lives in Chemar, 43 00:02:41,680 --> 00:02:44,920 Speaker 3: you know whatever else. I don't have an antique clock 44 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:47,960 Speaker 3: repair guy. So if somebody knows someone there, email me. 45 00:02:48,960 --> 00:02:53,200 Speaker 3: So anyway, back to Kimo Sabi. Kimo Sabi is this 46 00:02:53,360 --> 00:02:58,200 Speaker 3: hat company in Aspen, and I submit it is the 47 00:02:58,200 --> 00:03:02,960 Speaker 3: most visited place in all of Aspen. It is more visited, 48 00:03:03,040 --> 00:03:07,360 Speaker 3: I bet than the slopes, the ski slopes. There's a 49 00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:10,200 Speaker 3: place called Paradise Bakery, which is I'm. 50 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:10,920 Speaker 2: Never seeing anything like this. 51 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:15,359 Speaker 3: It's a bakery that has ice cream, but mostly has 52 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:17,080 Speaker 3: you know a lot of people get ice cream, but 53 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:24,920 Speaker 3: muffins and cookies and brownies. And the retail portion of 54 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:28,200 Speaker 3: the shop that is not the counter, the people behind it, 55 00:03:28,320 --> 00:03:32,520 Speaker 3: and the bakery is a total of maybe. 56 00:03:32,200 --> 00:03:35,200 Speaker 2: One hundred feet square feet. 57 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:38,800 Speaker 3: You walk in and you walk down a little little 58 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:40,920 Speaker 3: aisle like the old cafeterias you go to. 59 00:03:41,440 --> 00:03:42,160 Speaker 2: You walk in and. 60 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:44,480 Speaker 3: Go down an aisle and then you and then you 61 00:03:44,960 --> 00:03:48,119 Speaker 3: order after about you know, twelve paces in. Then you order, 62 00:03:48,200 --> 00:03:50,600 Speaker 3: and you do a curl route and you come back 63 00:03:50,760 --> 00:03:53,520 Speaker 3: and you post up right there, and then you go 64 00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:55,960 Speaker 3: outside and they have on the other side of the 65 00:03:55,960 --> 00:03:59,680 Speaker 3: counter they have a like a walk up window and 66 00:03:59,720 --> 00:04:02,720 Speaker 3: they they call out your order, and so you stand 67 00:04:02,720 --> 00:04:05,120 Speaker 3: around there until they call out your order, and then 68 00:04:05,200 --> 00:04:08,160 Speaker 3: you go and get it. And they do something which 69 00:04:08,200 --> 00:04:11,920 Speaker 3: is very smart, is they give an opportunity for people 70 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:14,800 Speaker 3: who can provide a very good service at no cost 71 00:04:14,840 --> 00:04:18,320 Speaker 3: to the establishment, an opportunity to entertain you so you 72 00:04:18,360 --> 00:04:19,760 Speaker 3: don't notice the time that's. 73 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:22,200 Speaker 2: Going by while you're waiting on your treat. 74 00:04:22,680 --> 00:04:29,479 Speaker 3: So they will have there's an Aspen has a booming, 75 00:04:30,080 --> 00:04:32,839 Speaker 3: thriving arts community. 76 00:04:32,839 --> 00:04:33,840 Speaker 2: They want to have opera. 77 00:04:33,960 --> 00:04:36,120 Speaker 3: They want to do this, and so they have these 78 00:04:36,160 --> 00:04:39,000 Speaker 3: students who go up there and stay and they're part 79 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:42,719 Speaker 3: of the local opera, which is, i'm told, a really 80 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:44,279 Speaker 3: good and esteemed opera. 81 00:04:44,279 --> 00:04:45,080 Speaker 2: It's well funded. 82 00:04:45,839 --> 00:04:50,080 Speaker 3: So those kids, and they are kids, they're twenty twenty 83 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:53,320 Speaker 3: five years old, they figured out they make some money 84 00:04:53,520 --> 00:04:56,640 Speaker 3: by going and sitting right outside this little store and 85 00:04:56,680 --> 00:05:01,560 Speaker 3: sitting and playing songs. Now I don't have a lot 86 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:03,960 Speaker 3: of skills, but I do know how to make money, 87 00:05:04,720 --> 00:05:06,359 Speaker 3: and so I sit there and I watch this, and 88 00:05:06,400 --> 00:05:08,440 Speaker 3: it drives my wife so crazy that she'll walk away 89 00:05:08,440 --> 00:05:10,880 Speaker 3: if I won't shut up about it. There's two types 90 00:05:10,920 --> 00:05:14,440 Speaker 3: of people that sit there and play their stand up 91 00:05:14,480 --> 00:05:16,480 Speaker 3: bass or their fiddle, or whatever. 92 00:05:17,480 --> 00:05:19,119 Speaker 2: They have to call it a viland because it's Aspen. 93 00:05:19,360 --> 00:05:21,119 Speaker 2: But there's two types of people. 94 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:26,120 Speaker 3: There's one who plays handles Messiah and nobody knows what 95 00:05:26,160 --> 00:05:29,240 Speaker 3: they're doing. And then there's one who'll do John Denver 96 00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:33,599 Speaker 3: songs or Metallica songs on a fiddle or whatever else. 97 00:05:33,640 --> 00:05:35,840 Speaker 3: And that guy will make a fortune because the dude 98 00:05:35,839 --> 00:05:37,160 Speaker 3: will be like I, I guess I'll. 99 00:05:36,960 --> 00:05:38,560 Speaker 2: Go over and give them some money. 100 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:41,919 Speaker 3: But you get too deep into back and nobody's given 101 00:05:42,040 --> 00:05:45,320 Speaker 3: you anything, and they don't seem to get that, and 102 00:05:45,360 --> 00:05:45,919 Speaker 3: I'll say. 103 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:48,320 Speaker 2: Why is he doing that? I can tell me what 104 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:50,080 Speaker 2: to playing people would get anyway. 