1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,400 Speaker 1: The investigators say that a Houston area postal worker has 2 00:00:04,480 --> 00:00:08,920 Speaker 1: been arrested after stealing a check worth nearly forty four 3 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:13,200 Speaker 1: thousand dollars. Investigators say back in July of twenty twenty 4 00:00:13,240 --> 00:00:17,279 Speaker 1: four so last year, a city official from Woodbranch Village 5 00:00:17,680 --> 00:00:21,360 Speaker 1: contacting the Montgomery County Precinct for Constable's office to report 6 00:00:21,760 --> 00:00:25,280 Speaker 1: a check fraud. They said a check totally forty four 7 00:00:25,280 --> 00:00:28,200 Speaker 1: thousand dollars that was sent to a contractor had been stolen. 8 00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:31,720 Speaker 1: It was later discovered that the check had been altered 9 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:36,680 Speaker 1: and deposited into an unknown account. The Montgomery County Precinct 10 00:00:36,680 --> 00:00:41,680 Speaker 1: four Constable said a lengthy investigation was conducted and the 11 00:00:41,760 --> 00:00:48,160 Speaker 1: suspect was identified as forty year old Bridget Ragland. Officials 12 00:00:48,159 --> 00:00:52,080 Speaker 1: obtained an arrest warrant for the charge of theft, classified 13 00:00:52,080 --> 00:00:55,800 Speaker 1: as a third degree felony. Ragland was later arrested at 14 00:00:55,840 --> 00:00:59,400 Speaker 1: the post office where she worked in Northwest Houston on Thursday, 15 00:00:59,480 --> 00:01:05,000 Speaker 1: October ninth. According to court documents, Raglan told investigators she 16 00:01:05,080 --> 00:01:08,880 Speaker 1: obtained the check after calling a number posted on a 17 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:14,280 Speaker 1: sign labeled as business loans. That's kind of a clever response, 18 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:18,960 Speaker 1: and said someone named Greg provided her with the check. 19 00:01:21,480 --> 00:01:26,480 Speaker 1: Uh oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no no, 20 00:01:26,680 --> 00:01:34,240 Speaker 1: I I've never seen that check before it's deposited into 21 00:01:34,280 --> 00:01:37,720 Speaker 1: your account. Oh oh sorry, sorry that check. Yeah yeah, yeah, 22 00:01:37,720 --> 00:01:40,160 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, y yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah I have seen yeah. 23 00:01:40,160 --> 00:01:42,200 Speaker 1: Oh of course I've seen it. Yeah. I got a 24 00:01:42,240 --> 00:01:47,360 Speaker 1: business loan, a business loan. What's your business? I hadn't 25 00:01:47,400 --> 00:01:49,400 Speaker 1: decided yet, but I want to make sure we were 26 00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:55,400 Speaker 1: sufficiently capitalized for any situations we might make. You just 27 00:01:55,560 --> 00:01:57,760 Speaker 1: never know when something might arise. 28 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:00,720 Speaker 2: What's the need to be talking to you about a 29 00:02:00,840 --> 00:02:05,440 Speaker 2: situation and that we made and we carry it out. 30 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:08,959 Speaker 1: So I got a business loan, really a business loan. 31 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:13,680 Speaker 1: So what interest rate? I can't recall. I just remember 32 00:02:13,720 --> 00:02:16,360 Speaker 1: it was high. Remember it was real high. And I 33 00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:19,040 Speaker 1: thought to myself, you know, chase your dreams, baby, you 34 00:02:19,080 --> 00:02:22,200 Speaker 1: know what I mean, chase your dreams, shoot for the stars. 35 00:02:22,200 --> 00:02:24,720 Speaker 1: So I did it. I did it. Okay. So you 36 00:02:24,840 --> 00:02:30,919 Speaker 1: got a business loan, a business loan that looks that 37 00:02:31,040 --> 00:02:34,680 Speaker 1: looks like a check to a contractor, and you marked 38 00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:36,399 Speaker 1: out the name of who it was to and put 39 00:02:36,440 --> 00:02:39,720 Speaker 1: in your name, and you figured that that that's how 40 00:02:39,720 --> 00:02:43,240 Speaker 1: a business loan would work. Is that the business loan 41 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:51,240 Speaker 1: would be a check written from a business to Jose Rodriguez, 42 00:02:52,280 --> 00:02:56,040 Speaker 1: and that it would arrive. But don't worry about all 43 00:02:56,080 --> 00:02:59,880 Speaker 1: that that it just technicalities, and just mark out Jose 44 00:03:00,520 --> 00:03:03,840 Speaker 1: and put in Bridget Ragling. You thought that, yes, yes, 45 00:03:03,960 --> 00:03:07,120 Speaker 1: that was I realized now hearing it, you know, said 46 00:03:07,200 --> 00:03:09,799 Speaker 1: like that, it sounds stupid. I mean, I feel so 47 00:03:09,840 --> 00:03:13,040 Speaker 1: stupid now, you know what. I am guilty of being stupid. 48 00:03:13,040 --> 00:03:15,720 Speaker 1: That was dumb. I don't know why I let them 49 00:03:15,760 --> 00:03:18,320 Speaker 1: schnooker me like that. I don't know why I did it. 50 00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:23,600 Speaker 1: I uh oh, I can guarantee this. I'm so embarrassed. Uh. 51 00:03:24,040 --> 00:03:26,200 Speaker 1: I guess I'm not good at business, you know. I 52 00:03:26,240 --> 00:03:28,239 Speaker 1: guess I'm I can tell you this. I'm going to 53 00:03:28,320 --> 00:03:28,840 Speaker 1: do this again. 54 00:03:28,919 --> 00:03:29,000 Speaker 3: This. 55 00:03:29,560 --> 00:03:31,799 Speaker 1: I never want to be this embarrassed again. At the time, 56 00:03:31,880 --> 00:03:33,840 Speaker 1: it made sense, you know, chase my dreams. You know, 57 00:03:33,880 --> 00:03:36,360 Speaker 1: I told everybody I'm gonna start a business, start a business, 58 00:03:36,640 --> 00:03:39,280 Speaker 1: and they were like, you do it, girl, you go on, Bridget, 59 00:03:39,760 --> 00:03:43,160 Speaker 1: You're gonna do this, And so I thought, okay, so 60 00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:47,440 Speaker 1: you didn't know about the check and then here's your 61 00:03:47,480 --> 00:03:50,880 Speaker 1: signature on the check that you had written out. It 62 00:03:51,280 --> 00:03:54,640 Speaker 1: changed to be in your name. So you remember the 63 00:03:54,720 --> 00:03:59,560 Speaker 1: check and you got the check. Make sure we get 64 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:03,320 Speaker 1: this right for