1 00:00:04,080 --> 00:00:05,000 Speaker 1: It's that time. 2 00:00:05,200 --> 00:00:09,600 Speaker 2: Time, time, luck and load. 3 00:00:11,400 --> 00:00:14,040 Speaker 1: The Michael Vari Show is on the air. 4 00:00:29,120 --> 00:00:34,879 Speaker 3: Today is August twenty sixth, twenty twenty five. On August 5 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:42,080 Speaker 3: twenty sixth, nineteen oh nine, Jim Davis was born. You 6 00:00:42,159 --> 00:00:47,640 Speaker 3: may not recognize that name, but you do and will 7 00:00:48,520 --> 00:00:50,400 Speaker 3: recognize that character. 8 00:00:52,040 --> 00:00:52,360 Speaker 4: Now. 9 00:00:53,479 --> 00:00:57,120 Speaker 3: He is not the most identifiable character on the show. 10 00:00:58,880 --> 00:01:05,000 Speaker 3: He's not even the same second. But he was straight 11 00:01:05,640 --> 00:01:09,280 Speaker 3: out of Central Casting for this role. 12 00:01:11,240 --> 00:01:15,240 Speaker 1: He could not have been more perfect for this role. 13 00:01:16,319 --> 00:01:20,680 Speaker 3: And is it's an underrated character because he died in 14 00:01:20,680 --> 00:01:25,480 Speaker 3: real life while the show was ongoing. But both he 15 00:01:25,640 --> 00:01:30,199 Speaker 3: and his wife were so perfectly perfect. I have known 16 00:01:30,319 --> 00:01:35,160 Speaker 3: people like the family portrayed in that movie, and the 17 00:01:35,920 --> 00:01:44,040 Speaker 3: husband and the wife are so amazingly just. Casting directors 18 00:01:44,319 --> 00:01:50,200 Speaker 3: don't get their credit for finding the right person for 19 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:55,160 Speaker 3: a role. Did you guess who I'm talking about, who 20 00:01:55,240 --> 00:01:58,880 Speaker 3: Jim Davis was, or the character by which you knew him? 21 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:00,200 Speaker 5: Well? 22 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:05,760 Speaker 1: In this scene, I'm not gonna tell you. I'm not 23 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:07,200 Speaker 1: gonna set it up. I'm just gonna let it play. 24 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:10,360 Speaker 6: I called Less at the bank and asked him to 25 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:12,600 Speaker 6: transfer twelve million dollars from the account. 26 00:02:14,440 --> 00:02:17,800 Speaker 7: So what you got a hundred times that much. 27 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:21,079 Speaker 6: I'm talking liquid assets cash, daddy cash, and we don't 28 00:02:21,120 --> 00:02:23,080 Speaker 6: have that on ount. And you know why because you 29 00:02:23,160 --> 00:02:25,400 Speaker 6: took ten million dollars. 30 00:02:26,800 --> 00:02:28,919 Speaker 1: You damn right, I took it. It's mine. 31 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:30,600 Speaker 6: That money belongs to Eing Oil. 32 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:33,920 Speaker 8: And who in the hell do you think Euing Oil is. 33 00:02:34,520 --> 00:02:38,000 Speaker 1: It's me. Euing Oil belongs to me. And don't you 34 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:38,800 Speaker 1: forget it, boy. 35 00:02:38,919 --> 00:02:41,440 Speaker 6: And you gave me Euing Oil to run in writing, 36 00:02:41,760 --> 00:02:43,880 Speaker 6: and that makes you obliged to consult me before you 37 00:02:43,919 --> 00:02:47,600 Speaker 6: do anything that concerns that company. Obliged you telling me 38 00:02:47,639 --> 00:02:49,840 Speaker 6: that I'm obliged to ask you how to spend my 39 00:02:49,919 --> 00:02:52,240 Speaker 6: own money any damn way, I see fit. 40 00:02:52,360 --> 00:02:52,839 Speaker 4: That's right. 41 00:02:53,560 --> 00:02:55,000 Speaker 6: You gave me the power to run that company. On 42 00:02:55,080 --> 00:02:56,240 Speaker 6: damn it, I intend to run it. 43 00:02:56,800 --> 00:03:00,959 Speaker 8: So I gave you power. Let me tell you something, boy, 44 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:03,120 Speaker 8: If I did give you power, you've got nothing. 45 00:03:03,880 --> 00:03:08,120 Speaker 1: Nobody give you power. Real power is something you pick. 46 00:03:12,919 --> 00:03:19,720 Speaker 3: Jock Ewing Jim Davis played Jock Ewing. When you think back, now, 47 00:03:20,639 --> 00:03:24,000 Speaker 3: tell me I'm not right. That is an. 48 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:30,200 Speaker 1: Inspired casting Ewing. 49 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:35,000 Speaker 3: Jim Davis was Jock Ewing. He was born to be 50 00:03:35,760 --> 00:03:41,560 Speaker 3: Jock Ewing. And I'll tell you this if you go back, 51 00:03:42,880 --> 00:03:46,640 Speaker 3: I mean, if you watch. Netflix has a thing now 52 00:03:46,680 --> 00:03:50,600 Speaker 3: called America's Team. It's an eight part series on Jerry Jones. 53 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:54,360 Speaker 3: Whether you love Jerry Jones or hate Jerry Jones. I 54 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:58,000 Speaker 3: hate Jerry Jones, despise him, but I also recognize his 55 00:03:58,080 --> 00:04:06,280 Speaker 3: success and acknowledge it and and respect it. But there's 56 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:11,400 Speaker 3: no doubt in my mind that Jerry Jones watched Dallas 57 00:04:11,440 --> 00:04:15,120 Speaker 3: and wanted to be Dallas and fashions himself in the 58 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:17,400 Speaker 3: Dallas mold. 59 00:04:17,520 --> 00:04:19,440 Speaker 1: There's no doubt in my mind. 60 00:04:20,839 --> 00:04:27,240 Speaker 3: Died on this day in twenty twenty three. American television 61 00:04:27,279 --> 00:04:33,400 Speaker 3: game show host born one hundred years earlier, and that 62 00:04:33,480 --> 00:04:35,880 Speaker 3: would be Bob Barker. 63 00:04:36,440 --> 00:04:39,159 Speaker 8: Here's a question for you smokers in the audience. What 64 00:04:39,320 --> 00:04:42,880 Speaker 8: is the light menthol cigarette that gives you true tobacco taste. 65 00:04:43,360 --> 00:04:46,680 Speaker 8: It's bell Air, of course, yes, light Menthol bel Air, 66 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:51,240 Speaker 8: so refreshing. Bel Air combines finest quality tobaccos with a 67 00:04:51,320 --> 00:04:54,640 Speaker 8: light touch, just the right touch of menthol to let 68 00:04:54,760 --> 00:04:57,840 Speaker 8: true tobacco taste come true to you. And bel Air 69 00:04:57,920 --> 00:05:01,680 Speaker 8: has a pure white modern filder too. You'll enjoy light 70 00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:05,240 Speaker 8: Menthol bel Air and you will like the wonderful gifts 71 00:05:05,320 --> 00:05:09,320 Speaker 8: you get free for Raleigh coupon smooth light menthol bel 72 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:13,080 Speaker 8: Air with a pure white modern field. Remember, only bel 73 00:05:13,120 --> 00:05:16,720 Speaker 8: Air gives you true tobacco taste with just the right 74 00:05:17,040 --> 00:05:18,760 Speaker 8: touch of Mentho. 