October 9, 2024 • 30 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Time time, luck and load.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
The Michael Verie Show is on the air. Goodness. My
assistant okay, doesn't come to.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Work for two days.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
You know why? You know what? She tells me?
Speaker 3 (00:29):
What?
Speaker 1 (00:30):
She was constipated? Who doesn't come to work because they're constipated?
Have you ever heard of that?
Speaker 4 (00:36):
No?
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Come on, man, ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Come on.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
I saw a porno constipated. I run a five k
marathon constipated. Man, Come on, I was in a hot
dog eating contest.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Hold you shut up, porno seriously.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Seriously, and a hot dog eating contest constipated.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
And I still one.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
That's not an excuse.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
You cannot let this use constipation as something to lean on.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
You've got to fire him.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Yeah, well that's easier said than done. You know, she's
got a she's got a limp and a cane.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
I feel sorry for her, and I can't.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
I can't do it.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
And by the way, that's just the tip of the iceberg.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Okay, what else could it be?
Speaker 2 (01:14):
I'm not at liberty.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
To to say.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
I can't say, what is it?
Speaker 1 (01:17):
I don't want to say. I don't want to talk.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
About over here.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Disturb me from lamping you ain't.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Gonna come with a business.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
I can't say, tell me what's going on.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Let's just say her uncle recently, no, no, years ago?
Yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
So I've been advised that there is a dealership that
sells used cop cars. It's called Chiefs Pursuit Surplus. I
don't know the owner, but somebody out there, many cops
as we got one of you, knows these people. They're
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in Hymstead on two ninety Chiefs Pursuit Surplus. Can you
call and get the owner of this thing to call us?
Seven one three nine nine nine one thousand, just ask
them to call up. I just want to talk about
who's buying these things. I don't know how you pronounce
this word, so I don't want to get it wrong,
because you don't want to get cop words wrong.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
F E ni e X.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
I don't even I'm not even gonna hazard a guess.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
No, don't start. You don't know. You're just just throwing
stuff against the wall.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
And then I repeat it as if you know, like
it's a deep dark secret of led Zeppelin. That would
be impressive, but you're gonna have it wrong, and then
I sound like a goober. It's fe ni e X.
Don't say it unless you know it. You don't know
the word, do you. Okay, well, then don't act like
you did.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
You just guessed and you're not even good at it.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
So you go there.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
It's called Chiefs Auto Group dot Com.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
So here's a twenty twenty two Chevy Tahoe Police four
x two Popo four drive, four wheel drive SUV, thirty
five thousand miles, fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
I don't know that.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
That's I don't I don't know what the blue book
is on a on a twenty two Tahoe thirty five
thousand miles.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
I mean that's high mileage, but it's not horrible.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
We got a lot, We got a lot of listeners
that put in some serious windshield time. No, you're right,
it's hard miles, and it's like a rental car. It's
not like they're taking care of it. They're not taking
care of it. My brother would leave it be so hot,
and you have all that gear on his bulletproof vest
and stuff. You pull up to the gas station and
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leave his car running, and he drove a bit old
heavy Crown Vic and people would say, excuse me, officer,
your car's running. I know, I don't want to get
back in a hot card, do you? I got always
gear on? You burned a lot of gas? Is in
What I couldn't say, but I was thinking, was I
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ain't paying for it. I figure at least I can
do is get in and out of an air conditioned
cop car. Anyway, they are ridden hard, I mean hard man.
I did a ride along with him one night and winning.
This guy was running from us, thank god, because I
wanted somebody he had an interceptor package or whatever. And
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all my brother's buddies in the Golden Trum, all the
various police departments over there, know that I'm telling the
truth because this is my brother. So we were hoping
for somebody to runs that.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Would have an excuse.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
And this idiot, you ran from the wrong cop that
my brother is. Look, he's got a Richard Petty buried
d down inside. That that's the reason he's a cop, right.
So this dude goes running through.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
The rice fields and of winning.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
He's on those back roads, and my brother knows those
back roads like the back of his hand. This guy
did too, And he goes to running and my brother's
behind him and he goes ooh, get ready, you're.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
About to jump a railroad track. What jump a railroad track?
Speaker 2 (05:20):
And we go through there and that railroad track probably
only had a six inch maybe a one foot grade separation,
but it was enough. We went airborne. And we went airborne.
I mean the shocks and the sparks. It's dark, right,
and I was like, whoa, this is it right here? Now,
this is starsky and the hutch Duke's a hazard. But
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I'm on the other side, right, I'm in the Roscoe
Peak coal trade. So we ran the dude for a while.