the investigation. Yeah, you got the check 65 00:04:03,440 --> 00:04:08,280 Speaker 1: as a business loan. Business loan. And the way you 66 00:04:08,360 --> 00:04:17,279 Speaker 1: got the business loan was from a sign in the 67 00:04:17,320 --> 00:04:24,040 Speaker 1: middle of the esplanage that said business loans and a 68 00:04:24,040 --> 00:04:28,280 Speaker 1: phone number. Yeah. Yeah, you know now that you mentioned 69 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:30,960 Speaker 1: it sounds stupid now, but at the time, it felt 70 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:34,320 Speaker 1: like this was a message from God himself. I've been 71 00:04:34,320 --> 00:04:37,560 Speaker 1: praying on it. Oh, pray. Okay, all right, so you 72 00:04:37,680 --> 00:04:42,680 Speaker 1: called the number and you got the loan. Did they 73 00:04:42,760 --> 00:04:45,760 Speaker 1: mail you the check or did you come pick it up? 74 00:04:46,880 --> 00:04:49,200 Speaker 1: I can't hardly remember. I was so excited, and I 75 00:04:49,279 --> 00:04:52,119 Speaker 1: was so busy, you know, I have a one child 76 00:04:52,120 --> 00:04:55,279 Speaker 1: that's ill, and you know I got I got some 77 00:04:55,400 --> 00:04:58,560 Speaker 1: medical conditions too, you know, and just caring for other 78 00:04:58,600 --> 00:05:01,080 Speaker 1: people and being busy and a I really didn't have 79 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:03,479 Speaker 1: time to think much about it. I just I really 80 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:05,640 Speaker 1: want to get my business off the ground, you know, 81 00:05:05,880 --> 00:05:08,040 Speaker 1: because I want to make a good life for my children. 82 00:05:08,240 --> 00:05:11,320 Speaker 1: Is what I want to make. Good life for my children. Okay, Uh, 83 00:05:11,520 --> 00:05:14,240 Speaker 1: my children are real sick and everything. Yeah, okay, so 84 00:05:14,320 --> 00:05:16,320 Speaker 1: you got to you don't know how you got the loan, 85 00:05:16,920 --> 00:05:19,719 Speaker 1: but you know you called off of the sign for 86 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:22,960 Speaker 1: the loan and it's for a business that you don't 87 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:25,520 Speaker 1: know what the business is going to be. But you 88 00:05:25,520 --> 00:05:30,080 Speaker 1: you took the loan for that amount, okay, and you 89 00:05:30,200 --> 00:05:33,800 Speaker 1: deposited into your account and the chack that you deposited 90 00:05:34,400 --> 00:05:38,040 Speaker 1: had Jose Rodriguez on there, and you put Bridget Ragland. Okay, 91 00:05:38,080 --> 00:05:40,720 Speaker 1: this this story is checking out. I can see where 92 00:05:40,760 --> 00:05:48,520 Speaker 1: there's just just an honest uh you know, uh, misunderstanding. Okay. Yeah. 93 00:05:48,600 --> 00:05:57,200 Speaker 1: So one other thing, Jose Rodriguez lives on your postal 94 00:05:57,320 --> 00:06:03,280 Speaker 1: route and you deliver mail to him every No, no, no, no, 95 00:06:03,720 --> 00:06:08,080 Speaker 1: I don't know Jose Rodriguez. Uh yeah, yeah. Actually we 96 00:06:08,120 --> 00:06:11,960 Speaker 1: took some video of you. This is you delivering mail 97 00:06:12,320 --> 00:06:16,200 Speaker 1: to his house. He's he's on your route. And uh, 98 00:06:16,920 --> 00:06:21,400 Speaker 1: here's video of you taking one of the pieces of 99 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:25,520 Speaker 1: mail and not putting it in his box, but then turning, 100 00:06:25,560 --> 00:06:28,360 Speaker 1: looking both ways and taking it back to that little 101 00:06:28,440 --> 00:06:33,320 Speaker 1: jeep thingy that y'all drive as postal workers. Oh oh 102 00:06:33,360 --> 00:06:38,160 Speaker 1: oh that Jose Rodriguez. Oh yeah, okay, yes, yes, yes, yes, 103 00:06:38,240 --> 00:06:41,719 Speaker 1: I'm a nice man, really really nice guy. I always 104 00:06:41,760 --> 00:06:43,800 Speaker 1: say hi to him. I don't judge him for nothing. 105 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:46,440 Speaker 1: You know, he's Mexican, but I don't judge him for that. 106 00:06:46,480 --> 00:06:48,400 Speaker 1: You know, he ain't never done nothing wrong to me. 107 00:06:48,839 --> 00:06:51,279 Speaker 1: You know if one day maybe we was to, I 108 00:06:51,279 --> 00:06:52,800 Speaker 1: don't know, make a situation. 109 00:06:53,600 --> 00:06:55,880 Speaker 2: What's the need of me talking to you about a 110 00:06:55,920 --> 00:07:00,520 Speaker 2: situation and that we made and we carry it out. 111 00:07:00,800 --> 00:07:02,880 Speaker 1: We might make a situation and carry it out. You 112 00:07:02,920 --> 00:07:05,120 Speaker 1: know I can see that. I can see that. So 113 00:07:05,720 --> 00:07:08,200 Speaker 1: oh yeah, yeah, I do remember him now, I do 114 00:07:08,320 --> 00:07:11,640 Speaker 1: remember mister Jose Rodriggs. What a nice man. He don't 115 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:14,360 Speaker 1: have no dog, no nothing. He uh he you know, 116 00:07:14,480 --> 00:07:17,760 Speaker 1: keep his house real clean, he's real clean, he mows 117 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:20,400 Speaker 1: his law. He you know, he seemed like real. Okay, 118 00:07:20,440 --> 00:07:24,000 Speaker 1: So so you do know who Jose Rodriguez is, and 119 00:07:24,040 --> 00:07:27,400 Speaker 1: you do deliver mail on that route every day and 120 00:07:27,440 --> 00:07:29,760 Speaker 1: you look at his name every day when you now 121 00:07:29,760 --> 00:07:32,880 Speaker 1: you remember him? Yes, And I realize it sounds terrible. 122 00:07:32,920 --> 00:07:35,720 Speaker 1: I should have remembered, you know that, because I have 123 00:07:35,840 --> 00:07:38,160 Speaker 1: kids that are saying, you know, I'm sick. You know 124 00:07:38,200 --> 00:07:41,800 Speaker 1: I'm sick. I got I got disability, and I got 125 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:44,080 Speaker 1: a lot of things, you know, wrong, wrong with me 126 00:07:44,720 --> 00:07:49,960 Speaker 1: and uh and and everything and so uh yeah, yeah 127 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:52,239 Speaker 1: it was a misunderstand I mean, I sound I feel 128 00:07:52,280 --> 00:07:55,120 Speaker 1: so silly now, you know, I should have known they 129 00:07:55,240 --> 00:08:00,360 Speaker 1: was tricking me. I should have known it. And what 130 00:08:00,440 --> 00:08:02,880 Speaker 1: was it? Got Greg? Did you ever meet? No? No, 131 00:08:03,400 --> 00:08:06,760 Speaker 1: his name was Greg, Greg, just Greg. He just he 132 