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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael darry Show is on the air, do you write
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down Ambrosio's number? I didn't either. Does our system allow
you to track it down? I was going to write
it down, and I got to thinking, and I looked
away from the screen and he hung up before I
got it. I have people contacted me that are trying
to track him down to give him business and other things.
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Our LAMB guy wants to sell him Lamb. There are
people who want to hire him in the Huntsville area
to do events. So if Ambrosio is still out there,
call back up if you would, and give Ramon your
email address and your phone number so that we can
forward that to folks who are trying to connect with you.
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The Biden Department of Justice just received a massive blow
in a federal appeals court that could have serious implications
for this election cycle and forthcoming election cycles. It What
happened is Biden DOJ, the NAACP, and LULAC, all three
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workless organizations, sued Galveston County to try to force Galveston
County to draw their congressional district in such a way
that would basically only elect Democrats. That's the way it
had been set up as a coalition district. And my
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understanding is there's never been a coalition district that elected
a Republican. They always elect Democrats. That's why they're drawn
that way. Odd that we're talking about this on a
day where it was just exposed that the guy that
Chris Hollins, you should recognize that name, brought this Daryl
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Blackburn into the Harris County Elections Administrator office, which they've
now closed down. Rodney created this and then they closed
it down because of all the scandals and fraud. It
just keeps happening. Government is a playpen for these people. Jobs, money, corruption, power.
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It's sickening. It's disgusting. They don't care about roads and
hospitals and clean safe water, good schools. It is all
a pot of money to steal from. That's how they
view it. That's how they always have, all while using
pretty fancy language about helping the poor people and bring
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in equity, none of it. It is all about enriching themselves.
The Galveston County Judge Mark Henry is our guest judge.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Good morning, Zark.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Before we get started, the theme for the week, which
we would like you to have the opportunity to participate
in is our favorite all time astros.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Okay, favorite all time for me, it would have to
be hold on, hold on, I'm.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Making my I like to write my one through ten
down and put aside them and have it real straight
in a row and giving you a second to kind
of structure your thoughts. Now, the way this works is
once you say a name, that name cannot come off
the list. So you better be careful that you don't
put people that should have been in at thirty in
your top ten because you're going to get to the
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end like Ramone did, and then you end up not
having JR. Richard, you end up not having Craig Vigio.
I mean good, don't be Ramone. I'm gonna tell you
that right now. Okay, okay, okay, all right, you've got
how much time should we give him? Ten seconds? You
had more than ten seconds, you had, you had plenty
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of time, all right, So here we go. I'm thinking
about a minute, but I might interrupt you ever so often,
so I won't count that against your time. Okay, And
these are in no particular order. You don't have to
rank them because it just came out of nowhere. Here
we go.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Okay, are you ready?
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Go ahead, Jose Cruz because my dad liked him so much.
Of course, Richards, I'll keep him on your list. I
think Jose l. Twove has been great as a full
time and nothing but an astro and great for the
for the Houston community. I personally liked Craig Visio. I
really liked Martine Maldonado. Sorry he didn't work out for us.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Up Maldonado on your all time top ten.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
I liked him off on.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
He was a great watching like a year ago.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
No, that's a terrible.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Choice years but he can't be on anybody's top ten anyway.
I'm sorry. Go ahead.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Well, if I'd have had time to prepare, I might
have taken him off the top ten list, but this
kind of left I understand.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
I understand.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Okay, who else you got? I got five to.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
I like Craig Vizio. You already did him? Oh I did?
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Oh, of course, Nolan Ryan. The current team. I feel
like I don't have any very many current people on there.
So from the current team, you're on Alvarez of course,
Jerry Pina, Oh oh oh, Bregman of course, and who
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am I missing?
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Or how many nuns I ever got?
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Left?
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Nine?
Speaker 3 (05:52):
You have one left, one left, one left.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
You can just do Descenzo.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Now at this point there, you almost saved yourself with
that one.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Okay, now, Ramon, let's make a list of all the
great astros he did not put on his list in
order to shame the judge. Okay, you didn't put Bagging
on there, So Jeff Bagwell want of only two to
go an astro into the hall. He's not in your
top ten, but that's your business. You didn't put Terry Poole,
which is an unforgivable crime. He did put Jar, Yeah, yeah,
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Jar was number his number two. Let's say, huh, Dicky
Thon is not on anybody's list, and Glenn David's not
on anybody's list. Quit saying that what Ken cammerin Eddy
you didn't put yeah, Ken Cameron anything? Huh. You didn't
put Royal's walk Okay. Royal's wat's easy to forget because well,
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I don't know why he's just, but he should be.
He should be. He gave us some great years. Probably
ought to put Billy Wagner in there, just because he
had the best walk out, well not even walk out
runout song. Plus he was a little bitty and left handed.
Who else you got? Who? Oh you got to put
the rocket on there? Yeah? Roger Clemens? Yeah? Who else
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you got? He did not say Lance Burton. Okay, my goodness,
I could field an all star team of guys you
did not choose, Judge. I want you to get some
talk to us next time.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Will probably is not very high what's that shaming me?
Is not a very high Barty player, by the way,
I've heard that.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
All right, you should probably prepare yourself because next time
it'll probably be your favorite all time Houston football players.
So that will include the Rice Als, University of Houston Cougars, Oilers,
and Texans as well as high school players. And that
will be uh Houston football players all in one list.
