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It's that time time time lucking load. The Michael Very Show is on the
air. Guys looking into mic.We gotta feed a beard. I don't
plan to shave, and it's goodthing, but I just gotta see I'm

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doing it all right? Will comeMax support. It's beating Ridictu. That's
a drunk. It's neither drinking adrug and snool. I'm just turn all
right. It's a great deb Inor suns still shining in a close.

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Yes, it's a hard times inthe neighborhood hood. Whiking every day tastes
from what did you know that allgarden gnomes have red hats? It's a

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little known fact. The Trump trialbegins today. You know, you have
to stop in the midst of yourhatred and disgust and admire the Democrats because

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they have what we don't tenacity,shamelessness, perseverance. You think about this.
They lost twenty sixteen. The lastrace they've lost since two thousand and

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four was twenty sixteen. They weren'tsupposed to lose it. As I went
and looked at the Wall Street Journalthe day before the election, had the
likelihood of a Hillary win at ninetyone percent. It's easy to forget that

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that race was over. Trump hadno chance. Hillary had won. And
it wasn't until the evening began wearingon that the shock of it all came
through Wisconsin, came through Michigan,came through Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Oh,

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Ohio, Oh my god, Trump'sgonna win. And there's the video
of Hillary's people sitting out back ather headquarters. They're smoking cigarettes feverishly,
fiendishly, and they're crying and they'redistraught. This can't be well. They

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lost that election, and they immediatelysaid that they were defrauded, it was
cheating. And then Hillary, havinglost her mind, went around the country,
went around the world saying that Trumpwas the devil. They had cheated.

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And remember the Russian the Russians hadgotten involved, and that's how it
had been won. The FBI hadbeen on this, they had been spying
on Trump. They hounded the manthe entirety of his presidency. They impeached
him in short order when he discoveredwhat had happened in Ukraine and that Biden

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had been involved. Because remember,the Ukrainian situation is a civil war,
and it has been for quite sometime. It's not just Ukraine versus Russia.
There is a significant pro Russian presencein Ukraine and there had been a

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putin friendly leader. The US managedto get him out and when their guy
came in, who was the Zelenskypredecessor. Biden had been very involved in
all of that, and he hadbeen paid dearly. Now they can't pay
it directly to him, so theypaid Hunter to serve on the Barisma board.

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Yeah, that's highly believable. Andwhen Trump started poking around as to
what had happened and asking questions,that's when they said, we've got to
destroy him. He's going to laythis thing open. And more than Joe
Biden. There's a lot more thanJoe Biden involved in all of this,

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and so they impeached him. Nobodyknew why he had been impeached. Remember
Alexander Vindman, Oh, there hewas in his uniform. He was part
of the pro Ukrainian folks within ourgovernment, and he testified that he had
heard the call. The whole thingwas bunk, but they managed to get
the House to impeach him and tothe and sent it to the Senate,

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and in fact, they would impeachhim again before he left whatever. They'll
never stop. We can't even getBiden impeached. Good grief, think about
this. I mean, this isgrotesque. They are whipping us at every
turn, in large part because ourfolks are not really opposed to it all.

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John Cornyn, he's not a postall this, Dan Crenshaw, They're
not a post all. This saysn'tbother them. That's why they don't have
anything to say about the Trump trial. And then after January sixth, where
they've put all their their federal agents, They've done everything they can. Then

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they set up the January sixth committee. They brought in the head of a
network to stage at all, buthe still didn't seem to just didn't seem
to convince people that Trump is amonster. What are we going to do?
That was going to be the coupde gras, We were going to

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finish him off. It just didn'tseem to work. We'll start bringing cases
against him, so they did.They raided his home mar A Lago.
They brought the case with Fat Fannyin Atlanta that fell apart. They brought
in Jack Smith and DC. Hecouldn't get the trial handled before November.

