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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Arry Show is.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
On the air.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
I'm a completely hutter idiot. I screwed that whole story up.
That's completely on me.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Nelson Beckett, the ninety year old World War Two veteran
who was murdered by this turd who already had a
criminal record, and the judge let him out. I'm looking
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for the judge's name. I'll see if we can find that,
because I want that judge to be responsible when we
played the story. I don't always watch a story. I
often listen to stories. I try to watch them all,
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but I just I can't. Our team is always pulling
things and sometimes they'll tell me what's in a story
that I don't have a chance to see. Before I
discussed in this case, I didn't realize that the person
talking about Nelson Beckett's death and saying I never imagined
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he would die this way. I don't know why I
thought that the murderer, that that was the murderer. I
think I was so angry at the death of this
man in such an unde dignified manner by a guy
who has brought nothing but pain to other people. This
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turd arsenal. I think that clouded my judgment. The person
saying I never expected him to die this way was
his son. The reason I feel I need to correct
that is now I feel like I've dishonored the son,
and that is not my intention. My intention is to
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express anger at the fact that his father did not
deserve this, and I find that infuriating. I am tired
of people in this country being dishonored by turds. They're
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fellow Democrats, the media, illegal aliens.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
I am tired of it.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
I want it to stop, and I am willing to
do whatever it takes to make it stop. I am
tired of these people. I've had enough, and that means action.
It means action. I genuinely hope that every turd who
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pulls a gun on someone to steal their money, to
steal their car, to break in, I hope every one
of them is killed. And I hope every one of
you answers your jury summons shows up and no bills them,
and every one of you that has an opportunity to
be on a grand jury no bills them. And I
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hope every one of you who serves on a jury
finds the Joe Horns of the world not guilty, and
finds the turds guilty of the highest charge and gives
them the maximum.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
That's the only way that stops.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
There's a lot of turds out there, and there will
be a lot of turds out there, but one by one,
you get them off the streets. One by one, you
get them off the streets, and then they can't hurt
anybody more and we can get back to living.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
One by one, you get the bad.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Teachers out of the schools, and our children can be
safe and free to learn. Oh, it ain't easy, understand folks,
It is not easy. They're going to push back. They
are powerful and passionate.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
They believe in what they do.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
They believe in their right to indoctrinate your children that
boys need to be girls and girls need to be boys.
They believe in their ability, and they're right. They see
it as it's not even there, right, it's their ministry,
it's their purpose in life to confuse your child for life,
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to lead them down a path to suicide, which is
what that off, what's what often happens with early sex changes,
to lead them to a life of mental health problems,
to take a momentary disorientation or confusion and capitalize on
that and push them, encourage them, coax them, seduce them
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into a decision that is irreparable for the rest of
your life. It's a big deal. You buy a car
you don't like, you trade in and get another one.
You're in a bad marriage, you can divorce and start over.
Not easy, but you can do it. You change your sex,
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your very identity. Wow, I see the work before us
to fix our country, being the result of a nation
that has allowed the dust to build up for too long,
and now it is complete and utter filth. If you
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maintain your car, your body, your house, your business consistently,
just a little work consistently will keep you at a
steady pace. But if you put it off, the longer
you put it off. If you do basic strength training,
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exercise and show basic restraint, you don't have to be
on a diet with a name to it, and engage
in basic health habits, you'll probably be in pretty good shape.
But if day in and day out, you let that
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slide a pound a month, so easy to do, a
pound adding a pound a month not even noticeable, and
you wake up and you're twenty and thirty then forty
some cases two three four hundred pounds above where you
graduated high school. Now you've got to do something drastic. Well,
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that's kind of where we are as a nation. This
has degraded and declined to such a point that we're
going to have to take drastic measures, and there's going
to be a lot of screeching. They don't want change.
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They got bail reformed, they don't want to do away
with it. They cheat in the elections. Oh, they're calling Paxston.
There'll be another effort to get out of office, and
they'll use Republicans to do it. There are Republicans in
on this mess. I remember feeling so betrayed when I
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found out when I got on city council that a
longtime Republican donor had funded Lee Brown's mayoral re election
campaign and given him and raised for him a ton
of money. And I confronted him about it when he
asked for a meeting because now I was on city council,
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and he said, you got to pay the play. And
that's been twenty three years ago and it's.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
Still But you talk about good government and Republicans and
conservative Yeah, but I have a business around it there.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
I felt like graveheart when Robert the Bruce Michael bad
Rights Sorr. I listened to your show every day.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
I drive for a living, and I was doing transport
yesterday too, Rosenberg, so I listened to the interview with
the owner of Another Time Soda Fountain. I always packed
my lunch, but I decided to try something different. Absolutely
incredible is all I can say. I did not order
the traditional or the blue plate. I ordered the steak
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and cheese sandwich, which is very much like a Philly
cheese steak, the best Philly cheese steak I've had in forever.
Sandwich and fries so hot it literally would burn my fingers.
The staff was so courteous and professional. I told them
that I was there because of the interview that they
explained that she had been sitting two seats over while
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speaking on your show. I highly recommend this to everyone.
I live in Huffman. I'll be making a trip there
with my grandchildren so they can experience an old fashioned
shop with real food like it.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Used to be.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
How about that Ramon, Oh, we've got Jake the bluebell Man.
He's the bluebell delivery guy, right, he's her Bluebell delivery
guy Jake.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Welcome to the program, sir, Oh, thank you for having me.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
So you're the one that told Renee I was trying
to track her down yesterday.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
Yes, sir, it just happened to work out timing perfect.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
How old are you.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
I am forty four.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Does blue Bell pay well?
Speaker 5 (10:32):
Yes, it does.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Do you know Rob Hungate?