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It won't matter what year are teams and you'll just
need to be giving some thought to that.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
I'll better prepare for that one of starting now.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
If you're prepared, it takes half the fun out of it, see,
because then you start using Oh okay, it's more fun
to do it on the fly. How does this affect
I had read that this could lead to more than
twenty congressional seats flipping from Democrat to Republican. Explain it
if you would to people who are not aware of
this ruling and why it's important, and then let's talk
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about the going forward what that will mean practically in
terms of who holds these seats hang tight with us,
and I want to have that conversation so much, folks,
of governing and politics is procedure, the kind of things
that people don't that don't make it on the evening news,
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the kind of things that don't make it into much
political talk. But that has as much to do with
who wins and loses as the actual vote. The Michael
Berry Show, who Chad Nakanishi calling Galveston Judge Martin Henry
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on the carpet? He says, Mark Henry gave no love
to hometown boy Brandon Backy. I would have thought he
would work him in just because he's from Galveston.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
That was a setup for failure for sure.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Do you remember when Brandon Backy and his boys rolled
up to the San Luis tanked out of their mind.
Cops came out like god, and they had a throw
down right there on the road.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
I have seen the video I have seen the video.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
I have too, I could watch it ten more times.
I remember, was it Sam Wiley? What was the chief's name.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
At the time that he was a chief, and I
think he was the chief at the time.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Yes, did he die? Not to mind, I thought I
heard he died. I remember when he retired because he
sent a message and said I'm hanging it up after
it was a long, long law enforcement career. That was
one heck of a fight. It probably would have been
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different if those boys weren't so drunk because they they
couldn't hardly stand up. But that was that was an interesting,
interesting transaction that did not help the backy image for sure.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
It did not some of them.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Ball boys about that time where we're rough around the edges,
shall we say?
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Right?
Speaker 1 (10:43):
You notice he's holding his tongue. It was a lot.
It was a lot to that story. So is Galveston
County prosecuting this case or leading this case, advocating litigating
this case? How is this working?
Speaker 2 (10:59):
No, we are the defendant.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
So those three groups that you mentioned said, if you
don't draw a precinct for us, we're going to sue you.
And I said, then just go ahead and sue us.
I mean, let's skip to the end.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
So they did that very thing.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
We did not back down, and at the end of
the day, we have prevailed and done away with coalition
districts at least in the three states covered by the
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
So what do you expect another appeal?
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Yes, this case really needs to go to the Supreme
Court because now you've got different courts of appeal recognizing
some recognizing coalition districts and some not. So we need
to have uniform law across the country and that would
be what the purpose of the Supreme Court is for.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
And what makes this a coalition district? I mean, I
understand that the end result makes it a Democrat district,
and they combine specific minority groups that are expected to
vote Democrat have Democrat voting history based on kind of
the location of where they are. But what this really is,
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if we're going to call it what it is, is
named for Elbridge, Gary, and we now call it jerry mandering.
That's what this is, isn't it?
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Absolutely yes, you would the precinct that they wanted us
to draw. No reasonable person would draw that kind of
a precinct because it looks so I'd liken it to
a handprint. Take a handprint, put it over the county,
and there's your precinct. It's just not a reasonable or
you know, logical geographic boundaries.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Rodney Ellis did that in Harris County. I don't know
if you're familiar with the district. He redrew that basically
kicked Cactus Jack Cagel out of his Commissioner's Court seat
where he was very popular. So now he had to
stand for quote unquote reelection in a district that was
majority Democrat. He had not served them, They did not
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know him, and they brought in Leslie Brioni's to steal
that seat from him, and Arnold ventures in Rodney Ellis
one more little thing they pulled off. But I guess
you know, the worst Harris County is the better for
Galveston County because it makes you look good. And I
think people probably move out of Harris County and into
Galveston County because y'all are better run.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
We see it all the time.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Absolutely, in spite of my lack of knowledge of Astro's
top ten, we still do well.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
As long as you're delegating to people with greater knowledge.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
The key. Great staff is the key to your success
or failure. That's absolutely correct.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
What is the northernmost boundary of Galveston County on I
forty five?
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Clear Creek is the dividing line. So draw a line
right down the middle of Clear Creek. North is Harris
south of Galveston, Okay.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
All right? And what about the eastern boundary.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Eastern boundary would be Galveston Bay for the most part
from Kema down, but does curve around though, and keep
going to the east to pick up Bolivar Peninsula.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Oh, okay, so you do pick up Bolivar, yes, and
then and then what what is what is the county
on the other side? Is that Chambers Uh?
Speaker 3 (14:09):
To the east would be Chambers, Yes, there's about one
mile of Chambers County, and then Jefferson County, Okay.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
And then your westernmost border. How far do you go?
Do you pick up surfside or is that Brazoria?
Speaker 3 (14:21):
No, that's that's Brazoria County. Santa Fe is the last
incorporated city. Well from a line from Friendswood down to
Santa Fe down to the west end of Galaston Island.
That's there's no definitive borders such as a River or
anything like that. It's just along that general area there.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
So Friendswood would be the west. You you your county
does not extend west of Friendswood.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
It does not northwest. Friendswood would be the most north
and the most west that we go. And then it
comes in slightly going down south to the west end
of Galaston Island.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Interesting. So if I'm if I'm on the island and
I'm leaving town and I'm headed toward West Beach, you know,
Jamaica and Sea Island all that, where does the county end?
As I'm driving towards surfside at.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
The San Luis Bridge, So you're going to go all
the way to San Louis Pass, which is the bridge
that connects the Galveston Island to Brazoria County. That's that's
the county line on the west end.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
That little toll booth that you pay when you go over, Yes,
I love that little thing. It feels like it's it's
out of a out of like a Norwegian village from
sixteen thirty.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Well, I hate to disappoint you twice in one day,
but we're likely going to close it down. We don't
really even break even on the toll booth with ye
salaries and everyone.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Well, that was my next question is how much does
that dang thing make?
Speaker 3 (15:46):
By most counts, very little or none so. And that's
one of the reviews that we deal on a regular basis.
And I have decided, look, if it's not, if it
can't even sustain itself, then what's the point shut it down?
Speaker 1 (15:58):
And what is supposed to be the purpose of it?
Speaker 3 (16:01):
The purpose was actually to pay for the ongoing cathodic
inspections of the bridge, because we somehow own the bridge.
