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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Verie show is on the air. It's called a
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quarter system a moment, so James writes. I graduated from
a college in Georgia. Our system was called the quarter system.
The normal year ran from after Labor Day and ended
in June with three quarters, and summer school was the
fourth quarter. Okay, I was thinking trimester, but it's quarters. Okay.
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So City of Houston Press release, City of Houston official release.
City to begin towing and empowerment of non permitted petticabs
beginning October one. Now listen to this. The reason they
say is people are coming in from outside and they're dangerous.
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Wait a second, so you have to have the proper
papers to operate the petty cab because the locals who
are supposed to be here are safer. Oh gosh, that
sounds like illegal immigration. Are we going to start caring
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about that now? Situations becomes so dangerous at the venues
petition in the City of Houston to take action. So
we're we're really concerned about dangerous petty cabs from outside
harming the local petticab into street and the community. But
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we're not worried about illegal aliens. Why can't you apply
the petticab logic to Oh, I don't know, the human
being logic. That feels like that might actually make some
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sense operating or brought in or in a quick profit
during the event at whatever cost to the profit to
the public. Oh yeah, well, well we we kind of
heard that same logic, folks. Is that our petticab guy?
All right, we got it. Somebody says his brother's a
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marine and a petticab. We're trying to get him. Mike
flew the helicopter for Kilt. Is that right, Mike, you're
on the mire.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
It's correct. Hey, good morning, Michael. Yeah, I heard you
talking about that. That's our great old memories. Yeah, I was.
I had a helicopter company in the late seventies and
Dicky Rosenthale from Kilt called me one day. I went
down and talked to him and we did a helicopter
to do traffic in Houston. It was the first time
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the helicopter had been used in Houston, and the Houston
Police Department used to fly the small little helicopters in
the mornings and afternoons to kind of help with traffic.
And be somewhere. Because the helicopters were so slow, they
needed too, so we put the helicopter together. Believe it
or not, Pearl Beer sponsored the helicopter for this almost
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four years. It lasted. Tried doing that in today's world.
Pearl Beer sponsored the kilicopter KILT and I was the
first pilot. I flew that job by myself for the
first year, which was six hours a day, five days
a week, and eventually we got a second pilot. But
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the first person to do traffic in a helicopter and
Houston was Johnny Green. I was the pilot. Johnny Green
was a reporter and after about a year she had
had all she wanted to find around Loop sixteen, so
she quit and they hired Dave Hale, who had flown
an airplane doing traffic originally in Houston. But Dicky Rosendale
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was mister radio in the nineteen sixties and seventies in Houston.
And we had Stevens, Steven's and Freud. I think they
were after or before they were I guess Kot kept
the morning show?
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Was it Stevens and Fruit or Hudson and Harrigan.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Hudson Harrigan, Yes, right, kept Hudson and Harrigan. And the
only bad thing was about the time I started flying
the traffic, they switched over to that old country music
that didn't say, but if you play the record backwards,
your wife will come home and you'll play drinking.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Yeah, that kind of music. And that wasn't my kind
of music, Brett. I got to listen to it anyway.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Yeah, where did you learn to fly helicopters?
Speaker 2 (05:14):
I was in the United States Army and I flew
helicopters in Vietnam. I was a combat helicopter pilot. And
I continued on, So here's.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
My point work. This guy's been on the phone with
us for three minutes. Some guy you know does a
minor little thing and they'll tell you all about it.
This guy's a helicopter pilot in a brutal war. I mean,
think of what he's seen. And if I don't ask
him that question, he doesn't tell us that that's the
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guy you want to. That's the guy you want to.
You don't know who the guy in front of you
at the grocery store, you don't know what he's the
walk he's walked. I mean, how interesting is this guy
compared to US, and then what year did you come
back from Vietnam?
Speaker 2 (05:58):
I came back and late nineteen sixty nine. I spent
the year of nineteen sixty nine in Vietnam at July
in northern southern Encore. It was a terrible year. War
is terrible, war's health, all of those things that people say,
and yep, I have pts team Irdle. But the good
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thing is I survived. A bunch of friends of mine survived.
We ended up working a contract in Hawaii together forty
years later. So the sunds you make in war sometimes
that's your best friends in here in entire life.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
But I ended up my name was Kamakazi Mic flying
the helicopter because the first morning, the top of the
buildings downtown Houston were in the clouds, and I was
determined we were not going to not fly on the
first day, So I flew around the loop around downtown
for about two hours, and Hudson and Harrigan named me
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Kamakazi Mic. So I was I'm a cousin Mark. But
I went to Phoenix in the mid eighties and I
worked for a Channel twelve there. I flew Sky twelve
for Channel twelve for fourteen years and my name it's
Channel twelve in Phoenix was Sky twelve. So I've had
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quite a wonderful life. It's a you can't believe one
person can do the things I did and meet the
people I met, and it's like it's like I lived
a fantasy life.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
But what a great perspective.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
The war was hell, but the more learning how to fly.
Because I couldn't afford to learn how to fly. I
joined the Army and the United States Army taught me
to fly, which was my career. After that, I retired
after forty eight years. Never had an accident, never had
an incident, and I last few years of flying, I
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did the MS and that was I wanted to do
it to goodbye, something that I could do. That's what
I did, so so job I wanted.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
I'm so glad you called. Hey. We were both kind
of right, but you were definitely right. I didn't live
through it. I've just studied Houston radio. Uh, Todd Reynolds,
old radio guy, ad agency guy. Uh. He sent me
a message and said Stevens in Pruitt were the original
Hudson and Harrigan. So I believe the way that worked
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is Hudson and Harrigan was a franchise. It was the
station owned the names Hudson and Harrigan. That way, if
they ever fired you, or you ever quit on them,
they could just replace you, which of course they did.
And when Stevens and Quitt left, as I understand it,
then they became Stephens. Put. I'm going to send you
a gift card to Gringos. I want to see a
photo of you enjoying a meal from me and Russell.
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You have made our day with your calls. Are You're
not showing anywhere? Even if Trump does, You're not. Don't laugh.
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You know who does a great cover of this song Chance?