Speaker 5 (10:37):
It sounds very familiar.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
He's a Bluebell guy. I think he's kind of head
a blue Bell for this.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Region, for the Houston region.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
Yes, there he is.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
He looks like looks just like Randy Delay, Tom DeLay's brother.
If you ever met Tom DeLay's brother, Randy Delay, I
have actually mixed the two of.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Them up on occasion.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
Excellent.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Do you know Robate?
Speaker 5 (11:02):
I do not. I'm way out here in Needville And because.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Kind of said you did it?
Speaker 5 (11:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Are you sure I think he's married into the family.
I'm not positive on that. I think he's married into
the family.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
Awesome.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
How long have you worked for them? Did you say?
Speaker 5 (11:21):
I have been here about eight to nine years.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
And what were you doing before that?
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (11:28):
Man, I worked for almost all the distributors, Coke, dr Pepper,
Silver Eagle, and now Bluebell, which is by far the
best company.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
But you can make good money with Silver Eagle, Yes,
and I.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
Did, and it was just time to move on to
another one. And here we are, and what it has
been the best. I drive a box truck. It's just
a six wheel box truck.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
So you're have to load.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
It, yes, sir, and I have ELK.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
So where do you go? You don't go to Brenham.
You'll have a distribution here. I'm assuming.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
Park Row, Katie sexes, Okay.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
So you go to park Road, park Row? And what
time do you get there?
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Every morning?
Speaker 5 (12:19):
It depends. I do not go every morning. I'm a
satellite driver, so I go two to three times a week.
It'll be Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays if we're on AD
or have a special and load it. Then just make
dreams hat and sell.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
All that ice cream and then but you're only fulfilling
the order. You're not you're not in any way selling
per se directly. I mean you're fulfilling the order the
way you would have at Silver Eagle. You can you
can get them to buy more. But you're showing up
with a with a poop sheet that says a manifest
or whatever you call it that says, here's what you
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order and here's what you have.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
I have a computer that has everything that I have
on the truck. So when you go into atb Kroger
that assortment one of those stores, everything that you have
on the truck you can sell to them and you
just try to pack it out as much as possible
for the customer to be to be able to buy
as much as possible. And it's by far the If
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you have a sale, you can sell them more if
you need to, if they need the volume.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
But you're not expected to sell anymore. Are you compensated
more if you upsell?
Speaker 5 (13:37):
It is a percentage, okay of what you sell.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
So when you leave for the day, do you sell
everything on that truck?
Speaker 5 (13:49):
No, sir, you sell as much as you can and
then the next day obviously if you sell as much
as you can, and then you go in and load
the trust. That's the commercial that I live by.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Can you keep some for yourself if you want?
Speaker 5 (14:07):
You can buy it at the plant.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Yes, No, no, Blake, you can't.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Just Hey, guys, I'm gonna sign out for some pistachio almond.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
No. I mean they have sheets at the plant that
you could buy some if you want. Obviously, it's employee pricing.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
So do you drive all the way to Park Road
to get that truck?
Speaker 5 (14:30):
No, sir, I actually park in Rosenberg. So I'm real
close to Renee and I've been servicing her stop for
about eight years and if she forgets to call me,
I will call her see if she needs something. And
like this week, she said she didn't need anything. And
then I heard you on the radio talking about her,
and I'm going, you know what, I had better go
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by there today and make sure she has plenty look
at it. I'm sure after Michael Barry gets done talking
about her, she's gonna get hit this weekend. And I
called Ramon and said, you know what, Ramone, the best
banger in the world, needs to have plenty of ice cream.
So I'm going to load extra heavy this weekend just
for him.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
There you go. I love it. So how many stops
do you make in a typical day.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
It actually depends. Mondays and Thursdays are my heaviest days.
So you're looking at probably fourteen to eighteen, depending and
then you have Tuesdays and Fridays, which I load you
maybe about nine so I can get done earlier, drive
back that distance and fill the truck.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
And then you don't have to give me the actual address.
But what kind of where do you do? You park
the truck at a bluebelt facility?
Speaker 5 (15:44):
I park it at a storage lot.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Oh okayh that's interesting.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
And then and so if you still have ice cream
on it is does it have like a generator on
there that it's running through the night?
Speaker 5 (15:56):
No, sir, it runs just when the truck is parked.
You plug it into the you know, when you're not moving,
and it runs all night long. And then whenever you're
running the route is obviously it's not running. So it'll
get warmer during the day and it'll drop a little
bit and by the time you park it, it's ready
to plug back in and freeze hard rock solid and
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off we go again.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
And you're doing half gallon?
Speaker 3 (16:22):
What size are you primarily delivering, because I'm guessing for
the soda fountain you're doing, I don't know what you
call that size kind of the little barrel.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
That's a three gallon three? And if everything else is
going to be half gallon pints? And then all your novelties,
so are you doing?
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Are you do you do the grocery stores as well.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
Yes, sir, I do AQB and Rosenberg, Kroger and Rosenberg,
Fiesta and Rosenberg, and then we hit gas stations, Mom
and Pops, all your restaurants that are got the ice
cream serves, We do it all.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
I am fascinated by logistics because you know, when you
think about, Okay, they make a really good ice cream,
and you might even consider everything that goes into making
ice cream at the creamery, but the concept of making
a product and getting that product out consistently and everything
that all the hands that have to touch it in
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the meantime and when you're gonna send it and when
they're going to receive it, and all that, especially after
the restaurant business, to see how that works. That is
to me the magic that that the consumer never gets
to see, which.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
I find to be cool as help you well, thank
you for doing that. Jay Show. Let's check the bluebell Man.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
You know you're growing up listening to songs like this,
and then at some point in your life.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
It hits you.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
That she's asking him, when did you decide you wanted
to sleep with me? And you go, wait, how come
I never noticed that before? An email from Randy Pimpler
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with the line Biden nomics takes down the Garden Spot
Cafe in Caldwell, And there is a sign in the
window of presumably the Garden Spot Cafe in Caldwell, handwritten,
and it says going out of business after nine years. Thanks,
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and then below the thanks it says to Biden, as
in thanks to Biden, and then to the right of
that it says vote Trump. Ramon, did you ever eat
at the Garden Spot Cafe in Caldwell?