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:10,200 Speaker 1: mailed it to Jose. It's good for Kamala Harris to keep, 133 00:08:10,560 --> 00:08:15,160 Speaker 1: you know, doing book tours and continuing to say really 134 00:08:15,160 --> 00:08:18,240 Speaker 1: stupid things because as irritating as it is for you, 135 00:08:18,320 --> 00:08:20,760 Speaker 1: and I understand that, and you go, why can't she 136 00:08:20,880 --> 00:08:22,680 Speaker 1: just go away? My life will be better she just 137 00:08:22,720 --> 00:08:30,920 Speaker 1: goes away. Oh, I got news for you. There's a 138 00:08:30,960 --> 00:08:36,040 Speaker 1: certain acceptance you need to have right now. You didn't 139 00:08:36,080 --> 00:08:40,720 Speaker 1: know Katie Porter till ten days ago, and now she 140 00:08:40,880 --> 00:08:43,280 Speaker 1: has emerged on the scene and you realize how awful 141 00:08:43,320 --> 00:08:46,839 Speaker 1: she is, and hearing her talk is more nails on 142 00:08:46,880 --> 00:08:50,200 Speaker 1: a chalkboard for me than even Kamala. And that's the truth, 143 00:08:50,679 --> 00:08:56,040 Speaker 1: that is absolute truth. It's good for her to speak 144 00:08:56,080 --> 00:09:01,160 Speaker 1: so you can be reminded how close we came, how 145 00:09:01,160 --> 00:09:05,400 Speaker 1: bad it could have been. It's good to be reminded 146 00:09:05,440 --> 00:09:08,040 Speaker 1: of why we do what we do, why we care 147 00:09:08,200 --> 00:09:11,440 Speaker 1: while we talk to our neighbors while we win them over, 148 00:09:13,120 --> 00:09:18,200 Speaker 1: and don't forget her stolen valor vice president who within 149 00:09:18,240 --> 00:09:24,439 Speaker 1: the next last month said that the reason the Kamala 150 00:09:24,520 --> 00:09:28,880 Speaker 1: Harris campaign chose him as their vice president is that 151 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:36,440 Speaker 1: he is the alpha white, alpha male whisperer. He's the 152 00:09:36,480 --> 00:09:39,920 Speaker 1: one can talk to them and all he knows how 153 00:09:39,960 --> 00:09:45,160 Speaker 1: they talk, you know, as he shoots shotguns and coaches football. 154 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:52,320 Speaker 1: He actually said that. Imagine that dude as a vice 155 00:09:52,360 --> 00:09:57,000 Speaker 1: president his crazy wife. Dudes like that always have a 156 00:09:57,040 --> 00:10:00,800 Speaker 1: crazy wife. She's the last one to know. He's prancing 157 00:10:00,840 --> 00:10:05,319 Speaker 1: around the stage doing his jazz hands and she's nutter butters. 158 00:10:05,720 --> 00:10:09,000 Speaker 1: She's crazier than he is. Truth is, she's crazier than 159 00:10:09,040 --> 00:10:12,840 Speaker 1: he is. There came a point where people began hating 160 00:10:12,920 --> 00:10:15,840 Speaker 1: Joe Biden more than Joe Biden, and for good reason, 161 00:10:16,520 --> 00:10:18,760 Speaker 1: which doesn't make Joe any better. It just tells you 162 00:10:18,840 --> 00:10:23,120 Speaker 1: how bad she is. But on the issue of Kamala 163 00:10:23,200 --> 00:10:29,640 Speaker 1: Harris and Timmy Walls, yeah, we were talking earlier during 164 00:10:29,679 --> 00:10:37,720 Speaker 1: the break. They're removing the rainbow crosswalk and you know, 165 00:10:37,880 --> 00:10:43,240 Speaker 1: I'll bet you that makes Timmy Waltz very very upset. 166 00:10:43,600 --> 00:10:46,840 Speaker 1: I bet he's very out of sorts over not having 167 00:10:46,840 --> 00:10:48,040 Speaker 1: a rainbow crosswalk. 168 00:10:48,920 --> 00:10:50,800 Speaker 3: Ew look at the time, I bet it. Get a 169 00:10:50,800 --> 00:10:52,280 Speaker 3: little light and my loafer. It's gonna be late for 170 00:10:52,320 --> 00:10:57,439 Speaker 3: my podcast recording New Time. Where over the rainbow? What 171 00:10:58,240 --> 00:11:02,439 Speaker 3: in the tickle my nipple? It's my rainbow crosswalk? It's gone. 172 00:11:02,840 --> 00:11:04,640 Speaker 3: I mean, how do I even get across the road? 173 00:11:05,240 --> 00:11:07,480 Speaker 3: But I want to go run across here? I guess 174 00:11:07,960 --> 00:11:11,120 Speaker 3: get I get it with the guys. I mean, without 175 00:11:11,120 --> 00:11:14,079 Speaker 3: a rainbow crosswalk, where's the guy to go? Everybody call 176 00:11:14,080 --> 00:11:16,240 Speaker 3: your congressman, write a letter, and do whatever it takes. 177 00:11:16,280 --> 00:11:17,520 Speaker 3: I don't people know what to do. 178 00:11:23,400 --> 00:11:29,040 Speaker 1: Depending on how your day is going today, maybe it's 179 00:11:29,120 --> 00:11:33,000 Speaker 1: dragging a little thinking. Maybe you'll get yourself a couple 180 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:35,960 Speaker 1: of cats coffee. Maybe you need a little pick me up, 181 00:11:36,679 --> 00:11:41,280 Speaker 1: maybe have a diet coat, Maybe pop out for lunch 182 00:11:41,400 --> 00:11:44,360 Speaker 1: somewhere and treat yourself because you need a little pick 183 00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:50,640 Speaker 1: me up, filling down the doldrums. Maybe something's bothering you. 184 00:11:50,679 --> 00:11:53,920 Speaker 1: Maybe maybe you're not sure if your kid's gonna get 185 00:11:53,960 --> 00:11:57,120 Speaker 1: into the college they want to go to, or maybe 186 00:11:57,160 --> 00:12:00,840 Speaker 1: you're not sure if you're gonna get the job you 187 00:12:00,920 --> 00:12:05,040 Speaker 1: want or close the deal you want, or your next 188 00:12:05,040 --> 00:12:10,680 Speaker 1: door neighbors dog is barking too often. A friend of 189 00:12:10,679 --> 00:12:17,360 Speaker 1: mine brought his dad home from hospice yesterday expected to 190 00:12:17,520 --> 00:12:20,599 Speaker 1: have two days to sorry two days ago, so this 191 00:12:20,840 --> 00:12:24,520 Speaker 1: is this is the second day since they came home 192 00:12:24,600 --> 00:12:28,480 Speaker 1: from hospice. The doctors said he had probably about three 193 00:12:28,520 --> 00:12:34,040 Speaker 1: days to live kidney failure. And so my question to 194 00:12:34,120 --> 00:12:37,840 Speaker 1: my friend, asking for an update, was is he at 195 00:12:37,920 --> 00:12:42,200 Speaker 1: least is he at least out of pain? And he said, yes, 196 00:12:42,240 --> 00:12:47,599 Speaker 1: he's on meds, he's mostly sleeping, and he is thankfully 197 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:51,520 Speaker 1: out of pain. He just sent me a message and 198 00:12:51,559 --> 00:12:58,040 Speaker 1: he said, I just finished his obituary, and so at 199 00:12:58,120 --> 00:13:03,280 Speaker 1: least you're not writing your dad'sary. To put that into perspective, 200 00:13:03,400 --> 00:13:06,720 Speaker 1: if today seemed like it wasn't such a great day, 201 00:13:07,440 --> 00:13:11,199 Speaker 1: we're going to have in our lives some very very 202 00:13:12,040 --> 00:13:15,520 Speaker 1: bad days. And you may have had bad days before, 203 00:13:15,559 --> 00:13:18,160 Speaker 1: but that doesn't mean there won't be more bad days ahead. 