It's a party favorite of telling.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
What if I muse I'm a lofiest still trying to
get up there, brit big kil of hole.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Oh this is your nation.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
I realized quickly when I knew I shoot, that was
made up.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Of this trouble A man or whatever I mean into it.
Crist Times, wait on.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
Mine, bitch, just getting on walt in mom. I am
feeling a little cana.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
I love the work. Used to work Julia in the
middle of the South.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
I take a dip and I can't really and I
screat the top of my lungs.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
What's going on here?
Speaker 1 (10:31):
A damn?
Speaker 2 (10:39):
I did.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Be all damn.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
You, what's going on?
Speaker 1 (11:00):
So a fellow named David pop Off, that's kind of
a cool name, wrote, call my baby brother. It says
he's a resting marine. I think he means retired marine
or maybe he's a marine that's sleeping. And it seems
like a weird description, doesn't he's arresting marine. He's always
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a marine. But run oh oh, so that's a marine
because you don't say former marine. You know what, I've
never heard that term. If that's a if that's the term,
and none of my marine buddies have taught me that
term already, because you know, I love love the jargon
and vernacular because then I get to throw it in.
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Maybe that's what I didn't think about that, HM, call
my baby brother who is arresting marine and petticab driver.
He's been a petty cap driver for years and he
works every Astros game and he travels with his all
over the country for major sporting events. Really, we just
load up your cabin a trailer. I guess dude is
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my hero. He would be a great interview. His name
is Joseph or Tease or Joseph or Tees. I don't know.
It's j O s e f like he's German or something.
I've never seen it, Joseph Y. It's weird how many
Mexicans have names from other cultures and countries that are
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just kind of odd, and you wonder where that comes from.
But anyway, the number he gave we just ring and ring,
So if somebody knows him, we'd sure like to get
a hold of him. A funny thing on the on
the Sky Mike story, so Eddie Martini said that Sky
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might will randomly, I've not heard this, will randomly give
a traffic update on the Crescent City Connection bridge over
the Mississippi River in New Orleans. So Eddie, who's his
boss's boss's boss, asked him, why do you do that?
Because Eddie would have secretly loved it being from New Orleans,
and he said, I need to respect my caller that
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called in the update. So if the guy calls in
the update in New Orleans, he goes on the air
and says it in Houston. He says, So Eddie syne
a quote, we're kind of slow coming over from Algiers
it's heavy. Right after General de gaul Parkway, getting over
to the East Bank from the West Bank. He lose
about ten minutes going that way Ponta Trains, finally running
back to normal. You heard him do that. That's hilarious.
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I did not know he does that. I did not
know he does that. Jim Mudd took his dad to
see Reagan yesterday, and so I asked him how it went.
Tell me about your outing with your pops. Jim's mother's
name was Loretta, same as mine. They're the lost Lorettas
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of our lives. So we talk about our dads now.
And he took his dad to see Reagan yesterday. We
were going to the four o'clock and I said, how'd
your outing? Would dad go? And he said it was great.
We watched the movie and then we went to I Hop.
Who goes to I Hoop at seven o'clock at night?
So I'm waiting on his email response as to what
he ordered at I Hop. That's oh, he said, okay,
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I said, what did you? He said, we got there
at seven o'clock. I always get breakfast. He got the
chicken fajita omelet. That's weird. Yeah, that's a mother and
child reunion kind of stuff. The movie was told from
the perspective of an old KGB agent and how one
man brought down the USSR. Our good friend Nick Sircy
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played James Baker. Movie was pretty good, That's what I've heard.
It's not a great movie, but it's a good movie.
Is that, Joseph? Why'd you put Joe on the screen?
He introduced himself as Joe Joe. Yes, Hello, are you
Joe or Joseph?
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (15:08):
It's funny, my my brother, I think it jured is?
Does he? My family all refers to me as Joseph.
Out in the streets, out in the world, run around,
everybody calls me Joe.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Can I call you Joseph? Because I got a lot
of Joe's while like a good.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Joseph, Joseph works as long to pronounce it with the
F on the end.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Yeah. Yeah, that's why I was wondering about that. Is
that kind of some German connection or what's going on there?
Speaker 3 (15:31):
My mother's grandfather Eastern European Jewish and she named me
after him.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
How many famous Jewish baseball players can you name?
Speaker 3 (15:44):
None? Right now, it's too early in the morning. What
o Hercheiser that sounds Jewish? Who is oral Hercheiser? That
sounds kind of Jewish?
Speaker 1 (15:53):
He's not odd, No, But Alex Bregman is there you go,
Sandy Hank Greenberg, There you go, Jason green Yeah, Kevin Euclis.
Somebody told me eucles is married to Tom Brady's sister.
Did you know that? I didn't realize that. Yeah, yeah,
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Why does your brother have a different last name from you?
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Different fathers? Okay, same mother?
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Would you rather be Joseph Ortiz or Joseph pop Off?
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Ortiz wants oh, Artie, that's my father father's name.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
I know, But in terms of introducing yourself, you know,
you could be Joe or Joseph, like if you could
just pick a name that kind of rolls off the tongue.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
I've been Ortiz my entire life.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
You know, how is life different for you when you
when you introduce yourself or somebody reads your name off
a list or whatever. How would you say life is
different if you're Ortiz versus Smith.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
I've never been Smith's, so I can't say. In a
city like Houston, with so many people everywhere, it's Orties.
It's almost standard, you know, across all racial barriers across
all or whatever. I've never found any kind of issue.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Hmm, what is a resting marine?
Speaker 3 (17:19):
What's that?
Speaker 1 (17:20):
What is a resting marine?
Speaker 3 (17:24):
I'm sorry, my hearing kind off. Can you say that again?
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Your brother's email said, call my brother, he's a resting marine.
That's not a term, right. Maybe he meant retired.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Oh uh, maybe I'm not retired, but I did serve
four years, honorable discharge, all that good stuff. Maybe who
knows what he meant, but yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Okay, I didn't know if that was We thought maybe
that was a term for a marine that is no
longer serving.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Usually what we say is, uh, nobody's ever an ex marine.
Everybody is ah, you're always once a marine, always a marine.
So even if you've been.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Out right, yeah, when did you serve?
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Late nineties, late nineties, fust time, nothing happened.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
How much can you make on a good night on
your petticap?