105 00:05:50,760 --> 00:05:54,120 Speaker 3: So they have this high end hat store and it's 106 00:05:54,200 --> 00:05:58,360 Speaker 3: not cost prohibitive, it's just high enough that everybody in 107 00:05:58,440 --> 00:06:02,240 Speaker 3: Orange would be I pay no thous doll flat beaver pelt. 108 00:06:02,320 --> 00:06:04,240 Speaker 3: I don't need no beaver pelt. Well I do need 109 00:06:04,279 --> 00:06:11,640 Speaker 3: beaver anyway. Everybody that goes to Aspen as a tourist 110 00:06:12,160 --> 00:06:14,800 Speaker 3: has to go to Kimo Sabi and buy a hat. 111 00:06:15,440 --> 00:06:17,160 Speaker 3: And so you see it when people are coming back 112 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:19,480 Speaker 3: from Colorado on the plane. You see all these women 113 00:06:19,520 --> 00:06:21,400 Speaker 3: with their hat box, and you know what happened. They 114 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:23,560 Speaker 3: bought a hat while they were an Aspen. They put 115 00:06:23,640 --> 00:06:25,920 Speaker 3: it on, they wore it every day, and they never 116 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:28,560 Speaker 3: wore it when they got back. They're nice hats, but 117 00:06:28,760 --> 00:06:30,440 Speaker 3: it's crazy what they've done. 118 00:06:30,720 --> 00:06:30,920 Speaker 2: Well. 119 00:06:30,960 --> 00:06:33,679 Speaker 3: I have since been informed that there is a Kimo 120 00:06:33,760 --> 00:06:39,080 Speaker 3: Sabi in Roundtop, which of course there is, because what 121 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:43,120 Speaker 3: Roundtop has decided it wants to be is Aspen two 122 00:06:43,120 --> 00:06:47,000 Speaker 3: point zero or a mini Aspen or aspen Light or 123 00:06:47,040 --> 00:06:48,120 Speaker 3: whatever you want to call it. 124 00:06:48,640 --> 00:06:50,400 Speaker 2: And so you got a lot of people from Houston. 125 00:06:50,440 --> 00:06:53,120 Speaker 3: Some of them have houses in Colorado and they need 126 00:06:53,160 --> 00:06:54,760 Speaker 3: a house here that's an hour and a half away. 127 00:06:54,880 --> 00:06:57,880 Speaker 3: Just you know, two ninety two thirty seven pop in 128 00:06:57,960 --> 00:07:02,480 Speaker 3: Sea Holmes Williams right there, go to Royer's and now 129 00:07:02,520 --> 00:07:04,880 Speaker 3: they got and then of course there's always an antique 130 00:07:04,880 --> 00:07:08,080 Speaker 3: festival going on. But there's more and more money that 131 00:07:08,120 --> 00:07:11,880 Speaker 3: have come into that little community to make it very aspeny. 132 00:07:12,440 --> 00:07:15,640 Speaker 3: And there's a lot of rich Tanglewood wives who have 133 00:07:15,800 --> 00:07:18,400 Speaker 3: a little you know, they have a booth or a 134 00:07:18,440 --> 00:07:23,080 Speaker 3: shop or whatever, and they have kind of dressed the 135 00:07:23,160 --> 00:07:27,400 Speaker 3: place up. And I'm sure that the people in the 136 00:07:27,520 --> 00:07:31,960 Speaker 3: area of Molton or Hallettsville or Lagrange or whatever. 137 00:07:31,960 --> 00:07:33,720 Speaker 2: The hate this. They hate these. 138 00:07:33,680 --> 00:07:37,080 Speaker 3: Rich Houstonians coming in on the weekend, and they hate 139 00:07:37,120 --> 00:07:39,120 Speaker 3: the retail that they brought with them. They hate the 140 00:07:39,160 --> 00:07:42,160 Speaker 3: fancy restaurants they bought with them. You have restaurants that 141 00:07:42,240 --> 00:07:45,760 Speaker 3: now actually have a fancy wine list. But it's fascinating 142 00:07:45,800 --> 00:07:51,040 Speaker 3: for me to watch and see the tumultuous changes as 143 00:07:51,080 --> 00:07:54,720 Speaker 3: the culture's clash. I was bragging on Rick Doak, our 144 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:58,120 Speaker 3: show sponsor, who's our farm in Ranchilter And he lives 145 00:07:58,120 --> 00:08:01,360 Speaker 3: in Chapel Hill. And Chapel Hill's got some prissy I mean, 146 00:08:01,400 --> 00:08:04,160 Speaker 3: you got Donnie Roberts lives out there. That was Jim 147 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:07,240 Speaker 3: Crane's business partner. Lord knows what that guy's worth. And 148 00:08:07,320 --> 00:08:10,080 Speaker 3: he's out there wearing cowboy boots and a cowboy hat. 149 00:08:10,160 --> 00:08:12,640 Speaker 3: Now they might cost ten thousands between them, And then 150 00:08:12,680 --> 00:08:14,760 Speaker 3: you can imagine what the local words that were thinking. 151 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:17,080 Speaker 3: You know, here's this rich cowboy that's a real cowboy, 152 00:08:17,560 --> 00:08:19,960 Speaker 3: you know, strutting down Chapel Hill Lane. 153 00:08:20,440 --> 00:08:23,960 Speaker 2: It's an interesting thing going on there, this mixing. 154 00:08:25,880 --> 00:08:31,520 Speaker 3: Mark Silva writes one of my favorite Elvis songs, ring 155 00:08:31,640 --> 00:08:35,360 Speaker 3: Greengrass of Home. I lost a dear friend the Monday 156 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:41,520 Speaker 3: before Christmas Vernon Hoojay ninety seven. He was the maintenance 157 00:08:41,559 --> 00:08:44,880 Speaker 3: super at my grade school and church in southeast Houston, 158 00:08:44,920 --> 00:08:47,720 Speaker 3: where I grew up. I actually worked for him there 159 00:08:47,760 --> 00:08:51,199 Speaker 3: one year after college, trying to figure things out. Grew 160 00:08:51,320 --> 00:08:55,600 Speaker 3: up in Moravia slash Hallettsville. He told me countless stories 161 00:08:55,640 --> 00:08:58,960 Speaker 3: of him growing up on the farm, moving to Houston 162 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:02,000 Speaker 3: in the forties, and working for Folgers. Living in Parland. 163 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:03,920 Speaker 3: I'd see him at least once a week for the 164 00:09:03,960 --> 00:09:07,439 Speaker 3: past five years. I cherished every minute. We'd sit and 165 00:09:07,480 --> 00:09:10,360 Speaker 3: talk about everything under the sun. We'd sip on Lone 166 00:09:10,360 --> 00:09:13,120 Speaker 3: Star while doing so. Sometimes I was on a tight 167 00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:15,920 Speaker 3: schedule and needed to leave, and he'd say, won't you 168 00:09:15,960 --> 00:09:19,120 Speaker 3: have one more? Nine times out of ten I'd give in. 169 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:24,000 Speaker 3: He was a talk radio listener, loved your show. I 170 00:09:24,120 --> 00:09:26,240 Speaker 3: joked with his family that the radio was broken and 171 00:09:26,240 --> 00:09:29,600 Speaker 3: only played one station seven forty. Many of our conversations 172 00:09:29,640 --> 00:09:32,440 Speaker 3: came from your show topics. He's to be buried this 173 00:09:32,520 --> 00:09:37,120 Speaker 3: Saturday in Halllettsville. After the funeral service in Parland, I 174 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:41,199 Speaker 3: planned to give a eulogy based on that song. The innocence, 175 00:09:41,480 --> 00:09:44,280 Speaker 3: the memories, and the gift of being taken back home 176 00:09:44,559 --> 00:09:47,680 Speaker 3: for the last time, and there is an oak tree 177 00:09:47,679 --> 00:09:52,640 Speaker 3: that will shade his grave neath the green green grass. Sincerely, 178 00:09:52,960 --> 00:09:58,160 Speaker 3: Mark Silva, youngest brother of Mike's Glass. So the funny 179 00:09:58,160 --> 00:10:02,040 Speaker 3: story behind Mike Glass, not Mike's Glass, but Mike Glass 180 00:10:02,559 --> 00:10:07,200 Speaker 3: is we never had a show sponsor that was in 181 00:10:07,240 --> 00:10:09,760 Speaker 3: the glass business. I mean there's kind of Benswanger, and 182 00:10:09,760 --> 00:10:11,920 Speaker 3: I mean I don't know. Benz Wanger's a big national operation, 183 00:10:11,960 --> 00:10:13,240 Speaker 3: but I don't know a lot of it. 184 00:10:13,280 --> 00:10:14,320 Speaker 2: I don't know any. 185 00:10:14,160 --> 00:10:16,680 Speaker 3: Local guys that would be big enough because to be 186 00:10:16,760 --> 00:10:19,040 Speaker 3: our show sponsor is kind of a weird quirky. 