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Speaker 1 (00:03):
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Shine.
Speaker 5 (01:20):
Every morning when I walk in, I look into studio,
into Ramone studio as I walk into mind and he
always over the years has had some silly thing or another.
He would scream out. Sometimes he say what are you
doing here? It's always funny like, well, I don't know,
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you'd have to get it or you don't. Just always something.
But for a little while now he has done his best,
and it's pretty good. Trump impersonation through the glass so
I can't hear.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Him, but he uh.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
If you see the video, it's stamped into your mind
of Trump after he's shot in the head and they
take him down, and then as they're trying to get him.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Off the stage and he lives up.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
It's sort of sort of like a kid that's trying
to stay and his parents are pulling him back and
he's fighting against him, and he puts his hand up
in a fist, but a forward facing fist and kind
of pumps it that way and says, fight, fight, and
you can see his teeth touching the bottom of his lips.
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It's coming from a deep place, guttural place. And Ramon
does a very intense impersonation of that every day to
kind of, you know, I think he's firing me up,
or I think that moment moved.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
I don't know if I want to know, but it
always interests me that that's what he does these days.
And the Astros had been fighting last night with the
big win. They clinched their fourth straight American League West
title with the fourth three win over the Mariners, overcoming
a terrible start of the season. Back on June eighteenth,
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they were seven and nineteen. They trailed Seattle by ten games,
the most they would trail for the season. They would
win their next seven to start a thirteen to two stretch.
They would improve from seven to nineteen to forty six
and forty two by July fifth, so they're over five hundred.
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They are the first team to win the AL West
in four straight seasons since Oakland won five times in
a row from seventy one to seventy five.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Well, that was a good team.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
Gene Tennis, Roley Fingers, Tony Armis, who else was on nine?
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Team?
Speaker 5 (03:58):
Oh, that was a team right there. So first time
they've won four consecutive division titles. They've won three in
a row from ninety seven to ninety nine in twenty
seventeen to twenty nineteen. It's seventh Al West crown in
eight seasons for the Astros. The only time they were
beaten out during that stretch was by Oakland during the
twenty twenty season, shortened to sixty.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Games because of COVID.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
Houston's rotation this year was decimated by injuries early, with
or Orchidi and Christian Javier both undergoing Tommy John surgery
in June, from Barra missing most of April because of
elbow inflammation. The injuries forced the Astros to insert Ronel
Blanco and that turned out well and rookie Spencer Aroghedy
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into the rotation. Blanco threw a no hitter and his
season debut and his second on the team, with twelve
wins and a.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Two point eight to eighth ERI.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
Wow Arogedy's made twenty eight starts was selected AL Rookie
of the Month for August after going three and two
with the one point nine to five ERA. Hunter Brown,
in his second MLB season, win eleven and nine with
a three point four nine ERA to help.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Steady the rotation during a year.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
All of this when three times Cy Young Award winner
Justin Verlander made just sixteen starts due to injuries. Who
would have thought that Verlander would be able to contribute
so little for the time appears to be catching.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Up to him. He just he just looks like he's
constantly in pain.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Who would have thought that Verlander could basically go down
in this team?
Speaker 1 (05:33):
And then what was it to bray you dude?
Speaker 5 (05:36):
They paid so much at first would turn out to
be such a bust and yet this team would still win.
Astros Bergman with a big bomb in the first inning.
Speaker 6 (05:46):
Alex Bregman the batter first pitch Atrakman clubs it pretty
deep to center. Rodriguez is going back on it on
the warning track at the.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Wall, Sealeve.
Speaker 7 (05:57):
Just to the left of the batter side. For Alex Brakman,
it's twenty sixth of the year. What nothing, Astros.
Speaker 8 (06:09):
That's the fourth time Bragmant's taking Logan Gilbert deep.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
That's not easy.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
And he went to the deepest part of the ballpark.
Speaker 6 (06:19):
Yeahman found up hitting that four hundred and twenty four feet.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
You know he's Jewish.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
I always say he's Jewish when Bragman comes up to bat.
Whoever's at the house, And it's funny to watch people's reaction.
They don't know what to do. They they don't know
if you're insulting, maybe you're Jewish. They don't know what
to make of that. Ramon. How many famous Jewish baseball
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players can you name? Haink Greenberg? Good call. Wow, that's
a deep cut right there. Yeah, okay, all right, give
me another one. Say any facts? Okay, who else? Yogi
Berra is not Jewish? Not even clothes. No, he's not Jewish.
Michael Garfield, he's not Jewish.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Uh? Who else would I think of? I think Brad
Osmas is Jewish? Yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
Remember when Brad Osmas went to college Princeton. I believe, Yeah,
Ostma's was a study in contradictions.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
It's an interesting guy. Yeah, he's a very very interesting guy.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
Who was used to be somebody on the Red Sox
that was Jewish. It was like a who No, it
wasn't no more Garcian Para. I assure you it stopped.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
It was like an.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
Eastern European name, Kevin Eucless, Kevin Eucless. I'm pretty sure
with Jewish. There aren't that many Jewish players in in
Major League district.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
That's all the only thing Jewish, you know.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
I swear Jason Hayward's not Jewish. To run by him
in the fifth.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Heyward trys f houng and tick to Mike belt.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
That's good, Joe.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Says, who that was a home.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
I didn't get. Did Sparky get lit up last night?
That's the best part of the whole baseball season.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
For me is the night they clinched and then each
round that they win, listening to Sparky go down and
get hammered and just walk that delicate line. I hope
nobody ever tells him he can't do that, because that
that is one of my favorite things.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
I love Sparky and I love that moment he is
living in it. That game from the show that I
don't seem to get from other places. The Michael Barry Show.
Here come the Astros burning with desire.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Here come the Astros.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Breen and arms.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Here comes winning off the bat, Here come the Astros
the boat one infant time.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
You know I love biographies I was uh reading one
this weekend on Alexander the Great. Here's here's a question
I came up with for you. What do Alexander the
Great and Kermit the Frog have in common? Same middle name?
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Astro's last out to win the division and break down
the the historic run.
Speaker 6 (10:01):
Fans are ready to explode to two so.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
You ain't get a mess. Struck them out.