Finally I think he figured out this. Some of the
gun's crazy enough, Like if he's going to chase me
over one hundred miles an hour on these back roads
for this long, I'm not getting away and he might
kill me.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
I better pull over and apologize.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Yeah yeah, anyway, Jasmine, you're on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
Thank you Michael for taking my call. I just wanted
to call and share briefly my little Crown Vic story.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Oh hold on, hold on, are you a black woman?
Speaker 5 (06:19):
No, sirah, I'm white.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
I asked Ramon if you were black, and he said yes.
I don't know why.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
Well, bird is my last name, so bird maybe why.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Yes, sir, Well that's not necessarily a white woman's name.
But Jasmine is mostly black, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
I don't know. I've only met a couple and it
was kind of even.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Okay, hold on, is Jasmine black? Who are you named after?
How did you get that name?
Speaker 5 (06:53):
Either the flower or the rice?
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, here we are.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Jasmine is most common among blacks fifty six point sixty
one percent and whites twenty four percent, So only one
in four Jazmine.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
You know what?
Speaker 1 (07:06):
The other one is Hispanic? Yep, I bet you.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Hispanic has got to be third anyway, yep. Jasmine is
so fifty seven percent black, twenty four percent white, So
you got two and a half times as many black
Jasmines as white Jasmines.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
That's something I didn't know.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Well, if you're applying somewhere, just hit the black and
when they come at.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
You, I typically do, They're not going to want to
get in what That's usually what I do if I want.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
To go ahead, because with the name white Jasmine, they're
going to believe you.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Yep, exactly what's your middle name?
Speaker 2 (07:42):
You gained dashes or apostrophes in it.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
It's Louise.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Yeah, that could be black.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
I mean that's huh.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
We got the cop car guy named after my grandmother, Louisa.
Louisa named after my grandmother, So that's where that came from.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
But how do you spell LOUI.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
L o u?
Speaker 5 (08:02):
I s A is Louisa, but mine's with an ethan Louise.
But that's where it came from.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Why Louisa instead of Louisa?
Speaker 5 (08:14):
I don't know. I have no clue that that's way
before my time. I wish they were alive so I
could ask them, well.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Yeah, yeah, were you close to her?
Speaker 6 (08:23):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (08:24):
No?
Speaker 5 (08:24):
I I think I met her once when I was
a couple of months old, so I don't remember.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
What do you do?
Speaker 5 (08:31):
I work for a trucking company.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
What do you do for them?
Speaker 5 (08:35):
A little bit of everything wherever they need me. I
started out dispatching and now just I fill in the
gaps wherever it need be.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Does it pay well?
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Not enough?
Speaker 5 (08:45):
They could always be more.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
I know that.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Who I feel you?
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Okay, you got a cop car story for Oh, we
got the cop car guy on you all?
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Right?
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Hold on?
Speaker 7 (08:55):
Now they have pledged to carry out the largest deportation
of that deportation, Michael, imagine what that would look like
us fuy.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Put me in jail and call my habit to throw
my belt.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
He sits on.
Speaker 6 (09:11):
You're gonna drive.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
You're drinking if you don't't stop driving that hide ride Lincoln.
The story behind Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen
was the inspiration a nineteen fifties film serial featuring the
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character Commando Cody. He became Commander Cody. That was Commando Cody,
and an earlier serial called King of the Rocketmen, which
was released under the title Lost Planet Airmen. Remember we're
thinking space rockets alternate planets. So Commando Cody and King
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of the Rocketmen aka Lost Planet Airmen became Commander Cody
and his Lost Planet Airman. But the song if You're
Wondering was written by Charlie Ryan hold on We got
the cop car, dude on, But Jasmine, tell me your
cop car story.
Speaker 6 (10:13):
Okay, so real quick.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
This was a different trucking company that I had worked
for about five years ago, and a long story short.
One of the drivers that I dispatched was purchasing a
truck from the owner.
Speaker 6 (10:26):
A couple months later. The owner had.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
Screwed him around on his money, and my driver ended
up taking that truck hostage to New Mexico.
Speaker 6 (10:33):
And then he called me a couple of days.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
Later and said, Hey, the car I came down in
from New Mexico down to.
Speaker 6 (10:40):
Spring, Texas.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
I can't really go get it because you know the owner,
boss Man's gonna arrest me if I show up. So
how about I just overnight you the title and the.