187 00:10:19,080 --> 00:10:20,200 Speaker 2: You got to be in the right space. 188 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:22,880 Speaker 3: You've got to be big enough to spend seven to 189 00:10:22,920 --> 00:10:26,720 Speaker 3: fifteen thousand dollars a month, but small enough that you're 190 00:10:26,760 --> 00:10:28,960 Speaker 3: going to be able to take the business yourself. We 191 00:10:29,040 --> 00:10:32,440 Speaker 3: don't really work for costc you know, they don't know 192 00:10:32,440 --> 00:10:34,839 Speaker 3: how to measure and what am I going to say? 193 00:10:35,160 --> 00:10:37,800 Speaker 3: It's why I've never done the cell phone companies. So 194 00:10:38,200 --> 00:10:43,760 Speaker 3: every quarter at and T, Verizon, Houston, Sellular, one of 195 00:10:43,800 --> 00:10:49,559 Speaker 3: the companies will say, somebody's going into a spasm right now, conniption, Michael. 196 00:10:50,160 --> 00:10:53,400 Speaker 3: They don't have noose, use to sailor no more. Okay, 197 00:10:55,280 --> 00:10:57,480 Speaker 3: but you know, what could I say about a cell 198 00:10:57,520 --> 00:11:00,280 Speaker 3: phone company? You know, thanks for a ten T for 199 00:11:00,679 --> 00:11:06,439 Speaker 3: sponsoring the show. Give him a call and they'll take 200 00:11:06,480 --> 00:11:10,640 Speaker 3: good care of you. I can't say that it's not true. 201 00:11:10,679 --> 00:11:14,040 Speaker 3: You wouldn't believe me, and I can't. I wouldn't believe it. 202 00:11:15,360 --> 00:11:17,560 Speaker 3: I had a complain on the show sponsor yesterday afternoon. 203 00:11:18,720 --> 00:11:20,760 Speaker 3: This morning he got an email back, and the guy 204 00:11:20,840 --> 00:11:23,360 Speaker 3: was blown away. They had shown up last night and 205 00:11:23,440 --> 00:11:26,600 Speaker 3: fixed the problem. And the owner of the company, of course, 206 00:11:26,640 --> 00:11:30,079 Speaker 3: had no idea that the technician who installed the product 207 00:11:30,120 --> 00:11:32,960 Speaker 3: didn't do it right, and went out there himself with 208 00:11:33,040 --> 00:11:35,240 Speaker 3: the crew and they fixed it and that's it, and 209 00:11:35,280 --> 00:11:38,080 Speaker 3: that's all. And he couldn't believe that you got And 210 00:11:38,120 --> 00:11:39,839 Speaker 3: I said, well, that's the whole point. If you will 211 00:11:39,920 --> 00:11:41,800 Speaker 3: let me know before you go, I'll make sure they 212 00:11:41,840 --> 00:11:44,320 Speaker 3: put their best person on it. And if you only 213 00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:46,960 Speaker 3: let me know what the problem phase, I'll do my best. 214 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:48,240 Speaker 3: But it'd be easier if you do it on the 215 00:11:48,240 --> 00:11:48,560 Speaker 3: front end. 216 00:11:48,600 --> 00:11:52,320 Speaker 2: Anyway, what was I talking about. 217 00:11:52,360 --> 00:11:55,640 Speaker 3: Oh, so I didn't have a glass guy, but Bert 218 00:11:55,679 --> 00:11:59,880 Speaker 3: Harvey had a guy that installed glass and so we 219 00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:00,880 Speaker 3: lived in a house. 220 00:12:01,480 --> 00:12:02,520 Speaker 2: It was our dream house. 221 00:12:02,679 --> 00:12:06,320 Speaker 3: It was the address was one Crestwood and it was 222 00:12:06,360 --> 00:12:08,840 Speaker 3: built by a guy named Andre Crispin who was a 223 00:12:08,880 --> 00:12:13,439 Speaker 3: Belgian and he was a steel importer. And if Crestwood 224 00:12:13,520 --> 00:12:16,840 Speaker 3: runs on the east side of Memorial Park, and most 225 00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:20,760 Speaker 3: people think of Crestwood as north of Memorial Park. But 226 00:12:20,800 --> 00:12:24,080 Speaker 3: if you're coming from downtown on Memorial and you turn 227 00:12:24,200 --> 00:12:29,160 Speaker 3: left on Crestwood, that little lane, it's a dead end lane. 228 00:12:29,200 --> 00:12:33,360 Speaker 3: Nobody notices it's there. So that's south. You go to 229 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:36,040 Speaker 3: the very end of it. In the last house, the 230 00:12:36,120 --> 00:12:39,160 Speaker 3: road literally drove into this driveway. I had a gate 231 00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:41,680 Speaker 3: put up, but it was our dream home. And the 232 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:44,640 Speaker 3: house was not There was no wood used. It was 233 00:12:44,679 --> 00:12:48,000 Speaker 3: all still beams. And the reason was because Andre Crispin 234 00:12:49,280 --> 00:12:51,880 Speaker 3: was a steel importer, so he wanted to showcase steel. 235 00:12:52,600 --> 00:12:57,880 Speaker 3: And the architect was Talbot Wilson, who was one of 236 00:12:57,920 --> 00:13:00,319 Speaker 3: the architects of the Astronome. So it was felt like 237 00:13:00,360 --> 00:13:04,760 Speaker 3: a commercial building and it was steel with glass panels. 238 00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:07,720 Speaker 3: So the whole house was like a fish bowl, but 239 00:13:08,040 --> 00:13:10,239 Speaker 3: only on the back side of it, so you overlooked 240 00:13:10,280 --> 00:13:12,200 Speaker 3: the bayou, which we thought was the coolest thing ever 241 00:13:13,160 --> 00:13:21,200 Speaker 3: until Harvey anyway, we always needed glass, and so then 242 00:13:21,240 --> 00:13:23,240 Speaker 3: when we built the studio here, I wanted to have 243 00:13:23,280 --> 00:13:25,960 Speaker 3: a glass banister going up because I don't like closed 244 00:13:25,960 --> 00:13:28,440 Speaker 3: off spaces. I like things to be open, so I 245 00:13:28,480 --> 00:13:32,440 Speaker 3: needed a glass there. And in the back doors I 246 00:13:32,520 --> 00:13:35,280 Speaker 3: wanted to be a tempered glass so you could still 247 00:13:35,280 --> 00:13:38,160 Speaker 3: see out them, but you couldn't break into them easily. 248 00:13:38,840 --> 00:13:42,400 Speaker 3: And anyway, so I've gotten to use Mike Glass from 249 00:13:42,400 --> 00:13:45,079 Speaker 3: a lot of different things. Or that's how my wife 250 00:13:45,120 --> 00:13:50,280 Speaker 3: had him on her phone, because anytime we needed glass installed, prepared, fixed, 251 00:13:50,320 --> 00:13:54,440 Speaker 3: what you know, you name it, she would call Mike Glass. 