75 00:05:18,920 --> 00:05:21,480 Speaker 1: Bel Air don't taste good like a cigarette should? 76 00:05:22,600 --> 00:05:25,200 Speaker 3: How you learning this is Shirley Q Liquor with the 77 00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:27,480 Speaker 3: United States pro smoking comedian. 78 00:05:28,560 --> 00:05:33,040 Speaker 1: We saw in this last night at my house. Winston's 79 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:36,000 Speaker 1: tastes good like a cigarette shoe. 80 00:05:36,360 --> 00:05:41,960 Speaker 3: Winston's just tastes good, likes a cigarette. Shut and Winston 81 00:05:42,080 --> 00:05:45,440 Speaker 3: give you real flavor, full rich tobacco flavor. 82 00:05:45,560 --> 00:05:47,279 Speaker 1: Winston easy during too. 83 00:05:47,520 --> 00:05:51,520 Speaker 4: The filter's put the flavor to Winston's tastes good like 84 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:57,320 Speaker 4: a cigarette shoe. 85 00:05:57,920 --> 00:05:59,600 Speaker 1: I don't need me a smoke breaking now. 86 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:03,600 Speaker 3: Even the Flintstones endorse Winston's. 87 00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:14,320 Speaker 7: The ain't sure work hard, don't they money? Yeah? I 88 00:06:14,440 --> 00:06:15,800 Speaker 7: hate to see them work so hard. 89 00:06:16,080 --> 00:06:16,279 Speaker 5: Yeah? 90 00:06:16,480 --> 00:06:16,960 Speaker 7: Meat cool? 91 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:19,400 Speaker 6: And let's go around back. 92 00:06:19,480 --> 00:06:22,640 Speaker 7: Well we can't see him. Gee, we ought to do 93 00:06:22,760 --> 00:06:25,760 Speaker 7: something fread. Okay, how's about taking a nap? 94 00:06:26,400 --> 00:06:27,400 Speaker 4: I got a better idea. 95 00:06:27,880 --> 00:06:31,359 Speaker 7: Let's take a Winston break time, Dad. Winston is the 96 00:06:31,440 --> 00:06:35,120 Speaker 7: one felt a cigarette that delivers flavored twenty times a pack. 97 00:06:35,360 --> 00:06:41,120 Speaker 7: Winston's got that built up plan. The yeah bread punta 98 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:44,000 Speaker 7: blood makes the big taste difference, and only Winston has 99 00:06:44,040 --> 00:06:46,479 Speaker 7: it up front where it counts here. 100 00:06:46,640 --> 00:06:48,280 Speaker 1: Ahead of the pure white filters. 101 00:06:48,600 --> 00:06:53,680 Speaker 7: Winston packs rich tobaccos, specially selected and specially processed for. 102 00:06:53,800 --> 00:06:55,560 Speaker 1: Good flavor and sup and smoking. 103 00:06:55,880 --> 00:07:04,640 Speaker 7: Yeah, everybody Winsleon taste good like figarette, not blind strong. 104 00:07:05,320 --> 00:07:08,799 Speaker 7: I's been loved you by Winston. I'm not going blood 105 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:11,800 Speaker 7: selling tasting goat. 106 00:07:13,280 --> 00:07:23,040 Speaker 3: Like how fernicious? Is that a children's cartoon? You know, 107 00:07:23,680 --> 00:07:28,400 Speaker 3: talk about cultural changes. I was never a cigarette smoker, 108 00:07:30,680 --> 00:07:32,160 Speaker 3: but but. 109 00:07:32,160 --> 00:07:33,200 Speaker 1: I can remember. 110 00:07:34,680 --> 00:07:38,040 Speaker 3: I don't know, it feels like there was a bond 111 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:43,000 Speaker 3: in the workplace or at a sporting event by smokers. 112 00:07:43,480 --> 00:07:46,400 Speaker 3: That might be artificial, but I always had the impression 113 00:07:46,480 --> 00:07:52,000 Speaker 3: there was a bond between them, because you know, it 114 00:07:52,080 --> 00:07:55,520 Speaker 3: was kind of a shameful activity, or at least maybe 115 00:07:55,520 --> 00:07:58,320 Speaker 3: by the time I started, you know, getting up to 116 00:07:58,360 --> 00:08:01,560 Speaker 3: where I could notice such things, it was a shameful activity. 117 00:08:01,600 --> 00:08:03,240 Speaker 1: You had to hide and do it. 118 00:08:04,360 --> 00:08:07,800 Speaker 3: And so if you were at a sporting event, uh, 119 00:08:07,920 --> 00:08:10,320 Speaker 3: then people would kind of go behind the concessions. Now 120 00:08:10,400 --> 00:08:13,720 Speaker 3: they'd go behind somebody, and so it was kind of naughty, 121 00:08:13,760 --> 00:08:15,240 Speaker 3: but you got to figure that was kind of a 122 00:08:15,280 --> 00:08:17,720 Speaker 3: bonding experience. You know, you're having a you're over there smoking, 123 00:08:17,760 --> 00:08:19,480 Speaker 3: you're behind it. You got to talk about something. 124 00:08:20,600 --> 00:08:21,520 Speaker 1: It's Tracy Bird. 125 00:08:21,760 --> 00:08:25,440 Speaker 2: Hey, y'all, if you drink, don't drive, do the watermelon crawl. 126 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:30,040 Speaker 2: Listen to the TSAR talk my buddy Michael Berry. 127 00:08:33,520 --> 00:08:35,280 Speaker 1: Well, it's not a baseball story. 128 00:08:35,520 --> 00:08:40,000 Speaker 3: It's a different ball, bigger balls, Harris County story. 129 00:08:40,920 --> 00:08:45,720 Speaker 1: That will I don't know. 130 00:08:45,920 --> 00:08:47,559 Speaker 3: At this point, I think you just shake your head. 131 00:08:47,559 --> 00:08:50,760 Speaker 3: I'm not sure. I'm not sure there are any emotions left. 132 00:08:50,520 --> 00:08:52,720 Speaker 1: For these people. But first. 133 00:08:54,040 --> 00:09:01,679 Speaker 3: Republican leadership in Austin had the opportunity to censure fleabag Democrats, 134 00:09:02,760 --> 00:09:07,840 Speaker 3: you know, those who fled to prevent the camp site 135 00:09:08,760 --> 00:09:13,400 Speaker 3: Regulation Bill from being passed. I'd you like to be 136 00:09:14,160 --> 00:09:18,280 Speaker 3: a parent of a child who perished in camp. Mystic 137 00:09:19,320 --> 00:09:26,560 Speaker 3: special session is called to address that and hopefully improve 138 00:09:26,640 --> 00:09:31,240 Speaker 3: camp site regulation. And the Democrats play a game and 139 00:09:31,400 --> 00:09:34,280 Speaker 3: go hide up under the fat rolls of JB. Pritzker 140 00:09:34,800 --> 00:09:40,840 Speaker 3: in Illinois and Barack Obama's telling them how great they are, 141 00:09:40,880 --> 00:09:44,520 Speaker 3: and Nancy Pelosi and the whole the whole thing. 142 00:09:46,440 --> 00:09:47,600 Speaker 1: How would you feel about that? 143 00:09:48,840 --> 00:09:56,080 Speaker 3: Well, surely you're going to punish them afterwards, right, No, 144 00:09:57,160 --> 00:10:00,440 Speaker 3: A motion to censure the fleabag Democrats fail to get 145 00:10:00,440 --> 00:10:03,720 Speaker 3: a two thirds majority in the Texas House Republican caucus 146 00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:10,360 Speaker 3: with twenty seven Republicans voting to protect the Democrats. Well, 147 00:10:10,400 --> 00:10:16,719 Speaker 3: couldn't the speaker get his own caucus to censure the Democrats? 