Speaker 7 (10:08):
The winners and still AL West champions. The Houston Astros
for the fourth straight year and the seventh time in
the last eight years, the Astros are the best in
the AL West. Players come out a bomb scene behind
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the pitcher's mound, and there'll be an even bigger celebration
in the astros bluffhouse in moments. Houston Astros headed back
to the playoffs for the eighth straight year and the
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ninth time in the last ten years.
Speaker 6 (10:52):
They'll play in the wild card round. Here admit it
made park beginning on Tuesday. One thing that's become old
hat for the Astros. It seems like, I mean, you
never want to take this stuff for granted. It's really
amazing this run that the Astros have been on, getting
to the playoffs for an eight straight year, ninth time
in the last ten years. The Astros have played one
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hundred and three postseason games since twenty fifteen, which is
absolutely remarkable. By far, the majority of the postseason games
the Astros have played in their history have come since
twenty fifteen, and at least a couple more on tap
for the Astros as they'll be in the wild Card Series.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
I told my kids the other day, you can't imagine,
like for my generation and particularly the one before, how
special this is. We loved our Astros. We love the personalities.
Don't make me go around horn again and give you
the lineup. Love those personalities to this day, I've been
out in public with those guys, and I mean, the
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love this town has And maybe that's just because that's
where I'm stuck is nineteen seventy nine, but seventy nine
eighty that those years for the Oilers in the Astros
man it is it is such a love affair with
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those personalities, and it was just such a special time.
I don't know how much of that is just me
and I think everybody.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Else is, but I feel that that's the case. But
we didn't win like this.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
This is I mean, you're talking big red machine kind
of stuff in the seventies. You're talking, you know, some
of the best Yankees runs. These are special times that
they really are.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
And I'll tell you what.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
When the league came after the Astros a few years ago,
I did not like what happened with the I think
two guys were cut, neither one of whom should have been.
But I also understand there's there's a lot of gamesmanship
that goes into how you deal with the league and
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all of that. But I thought, well, that's going to
be the end of the team. You think about this
Kikuchi trade, for instance. So that when that deal happened,
I was talking to my mom and she was so
aggravated because my mom and dad watched the Astros every game,
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and she was so bummed out that she said she
couldn't pronounce Loperfido.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
She's like, this is not good. They got rid of
Lupie Fazzi or whatever his name is, low Perfido.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
Mom, Yeah, they got rid of him, I said, yeah,
and Billy Wagner's son. They got rid of Biddy Wagner's son. Yeah,
well I seem worse. Yeah, I don't know had Billy Wagner. Then,
how is it so bad they got.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Rid of him. Well, I'm just saying.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
I'm just saying, but she didn't want luperfatz He or
whatever his name was, low Perfido Mom. Yeah, yeah, three
players for Kikuchi. And you know you got to give
Josh Miller credit. This this pitching staff.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
You know, Chance McLain came over last night. I told
you all the story yesterday that I had tickets. Eddie
Martinez had given me tickets, and then at the last
minute I wasn't gonna be able to go because Crockett
had something at school, and then, as usual, I got
the day wrong. So now I've promised the tickets away,
but I had accidentally over promised I had. I had
asked Chad first, and Chad never accepts anything. So the
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good thing with Chad is you can always offer him
something and then he says no, but thank you very much,
and then you get to give him to somebody else,
so you get kind of a double credit.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Y'all ever do that. I do that a lot, Like
if I know.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
Somebody can't accept what I'm offering them, I offer him
because then you get the credit, but then you get
to give the ticket to somebody.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
You know we'll go. Well, I knew Emily will go.
She'll go out the last minute. She doesn't care.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
She loves the Astros and she loves to go to
the Astros and see him play. So I so I say,
I text her, Emily, would you like to go to
the game one night? Yeah, So Chad's out, Emily's in,
and I invited Chance next afternoon and.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Next morning I come rolling in.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
Chad says, Hey, it's probably too late, but I am
able to go, and Ki is dying to go.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
That's Chad's son, and.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
He's a big he's a big baller and loves ball playing,
loves playing ball, and so Chad's going to go. So
I had to kind of bow out with Chance, which
was awkward because Chance watches the Astros every night. But
he was a good support about it. So I said,
why don't you come over the house. We'll make steaks
and we'll watch.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
The game and the whole deal.
Speaker 5 (15:53):
So that's what we did, and it was a good time.
It was it was a good time all the way around.
Same middle name, Ramon Last but not least, you can.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Tell Sparky's had a touch here.
Speaker 5 (16:05):
In fact, email's coming in going please please don't ever
let them shut Sparky's postseason history onics. I don't know
what theatrics down. That's everybody emails flying in for people
saying that that's my favorite thing. It's like we're all
there celebrating with Sparky. Here he is postgame with Joe
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Spata Joe twelve.
Speaker 8 (16:29):
And twenty four. At the beginning of this season, I
thought you were dead.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
What'd you think?
Speaker 9 (16:33):
We never thought that we were dead. That's why we
are here Hill. We always knew that he was just
a mad all time.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
But the key was staying together. We stayed together.
Speaker 6 (16:44):
We're a good team.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
We know how to win.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
We found a way to win, and now here we go.
Speaker 8 (16:48):
So you're telling me you're going to bed at night,
you're on a road trip, you're in San Francisco, you're
in the hotel room. You guys start off slowly and
you're not questioning what was going on.
Speaker 9 (16:59):
Now, He's a marriage no matter how you start, it's
how you finish. And this this team, they know how
to sprint, they know how to run a race, and
that's why we are here.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
And this is this is where we go.
Speaker 9 (17:11):
This is this is this is a part of the
season that we like to show up and play.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
It's almost the expectations, Joe is. You guys are gonna
go to the playoffs.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
You guys are gonna go deep.
Speaker 8 (17:22):
But for you guys to set a culture, how do
you not disrupt that as a first year manager.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Because I've been here, it's in my blood.
Speaker 9 (17:30):
I know.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
I know the heartbeat of this group, you know, and
you you know we all are hearts. They're all beat
the same way.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
If if if I panic, if I if my.
Speaker 9 (17:41):
Stuff starts beeping too fast, and I show you know,
I'm the leader. But we gotta we gotta stay together.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Man.
Speaker 6 (17:48):
This this is a.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Special, special group.