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Well? Then you're part of the problem, aren't you. Yep?
Speaker 3 (19:03):
I guess we know what that see what happens, don't we?
Andrew writes zar I realized that Kamala Harris's interview skills
are like a fart, silent but deadly to America.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Happy Thursday. Did I get to.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Finish my email from Janet? That drives I guess I did.
I just think it's very quaint. I've never brought my lunch.
I hadn't brought my lunch in a very long time,
but my dad always brought his lunch and it's one
of my great memories in my life. At the we
always ate dinner together as a family, and then when
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we finished eating, my dad would get up and he
would take one of those white what do they call pirene?
I forget the pyres. Maybe that the white kind of
be cardboard.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Not time you check. I'm telling a story about my dad,
and you're so reverend you interrupted.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
I think they're called fire x, but I'm not positive
on that. It's like a white, heavy cardboard material and
it has little compartments, you know, like a food track.
And he would take from the foods. Very disciplined man,
very disciplined man. I wish I could be that disciplined.
Not disciplined on us, I mean discipline in his own
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personal life.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
And he would take.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Whatever we had and you know, fill out the little
plate and then he would pull out the aluminum foil
or as my wife says, aluminium foil, which is how
the Brits say it, oddly enough, and he would take
the aluminium and stretch it over the top of it
and tear it and then he would crimp it all
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the way around the edge, and then he would.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Put it in the refrigerator.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
And it was like this process, very orderly, very My
dad's is very intense about the way he does things,
very focused. There's not stuff spilling out. There's not you know,
everything is very clean. Everything is very tight. And my
mom and my brother and I used to kid about that.
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And then he would put his put the plate in
the in the fridge, and then in the morning he
would take that on his way out, laid laid his
shoes out the same way every day, had this little
rack and he would put his jeans that he was
going to be wearing to work the next day. He
would lay them out, he would lay his shirt out,
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he'd have his shoes boom, and.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
When he woke up, everything was good to go. Mark,
You're on the Michael Berry Show. Welcome to the program, sir, Well,
good morning, how you doing good? What's you got?
Speaker 6 (22:05):
Well, he's kind of rain on my parade with Jake
and the old Time Diner cafe there Rosenberg and Uh,
I was just going to ask you if you had
gone yet.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
It was yesterday.
Speaker 6 (22:20):
When you were talking to her, it sounded like you
were going to actually get out there yesterday, So.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
I was trying to get your word on it.
Speaker 6 (22:26):
But apparently everybody else has been there and gave it
rave reviews. So I take the wife and I will
take a road trip down there and check it out.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Where do you live, so, Mark Lubbick, love it? Where
are you from originally.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Rubbick?
Speaker 1 (22:45):
No, sir, you're from somewhere else. I've got a pronunciation
on things.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Yes, I'm from Connecticut. Are you really don't kill me from? Yeah? Yeah,
all right north of the Mason Dixon Line. I'll come
out and go.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
No, no, I'm not.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
I just you didn't pronounce things the same way as
if you were from Lovebock.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
I'm like Henry Higgins's Yeah, I hear these things.
Speaker 5 (23:10):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
What brought you to love it?
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Yeah? Well I moved to Arizona. I lived there.
Speaker 6 (23:16):
I did about nine years there, six uh, And I
moved out there to ride bike twenty four all year round.
And I met my wife out there, and she is
from Lubbock, so she wanted to move back home.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
So that's how I ended up here.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
And what are you doing?
Speaker 5 (23:32):
Love It? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (23:35):
I worked for the Parks Direct department park respector.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
You're not a rup ranger, are you?
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Yeah? No? Okay, no, I said.
Speaker 6 (23:47):
We have eighty three usual parks in town, and I
have about five contractors out monetary make sure they do
their stuff and moaning and trash and other things and
make sure they do their stuff and write reports and whatnot.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Mark when we.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
When we were contacted by the folks at kf YO,
the station there that carries our station. Uh, most of
our affiliates are for the evening show, not the morning show.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
And the ones that are the morning show have been
on with us for a long time Alabama. And and
so I didn't know, I didn't know what kind of
talk radio market Lubbock was. All I knew of Lubbock
was Texas Tech. And I've had a lot of friends
over the years that are from Texas Tech. And I
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consider Texas Tech graduates to be very similar to Aggie graduates.
And they're they're very passionate about their school. Uh, They're
they're very honorable people. They're very proud Texans. They're not
showy kind of people, but very successful.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
And I have been shocked how much positive reaction we
have gotten from the people of Love. It's become one
of my favorite markets. Some well, something must be right.
You are listening to Michael Barry.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Won't scolded me. Apparently I ended our call before you
got to the point you wanted to make.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
So I would like to offer you.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
That I do appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Make an amendment. I will accept a friendly amendment to
your proposal.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Okay, thank you.
Speaker 6 (25:35):
So I was going to tell you I've ever been
to the China Garden downtown Houston on Leland Street.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Probably I know you're about five hundred tons.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Yes, okay, I love it you agree with me on
that day?
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Do you know Carol?
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Okay, yes, yes, weld you My wife and I freak
with that place.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Okay. Did you know her mom?