Speaker 6 (10:49):
Keys to that and it's yours.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
So everybody loves the car.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
And it was one hell of a way to get it.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
And what was the car?
Speaker 4 (10:59):
It's a two.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
Thousand and six police Crown VIC New Mexico Gold.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
What was the engine?
Speaker 6 (11:08):
God, my dad's going to be mad at me. It's
a V eight four point six.
Speaker 7 (11:13):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
I just knew you would probably know, and I wanted
to give you a chance to show off.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
You're a keeper.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Were you married, Jasmine, No, sir, I'm not. Were you
ever married, No, sir. Are you lesbian?
Speaker 5 (11:29):
No, sir?
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Why is that funny, Kamala, it's a real question.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
No, I'm not.
Speaker 6 (11:40):
Maybe one day we're working on it.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Well, if you were lesbian, I was going to put
you in the pile because Trump had a meeting. When
was it yesterday or the day before? What's today? Tuesday? No,
today's Wednesday. So on Monday, Trump had a speech he
was giving and he said something about he's in the
middle of his speech. He goes, where's the gaze for Trump?
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Because he knew they were going to be there, And
one of them over one of them in the back,
goes over here, we're over here, and he looks at
the dinn and he goes, you don't look gay, only Trump.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
And they loved it.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
And so Ramona and I I showed ramon the video
and we just laughed and laughed and laughed, and Ramone said,
you've got to play that and then ask gay people
to call up that like Trump, to call up and
say why they like Trump. It's the funniest damn thing.
It is so quintessentially Trump. He is unashamed, unabashed, straightforward, raw, unvarished,
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and he didn't mean it in a bad way. And
I guarantee you, if you could drill down and get
the numbers on what gazered, I'll bet you more gays
are voting for him than have ever voted for a
Republican in.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
The modern era.
Speaker 6 (13:00):
I believe it. I think a lot of people are
waking up.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Okay, but you're not lesbian?
Speaker 1 (13:05):
No, so how long have you been dating this guy?
Speaker 6 (13:09):
About seven years?
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (13:11):
My?
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Do y'all not want to get married?
Speaker 6 (13:17):
I don't know? And let him take the reins?
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Do you do you not see an advantage to being married?
Speaker 4 (13:22):
Like?
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Does that not.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Matter to you?
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Either way?
Speaker 6 (13:27):
It's fine with me.
Speaker 5 (13:28):
I love him regardless of the status. But what he
does for me and who he is is more important
than what we call ourselves.
Speaker 6 (13:35):
But I wouldn't be opposed.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
I would love it and make me cry, and I'd
be real happy if you did.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
How much do you make per year?
Speaker 5 (13:44):
About forty hours?
Speaker 1 (13:46):
And how much does he make.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
More than me?
Speaker 6 (13:50):
But I don't have an exact number?
Speaker 1 (13:52):
But he does share a bank account?
Speaker 6 (13:56):
No, sir?
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Do you all live together? Who pays the rent? All
of it?
Speaker 6 (14:09):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (14:09):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Does he pay your car note?
Speaker 4 (14:14):
No?
Speaker 5 (14:14):
Very much?
Speaker 1 (14:16):
I can't hear you, sweetheart.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
No my truck pay okay, her truck.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
I love this girl.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Who pays the grocery bills mostly.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
But I'm always always said I, but I'm forgiving those
a lot.
Speaker 7 (14:33):
We don't hold.
Speaker 5 (14:34):
Anybody to whoever, you don't do it at the time, you.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
M hmm, okay, you seem happy. All right, Well that
was a good story, Jasmine. Thank you for calling. You're
a great sport. Go recruit us some lesbians and gays
because we're going to do that show in the in
the near future. And for anybody that's that's mad. We're
doing it because you don't like Homo's You want to
win this race or not, because the moment you decide,
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you don't want every single group to vote for Trump.
And there are there are these people, a lot of
Republicans that they never trumpers. I want to save the country,
but I don't want Trump to be president. Well, I
got news for you. It's one or the other, whether
you like the man or not.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Is ED the car?
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Dude?
Speaker 4 (15:19):
Ed?
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Do you own this place?
Speaker 4 (15:23):
Ed?
Speaker 2 (15:27):
I don't huh?
Speaker 4 (15:30):
Ed?
Speaker 1 (15:30):
You hit mute on your phone?
Speaker 2 (15:32):
My goodness, chiefs Auto Group. You think he's fat fingering
it right now? He's mashing the buttons. He doesn't know
what to do. What do I do?
Speaker 5 (15:48):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (15:49):
Ed?