Speaker 3 (18:14):
It really varies. It's almost not even about the night,
it's almost about the entire year. Because you'll have something
like let's say baseball season, you'll have seven games in
a row, but then you'll have seven games are out
of town. You'll have a really busy March with the Rodeo,
but then you'll have a very slow December with nothing
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going on.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Hold on, just a second, Joseph with an f I
have lots of petticap questions.
Speaker 6 (18:39):
Hold on, that actually might be one of the smartest
systems the Michael Arry Show, because Russia cannot hack a
piece of paper.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
I've touched the nerve with Jewish baseball players. I had
completely forgotten Rod Carew converted jew O. J. Simpson not
a Jewel.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
But guess who is Hall of Famer Rod Carew? He converted.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
I had completely forgotten. You know, Rod Carew started at
second base, a left handed black Jewish second baseman. And
may I say Hall of Famer Rod Carew? Is there's
a YouTube side I have a subscription to UH and
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it'd be like the player's name had an insane prime
of his career or whatever. And I went back and
watched Bagwell the other day because I missed most of
Bagwell because it was in the nineties. I don't think
I ever realized because I hadn't gone back and looked
at his numbers how good Bagwell was for how long
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that guy and if he hadn't kept getting beaned in
the elbow. That's why he had to end up wearing
that Bagwell was I ran his numbers against other players.
There's an argument to be made that for about a
five six year period, Jeff Bagwell was the best base
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was the best player in all of baseball statistically. There's
an argument to be made. And you think to yourself,
if he could do that with that horrible stance he had,
imagine if he had a regular stance. I don't know
where that came from. It's a funny story. He also
started at third base, which was kind of funny. Blew
Did you know that they started at third base? He
blew his shoulder out, so they moved him over to first. Yeah, no,
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true story, Joe Joseph. Yes, So how did you get in,
Joseph the Resting Marine? How did you get into the
petticab walked me through you coming back from the Marines?
Speaker 4 (21:22):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Well, I was living in Galveston Island and uh it
was right after Ike and the Pleasure Pier opened up,
you know where the old Flagship Hotel was, and then
they built the amusement park there and I saw pettycabs
out there. I did not know what they were, but
I am an avid bike rider, and as an avid
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bike rider, I was interested and I started asking around
and Gallason's small place. So a friend of a friend like, yeah,
I know who runs it, and uh, I was introduced
to the owner of that company, Travis Towers Lone starle
Bike Cab and I have since twenty twelve been a
Petticap ever since.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
So you were introduced to the what's the guy's.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
Name, Travis Stowers and what's his company called? Lone Star
Bike Cap.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
I wonder if I've met him. That name sounds very
familiar to me.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
And possibly he keeps himself out there.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Possibly was he in Galveston or in Houston?
Speaker 3 (22:28):
He was based out of Houston, but at the time
he was company based in Houston, but he himself was
moving to the island.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
So did you call him and say, hey, you're the
petticap guy, like to talk to you? Or what what happened?
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Now? I just had a friend, you know, I was
talking about it as a bike rider. I was talking
about it and somebody's like, oh, I know who runs it?
And I wasn't introduced to him. First. I was introduced
to some of the crew and then within a week
or two I met Travis after working.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Yeah, so you started without owning a petticab, You just
went to work there. Yes, what does that split look like?
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Back then? You would see maybe if you're renting a bike,
it might be twenty five percent of whatever you make,
or twenty five percent of whatever the averages of all
the riders that night. So if you have ten riders
average it out there, it made twenty five percent of that.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Okay, I know you it's over a season, but on
an average night, there has to be kind of an
average number. Two hundred dollars, three hundred dollars, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
I'd say, yeah, two to three is about ballpark. Yeah,
you ever make Speaking of baseball, it has happened. If
you really got there and hustle, it can happen. It
can happen. How many hours, especially if good Oh sorry,
I'll say I would say especially if it's a really
good If the Dodgers are in town on a weekend,
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look to make better money because everybody's coming to the game.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
To see the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Well, any high profile team that comes through town, if
it's a rivalry or a high profile team and it's
on the weekend. Then everybody's coming because you get the
local team fans. Yeah, coming because you want to see
the Astros beat the Rangers. You want to see the
Astros beat the Yankees. You want to see Astros meat
the Dodgers. But if you're a fan of that out
of town team, then you're coming for sure because it's
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your chance to see them when they come to Houston.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
I know you travel around. You've ever been to Chavezravin
in LA? See the Dodgers game? Uh?
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Funny enough because my brother and I were born in
Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
It's my very first go ahead.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
I'm sorry, yeah, yeah, my very first baseball game I
ever saw. My godfather took me to a Dodgers game.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
It's a it's a really cool stadium. I haven't been
to every stadium in the country, but I try to
go to stadiums when I'm in a market. If it's
baseball season and the weather's good, and it's a stadium,
especially one of the historic stadiums. It's a great stadium.
So your brother said, or was it your brother? Maybe
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I can't remember as you or your brother because the
stories are running together that you load up your petticab
and take it around for events outside of the city.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Yes, yes, I will travel with it for sure.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
And so how do you how do you carry it?
What do you you put in the back of your
truck or what?
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Well, a lot of the cabs because these things have
existed since as far as I know, a history of
the nineties, and by then all the most of the
kinks are worked out. So people usually build these bikes
to set upright on the back end, so you would
just lift it up off its wheels onto its back end,
and they're made to fit almost like lego pieces, fit
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right in tight with each other.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Yeah. Uh.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
You can put them on a trailer and add some
toe straps to keep them down, and then you can
transport them.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Yeah, like a horse that raises up on its haunches exactly.
So you don't own your petticab now you still drive
one of Travis's petticabs.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
No, I do own now I'm cell phoned I there
there's a hello.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Yeah, hold on saying that's the muss, not a rating.
Hold on just a second, Joseph. When it comes to
the economy, do you have any Americans four years ago?
Speaker 6 (26:44):
So I was raised as a middle class kid.
Speaker 5 (27:06):
You ever take your own food to Dodger Stadium. You
see him making food, You're like, oh, man, I don't
want to go, then don't go. And you tell them
you have hot dogs over there, Grandma local two fifty foreny.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Twy for a weeding at that.