204 00:13:19,360 --> 00:13:23,760 Speaker 1: And I've given a lot of thought to this and 205 00:13:25,440 --> 00:13:28,160 Speaker 1: what that means and how to try to make a 206 00:13:28,280 --> 00:13:34,480 Speaker 1: positive out of it, because you know it's possible, it's 207 00:13:34,520 --> 00:13:38,160 Speaker 1: for some people entirely likely to simply live in a 208 00:13:38,240 --> 00:13:43,000 Speaker 1: state of dread and gloom that these things are going 209 00:13:43,040 --> 00:13:47,680 Speaker 1: to happen, and so on your good days, you're dreading 210 00:13:47,760 --> 00:13:50,720 Speaker 1: the bad days, which makes the good days not so 211 00:13:50,880 --> 00:13:56,320 Speaker 1: good days. And there's nothing really you can do. It's 212 00:13:56,400 --> 00:13:59,840 Speaker 1: going to happen. But what I have chosen to do 213 00:14:00,120 --> 00:14:04,920 Speaker 1: make this better is to not take for granted an 214 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:09,040 Speaker 1: average day and do everything I can to will it 215 00:14:09,080 --> 00:14:13,560 Speaker 1: to be a good day. If nothing else, it's a 216 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:18,920 Speaker 1: good day relative to that other day which will happen. 217 00:14:19,520 --> 00:14:23,400 Speaker 1: And since today is not that day, then I'll determine 218 00:14:23,400 --> 00:14:26,440 Speaker 1: that this is going to be a good day and 219 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:29,480 Speaker 1: have as many of those good days as I possibly can. 220 00:14:30,240 --> 00:14:31,760 Speaker 1: We had a guy who came and sang at the 221 00:14:31,840 --> 00:14:37,720 Speaker 1: RCCs from Dallas. He had played white boy played pro 222 00:14:37,840 --> 00:14:41,640 Speaker 1: basketball for a brief period of time. I think he 223 00:14:41,680 --> 00:14:48,200 Speaker 1: was a two guard, pretty outstanding basketball player. Became a 224 00:14:48,360 --> 00:14:54,040 Speaker 1: country music singer and singer songwriter, rather talented. I can't 225 00:14:54,040 --> 00:14:55,600 Speaker 1: remember his name, but that doesn't mean anything. There are 226 00:14:55,640 --> 00:14:57,440 Speaker 1: a lot of country There are a lot of talented folk, 227 00:14:57,520 --> 00:14:59,680 Speaker 1: especially the newer folks. But this was a few years 228 00:14:59,720 --> 00:15:02,800 Speaker 1: ago or ten years ago, and he had had I 229 00:15:02,840 --> 00:15:04,720 Speaker 1: want to say it starts with an R like a ray, 230 00:15:05,480 --> 00:15:08,920 Speaker 1: like a ray name something like that. He had had. 231 00:15:09,040 --> 00:15:13,640 Speaker 1: It was probably Josh or Justin or Jake, which is 232 00:15:14,120 --> 00:15:19,600 Speaker 1: what most modern country singer's names are. No offense to Josh, 233 00:15:19,880 --> 00:15:23,560 Speaker 1: Justin or Jake. Am I leaving one out? Well, it's Jeremy's. 234 00:15:23,640 --> 00:15:25,240 Speaker 1: Jeremy made a bit of a comeback there for a 235 00:15:25,240 --> 00:15:30,320 Speaker 1: little while. Not nearly as many Jake is probably the 236 00:15:30,360 --> 00:15:35,880 Speaker 1: most common of the young country music singer names. Now, anyway, 237 00:15:36,040 --> 00:15:38,320 Speaker 1: he had had football, Oh, he had football. He had 238 00:15:38,520 --> 00:15:43,040 Speaker 1: foot cancer, and he had had one half of one 239 00:15:43,120 --> 00:15:46,480 Speaker 1: foot removed, leaving him looking like Tom Dempsey. For those 240 00:15:46,480 --> 00:15:50,320 Speaker 1: of you who are old NFL fans, back when Tom 241 00:15:50,320 --> 00:15:52,560 Speaker 1: Dempsey's record, I think it was sixty three yards, we 242 00:15:52,600 --> 00:15:55,640 Speaker 1: thought that would never be never be surpassed. Nobody ever 243 00:15:55,680 --> 00:15:57,200 Speaker 1: going to kick a sixty three And the only reason 244 00:15:57,240 --> 00:15:59,080 Speaker 1: he did is he had a club foot. Not fair, 245 00:16:00,200 --> 00:16:02,960 Speaker 1: they can kick him for seventy yards. But anyway, he 246 00:16:03,040 --> 00:16:05,200 Speaker 1: decided that the name of his album was No Bad Days. 247 00:16:05,240 --> 00:16:07,720 Speaker 1: He said, look, every day I shouldn't even be alive. 248 00:16:07,760 --> 00:16:10,040 Speaker 1: I had horrible advanced cancer. I shouldn't even be alive. 249 00:16:10,080 --> 00:16:11,520 Speaker 1: So every day is going to be a good day. 250 00:16:11,600 --> 00:16:14,240 Speaker 1: I'm choosing that that will be the case. A nine 251 00:16:14,280 --> 00:16:16,760 Speaker 1: year old boy in Florida has been arrested for threatening 252 00:16:16,760 --> 00:16:21,120 Speaker 1: classmates with a knife. The Putnam County Sheriff's Office has 253 00:16:21,160 --> 00:16:23,680 Speaker 1: posted his mug shot, bringing up a debate if he 254 00:16:23,800 --> 00:16:29,240 Speaker 1: is too young to post his mug Well, at this rate, 255 00:16:30,600 --> 00:16:34,080 Speaker 1: if he's ever going to have a mug shot posted publicly, 256 00:16:34,120 --> 00:16:37,040 Speaker 1: we better start now, because I don't think he's going 257 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:39,640 Speaker 1: to get as many years to commit crime as most 258 00:16:40,360 --> 00:16:44,200 Speaker 1: criminals will do. You know, if he's dead at twelve 259 00:16:44,200 --> 00:16:48,400 Speaker 1: and never got his mug shot posted publicly, it feels 260 00:16:48,680 --> 00:16:52,520 Speaker 1: like he was cheated. You know, if he makes it 261 00:16:52,560 --> 00:16:57,040 Speaker 1: to thirty, he'll have probably twenty five of them, and 262 00:16:57,080 --> 00:16:59,640 Speaker 1: then we can look back and say that was too early. 263 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:04,640 Speaker 1: You know, he is a child prodigy, and we could 264 00:17:04,680 --> 00:17:08,879 Speaker 1: have waited and let him develop, you know, age a little. 