I'm trying to give it to Brazoria County, but they're
not very interested.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
But you're all going in right reverse iminent domain.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
It's now they're going to write a nasty article about
you because there's probably some old lady that's worked in
there for seventy five years and you can't wait on
her to die.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
I don't think we have anyone that's working here that's
that older. They're generally pretty young.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
I think is it is? It is the booth manned
twenty four hours a day.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
I don't think we man it from ten p to
six a anymore, but I'd have to check on that.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
But it's so weird. You're just driving along and all
of a sudden, poop, it pops up, and it really does.
It feels like a Norwegian fishing does not feel like
you're in Texas. It's so odd.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
It is different.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
So that was a Galveston County thing.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Yes, it was there when I got elected, So I
did not anything to do with the creation or the
formation of it.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
You know what would be awesome if you did, Galveston
County Judge Mark Henry, is when you close it down
and you have the press conference to close it down.
You have the cars lined up like you're getting ready
to go on the ferry, and you got the what
do you call the flag, the black and white checker flag.
You got the checker flag, and you do it both
ways and you let people go without having to pay.
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That'd be awesome. You could have Huey Lewis and the
News come out and perform. Oh sure, okay, here's your
chance to redeem yourself. If you were to book one
band alive today to show up at that event and
play a live concert in the middle of the street
announcing that the toll booth is being done away with
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a very popular move mass. Who would it be.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
They have to be alive today.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
I would like to see the Easy Top out there,
but I don't know if they even played together anymore.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
So they do they have to.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Be Yeah, they do okay without Dusty, But yeah, right,
that's that's a solid choice from one who would you
have her? Mom? You have Easy Top two, Galaston County
Judge Mark Henry, thank you for your time, Sir Michael
Berry's shoot. Then he would compact desk bro It simply
works better.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Laid one morning, not just back to my things, burning
all my bills and I don't plane. I told the
cops in the bank is goodbye.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
They said, don't let us catch you. You, oh your
life Will.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
The plane was headed east, and so I found the Tennesseeed,
I'll run the first bit, bound me the deal two
nour blackbusted in jail, Biden and Nashville. I like George
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Jones willing will. I think Christien Merle's song writing Sigers
Townsman's and he got to soon now he's funday with
think they're both Biden and Nashville food.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Oh Will.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
The songwriters left up to old ill billies. It be's
in rednecks and girls like miss Emmy, I'm too young,
havy one of you that I just want to be
about Nashville.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
What's funny is that Ramona and I often collaborate on
what bump song we're gonna play coming back. Eddie Martini
were nineteen years into this, and for years, Eddie Martini
would get so aggravated. He'd say, I think you just
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want to be a DJ because I love music and
I love getting to share music with you and talk
about it. And when we're off the air all afternoon,
we're in here working in between shows, and one of
us will just fire up a song and see how
the other one reacts. And then maybe we watched a
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documentary on the song night before, so we'll tell that
and we just go back and forth about music. We
absolutely love music and talking about it and experiencing it
the whole thing. But it's funny how the coincidences were.
We didn't discuss this, and you just happened to play Corey.
And I don't think Ramon's the biggest Cory fan in
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the world. I mean, he'll amuse me, but I am
a massive Corey mar fan. I love him and I
was drunk dialing him last night. Well, I wasn't drunk.
I'm kidding. But my point is when I start dialing
people and want to talk to him, I want to
talk right now. But he'd already gone to bed, and
so I called John Carol, his lead guitarist, and he'd
already gone to bed. I was sitting with a guy
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named Harvin Lahan. Harvin is the managing partner of Deroched Partners,
which is a strategic planning company. So they do tax compliance.
They do what's called assurance. And I said, you need
to drop the assurance term. What you mean is audit.
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He said, yeah, nobody likes to think of audits. I do,
because nobody knows what assurance means. But if you are
a company who has a huge line of credit or
a big loan for your company, your bank wants audited financials.
They want they want an outside, an outsider with an
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eye for these things, to review the finances and bless them.
And so these are the types of functions you need.
But of course the interesting part without he can't tell
me names, but we can talk about facts as long
as the people are not involved. Is as a person
who watches American greed and loves loves watching financial fraud
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unravel and how it's caught. And so, of course that's
not the reason a company hires you to do the audit.
But when you've got a big company, the likelihood that
someone in the company could be stealing a significant amount
of money far less than you would pay the assurance
aka audit team is pretty high over the course of
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a number of years. Because do you see the story
of Ramon about the guy about the chicken wing lady.
I love that story so much. I cannot get enough
of that story. I'll tell that story in just a second.
But anyway, so we were talking about that and he said,
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there's only one person you know that I want to
meet because I'm a super fan. And I said, Lee Majors, Nope,
Marcus Latrell, nope, Ramon Rose. Because that's kind of the trifecta,
you know, the big names. I know, Vermonte, Nope, who
is it? Corey Morrow? I love Corey Morrow. So then
of course we had to call Corey forty five times.
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So this morning he sends me a message, is everything okay?
You were dialing me obsessively, No, not upsetsively, persistently, persistently.
There's a big difference. Let me see if I can
find this this story this woman. Oh, by the way,
New York Times headline today hunter Biden sought State Department
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help for Ukrainian company. Ah, you don't say this is
a New York Times saying this. After President Biden dropped
his reelection bid, his administration released records showing that while
he was vice president, his son solicited US government assistance.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
That is a big no.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
No.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
It is criminal. It is by the way, Hillary Clinton
did it too. It is absolutely criminal. All right, here's
the story. Vera Ladell, an older black lady. I don't
know how she is, but i'd like to know. You
see the picture of she's old. She was the food
service director for Harvey's School District one P fifty two
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near Chicago. So she runs this particular school and she's
in charge of ordering the chicken wangs and everything else.