148 00:10:18,200 --> 00:10:24,200 Speaker 3: Republican state rent money from Canton says that the Speaker 149 00:10:25,200 --> 00:10:31,240 Speaker 3: was actually whipping votes to oppose cinsure the vote took 150 00:10:31,280 --> 00:10:33,839 Speaker 3: place behind closed doors. The censure would have resulted in 151 00:10:34,320 --> 00:10:38,719 Speaker 3: loss of chairmanships and vice chairmanships. And you might think 152 00:10:38,760 --> 00:10:41,600 Speaker 3: to yourself, wait a second, I thought you were talking 153 00:10:41,640 --> 00:10:45,960 Speaker 3: about punishing the Democrats. What are the Democrats doing with 154 00:10:46,120 --> 00:10:48,359 Speaker 3: chairmanships and vice chairmanships? 155 00:10:48,800 --> 00:10:53,319 Speaker 1: Cole? Oh yeah, Dustin Burroughs. 156 00:10:53,440 --> 00:10:56,200 Speaker 3: Deal with the Democrats because remember it's the Democrats who 157 00:10:56,240 --> 00:11:00,400 Speaker 3: supported him. Once he had the Democrats and sixteen Republics. 158 00:11:00,840 --> 00:11:04,120 Speaker 3: He didn't need the other Republicans. So who did he 159 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:07,800 Speaker 3: reward the block of votes that made him the speaker? 160 00:11:07,960 --> 00:11:11,360 Speaker 3: The Democrats. The Democrats are cleaning our clock. They're making 161 00:11:11,400 --> 00:11:14,400 Speaker 3: fools of us, and the worst part is I don't 162 00:11:14,440 --> 00:11:17,920 Speaker 3: even mind that they're better at the game. The part 163 00:11:17,960 --> 00:11:19,920 Speaker 3: that pisses me off, and this one really does. 164 00:11:19,960 --> 00:11:20,720 Speaker 1: This gets me. 165 00:11:21,080 --> 00:11:23,800 Speaker 3: I try not to get angry over these things because 166 00:11:23,840 --> 00:11:26,560 Speaker 3: the process is made up of people, and anytime you 167 00:11:26,600 --> 00:11:29,920 Speaker 3: have people, you'll have sellouts, you'll have compromisers, you'll have 168 00:11:29,920 --> 00:11:31,160 Speaker 3: people who do deals. 169 00:11:31,800 --> 00:11:35,560 Speaker 1: And I wouldn't mind that a crook's a crook. 170 00:11:36,480 --> 00:11:40,439 Speaker 3: What I mind is how advanced the process is that 171 00:11:40,520 --> 00:11:44,280 Speaker 3: the carl Rose of the world have created a situation 172 00:11:44,679 --> 00:11:50,960 Speaker 3: where the very people selling our voters out have professionals 173 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:55,080 Speaker 3: behind them who don't say, hey, you know, oh Bob, 174 00:11:55,440 --> 00:12:01,360 Speaker 3: he sold you out. Those people have professionals who the 175 00:12:01,520 --> 00:12:04,800 Speaker 3: minute it happens, start with the text messages, the mail 176 00:12:06,679 --> 00:12:09,760 Speaker 3: and telling you how they have cut a good deal 177 00:12:09,840 --> 00:12:13,120 Speaker 3: for you, and they're up there working hard for you. 178 00:12:15,480 --> 00:12:22,120 Speaker 3: So I have people, good people, honest, honorable people who, 179 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:32,599 Speaker 3: for instance, think the Democrats fleeing the state is scandalous, awful, horrible, horrible, 180 00:12:34,280 --> 00:12:38,920 Speaker 3: and yet behind the scenes, their state rep is making 181 00:12:38,960 --> 00:12:42,360 Speaker 3: sure there's no price that was paid for it. The 182 00:12:42,400 --> 00:12:47,319 Speaker 3: censure would have resulted in loss of chairmanships and vice chairmanships, 183 00:12:48,400 --> 00:12:52,280 Speaker 3: loss of credit for seniority for the next session, which 184 00:12:52,320 --> 00:12:56,920 Speaker 3: means you'd lose good offices and things like that, and 185 00:12:57,000 --> 00:12:59,760 Speaker 3: a pro rat of reduction in office budgets for each 186 00:12:59,840 --> 00:13:04,400 Speaker 3: day the member was absent without leave. The vote was 187 00:13:04,440 --> 00:13:07,680 Speaker 3: forty four to twenty seven. Because remember it's just Republicans 188 00:13:07,720 --> 00:13:11,000 Speaker 3: who vote, forty seven was needed to pass. 189 00:13:12,679 --> 00:13:15,680 Speaker 1: Twenty seven Republicans voted against it. 190 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:22,800 Speaker 3: And to be very clear, the Speaker of the House 191 00:13:23,120 --> 00:13:27,040 Speaker 3: was working hard to keep it from passing. Now we 192 00:13:27,120 --> 00:13:30,760 Speaker 3: turn to Harris Counting. You wonder why they keep getting 193 00:13:30,760 --> 00:13:34,079 Speaker 3: more money but services get worse. An item on the 194 00:13:34,120 --> 00:13:36,800 Speaker 3: agenda for Harris County Commissioner's Court today is a four 195 00:13:36,920 --> 00:13:39,680 Speaker 3: hundred and sixty eighty six hundred and ten dollars request 196 00:13:39,679 --> 00:13:43,319 Speaker 3: by Democrat Commissioner Adrian Garcia to sponsor the twenty twenty 197 00:13:43,320 --> 00:13:46,920 Speaker 3: five Gay Softball World Series under the guise of economic development. 198 00:13:47,640 --> 00:13:51,880 Speaker 3: And you wonder, folks, why there's no money to do 199 00:13:52,080 --> 00:13:55,600 Speaker 3: the things that are important. You wonder why there's no 200 00:13:55,679 --> 00:13:59,040 Speaker 3: You wonder why a light sprinkle in the water's rising 201 00:13:59,120 --> 00:14:01,040 Speaker 3: because they don't spend money on drainage. 202 00:14:01,160 --> 00:14:03,040 Speaker 1: They don't spend money on things that matter. 203 00:14:03,880 --> 00:14:06,600 Speaker 3: They don't as Tom Ramsey said, we should be worried 204 00:14:06,600 --> 00:14:08,480 Speaker 3: about safety, infrastructure. 205 00:14:07,880 --> 00:14:08,560 Speaker 1: And flood control. 206 00:14:09,600 --> 00:14:11,640 Speaker 3: They told the constables they can't have a pay raise, 207 00:14:11,760 --> 00:14:13,920 Speaker 3: but they can spend four hundred and sixty eight thousand 208 00:14:13,920 --> 00:14:17,320 Speaker 3: dollars sponsoring the Gay Softball World Series. 209 00:14:17,400 --> 00:14:21,800 Speaker 1: What does that even sound like? Live from George Santos Field. 210 00:14:21,880 --> 00:14:24,520 Speaker 2: Hello everybody, and welcome to the twenty twenty five Gay 211 00:14:24,600 --> 00:14:27,760 Speaker 2: Softball World Series. Let's go down to the field now 212 00:14:27,800 --> 00:14:30,640 Speaker 2: and talk to our leadoff better and the mascot for 213 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:33,960 Speaker 2: today's game, Tim Wallas, who's giddy as a kid. 214 00:14:33,800 --> 00:14:34,760 Speaker 1: On Christmas morning. 215 00:14:34,880 --> 00:14:37,160 Speaker 2: Well it might as well be Christmas boys. We're all 216 00:14:37,160 --> 00:14:39,400 Speaker 2: gay and jolly down here on the field. Listen, what 217 00:14:39,560 --> 00:14:42,359 Speaker 2: a big day we're in for these lineups. 218 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:42,800 Speaker 1: They're loaded. 219 00:14:43,360 --> 00:14:46,320 Speaker 2: Of course, We've got the best catcher around, Pete Buddegig 220 00:14:46,400 --> 00:14:49,720 Speaker 2: Hey Peat batting clean up for us today. It's the hammer, 221 00:14:50,040 --> 00:14:53,000 Speaker 2: Pauy Pelosi, and we've got a wild card on a 222 00:14:53,120 --> 00:14:55,840 Speaker 2: mound today. You know, he never wins, but he shared 223 00:14:55,880 --> 00:14:57,760 Speaker 2: us talk a big game and I like that. Also 224 00:14:57,960 --> 00:14:59,680 Speaker 2: host the ball for a very long time. Not sure 225 00:14:59,720 --> 00:15:03,040 Speaker 2: what that's but that's old betto a roar. Hey beto Now, 226 00:15:03,080 --> 00:15:05,800 Speaker 2: Lindsey Graham's a fan favorite, but he's still in the dugout. 