Speaker 6 (25:58):
She's a beautiful Yes, yes, I met her mom several times.
She's a wonderful lady. And then wonderful lady, Carol.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
I love an Adoor, but my favorite is Richard, her brother.
And I say that because they both listen and I
want her to have to hear that Richard is my favorite.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Because Richard is a contributor to the show.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
He will often send me when I can't remember the
name of a restaurant or a person, or when something happened,
Richard will send me a message and.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
It'll always be correct. But they're wonderful.
Speaker 5 (26:34):
You know.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
There are so many people more. I don't know. How
did you discover China Garden.
Speaker 6 (26:41):
I was in Houston for a long weekend, and I
googled it and trove there, and we go back several
times a year.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
We'll just trive down there to go eat, spend a night, and.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Come back for folks.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
But actually the daughter, the daughter and I were going
to set up.
Speaker 6 (26:56):
A gig where she was going to send me food
with dry ice and container whenever I wanted it. She would,
I just haven't gotten I know she would. She was
all for it and she was ready to do it
for me, But I just haven't gotten a place around
locally close to her that sells dry ice. I can't
find any place that sells dry ice near her. So
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she lives in Katie, So I looked at I looked
at Katie and carround Houston.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
I just couldn't find anything around there that has dry ice.
So well, keep I know, Todd, isn't it. I googled
dry ice in there and I couldn't find anything.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Keep stay tuned.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
We're on the air for another hour. Somebody will know
where you can find dryes and get her the dryes and.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
She can send it.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
But what I was going to tell you is for
folks that don't know where China Garden is if you
go to a Rockets game and you are let me orient, Uh,
you are east bound? Okay, No, you're you're you're going
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to be coming down. I think I'm gonna get this right.
You're going to be out in front of the George R.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Brown.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
So you're staring at the front of the George R. Brown,
which means you are looking eastward. You are now going
to travel southbound on Plaza Day America's No, you're gonna
have to go up one block maybe. Anyway, when you're
in front of the George R. Brown, go south for
about two or three blocks, and there's one entrance. It
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is the north west entrance to Toyota Center.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
But if you just.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
Keep heading south, the Toyota Center parking and the center
will be on your left, your southbound and then you're
going to make a left and you're going to be
eastbound with the stadium to your left, which is north
of you, and just to your right right there is
going to be a very un assuming, old.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Fashioned Chinese restaurant. Is it Leland? You're so good Ramon.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
It's about once every three years, but you will offer
some bit of insight that I go, oh, that's that's
the reason he's here because that so Yeah, take three
years off. It's fantastic, thank you.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
He's so proud of himself. He's all puffed up. He
doesn't even realize he's been insulted, Like, well, look I did,
Yeah it is Leland. A good call. Did you look
it up? You're lying? I believe you. Okay, if you
said he didn't look it up, you swear, pinky swear, Okay,
it is Leland. I'm I'm pretty sure it's Leland anyway,
right there, and you're right.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Is an old fashion Chinese restaurant in the way that
Chinese restaurants.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Would have been in the fifties.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
It's like they embrace all the stereotypes and have fun
with it.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
And uh uh so.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
The woman who's is very strong personality. Carol Ju is
her name, j I j I U. She's married to
a police officer, and she's just just just this very
strong personality. Everybody in town knows her. She's kind of
a who's who if you go to if you're a
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Rocket season ticket holder, you've been there hundreds of times.
If you're a cop, it's a big cop hangout. So
if you got warrants, out for you arrest. I'd say
stay away from there, but it's a huge, huge cop hangout.
And so there's Carol, and then there was Mama, who
she would call Mama. Everybody knew her as Mama, who
was this old Chinese woman who would be kind of
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fussing around there and she'd come in love on you
and everybody loved her. And then there's Richard, Carol's brother,
and he's the co owner, and he'll be out in
the park parking lot because parking is a big part
of their business. If they don't if they don't watch
their parking, then people will pull in there and park
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for the Rockets game, and then they can't run their restaurant.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
So Richard is.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
Kind of the ambassador outside monitoring and handling the parking
lot and anyway. It's just it's one of those treasures
that when it's gone and one day will all be gone,
but when it's gone, it will be sorely, sorely missed.
It's one of those treasures that you just you don't
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rebuild and you don't make new and you can't just
you know, in the middle of a shopping center, open
another China garden and.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
It be like that.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
It has to be this standalone restaurant that you know,
they don't get rich on the restaurant. I know that,
but it's on a piece of property that's worth I mean,
it would be staggering what this piece of property is worth.
And Carolyn Richards's mom and dad came to this country
when they're when those kids were little. And when you
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talk about an immigrant work ethic, this is not saying
that that white people or black people or Hispanic multi
you know, second third generation. It's not to say that
anybody else doesn't work hard, because people do work hard.
It is to say that there I've just seen so
many of these cases where people come here as immigrants
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and they have nothing. I grew up around a bunch
of Vietnamese. I had a lot of Vietnamese classmates who
were dear friends. And yes they're all named Win. It's yes,
a couple of domes and a couple of trands, but
mostly Wins. Not that kind of trans stop. But to
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see how those people worked. They had plant nurseries, some
of them were fishermen. They run shrimp boats, and some
of them worked on the family. They had a I
think it was Don's nursery and you go there and
you could buy cheap plants.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Working class people, you really don't want the fancy stuff.
But I admire that.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
I admire and Carol and Retchard, I mean they're not
They've lived in this country almost their entire life. They
still work like that, they still have that work ethic,
and I love it.
It's that time time time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Arry Show is.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
On the air.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
I'm a completely hutter idiot. I screwed that whole story up.