252 00:13:54,480 --> 00:13:58,200 Speaker 3: And I think that maybe Bert Harvey had in his 253 00:13:58,360 --> 00:14:01,199 Speaker 3: phone when he first gave him as our contact. He's 254 00:14:01,240 --> 00:14:03,880 Speaker 3: become like family now, but when he first gave it, it 255 00:14:03,880 --> 00:14:06,920 Speaker 3: would have maybe been Mike Glass, because you know when 256 00:14:06,960 --> 00:14:09,240 Speaker 3: you need glass, and that's just how you know a 257 00:14:09,320 --> 00:14:11,760 Speaker 3: contractor thinks of service providers. 258 00:14:12,640 --> 00:14:16,360 Speaker 2: And he's a big listener of the show. And over the. 259 00:14:16,440 --> 00:14:19,000 Speaker 3: Years he's emailed me a lot, and he's taken care 260 00:14:19,040 --> 00:14:21,320 Speaker 3: of some cases where people couldn't afford something and he 261 00:14:21,360 --> 00:14:22,840 Speaker 3: would take care of it. And I send him a 262 00:14:22,880 --> 00:14:25,240 Speaker 3: lot of business. So while he's not a show sponsor. 263 00:14:25,240 --> 00:14:26,920 Speaker 3: We have the same relationship as if he is. And 264 00:14:26,960 --> 00:14:29,480 Speaker 3: he's just a one man operation and a great, great guy, 265 00:14:29,920 --> 00:14:32,280 Speaker 3: and he's got a lot of great old Houston stories 266 00:14:32,320 --> 00:14:34,040 Speaker 3: from kind of the south of Houston. 267 00:14:34,760 --> 00:14:37,160 Speaker 2: And anyway, so. 268 00:14:37,320 --> 00:14:39,640 Speaker 3: My wife had him in her phone as Mike Glass, 269 00:14:40,120 --> 00:14:44,120 Speaker 3: and she genuinely thought his name was Mike Glass. And 270 00:14:44,200 --> 00:14:48,480 Speaker 3: so one day a ball had come from the neighboring 271 00:14:48,480 --> 00:14:51,640 Speaker 3: house and shattered the glass and she said, hey, it's 272 00:14:51,640 --> 00:14:53,720 Speaker 3: shattered the glass. No big deal, I'm just letting you know. 273 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:58,040 Speaker 3: And I said, no problem, call Silver. And she said 274 00:14:58,040 --> 00:15:03,000 Speaker 3: who And I said, Mike's you know, Mike Silva. And 275 00:15:03,040 --> 00:15:05,720 Speaker 3: she said, sweetheart, I'm sorry, I have no idea who 276 00:15:05,760 --> 00:15:08,240 Speaker 3: Mike Silva is. Well, that's odd because he's been in 277 00:15:08,280 --> 00:15:10,440 Speaker 3: our home fifty times. He better not have been fifty 278 00:15:10,480 --> 00:15:12,440 Speaker 3: one times, but he's been in our home fifty times, 279 00:15:13,960 --> 00:15:16,560 Speaker 3: you know what. That's my apologies, Michael, I don't know 280 00:15:16,640 --> 00:15:17,760 Speaker 3: who Mike Silva is. 281 00:15:18,720 --> 00:15:20,800 Speaker 2: This is the craziest thing ever. Are you at the house. 282 00:15:20,880 --> 00:15:22,240 Speaker 3: Yeah, let me call him and see if he can 283 00:15:22,280 --> 00:15:25,360 Speaker 3: get over there. So he comes bounding through the door 284 00:15:25,400 --> 00:15:29,160 Speaker 3: in an hour and she says, your name is Mike Silva. 285 00:15:29,600 --> 00:15:34,680 Speaker 3: He said, yeah, I thought you were Mike Glass, and 286 00:15:34,720 --> 00:15:37,880 Speaker 3: he said, you know, I sometimes wondered about that because 287 00:15:37,920 --> 00:15:41,600 Speaker 3: she would call him and say, Mike Glass, yeah this 288 00:15:41,680 --> 00:15:45,200 Speaker 3: is nonded to Berry. Could you come over and fix this, 289 00:15:45,200 --> 00:15:49,800 Speaker 3: this and this head. I started kind of thinking, well, 290 00:15:49,800 --> 00:15:53,280 Speaker 3: maybe maybe that's a joke. No, she thought his name 291 00:15:53,320 --> 00:15:56,880 Speaker 3: was Mike Glass. So his brother when he sends me 292 00:15:56,920 --> 00:16:01,000 Speaker 3: an email, says his full name, and he'll say brother 293 00:16:01,040 --> 00:16:03,400 Speaker 3: of Mike's Glass. He doesn't realize that the whole joke 294 00:16:03,560 --> 00:16:05,200 Speaker 3: was that has me Mike Glass. 295 00:16:07,120 --> 00:16:11,960 Speaker 2: Danger. A friend of mine just sent me an email 296 00:16:12,240 --> 00:16:15,520 Speaker 2: said you need some boots prepared. 297 00:16:16,120 --> 00:16:16,400 Speaker 1: M h. 298 00:16:18,880 --> 00:16:24,480 Speaker 3: Wasn't Houston's Shoe Hospital a sponsor of your show? Not 299 00:16:24,600 --> 00:16:33,360 Speaker 3: only a sponsor of my show. Friends. You know, maybe 300 00:16:33,440 --> 00:16:36,880 Speaker 3: I take it more personally than I should. But when 301 00:16:36,920 --> 00:16:41,920 Speaker 3: I forget somebody's in a business and then they'll say, hey, 302 00:16:41,960 --> 00:16:46,040 Speaker 3: I do that, I always feel like it's an indictment, 303 00:16:46,480 --> 00:16:49,000 Speaker 3: like they think I did it on purpose. If I 304 00:16:49,040 --> 00:16:51,480 Speaker 3: can't remember somebody's name or I can't remember how I 305 00:16:51,640 --> 00:16:54,560 Speaker 3: know them, it's like they take it personally. They're angry 306 00:16:54,640 --> 00:16:58,320 Speaker 3: about it, and I think, you know, look I was 307 00:16:58,360 --> 00:17:01,000 Speaker 3: watching a Ted talk the other day. This guy was 308 00:17:01,040 --> 00:17:05,680 Speaker 3: talking about how as we get older, you can remember 309 00:17:05,960 --> 00:17:09,040 Speaker 3: your phone number as a kid, but you can't remember 310 00:17:09,240 --> 00:17:12,240 Speaker 3: your password to a site that you went into two 311 00:17:12,280 --> 00:17:15,280 Speaker 3: hours ago, and how frustrating it is. But it's the 312 00:17:15,320 --> 00:17:19,320 Speaker 3: wiring of our brains. It's not dementia, Parkinson's or whatever else. 313 00:17:19,359 --> 00:17:24,400 Speaker 3: It's not what matters and doesn't matter. But it's interesting 314 00:17:24,440 --> 00:17:30,480 Speaker 3: how we assign value to memory. If you see somebody 315 00:17:30,520 --> 00:17:34,440 Speaker 3: you had you hadn't seen in ten years and they go, god. 316 00:17:34,280 --> 00:17:35,840 Speaker 2: Dog, it remind me your name. 317 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:38,760 Speaker 3: People get very angry about that, as if you have 318 00:17:38,960 --> 00:17:42,360 Speaker 3: just said to them you simply do not matter. Let 319 00:17:42,400 --> 00:17:46,359 Speaker 3: me say that to your face. And it's easy for 320 00:17:46,440 --> 00:17:49,400 Speaker 3: me because if they're a listener, they have to hear 321 00:17:49,440 --> 00:17:52,880 Speaker 3: my name every day. But if it's somebody I haven't seen, 322 00:17:52,920 --> 00:17:55,080 Speaker 3: I hadn't heard that name and we just sat next 323 00:17:55,119 --> 00:17:57,840 Speaker 3: to each other in class, and you're racking your brain 324 00:17:58,640 --> 00:18:00,920 Speaker 3: and I can tell they're feeling, are getting hurt, or 325 00:18:00,920 --> 00:18:04,920 Speaker 3: they're getting angry, and it just it frustrates me because 326 00:18:05,240 --> 00:18:06,880 Speaker 3: I wish I could just recall. 