Cook County, which is where Chicago's located. Prosecutors accused her
of stealing massive amounts of food meant for take home
meals for students during the pandemic. She allegedly ordered more
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than eleven thousand cases of chicken wangs from the school
district's food provider and then picked up the order in
a district cargo van. The scheme was first uncovered by
the district's business manager during a routine midyear audit. The
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manager found the district was three hundred thousand dollars over
its annual food budget, and it was only halfway through
the year. So let's see, we're halfway through the year
and we've already spent thirty percent sent more than an
entire year's worth of food. I've noticed the kids are
getting fatter, but this is a lot. Well, Vera bought
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a million and a half dollars worth of chicken wings,
and she's probably selling it at a discount to restaurants.
There's going to be more to this. They gave her
nine years in prison.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
Say along with me.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Kansas City Chief Defensive end Chris Jones says he will
pay for the one point five million dollars stolen chicken
wings for the old lady, the Illinois school cafeteria lady worker.
He says he will pay for the wings to get
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her out of jail. Well, I think I think that
would help, but that's not really how this works. You
steal money until you get caught, and most won't. But
then when you do get caught, then you just give
the money back. It's not not quite that easy, sir.
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You might have to hold onto that money for now.
But I bet you what, I bet you that woman
already running scam at the at the prison. She probably
got cafeteria duty work. Do you remember did you ever
watch Oranges New Black? Remember the Russian lady that was
running to the kitchen and how she had all this
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and she could she could make all these nice dishes
and stuff. That was a clever character that they created.
It it it it gave uh, it gave an interesting
set of things that she could do. You know, she
kind of had some You always need a character that
has kind of a James Bond type. You know, they're
very clever and they can work things out. It's usually
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played by a brit But in this case because it
had some underground connections. She was Was she Russian or Ukrainian?
One of those countries. Yes, I would like to hear
from you how inflation is affecting you in your life
and in your business, the cost of goods having increased
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and the difficulty in passing that cost on people who've
never owned a business naively and it doesn't make them
bad people. It's just it's what you would expect. You
don't know what you don't know. People who've never run
a business and have never had to balance the P
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and L for a business don't understand that you cannot externally,
artificially pile on another expense to small business without them
having to increase price or go out of business. Because
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most small businesses are so lean, their profitability is so lean.
You know, because we have seventy five show sponsors. I
go and meet with people and we talk about their business.
We talk about, you know, where where are the profits
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to be found? I want to help you be profitable.
Some people have this belief. It's very odd. They're resentful
if a business makes money. If a business doesn't make money,
they're going out of business. Try it sometime. It's really
really difficult to run a business. We think of restaurants
because that's that's easy. We see them, But gas stations
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nobody thinks. I hate it's all out there. No, that's
a rough business. Do you know why? Gas stations are
mostly Indian guys who are first generation came here because
they're willing to work as new immigrants, and they probably
have an Indian relative shock at the nine ear or
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some other Indian relative who owns it. But when Golambombay
Waller came here from Pakistan, came here as an engineering
student and he went to work. The famous story he
went to work at Michaelangelo's Lower West Timer and the
owner said, you can be a bus boy, and he said,
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I want to be a waiter, That's where the money's at.
He said, no, you don't speak English. He did speak English,
he just spoke English with a Pakistani addiction her accent,
and it infuriated. So he went to work at a
convenience store and he worked there and saved up his
money and ended up not going to engineer classes, which
is what he came here for, which is what his
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parents wanted him to do. And he saved up and
he bought a rundown, raggedy in the middle of a
dangerous neighborhood convenience store. And the funny story he tells
is it was such a raggedy convenience store that it
didn't even have gas at it. It was just a
convenience store that you come in either rob or buy
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a malt liquor, and he worked the store because he
couldn't afford employees, and he saved up and saved up,
and he bought another one. So now he had two
convenience stores that didn't have gas, and he sold them
and bought a bigger convenience store that did, and eventually
he would start two pasos. If you remember, did you
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ever eat it two pastols from them? You didn't need it?
Two paesels? Do you know what two pesos is? Are
you on a call? Who are you talking to? I
can't even see him on the screen. How did you
not eat it? Two pasos?
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (32:02):
My god?
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Where is it?
Speaker 2 (32:06):
What?
Speaker 1 (32:08):
When I came to Houston in nineteen eighty nine, we
there was a two Pasos on Kirby north of fifty
nine about Algerian Way? Is the road right there? Because
the restaurant Haven used to be behind there, and there
was a two pastos right there, and that was a
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hot spot for us because two pastos was a little
nicer than taco bell. I'm not kidding. Two paystos was great,
but it was arguably, as determined by a court, I'm
not sure I believe it.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
It was a.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
What is the one that Angela Wilson speaks for the
kind of hiring.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Kent.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
It starts with a c Taco Cabana. It was a
kind of a Taco cabana. Competitor in Taco Cabana argued
that it was a ripoff. Not for me to decide,
but I loved two pasos, and he built up two paystos.
He ended up owning uh Marcos, but he ended up
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buying the restaurant that wouldn't hire him. Michael Angel's great story.
I would like to hear from you how inflation has
affected your business, whatever filled you're in seven nine one thousand,
Because what inflation has done is skip Hartley's got to
pay more for transmissions, just the way it is. Connie
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Stagner's got to pay more for a diamond. Big City
Wings has to pay more for wings. And you don't
want to pass that cost off because people don't want
to pay more money. But that means that that in
some cases you're selling something that you're losing money off.
It's tough. I'm hearing business owners are telling me it
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is very tough right now. Inflation is hurting people. This
election matters. We've got to vote for change. Seven one three, nine, nine, nine,
one thousand and by the way, if you're nervous about
calling in, you're going to get business out of it,
because people are going to hear the name of your business.