That's completely on me.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Nelson Beckett, the ninety year old World War Two veteran
who was murdered by this turd who already had a
criminal record, and the judge let him out. I'm looking
(01:03):
for the judge's name. I'll see if we can find that,
because I want that judge to be responsible when we
played the story. I don't always watch a story. I
often listen to stories. I try to watch them all,
(01:24):
but I just I can't. Our team is always pulling
things and sometimes they'll tell me what's in a story
that I don't have a chance to see. Before I
discussed in this case, I didn't realize that the person
talking about Nelson Beckett's death and saying I never imagined
(01:44):
he would die this way. I don't know why I
thought that the murderer, that that was the murderer. I
think I was so angry at the death of this
man in such an unde dignified manner by a guy
who has brought nothing but pain to other people. This
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turd arsenal. I think that clouded my judgment. The person
saying I never expected him to die this way was
his son. The reason I feel I need to correct
that is now I feel like I've dishonored the son,
and that is not my intention. My intention is to
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express anger at the fact that his father did not
deserve this, and I find that infuriating. I am tired
of people in this country being dishonored by turds. They're
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fellow Democrats, the media, illegal aliens.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
I am tired of it.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
I want it to stop, and I am willing to
do whatever it takes to make it stop. I am
tired of these people. I've had enough, and that means action.
It means action. I genuinely hope that every turd who
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pulls a gun on someone to steal their money, to
steal their car, to break in, I hope every one
of them is killed. And I hope every one of
you answers your jury summons shows up and no bills them,
and every one of you that has an opportunity to
be on a grand jury no bills them. And I
(03:42):
hope every one of you who serves on a jury
finds the Joe Horns of the world not guilty, and
finds the turds guilty of the highest charge and gives
them the maximum.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
That's the only way that stops.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
There's a lot of turds out there, and there will
be a lot of turds out there, but one by one,
you get them off the streets. One by one, you
get them off the streets, and then they can't hurt
anybody more and we can get back to living.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
One by one, you get the bad.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Teachers out of the schools, and our children can be
safe and free to learn. Oh, it ain't easy, understand folks,
It is not easy. They're going to push back. They
are powerful and passionate.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
They believe in what they do.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
They believe in their right to indoctrinate your children that
boys need to be girls and girls need to be boys.
They believe in their ability, and they're right. They see
it as it's not even there, right, it's their ministry,
it's their purpose in life to confuse your child for life,
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to lead them down a path to suicide, which is
what that off, what's what often happens with early sex changes,
to lead them to a life of mental health problems,
to take a momentary disorientation or confusion and capitalize on
that and push them, encourage them, coax them, seduce them
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into a decision that is irreparable for the rest of
your life. It's a big deal. You buy a car
you don't like, you trade in and get another one.
You're in a bad marriage, you can divorce and start over.
Not easy, but you can do it. You change your sex,
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your very identity. Wow, I see the work before us
to fix our country, being the result of a nation
that has allowed the dust to build up for too long,
and now it is complete and utter filth. If you
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maintain your car, your body, your house, your business consistently,
just a little work consistently will keep you at a
steady pace. But if you put it off, the longer
you put it off. If you do basic strength training,
(06:46):
exercise and show basic restraint, you don't have to be
on a diet with a name to it, and engage
in basic health habits, you'll probably be in pretty good shape.
But if day in and day out, you let that
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slide a pound a month, so easy to do, a
pound adding a pound a month not even noticeable, and
you wake up and you're twenty and thirty then forty
some cases two three four hundred pounds above where you
graduated high school. Now you've got to do something drastic. Well,
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that's kind of where we are as a nation. This
has degraded and declined to such a point that we're
going to have to take drastic measures, and there's going
to be a lot of screeching. They don't want change.
(07:49):
They got bail reformed, they don't want to do away
with it. They cheat in the elections. Oh, they're calling Paxston.
There'll be another effort to get out of office, and
they'll use Republicans to do it. There are Republicans in
on this mess. I remember feeling so betrayed when I
(08:11):
found out when I got on city council that a
longtime Republican donor had funded Lee Brown's mayoral re election
campaign and given him and raised for him a ton
of money. And I confronted him about it when he
asked for a meeting because now I was on city council,
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and he said, you got to pay the play. And
that's been twenty three years ago and it's.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
Still But you talk about good government and Republicans and
conservative Yeah, but I have a business around it there.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
I felt like graveheart when Robert the Bruce Michael bad
Rights Sorr. I listened to your show every day.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
I drive for a living, and I was doing transport
yesterday too, Rosenberg, so I listened to the interview with
the owner of Another Time Soda Fountain. I always packed
my lunch, but I decided to try something different. Absolutely
incredible is all I can say. I did not order
the traditional or the blue plate. I ordered the steak
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and cheese sandwich, which is very much like a Philly
cheese steak, the best Philly cheese steak I've had in forever.
Sandwich and fries so hot it literally would burn my fingers.
The staff was so courteous and professional. I told them
that I was there because of the interview that they
explained that she had been sitting two seats over while
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speaking on your show. I highly recommend this to everyone.
I live in Huffman. I'll be making a trip there
with my grandchildren so they can experience an old fashioned
shop with real food like it.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Used to be.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
How about that Ramon, Oh, we've got Jake the bluebell Man.
He's the bluebell delivery guy, right, he's her Bluebell delivery
guy Jake.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Welcome to the program, sir, Oh, thank you for having me.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
So you're the one that told Renee I was trying
to track her down yesterday.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
Yes, sir, it just happened to work out timing perfect.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
How old are you.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
I am forty four.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Does blue Bell pay well?
Speaker 5 (10:32):
Yes, it does.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Do you know Rob Hungate?