265 00:17:09,280 --> 00:17:12,520 Speaker 1: He's charged with aggravated assault with deadly weapon without intent 266 00:17:12,560 --> 00:17:16,240 Speaker 1: to kill after bringing a knife to school and brandishing 267 00:17:16,280 --> 00:17:19,800 Speaker 1: it at his peers. Student was booked into the Putnam 268 00:17:19,840 --> 00:17:25,520 Speaker 1: County Jail before being released under listen to this under 269 00:17:25,600 --> 00:17:34,119 Speaker 1: their parents supervision? Oh they is does he have a 270 00:17:34,160 --> 00:17:40,480 Speaker 1: mouse in his pocket. He is one person. This local 271 00:17:40,560 --> 00:17:44,720 Speaker 1: news report w SMV dot com chose not to refer 272 00:17:44,800 --> 00:17:54,040 Speaker 1: to his but as their parent supervision. Interestingly, that is 273 00:17:54,119 --> 00:18:00,160 Speaker 1: p A R E N t apostrophe meaning own only 274 00:18:00,280 --> 00:18:07,760 Speaker 1: one parent. Hmm. Therein is the source of your problem. 275 00:18:08,160 --> 00:18:12,480 Speaker 1: Authorities say it all happened during recess at Middleton Bernie 276 00:18:12,520 --> 00:18:16,200 Speaker 1: Elementary School in Crescent City when the student got into 277 00:18:16,200 --> 00:18:19,399 Speaker 1: a fight, The Putnam County Sheriff's Office said in a 278 00:18:19,440 --> 00:18:23,160 Speaker 1: Facebook post on Thursday. The victim told deputies the child 279 00:18:23,280 --> 00:18:25,680 Speaker 1: said they were going to stab them during the fight, 280 00:18:26,200 --> 00:18:28,239 Speaker 1: the victim said, the nine year old then pulled a 281 00:18:28,280 --> 00:18:35,160 Speaker 1: pocket knife from their backpack. Again the use of plurals 282 00:18:35,680 --> 00:18:40,800 Speaker 1: to avoid dealing with gender, which is the sex of 283 00:18:40,880 --> 00:18:46,879 Speaker 1: a noun. You know, things have gotten so much better 284 00:18:46,920 --> 00:18:51,439 Speaker 1: in this country under Trump already, and in some ways 285 00:18:52,760 --> 00:18:57,320 Speaker 1: it is as if, now that folks have been exposed 286 00:18:57,359 --> 00:19:01,639 Speaker 1: to how much better things used to be and can 287 00:19:01,720 --> 00:19:06,520 Speaker 1: be in the future, the things that were the least 288 00:19:06,560 --> 00:19:15,240 Speaker 1: aggravating before now stick out more than ever. NBC has 289 00:19:15,359 --> 00:19:20,800 Speaker 1: had layoffs of reporters, about one hundred and fifty employees, 290 00:19:20,960 --> 00:19:27,600 Speaker 1: roughly seven percent of their newsroom. I don't typically celebrate 291 00:19:27,640 --> 00:19:33,560 Speaker 1: nor am I here the laying off of anyone unless 292 00:19:33,600 --> 00:19:36,920 Speaker 1: they're like a cartel member or a drug dealer or 293 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:41,560 Speaker 1: something that it's a rough thing to be laid off. 294 00:19:42,600 --> 00:19:47,360 Speaker 1: It's a real rough thing. You've been laid off, Jim twice? Oh, 295 00:19:47,400 --> 00:19:50,960 Speaker 1: I know when the second went? Where was the first one? 296 00:19:51,240 --> 00:19:54,000 Speaker 1: Huh oh? Twice a day? 297 00:19:54,040 --> 00:19:55,639 Speaker 2: Did you say? 298 00:19:57,040 --> 00:20:00,560 Speaker 1: Oh, twice when you worked at AIG, Tell me about 299 00:20:00,560 --> 00:20:09,440 Speaker 1: the first one? Okay, okay? And when was this? Can 300 00:20:09,480 --> 00:20:14,360 Speaker 1: they hear you? Okay? So they were they were moving 301 00:20:14,480 --> 00:20:18,639 Speaker 1: some functions to Amarillo. You were in the Houston office. Okay, 302 00:20:20,640 --> 00:20:23,399 Speaker 1: that was the first time you were laid off by AIG. 303 00:20:23,600 --> 00:20:27,000 Speaker 1: And then they brought you back. They brought you back 304 00:20:27,040 --> 00:20:28,879 Speaker 1: in a different department, and then they laid you off again. 305 00:20:31,880 --> 00:20:34,160 Speaker 1: They sent the rest of the head. Okay, so we're 306 00:20:34,240 --> 00:20:37,640 Speaker 1: laying you bad news, bad news. Here, we're laying you off. 307 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:42,560 Speaker 1: We're sending the functions that you performed Tomillo. Oh man, 308 00:20:42,920 --> 00:20:47,240 Speaker 1: good news. Huh oh. They sent you to Amorial to 309 00:20:47,280 --> 00:20:49,680 Speaker 1: train the people who were replacing you. Okay, well, all right, 310 00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:54,240 Speaker 1: bad news you're being laid off. Good news, we're sending 311 00:20:54,240 --> 00:20:59,000 Speaker 1: you to Amarillo for two more weeks. Bad news, then 312 00:20:59,040 --> 00:21:02,359 Speaker 1: you're really laid off, and then you come home. But 313 00:21:02,760 --> 00:21:05,960 Speaker 1: good news when you come home. We got another job 314 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:08,760 Speaker 1: in a different department that you can perform. Since your 315 00:21:08,840 --> 00:21:12,960 Speaker 1: your tasks were sent to Amreilla, Okay, bad news. In 316 00:21:13,119 --> 00:21:14,720 Speaker 1: very short order, we're going to lay you off again 317 00:21:15,280 --> 00:21:18,119 Speaker 1: and send your functions to Emerald. Did you go to 318 00:21:18,160 --> 00:21:22,159 Speaker 1: Amillo the second time to train them? You went Emerilla's 319 00:21:22,240 --> 00:21:28,280 Speaker 1: second time to train the people there. Okay, all right, 320 00:21:29,640 --> 00:21:31,760 Speaker 1: so that happened. And then how many times you've been fired? 321 00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:36,720 Speaker 1: Just one time? That There's no way. You worked with 322 00:21:36,800 --> 00:21:39,000 Speaker 1: Josh Innis for ten years and you only got fired 323 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:44,520 Speaker 1: one time. You worked together for four years. Okay, okay, 324 00:21:45,520 --> 00:21:48,439 Speaker 1: the one time you got fired with seven ninety I 325 00:21:48,560 --> 00:21:50,800 Speaker 1: find that hard to believe. All right, let's go back. 326 00:21:50,800 --> 00:21:53,840 Speaker 1: So y'all joined up at Kilt. All right, So y'all 327 00:21:53,840 --> 00:21:57,359 Speaker 1: were at six ten am, and then y'all left and 328 00:21:57,400 --> 00:22:02,320 Speaker 1: came to seven ninety. Oh yeah, he had come from Philadelphia. Yeah, 329 00:22:02,359 --> 00:22:05,800 Speaker 1: that's a whole story. You know. I tried to hire 330 00:22:05,880 --> 00:22:09,560 Speaker 1: him when I was running the stations, and he was 331 00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:12,600 Speaker 1: going to come and do an hour of he was 332 00:22:12,600 --> 00:22:14,120 Speaker 1: going to do an hour on air, so I could 333 00:22:14,119 --> 00:22:17,719 Speaker 1: as a kind of a test. Do you know the story? 