Speaker 7 (27:31):
With two fifty, you can get a loaf for bread
and baloni out on that. We can all lead, not
just you, mister selfish? Why are you crying for? You
didn't get a wheenie? You go with the biggest Safeway
sack man in a two gallon punch and two slurpee cups.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
The security guard.
Speaker 6 (27:57):
Can I look in their miss you start laughing, Oh Jesus, yes,
the wet back section is over there. Over there, all
the Mexican sat on the left field pavilion. That's why
all the Mexican sat left field. And you'd sit there
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and you go, how come we don't sit over there?
Speaker 7 (28:21):
You're not playing card, as I say them, And they
would always tell me, take your glove, me.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Take care of what. The one day.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
They don't hit any.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Where we sit.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
It was a moment in time where George Lopez was
the funniest man in America and then he went off
the deep end and became an Obama nut, and he
had a lot of health problems along the way as well.
I think that kind of derailed his career. But he
I can't even I can't even look at him anymore.
He he looks like an aged Fernando Vealezuela now, and
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I just hate everything he stands for. Joseph the petty
cab driver, Yes, where do you find a peta cab?
Like when you went, I'm sorry, you were about to
say something? Oh no, no, So where do you find
a petticab to buy?
Speaker 3 (29:22):
It's a thing about the petticab world is it's pretty small.
If you don't know someone, you know someone to know
someone nationwide. Because these are fairly specialty machines. You don't
just find them at a store. So you get to
make connections. You get to meet people. Yeah, somebody my
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cab specifically they own. Now, there's a guy out of Sacramento, California.
Smash is his name, and he makes Smash cabs. And
so the guy Travis I talked about earlier put me
in contact with Smash and I was able to buy
my own cab from Smash. And how much though there's
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you can find a new petticab generally around five thousand,
and you can find some used ones for depending on
the wear and tear, two thousand to four thousand.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Okay, wait a minute, Joe, there's no engine on it.
How's it five thousand dollars?
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Because it's such a specialty item. If you think about
like a normal bicycle, if you buy high end bicycles,
you can find some around those ranges. But because this
is such a specialty item, there's not like there's a
ton of cabs out there to pick and choose from.
So a lot of times when they're built, they're built
specifically right then and there like the guy. A lot
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of times the guy's starting from scratch when he's building them.
So when you fait fackering costs, labor, profit margin, and
a rarity of these things, it makes a bit sense
of that there'll be that much.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
My wife bought me for my fiftieth birthday a bicycle
that you could drop from thirty feet in the air
with you on top of it. And I think you
you'd be fine because of the shocks and suspension and
all that. And it was five thousand dollars, but guess
what else? When I don't want a pedal, I hit
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a button and he goes for hundreds of miles. You
don't even have an engine. It five thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
Yep, yep.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Did you have to borrow that? Or had you saved
it up?
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Saved it up? Saved up? And uh, I can be
pretty frugal, and uh, pretty good at saving my money
and just saved up and got one.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
You're an interesting cat.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
I try.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
I don't think you try. I think you just live.
And for people that like me who just kind of
study your life, I think you're Where do you live now?
Speaker 3 (32:01):
I live in Houston by yourself, me and my girlfriend
and a few dogs.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
How many dogs?
Speaker 3 (32:10):
You got? Two? All right?
Speaker 1 (32:13):
So let's how many events do you think you how
many nights a year you think you ride?
Speaker 3 (32:21):
I would say when it's baseball season, I try to
hit every single home game. So however many games that
would be in a year? Yeah, yeah, eighty one. So
if I know a football season starts, I'm going out
there and I'm hitting the football games if I know. Yeah, Concerts,
if there's a concert at Minute May Park or at
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NRG Stadium or at Toyota Center or anywhere kind of big.
I'll head out and work those concerts as well. During
the livestock showing rodeo, which is usually late February to March,
I go out every single night if possible.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
So sad and then any go ahab sorry, go ahead,
I'd say.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
Then any other little thing I might see it pops up.
If I see something that looks like it might be
worth going out, I'll check it out. So I've never
counted how many nights I work, but I'll work a lot.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
So one hundred and fifty days a year sounds like possibly.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
More than that, because I'll also go to other markets
like Austin City Limits ACL vessels coming up, and I'm
going to Austin for the two weekends to work that.
I have a permit and license in that city. Coachella,
that's a big event that happens in April. I'll go
out there and i'll work that event. If I get
an invite from writers in other cities to work an event,
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I'll go out and work those. I have a pretty
good reputation, so sometimes people ask me to come and
work events.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
What new poople that like if somebody's listening and going
I think that guy might have driven me. What do
they know you as?
Speaker 3 (33:57):
Usually? When I if I were to drop off customer
and he said, hey, can I get a ride back
after the game or whatever, I'll give him my phone
number to them, Hey, put in Joe bike Bike Joe,
Joe the bike guy, something like that. So if they
know of me as anything, they know me as Joe
the bike guy. Joe.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Would you be opposed to us coming up with a
name for you, because Joe the Bike Guy's not doing
it for me.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
I know, if you want to come up with a name,
go for it.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
But if I come up with a name, you have
to embrace the name, like we're gonna get a shirt
made with your name on it, because I mean, look,
we don't have many games left with you know, you
just have the the playoffs and everything, but we could probably,
like you got a big, big game tonight, we could
get you a shirt with it. Do you have some
sort of identifying or door you just wear whatever you wear?
Speaker 3 (34:45):
Uh? Probably most identifying thing I do is I'm always
wearing my orange astro's hat, and to protect myself from
the sun, I'll cover myself with a light scarf, all right.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
We got to figure out, you know, kind of a
green lantern or flash. Huh, Joe's pedal powers.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
No, no, no, Joe, that's dumb. No, we're not doing
Joe's Pedal Power. No, that's your contribution, all right. Hold on,
we got it. We got We're gonna build a brand.
We're gonna deal. We're gonna build the whole thing. We're
gonna build a website. I need somebody to donate a
simple landing page. We're gonna have a dedicated phone number.
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We're gonna blow this thing up. Joe, hold on, we
got one hour to do this. We're about to build
a business on the air right now. Hold on,
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Verie show is on the air. It's called a
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quarter system a moment, so James writes. I graduated from
a college in Georgia. Our system was called the quarter system.