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Hello?
Speaker 2 (15:51):
What happened?
Speaker 3 (15:52):
This is no h Hello? This is Tony and Allen
from Chief ERSU super Plus.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Well, how did I get the name Ed.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
I don't have no idea, sir. I mean somebody told
me to call Michael Berry's show.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Do you own chiefs Auto Group, Chief.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
For Sister Plats and Chief Auto Group?
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Yea, okay, hold on this a second.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
The worst president, the worst vice president in the history
of our christ, Michael Berry. We can't afford four more
years of this. I was thumbling through the water ads
and the.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Shelby counter Tribune.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
One of this classified advertising called my it's that take immediately?
Why do you still have Bed on the screen when
he told us his name is Tony Tony, Yes see
he's Tony, He's not Ed. Did somebody did a did
a white dude named Tony call in? I mean named
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Ed call in and then give you the phone?
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Uh? Nowaday, I heard that you guys talking about my
dealership and somebody's named Manny. He was a listener called
me said Tony, you need to call Michael Berry show.
And that's what I did, sir.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Okay, because Ramon thought your name was Ed.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
No, I'm Tony Down. I'm the owner of Chief pursuserplus Splash,
Chief Auto Group in Hmpstead, Texas.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
And how many how many of these I'm looking at
your site right now. How many of these vehicles do
you sell per year?
Speaker 3 (17:34):
I do about one hundred and twenty five to one
hundred and forty a months, a month a month. We have,
mister Barry, we have about one hundred and fourteen county
that we service and we help not only in Texas,
but we have Alabama, Kansas, Colorado. We're the second largest
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in the country.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Who's the largest, the largest?
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Guy named Chicago Motor in Chicago has used PPP and SSV.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
What is PPP?
Speaker 3 (18:12):
I mean this is special cards for police officer.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Yeah, but what does it stand for.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Police Pursue Vehicle?
Speaker 7 (18:21):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (18:22):
PPV?
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Okay, yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Do you only sell to governmental entities or do you
sell to the public?
Speaker 3 (18:29):
No, only government, only government, because we do the utfitting too.
We do the cages, partition, light bar, everything from A
to Z. We do the decal, the wrap, I mean
fire department, EMS, police shure, I mean every agency, government agency.
They'll come to us.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Well, I'm going to tell you if I get hold
of one of these, I'm gonna regulate. It's going to
be on like outlaw Josie Wales. Would you sell me one.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
If you have life on it. I'm not allowed to.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Okay, well we'll leave the lights off. What if the
lights are on it, you just don't plug them in?
Speaker 3 (19:07):
No, No, I mean the thing is everybody, individual person
will come step into my Because we're family business. We
have about thirty five employees here. We are very strict
on a car that have lights, we build the lights.
If he pushes it from a government have lights, they'll
make me sign an fie David that I'm not allowed
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to sell to any individual. And this is how we
go to the process. We will not no matter what
we have, lights will take him off.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Okay, okay, well hold on, I want I want the lights.
What if a friend of mine who's a cop buys it.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
If he's a cop, and he can show me his
idea and he can show me that he worked for agency.
I have no issue with that because this is they
work side job, and every officer that works side job,
they come to us. If we have a car that's
not equipped, we will equip it for them.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Awesome, Okay, give me give me the menu of things
he can get on there, and I'll tell you right
now what he wants on it. Yeah, he's gonna want
to lift kit, All right?
Speaker 1 (20:15):
What else?
Speaker 3 (20:15):
What else? Can we don't lift card?
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Yeah, you don't do a lift.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
No, we don't lift RD. We just do a fitting,
which is a light bar partition prisoner cage.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Yes, yes, yeah, I mean he's gonna want to yes, Okay,
what else? I mean?
Speaker 3 (20:33):
I'm gonna give you an example. A Klein ID purchas
about nineteen unit from me and we did everything for them.
Harris County Sheriff Department pursas twenty four unit from me.
Waller County purchase nine unit from me. I mean, we
just sell cars and we help and I'm happy and
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glad that I can do and help those agency Tony.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Let me ask you a question. What does this word mean?
F E N I e X.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Phoenix is a company that does provide light bars and
supply for like wheeling, sound off, federal sign, federal sign.
I mean they're light company that they provide. They're the
second largest in the country too, because they provide lighting
and everything.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Interesting, I just never heard of them. You didn't say
Phoenix from Phoenix are.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
They're corporating in Austin and they're based in Austin. They
have over three hundred employees they're they're competing with Wheeling,
which is Wheeling is the biggest in the whole world.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
But do you do all of those are just Phoenix?