227 00:15:06,120 --> 00:15:08,760 Speaker 2: Fans are chanting his name, but he's afraid to come out. 228 00:15:09,080 --> 00:15:11,440 Speaker 2: He does this every year. Oh, and we do have 229 00:15:11,440 --> 00:15:12,120 Speaker 2: a late scratch. 230 00:15:12,240 --> 00:15:14,960 Speaker 1: That's Hillary Clinton. She's a rally killer. 231 00:15:15,240 --> 00:15:18,040 Speaker 2: I don't forget Today's dollar hot Dog Day. Every Barney 232 00:15:18,080 --> 00:15:20,080 Speaker 2: Frank is a buck. Mitt Romney has had a half 233 00:15:20,120 --> 00:15:23,040 Speaker 2: dozen of those dogs, telling everybody hot dogs, my favorite meat, 234 00:15:23,200 --> 00:15:27,480 Speaker 2: hot dogs, my favorite meat. Oh okay, middieh I better 235 00:15:27,520 --> 00:15:28,080 Speaker 2: quit my chatting. 236 00:15:28,160 --> 00:15:32,640 Speaker 1: I already have two strikes and no balls. Nobody to wall. 237 00:15:48,920 --> 00:15:49,680 Speaker 7: It's rain. 238 00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:04,760 Speaker 8: This is Selvester Turner, the Mayor, and a human being. 239 00:16:04,800 --> 00:16:11,080 Speaker 1: Wa Michael Betty Show on this day. 240 00:16:11,120 --> 00:16:15,760 Speaker 3: In nineteen ninety five, Seal's Hiss from a Rose hit 241 00:16:16,280 --> 00:16:19,120 Speaker 3: number one in the United States after being used in 242 00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:21,160 Speaker 3: What Movie From. 243 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:22,960 Speaker 1: Home and What. 244 00:16:23,680 --> 00:16:28,320 Speaker 3: Seal would later say, I owe my career to Joel Schumacher, 245 00:16:28,600 --> 00:16:32,680 Speaker 3: referring to the film's director, Gay Dave is on the line, 246 00:16:32,720 --> 00:16:36,160 Speaker 3: Gay Dave, do you know what film it was? Hi? 247 00:16:38,520 --> 00:16:40,520 Speaker 5: I'm trying to think of a Joel Schumacher film that 248 00:16:40,600 --> 00:16:47,080 Speaker 5: would have that. In ninety five, Pretty Woman, how many 249 00:16:47,120 --> 00:16:48,360 Speaker 5: Schumacher I don't even remember. 250 00:16:48,480 --> 00:16:50,400 Speaker 1: How many Joel Schumacher films do you know? 251 00:16:52,480 --> 00:16:59,400 Speaker 5: It's apparently none. I can't think of any. 252 00:17:01,240 --> 00:17:04,600 Speaker 3: The film was Batman Forever, Kay, Dave, Batman Forever? 253 00:17:04,960 --> 00:17:05,320 Speaker 4: Oh? 254 00:17:05,480 --> 00:17:10,320 Speaker 5: Oh, Batman Forever. Okay, I think I've seen it? 255 00:17:10,359 --> 00:17:10,600 Speaker 8: Is that? 256 00:17:10,640 --> 00:17:13,000 Speaker 5: The Is that the Michael Keaton one? 257 00:17:13,680 --> 00:17:14,720 Speaker 1: Uh? Is it remote? 258 00:17:15,160 --> 00:17:20,120 Speaker 3: George Clooney, I have not seen it. It's it's during 259 00:17:20,119 --> 00:17:22,119 Speaker 3: my lost decades, so I have not seen it. I 260 00:17:22,119 --> 00:17:24,359 Speaker 3: am much more likely to see a Gene Hackman or 261 00:17:24,440 --> 00:17:27,959 Speaker 3: Jack Nicholson, Val Kilmer, Sorry, yes, Val Kilmer. 262 00:17:28,280 --> 00:17:30,600 Speaker 1: Ramon corrected himselfs valco is the best one. 263 00:17:30,920 --> 00:17:32,000 Speaker 4: I thought. 264 00:17:32,080 --> 00:17:33,400 Speaker 1: Val Kilmer is good. Yeah. 265 00:17:33,440 --> 00:17:35,840 Speaker 3: I'm much more likely to know a seventies film like 266 00:17:35,960 --> 00:17:37,679 Speaker 3: French Connection than. 267 00:17:37,560 --> 00:17:40,440 Speaker 1: I am a nineties film. 268 00:17:40,480 --> 00:17:42,960 Speaker 3: I just that's my lost decade, and I've never gone 269 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:44,199 Speaker 3: back and corrected most of that. 270 00:17:44,840 --> 00:17:48,120 Speaker 1: I have taken the like in the Baronet French Connections. 271 00:17:48,240 --> 00:17:48,520 Speaker 1: What's it? 272 00:17:49,400 --> 00:17:53,200 Speaker 5: Baroncu Letis is awesome? What where did the baronical lads 273 00:17:53,280 --> 00:17:54,080 Speaker 5: just come from? 274 00:17:54,400 --> 00:17:55,600 Speaker 1: Well it's a nineties ban. 275 00:17:57,560 --> 00:18:00,960 Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, they're on my favorites. They're awesome. In concert 276 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:01,720 Speaker 5: if you've never seen. 277 00:18:01,640 --> 00:18:04,320 Speaker 3: Him, I have not seen him in concert. But I've 278 00:18:04,359 --> 00:18:09,840 Speaker 3: watched video of them in concert and they're Brian Wilson song. 279 00:18:10,280 --> 00:18:14,960 Speaker 3: I love that song. It's a great tribute. It's a 280 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:17,320 Speaker 3: good song on its own. It has a good sound 281 00:18:17,440 --> 00:18:21,000 Speaker 3: and vibe, and then it's well written, and it happens 282 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:24,160 Speaker 3: to be a tribute to someone who pays, which pays 283 00:18:24,280 --> 00:18:26,800 Speaker 3: proper tribute to someone. It's very hard to pull all 284 00:18:26,840 --> 00:18:28,080 Speaker 3: of those things off at the same time. 285 00:18:30,280 --> 00:18:35,000 Speaker 5: I saw them in DC right after the Gore Bush election. 286 00:18:35,240 --> 00:18:38,200 Speaker 5: Uh huh, And it was the night of the Canadian election, 287 00:18:38,920 --> 00:18:42,240 Speaker 5: and every hour or so in the concert, they'd stop 288 00:18:42,280 --> 00:18:44,399 Speaker 5: the concert to give us an update on the pote 289 00:18:44,800 --> 00:18:47,320 Speaker 5: just says a folk fund at our election. That's pretty funny. 290 00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:51,040 Speaker 1: So that was in two thousand. Yeah, that was kind 291 00:18:51,040 --> 00:18:51,920 Speaker 1: of at the end of the ye. 292 00:18:52,040 --> 00:18:54,040 Speaker 5: Two thousand or two thousand and one. It was probably 293 00:18:54,080 --> 00:18:54,560 Speaker 5: around there. 294 00:18:55,040 --> 00:18:56,920 Speaker 1: So interesting. What'd you call it that, Dave? 295 00:18:58,560 --> 00:19:01,960 Speaker 5: Oh, well, I heard the bats, I heard it's raining men, 296 00:19:02,040 --> 00:19:11,199 Speaker 5: So I thought you wanted me to call in. Hey, 297 00:19:11,280 --> 00:19:13,280 Speaker 5: one of your show Spotsors is getting started on my 298 00:19:13,359 --> 00:19:18,919 Speaker 5: house today Allied Outdoor Solutions. We're doing an out there kitchen. 299 00:19:19,480 --> 00:19:22,920 Speaker 5: They worked on some of our pool area in the past, 300 00:19:22,960 --> 00:19:26,400 Speaker 5: and we brought them back in to finish up the backyard. 301 00:19:27,600 --> 00:19:30,560 Speaker 5: That's the one thing we didn't do. Oh my god, 302 00:19:30,800 --> 00:19:31,360 Speaker 5: we do. 303 00:19:32,240 --> 00:19:36,920 Speaker 1: So what do you what are you doing? Apparently what 304 00:19:37,280 --> 00:19:38,040 Speaker 1: what all are you doing? 