The normal year ran from after Labor Day and ended
in June with three quarters, and summer school was the
fourth quarter. Okay, I was thinking trimester, but it's quarters. Okay.
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So City of Houston Press release, City of Houston official release.
City to begin towing and empowerment of non permitted petticabs
beginning October one. Now listen to this. The reason they
say is people are coming in from outside and they're dangerous.
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Wait a second, so you have to have the proper
papers to operate the petty cab because the locals who
are supposed to be here are safer. Oh gosh, that
sounds like illegal immigration. Are we going to start caring
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about that now? Situations becomes so dangerous at the venues
petition in the City of Houston to take action. So
we're we're really concerned about dangerous petty cabs from outside
harming the local petticab into street and the community. But
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we're not worried about illegal aliens. Why can't you apply
the petticab logic to Oh, I don't know, the human
being logic. That feels like that might actually make some
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sense operating or brought in or in a quick profit
during the event at whatever cost to the profit to
the public. Oh yeah, well, well we we kind of
heard that same logic, folks. Is that our petticab guy?
All right, we got it. Somebody says his brother's a
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marine and a petticab. We're trying to get him. Mike
flew the helicopter for Kilt. Is that right, Mike, you're
on the mire.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
It's correct. Hey, good morning, Michael. Yeah, I heard you
talking about that. That's our great old memories. Yeah, I was.
I had a helicopter company in the late seventies and
Dicky Rosenthale from Kilt called me one day. I went
down and talked to him and we did a helicopter
to do traffic in Houston. It was the first time
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the helicopter had been used in Houston, and the Houston
Police Department used to fly the small little helicopters in
the mornings and afternoons to kind of help with traffic.
And be somewhere. Because the helicopters were so slow, they
needed too, so we put the helicopter together. Believe it
or not, Pearl Beer sponsored the helicopter for this almost
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four years. It lasted. Tried doing that in today's world.
Pearl Beer sponsored the kilicopter KILT and I was the
first pilot. I flew that job by myself for the
first year, which was six hours a day, five days
a week, and eventually we got a second pilot. But
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the first person to do traffic in a helicopter and
Houston was Johnny Green. I was the pilot. Johnny Green
was a reporter and after about a year she had
had all she wanted to find around Loop sixteen, so
she quit and they hired Dave Hale, who had flown
an airplane doing traffic originally in Houston. But Dicky Rosendale
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was mister radio in the nineteen sixties and seventies in Houston.
And we had Stevens, Steven's and Freud. I think they
were after or before they were I guess Kot kept
the morning show?
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Was it Stevens and Fruit or Hudson and Harrigan.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Hudson Harrigan, Yes, right, kept Hudson and Harrigan. And the
only bad thing was about the time I started flying
the traffic, they switched over to that old country music
that didn't say, but if you play the record backwards,
your wife will come home and you'll play drinking.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Yeah, that kind of music. And that wasn't my kind
of music, Brett. I got to listen to it anyway.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Yeah, where did you learn to fly helicopters?
Speaker 2 (05:14):
I was in the United States Army and I flew
helicopters in Vietnam. I was a combat helicopter pilot. And
I continued on, So here's.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
My point work. This guy's been on the phone with
us for three minutes. Some guy you know does a
minor little thing and they'll tell you all about it.
This guy's a helicopter pilot in a brutal war. I mean,
think of what he's seen. And if I don't ask
him that question, he doesn't tell us that that's the
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guy you want to. That's the guy you want to.
You don't know who the guy in front of you
at the grocery store, you don't know what he's the
walk he's walked. I mean, how interesting is this guy
compared to US, and then what year did you come
back from Vietnam?
Speaker 2 (05:58):
I came back and late nineteen sixty nine. I spent
the year of nineteen sixty nine in Vietnam at July
in northern southern Encore. It was a terrible year. War
is terrible, war's health, all of those things that people say,
and yep, I have pts team Irdle. But the good
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thing is I survived. A bunch of friends of mine survived.
We ended up working a contract in Hawaii together forty
years later. So the sunds you make in war sometimes
that's your best friends in here in entire life.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
But I ended up my name was Kamakazi Mic flying
the helicopter because the first morning, the top of the
buildings downtown Houston were in the clouds, and I was
determined we were not going to not fly on the
first day, So I flew around the loop around downtown
for about two hours, and Hudson and Harrigan named me
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Kamakazi Mic. So I was I'm a cousin Mark. But
I went to Phoenix in the mid eighties and I
worked for a Channel twelve there. I flew Sky twelve
for Channel twelve for fourteen years and my name it's
Channel twelve in Phoenix was Sky twelve. So I've had
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quite a wonderful life. It's a you can't believe one
person can do the things I did and meet the
people I met, and it's like it's like I lived
a fantasy life.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
But what a great perspective.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
The war was hell, but the more learning how to fly.
Because I couldn't afford to learn how to fly. I
joined the Army and the United States Army taught me
to fly, which was my career. After that, I retired
after forty eight years. Never had an accident, never had
an incident, and I last few years of flying, I
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did the MS and that was I wanted to do
it to goodbye, something that I could do. That's what
I did, so so job I wanted.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
I'm so glad you called. Hey. We were both kind
of right, but you were definitely right. I didn't live
through it. I've just studied Houston radio. Uh, Todd Reynolds,
old radio guy, ad agency guy. Uh. He sent me
a message and said Stevens in Pruitt were the original
Hudson and Harrigan. So I believe the way that worked
(08:37):
is Hudson and Harrigan was a franchise. It was the
station owned the names Hudson and Harrigan. That way, if
they ever fired you, or you ever quit on them,
they could just replace you, which of course they did.
And when Stevens and Quitt left, as I understand it,
then they became Stephens. Put. I'm going to send you
a gift card to Gringos. I want to see a
photo of you enjoying a meal from me and Russell.
(08:57):
You have made our day with your calls. Are You're
not showing anywhere? Even if Trump does, You're not. Don't laugh.
(09:28):
You know who does a great cover of this song Chance?
It's a party favorite of telling.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
What if I muse I'm a lofiest still trying to
get up there, brit big kil of hole.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Oh this is your nation.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
I realized quickly when I knew I shoot, that was
made up.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Of this trouble A man or whatever I mean into it.