327 00:18:06,640 --> 00:18:07,600 Speaker 2: Everything all the time. 328 00:18:07,680 --> 00:18:10,600 Speaker 3: I think I'm pretty good at it, but it's interesting 329 00:18:10,640 --> 00:18:15,119 Speaker 3: to me how people do take that so personally, But 330 00:18:15,920 --> 00:18:18,879 Speaker 3: Houston Shoe Hospital does that all day every day. I 331 00:18:18,960 --> 00:18:23,320 Speaker 3: contacted Republic Boot Company Chris Conrad to confirm that, in fact, 332 00:18:23,400 --> 00:18:25,520 Speaker 3: they don't do boot repaired. He said, no, we'll do 333 00:18:25,560 --> 00:18:29,760 Speaker 3: an entire shoe replacement. So sorry, entire sole replacement on 334 00:18:29,840 --> 00:18:33,120 Speaker 3: a set of boots. And even that's not really their 335 00:18:33,200 --> 00:18:38,119 Speaker 3: sweet spot is custom boots and western wear and hats, 336 00:18:38,640 --> 00:18:40,680 Speaker 3: and he said, that's really a business you've got to 337 00:18:40,720 --> 00:18:42,960 Speaker 3: be in the business of doing all day every day. 338 00:18:43,200 --> 00:18:46,480 Speaker 3: If I take my boot makers out of production, that's 339 00:18:46,520 --> 00:18:49,840 Speaker 3: your custom boots that you wanted by Rodeo or whatever else. 340 00:18:50,320 --> 00:18:52,760 Speaker 3: And you know they're over here doing these jobs, and 341 00:18:52,800 --> 00:18:54,400 Speaker 3: so we don't want more of that. 342 00:18:55,680 --> 00:18:57,680 Speaker 2: It's not really in our sweet spot. 343 00:18:57,800 --> 00:18:59,919 Speaker 3: It's kind of like when you go in at a 344 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:03,600 Speaker 3: eleven thirty and want breakfast and they don't make breakfast anymore, 345 00:19:03,600 --> 00:19:05,840 Speaker 3: and you want to go falling down, you know, Michael 346 00:19:05,880 --> 00:19:10,160 Speaker 3: Douglas in Falling Down, and you're just furious over it. 347 00:19:10,800 --> 00:19:13,320 Speaker 3: And for some places it's easy to do. For other places, 348 00:19:13,320 --> 00:19:14,960 Speaker 3: when you actually go back in the kitchen and you 349 00:19:15,040 --> 00:19:17,440 Speaker 3: realize what that would entail you go, okay, all right, 350 00:19:17,440 --> 00:19:19,919 Speaker 3: I got it. It's not it doesn't make sense for 351 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:25,919 Speaker 3: your business and the thirty eight burgers you've just sold. Andy, 352 00:19:25,960 --> 00:19:27,280 Speaker 3: you'ar Old Michael Berry show go ahead. 353 00:19:28,760 --> 00:19:31,720 Speaker 1: Yes, sir, I think I have an answer to your 354 00:19:32,160 --> 00:19:40,040 Speaker 1: antique clock repair problem. Yes, sir, there is a watch 355 00:19:40,119 --> 00:19:47,080 Speaker 1: repair antique clock repairman on called time Bart Butt Spencer 356 00:19:47,280 --> 00:19:53,720 Speaker 1: Highway in Pasadena, Texas and they repair cuckoo clocks in peak, 357 00:19:54,320 --> 00:20:00,480 Speaker 1: mantle clocks, Anni Grosary clocks, old watches. He does a 358 00:20:00,520 --> 00:20:02,639 Speaker 1: lot of my repairs. In fact, he just I just 359 00:20:02,680 --> 00:20:07,040 Speaker 1: got back my cuckoo clock that the company was made 360 00:20:07,040 --> 00:20:10,840 Speaker 1: in Switzerland no longer around, and he was able to 361 00:20:10,840 --> 00:20:13,880 Speaker 1: find the parts and got it fixed. He's also fixed 362 00:20:14,080 --> 00:20:17,600 Speaker 1: an anniversary clock for me that was made in nineteen 363 00:20:17,680 --> 00:20:22,080 Speaker 1: forty five and it's running well. In fact, I just 364 00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:25,720 Speaker 1: took him a mantle clock that was made in the 365 00:20:25,800 --> 00:20:29,639 Speaker 1: late eighteenth century and he's going to He said, if 366 00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:31,760 Speaker 1: he can find the parts, he can fix that too. 367 00:20:32,240 --> 00:20:35,199 Speaker 1: So there's the answer to that question for you. 368 00:20:37,200 --> 00:20:37,600 Speaker 2: Andy. 369 00:20:38,240 --> 00:20:42,439 Speaker 3: You have need of more clock repair than any person 370 00:20:42,480 --> 00:20:43,120 Speaker 3: I've ever met. 371 00:20:44,520 --> 00:20:51,640 Speaker 2: Yes, sir, Why is this? Are you in the business, No, sir, 372 00:20:51,720 --> 00:20:52,280 Speaker 2: I am not. 373 00:20:53,520 --> 00:20:58,840 Speaker 1: The anniversary clock has been in the family since nineteen 374 00:20:58,960 --> 00:21:02,520 Speaker 1: forty five. It came straight from Germany form World War two, 375 00:21:02,800 --> 00:21:04,120 Speaker 1: just right after World War Two. 376 00:21:04,520 --> 00:21:07,600 Speaker 3: Just isn't that deal like Christopher Walking and Bruce Willis? 377 00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:09,800 Speaker 1: Is it? No, sir? 378 00:21:09,920 --> 00:21:13,720 Speaker 2: Okay, I just. 379 00:21:13,760 --> 00:21:16,439 Speaker 3: I've never known anybody that much clock prepair. You know, 380 00:21:16,520 --> 00:21:21,720 Speaker 3: there's certain things, Andy, I have noticed about people that 381 00:21:21,960 --> 00:21:25,679 Speaker 3: if they have these hobbies, any one of these factors, 382 00:21:26,160 --> 00:21:28,199 Speaker 3: they're going to be a good person and you can 383 00:21:28,240 --> 00:21:34,640 Speaker 3: trust them. People who fish, people who have old wristwatches. 384 00:21:36,280 --> 00:21:40,760 Speaker 3: I'm adding clocks to that. People who do old car repair. 385 00:21:43,080 --> 00:21:44,280 Speaker 2: What's the other one? We always it? 386 00:21:44,359 --> 00:21:48,960 Speaker 3: People who cure their own beef jerky, process their own meats. 387 00:21:49,800 --> 00:21:54,080 Speaker 1: You say car repair. I'm rebuilding restoring a nineteen forty 388 00:21:54,160 --> 00:21:57,680 Speaker 1: nine Willis c J T A right now. Of course 389 00:21:57,720 --> 00:22:00,440 Speaker 1: I also build RC controlled air planes. 390 00:22:01,119 --> 00:22:05,760 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that's another one. Yeah, yeah, yeah, RC controlled airplanes. 391 00:22:06,440 --> 00:22:08,040 Speaker 2: H What is that? A Willis? 392 00:22:08,040 --> 00:22:12,880 Speaker 1: What a Willis c J two? A nineteen forty nine? 393 00:22:13,680 --> 00:22:19,640 Speaker 1: It was they made civilian versions right after the World 394 00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:20,120 Speaker 1: War Two. 395 00:22:20,280 --> 00:22:24,920 Speaker 2: That's like a Willie's overland. Yes, sir, you say Willis, 396 00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:26,240 Speaker 2: I say Willis. 397 00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:29,720 Speaker 1: Well, yeah, pronounced either way. 398 00:22:30,280 --> 00:22:33,640 Speaker 3: Well, no, I'm asking because I'm betting the odds are 399 00:22:33,720 --> 00:22:36,880 Speaker 3: you're going to know better than I would. I had 400 00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:40,919 Speaker 3: a friend named Ron, you were He was in the 401 00:22:40,960 --> 00:22:45,520 Speaker 3: car business years ago, and he had a Ford dealership 402 00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:50,080 Speaker 3: right near the RCC, and he sponsored us our first 403 00:22:50,119 --> 00:22:53,000 Speaker 3: several years. He got out of the business, but he 404 00:22:53,119 --> 00:22:56,480 Speaker 3: had an old Willie's Overland and that thing looked. 