305 00:19:38,680 --> 00:19:43,760 Speaker 5: But so we're extending out our patio cover and then 306 00:19:44,119 --> 00:19:48,200 Speaker 5: uh put in a flattop grill, regular grill and a 307 00:19:48,480 --> 00:19:54,600 Speaker 5: green egg and fridge and storage and trashed area and 308 00:19:54,800 --> 00:19:58,640 Speaker 5: uh dropping cooler and just tying it all into our 309 00:19:58,720 --> 00:20:01,560 Speaker 5: drainage and stuff. A. It's a it's a big project. 310 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:04,639 Speaker 5: And I told him I would. They gave me a 311 00:20:04,680 --> 00:20:08,120 Speaker 5: good price. I might have dropped your name a few times. 312 00:20:08,840 --> 00:20:09,119 Speaker 7: Happy. 313 00:20:09,480 --> 00:20:13,600 Speaker 3: Actually, I'll like them to know that is it attached 314 00:20:13,600 --> 00:20:15,840 Speaker 3: to the house. Is it a free standing building, a 315 00:20:15,880 --> 00:20:16,920 Speaker 3: free standing structure. 316 00:20:17,960 --> 00:20:22,080 Speaker 5: It's it's attached. So we have a little patio area 317 00:20:22,640 --> 00:20:25,840 Speaker 5: outside the in the backyard around the pool, and then 318 00:20:26,320 --> 00:20:29,960 Speaker 5: we already had a covered area under that. Well they're 319 00:20:30,040 --> 00:20:33,879 Speaker 5: sending that out again about the same amount, you know, 320 00:20:34,080 --> 00:20:37,280 Speaker 5: so it's a longer covered area. And so we'll do 321 00:20:37,440 --> 00:20:42,880 Speaker 5: like a big kind of L shaped uh uh. We're 322 00:20:42,960 --> 00:20:45,760 Speaker 5: doing like an L shaped area with a you know, 323 00:20:45,840 --> 00:20:49,200 Speaker 5: a seating area on one side and it's it's gonna be. 324 00:20:49,320 --> 00:20:51,840 Speaker 5: It's pretty good. I'll send I'll send you pictures. And 325 00:20:52,080 --> 00:20:53,960 Speaker 5: we had North wind A out last week too. 326 00:20:54,440 --> 00:20:57,520 Speaker 1: You had good, good, good good, and they took good 327 00:20:57,520 --> 00:20:57,840 Speaker 1: care of you. 328 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:00,640 Speaker 5: They did, they did. 329 00:21:00,760 --> 00:21:04,040 Speaker 1: Y'all aren't having get parties out there? Are you? 330 00:21:06,520 --> 00:21:09,119 Speaker 5: Yeah? Every once in a while we do. Yeah. We 331 00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:11,720 Speaker 5: have a little kind of a playpool. It's only five 332 00:21:11,760 --> 00:21:13,840 Speaker 5: feet deep, four and a half feet deep. And then 333 00:21:13,840 --> 00:21:17,520 Speaker 5: we have a little uh, pre standing spa and have 334 00:21:17,600 --> 00:21:22,760 Speaker 5: an outdoor shower and a trophy journal inside it. So 335 00:21:22,800 --> 00:21:26,040 Speaker 5: it's fun. So we have a fire pit in an 336 00:21:26,040 --> 00:21:28,200 Speaker 5: area to sit around. We should we should we should 337 00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:31,120 Speaker 5: all hang out and drink some whiskey and sit around 338 00:21:31,160 --> 00:21:31,480 Speaker 5: the fire. 339 00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:33,760 Speaker 1: Is that what you think all straight people do? 340 00:21:36,840 --> 00:21:39,080 Speaker 5: I think all normal people do. 341 00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:40,240 Speaker 1: You said it as. 342 00:21:40,160 --> 00:21:43,480 Speaker 3: If you were trying to get uh, and you know, 343 00:21:43,680 --> 00:21:47,080 Speaker 3: we'll have y'all over and we'll I don't know where 344 00:21:47,240 --> 00:21:52,760 Speaker 3: cowboy boots and fire and drink whiskey I had. 345 00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:54,640 Speaker 1: I don't know if y'all we do. 346 00:21:54,800 --> 00:21:59,520 Speaker 3: But I talked to my old neighbor who lived directly 347 00:21:59,560 --> 00:22:01,920 Speaker 3: behind to our house and his next door neighbor, which 348 00:22:01,920 --> 00:22:04,000 Speaker 3: we could also see out the back of our house. 349 00:22:04,960 --> 00:22:09,320 Speaker 3: That house sold and they had this this amazing slide 350 00:22:10,040 --> 00:22:11,080 Speaker 3: and into the pool. 351 00:22:11,520 --> 00:22:14,680 Speaker 1: And I said, you know, how is the smith house? 352 00:22:14,960 --> 00:22:18,480 Speaker 3: Uh? You know, did did it ever sell? And because 353 00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:21,480 Speaker 3: it flooded? And he said yes, And he said the 354 00:22:21,520 --> 00:22:22,720 Speaker 3: neighbors are very nice. 355 00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:24,919 Speaker 1: It's a gay couple. They're very nice. 356 00:22:25,440 --> 00:22:29,880 Speaker 3: He's older and you know the fella he's with is younger. 357 00:22:30,280 --> 00:22:31,639 Speaker 1: He said, they're very nice people. 358 00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:35,880 Speaker 3: The only problem is they have these parties every weekend 359 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:40,800 Speaker 3: and it's like the biggest, loudest parties and it's all 360 00:22:41,040 --> 00:22:43,440 Speaker 3: naked men coming down the slide. 361 00:22:43,520 --> 00:22:45,480 Speaker 1: And he said, it's just a little And it's not 362 00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:46,439 Speaker 1: like I'm offended, but. 363 00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:48,399 Speaker 3: It's just odd and it feels like they should, you know, 364 00:22:48,560 --> 00:22:51,040 Speaker 3: kind of knock that off. Maybe I don't know if 365 00:22:51,119 --> 00:22:52,960 Speaker 3: y'all all know each other or not, but if I 366 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:54,320 Speaker 3: give you the can you call it? 367 00:22:55,600 --> 00:22:57,000 Speaker 1: Huh? 368 00:22:57,240 --> 00:22:57,800 Speaker 4: Sounds fun? 369 00:22:57,880 --> 00:22:58,120 Speaker 5: Though? 370 00:22:59,040 --> 00:23:00,800 Speaker 1: I want to know they got a. 371 00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:02,160 Speaker 5: Cool slide into the pool. 372 00:23:02,800 --> 00:23:03,200 Speaker 1: Yeah. 373 00:23:03,359 --> 00:23:05,840 Speaker 5: I had one of those twisty slides into my pool 374 00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:07,080 Speaker 5: growing up. That was awesome. 