Speaker 5 (10:37):
It sounds very familiar.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
He's a Bluebell guy. I think he's kind of head
a blue Bell for this.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Region, for the Houston region.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
Yes, there he is.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
He looks like looks just like Randy Delay, Tom DeLay's brother.
If you ever met Tom DeLay's brother, Randy Delay, I
have actually mixed the two of.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Them up on occasion.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
Excellent.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Do you know Robate?
Speaker 5 (11:02):
I do not. I'm way out here in Needville And because.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Kind of said you did it?
Speaker 5 (11:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Are you sure I think he's married into the family.
I'm not positive on that. I think he's married into
the family.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
Awesome.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
How long have you worked for them? Did you say?
Speaker 5 (11:21):
I have been here about eight to nine years.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
And what were you doing before that?
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (11:28):
Man, I worked for almost all the distributors, Coke, dr Pepper,
Silver Eagle, and now Bluebell, which is by far the
best company.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
But you can make good money with Silver Eagle, Yes,
and I.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
Did, and it was just time to move on to
another one. And here we are, and what it has
been the best. I drive a box truck. It's just
a six wheel box truck.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
So you're have to load.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
It, yes, sir, and I have ELK.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
So where do you go? You don't go to Brenham.
You'll have a distribution here. I'm assuming.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
Park Row, Katie sexes, Okay.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
So you go to park Road, park Row? And what
time do you get there?
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Every morning?
Speaker 5 (12:19):
It depends. I do not go every morning. I'm a
satellite driver, so I go two to three times a week.
It'll be Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays if we're on AD
or have a special and load it. Then just make
dreams hat and sell.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
All that ice cream and then but you're only fulfilling
the order. You're not you're not in any way selling
per se directly. I mean you're fulfilling the order the
way you would have at Silver Eagle. You can you
can get them to buy more. But you're showing up
with a with a poop sheet that says a manifest
or whatever you call it that says, here's what you
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order and here's what you have.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
I have a computer that has everything that I have
on the truck. So when you go into atb Kroger
that assortment one of those stores, everything that you have
on the truck you can sell to them and you
just try to pack it out as much as possible
for the customer to be to be able to buy
as much as possible. And it's by far the If
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you have a sale, you can sell them more if
you need to, if they need the volume.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
But you're not expected to sell anymore. Are you compensated
more if you upsell?
Speaker 5 (13:37):
It is a percentage, okay of what you sell.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
So when you leave for the day, do you sell
everything on that truck?
Speaker 5 (13:49):
No, sir, you sell as much as you can and
then the next day obviously if you sell as much
as you can, and then you go in and load
the trust. That's the commercial that I live by.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Can you keep some for yourself if you want?
Speaker 5 (14:07):
You can buy it at the plant.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Yes, No, no, Blake, you can't.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Just Hey, guys, I'm gonna sign out for some pistachio almond.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
No. I mean they have sheets at the plant that
you could buy some if you want. Obviously, it's employee pricing.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
So do you drive all the way to Park Road
to get that truck?
Speaker 5 (14:30):
No, sir, I actually park in Rosenberg. So I'm real
close to Renee and I've been servicing her stop for
about eight years and if she forgets to call me,
I will call her see if she needs something. And
like this week, she said she didn't need anything. And
then I heard you on the radio talking about her,
and I'm going, you know what, I had better go
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by there today and make sure she has plenty look
at it. I'm sure after Michael Barry gets done talking
about her, she's gonna get hit this weekend. And I
called Ramon and said, you know what, Ramone, the best
banger in the world, needs to have plenty of ice cream.
So I'm going to load extra heavy this weekend just
for him.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
There you go. I love it. So how many stops
do you make in a typical day.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
It actually depends. Mondays and Thursdays are my heaviest days.
So you're looking at probably fourteen to eighteen, depending and
then you have Tuesdays and Fridays, which I load you
maybe about nine so I can get done earlier, drive
back that distance and fill the truck.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
And then you don't have to give me the actual address.
But what kind of where do you do? You park
the truck at a bluebelt facility?
Speaker 5 (15:44):
I park it at a storage lot.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Oh okayh that's interesting.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
And then and so if you still have ice cream
on it is does it have like a generator on
there that it's running through the night?
Speaker 5 (15:56):
No, sir, it runs just when the truck is parked.
You plug it into the you know, when you're not moving,
and it runs all night long. And then whenever you're
running the route is obviously it's not running. So it'll
get warmer during the day and it'll drop a little
bit and by the time you park it, it's ready
to plug back in and freeze hard rock solid and
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off we go again.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
And you're doing half gallon?
Speaker 3 (16:22):
What size are you primarily delivering, because I'm guessing for
the soda fountain you're doing, I don't know what you
call that size kind of the little barrel.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
That's a three gallon three? And if everything else is
going to be half gallon pints? And then all your novelties,
so are you doing?
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Are you do you do the grocery stores as well.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
Yes, sir, I do AQB and Rosenberg, Kroger and Rosenberg,
Fiesta and Rosenberg, and then we hit gas stations, Mom
and Pops, all your restaurants that are got the ice
cream serves, We do it all.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
I am fascinated by logistics because you know, when you
think about, Okay, they make a really good ice cream,
and you might even consider everything that goes into making
ice cream at the creamery, but the concept of making
a product and getting that product out consistently and everything
that all the hands that have to touch it in
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the meantime and when you're gonna send it and when
they're going to receive it, and all that, especially after
the restaurant business, to see how that works. That is
to me the magic that that the consumer never gets
to see, which.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
I find to be cool as help you well, thank
you for doing that. Jay Show. Let's check the bluebell Man.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
You know you're growing up listening to songs like this,
and then at some point in your life.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
It hits you.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
That she's asking him, when did you decide you wanted
to sleep with me? And you go, wait, how come
I never noticed that before? An email from Randy Pimpler
(18:17):
with the line Biden nomics takes down the Garden Spot
Cafe in Caldwell, And there is a sign in the
window of presumably the Garden Spot Cafe in Caldwell, handwritten,
and it says going out of business after nine years. Thanks,
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and then below the thanks it says to Biden, as
in thanks to Biden, and then to the right of
that it says vote Trump. Ramon, did you ever eat
at the Garden Spot Cafe in Caldwell?