Speaker 8 (17:51):
And when you guys got off to a slow start,
you had a couple of guys coming to the end
of your manager's office and they said, hey, man, we
got it.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
Keep rolling.
Speaker 8 (17:59):
You guys aren't showing panic. And it's a good thing
with this coaching staff, that's right.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
But you know, we got coaches.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
We've had these kids from the minor leagues. We know
their makeup, we know what they made of. So we
just got to hold each other by their head and
let's go.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
Man.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
I'm excited. I'm so happy for this group. Good times.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
She got an update from Jim Dutton. They so Joyce
Sage of Sundayside. Her system, the coil was bad. It's
two thousand and two UNI and they just replaced the
whole thing for a whole new air conditioning. They got
it installed and up and running last night at eight
thirty pm. So Joyce had a cool evening in her home.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Thank you to Jim Dutton for that. Even if Trump does,
You're not even bend down.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Riding along.
Speaker 7 (19:05):
I'll just be on that plan.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
Begging of.
Speaker 5 (19:12):
The Moon is one of those people, like my brother
and like ray Hunt, who can recall a scene in
a movie and the dialogue from that scene, and you
can match that up against the original.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
And it's.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
So it's in all three of them, my brother, ray
Hunt and ray There's not a lot in the brain
in their brains, but what is there is tight. I mean,
it's precise. It is not a word out of place.
He reminded me which I had forgotten of the scene
in airplay. Uh, And Bobby Crumpley sent it in where
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the stewardess walks down the aisle and she's she's she
has this big smiles. She asked this little old lady
if she would like something to read. Some of you
remember that they first showed the little boy and I
think he's reading Boy's Life or or he's reading like
a boy's magazine. And then and then she goes over
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to the little old lady and this is what happened.
Would you like.
Speaker 10 (20:23):
Something to read?
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Do you have anything light?
Speaker 1 (20:28):
How about this leaflet famous Jewish sports legends?
Speaker 5 (20:33):
Yes, thank you, a fellow named Dane Breitzig. Would you
think Dane Breitzig was Jewish?
Speaker 1 (20:41):
We were guessing. Uh, he sent me.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
So.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Oh. By the way, Brad Osmas went to Dartmouth, not Princeton.
Same thing.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
You know who else went to Dartmouth Denesh desuzam. Dartmouth
has a weird schedule. They do, I forget what you
call it.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
But instead of.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
Instead of two semesters like a fall in a spring,
they do, I forget what they there's a term for
this kind of school year, but they start a month late.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
So every year.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
There'll be one kid from from the schools that we know,
one of the one of the local schools that somehow
we know the kid.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
And they will be at Dartmouth.
Speaker 5 (21:29):
And you know, I always ask, you know, how the
kids doing they started their college, you know, off to
the military, or they start in vocational school, what they do.
And they'll say, well, they're waiting to go to school,
and it will be that they but they go late,
and it's I think it's I mean, I'm not positive.
I think it's fully into October when they begin there.
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Maybe it's a trimester. Maybe that's the term for it.
There's there's a there's an odd term for their school year. Anyway,
that's your Brad Ostmas story.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
And then.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
Dame Breitzig threw another Jewish baseball player at me that
I had not heard of, and I asked him if
he was Jewish and his answer was just no. Like
somebody asked you if you're Jewish, and you just you
just offered some kind of deep insight into Jewish baseball players,
you should say no. I just had an interest in
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you know, Jason Green, because you know, I'm from Detroit,
or it's something you got to you can't just know.
So I said, you are neither jewish nor loquacious, and
I don't know what he's he's responded.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
From there, Here we go again.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
City of Houston and Harris County crime is out of control,
out of control, and yet the City of Houston is
attacking that crime problem. They are devoting resources where it
needs to be devoted so that you, friends, can be safe.
Beginning October first. They're serious about this this time. Beginning
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October first, City of Houston says they will start towing
and impounding any petticabs it finds operating without City of
Houston approval. That's the yellow permit sticker on the seat post.
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They're keeping you safe, friends. They're gonna make sure whichever
petticab you get into as you leave the Astros game
because you don't feel like walking five blocks to Federal
American Grill, which is where you had dinner in park
before the game, because you're fat and you'll sweat, and
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that jersey you bought it didn't think about the fact
that it's some sort of polyester blend and you are
sweating like a whore in church and you hop into
that petticab. Well, by god, they'll make sure you're protected
and that he is licensed. We're not playing here. We're
serious about this crime problem. No more unlicensed petty cabs.
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You know the guy peddling along so you can sit
on your ass and try to enjoy yourself and ride
past the other people. Maybe he's got a little music going. Well,
they're cracking down on days like today.
Speaker 10 (24:26):
Quicker than any uber taxi.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Alonzo Quintanilla will tell you his ten petty caps are indispensable.
Speaker 10 (24:32):
We go out about two hours before the Astros games.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
In the past six years, he's been taking fans from
far flung parking lots who.
Speaker 10 (24:39):
Wants to get all sweaty in this Houston heat.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Right to the gates at Minute May Park.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
But just as crucial as the petticaps themselves, the petticap permit.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Every petty cap.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Needs wanting to operate legally at city leaders say some
have been skirting the rules.
Speaker 10 (24:53):
It seems like whenever we have large events, there's a
lot more that show up from out of town and
they're not permitted by the cities.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
I'm why starting October first, the city plans to start
towing and imbounding any petty gap without this yellow permit
on the seat post. It cost three hundred and fifty
three dollars including all fees, the fine for not having
one five hundred dollars, and sometimes the citations.
Speaker 10 (25:18):
Aren't much of a deterrent.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
So perhaps when we start.
Speaker 10 (25:21):
Letting them know they're going to be towed, that'll let
them think.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Twice licensed petty cab drivers we spoke with welcome the crackdown.
Speaker 10 (25:28):
It has to draw a line somewhere, and I mean,
if they're not gonna listen, then.
Speaker 5 (25:32):
That's the consiplus.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
In addition to the petty caab permits, all pettyicab drivers
need their own license. They're also required to carry a
one million dollar insurance policy.
Speaker 10 (25:42):
That's the safety for the passenger because if you got
in an accident, it might be on them to fit the.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Mill instead look for a licensed petty cap and got
off on the right foot.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Are you serious? Okay, guys, I'm following my story. Okay,
let's hear it. What do y'all think?