334 00:22:17,880 --> 00:22:20,520 Speaker 1: Okay he was going to do? Oh, you're right, you 335 00:22:20,560 --> 00:22:24,800 Speaker 1: told me? Well, I remember just my side. So he 336 00:22:24,920 --> 00:22:27,280 Speaker 1: was coming from Baton Rouge where he was living. He 337 00:22:27,359 --> 00:22:30,159 Speaker 1: was coming to Houston. He was going to do an 338 00:22:30,240 --> 00:22:32,880 Speaker 1: hour for me, like ten to eleven. I was trying 339 00:22:32,960 --> 00:22:34,960 Speaker 1: him out as a potential host. I was going to 340 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:39,399 Speaker 1: hire and you know, everything is set be here at 341 00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:41,560 Speaker 1: ten o'clock. He's going to be here at nine thirty 342 00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:45,000 Speaker 1: to do to talk before he goes on there at ten. 343 00:22:45,680 --> 00:22:47,560 Speaker 1: And it's not really an interview yet because I want 344 00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:49,800 Speaker 1: to hear him on our show and see how he does, 345 00:22:50,400 --> 00:22:51,960 Speaker 1: because I don't he didn't even have a show yet, 346 00:22:51,960 --> 00:22:53,800 Speaker 1: did he. But you could tell he had a lot 347 00:22:53,800 --> 00:22:55,920 Speaker 1: of talent. Obviously I wasn't the only one who thought that. 348 00:22:56,800 --> 00:22:59,399 Speaker 1: Because at nine thirty, nine thirty comes and goes, or 349 00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:03,320 Speaker 1: maybe it was not that time comes and goes, and 350 00:23:03,600 --> 00:23:06,520 Speaker 1: I have to find somebody in the hallway, you know, 351 00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:09,119 Speaker 1: Charlie Polillo, David Delai, Hey, can you just give me 352 00:23:09,119 --> 00:23:11,480 Speaker 1: an hour? Matt Thomas, can you get on the air 353 00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:14,080 Speaker 1: right now? I got this guy that's supposed to be 354 00:23:14,119 --> 00:23:17,159 Speaker 1: here and he's not here, and obviously you can't have 355 00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:20,239 Speaker 1: dead air, so do the show. And I sent him 356 00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:23,320 Speaker 1: an email, dude, what I got it? You couldn't make it, 357 00:23:23,840 --> 00:23:27,000 Speaker 1: but let me know I'm pretty hot about it. So 358 00:23:27,560 --> 00:23:33,000 Speaker 1: years later I meet him and he tells me or 359 00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:34,679 Speaker 1: I get maybe it was Jim who told me the 360 00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:39,480 Speaker 1: story that he was double dipping, which can good for him. 361 00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:43,480 Speaker 1: He was going to Kilt six ten AM Sports Radio. 362 00:23:43,920 --> 00:23:46,199 Speaker 1: He was going to interview with them in the morning 363 00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:49,959 Speaker 1: at it was eight, eight or nine. It must have been eight, 364 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:51,359 Speaker 1: because he was going to come straight from there to 365 00:23:51,960 --> 00:23:55,320 Speaker 1: interview with us. He goes to the interview there and 366 00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:57,080 Speaker 1: then he's going to come to us. But the interview 367 00:23:57,080 --> 00:24:00,440 Speaker 1: there went well, and I get they he must have 368 00:24:00,520 --> 00:24:02,960 Speaker 1: told them he had seven ninety coming up next because 369 00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:06,480 Speaker 1: they were very competitive, as they should be, and they said, no, no, no, 370 00:24:07,080 --> 00:24:10,280 Speaker 1: don't leave. No, no, no, don't stay right here giving you 371 00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:14,119 Speaker 1: a job offer right now. Well, let me call them, 372 00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:17,800 Speaker 1: no no, don't don't call them, let them learn they 373 00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:21,679 Speaker 1: don't have a host. As the show starts, and that 374 00:24:22,040 --> 00:24:25,720 Speaker 1: is the rest of the story and as we're talking about, 375 00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:30,160 Speaker 1: he'll be so happy. Radio Michael Berry, NBC laid off 376 00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:35,960 Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty employees, roughly seven percent of their newsroom, 377 00:24:36,119 --> 00:24:42,320 Speaker 1: and in the process dissolved their dedicated editorial teams, their 378 00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:49,399 Speaker 1: editorial team that covered black issues, their Latino issue team, 379 00:24:49,600 --> 00:24:58,399 Speaker 1: their Asian American issue team, their LGBTQ community team. Gosh, 380 00:24:58,840 --> 00:25:05,760 Speaker 1: what's left If you don't have these specific constituency group beats, 381 00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:12,800 Speaker 1: you would just have to cover the news. How boring? 382 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:20,760 Speaker 1: Nobody in the news. The basic old news is bold 383 00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:25,960 Speaker 1: and courageous. The move is part of a reorganization that 384 00:25:26,040 --> 00:25:33,400 Speaker 1: separates MSNBC from NBC News under a new entity called Versant. 385 00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:37,720 Speaker 1: Executives describe the decision as an efficiency measure to eliminate 386 00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:43,520 Speaker 1: overlap and streamline operations across NBC Universal's news divisions, but 387 00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:48,720 Speaker 1: it also dismantles the network's identity based teams NBC BLK, 388 00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:57,680 Speaker 1: NBC Latino, NBC Asian America, and NBC out The homos 389 00:25:57,720 --> 00:26:01,960 Speaker 1: are very angry. Rich Ferraro with GLAD says the move 390 00:26:02,119 --> 00:26:05,239 Speaker 1: is part of a dangerous pattern. It's dangerous, I tell 391 00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:10,000 Speaker 1: you of mainstream media outlets choosing to lose trusted and 392 00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:16,160 Speaker 1: talented journalists who focus on impotent lgb Oh sorry, important 393 00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:23,640 Speaker 1: LGBTQ news that otherwise is underreported or not reported at all. 394 