They'll call us
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael darry Show is on the air, do you write
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down Ambrosio's number? I didn't either. Does our system allow
you to track it down? I was going to write
it down, and I got to thinking, and I looked
away from the screen and he hung up before I
got it. I have people contacted me that are trying
to track him down to give him business and other things.
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Our LAMB guy wants to sell him Lamb. There are
people who want to hire him in the Huntsville area
to do events. So if Ambrosio is still out there,
call back up if you would, and give Ramon your
email address and your phone number so that we can
forward that to folks who are trying to connect with you.
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The Biden Department of Justice just received a massive blow
in a federal appeals court that could have serious implications
for this election cycle and forthcoming election cycles. It What
happened is Biden DOJ, the NAACP, and LULAC, all three
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workless organizations, sued Galveston County to try to force Galveston
County to draw their congressional district in such a way
that would basically only elect Democrats. That's the way it
had been set up as a coalition district. And my
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understanding is there's never been a coalition district that elected
a Republican. They always elect Democrats. That's why they're drawn
that way. Odd that we're talking about this on a
day where it was just exposed that the guy that
Chris Hollins, you should recognize that name, brought this Daryl
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Blackburn into the Harris County Elections Administrator office, which they've
now closed down. Rodney created this and then they closed
it down because of all the scandals and fraud. It
just keeps happening. Government is a playpen for these people. Jobs, money, corruption, power.
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It's sickening. It's disgusting. They don't care about roads and
hospitals and clean safe water, good schools. It is all
a pot of money to steal from. That's how they
view it. That's how they always have, all while using
pretty fancy language about helping the poor people and bring
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in equity, none of it. It is all about enriching themselves.
The Galveston County Judge Mark Henry is our guest judge.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Good morning, Zark.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Before we get started, the theme for the week, which
we would like you to have the opportunity to participate
in is our favorite all time astros.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Okay, favorite all time for me, it would have to
be hold on, hold on, I'm.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Making my I like to write my one through ten
down and put aside them and have it real straight
in a row and giving you a second to kind
of structure your thoughts. Now, the way this works is
once you say a name, that name cannot come off
the list. So you better be careful that you don't
put people that should have been in at thirty in
your top ten because you're going to get to the
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end like Ramone did, and then you end up not
having JR. Richard, you end up not having Craig Vigio.
I mean good, don't be Ramone. I'm gonna tell you
that right now. Okay, okay, okay, all right, you've got
how much time should we give him? Ten seconds? You
had more than ten seconds, you had, you had plenty
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of time, all right, So here we go. I'm thinking
about a minute, but I might interrupt you ever so often,
so I won't count that against your time. Okay, And
these are in no particular order. You don't have to
rank them because it just came out of nowhere. Here
we go.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Okay, are you ready?
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Go ahead, Jose Cruz because my dad liked him so much.
Of course, Richards, I'll keep him on your list. I
think Jose l. Twove has been great as a full
time and nothing but an astro and great for the
for the Houston community. I personally liked Craig Visio. I
really liked Martine Maldonado. Sorry he didn't work out for us.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Up Maldonado on your all time top ten.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
I liked him off on.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
He was a great watching like a year ago.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
No, that's a terrible.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Choice years but he can't be on anybody's top ten anyway.
I'm sorry. Go ahead.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Well, if I'd have had time to prepare, I might
have taken him off the top ten list, but this
kind of left I understand.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
I understand.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Okay, who else you got? I got five to.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
I like Craig Vizio. You already did him? Oh I did?
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Oh, of course, Nolan Ryan. The current team. I feel
like I don't have any very many current people on there.
So from the current team, you're on Alvarez of course,
Jerry Pina, Oh oh oh, Bregman of course, and who
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am I missing?
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Or how many nuns I ever got?
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Left?
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Nine?
Speaker 3 (05:52):
You have one left, one left, one left.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
You can just do Descenzo.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Now at this point there, you almost saved yourself with
that one.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Okay, now, Ramon, let's make a list of all the
great astros he did not put on his list in
order to shame the judge. Okay, you didn't put Bagging
on there, So Jeff Bagwell want of only two to
go an astro into the hall. He's not in your
top ten, but that's your business. You didn't put Terry Poole,
which is an unforgivable crime. He did put Jar, Yeah, yeah,
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Jar was number his number two. Let's say, huh, Dicky
Thon is not on anybody's list, and Glenn David's not
on anybody's list. Quit saying that what Ken cammerin Eddy
you didn't put yeah, Ken Cameron anything? Huh. You didn't
put Royal's walk Okay. Royal's wat's easy to forget because well,
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I don't know why he's just, but he should be.
He should be. He gave us some great years. Probably
ought to put Billy Wagner in there, just because he
had the best walk out, well not even walk out
runout song. Plus he was a little bitty and left handed.
Who else you got? Who? Oh you got to put
the rocket on there? Yeah? Roger Clemens? Yeah? Who else
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you got? He did not say Lance Burton. Okay, my goodness,
I could field an all star team of guys you
did not choose, Judge. I want you to get some
talk to us next time.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Will probably is not very high what's that shaming me?
Is not a very high Barty player, by the way,
I've heard that.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
All right, you should probably prepare yourself because next time
it'll probably be your favorite all time Houston football players.
So that will include the Rice Als, University of Houston Cougars, Oilers,
and Texans as well as high school players. And that
will be uh Houston football players all in one list.
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It won't matter what year are teams and you'll just
need to be giving some thought to that.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
I'll better prepare for that one of starting now.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
If you're prepared, it takes half the fun out of it, see,
because then you start using Oh okay, it's more fun
to do it on the fly. How does this affect
I had read that this could lead to more than
twenty congressional seats flipping from Democrat to Republican. Explain it
if you would to people who are not aware of
this ruling and why it's important, and then let's talk
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about the going forward what that will mean practically in
terms of who holds these seats hang tight with us,
and I want to have that conversation so much, folks,
of governing and politics is procedure, the kind of things
that people don't that don't make it on the evening news,
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the kind of things that don't make it into much
political talk. But that has as much to do with
who wins and loses as the actual vote. The Michael
Berry Show, who Chad Nakanishi calling Galveston Judge Martin Henry
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on the carpet? He says, Mark Henry gave no love
to hometown boy Brandon Backy. I would have thought he
would work him in just because he's from Galveston.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
That was a setup for failure for sure.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Do you remember when Brandon Backy and his boys rolled
up to the San Luis tanked out of their mind.