Speaker 6 (26:03):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (26:04):
I think you need to close it with kind of
a call to.
Speaker 5 (26:07):
Action, like, hey, guys, don't support the people who haven't
paid a fee to the City of Houston. Get off
on the right foot. You a little pun on the
end there, I don't know, give a little Oh, that's clever.
That's what we're spending our efforts on. Sorry that your
grandmother was mugged, your home was invaded. There were three
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drive bys on your block this week, But damn it,
the petticab will have paid.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
How about the fact that they tried to pass it all? Yeah,
you don't want an unlicensed petty cab. He may not
have insurance.
Speaker 5 (26:37):
Yeah, you gotta have insurance for the guy riding the
little cart that you're riding on.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Socialist.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
To quote the line from.
Speaker 5 (26:59):
Moneyball, imagine playing for this team and hating the taste
of champagne.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
He's there heady times. Wow, Jason and Cyprus writes proud Dad,
moments are my son.
Speaker 5 (27:14):
After some tough love in Brian college, station got a
full time job as a junior surveyor. I finally got
a good night's sleep last night, forty hours a week
at seventeen dollars an hour, all the while pursuing his
degree at A and m in construction science at a
junior college. He likened it to going into a rainforest
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with a machete. Proud graduate of Texas A and M.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
I love that we have degrees in construction science. I
love that we should. I'd rather, you know.
Speaker 5 (27:55):
One of the things I think A and M does
extraordinarily well is kind of put the ornate finishes and
the impromoter of a great university on the things we
need as a society to survive. When I was mayor
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of pro tim there was a fellow by the name
of David Sapristin, and I give Bill White credit for this.
Bill White brought him in as the transportations are at
a dollar a year. David's a billionaire. He didn't need
the money. But he was the founder of Metro Traffic,
and he owned a Ford dealership in downtown Baltimore. And
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he lived outside of Baltimore because Baltimore is a dangerous
place and some days his commute would be thirty minutes
and some days would be an hour and a half.
And he found that very frustrating. So he rented a helicopter,
put it up in the air, and UH would have
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them have the helicopter call in to him the traffic
as he flew over the Let's say he let's say
he lived in Katie and worked in downtown Houston. It'd
be the equivalent of you know, he would just buzz
up and down I tend and tell you what Katie
Freeway was doing, and then of course that you'd know
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what time to leave and alternate routes. So he was,
you know, sky Mike of his day. It loves Scott Mike.
I think I think sky Mike, like Sparky, is a treasure.
I try, I try along the way not to take
things for granted, but you know, there are little things,
little nuggets, little things in the course of your day.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
That that make things pleasant.
Speaker 5 (29:52):
You know, if you've got to call your biggest client
and the lady that answers the phone is is very cheerful.
Little things like that you take for granted and you
don't realize it until that person is fired or dies
or you know, resigns or whatever else.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Little things like that.
Speaker 5 (30:10):
Anyway, so David went to the radio station and said,
I'll provide you with traffic.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Forgive me. I've told the story before, but it's such.
Speaker 5 (30:24):
It may not be rush Limbaugh level big, but in
the radio world it's a little known story that I
happen to have some insight on that I'm fascinated by,
because this really doesn't exist at this time. He goes
to the local radio station says, I'll give you traffic,
and they said, ah, we don't have any money.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
To pay for traffic. What we do now is.
Speaker 5 (30:48):
We put some spotters out and that's good. You know,
Scott Michael will have people call in. I don't need
the traffic route.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
So much as I enjoy listening to the people.
Speaker 5 (31:05):
I enjoy listening to this guy might give him banana stickers,
and I enjoy listening to him interact with them. I
also enjoy when he takes clips of share us saying
this or that, and insert them in there and share
us a good sport for letting him. The whole crew
is a good support for letting him do that. That's
good quality radio.
Speaker 4 (31:22):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
I find that to be very entertaining.
Speaker 5 (31:25):
So anyway, so David sells the package to radio station,
but they say, we love it, but we don't have
any money. So he says, I tell you what, I'll
sell the advertising, which will be embedded into the traffic reports.
And they said no, because then you're competing against us.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
We sell advertising.
Speaker 5 (31:47):
He said, Okay, how about this, I'll sell five second spots.
Eventually it became ten second spots. Well, radio only sold
thirties and sixties sixties at the time sixty second spots,
so a ten is really just is just a name idea,
and they agreed to it. And I believe his first
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client was Frank Lorenzo. I believe who I'm interviewing. I
think I'm interviewing Frank Lorenzo tomorrow. Remind me to come
back to Frank Lorenzo anyway. He's written a book. I
don't know he's still alive.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Anyway.
Speaker 5 (32:27):
So I'm almost positive Frank Lorenzo was his first client.
It's funny that just popped into my head. And then
I'm talking to Lorenzo for so he goes to the
station and says, you know, I'll keep at ten. So
I'll do a sixty second traffic report and keep ten
seconds for myself, and so he hires. He starts going
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market to market, and he got up to he got
up to over one hundred markets, that's what was metro traffic.
And then he he ends up Westwood One, which is
which is a competitor to the company. We work for
and a syndicator and a kind of aggregator of radio products.
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They come to him to buy the station, I mean
to buy his company, and he ends up getting them
in a bidding war, and it was originally going to
be ten times.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
He moves to Houston at some.
Speaker 5 (33:26):
Point along the way, lives on River Roads, Bulevard at
the time, and he gets them in a bidding war
with another company, and he ends up selling the company
for forty times annual revenues, So a forty x seal
annual revenues with thirty million dollars one point two billion dollars.
But of that one point two billion dollars, he had
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to share that with his business partners and shareholders, except
he didn't have any all. David, Yeah, brilliant idea brilliant execution.
He went out and sold it, he said, He tell
me his week. He lived on the road, He met
with program directors at radio.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Stations, and he sold it. An innovative idea.
Speaker 5 (34:15):
Incredible attention to detail, execution and timing.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
American dream right there,
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. The
Michael darry Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Good morning, Captain, good morning, Captain, good.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Morning, Captain, good morning, Captain, good morning, good morning, and
Captain the morn out and they wake up for sunshine
and share.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
This rate today good an.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Entertain smiling, so we see osby Henry see and the
Good timetowns free. Everybody's saying good morning, good morning.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Shine.