00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:31,520 Speaker 1: But who will report on the LGBTQ news if we 395 00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:35,600 Speaker 1: don't have a reporter who is one and dedicated to 396 00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:41,440 Speaker 1: just covering one. If you ever have flash on your screen, 397 00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:48,880 Speaker 1: one of these dedicated beats and their news, it's the 398 00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:53,200 Speaker 1: saddest damn thing you've ever seen. You actually feel sorry 399 00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:58,840 Speaker 1: for them because the way it works is they don't 400 00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:01,399 Speaker 1: have anything to write about out You run out of 401 00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:08,280 Speaker 1: stuff pretty fast. You know, you have this black news sites, 402 00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:14,760 Speaker 1: and the problem is there isn't enough news that's just 403 00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:18,640 Speaker 1: black news. You know, guy scores a touchdown where it's 404 00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:22,560 Speaker 1: not black news. That's about that, says football news. Guy 405 00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:25,040 Speaker 1: gets a new job, Well that's not black news, it's 406 00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:29,800 Speaker 1: just news. So it has to be the first black 407 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:35,440 Speaker 1: to do this, right, So there's only first so many 408 00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:40,040 Speaker 1: firsts you can have, so you'll do you try to 409 00:27:40,040 --> 00:27:43,720 Speaker 1: find the first black person to throw a baseball left handed, 410 00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:47,639 Speaker 1: standing on his ear with his toes double jointed, and 411 00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:52,520 Speaker 1: just it gets ridiculous and absurd. It's not you're not 412 00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:55,760 Speaker 1: reporting on anything that anyone is reading and thinking, Wow, 413 00:27:56,440 --> 00:27:58,560 Speaker 1: I am up to date on what's going on in 414 00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:02,480 Speaker 1: the world now. So there's that kind of news the first, 415 00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:08,480 Speaker 1: and then there is always uh coverage of black organizations. 416 00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:11,920 Speaker 1: They do this in Houston. Houston Chronicle does this. There 417 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:16,000 Speaker 1: is Black Restaurant Week. Oh well, what is that? That 418 00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:20,719 Speaker 1: is where you're supposed to go to black owned restaurants. Oh, 419 00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:26,920 Speaker 1: everybody are just black people, everybody. But if everybody comes, 420 00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:33,679 Speaker 1: you'll be mad that we've appropriated your seats. Then you'll 421 00:28:34,359 --> 00:28:37,120 Speaker 1: but then you'll blow up and start There'll be hair 422 00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:40,080 Speaker 1: pulling and wigs snatch and we can't have that. I 423 00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:42,080 Speaker 1: think what you mean is black people need to go 424 00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:44,040 Speaker 1: to black owned restaurants for Black Week. Is that what 425 00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:46,040 Speaker 1: you mean. I think that's what you mean. I'll do 426 00:28:46,080 --> 00:28:48,040 Speaker 1: that for you. I think that's what you mean. So 427 00:28:49,080 --> 00:28:52,320 Speaker 1: there is always the and then there's there's various black 428 00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:56,160 Speaker 1: chambers of commerce. There's a you know, you wonder about this, 429 00:28:57,800 --> 00:29:02,440 Speaker 1: so Black Restaurant Week, do y'all? So y'all are black 430 00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:08,040 Speaker 1: owned restaurant. How's your restaurant any different? We're black owned? Okay, Well, 431 00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:14,240 Speaker 1: why is that important? Why is that something we need 432 00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:20,720 Speaker 1: to know? I'm just curious. We don't have restaurants with 433 00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:26,760 Speaker 1: tile flooring associations where only restaurants with tile flooring gathered 434 00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:31,000 Speaker 1: together they support lines. We have tile flooring. Why would 435 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:37,200 Speaker 1: we It's not relevant. Do you also participate in the 436 00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:40,560 Speaker 1: other restaurant weeks that everybody hates and people do hate them, 437 00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:45,440 Speaker 1: By the way, the most hated event in restaurants in Houston, 438 00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:48,120 Speaker 1: in every chef, every operator right now is not in 439 00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:49,680 Speaker 1: their head. They already know what I'm going to say 440 00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:53,520 Speaker 1: is Houston Restaurant Week. Houston Restaurant Week is this thing 441 00:29:53,560 --> 00:29:56,120 Speaker 1: that was put together by one of them, Cleverly Stone Cleverly. 