Crist Times, wait on.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
Mine, bitch, just getting on walt in mom. I am
feeling a little cana.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
I love the work. Used to work Julia in the
middle of the South.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
I take a dip and I can't really and I
screat the top of my lungs.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
What's going on here?
Speaker 1 (10:31):
A damn?
Speaker 2 (10:39):
I did.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Be all damn.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
You, what's going on?
Speaker 1 (11:00):
So a fellow named David pop Off, that's kind of
a cool name, wrote, call my baby brother. It says
he's a resting marine. I think he means retired marine
or maybe he's a marine that's sleeping. And it seems
like a weird description, doesn't he's arresting marine. He's always
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a marine. But run oh oh, so that's a marine
because you don't say former marine. You know what, I've
never heard that term. If that's a if that's the term,
and none of my marine buddies have taught me that
term already, because you know, I love love the jargon
and vernacular because then I get to throw it in.
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Maybe that's what I didn't think about that, HM, call
my baby brother who is arresting marine and petticab driver.
He's been a petty cap driver for years and he
works every Astros game and he travels with his all
over the country for major sporting events. Really, we just
load up your cabin a trailer. I guess dude is
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my hero. He would be a great interview. His name
is Joseph or Tease or Joseph or Tees. I don't know.
It's j O s e f like he's German or something.
I've never seen it, Joseph Y. It's weird how many
Mexicans have names from other cultures and countries that are
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just kind of odd, and you wonder where that comes from.
But anyway, the number he gave we just ring and ring,
So if somebody knows him, we'd sure like to get
a hold of him. A funny thing on the on
the Sky Mike story, so Eddie Martini said that Sky
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might will randomly, I've not heard this, will randomly give
a traffic update on the Crescent City Connection bridge over
the Mississippi River in New Orleans. So Eddie, who's his
boss's boss's boss, asked him, why do you do that?
Because Eddie would have secretly loved it being from New Orleans,
and he said, I need to respect my caller that
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called in the update. So if the guy calls in
the update in New Orleans, he goes on the air
and says it in Houston. He says, So Eddie syne
a quote, we're kind of slow coming over from Algiers
it's heavy. Right after General de gaul Parkway, getting over
to the East Bank from the West Bank. He lose
about ten minutes going that way Ponta Trains, finally running
back to normal. You heard him do that. That's hilarious.
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I did not know he does that. I did not
know he does that. Jim Mudd took his dad to
see Reagan yesterday, and so I asked him how it went.
Tell me about your outing with your pops. Jim's mother's
name was Loretta, same as mine. They're the lost Lorettas
(14:02):
of our lives. So we talk about our dads now.
And he took his dad to see Reagan yesterday. We
were going to the four o'clock and I said, how'd
your outing? Would dad go? And he said it was great.
We watched the movie and then we went to I Hop.
Who goes to I Hoop at seven o'clock at night?
So I'm waiting on his email response as to what
he ordered at I Hop. That's oh, he said, okay,
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I said, what did you? He said, we got there
at seven o'clock. I always get breakfast. He got the
chicken fajita omelet. That's weird. Yeah, that's a mother and
child reunion kind of stuff. The movie was told from
the perspective of an old KGB agent and how one
man brought down the USSR. Our good friend Nick Sircy
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played James Baker. Movie was pretty good, That's what I've heard.
It's not a great movie, but it's a good movie.
Is that, Joseph? Why'd you put Joe on the screen?
He introduced himself as Joe Joe. Yes, Hello, are you
Joe or Joseph?
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (15:08):
It's funny, my my brother, I think it jured is?
Does he? My family all refers to me as Joseph.
Out in the streets, out in the world, run around,
everybody calls me Joe.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Can I call you Joseph? Because I got a lot
of Joe's while like a good.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Joseph, Joseph works as long to pronounce it with the
F on the end.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Yeah. Yeah, that's why I was wondering about that. Is
that kind of some German connection or what's going on there?
Speaker 3 (15:31):
My mother's grandfather Eastern European Jewish and she named me
after him.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
How many famous Jewish baseball players can you name?
Speaker 3 (15:44):
None? Right now, it's too early in the morning. What
o Hercheiser that sounds Jewish? Who is oral Hercheiser? That
sounds kind of Jewish?
Speaker 1 (15:53):
He's not odd, No, But Alex Bregman is there you go,
Sandy Hank Greenberg, There you go, Jason green Yeah, Kevin Euclis.
Somebody told me eucles is married to Tom Brady's sister.
Did you know that? I didn't realize that. Yeah, yeah,
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Why does your brother have a different last name from you?
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Different fathers? Okay, same mother?
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Would you rather be Joseph Ortiz or Joseph pop Off?
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Ortiz wants oh, Artie, that's my father father's name.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
I know, But in terms of introducing yourself, you know,
you could be Joe or Joseph, like if you could
just pick a name that kind of rolls off the tongue.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
I've been Ortiz my entire life.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
You know, how is life different for you when you
when you introduce yourself or somebody reads your name off
a list or whatever. How would you say life is
different if you're Ortiz versus Smith.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
I've never been Smith's, so I can't say. In a
city like Houston, with so many people everywhere, it's Orties.
It's almost standard, you know, across all racial barriers across
all or whatever. I've never found any kind of issue.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Hmm, what is a resting marine?
Speaker 3 (17:19):
What's that?
Speaker 1 (17:20):
What is a resting marine?
Speaker 3 (17:24):
I'm sorry, my hearing kind off. Can you say that again?
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Your brother's email said, call my brother, he's a resting marine.
That's not a term, right. Maybe he meant retired.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Oh uh, maybe I'm not retired, but I did serve
four years, honorable discharge, all that good stuff. Maybe who
knows what he meant, but yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Okay, I didn't know if that was We thought maybe
that was a term for a marine that is no
longer serving.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Usually what we say is, uh, nobody's ever an ex marine.
Everybody is ah, you're always once a marine, always a marine.
So even if you've been.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Out right, yeah, when did you serve?
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Late nineties, late nineties, fust time, nothing happened.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
How much can you make on a good night on
your petticap?