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Yeah, before November, because we'vegot to finish him off. We cannot
let him be on the ballot.Letitia James brought the case the Attorney General
of the State of New York.All these cases. Remember they knocked him
off the ballot in Colorado and Maine. Supreme Court took the case, quickly
expedited the case and said, no, you can't do that, You can't,

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you can't. Any one of thesewins gets him out of the way.
And who beside him, who besideshim would fight like this, But
now they got it. Now theygot their criminal trial, and the criminal

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trial is all around back in twentysixteen, studied everything. He didn't file
this form and check this box.We're gonna get him now, we're gonna
tie him up, keep him offthe ballot. And who knows, not

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likely with the peals, but givethem credit that they're trying. What is
our side doing? Ken Paxton inTexas has done some things other than Ken
Paxton. Show me someone else.You think the Democrats fear us, think
about it. We can't even impeachJoe Biden. They double impeached Trump and

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they've dragged him to court in fivedifferent venues. Wow, Jesus our talk
radio and he's gonna be out.He didn't get the trade park, but

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he did get trade didn't hit historyhave been at Night Park in downtown.
Hisman, We have the dullest memberof a three thousand hit club. Our
first Hall of Famer spent twenty seasonswearing the Houston Astros uniform. He was
named the seven All Star teams.He won four Gold Glove Awards as a

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second basement thanks to his coach,Yo Gibera, who moved the mount from
behind the clay. He ranks fifthall time a double fifteenth and run scored
and it is just one of twentyeight members of the three thousand hit club,
a very prestigious one. In back, Craig Vigio, Welcome to Cooperstown.
The Crawfish Joint in Tomball has hada big part of their operations shut

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down by Harris County's inspectors. It'scalled Hans Crawfish Service, and we will
speak to Hans in our next segment. But first Fox News National reports Houston
Police Union Warrens City is not safeas murder suspects are left walking the streets.

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Houston Police Officers Unions Ray Hunt.I have never in my lifetime,
and I'm a lifelong Houstonian seen thismany suspected murderers and capital murderers who are
walking the streets of Houston out onmultiple bonds. Fox news dot Com piece
notes that HBD continues to struggle withrecruiting and retaining officers and issue plaguing departments

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across the country. HBLU president DougGriffith says, we're in a perfect storm
right now. We had the GeorgeFloyd effect come down. We can't hire,
we can't retain our officers. Ourpeople are leaving left and right.
Hunt adds, who the the hackwants to be a police officer in twenty
twenty four when every single thing thatthey're doing is going to be second guest

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by their body worn camera that someonecan watch three or four times to determine
whether or not that officer made theright, split second decision. I don't
know who would want to do that. I could not encourage any of my
family to come be a police officerin twenty twenty four with a situation that's
going on. According to Griffith,the Houston City Council was made aware of
department shortages a decade ago after atwenty fourteen Sam Houston State University report revealed

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a shortage of fifteen hundred officers inthe city. As a result of this
shortage, we will never be ableto investigate every case. Griffith ads Hunt
says. A survey of investigative Divisioncommanders revealed excessively high numbers of cases with
leads that were not investigated in twentythirteen due to personnel. Due to lack
of personnel, this was twenty fourteen. There writing this. For burglary and

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theft, nearly fifteen thousand cases weresuspended, three thousand assault cases in homicide
division, three thousand hit and runcases for that year. They knew that
everyone knew that they were shorthanded,and now everyone wants to say, Wow,
these officers are lazy, they're notdoing their job. Completely untrue.