375 00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:09,320 Speaker 3: You know, they don't do slides anymore, and they don't 376 00:23:09,520 --> 00:23:12,840 Speaker 3: you know. The big loss is the diving board. When 377 00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:16,760 Speaker 3: I was a kid. Everybody the diving board was it? 378 00:23:16,960 --> 00:23:21,560 Speaker 5: Man, we had a springboard diving board like you go 379 00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:22,320 Speaker 5: high on them? 380 00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:24,639 Speaker 1: Yeah, as you're supposed to. And now you know what 381 00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:24,919 Speaker 1: they have. 382 00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:29,040 Speaker 3: Now they have a required This is the dumbest thing ever. 383 00:23:29,359 --> 00:23:32,399 Speaker 3: If you have a pool and you are a public place, 384 00:23:32,760 --> 00:23:35,879 Speaker 3: you've got to have this deal, this crane to drop 385 00:23:35,920 --> 00:23:36,960 Speaker 3: people down in your pool. 386 00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:39,560 Speaker 1: It's like disabled parking spots. It's never used. 387 00:23:40,200 --> 00:23:42,240 Speaker 3: They have, you know, ten times as many disabled parking 388 00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:45,840 Speaker 3: spots as they need, but they nobody wants to be 389 00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:48,399 Speaker 3: Oh to me, nobody thinks this is a waste. Go 390 00:23:48,440 --> 00:23:51,040 Speaker 3: into a parking lot where you have to park a 391 00:23:51,119 --> 00:23:55,720 Speaker 3: mile away and you'll see see how many spots they've 392 00:23:55,760 --> 00:23:58,560 Speaker 3: left open for disabled people that are not being used. 393 00:23:58,600 --> 00:24:02,080 Speaker 3: And oh, by the way, ninety percent of people with 394 00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:07,359 Speaker 3: a disabled parking sticker parking disabled are not disabled. Now 395 00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:09,359 Speaker 3: I'll get a bunch of emails going. You don't know 396 00:24:09,400 --> 00:24:11,800 Speaker 3: who's disabled or not. I can tell you that if 397 00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:14,440 Speaker 3: you can walk in, you ain't. You don't know how 398 00:24:14,440 --> 00:24:17,479 Speaker 3: many people have emphysema or this or that. Well, a 399 00:24:17,480 --> 00:24:20,040 Speaker 3: lot of people have a little struggle getting in. They 400 00:24:20,080 --> 00:24:22,800 Speaker 3: don't have a disabled parking sticker. That's the biggest scam 401 00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:25,040 Speaker 3: out there. You want to know the second biggest scam, Kay, Dave, 402 00:24:25,359 --> 00:24:29,240 Speaker 3: I'm gonna tell you, emotional support dogs. And then that 403 00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:32,600 Speaker 3: led to emotional support everything because we're a nation that 404 00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:35,200 Speaker 3: can't tell people get over it, you don't need it. 405 00:24:36,280 --> 00:24:38,400 Speaker 3: You get on a plane and everybody wants to bring 406 00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:40,200 Speaker 3: their little fe feed dogs. So what do they do. 407 00:24:40,359 --> 00:24:45,439 Speaker 3: It's my emotional support dog. Really, really, it's ridiculous. A 408 00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:47,879 Speaker 3: friend of mine's daughter, there were four girls in an 409 00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:51,080 Speaker 3: apartment this semester. Three of the girls came to college 410 00:24:51,119 --> 00:24:54,000 Speaker 3: with emotional support dogs. Because that way you can have 411 00:24:54,040 --> 00:24:56,360 Speaker 3: your dog in the apartment. Otherwise you can't. 412 00:24:56,119 --> 00:25:04,040 Speaker 1: You can't shoot Michaels. It's Russell. Butler is on the line. 413 00:25:04,119 --> 00:25:07,960 Speaker 3: He says he's a candidate in the upcoming October eleventh 414 00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:10,200 Speaker 3: New Orleans mayoral race. 415 00:25:10,359 --> 00:25:13,480 Speaker 1: Russell, welcome to the program. 416 00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:16,000 Speaker 4: Thank you, Michael, thank you for having me on the show. 417 00:25:16,040 --> 00:25:18,560 Speaker 4: It's great to be here, first time calling in. Listen 418 00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:21,199 Speaker 4: to you all the time. Twice a day, Russell. 419 00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:26,920 Speaker 3: I looked up candidates for New Orleans mayor and you're 420 00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:29,240 Speaker 3: not listed on there. Did you file late? 421 00:25:31,359 --> 00:25:33,439 Speaker 4: No? No, I'm on the list. You're just seeing the 422 00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:38,560 Speaker 4: short list of the three that are getting all the media. 423 00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:42,320 Speaker 4: There are actually I think eleven of us now still 424 00:25:42,359 --> 00:25:42,920 Speaker 4: in the race. 425 00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:47,320 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you sure. 426 00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:49,800 Speaker 3: How about that you got you got a big old 427 00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:53,040 Speaker 3: red dup mustache and the cowboy hat. 428 00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:56,000 Speaker 1: Yeah. I like that. You might run to move to 429 00:25:56,040 --> 00:25:57,240 Speaker 1: Texas and run over here. 430 00:25:59,040 --> 00:26:02,560 Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, that you got a little better. 431 00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:06,360 Speaker 1: But I love New Orleans all blowed handlebarn. 432 00:26:06,560 --> 00:26:09,879 Speaker 3: He's got like, uh the sissy bar kind of handlebars, 433 00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:10,879 Speaker 3: like way up there. 434 00:26:11,359 --> 00:26:13,480 Speaker 1: Yeah, I like the real deal. What do you do 435 00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:14,280 Speaker 1: for Livan Russell? 436 00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:20,000 Speaker 4: Well, Michael, I worked my whole career in construction, engineering, 437 00:26:20,119 --> 00:26:26,040 Speaker 4: project management, technology type things, uh, chemical plants, residential construction, 438 00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:30,040 Speaker 4: and I'm just I'm a project guy. I'm not a politician, 439 00:26:31,080 --> 00:26:34,680 Speaker 4: and I think if I were elected, I could get 440 00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:37,080 Speaker 4: some of the stuff done around here that actually needs 441 00:26:37,119 --> 00:26:43,600 Speaker 4: to get done. Uh foremost the flood control, and we 442 00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:45,520 Speaker 4: need to get our crime under control, and we need 443 00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:48,760 Speaker 4: to get our infrastructure back up before we worry about 444 00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:53,000 Speaker 4: all the little social issues and all this other stuff 445 00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:55,760 Speaker 4: that we uh seem to waste a whole lot of 446 00:26:55,760 --> 00:26:56,199 