Speaker 3 (18:14):
It really varies. It's almost not even about the night,
it's almost about the entire year. Because you'll have something
like let's say baseball season, you'll have seven games in
a row, but then you'll have seven games are out
of town. You'll have a really busy March with the Rodeo,
but then you'll have a very slow December with nothing
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going on.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Hold on, just a second, Joseph with an f I
have lots of petticap questions.
Speaker 6 (18:39):
Hold on, that actually might be one of the smartest
systems the Michael Arry Show, because Russia cannot hack a
piece of paper.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
I've touched the nerve with Jewish baseball players. I had
completely forgotten Rod Carew converted jew O. J. Simpson not
a Jewel.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
But guess who is Hall of Famer Rod Carew? He converted.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
I had completely forgotten. You know, Rod Carew started at
second base, a left handed black Jewish second baseman. And
may I say Hall of Famer Rod Carew? Is there's
a YouTube side I have a subscription to UH and
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it'd be like the player's name had an insane prime
of his career or whatever. And I went back and
watched Bagwell the other day because I missed most of
Bagwell because it was in the nineties. I don't think
I ever realized because I hadn't gone back and looked
at his numbers how good Bagwell was for how long
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that guy and if he hadn't kept getting beaned in
the elbow. That's why he had to end up wearing
that Bagwell was I ran his numbers against other players.
There's an argument to be made that for about a
five six year period, Jeff Bagwell was the best base
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was the best player in all of baseball statistically. There's
an argument to be made. And you think to yourself,
if he could do that with that horrible stance he had,
imagine if he had a regular stance. I don't know
where that came from. It's a funny story. He also
started at third base, which was kind of funny. Blew
Did you know that they started at third base? He
blew his shoulder out, so they moved him over to first. Yeah, no,
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true story, Joe Joseph. Yes, So how did you get in,
Joseph the Resting Marine? How did you get into the
petticab walked me through you coming back from the Marines?
Speaker 4 (21:22):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Well, I was living in Galveston Island and uh it
was right after Ike and the Pleasure Pier opened up,
you know where the old Flagship Hotel was, and then
they built the amusement park there and I saw pettycabs
out there. I did not know what they were, but
I am an avid bike rider, and as an avid
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bike rider, I was interested and I started asking around
and Gallason's small place. So a friend of a friend like, yeah,
I know who runs it, and uh, I was introduced
to the owner of that company, Travis Towers Lone starle
Bike Cab and I have since twenty twelve been a
Petticap ever since.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
So you were introduced to the what's the guy's.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
Name, Travis Stowers and what's his company called? Lone Star
Bike Cap.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
I wonder if I've met him. That name sounds very
familiar to me.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
And possibly he keeps himself out there.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Possibly was he in Galveston or in Houston?
Speaker 3 (22:28):
He was based out of Houston, but at the time
he was company based in Houston, but he himself was
moving to the island.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
So did you call him and say, hey, you're the
petticap guy, like to talk to you? Or what what happened?
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Now? I just had a friend, you know, I was
talking about it as a bike rider. I was talking
about it and somebody's like, oh, I know who runs it?
And I wasn't introduced to him. First. I was introduced
to some of the crew and then within a week
or two I met Travis after working.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Yeah, so you started without owning a petticab, You just
went to work there. Yes, what does that split look like?
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Back then? You would see maybe if you're renting a bike,
it might be twenty five percent of whatever you make,
or twenty five percent of whatever the averages of all
the riders that night. So if you have ten riders
average it out there, it made twenty five percent of that.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Okay, I know you it's over a season, but on
an average night, there has to be kind of an
average number. Two hundred dollars, three hundred dollars, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
I'd say, yeah, two to three is about ballpark. Yeah,
you ever make Speaking of baseball, it has happened. If
you really got there and hustle, it can happen. It
can happen. How many hours, especially if good Oh sorry,
I'll say I would say especially if it's a really
good If the Dodgers are in town on a weekend,
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look to make better money because everybody's coming to the game.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
To see the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Well, any high profile team that comes through town, if
it's a rivalry or a high profile team and it's
on the weekend. Then everybody's coming because you get the
local team fans. Yeah, coming because you want to see
the Astros beat the Rangers. You want to see the
Astros beat the Yankees. You want to see Astros meat
the Dodgers. But if you're a fan of that out
of town team, then you're coming for sure because it's
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your chance to see them when they come to Houston.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
I know you travel around. You've ever been to Chavezravin
in LA? See the Dodgers game? Uh?
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Funny enough because my brother and I were born in
Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
It's my very first go ahead.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
I'm sorry, yeah, yeah, my very first baseball game I
ever saw. My godfather took me to a Dodgers game.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
It's a it's a really cool stadium. I haven't been
to every stadium in the country, but I try to
go to stadiums when I'm in a market. If it's
baseball season and the weather's good, and it's a stadium,
especially one of the historic stadiums. It's a great stadium.
So your brother said, or was it your brother? Maybe
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I can't remember as you or your brother because the
stories are running together that you load up your petticab
and take it around for events outside of the city.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Yes, yes, I will travel with it for sure.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
And so how do you how do you carry it?
What do you you put in the back of your
truck or what?
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Well, a lot of the cabs because these things have
existed since as far as I know, a history of
the nineties, and by then all the most of the
kinks are worked out. So people usually build these bikes
to set upright on the back end, so you would
just lift it up off its wheels onto its back end,
and they're made to fit almost like lego pieces, fit
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right in tight with each other.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Yeah. Uh.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
You can put them on a trailer and add some
toe straps to keep them down, and then you can
transport them.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Yeah, like a horse that raises up on its haunches exactly.
So you don't own your petticab now you still drive
one of Travis's petticabs.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
No, I do own now I'm cell phoned I there
there's a hello.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Yeah, hold on saying that's the muss, not a rating.
Hold on just a second, Joseph. When it comes to
the economy, do you have any Americans four years ago?
Speaker 6 (26:44):
So I was raised as a middle class kid.
Speaker 5 (27:06):
You ever take your own food to Dodger Stadium. You
see him making food, You're like, oh, man, I don't
want to go, then don't go. And you tell them
you have hot dogs over there, Grandma local two fifty foreny.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Twy for a weeding at that.