Speaker 3 (21:47):
No, usually we do only Phoenix. And now we're going
to do a lot of agency. They're they're requesting different
than Phoenix.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
He's going to want that hold on a second, Tony.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
I'm fast this whole long.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
It was just officially endorsed by IRS agency.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
You believe the Michael Berry Show. I'd rather not have
that endorsement.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
One day, I devised myself a plan that should be
the envy of most any man.
Speaker 6 (22:14):
I'd sneak it out of there.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
And did you know this in my.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Hand diarrhea is hereditary now kidness, it runs in your genes.
Speaker 5 (22:21):
But I figured i'd have it all by the time
I retired Email of the day.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
For at least one hundred grand.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Tzar, I totaled my car and I needed to buy
a reliable cash car. I bought an all white twenty
ten CROWNVIC police Interceptor from a cop so I figured
I could trust him. Six months later, the differential fell
out and now all four wheels turned. I tell people
it's a custom job. Please use the four point six
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liter V eight as a lead in to segue into
a swap shop segment and get this thing out of
my driveway. Sorry, Eddie, but I had.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
To do it. That's funny right there.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
That'd be a good swap shop Tony.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Yes, sir, Where were you born? I was born in Beirut, Lebanon.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Beyroot, Lebanon.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
How did you get into this business?
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Since nineteen ninety one?
Speaker 2 (23:19):
That's when?
Speaker 1 (23:20):
But how, oh my how?
Speaker 3 (23:23):
I came here in nineteen eighty seven, and I've been
here thirty seven years. And I came and I started
working at the gas station at the time, and it
took me about three years to save some money, and
I opened my first dealership in Houston nineteen ninety one and.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Was the dealership doing cop cars.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
I was buying some cop cars on the side, like
three four five. My inventory was about three hundred. I
was one of the one of the ten largest dealership
in Texas. I was doing about two hundred to three
hundred cars eight months and.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
So and you where were you getting these cars?
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Auctions?
Speaker 3 (24:09):
From auctions? You're talking about a regular car, yes, from auction?
In two thousand cars eighteen was the top cars I bought.
I bought them from agency.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Okay, so like a surplus agency, yes, sir.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
And after I start buying a lot, we buy about
five to seven million dollars a year. They end up
calling me straight all this agency and fill me their cars.
I mean they strip them sometimes they strip them. They
don't sell it to me with lis or anything. But
we have an upfitting company, outfitting company here. I got
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about ten acres on the highway. We have about forty
employees and we do We have about nine technicians that
does upfitting, and we have we have a buddy shop.
We have a mechanic shop. I mean we're a big
operation here. And for the last six years we start
growing and growing and growing, and every agency trust us.
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They call us. They don't even come check the car.
They even called me and they said, Tony, we need
about in nine unit, we need twelve unit, we need
six units. And I'll go ahead and have them ready
for them. Outfitting, the lights, the decal, the names. I mean,
I get names. I can start naming all those agencies
a buy from me. We have five star online. We
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stand behind our work. We helped even three months later,
anything happened to their car I'll go pick up those
cars and fix it for them. You can ask every
agency how good we treat every agency. We were glad
Win honored to help them.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
So Tony, let's go back to about ninety one. You
were buying from the agency and they're stripping these cars down.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
So no, I wasn't. I'm sorry. In ninety one till
twenty fifteen, I wasn't selling cars. I was one of
the biggest dealers that's selling regular car.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
But but when you you were talking about these stripped
down cop cars that just could be sold to the public, right,
like the old Caprice or the Crown Vix or some
of those, Right you sold those.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
Back in the days. Yeah, I wasn't. I wasn't selling
I mean, like I said, I would buy one or
two Tahoo that has no rights.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
And what kind of producer buys that car because they
know it's been ragged out.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Not really never because government maintained their cars. When when when? When? When?
I when you buy a Caprice or I'm just telling you,
I mean, I don't know why they're buying them, but
they're buying them because it's Caprice. It's hard to find
they have six point oh and they're built for police only.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
You still have any right now?
Speaker 3 (26:56):
None? Zero?
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Do you only do police cars?
Speaker 3 (27:03):
We do only police cars, and you do only police.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
You put all the lights in everything. What's the number
one light is Phoenix the light company?
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Yes, Phoenix is the number one. We partner with them.