Speaker 4: time on. 447 00:26:58,280 --> 00:27:02,800 Speaker 1: I saw LaToya the destroyer was indicted recently. Do you 448 00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:04,040 Speaker 1: expect anything to come of that. 449 00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:12,280 Speaker 4: I have heard that it is about fifty to fifty 450 00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:19,640 Speaker 4: that she actually goes to jail. She is indicted, and 451 00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:24,679 Speaker 4: everybody knew what she was doing. But they say with 452 00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:27,560 Speaker 4: the dollar amounts and stuff, that she'll probably get a 453 00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:30,760 Speaker 4: probation and fining and pay some money back and stuff 454 00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:31,080 Speaker 4: like that. 455 00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:34,639 Speaker 3: So that dude, that's banging her that the taxpayers are 456 00:27:34,680 --> 00:27:38,320 Speaker 3: paying for her to part all around the world. Is 457 00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:40,520 Speaker 3: he still active as a police officer? 458 00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:46,320 Speaker 4: I think he is not active. He was indicted about 459 00:27:46,359 --> 00:27:51,480 Speaker 4: a year ago on some other things, well same thing really, 460 00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:54,840 Speaker 4: mostly time sheet issues and stuff like that, and I 461 00:27:54,880 --> 00:27:57,680 Speaker 4: think he has been off the police force since then. 462 00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:06,280 Speaker 4: But stuttle butt is that he is still active in Uh, 463 00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:11,120 Speaker 4: how would you say it? Advising LaToya? 464 00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:18,600 Speaker 1: Okay, what in the world is happening back there? 465 00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:21,639 Speaker 4: I'm sorry I stepped on something. 466 00:28:23,520 --> 00:28:28,840 Speaker 3: My understanding was he was her security detail, as as 467 00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:32,480 Speaker 3: is typical for the mayor to have. Were they carrying 468 00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:37,560 Speaker 3: on before she was the mayor and then she tapped 469 00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:41,360 Speaker 3: him to tap her for the job or no? 470 00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:44,800 Speaker 4: I believe I believe her husband died while she was 471 00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:45,680 Speaker 4: in office. 472 00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:50,720 Speaker 1: Okay, and he was just providing took up after that, he. 473 00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:54,320 Speaker 4: Was providing comfort. Yes, and uh in a city owned 474 00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:59,680 Speaker 4: apartment at the Pentabla building on Jackson Square. Uh, that 475 00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:02,840 Speaker 4: they were using for their engagements. 476 00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:04,840 Speaker 1: Do you know Eddie Martini? 477 00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:08,840 Speaker 4: I do not know him. I would love to know 478 00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:09,560 Speaker 4: him that well. 479 00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:12,040 Speaker 3: He always tells me he's a big deal in New Orleans. 480 00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:15,200 Speaker 3: But I ask everybody. I randomly ask people. I go 481 00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:17,000 Speaker 3: to the gas station in New Orleans and I ask 482 00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:20,120 Speaker 3: people if they know Eddie Martin, And nobody ever knows 483 00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:22,760 Speaker 3: Eddie Martine. Now some people know his brother Danny, who 484 00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:25,240 Speaker 3: was a state senator. Up until very recently he was 485 00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:26,080 Speaker 3: the head of the Senate. 486 00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:30,480 Speaker 1: You know Danny Martini, I don't know him either. Do 487 00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:31,680 Speaker 1: you know any Martinis? 488 00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:34,760 Speaker 5: Uh? 489 00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:37,200 Speaker 4: Just the ones in the glass. 490 00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:40,520 Speaker 3: If you live in New Orleans, how often do you 491 00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:43,239 Speaker 3: go to Cafe Dumont? Because I'll tell you when I go. 492 00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:45,200 Speaker 3: I generally go one time, but that's it. 493 00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:49,240 Speaker 1: I feel horrible afterwards. 494 00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:51,880 Speaker 4: I don't go that often every couple of months. But 495 00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:53,720 Speaker 4: I actually don't go to the one down in the 496 00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:55,680 Speaker 4: French Quarter that I go to the Wooden City Park 497 00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:58,080 Speaker 4: where there's a lot less crowd, a lot more of 498 00:29:58,160 --> 00:29:59,480 Speaker 4: leisurely atmosphere. 499 00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:02,720 Speaker 3: Percentage of people who buy the Cafe Dumont coffee and 500 00:30:02,760 --> 00:30:04,680 Speaker 3: the yellow can bring it home, put it in the 501 00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:06,120 Speaker 3: freezer and never once use it. 502 00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:10,200 Speaker 4: I've a guess, probably all of them. 503 00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:14,920 Speaker 3: What is one really touristy thing in New Orleans that 504 00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:17,120 Speaker 3: you still do even though you've lived there forever. 505 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:25,200 Speaker 4: I still ride my bike down Bourbon Street, although I 506 00:30:25,240 --> 00:30:29,640 Speaker 4: don't frequent the establishments on Bourbon Street all that often. 507 00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:34,080 Speaker 4: I just ride my bicycle down to the river and 508 00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:36,720 Speaker 4: then up Bourbon Street and just people watch. That's my 509 00:30:37,880 --> 00:30:39,000 Speaker 4: relaxing activity. 