405 00:22:56,160 --> 00:22:59,960 Speaker 2: Like you drove it off the showroom floor. It was 406 00:23:00,359 --> 00:23:03,880 Speaker 2: that thing was that is a cool, cool vehicle? 407 00:23:04,240 --> 00:23:04,520 Speaker 3: It was? 408 00:23:04,840 --> 00:23:07,120 Speaker 2: It says it was known as the agra jeep. Did 409 00:23:07,119 --> 00:23:07,600 Speaker 2: you know that? 410 00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:12,840 Speaker 1: Yes, sir, that's because they originally built them. They were 411 00:23:12,840 --> 00:23:16,200 Speaker 1: hoping to get into the farm market. They made plows 412 00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:22,760 Speaker 1: for them, discs for them. They even made an equipment 413 00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:25,919 Speaker 1: so they can do drenching a bunch of stuff. So 414 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:29,200 Speaker 1: it was originally after the war they didn't have much 415 00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:33,120 Speaker 1: use for the military, didn't have much use for them anymore, 416 00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:36,639 Speaker 1: so they had to change them, so they started another 417 00:23:36,680 --> 00:23:38,240 Speaker 1: market in the farms. 418 00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:42,399 Speaker 3: Listen to this andy featuring the durable Go Devil one 419 00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:45,000 Speaker 3: thirty four ci engine. Is that how you pronounced that 420 00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:48,520 Speaker 3: one thirty four Ci engine? I guess that's Cubic inchest Yes, Sir, 421 00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:52,800 Speaker 3: at three speed transmission and significant updates for farm use 422 00:23:52,960 --> 00:23:57,000 Speaker 3: like a tailgate and PTO options, transitioning from its military 423 00:23:57,080 --> 00:24:00,360 Speaker 3: routes to a versatile personal and work vehicle before being 424 00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:03,480 Speaker 3: succeeded by the CJ three A, making it a sought 425 00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:06,080 Speaker 3: after classic for its simplicity and rugged history. 426 00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:08,000 Speaker 2: Andy, I'm so glad you called. 427 00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:11,520 Speaker 1: Well, Thank you, sir. 428 00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:13,679 Speaker 3: I can tell I would like you. Just from this 429 00:24:13,920 --> 00:24:16,840 Speaker 3: very brief conversation, I can tell you are you are 430 00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:19,080 Speaker 3: a guy that people are happy. They know you are 431 00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:21,720 Speaker 3: a person who enriches people's lives. 432 00:24:21,760 --> 00:24:22,440 Speaker 2: I can tell. 433 00:24:22,280 --> 00:24:26,280 Speaker 1: That that's what they say, Yes, sir, well. 434 00:24:26,359 --> 00:24:27,960 Speaker 2: They know they you tell them that. 435 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:32,359 Speaker 3: Michael Berry said, they're darn tooting rights bout Andy. 436 00:24:34,119 --> 00:24:36,119 Speaker 2: Rings your bias. 437 00:24:38,119 --> 00:24:40,240 Speaker 3: You know what's amazing is how much clock repair there 438 00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:44,280 Speaker 3: is out there. I bet I got fifty emails. Vincent 439 00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:47,199 Speaker 3: Smith writes, Houston Clock Repair is a real deal. I 440 00:24:47,240 --> 00:24:49,359 Speaker 3: did my homework before in trusting this company with my 441 00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:52,840 Speaker 3: grandfather's marine clock he used in the Houston Power Squadron. 442 00:24:53,119 --> 00:24:54,359 Speaker 2: Houston clocks dot Com. 443 00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:58,760 Speaker 3: Randy Wellman writes time Mark fifty eight to twenty one. 444 00:24:58,840 --> 00:25:02,200 Speaker 3: Spencer highway in past. That's the one that Andy told 445 00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:05,520 Speaker 3: us about. You know, if i'd kept Andy on the 446 00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:08,800 Speaker 3: line a little longer. He's got five other little things 447 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:12,400 Speaker 3: he didn't tell us about. And when he hung up, 448 00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:16,240 Speaker 3: his wife probably said, you didn't even tell him you garden. 449 00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:19,240 Speaker 3: He likes to hear about people guarding. You could have 450 00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:21,919 Speaker 3: told him you won the tomato a contest for the 451 00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:25,760 Speaker 3: neighborhood in eighty eight. He would have liked that, Andy, 452 00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:30,040 Speaker 3: He would have probably liked to talk about gardening with you. 453 00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:32,280 Speaker 3: You know, he's got five What are the five other 454 00:25:32,359 --> 00:25:34,159 Speaker 3: things that Andy has going on that he didn't even 455 00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:35,960 Speaker 3: just get didn't even get a chance to come back to. 456 00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:39,359 Speaker 2: I'll tell you, I'll come up with him right off 457 00:25:39,760 --> 00:25:40,159 Speaker 2: the cuff. 458 00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:46,120 Speaker 3: Andy does Sandy Claus for the local children's shelter. Now 459 00:25:47,040 --> 00:25:50,200 Speaker 3: he's five seven of buck thirty, which is weird. It's 460 00:25:50,280 --> 00:25:51,919 Speaker 3: like an emaciated Sandy Claus. 461 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:53,520 Speaker 2: But he does it because he got a heart for it, 462 00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:56,560 Speaker 2: all right. That's number one. Number two. 463 00:25:58,119 --> 00:26:02,040 Speaker 3: Andy's a Ham radio operator, you know, he is him 464 00:26:02,040 --> 00:26:04,720 Speaker 3: and Bob's troop, sending up messages, sending up smoke signals. 