They came here and they partner with us.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
What is the up sell on a unit, because I
noticed there's a lot of tahoes. What is the up
sell from the cost of the unit to all if
you do the full package, the cage in the back,
because he's gonna definitely want that, all the lights and everything,
what does that add to the cost of the base.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
It depends. It depends, mister Barry. What happened is like,
give you an example with Klein ISD we did we
did the supervisors units, which of course about forty six thousand.
We did patrol unit it will be like twelve thousand,
and we did some canine that's eighteen thousand and up.
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I mean, it depends the way you want it. Some
officer they want to buy buy a car just only
to do a side job that will cost about three
thousand dollars thirty two hundred dollars, which is we don't
make a lot of money on light and outfitting, which
maybe make about ten to fifteen percent, But our profit
is on the unit. Right.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
What if they have their own unit and they just
want you to deck it out.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Oh, that's that's what we're here for. Just so we'll
let you know. There's about two three major outfitting company
in Taxes. Any agency that can go try to outfit
the car, it will take nine months on waiting cold
wait out on a waiting list. That's why those agency
come into us now and we can do it in
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the week. We can outfit about four or five units
in a week for them. And then we hire a
team about five sealmen to go start knocking on doors
talking to agency to come and start, you know, taking
their business. No, nobody know who we are, but I
believe in a few months in the year, everybody will
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know who we are. We're gonna be big on outfitting
because this agency in Texas need the help. And there's
the other two big ones. Like I said, they're not helping,
they're just h you called. You try to get your
units fitted, it's going to be seven to eight months waiting.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
That's the ones out of Chicago.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
No, no, no, we're talking Texas. And if you want,
I can say the names of that outfitting company. Sure,
there's CAP's Fleet, and there's Dana Dana, d A and A.
There's two big larger.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
But they're not the entire you're saying.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
They're very good, they're the best.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
What's something you could have known from my friend's car
that that other people don't have? That's kind of like
questionable whether you've you know, ought to be putting that
on there, because I don't know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
I can help him first. First, at all, our prices
are way cheaper than anybod less expensive than anybody. Yeah,
like I said, we we buy the lights and all
that he needs to us give us to pay us
for the labors.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Yeah, can you anything like that? Like if he was
to want to mount something on there, you know, like, no, no.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
We don't do that.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Well, because here's the reason.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Another buddy of mine's got a ranch. Sometimes we go
out hog hunting and you come up on a sounder
of about forty of them, and you can't shoulder mountain
enough to kill him
It's that time.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Time time, luck and load.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
The Michael Verie Show is on the air. Goodness. My
assistant okay, doesn't come to.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Work for two days.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
You know why? You know what? She tells me?
Speaker 3 (00:29):
What?
Speaker 1 (00:30):
She was constipated? Who doesn't come to work because they're constipated?
Have you ever heard of that?
Speaker 4 (00:36):
No?
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Come on, man, ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Come on.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
I saw a porno constipated. I run a five k
marathon constipated. Man, Come on, I was in a hot
dog eating contest.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Hold you shut up, porno seriously.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Seriously, and a hot dog eating contest constipated.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
And I still one.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
That's not an excuse.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
You cannot let this use constipation as something to lean on.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
You've got to fire him.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Yeah, well that's easier said than done. You know, she's
got a she's got a limp and a cane.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
I feel sorry for her, and I can't.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
I can't do it.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
And by the way, that's just the tip of the iceberg.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Okay, what else could it be?
Speaker 2 (01:14):
I'm not at liberty.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
To to say.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
I can't say, what is it?
Speaker 1 (01:17):
I don't want to say. I don't want to talk.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
About over here.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Disturb me from lamping you ain't.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Gonna come with a business.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
I can't say, tell me what's going on.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Let's just say her uncle recently, no, no, years ago?
Yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
So I've been advised that there is a dealership that
sells used cop cars. It's called Chiefs Pursuit Surplus. I
don't know the owner, but somebody out there, many cops
as we got one of you, knows these people. They're
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in Hymstead on two ninety Chiefs Pursuit Surplus. Can you
call and get the owner of this thing to call us?
Seven one three nine nine nine one thousand, just ask
them to call up. I just want to talk about
who's buying these things. I don't know how you pronounce
this word, so I don't want to get it wrong,
because you don't want to get cop words wrong.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
F E ni e X.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
I don't even I'm not even gonna hazard a guess.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
No, don't start. You don't know. You're just just throwing
stuff against the wall.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
And then I repeat it as if you know, like
it's a deep dark secret of led Zeppelin. That would
be impressive, but you're gonna have it wrong, and then
I sound like a goober. It's fe ni e X.