Cops came out like god, and they had a throw
down right there on the road.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
I have seen the video I have seen the video.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
I have too, I could watch it ten more times.
I remember, was it Sam Wiley? What was the chief's name.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
At the time that he was a chief, and I
think he was the chief at the time.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Yes, did he die? Not to mind, I thought I
heard he died. I remember when he retired because he
sent a message and said I'm hanging it up after
it was a long, long law enforcement career. That was
one heck of a fight. It probably would have been
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different if those boys weren't so drunk because they they
couldn't hardly stand up. But that was that was an interesting,
interesting transaction that did not help the backy image for sure.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
It did not some of them.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Ball boys about that time where we're rough around the edges,
shall we say?
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Right?
Speaker 1 (10:43):
You notice he's holding his tongue. It was a lot.
It was a lot to that story. So is Galveston
County prosecuting this case or leading this case, advocating litigating
this case? How is this working?
Speaker 2 (10:59):
No, we are the defendant.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
So those three groups that you mentioned said, if you
don't draw a precinct for us, we're going to sue you.
And I said, then just go ahead and sue us.
I mean, let's skip to the end.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
So they did that very thing.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
We did not back down, and at the end of
the day, we have prevailed and done away with coalition
districts at least in the three states covered by the
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
So what do you expect another appeal?
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Yes, this case really needs to go to the Supreme
Court because now you've got different courts of appeal recognizing
some recognizing coalition districts and some not. So we need
to have uniform law across the country and that would
be what the purpose of the Supreme Court is for.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
And what makes this a coalition district? I mean, I
understand that the end result makes it a Democrat district,
and they combine specific minority groups that are expected to
vote Democrat have Democrat voting history based on kind of
the location of where they are. But what this really is,
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if we're going to call it what it is, is
named for Elbridge, Gary, and we now call it jerry mandering.
That's what this is, isn't it?
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Absolutely yes, you would the precinct that they wanted us
to draw. No reasonable person would draw that kind of
a precinct because it looks so I'd liken it to
a handprint. Take a handprint, put it over the county,
and there's your precinct. It's just not a reasonable or
you know, logical geographic boundaries.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Rodney Ellis did that in Harris County. I don't know
if you're familiar with the district. He redrew that basically
kicked Cactus Jack Cagel out of his Commissioner's Court seat
where he was very popular. So now he had to
stand for quote unquote reelection in a district that was
majority Democrat. He had not served them, They did not
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know him, and they brought in Leslie Brioni's to steal
that seat from him, and Arnold ventures in Rodney Ellis
one more little thing they pulled off. But I guess
you know, the worst Harris County is the better for
Galveston County because it makes you look good. And I
think people probably move out of Harris County and into
Galveston County because y'all are better run.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
We see it all the time.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Absolutely, in spite of my lack of knowledge of Astro's
top ten, we still do well.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
As long as you're delegating to people with greater knowledge.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
The key. Great staff is the key to your success
or failure. That's absolutely correct.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
What is the northernmost boundary of Galveston County on I
forty five?
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Clear Creek is the dividing line. So draw a line
right down the middle of Clear Creek. North is Harris
south of Galveston, Okay.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
All right? And what about the eastern boundary.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Eastern boundary would be Galveston Bay for the most part
from Kema down, but does curve around though, and keep
going to the east to pick up Bolivar Peninsula.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Oh, okay, so you do pick up Bolivar, yes, and
then and then what what is what is the county
on the other side? Is that Chambers Uh?
Speaker 3 (14:09):
To the east would be Chambers, Yes, there's about one
mile of Chambers County, and then Jefferson County, Okay.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
And then your westernmost border. How far do you go?
Do you pick up surfside or is that Brazoria?
Speaker 3 (14:21):
No, that's that's Brazoria County. Santa Fe is the last
incorporated city. Well from a line from Friendswood down to
Santa Fe down to the west end of Galaston Island.
That's there's no definitive borders such as a River or
anything like that. It's just along that general area there.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
So Friendswood would be the west. You you your county
does not extend west of Friendswood.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
It does not northwest. Friendswood would be the most north
and the most west that we go. And then it
comes in slightly going down south to the west end
of Galaston Island.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Interesting. So if I'm if I'm on the island and
I'm leaving town and I'm headed toward West Beach, you know,
Jamaica and Sea Island all that, where does the county end?
As I'm driving towards surfside at.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
The San Luis Bridge, So you're going to go all
the way to San Louis Pass, which is the bridge
that connects the Galveston Island to Brazoria County. That's that's
the county line on the west end.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
That little toll booth that you pay when you go over, Yes,
I love that little thing. It feels like it's it's
out of a out of like a Norwegian village from
sixteen thirty.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Well, I hate to disappoint you twice in one day,
but we're likely going to close it down. We don't
really even break even on the toll booth with ye
salaries and everyone.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Well, that was my next question is how much does
that dang thing make?
Speaker 3 (15:46):
By most counts, very little or none so. And that's
one of the reviews that we deal on a regular basis.
And I have decided, look, if it's not, if it
can't even sustain itself, then what's the point shut it down?
Speaker 1 (15:58):
And what is supposed to be the purpose of it?
Speaker 3 (16:01):
The purpose was actually to pay for the ongoing cathodic
inspections of the bridge, because we somehow own the bridge.