Speaker 7 (27:31):
With two fifty, you can get a loaf for bread
and baloni out on that. We can all lead, not
just you, mister selfish? Why are you crying for? You
didn't get a wheenie? You go with the biggest Safeway
sack man in a two gallon punch and two slurpee cups.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
The security guard.
Speaker 6 (27:57):
Can I look in their miss you start laughing, Oh Jesus, yes,
the wet back section is over there. Over there, all
the Mexican sat on the left field pavilion. That's why
all the Mexican sat left field. And you'd sit there
(28:20):
and you go, how come we don't sit over there?
Speaker 7 (28:21):
You're not playing card, as I say them, And they
would always tell me, take your glove, me.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Take care of what. The one day.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
They don't hit any.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Where we sit.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
It was a moment in time where George Lopez was
the funniest man in America and then he went off
the deep end and became an Obama nut, and he
had a lot of health problems along the way as well.
I think that kind of derailed his career. But he
I can't even I can't even look at him anymore.
He he looks like an aged Fernando Vealezuela now, and
(29:03):
I just hate everything he stands for. Joseph the petty
cab driver, Yes, where do you find a peta cab?
Like when you went, I'm sorry, you were about to
say something? Oh no, no, So where do you find
a petticab to buy?
Speaker 3 (29:22):
It's a thing about the petticab world is it's pretty small.
If you don't know someone, you know someone to know
someone nationwide. Because these are fairly specialty machines. You don't
just find them at a store. So you get to
make connections. You get to meet people. Yeah, somebody my
(29:42):
cab specifically they own. Now, there's a guy out of Sacramento, California.
Smash is his name, and he makes Smash cabs. And
so the guy Travis I talked about earlier put me
in contact with Smash and I was able to buy
my own cab from Smash. And how much though there's
(30:05):
you can find a new petticab generally around five thousand,
and you can find some used ones for depending on
the wear and tear, two thousand to four thousand.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Okay, wait a minute, Joe, there's no engine on it.
How's it five thousand dollars?
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Because it's such a specialty item. If you think about
like a normal bicycle, if you buy high end bicycles,
you can find some around those ranges. But because this
is such a specialty item, there's not like there's a
ton of cabs out there to pick and choose from.
So a lot of times when they're built, they're built
specifically right then and there like the guy. A lot
(30:49):
of times the guy's starting from scratch when he's building them.
So when you fait fackering costs, labor, profit margin, and
a rarity of these things, it makes a bit sense
of that there'll be that much.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
My wife bought me for my fiftieth birthday a bicycle
that you could drop from thirty feet in the air
with you on top of it. And I think you
you'd be fine because of the shocks and suspension and
all that. And it was five thousand dollars, but guess
what else? When I don't want a pedal, I hit
(31:21):
a button and he goes for hundreds of miles. You
don't even have an engine. It five thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
Yep, yep.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Did you have to borrow that? Or had you saved
it up?
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Saved it up? Saved up? And uh, I can be
pretty frugal, and uh, pretty good at saving my money
and just saved up and got one.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
You're an interesting cat.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
I try.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
I don't think you try. I think you just live.
And for people that like me who just kind of
study your life, I think you're Where do you live now?
Speaker 3 (32:01):
I live in Houston by yourself, me and my girlfriend
and a few dogs.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
How many dogs?
Speaker 3 (32:10):
You got? Two? All right?
Speaker 1 (32:13):
So let's how many events do you think you how
many nights a year you think you ride?
Speaker 3 (32:21):
I would say when it's baseball season, I try to
hit every single home game. So however many games that
would be in a year? Yeah, yeah, eighty one. So
if I know a football season starts, I'm going out
there and I'm hitting the football games if I know. Yeah, Concerts,
if there's a concert at Minute May Park or at
(32:43):
NRG Stadium or at Toyota Center or anywhere kind of big.
I'll head out and work those concerts as well. During
the livestock showing rodeo, which is usually late February to March,
I go out every single night if possible.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
So sad and then any go ahab sorry, go ahead,
I'd say.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
Then any other little thing I might see it pops up.
If I see something that looks like it might be
worth going out, I'll check it out. So I've never
counted how many nights I work, but I'll work a lot.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
So one hundred and fifty days a year sounds like possibly.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
More than that, because I'll also go to other markets
like Austin City Limits ACL vessels coming up, and I'm
going to Austin for the two weekends to work that.
I have a permit and license in that city. Coachella,
that's a big event that happens in April. I'll go
out there and i'll work that event. If I get
an invite from writers in other cities to work an event,
(33:44):
I'll go out and work those. I have a pretty
good reputation, so sometimes people ask me to come and
work events.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
What new poople that like if somebody's listening and going
I think that guy might have driven me. What do
they know you as?
Speaker 3 (33:57):
Usually? When I if I were to drop off customer
and he said, hey, can I get a ride back
after the game or whatever, I'll give him my phone
number to them, Hey, put in Joe bike Bike Joe,
Joe the bike guy, something like that. So if they
know of me as anything, they know me as Joe
the bike guy. Joe.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Would you be opposed to us coming up with a
name for you, because Joe the Bike Guy's not doing
it for me.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
I know, if you want to come up with a name,
go for it.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
But if I come up with a name, you have
to embrace the name, like we're gonna get a shirt
made with your name on it, because I mean, look,
we don't have many games left with you know, you
just have the the playoffs and everything, but we could probably,
like you got a big, big game tonight, we could
get you a shirt with it. Do you have some
sort of identifying or door you just wear whatever you wear?
Speaker 3 (34:45):
Uh? Probably most identifying thing I do is I'm always
wearing my orange astro's hat, and to protect myself from
the sun, I'll cover myself with a light scarf, all right.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
We got to figure out, you know, kind of a
green lantern or flash. Huh, Joe's pedal powers.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
No, no, no, Joe, that's dumb. No, we're not doing
Joe's Pedal Power. No, that's your contribution, all right. Hold on,
we got it. We got We're gonna build a brand.
We're gonna deal. We're gonna build the whole thing. We're
gonna build a website. I need somebody to donate a
simple landing page. We're gonna have a dedicated phone number.
(35:24):
We're gonna blow this thing up. Joe, hold on, we
got one hour to do this. We're about to build
a business on the air right now. Hold on,
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