Speaker 5 (01:20):
Every morning when I walk in, I look into studio,
into Ramone studio as I walk into mind and he
always over the years has had some silly thing or another.
He would scream out. Sometimes he say what are you
doing here? It's always funny like, well, I don't know,
(01:43):
you'd have to get it or you don't. Just always something.
But for a little while now he has done his best,
and it's pretty good. Trump impersonation through the glass so
I can't hear.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Him, but he uh.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
If you see the video, it's stamped into your mind
of Trump after he's shot in the head and they
take him down, and then as they're trying to get him.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Off the stage and he lives up.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
It's sort of sort of like a kid that's trying
to stay and his parents are pulling him back and
he's fighting against him, and he puts his hand up
in a fist, but a forward facing fist and kind
of pumps it that way and says, fight, fight, and
you can see his teeth touching the bottom of his lips.
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It's coming from a deep place, guttural place. And Ramon
does a very intense impersonation of that every day to
kind of, you know, I think he's firing me up,
or I think that moment moved.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
I don't know if I want to know, but it
always interests me that that's what he does these days.
And the Astros had been fighting last night with the
big win. They clinched their fourth straight American League West
title with the fourth three win over the Mariners, overcoming
a terrible start of the season. Back on June eighteenth,
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they were seven and nineteen. They trailed Seattle by ten games,
the most they would trail for the season. They would
win their next seven to start a thirteen to two stretch.
They would improve from seven to nineteen to forty six
and forty two by July fifth, so they're over five hundred.
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They are the first team to win the AL West
in four straight seasons since Oakland won five times in
a row from seventy one to seventy five.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Well, that was a good team.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
Gene Tennis, Roley Fingers, Tony Armis, who else was on nine?
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Team?
Speaker 5 (03:58):
Oh, that was a team right there. So first time
they've won four consecutive division titles. They've won three in
a row from ninety seven to ninety nine in twenty
seventeen to twenty nineteen. It's seventh Al West crown in
eight seasons for the Astros. The only time they were
beaten out during that stretch was by Oakland during the
twenty twenty season, shortened to sixty.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Games because of COVID.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
Houston's rotation this year was decimated by injuries early, with
or Orchidi and Christian Javier both undergoing Tommy John surgery
in June, from Barra missing most of April because of
elbow inflammation. The injuries forced the Astros to insert Ronel
Blanco and that turned out well and rookie Spencer Aroghedy
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into the rotation. Blanco threw a no hitter and his
season debut and his second on the team, with twelve
wins and a.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Two point eight to eighth ERI.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
Wow Arogedy's made twenty eight starts was selected AL Rookie
of the Month for August after going three and two
with the one point nine to five ERA. Hunter Brown,
in his second MLB season, win eleven and nine with
a three point four nine ERA to help.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Steady the rotation during a year.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
All of this when three times Cy Young Award winner
Justin Verlander made just sixteen starts due to injuries. Who
would have thought that Verlander would be able to contribute
so little for the time appears to be catching.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Up to him. He just he just looks like he's
constantly in pain.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Who would have thought that Verlander could basically go down
in this team?
Speaker 1 (05:33):
And then what was it to bray you dude?
Speaker 5 (05:36):
They paid so much at first would turn out to
be such a bust and yet this team would still win.
Astros Bergman with a big bomb in the first inning.
Speaker 6 (05:46):
Alex Bregman the batter first pitch Atrakman clubs it pretty
deep to center. Rodriguez is going back on it on
the warning track at the.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Wall, Sealeve.
Speaker 7 (05:57):
Just to the left of the batter side. For Alex Brakman,
it's twenty sixth of the year. What nothing, Astros.
Speaker 8 (06:09):
That's the fourth time Bragmant's taking Logan Gilbert deep.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
That's not easy.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
And he went to the deepest part of the ballpark.
Speaker 6 (06:19):
Yeahman found up hitting that four hundred and twenty four feet.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
You know he's Jewish.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
I always say he's Jewish when Bragman comes up to bat.
Whoever's at the house, And it's funny to watch people's reaction.
They don't know what to do. They they don't know
if you're insulting, maybe you're Jewish. They don't know what
to make of that. Ramon. How many famous Jewish baseball
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players can you name? Haink Greenberg? Good call. Wow, that's
a deep cut right there. Yeah, okay, all right, give
me another one. Say any facts? Okay, who else? Yogi
Berra is not Jewish? Not even clothes. No, he's not Jewish.
Michael Garfield, he's not Jewish.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Uh? Who else would I think of? I think Brad
Osmas is Jewish? Yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
Remember when Brad Osmas went to college Princeton. I believe, Yeah,
Ostma's was a study in contradictions.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
It's an interesting guy. Yeah, he's a very very interesting guy.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
Who was used to be somebody on the Red Sox
that was Jewish. It was like a who No, it
wasn't no more Garcian Para. I assure you it stopped.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
It was like an.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
Eastern European name, Kevin Eucless, Kevin Eucless. I'm pretty sure
with Jewish. There aren't that many Jewish players in in
Major League district.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
That's all the only thing Jewish, you know.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
I swear Jason Hayward's not Jewish. To run by him
in the fifth.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Heyward trys f houng and tick to Mike belt.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
That's good, Joe.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Says, who that was a home.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
I didn't get. Did Sparky get lit up last night?
That's the best part of the whole baseball season.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
For me is the night they clinched and then each
round that they win, listening to Sparky go down and
get hammered and just walk that delicate line. I hope
nobody ever tells him he can't do that, because that
that is one of my favorite things.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
I love Sparky and I love that moment he is
living in it. That game from the show that I
don't seem to get from other places. The Michael Barry Show.
Here come the Astros burning with desire.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Here come the Astros.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Breen and arms.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Here comes winning off the bat, Here come the Astros
the boat one infant time.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
You know I love biographies I was uh reading one
this weekend on Alexander the Great. Here's here's a question
I came up with for you. What do Alexander the
Great and Kermit the Frog have in common? Same middle name?
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Astro's last out to win the division and break down
the the historic run.
Speaker 6 (10:01):
Fans are ready to explode to two so.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
You ain't get a mess. Struck them out.