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Well? Then you're part of the problem, aren't you. Yep?
Speaker 3 (19:03):
I guess we know what that see what happens, don't we?
Andrew writes zar I realized that Kamala Harris's interview skills
are like a fart, silent but deadly to America.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Happy Thursday. Did I get to.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Finish my email from Janet? That drives I guess I did.
I just think it's very quaint. I've never brought my lunch.
I hadn't brought my lunch in a very long time,
but my dad always brought his lunch and it's one
of my great memories in my life. At the we
always ate dinner together as a family, and then when
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we finished eating, my dad would get up and he
would take one of those white what do they call pirene?
I forget the pyres. Maybe that the white kind of
be cardboard.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Not time you check. I'm telling a story about my dad,
and you're so reverend you interrupted.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
I think they're called fire x, but I'm not positive
on that. It's like a white, heavy cardboard material and
it has little compartments, you know, like a food track.
And he would take from the foods. Very disciplined man,
very disciplined man. I wish I could be that disciplined.
Not disciplined on us, I mean discipline in his own
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personal life.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
And he would take.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Whatever we had and you know, fill out the little
plate and then he would pull out the aluminum foil
or as my wife says, aluminium foil, which is how
the Brits say it, oddly enough, and he would take
the aluminium and stretch it over the top of it
and tear it and then he would crimp it all
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the way around the edge, and then he would.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Put it in the refrigerator.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
And it was like this process, very orderly, very My
dad's is very intense about the way he does things,
very focused. There's not stuff spilling out. There's not you know,
everything is very clean. Everything is very tight. And my
mom and my brother and I used to kid about that.
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And then he would put his put the plate in
the in the fridge, and then in the morning he
would take that on his way out, laid laid his
shoes out the same way every day, had this little
rack and he would put his jeans that he was
going to be wearing to work the next day. He
would lay them out, he would lay his shirt out,
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he'd have his shoes boom, and.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
When he woke up, everything was good to go. Mark,
You're on the Michael Berry Show. Welcome to the program, sir, Well,
good morning, how you doing good? What's you got?
Speaker 6 (22:05):
Well, he's kind of rain on my parade with Jake
and the old Time Diner cafe there Rosenberg and Uh,
I was just going to ask you if you had
gone yet.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
It was yesterday.
Speaker 6 (22:20):
When you were talking to her, it sounded like you
were going to actually get out there yesterday, So.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
I was trying to get your word on it.
Speaker 6 (22:26):
But apparently everybody else has been there and gave it
rave reviews. So I take the wife and I will
take a road trip down there and check it out.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Where do you live, so, Mark Lubbick, love it? Where
are you from originally.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Rubbick?
Speaker 1 (22:45):
No, sir, you're from somewhere else. I've got a pronunciation
on things.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Yes, I'm from Connecticut. Are you really don't kill me from? Yeah? Yeah,
all right north of the Mason Dixon Line. I'll come
out and go.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
No, no, I'm not.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
I just you didn't pronounce things the same way as
if you were from Lovebock.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
I'm like Henry Higgins's Yeah, I hear these things.
Speaker 5 (23:10):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
What brought you to love it?
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Yeah? Well I moved to Arizona. I lived there.
Speaker 6 (23:16):
I did about nine years there, six uh, And I
moved out there to ride bike twenty four all year round.
And I met my wife out there, and she is
from Lubbock, so she wanted to move back home.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
So that's how I ended up here.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
And what are you doing?
Speaker 5 (23:32):
Love It? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (23:35):
I worked for the Parks Direct department park respector.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
You're not a rup ranger, are you?
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Yeah? No? Okay, no, I said.
Speaker 6 (23:47):
We have eighty three usual parks in town, and I
have about five contractors out monetary make sure they do
their stuff and moaning and trash and other things and
make sure they do their stuff and write reports and whatnot.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Mark when we.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
When we were contacted by the folks at kf YO,
the station there that carries our station. Uh, most of
our affiliates are for the evening show, not the morning show.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
And the ones that are the morning show have been
on with us for a long time Alabama. And and
so I didn't know, I didn't know what kind of
talk radio market Lubbock was. All I knew of Lubbock
was Texas Tech. And I've had a lot of friends
over the years that are from Texas Tech. And I
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consider Texas Tech graduates to be very similar to Aggie graduates.
And they're they're very passionate about their school. Uh, They're
they're very honorable people. They're very proud Texans. They're not
showy kind of people, but very successful.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
And I have been shocked how much positive reaction we
have gotten from the people of Love. It's become one
of my favorite markets. Some well, something must be right.
You are listening to Michael Barry.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Won't scolded me. Apparently I ended our call before you
got to the point you wanted to make.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
So I would like to offer you.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
That I do appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Make an amendment. I will accept a friendly amendment to
your proposal.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Okay, thank you.
Speaker 6 (25:35):
So I was going to tell you I've ever been
to the China Garden downtown Houston on Leland Street.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Probably I know you're about five hundred tons.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Yes, okay, I love it you agree with me on
that day?
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Do you know Carol?
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Okay, yes, yes, weld you My wife and I freak
with that place.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Okay. Did you know her mom?