I'm trying to give it to Brazoria County, but they're
not very interested.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
But you're all going in right reverse iminent domain.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
It's now they're going to write a nasty article about
you because there's probably some old lady that's worked in
there for seventy five years and you can't wait on
her to die.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
I don't think we have anyone that's working here that's
that older. They're generally pretty young.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
I think is it is? It is the booth manned
twenty four hours a day.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
I don't think we man it from ten p to
six a anymore, but I'd have to check on that.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
But it's so weird. You're just driving along and all
of a sudden, poop, it pops up, and it really does.
It feels like a Norwegian fishing does not feel like
you're in Texas. It's so odd.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
It is different.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
So that was a Galveston County thing.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Yes, it was there when I got elected, So I
did not anything to do with the creation or the
formation of it.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
You know what would be awesome if you did, Galveston
County Judge Mark Henry, is when you close it down
and you have the press conference to close it down.
You have the cars lined up like you're getting ready
to go on the ferry, and you got the what
do you call the flag, the black and white checker flag.
You got the checker flag, and you do it both
ways and you let people go without having to pay.
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That'd be awesome. You could have Huey Lewis and the
News come out and perform. Oh sure, okay, here's your
chance to redeem yourself. If you were to book one
band alive today to show up at that event and
play a live concert in the middle of the street
announcing that the toll booth is being done away with
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a very popular move mass. Who would it be.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
They have to be alive today.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
I would like to see the Easy Top out there,
but I don't know if they even played together anymore.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
So they do they have to.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Be Yeah, they do okay without Dusty, But yeah, right,
that's that's a solid choice from one who would you
have her? Mom? You have Easy Top two, Galaston County
Judge Mark Henry, thank you for your time, Sir Michael
Berry's shoot. Then he would compact desk bro It simply
works better.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Laid one morning, not just back to my things, burning
all my bills and I don't plane. I told the
cops in the bank is goodbye.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
They said, don't let us catch you. You, oh your
life Will.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
The plane was headed east, and so I found the Tennesseeed,
I'll run the first bit, bound me the deal two
nour blackbusted in jail, Biden and Nashville. I like George
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Jones willing will. I think Christien Merle's song writing Sigers
Townsman's and he got to soon now he's funday with
think they're both Biden and Nashville food.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Oh Will.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
The songwriters left up to old ill billies. It be's
in rednecks and girls like miss Emmy, I'm too young,
havy one of you that I just want to be
about Nashville.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
What's funny is that Ramona and I often collaborate on
what bump song we're gonna play coming back. Eddie Martini
were nineteen years into this, and for years, Eddie Martini
would get so aggravated. He'd say, I think you just
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want to be a DJ because I love music and
I love getting to share music with you and talk
about it. And when we're off the air all afternoon,
we're in here working in between shows, and one of
us will just fire up a song and see how
the other one reacts. And then maybe we watched a
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documentary on the song night before, so we'll tell that
and we just go back and forth about music. We
absolutely love music and talking about it and experiencing it
the whole thing. But it's funny how the coincidences were.
We didn't discuss this, and you just happened to play Corey.
And I don't think Ramon's the biggest Cory fan in
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the world. I mean, he'll amuse me, but I am
a massive Corey mar fan. I love him and I
was drunk dialing him last night. Well, I wasn't drunk.
I'm kidding. But my point is when I start dialing
people and want to talk to him, I want to
talk right now. But he'd already gone to bed, and
so I called John Carol, his lead guitarist, and he'd
already gone to bed. I was sitting with a guy
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named Harvin Lahan. Harvin is the managing partner of Deroched Partners,
which is a strategic planning company. So they do tax compliance.
They do what's called assurance. And I said, you need
to drop the assurance term. What you mean is audit.
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He said, yeah, nobody likes to think of audits. I do,
because nobody knows what assurance means. But if you are
a company who has a huge line of credit or
a big loan for your company, your bank wants audited financials.
They want they want an outside, an outsider with an
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eye for these things, to review the finances and bless them.
And so these are the types of functions you need.
But of course the interesting part without he can't tell
me names, but we can talk about facts as long
as the people are not involved. Is as a person
who watches American greed and loves loves watching financial fraud
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unravel and how it's caught. And so, of course that's
not the reason a company hires you to do the audit.
But when you've got a big company, the likelihood that
someone in the company could be stealing a significant amount
of money far less than you would pay the assurance
aka audit team is pretty high over the course of
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a number of years. Because do you see the story
of Ramon about the guy about the chicken wing lady.
I love that story so much. I cannot get enough
of that story. I'll tell that story in just a second.
But anyway, so we were talking about that and he said,
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there's only one person you know that I want to
meet because I'm a super fan. And I said, Lee Majors, Nope,
Marcus Latrell, nope, Ramon Rose. Because that's kind of the trifecta,
you know, the big names. I know, Vermonte, Nope, who
is it? Corey Morrow? I love Corey Morrow. So then
of course we had to call Corey forty five times.
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So this morning he sends me a message, is everything okay?
You were dialing me obsessively, No, not upsetsively, persistently, persistently.
There's a big difference. Let me see if I can
find this this story this woman. Oh, by the way,
New York Times headline today hunter Biden sought State Department
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help for Ukrainian company. Ah, you don't say this is
a New York Times saying this. After President Biden dropped
his reelection bid, his administration released records showing that while
he was vice president, his son solicited US government assistance.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
That is a big no.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
No.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
It is criminal. It is by the way, Hillary Clinton
did it too. It is absolutely criminal. All right, here's
the story. Vera Ladell, an older black lady. I don't
know how she is, but i'd like to know. You
see the picture of she's old. She was the food
service director for Harvey's School District one P fifty two
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near Chicago. So she runs this particular school and she's
in charge of ordering the chicken wangs and everything else.