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This was presented to city council atthe time. This was presented every person,
and you can find the tapes onthere where one of the council members
says, wow, y'all just putus on notice that we've got a serious
staffing problem. Griffith also called outthe court system for not doing their job.
Their contention is that we can't holdsomebody. We have to give everybody
a bond, yes the first time. Once they violate that bond, they

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can be held in jail until theygo to court again. And we get
people on six, seven, eightnine bonds at one time. And that's
a problem that we have to fixin the courts and with the DA's office.
You try to make sure that thesepublic offenders can't be continued, can't
be continued to roam the streets andvictimize our citizens. Hunt says, suspects

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in Harris County may not go tocourt for five or six years. However,
criminals in Montgomery County, just northof Houston are held accountable. Crooks
in this area know the boundary linesof Harris County and Montgomery County. They
don't want to commit crimes in MontgomeryCounty because they know they're going to be
held responsible. Precinct four Constable MarkHerman says his office has been forced to

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refile more than four hundred criminal casesagainst accused criminals after they were slated for
dismissal by judges and magistrates. That'sexactly what Rodney Ellis wants. This is
exactly what the John Arnold folks want. This is precisely what they have in

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mind. It's not an accident.This is precisely what they have in mind.
A woman who identified her rapist andeven had DNA evidence collected, yet
HPD still suspended the case over lackof personnel. The story from ABC thirteen.

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Any doubt in your mind? Whodid this to you? No?
It was at a family birthday partyin twenty eighteen when this woman, who
will refer to as Jennifer, saysa relative's husband raped her. I felt
that I shouldn't be here. Whyam I still here? Why? Why

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did they do that? Jennifer saysher family took her to a hospital and
a nurse collected DNA evidence with asexual assault kit. Once released, Jennifer
says she called HPDs several times tosee where her case stood. We'll get
total, we'll take it up toour superiors. We'll let them know,
we'll get back to you. Iwouldn't get back to so I'd call again.
Within the second or third week.I gave up. How did that

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leave you? Feeling like God didn'tmatter, Like my situation didn't matter,
even though I had an eyewitness,that didn't matter. Through communication between the
police department and the Houston Forensic ScienceCenter. We know Jennifer's case is one
of the sexual assault reports where DNAevidence was collected, but HPD labeled the

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incident with a lack of personnel codeinstead of investigating. Other cases in this
exact same category include a woman whosays she was sexually assaulted by two males
inside her apartment complex as she wastrying to get inside, and another woman
reported being sexually assaulted at a ninetynine cent store. In some of these
cases, like Jennifer's, the victimwas able to identify the attacker. One

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incident even involved a woman reporting herhusband as the suspect. And in most
of these forty nine specific cases,we now have details on the DNA evidence
was tested at the Houston Forensic ScienceCenter and the evidence got a hit in
a national database connecting it to anothercase or a known offender. The Science
Center says, once there's a hit, it sends an email to HPD.

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We asked the commander of HPD's SpecialVictims Unit last week if those emails just
sat in an HPD inbox, Sowe're currently reviewing that. I don't have
that immediately, but I have askedfor that information. Thirteen Investigates has also
learned that head of the Science Center, doctor Peter Stout, also brought up
evidence hits potentially being ignored. Inan April third email to HPD leaders,

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he wrote his forensic analysts are concernedthat they find themselves having to push pretty
hard to ensure that known hits areactually being seriously looked at. HPD's executive
assistant chief email back saying the departmentis taking this issue seriously. Meanwhile,
Jennifer says no one from HBD hasreached out to her since this scandal started

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months ago, even though the departmenthas vowed to reach out to victims.
Do you still want to see chargespursued? If you would have told me
a year ago, I probably wouldhave said, note, but I'm bringing
another little girl into this world.I think that they could go through something
like this. I don't want peoplewho do this to keep getting away.

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I would I would pursue these chargeswholeheartedly. Bad enough, you've been a
victim of the crime, and thenyou realize that the city would rather spend
money on murals and travel and nonsensethan tracking the person down and prosecuting.