Speaker 7 (10:08):
The winners and still AL West champions. The Houston Astros
for the fourth straight year and the seventh time in
the last eight years, the Astros are the best in
the AL West. Players come out a bomb scene behind
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the pitcher's mound, and there'll be an even bigger celebration
in the astros bluffhouse in moments. Houston Astros headed back
to the playoffs for the eighth straight year and the
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ninth time in the last ten years.
Speaker 6 (10:52):
They'll play in the wild card round. Here admit it
made park beginning on Tuesday. One thing that's become old
hat for the Astros. It seems like, I mean, you
never want to take this stuff for granted. It's really
amazing this run that the Astros have been on, getting
to the playoffs for an eight straight year, ninth time
in the last ten years. The Astros have played one
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hundred and three postseason games since twenty fifteen, which is
absolutely remarkable. By far, the majority of the postseason games
the Astros have played in their history have come since
twenty fifteen, and at least a couple more on tap
for the Astros as they'll be in the wild Card Series.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
I told my kids the other day, you can't imagine,
like for my generation and particularly the one before, how
special this is. We loved our Astros. We love the personalities.
Don't make me go around horn again and give you
the lineup. Love those personalities to this day, I've been
out in public with those guys, and I mean, the
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love this town has And maybe that's just because that's
where I'm stuck is nineteen seventy nine, but seventy nine
eighty that those years for the Oilers in the Astros
man it is it is such a love affair with
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those personalities, and it was just such a special time.
I don't know how much of that is just me
and I think everybody.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Else is, but I feel that that's the case. But
we didn't win like this.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
This is I mean, you're talking big red machine kind
of stuff in the seventies. You're talking, you know, some
of the best Yankees runs. These are special times that
they really are.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
And I'll tell you what.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
When the league came after the Astros a few years ago,
I did not like what happened with the I think
two guys were cut, neither one of whom should have been.
But I also understand there's there's a lot of gamesmanship
that goes into how you deal with the league and
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all of that. But I thought, well, that's going to
be the end of the team. You think about this
Kikuchi trade, for instance. So that when that deal happened,
I was talking to my mom and she was so
aggravated because my mom and dad watched the Astros every game,
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and she was so bummed out that she said she
couldn't pronounce Loperfido.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
She's like, this is not good. They got rid of
Lupie Fazzi or whatever his name is, low Perfido.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
Mom, Yeah, they got rid of him, I said, yeah,
and Billy Wagner's son. They got rid of Biddy Wagner's son. Yeah,
well I seem worse. Yeah, I don't know had Billy Wagner. Then,
how is it so bad they got.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Rid of him. Well, I'm just saying.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
I'm just saying, but she didn't want luperfatz He or
whatever his name was, low Perfido Mom. Yeah, yeah, three
players for Kikuchi. And you know you got to give
Josh Miller credit. This this pitching staff.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
You know, Chance McLain came over last night. I told
you all the story yesterday that I had tickets. Eddie
Martinez had given me tickets, and then at the last
minute I wasn't gonna be able to go because Crockett
had something at school, and then, as usual, I got
the day wrong. So now I've promised the tickets away,
but I had accidentally over promised I had. I had
asked Chad first, and Chad never accepts anything. So the
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good thing with Chad is you can always offer him
something and then he says no, but thank you very much,
and then you get to give him to somebody else,
so you get kind of a double credit.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Y'all ever do that. I do that a lot, Like
if I know.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
Somebody can't accept what I'm offering them, I offer him
because then you get the credit, but then you get
to give the ticket to somebody.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
You know we'll go. Well, I knew Emily will go.
She'll go out the last minute. She doesn't care.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
She loves the Astros and she loves to go to
the Astros and see him play. So I so I say,
I text her, Emily, would you like to go to
the game one night? Yeah, So Chad's out, Emily's in,
and I invited Chance next afternoon and.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Next morning I come rolling in.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
Chad says, Hey, it's probably too late, but I am
able to go, and Ki is dying to go.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
That's Chad's son, and.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
He's a big he's a big baller and loves ball playing,
loves playing ball, and so Chad's going to go. So
I had to kind of bow out with Chance, which
was awkward because Chance watches the Astros every night. But
he was a good support about it. So I said,
why don't you come over the house. We'll make steaks
and we'll watch.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
The game and the whole deal.
Speaker 5 (15:53):
So that's what we did, and it was a good time.
It was it was a good time all the way around.
Same middle name, Ramon Last but not least, you can.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Tell Sparky's had a touch here.
Speaker 5 (16:05):
In fact, email's coming in going please please don't ever
let them shut Sparky's postseason history onics. I don't know
what theatrics down. That's everybody emails flying in for people
saying that that's my favorite thing. It's like we're all
there celebrating with Sparky. Here he is postgame with Joe
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Spata Joe twelve.
Speaker 8 (16:29):
And twenty four. At the beginning of this season, I
thought you were dead.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
What'd you think?
Speaker 9 (16:33):
We never thought that we were dead. That's why we
are here Hill. We always knew that he was just
a mad all time.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
But the key was staying together. We stayed together.
Speaker 6 (16:44):
We're a good team.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
We know how to win.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
We found a way to win, and now here we go.
Speaker 8 (16:48):
So you're telling me you're going to bed at night,
you're on a road trip, you're in San Francisco, you're
in the hotel room. You guys start off slowly and
you're not questioning what was going on.
Speaker 9 (16:59):
Now, He's a marriage no matter how you start, it's
how you finish. And this this team, they know how
to sprint, they know how to run a race, and
that's why we are here.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
And this is this is where we go.
Speaker 9 (17:11):
This is this is this is a part of the
season that we like to show up and play.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
It's almost the expectations, Joe is. You guys are gonna
go to the playoffs.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
You guys are gonna go deep.
Speaker 8 (17:22):
But for you guys to set a culture, how do
you not disrupt that as a first year manager.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Because I've been here, it's in my blood.
Speaker 9 (17:30):
I know.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
I know the heartbeat of this group, you know, and
you you know we all are hearts. They're all beat
the same way.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
If if if I panic, if I if my.
Speaker 9 (17:41):
Stuff starts beeping too fast, and I show you know,
I'm the leader. But we gotta we gotta stay together.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Man.