465 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:10,640 Speaker 3: Guarantee you he's a Ham radio operator. Number three, he's 466 00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:13,919 Speaker 3: a volunteer fire department. I guarantee he's a volunteer firefighter. 467 00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:14,480 Speaker 2: Count on it. 468 00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:19,359 Speaker 3: Book that right now. Number four, What would Andy do? 469 00:26:19,560 --> 00:26:25,640 Speaker 3: So he does RC remote control planes or whatever. He's 470 00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:29,119 Speaker 3: restoring that Willy's Overland he called it. Willis confused me. 471 00:26:29,119 --> 00:26:30,159 Speaker 3: I had to look it up see if it was 472 00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:33,920 Speaker 3: doing as Willy's Overland. He's got all these old cloth 473 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:37,080 Speaker 3: You know. My favorite part when I said you have 474 00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:39,880 Speaker 3: more need for clock repair than anybody I know, he said, yep, 475 00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:43,280 Speaker 3: that's like one thing you need to know about Andy. 476 00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:46,760 Speaker 3: My birthday September seventh, and I have need for a 477 00:26:46,760 --> 00:26:49,080 Speaker 3: lot of clock repair. Those are two things that you 478 00:26:49,119 --> 00:26:52,920 Speaker 3: can book about Andy. I like sausage and biscuits for breakfast. 479 00:26:53,359 --> 00:26:55,919 Speaker 3: I do two cups of coffee. I'm in bed by 480 00:26:56,000 --> 00:27:01,680 Speaker 3: eight forty five. Set your watch by it and yeah, yeah, 481 00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:04,000 Speaker 3: that's Indy all right. So he's a hand radio operator. 482 00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:06,960 Speaker 3: He gardens. He's got a garden. He's real proud of. 483 00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:12,439 Speaker 3: Did I give you another one? You're thinking hard on this. 484 00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:21,440 Speaker 3: I'm impressed. He uh. Oh, volunteer firefighter vaunteer. No, he 485 00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:23,200 Speaker 3: didn't used to be a bullfighter. These are going to 486 00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:27,400 Speaker 3: be solitary pursuits. Uh, they're could be kind of engineering, 487 00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:30,119 Speaker 3: but he's maybe not an engineer. He could be an engineer, 488 00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:33,520 Speaker 3: but he's from that age where he may not have 489 00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:35,840 Speaker 3: an engineering degree, but he's real mechanical. 490 00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:37,439 Speaker 1: Uh. 491 00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:41,359 Speaker 3: Let me think going this one right here. Oh, I 492 00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:43,600 Speaker 3: tell you what, I tell you what. He's a deacon 493 00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:46,040 Speaker 3: the church. I guarantee he's a deacon of the church, 494 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:52,240 Speaker 3: and it's probably going to be kind of one of 495 00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:58,200 Speaker 3: the light evangelical branches. He might be Lutheran, might be Lutheran. 496 00:27:58,720 --> 00:28:01,840 Speaker 3: I could see him being Lutheran. All Right, I need 497 00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:08,520 Speaker 3: one more. So we've got volunteer fire department, he gardens. 498 00:28:09,359 --> 00:28:14,320 Speaker 3: He's a Ham radio operator. He's a deacon at the church. Oh, 499 00:28:14,320 --> 00:28:20,000 Speaker 3: he's Sandy Claus. H. I don't I'm not certain on 500 00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:22,600 Speaker 3: Santy Claus. He does some volunteer stuff. I guarantee he 501 00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:26,560 Speaker 3: does some volunteer stuff. What is the fifth thing he does? 502 00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:27,800 Speaker 1: You know what? 503 00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:31,320 Speaker 2: He does some woodwork in Ramon. He does some woodworking. YEP. 504 00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:35,320 Speaker 3: I guarantee he's got a whole set of Josh Fuller 505 00:28:35,359 --> 00:28:40,920 Speaker 3: woodworking tools. Chris Blackler writes more time m o. R. E. 506 00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:44,280 Speaker 3: Clock Repair in Old Town Springs, someone I've used in 507 00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:45,880 Speaker 3: the past, very good at what they do. I had 508 00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:49,120 Speaker 3: them repair a family heirloom mantle clock that is near 509 00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:51,160 Speaker 3: one hundred years old or so. The cost was a 510 00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:53,440 Speaker 3: little much, but well worth the cost to have it fixed. 511 00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:55,120 Speaker 2: You know, I'd be. 512 00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:57,880 Speaker 3: Surprised if you're in that business and people aren't a 513 00:28:57,920 --> 00:29:01,640 Speaker 3: little bit shocked at how much it costs. Because time 514 00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:06,800 Speaker 3: is expensive now. American labor is extremely expensive, and everybody 515 00:29:06,840 --> 00:29:10,000 Speaker 3: wants to be paid high dollar for their labor. But 516 00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:13,720 Speaker 3: nobody wants to pay for labor, and everybody wants things 517 00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:15,400 Speaker 3: to be dirt cheap. And I just don't know how 518 00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:17,440 Speaker 3: you You know, you can't reconcile those two. 519 00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:18,480 Speaker 2: It doesn't work. 520 00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:24,440 Speaker 3: Darren Clark writes, I remember restore a hat of his dad, 521 00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:26,080 Speaker 3: and you didn't know anyone who does it. I'm a 522 00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:30,120 Speaker 3: local hatter who reshapes, cleans and custom shapes hats in 