510 00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:42,880 Speaker 3: It is some of the best people watching. It really 511 00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:46,040 Speaker 3: is some of the best people watching. What is a 512 00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:48,640 Speaker 3: restaurant that you go to that, yes, is kind of 513 00:30:48,640 --> 00:30:51,960 Speaker 3: a touristy thing and known in that in that realm, 514 00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:53,200 Speaker 3: but you still like to eat there? 515 00:30:55,800 --> 00:31:03,760 Speaker 4: Ah GALLAXI this fine. I don't really go to most 516 00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:07,440 Speaker 4: of the touristy restaurants. I generally get out of the 517 00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:10,080 Speaker 4: French Quarter to go out to eat. 518 00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:16,640 Speaker 3: The last time we were there, Michael T, my oldest son, 519 00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:25,880 Speaker 3: had a football game there against against It's one of 520 00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:26,880 Speaker 3: the Catholic schools. 521 00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:31,080 Speaker 1: No surprise. Archbishop wasn't Rummel, it was Archbishop. I can't 522 00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:35,600 Speaker 1: remember it. But we went to Gallantry. As we got 523 00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:38,840 Speaker 1: to what's that, Brother Martin. 524 00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:44,520 Speaker 3: No, I'll think of it just a second. Maybe I 525 00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:49,000 Speaker 3: blocked it out because our boys in their field house, 526 00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:52,520 Speaker 3: in their locker room before the game. You know, these 527 00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:55,440 Speaker 3: are private school kids. They a lot of them don't 528 00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:58,440 Speaker 3: realize how the real world works. They left their stuff 529 00:31:58,560 --> 00:32:02,920 Speaker 3: in the in the locker room, and the somebody from 530 00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:06,600 Speaker 3: the other team went in and stole all the watches, wallets, 531 00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:10,000 Speaker 3: all of them and we never got those back, which 532 00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:13,040 Speaker 3: kind of creates an awkward situation. You might you might 533 00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:16,920 Speaker 3: think it was not the welcome that we were quite expecting. 534 00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:20,560 Speaker 1: But we went to Galatois at lunch that day before 535 00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:22,800 Speaker 1: the game. We got in early, and. 536 00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:27,160 Speaker 3: I'm going to tell you, Russell Butler, this was I 537 00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:30,520 Speaker 3: have such fond memories of New Orleans. Nineteen eighty four. 538 00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:33,600 Speaker 3: We went and stayed in New Orleans for the World's Fair. 539 00:32:33,840 --> 00:32:36,440 Speaker 3: My dad planned for that for two years, saved up 540 00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:38,840 Speaker 3: for us to go and stay in a hotel in 541 00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:41,520 Speaker 3: New Orleans. And it was going to be so exciting, 542 00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:44,000 Speaker 3: and I had I have such fond memories of that experience, 543 00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:47,360 Speaker 3: family experience. And we go to Galatoais during during the 544 00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:50,240 Speaker 3: day at noon. It was a Friday at noon, and 545 00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:52,320 Speaker 3: I said, you know what, WHI while our food's coming, 546 00:32:52,320 --> 00:32:53,840 Speaker 3: I'm just gonna walk the street. I'm gonna take ten 547 00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:56,040 Speaker 3: minutes and just I don't get to New Orleans enough. 548 00:32:56,320 --> 00:32:58,040 Speaker 3: I'm just gonna walk the street and I go out. 549 00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:01,480 Speaker 3: I get about two blocks away from restaurant, and I 550 00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:03,000 Speaker 3: felt like I was in mogod Isshue. 551 00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:04,040 Speaker 1: It's like I was. 552 00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:07,720 Speaker 3: Being eyeballed by folks who were trying to figure out 553 00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:10,280 Speaker 3: what they could pick pocket off of me or just 554 00:33:10,360 --> 00:33:11,920 Speaker 3: knock me in the head and steal what I had. 555 00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:16,280 Speaker 3: Very menacing, very very awkward and uncomfortable. 556 00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:17,840 Speaker 1: And I thought to myself. 557 00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:20,480 Speaker 3: Because it's all I've ever heard, you know, Russell, this 558 00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:23,960 Speaker 3: was the story for you. I was going to put 559 00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:28,400 Speaker 3: together a World War Two Museum Michael Berry listener event, 560 00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:31,720 Speaker 3: and we started the event and we always get an 561 00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:35,680 Speaker 3: overwhelming response, and the World War Two Museum was dying 562 00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:37,360 Speaker 3: for us to be there. They gave us a great 563 00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:38,960 Speaker 3: deal on the rent. They were going to give us 564 00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:41,000 Speaker 3: the space, they were going to give us speakers. You know, 565 00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:43,600 Speaker 3: they have a whole retinue of speakers who will come in. 566 00:33:44,120 --> 00:33:46,520 Speaker 3: I couldn't get anybody interest. The first weekend we probably 567 00:33:46,560 --> 00:33:49,840 Speaker 3: had ten people us it's not worth it, and everybody said, nope, 568 00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:50,640 Speaker 3: it's not safe.