Speaker 6 (17:48):
This this is a.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Special, special group.
Speaker 8 (17:51):
And when you guys got off to a slow start,
you had a couple of guys coming to the end
of your manager's office and they said, hey, man, we
got it.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
Keep rolling.
Speaker 8 (17:59):
You guys aren't showing panic. And it's a good thing
with this coaching staff, that's right.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
But you know, we got coaches.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
We've had these kids from the minor leagues. We know
their makeup, we know what they made of. So we
just got to hold each other by their head and
let's go.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
Man.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
I'm excited. I'm so happy for this group. Good times.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
She got an update from Jim Dutton. They so Joyce
Sage of Sundayside. Her system, the coil was bad. It's
two thousand and two UNI and they just replaced the
whole thing for a whole new air conditioning. They got
it installed and up and running last night at eight
thirty pm. So Joyce had a cool evening in her home.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Thank you to Jim Dutton for that. Even if Trump does,
You're not even bend down.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Riding along.
Speaker 7 (19:05):
I'll just be on that plan.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
Begging of.
Speaker 5 (19:12):
The Moon is one of those people, like my brother
and like ray Hunt, who can recall a scene in
a movie and the dialogue from that scene, and you
can match that up against the original.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
And it's.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
So it's in all three of them, my brother, ray
Hunt and ray There's not a lot in the brain
in their brains, but what is there is tight. I mean,
it's precise. It is not a word out of place.
He reminded me which I had forgotten of the scene
in airplay. Uh, And Bobby Crumpley sent it in where
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the stewardess walks down the aisle and she's she's she
has this big smiles. She asked this little old lady
if she would like something to read. Some of you
remember that they first showed the little boy and I
think he's reading Boy's Life or or he's reading like
a boy's magazine. And then and then she goes over
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to the little old lady and this is what happened.
Would you like.
Speaker 10 (20:23):
Something to read?
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Do you have anything light?
Speaker 1 (20:28):
How about this leaflet famous Jewish sports legends?
Speaker 5 (20:33):
Yes, thank you, a fellow named Dane Breitzig. Would you
think Dane Breitzig was Jewish?
Speaker 1 (20:41):
We were guessing. Uh, he sent me.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
So.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Oh. By the way, Brad Osmas went to Dartmouth, not Princeton.
Same thing.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
You know who else went to Dartmouth Denesh desuzam. Dartmouth
has a weird schedule. They do, I forget what you
call it.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
But instead of.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
Instead of two semesters like a fall in a spring,
they do, I forget what they there's a term for
this kind of school year, but they start a month late.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
So every year.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
There'll be one kid from from the schools that we know,
one of the one of the local schools that somehow
we know the kid.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
And they will be at Dartmouth.
Speaker 5 (21:29):
And you know, I always ask, you know, how the
kids doing they started their college, you know, off to
the military, or they start in vocational school, what they do.
And they'll say, well, they're waiting to go to school,
and it will be that they but they go late,
and it's I think it's I mean, I'm not positive.
I think it's fully into October when they begin there.
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Maybe it's a trimester. Maybe that's the term for it.
There's there's a there's an odd term for their school year. Anyway,
that's your Brad Ostmas story.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
And then.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
Dame Breitzig threw another Jewish baseball player at me that
I had not heard of, and I asked him if
he was Jewish and his answer was just no. Like
somebody asked you if you're Jewish, and you just you
just offered some kind of deep insight into Jewish baseball players,
you should say no. I just had an interest in
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you know, Jason Green, because you know, I'm from Detroit,
or it's something you got to you can't just know.
So I said, you are neither jewish nor loquacious, and
I don't know what he's he's responded.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
From there, Here we go again.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
City of Houston and Harris County crime is out of control,
out of control, and yet the City of Houston is
attacking that crime problem. They are devoting resources where it
needs to be devoted so that you, friends, can be safe.
Beginning October first. They're serious about this this time. Beginning
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October first, City of Houston says they will start towing
and impounding any petticabs it finds operating without City of
Houston approval. That's the yellow permit sticker on the seat post.
(23:28):
They're keeping you safe, friends. They're gonna make sure whichever
petticab you get into as you leave the Astros game
because you don't feel like walking five blocks to Federal
American Grill, which is where you had dinner in park
before the game, because you're fat and you'll sweat, and
(23:49):
that jersey you bought it didn't think about the fact
that it's some sort of polyester blend and you are
sweating like a whore in church and you hop into
that petticab. Well, by god, they'll make sure you're protected
and that he is licensed. We're not playing here. We're
serious about this crime problem. No more unlicensed petty cabs.
(24:13):
You know the guy peddling along so you can sit
on your ass and try to enjoy yourself and ride
past the other people. Maybe he's got a little music going. Well,
they're cracking down on days like today.
Speaker 10 (24:26):
Quicker than any uber taxi.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Alonzo Quintanilla will tell you his ten petty caps are indispensable.
Speaker 10 (24:32):
We go out about two hours before the Astros games.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
In the past six years, he's been taking fans from
far flung parking lots who.
Speaker 10 (24:39):
Wants to get all sweaty in this Houston heat.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Right to the gates at Minute May Park.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
But just as crucial as the petticaps themselves, the petticap permit.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Every petty cap.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Needs wanting to operate legally at city leaders say some
have been skirting the rules.
Speaker 10 (24:53):
It seems like whenever we have large events, there's a
lot more that show up from out of town and
they're not permitted by the cities.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
I'm why starting October first, the city plans to start
towing and imbounding any petty gap without this yellow permit
on the seat post. It cost three hundred and fifty
three dollars including all fees, the fine for not having
one five hundred dollars, and sometimes the citations.
Speaker 10 (25:18):
Aren't much of a deterrent.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
So perhaps when we start.
Speaker 10 (25:21):
Letting them know they're going to be towed, that'll let
them think.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Twice licensed petty cab drivers we spoke with welcome the crackdown.
Speaker 10 (25:28):
It has to draw a line somewhere, and I mean,
if they're not gonna listen, then.
Speaker 5 (25:32):
That's the consiplus.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
In addition to the petty caab permits, all pettyicab drivers
need their own license. They're also required to carry a
one million dollar insurance policy.