523 00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:30,920 Speaker 3: the Houston area. 524 00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:35,000 Speaker 2: My company is Lone Star Hat Forge. Like the name. 525 00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:38,320 Speaker 3: I like the forge in there, don't you what are 526 00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:40,720 Speaker 3: you in such deep thought about what is going on? 527 00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:43,160 Speaker 1: Oh? 528 00:29:43,320 --> 00:29:43,680 Speaker 2: I said? 529 00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:45,800 Speaker 3: He's an elder at his church, Deacon's the same thing 530 00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:49,960 Speaker 3: you're still on, Andy, It doesn't matter. He's in some 531 00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:54,680 Speaker 3: capacity of the bishopric of the lay congregation. He's a 532 00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:58,280 Speaker 3: lay congregation leader of some sort. How about that? What 533 00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:02,000 Speaker 3: the ones with that's a shriner? Oh, he's a shiner. 534 00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:05,880 Speaker 3: Damned if he ain't he's either. You are absolutely right 535 00:30:06,080 --> 00:30:10,280 Speaker 3: he is a shriner. Yes, if you ever need anyone 536 00:30:10,280 --> 00:30:12,760 Speaker 3: to help with you or your listener's hats, it's exactly 537 00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:14,520 Speaker 3: what i'd do, and I'd be honored to do so. 538 00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:17,520 Speaker 3: I can be reached at two eight one sixty three 539 00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:20,600 Speaker 3: oh ninety six seventy eight, or through my hat through 540 00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:24,960 Speaker 3: my website which is lone Star hatforge dot com. Thanks 541 00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:28,560 Speaker 3: Darren Clark. But in between Darren and Clark it has 542 00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:33,400 Speaker 3: boot in quotes. Darren boot Clark, A lot of you 543 00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:37,320 Speaker 3: said Neil Shooty at Shooty Brothers. I bought my hats 544 00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:40,480 Speaker 3: when I was on City Council from Neil Shooty. Neil 545 00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:43,880 Speaker 3: Shooty had Shooty Brothers. That was directly behind the Houston 546 00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:47,920 Speaker 3: Police Officers Union over off like State Street, in between 547 00:30:48,120 --> 00:30:54,800 Speaker 3: Washington and Memorial, next to a car dealership. But I'm 548 00:30:54,840 --> 00:30:57,080 Speaker 3: not going to mention that car dealership's name because they 549 00:30:57,120 --> 00:31:00,320 Speaker 3: gave a bunch of money to Sheila Jackson Lee. And 550 00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:03,480 Speaker 3: if you know who Sheila Jackson Lee is, which they did, 551 00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:06,600 Speaker 3: and you still gave money to her mayor old campaign, 552 00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:09,920 Speaker 3: You're forever in my bad books because you're counting on 553 00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:13,440 Speaker 3: everybody else to fund a campaign against her and run 554 00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:16,920 Speaker 3: against her and beat her. And if you gave money 555 00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:19,480 Speaker 3: to that, I don't you know that. I'll never be 556 00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:24,080 Speaker 3: able to, never ever be able to abide that. But 557 00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:27,560 Speaker 3: Neil Shooty is inside Brookwood now. I think he had 558 00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:30,720 Speaker 3: a kid there, which was why he first got involved there. 559 00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:33,680 Speaker 3: You know who else went to Brookwood? 560 00:31:35,520 --> 00:31:35,800 Speaker 1: Guy? 561 00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:38,920 Speaker 3: His dad assassinated. It's the only federal judge to ever 562 00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:45,000 Speaker 3: be assassinated. Whaty Harrelson, Catalina hatters and Brian restores old hat? 563 00:31:45,080 --> 00:31:48,280 Speaker 3: Says les Neeley. I don't know that they restore them. 564 00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:50,320 Speaker 3: I think Les Neeley's a lawman. 565 00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:51,400 Speaker 2: Uh. 566 00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:53,760 Speaker 3: I don't know that they restore them. I know they 567 00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:56,880 Speaker 3: make them. They make they really they make really nice hats. 568 00:31:57,320 --> 00:31:59,680 Speaker 3: He can send his hat to Flint Boot and Hat 569 00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:02,240 Speaker 3: Shop in love It. I worked there while attending the 570 00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:05,440 Speaker 3: Police Academy and they do great work. 571 00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:09,000 Speaker 2: That's from j I. D Y Barnes. 572 00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:11,960 Speaker 3: Now do you think his name is Jotty Barnes or 573 00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:12,959 Speaker 3: you think it's Jody. 574 00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:15,680 Speaker 2: Let me see on the keyboard. Oh, the O is 575 00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:16,560 Speaker 2: right next to the eye. 576 00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:23,680 Speaker 3: He hit the middle finger instead of the ring finger. Yeah, 577 00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:26,000 Speaker 3: it makes me happy to know that there's still people 578 00:32:26,040 --> 00:32:29,760 Speaker 3: out there doing antique clock repair and watch repair. 579 00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:30,640 Speaker 2: It makes me. 580 00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:32,440 Speaker 3: Happy to know there's people out there that still have 581 00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:33,080 Speaker 3: need of it. 582 00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:34,040 Speaker 2: I mean, think about that.