Don't say it unless you know it. You don't know
the word, do you. Okay, well, then don't act like
you did.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
You just guessed and you're not even good at it.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
So you go there.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
It's called Chiefs Auto Group dot Com.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
So here's a twenty twenty two Chevy Tahoe Police four
x two Popo four drive, four wheel drive SUV, thirty
five thousand miles, fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
I don't know that.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
That's I don't I don't know what the blue book
is on a on a twenty two Tahoe thirty five
thousand miles.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
I mean that's high mileage, but it's not horrible.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
We got a lot, We got a lot of listeners
that put in some serious windshield time. No, you're right,
it's hard miles, and it's like a rental car. It's
not like they're taking care of it. They're not taking
care of it. My brother would leave it be so hot,
and you have all that gear on his bulletproof vest
and stuff. You pull up to the gas station and
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leave his car running, and he drove a bit old
heavy Crown Vic and people would say, excuse me, officer,
your car's running. I know, I don't want to get
back in a hot card, do you? I got always
gear on? You burned a lot of gas? Is in
What I couldn't say, but I was thinking, was I
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ain't paying for it. I figure at least I can
do is get in and out of an air conditioned
cop car. Anyway, they are ridden hard, I mean hard man.
I did a ride along with him one night and winning.
This guy was running from us, thank god, because I
wanted somebody he had an interceptor package or whatever. And
(04:40):
all my brother's buddies in the Golden Trum, all the
various police departments over there, know that I'm telling the
truth because this is my brother. So we were hoping
for somebody to runs that.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Would have an excuse.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
And this idiot, you ran from the wrong cop that
my brother is. Look, he's got a Richard Petty buried
d down inside. That that's the reason he's a cop, right.
So this dude goes running through.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
The rice fields and of winning.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
He's on those back roads, and my brother knows those
back roads like the back of his hand. This guy
did too, And he goes to running and my brother's
behind him and he goes ooh, get ready, you're.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
About to jump a railroad track. What jump a railroad track?
Speaker 2 (05:20):
And we go through there and that railroad track probably
only had a six inch maybe a one foot grade separation,
but it was enough. We went airborne. And we went airborne.
I mean the shocks and the sparks. It's dark, right,
and I was like, whoa, this is it right here? Now,
this is starsky and the hutch Duke's a hazard. But
(05:42):
I'm on the other side, right, I'm in the Roscoe
Peak coal trade. So we ran the dude for a while.
Finally I think he figured out this. Some of the
gun's crazy enough, Like if he's going to chase me
over one hundred miles an hour on these back roads
for this long, I'm not getting away and he might
kill me.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
I better pull over and apologize.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Yeah yeah, anyway, Jasmine, you're on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
Thank you Michael for taking my call. I just wanted
to call and share briefly my little Crown Vic story.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Oh hold on, hold on, are you a black woman?
Speaker 5 (06:19):
No, sirah, I'm white.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
I asked Ramon if you were black, and he said yes.
I don't know why.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
Well, bird is my last name, so bird maybe why.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Yes, sir, Well that's not necessarily a white woman's name.
But Jasmine is mostly black, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
I don't know. I've only met a couple and it
was kind of even.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Okay, hold on, is Jasmine black? Who are you named after?
How did you get that name?
Speaker 5 (06:53):
Either the flower or the rice?
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, here we are.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Jasmine is most common among blacks fifty six point sixty
one percent and whites twenty four percent, So only one
in four Jazmine.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
You know what?
Speaker 1 (07:06):
The other one is Hispanic? Yep, I bet you.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Hispanic has got to be third anyway, yep. Jasmine is
so fifty seven percent black, twenty four percent white, So
you got two and a half times as many black
Jasmines as white Jasmines.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
That's something I didn't know.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Well, if you're applying somewhere, just hit the black and
when they come at.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
You, I typically do, They're not going to want to
get in what That's usually what I do if I want.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
To go ahead, because with the name white Jasmine, they're
going to believe you.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Yep, exactly what's your middle name?
Speaker 2 (07:42):
You gained dashes or apostrophes in it.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
It's Louise.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Yeah, that could be black.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
I mean that's huh.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
We got the cop car guy named after my grandmother, Louisa.
Louisa named after my grandmother, So that's where that came from.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
But how do you spell LOUI.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
L o u?
Speaker 5 (08:02):
I s A is Louisa, but mine's with an ethan Louise.
But that's where it came from.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Why Louisa instead of Louisa?