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Mmm. Mmmm, that's gotta hurt. It feels like our crime victims deserve
better than that, doesn't it?All right, Hans of Hans Crawfish Services
will be our guests coming up listeningto the Michael Berry Show. Food to

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be rolled down by bis you,my son of the gun, will have
big fun by jump the line,crawl Fish pond Pei gum So. I

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received a number of messages from folksasking that we try to help Hans Crawlfish
Services. Hans is our guest andhis business partner, and I cannot find
the email with her name. Isit Samantha Ashley Ashley? Could she just
be Samantha for the sake of this, or since I've already said Samantha,

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I'll be whoever you want to be. I can barely hear you, my
man. I don't know. You'regonna have to talk right into the phone,
not on a blue tooth, notwalk around or nobody at at home.
Will hear you? Okay? Areyou here? Are you hearing me?
Now? I can hear you now? All right? So what happened?
So? So? First and foremost, we want to thank all of

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our customers, everyone who's kind ofbeen an advocate for us, much better.
I can hear you much better.Now go ahead. Awesome. So,
you know, we made this postintentionally to reach people. We wanted
to reach the right people, andyou know, luckily for us, we
do have a big following that hasbeen able to help us. And we
want to first so much say thankyou to everyone who has reached out,

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everyone that's come and supported us.It's been incredible, it's been humbling,
it's been amazing, and we reallydo appreciate that. So the issue that
we're having is basically with the firemarshal permit. It's something that we're currently
waiting on for our barn. Wehave a barn and then we have some

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outdoor seating and we have our cookingarea, which is the threat from all
that. So we are in theprocess of this fire code permit for our
barn. Right and that's something that'sbeen you know, taking a bit of
time. Is the bar is thebarn where people uh mostly sit and eat.

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So mostly people are sitting out outdoors. We have a barn where you
can sit, and then we haveoutdoor seating and most people are sitting,
you know, in our outdoor seating. Some people do enjoy sitting in the
barn, but most people are actuallysitting outdoors, okay, And has Harris
County allowed people to sit outdoors?So so no, what we were told

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by the inspector of the Fire Marshalthat came out last Wednesday was, you
know, we have to close yourbarn down due to this permitting issue.
And we agreed to that. Youknow, we agreed to to to do
that. And then we understood thatsituation. But we were asking for our
outdoor seating. Right, We'll closedown the barn if we need to,

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but we want to have you know, our outdoor seating. And you know,
they told us, well, allseating counts is won since you have
the barn, all of your seatingcounts. What is the permit? What
is I'm gonna understand what is thepermit that they want you to file.
It's a it's a fire code firecode permit, and so you need that
for any structure that you have,you know, people sitting in or or

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assembling in Okay. And have youall applied for that now? Yes,
and you had not applied for itbecause you weren't aware you had to apply
for it. No, So weapplied for this a while back, and
then the fire Code came back tous and said, you know, you're

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gonna have to have this civil sitepermit, So went ahead and applied for
that back in December, and that'skind of been back and forth. And
then the process is just it's it'sa long process unfortunately. You know it's
a busy county, right but holdon, is it a long process because
once you file the document, theydon't give you a response quickly or is

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it a back and forth? Youhave to accommodate, you have to you
have to make these changes. It'sboth. It's both. You know,
with the Engineering department, they areincredibly backed up. So there are times
that you're not hearing back from them, you know, maybe even a month
at a time. Have they givenyou things that they want changed per the

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actual civil site permit? Not yet, And that's something that our engineer has
been been working on. They cameback to him with a couple of things,
and he went back to them abouta couple of things. And then
that's that's kind of where we're atnow with that for now. Okay.
But and so so they're saying,you can still you can still boil crawfish,

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you just correct, can't have anybodysitting on the site. Correct?
And if we felt yeah, yeah, they said, you know you're where
you're playing the croppish, everything's good. We just don't want people sitting here
because you don't have that permit foryour bar. What so are kind of
for the for the barn. Wedon't have the permit for the bar.