Cook County, which is where Chicago's located. Prosecutors accused her
of stealing massive amounts of food meant for take home
meals for students during the pandemic. She allegedly ordered more
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than eleven thousand cases of chicken wangs from the school
district's food provider and then picked up the order in
a district cargo van. The scheme was first uncovered by
the district's business manager during a routine midyear audit. The
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manager found the district was three hundred thousand dollars over
its annual food budget, and it was only halfway through
the year. So let's see, we're halfway through the year
and we've already spent thirty percent sent more than an
entire year's worth of food. I've noticed the kids are
getting fatter, but this is a lot. Well, Vera bought
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a million and a half dollars worth of chicken wings,
and she's probably selling it at a discount to restaurants.
There's going to be more to this. They gave her
nine years in prison.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
Say along with me.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Kansas City Chief Defensive end Chris Jones says he will
pay for the one point five million dollars stolen chicken
wings for the old lady, the Illinois school cafeteria lady worker.
He says he will pay for the wings to get
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her out of jail. Well, I think I think that
would help, but that's not really how this works. You
steal money until you get caught, and most won't. But
then when you do get caught, then you just give
the money back. It's not not quite that easy, sir.
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You might have to hold onto that money for now.
But I bet you what, I bet you that woman
already running scam at the at the prison. She probably
got cafeteria duty work. Do you remember did you ever
watch Oranges New Black? Remember the Russian lady that was
running to the kitchen and how she had all this
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and she could she could make all these nice dishes
and stuff. That was a clever character that they created.
It it it it gave uh, it gave an interesting
set of things that she could do. You know, she
kind of had some You always need a character that
has kind of a James Bond type. You know, they're
very clever and they can work things out. It's usually
(28:04):
played by a brit But in this case because it
had some underground connections. She was Was she Russian or Ukrainian?
One of those countries. Yes, I would like to hear
from you how inflation is affecting you in your life
and in your business, the cost of goods having increased
(28:28):
and the difficulty in passing that cost on people who've
never owned a business naively and it doesn't make them
bad people. It's just it's what you would expect. You
don't know what you don't know. People who've never run
a business and have never had to balance the P
(28:49):
and L for a business don't understand that you cannot externally,
artificially pile on another expense to small business without them
having to increase price or go out of business. Because
(29:12):
most small businesses are so lean, their profitability is so lean.
You know, because we have seventy five show sponsors. I
go and meet with people and we talk about their business.
We talk about, you know, where where are the profits
(29:32):
to be found? I want to help you be profitable.
Some people have this belief. It's very odd. They're resentful
if a business makes money. If a business doesn't make money,
they're going out of business. Try it sometime. It's really
really difficult to run a business. We think of restaurants
because that's that's easy. We see them, But gas stations
(29:58):
nobody thinks. I hate it's all out there. No, that's
a rough business. Do you know why? Gas stations are
mostly Indian guys who are first generation came here because
they're willing to work as new immigrants, and they probably
have an Indian relative shock at the nine ear or
(30:19):
some other Indian relative who owns it. But when Golambombay
Waller came here from Pakistan, came here as an engineering
student and he went to work. The famous story he
went to work at Michaelangelo's Lower West Timer and the
owner said, you can be a bus boy, and he said,
(30:41):
I want to be a waiter, That's where the money's at.
He said, no, you don't speak English. He did speak English,
he just spoke English with a Pakistani addiction her accent,
and it infuriated. So he went to work at a
convenience store and he worked there and saved up his
money and ended up not going to engineer classes, which
is what he came here for, which is what his
(31:02):
parents wanted him to do. And he saved up and
he bought a rundown, raggedy in the middle of a
dangerous neighborhood convenience store. And the funny story he tells
is it was such a raggedy convenience store that it
didn't even have gas at it. It was just a
convenience store that you come in either rob or buy
(31:23):
a malt liquor, and he worked the store because he
couldn't afford employees, and he saved up and saved up,
and he bought another one. So now he had two
convenience stores that didn't have gas, and he sold them
and bought a bigger convenience store that did, and eventually
he would start two pasos. If you remember, did you
(31:45):
ever eat it two pastols from them? You didn't need it?
Two paesels? Do you know what two pesos is? Are
you on a call? Who are you talking to? I
can't even see him on the screen. How did you
not eat it? Two pasos?
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (32:02):
My god?
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Where is it?
Speaker 2 (32:06):
What?
Speaker 1 (32:08):
When I came to Houston in nineteen eighty nine, we
there was a two Pasos on Kirby north of fifty
nine about Algerian Way? Is the road right there? Because
the restaurant Haven used to be behind there, and there
was a two pastos right there, and that was a
(32:28):
hot spot for us because two pastos was a little
nicer than taco bell. I'm not kidding. Two paystos was great,
but it was arguably, as determined by a court, I'm
not sure I believe it.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
It was a.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
What is the one that Angela Wilson speaks for the
kind of hiring.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Kent.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
It starts with a c Taco Cabana. It was a
kind of a Taco cabana. Competitor in Taco Cabana argued
that it was a ripoff. Not for me to decide,
but I loved two pasos, and he built up two paystos.
He ended up owning uh Marcos, but he ended up
(33:12):
buying the restaurant that wouldn't hire him. Michael Angel's great story.
I would like to hear from you how inflation has
affected your business, whatever filled you're in seven nine one thousand,
Because what inflation has done is skip Hartley's got to
pay more for transmissions, just the way it is. Connie
(33:34):
Stagner's got to pay more for a diamond. Big City
Wings has to pay more for wings. And you don't
want to pass that cost off because people don't want
to pay more money. But that means that that in
some cases you're selling something that you're losing money off.
It's tough. I'm hearing business owners are telling me it
(33:55):
is very tough right now. Inflation is hurting people. This
election matters. We've got to vote for change. Seven one three, nine, nine, nine,
one thousand and by the way, if you're nervous about
calling in, you're going to get business out of it,
because people are going to hear the name of your business.
They'll call us
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