Speaker 6 (25:58):
She's a beautiful Yes, yes, I met her mom several times.
She's a wonderful lady. And then wonderful lady, Carol.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
I love an Adoor, but my favorite is Richard, her brother.
And I say that because they both listen and I
want her to have to hear that Richard is my favorite.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Because Richard is a contributor to the show.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
He will often send me when I can't remember the
name of a restaurant or a person, or when something happened,
Richard will send me a message and.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
It'll always be correct. But they're wonderful.
Speaker 5 (26:34):
You know.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
There are so many people more. I don't know. How
did you discover China Garden.
Speaker 6 (26:41):
I was in Houston for a long weekend, and I
googled it and trove there, and we go back several
times a year.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
We'll just trive down there to go eat, spend a night, and.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Come back for folks.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
But actually the daughter, the daughter and I were going
to set up.
Speaker 6 (26:56):
A gig where she was going to send me food
with dry ice and container whenever I wanted it. She would,
I just haven't gotten I know she would. She was
all for it and she was ready to do it
for me, But I just haven't gotten a place around
locally close to her that sells dry ice. I can't
find any place that sells dry ice near her. So
(27:17):
she lives in Katie, So I looked at I looked
at Katie and carround Houston.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
I just couldn't find anything around there that has dry ice.
So well, keep I know, Todd, isn't it. I googled
dry ice in there and I couldn't find anything.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Keep stay tuned.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
We're on the air for another hour. Somebody will know
where you can find dryes and get her the dryes and.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
She can send it.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
But what I was going to tell you is for
folks that don't know where China Garden is if you
go to a Rockets game and you are let me orient, Uh,
you are east bound? Okay, No, you're you're you're going
(28:01):
to be coming down. I think I'm gonna get this right.
You're going to be out in front of the George R.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Brown.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
So you're staring at the front of the George R. Brown,
which means you are looking eastward. You are now going
to travel southbound on Plaza Day America's No, you're gonna
have to go up one block maybe. Anyway, when you're
in front of the George R. Brown, go south for
about two or three blocks, and there's one entrance. It
(28:33):
is the north west entrance to Toyota Center.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
But if you just.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
Keep heading south, the Toyota Center parking and the center
will be on your left, your southbound and then you're
going to make a left and you're going to be
eastbound with the stadium to your left, which is north
of you, and just to your right right there is
going to be a very un assuming, old.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Fashioned Chinese restaurant. Is it Leland? You're so good Ramon.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
It's about once every three years, but you will offer
some bit of insight that I go, oh, that's that's
the reason he's here because that so Yeah, take three
years off. It's fantastic, thank you.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
He's so proud of himself. He's all puffed up. He
doesn't even realize he's been insulted, Like, well, look I did,
Yeah it is Leland. A good call. Did you look
it up? You're lying? I believe you. Okay, if you
said he didn't look it up, you swear, pinky swear, Okay,
it is Leland. I'm I'm pretty sure it's Leland anyway,
right there, and you're right.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Is an old fashion Chinese restaurant in the way that
Chinese restaurants.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Would have been in the fifties.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
It's like they embrace all the stereotypes and have fun
with it.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
And uh uh so.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
The woman who's is very strong personality. Carol Ju is
her name, j I j I U. She's married to
a police officer, and she's just just just this very
strong personality. Everybody in town knows her. She's kind of
a who's who if you go to if you're a
(30:24):
Rocket season ticket holder, you've been there hundreds of times.
If you're a cop, it's a big cop hangout. So
if you got warrants, out for you arrest. I'd say
stay away from there, but it's a huge, huge cop hangout.
And so there's Carol, and then there was Mama, who
she would call Mama. Everybody knew her as Mama, who
was this old Chinese woman who would be kind of
(30:47):
fussing around there and she'd come in love on you
and everybody loved her. And then there's Richard, Carol's brother,
and he's the co owner, and he'll be out in
the park parking lot because parking is a big part
of their business. If they don't if they don't watch
their parking, then people will pull in there and park
(31:11):
for the Rockets game, and then they can't run their restaurant.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
So Richard is.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
Kind of the ambassador outside monitoring and handling the parking
lot and anyway. It's just it's one of those treasures
that when it's gone and one day will all be gone,
but when it's gone, it will be sorely, sorely missed.
It's one of those treasures that you just you don't
(31:36):
rebuild and you don't make new and you can't just
you know, in the middle of a shopping center, open
another China garden and.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
It be like that.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
It has to be this standalone restaurant that you know,
they don't get rich on the restaurant. I know that,
but it's on a piece of property that's worth I mean,
it would be staggering what this piece of property is worth.
And Carolyn Richards's mom and dad came to this country
when they're when those kids were little. And when you
(32:06):
talk about an immigrant work ethic, this is not saying
that that white people or black people or Hispanic multi
you know, second third generation. It's not to say that
anybody else doesn't work hard, because people do work hard.
It is to say that there I've just seen so
many of these cases where people come here as immigrants
(32:28):
and they have nothing. I grew up around a bunch
of Vietnamese. I had a lot of Vietnamese classmates who
were dear friends. And yes they're all named Win. It's yes,
a couple of domes and a couple of trands, but
mostly Wins. Not that kind of trans stop. But to
(32:52):
see how those people worked. They had plant nurseries, some
of them were fishermen. They run shrimp boats, and some
of them worked on the family. They had a I
think it was Don's nursery and you go there and
you could buy cheap plants.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Working class people, you really don't want the fancy stuff.
But I admire that.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
I admire and Carol and Retchard, I mean they're not
They've lived in this country almost their entire life. They
still work like that, they still have that work ethic,
and I love it.
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