442 00:29:57,040 --> 00:29:59,080 Speaker 1: Cleverly was a big fan of ours. Nice ladid Nothing 443 00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:04,800 Speaker 1: against Cleverly. You worked her show, h Jim, You're you're 444 00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:09,360 Speaker 1: kind of a forest gump of weird stuff. So anyway, 445 00:30:09,480 --> 00:30:11,120 Speaker 1: I liked Cleverly. She was very nice to me. She 446 00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:12,720 Speaker 1: was she was a big fan. She would she would 447 00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:15,480 Speaker 1: send nice things when I say things on air. Nothing 448 00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:18,480 Speaker 1: against Cleverly, But let me tell you what Houston Restaurant 449 00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:20,240 Speaker 1: Week is. And I think she passed away, so I 450 00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:23,720 Speaker 1: don't have to feel bad about saying this, although I 451 00:30:23,720 --> 00:30:26,240 Speaker 1: think they still do it. So they go to the 452 00:30:26,280 --> 00:30:29,600 Speaker 1: restaurants and they say, hey, Houston Restaurant Week. And it's 453 00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:33,640 Speaker 1: kind of like groupon restaurants are always looking for ways 454 00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:35,800 Speaker 1: to make more money because they're all struggling. They're all 455 00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:39,000 Speaker 1: struggling all the time. And even if they weren't struggling, 456 00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:44,240 Speaker 1: a lot of restaurant owners are gamblers and drunks and 457 00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:47,120 Speaker 1: they go through multiple divorces. Not not my show sponsors, 458 00:30:47,320 --> 00:30:50,160 Speaker 1: but this is true of a lot of restaurants, and 459 00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:53,600 Speaker 1: this is true of the industry. So so they're always 460 00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:55,880 Speaker 1: looking for more money. They're always short of cash because 461 00:30:56,040 --> 00:30:57,760 Speaker 1: they either don't have any cash, or when they do 462 00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:01,720 Speaker 1: have cash, they it's it's the nature of the beast. 463 00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:04,800 Speaker 1: It's a personality type very similar to the personality type 464 00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:07,440 Speaker 1: that is a bartender. But that's another subject for another day. 465 00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:11,160 Speaker 1: So Houston Restaurant Week, the way that works is they 466 00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:12,960 Speaker 1: go to them and getting any of all this business. 467 00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:14,880 Speaker 1: We're gonna have all these people, we're gonna promote it, 468 00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:16,959 Speaker 1: and we're gonna list the restaurants in there, and the 469 00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:18,760 Speaker 1: only place people are going to go during that week 470 00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:20,880 Speaker 1: is to restaurants that are in Houston Restaurant Week. And 471 00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:23,560 Speaker 1: you want to be in there, Okay, I do it. 472 00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:24,000 Speaker 3: I do it. 473 00:31:24,040 --> 00:31:27,480 Speaker 1: I do it. And by the way, uh, some of 474 00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:30,480 Speaker 1: what we raise is going to go to charity. Oh wow, okay, 475 00:31:30,520 --> 00:31:33,840 Speaker 1: all right, okay, so supporting charity and gonna be really busy. 476 00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:36,680 Speaker 1: Now here's we're going to work with you in your menu. 477 00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:41,960 Speaker 1: So the menu goes, you need to charge less than usual, 478 00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:46,080 Speaker 1: and well, you need to charge less than usual, and 479 00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:49,320 Speaker 1: you have to have restaurant week offerings. All right, So 480 00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:51,360 Speaker 1: the restaurant changes it. So the first year they do it, 481 00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:54,480 Speaker 1: they're always really excited. And then what they realize is, 482 00:31:54,560 --> 00:32:01,080 Speaker 1: just like groupon, you want quality, not quantity. Every restaurant, 483 00:32:01,160 --> 00:32:04,000 Speaker 1: every bar, every business comes to the point that they 484 00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:08,280 Speaker 1: learn you don't want every person out there as a customer. 485 00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:12,480 Speaker 1: Some people will cost you more money showing up than 486 00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:20,080 Speaker 1: staying home. And you get young people, for instance, groups 487 00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:24,080 Speaker 1: of people who come together, for instance. So people have 488 00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:26,360 Speaker 1: this idea of you know, here's my customer base, and 489 00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:27,880 Speaker 1: I don't make as much as i'd like to, but 490 00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:30,600 Speaker 1: it's pretty good. I like more of people just like 491 00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:33,280 Speaker 1: my customer base, but I like more of those people. 492 00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:36,640 Speaker 1: And that's not who comes during the restaurant week. And 493 00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:38,880 Speaker 1: during restaurant week, it's crowded with people who send their 494 00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:41,440 Speaker 1: food back and complain and don't tip, and they're obnoxious 495 00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:44,440 Speaker 1: and all that, and your regulars can't get a reservation 496 00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:48,320 Speaker 1: that week, so they're mad about it. So it's caused 497 00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:51,440 Speaker 1: a bunch of folks to drop out a fuston restaurant week. Obviously, 498 00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:53,440 Speaker 1: Is there anybody 499 00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:55,920 Speaker 2: We did need to be talking to you about a 500 00:32:55,960 --> 00:33:00,440 Speaker 2: situation and that we may and we care, We not