Speaker 10 (25:42):
That's the safety for the passenger because if you got
in an accident, it might be on them to fit the.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Mill instead look for a licensed petty cap and got
off on the right foot.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Are you serious? Okay, guys, I'm following my story. Okay,
let's hear it. What do y'all think?
Speaker 6 (26:03):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (26:04):
I think you need to close it with kind of
a call to.
Speaker 5 (26:07):
Action, like, hey, guys, don't support the people who haven't
paid a fee to the City of Houston. Get off
on the right foot. You a little pun on the
end there, I don't know, give a little Oh, that's clever.
That's what we're spending our efforts on. Sorry that your
grandmother was mugged, your home was invaded. There were three
(26:27):
drive bys on your block this week, But damn it,
the petticab will have paid.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
How about the fact that they tried to pass it all? Yeah,
you don't want an unlicensed petty cab. He may not
have insurance.
Speaker 5 (26:37):
Yeah, you gotta have insurance for the guy riding the
little cart that you're riding on.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Socialist.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
To quote the line from.
Speaker 5 (26:59):
Moneyball, imagine playing for this team and hating the taste
of champagne.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
He's there heady times. Wow, Jason and Cyprus writes proud Dad,
moments are my son.
Speaker 5 (27:14):
After some tough love in Brian college, station got a
full time job as a junior surveyor. I finally got
a good night's sleep last night, forty hours a week
at seventeen dollars an hour, all the while pursuing his
degree at A and m in construction science at a
junior college. He likened it to going into a rainforest
(27:35):
with a machete. Proud graduate of Texas A and M.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
I love that we have degrees in construction science. I
love that we should. I'd rather, you know.
Speaker 5 (27:55):
One of the things I think A and M does
extraordinarily well is kind of put the ornate finishes and
the impromoter of a great university on the things we
need as a society to survive. When I was mayor
(28:18):
of pro tim there was a fellow by the name
of David Sapristin, and I give Bill White credit for this.
Bill White brought him in as the transportations are at
a dollar a year. David's a billionaire. He didn't need
the money. But he was the founder of Metro Traffic,
and he owned a Ford dealership in downtown Baltimore. And
(28:44):
he lived outside of Baltimore because Baltimore is a dangerous
place and some days his commute would be thirty minutes
and some days would be an hour and a half.
And he found that very frustrating. So he rented a helicopter,
put it up in the air, and UH would have
(29:05):
them have the helicopter call in to him the traffic
as he flew over the Let's say he let's say
he lived in Katie and worked in downtown Houston. It'd
be the equivalent of you know, he would just buzz
up and down I tend and tell you what Katie
Freeway was doing, and then of course that you'd know
(29:26):
what time to leave and alternate routes. So he was,
you know, sky Mike of his day. It loves Scott Mike.
I think I think sky Mike, like Sparky, is a treasure.
I try, I try along the way not to take
things for granted, but you know, there are little things,
little nuggets, little things in the course of your day.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
That that make things pleasant.
Speaker 5 (29:52):
You know, if you've got to call your biggest client
and the lady that answers the phone is is very cheerful.
Little things like that you take for granted and you
don't realize it until that person is fired or dies
or you know, resigns or whatever else.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Little things like that.
Speaker 5 (30:10):
Anyway, so David went to the radio station and said,
I'll provide you with traffic.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Forgive me. I've told the story before, but it's such.
Speaker 5 (30:24):
It may not be rush Limbaugh level big, but in
the radio world it's a little known story that I
happen to have some insight on that I'm fascinated by,
because this really doesn't exist at this time. He goes
to the local radio station says, I'll give you traffic,
and they said, ah, we don't have any money.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
To pay for traffic. What we do now is.
Speaker 5 (30:48):
We put some spotters out and that's good. You know,
Scott Michael will have people call in. I don't need
the traffic route.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
So much as I enjoy listening to the people.
Speaker 5 (31:05):
I enjoy listening to this guy might give him banana stickers,
and I enjoy listening to him interact with them. I
also enjoy when he takes clips of share us saying
this or that, and insert them in there and share
us a good sport for letting him. The whole crew
is a good support for letting him do that. That's
good quality radio.
Speaker 4 (31:22):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
I find that to be very entertaining.
Speaker 5 (31:25):
So anyway, so David sells the package to radio station,
but they say, we love it, but we don't have
any money. So he says, I tell you what, I'll
sell the advertising, which will be embedded into the traffic reports.
And they said no, because then you're competing against us.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
We sell advertising.
Speaker 5 (31:47):
He said, Okay, how about this, I'll sell five second spots.
Eventually it became ten second spots. Well, radio only sold
thirties and sixties sixties at the time sixty second spots,
so a ten is really just is just a name idea,
and they agreed to it. And I believe his first
(32:10):
client was Frank Lorenzo. I believe who I'm interviewing. I
think I'm interviewing Frank Lorenzo tomorrow. Remind me to come
back to Frank Lorenzo anyway. He's written a book. I
don't know he's still alive.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Anyway.
Speaker 5 (32:27):
So I'm almost positive Frank Lorenzo was his first client.
It's funny that just popped into my head. And then
I'm talking to Lorenzo for so he goes to the
station and says, you know, I'll keep at ten. So
I'll do a sixty second traffic report and keep ten
seconds for myself, and so he hires. He starts going
(32:48):
market to market, and he got up to he got
up to over one hundred markets, that's what was metro traffic.
And then he he ends up Westwood One, which is
which is a competitor to the company. We work for
and a syndicator and a kind of aggregator of radio products.
(33:12):
They come to him to buy the station, I mean
to buy his company, and he ends up getting them
in a bidding war, and it was originally going to
be ten times.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
He moves to Houston at some.
Speaker 5 (33:26):
Point along the way, lives on River Roads, Bulevard at
the time, and he gets them in a bidding war
with another company, and he ends up selling the company
for forty times annual revenues, So a forty x seal
annual revenues with thirty million dollars one point two billion dollars.
But of that one point two billion dollars, he had
(33:47):
to share that with his business partners and shareholders, except
he didn't have any all. David, Yeah, brilliant idea brilliant execution.
He went out and sold it, he said, He tell
me his week. He lived on the road, He met
with program directors at radio.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Stations, and he sold it. An innovative idea.
Speaker 5 (34:15):
Incredible attention to detail, execution and timing.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
American dream right there,
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