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And so that's why they're saying noone can sit on the property at all,
but on the adjoining property maybe.So you know, we don't know
the full rules on that. Thisis a great example of them not giving
a damn. They don't care ifyou go out of business. It's a

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seasonal business. What day did youopen? We opened? We didn't up
until February this year, and I'mnot sure if you're aware of it.
We'll we'll be around the end ofJanuary time, Jared, I can't hear
you. I can't hear you atall. January twentieth or so is usually
about when we open up our seasonand we go to the first week or

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second week of June. Okay,and that's that's our season right there.
But my understanding is this year,uh, the crawfish just haven't been there
the way they normally are. Isthat true for y'all? Correct? Yeah,
So the the catch has been youknow, subpart over the summer,

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but the drive over the summer whichkilled off you know a lot of jobs.
It uh, it dried up alot of the ponds. Yeah,
and grow rice. Do you getyour crawfish out of out of Jefferson County
or from Louisiana. Jefferson County,we're right there in Crowley, Lafia,

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like Arthur Jennings, We're all rightthere. That's where the crawfish is all
coming from. And how much wouldyou say the crop is down this year?
Oh? Man? I mean startingout, I wouldn't doubt it was
down fifty to sixty percent. Imean it was very hard. Really.
The the crawlfish that were supposed tobe born in the end of August they

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didn't survive. It was too dry. You know, we're writing on like
the October is breeding kind of thing, and that's what kind of pushes back
to two months of our season.And you know that's when hold on just
a moment, hunts just one sayhang tight right there, gral but went

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to the body who this night therewasn't no more but a big long We

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heard that Hans Crawfish Services in Tomballwas being effectively shut down. If you
have nowhere for anyone to seat,to give no seating, give nowhere for
anyone to sit, I guess peoplewould have to take their crawfish and go.
Who wants to do that? Sofolks have reached out, and it

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turns out I have heard from thecommander of Post twenty four to twenty seven,
Greg Knox, at the Tomball VFWPost, which I understand has been
there for sixty years or so.They have fundraising events, dances, barbecue
cookoffs, events for the community,and the same fire Marshal came by and

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said, Oh, you're gonna haveto pay the fee, the tax,
the per match, You're gonna doall that? Yeah, yeah, this
this is why elections matter, folks. This happens under Lena head Allgo and
more importantly Rodney Ella's and I wouldn'tbe surprised if it's happening by design to
shut these things down. I wouldnot be surprised. I don't know that

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for a fact. But this isthe kind of anti business climate that you
get when you allow these people tohold office. Because this is what they
do. So, Hans, y'allare only open. I think what Thursday,
Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Whatdays are y'all open? Yeah,
Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. You know, Thursday, Fridays five
to nine, Saturday is eleven tonine, and Sunday is eleven to five.

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Okay, So y'all were open thisweekend. You just had no seating,
yes, sir. I mean it'speople were just hey, can we
sit and it's just like, man, it's the rules of the rules.
This is what they stated. Youknow, it's kind of absurb over the
whole thing of the barn and theoutside seating, the four acres. He's
saying, all four acres. Theycame sit in the back of their truck.

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You know. I just told him, I was like, this is
our this is what we're trying tofollow by. I'm not going to stop
you. You don't want to bringit home. I totally understand that.
Uh but I mean, if youwant to sit here, sit here.
I'll go to bat for you,as y'all went to bat for me.
But uh, yeah, it's theysaid you couldnot sit on the barn or

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sit out in the outside seating,but again you're allowed them to park in
a parking lot to come out andpick up the crawlfish. So like,
can we just sit on our tailgate? I said, you do what you
like to do. My dumpsters wereover there, and so we did have
some people this weekend. But otherthan that, I mean we didn't.
We closed off the barn like that. Nobody could sit inside the barn what

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we did. So you don't haveany idea when they're going to have your
permit approved, if at all.So so we don't. And that's that's
kind of the fine as county permitis. It's you don't know, and
it's typically a long process, andit's a waiting game. It doesn't have

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to be a long process. WhenI was on city council, the number
one request I got was no oneever wanted the inspector to cheat or lie
or violate the rules. They justwanted it sped up. They would say,
we'll do whatever we have to doto comply with your stupid codes,
but could you get them to giveus a response, because we're burning daylight
and losing money. And that's whatI'd do. I'd get on the phone

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and I had some reasonable folks overthere at the city. Bobby Oaks is
extremely reasonable, and he would say, let me check on it and get
them an answer and move on downthe road. Because you're you're a seasonal
business. I mean, and notonly are you seasonal, you're a few
days a week during that seasonal.So every day for you is the equivalent
of weeks for a regular business.I mean that that should matter. Yeah,

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sure, that's correct. Yeah,And that's that is where we're at.
You know, we want to comply. We want to do what we're
supposed to do. We're not youknow, we're not saying you know,
we're not doing it. We wantto just get everything done, everything done
correctly, So everything's you know,done, and we can just open our
business. But unfortunately it is avery long process. Have y'all checked on

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a liemporary, a TCO temporary certificateof occupancy so that you could you could
operate out there, So that's somethingthat we have someone checking on for us.
Yes, and that that's something thatisn't the worst because many times you
can operate outside of that. I'mnot saying you shouldn't be angry, and
I'm not saying that they've been fair. But many times when people come to

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me with inspector type problems, Ifind that the person they have working on
their behalf is not being sufficiently aggressiveand they're not trying every route possible.
And you just want to make sureyou're doing it right. Yes, And
that's kind of why we wanted tocome on here today is to you know,

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kind of tell other small businesses thatyou you need to advocate for yourself.
Absolutely, y y'all done a greatjob. I will tell you.
I heard from a lot of peoplebased on your Facebook page, and then
I went to your Facebook page,and you have communicated You've built a tribe,
You've built a community. They arethey are closing ranks behind you.
That's how this is supposed to work. You're supposed to sell out a crawfish

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just based on people coming up tosupport you because they know that they have
to. Now that that that it'simportant. I saw that the price is
eight bucks a pound. Is thatwhat the crawfish is going for? Now?
That's what would that make it eightdollars? And how does that rank?
Or y'all high low or about inthe middle. We're about We're about

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in the middle. You say themiddle, there's people that's cheaper, but
that's the quality that they're buying also, and then you're gonna have about the
seven eight dollar price range. That'sthe better quality. And then if there's
people highed, they're just I thinkthey're downtown Houston because they have higher rints
than we do. Of course,are y'all? Is that about where y'all

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were last year? That's it?Yeah, eight dollars. We started out
at nine and we went down toeight. We were at eight the whole
season until like the last two weeks, and I think we've dropped down to
seven if that was even that.But yeah, we started out of thirteen
this season and we've just been workingit down and we got down to eight

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now. So all right, Iknow y'all are online, but real quick,
Hans, what's your location for folkson the northwest side? My location
is Cypress. What's the address?Oh? I'm sorry? Oh my my
business of my house? Your business? Where do people come if they want
to buy it? Okay, Tomball, I apologize one, five, nine,

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two zero after them? Twenty nineto twenty we're just at the cross
section of twenty nine to twenty andtell you road right there, you'll see
us right yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, all right? Do you
lease that land? We do,yes, sir? Who do you lease
that from? J? W?Rongfolo? Okay? And altos a year

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round on we do, yes,sir. And what do you do when
it's not crawfish season? Actually goback to hold and work for my uncle,
uncle Kevin. He's a rice farmer. So I'll go farm for about
two months and then I'll come backover here duck hunt kind of travel a
little bit, spend time with familysince crawfish either takes up my time.

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And then when you try to fixup what we can at crawfish and go
from there. Interesting, Well,good luck keep us informed. I hope
they can get that rest. BothHans Crawfish Services and the Tomball VFW post
twenty four to twenty seven. ThoseVFW posts do good work. Be why

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you know the problem is a lotof these inspectors. Some of them aren't
bad guys, they just don't understandthe consequences. You could help somebody comply,
You can help somebody get over thehump. There's nothing wrong with that.