Speaker 5 (08:14):
I don't know. I have no clue that that's way
before my time. I wish they were alive so I
could ask them, well.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Yeah, yeah, were you close to her?
Speaker 6 (08:23):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (08:24):
No?
Speaker 5 (08:24):
I I think I met her once when I was
a couple of months old, so I don't remember.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
What do you do?
Speaker 5 (08:31):
I work for a trucking company.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
What do you do for them?
Speaker 5 (08:35):
A little bit of everything wherever they need me. I
started out dispatching and now just I fill in the
gaps wherever it need be.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Does it pay well?
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Not enough?
Speaker 5 (08:45):
They could always be more.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
I know that.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Who I feel you?
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Okay, you got a cop car story for Oh, we
got the cop car guy on you all?
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Right?
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Hold on?
Speaker 7 (08:55):
Now they have pledged to carry out the largest deportation
of that deportation, Michael, imagine what that would look like
us fuy.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Put me in jail and call my habit to throw
my belt.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
He sits on.
Speaker 6 (09:11):
You're gonna drive.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
You're drinking if you don't't stop driving that hide ride Lincoln.
The story behind Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen
was the inspiration a nineteen fifties film serial featuring the
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character Commando Cody. He became Commander Cody. That was Commando Cody,
and an earlier serial called King of the Rocketmen, which
was released under the title Lost Planet Airmen. Remember we're
thinking space rockets alternate planets. So Commando Cody and King
(09:55):
of the Rocketmen aka Lost Planet Airmen became Commander Cody
and his Lost Planet Airman. But the song if You're
Wondering was written by Charlie Ryan hold on We got
the cop car, dude on, But Jasmine, tell me your
cop car story.
Speaker 6 (10:13):
Okay, so real quick.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
This was a different trucking company that I had worked
for about five years ago, and a long story short.
One of the drivers that I dispatched was purchasing a
truck from the owner.
Speaker 6 (10:26):
A couple months later. The owner had.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
Screwed him around on his money, and my driver ended
up taking that truck hostage to New Mexico.
Speaker 6 (10:33):
And then he called me a couple of days.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
Later and said, Hey, the car I came down in
from New Mexico down to.
Speaker 6 (10:40):
Spring, Texas.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
I can't really go get it because you know the owner,
boss Man's gonna arrest me if I show up. So
how about I just overnight you the title and the.
Speaker 6 (10:49):
Keys to that and it's yours.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
So everybody loves the car.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
And it was one hell of a way to get it.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
And what was the car?
Speaker 4 (10:59):
It's a two.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
Thousand and six police Crown VIC New Mexico Gold.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
What was the engine?
Speaker 6 (11:08):
God, my dad's going to be mad at me. It's
a V eight four point six.
Speaker 7 (11:13):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
I just knew you would probably know, and I wanted
to give you a chance to show off.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
You're a keeper.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Were you married, Jasmine, No, sir, I'm not. Were you
ever married, No, sir. Are you lesbian?
Speaker 5 (11:29):
No, sir?
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Why is that funny, Kamala, it's a real question.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
No, I'm not.
Speaker 6 (11:40):
Maybe one day we're working on it.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Well, if you were lesbian, I was going to put
you in the pile because Trump had a meeting. When
was it yesterday or the day before? What's today? Tuesday? No,
today's Wednesday. So on Monday, Trump had a speech he
was giving and he said something about he's in the
middle of his speech. He goes, where's the gaze for Trump?
(12:05):
Because he knew they were going to be there, And
one of them over one of them in the back,
goes over here, we're over here, and he looks at
the dinn and he goes, you don't look gay, only Trump.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
And they loved it.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
And so Ramona and I I showed ramon the video
and we just laughed and laughed and laughed, and Ramone said,
you've got to play that and then ask gay people
to call up that like Trump, to call up and
say why they like Trump. It's the funniest damn thing.
It is so quintessentially Trump. He is unashamed, unabashed, straightforward, raw, unvarished,
(12:45):
and he didn't mean it in a bad way. And
I guarantee you, if you could drill down and get
the numbers on what gazered, I'll bet you more gays
are voting for him than have ever voted for a
Republican in.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
The modern era.
Speaker 6 (13:00):
I believe it. I think a lot of people are
waking up.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Okay, but you're not lesbian?
Speaker 1 (13:05):
No, so how long have you been dating this guy?
Speaker 6 (13:09):
About seven years?
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (13:11):
My?
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Do y'all not want to get married?
Speaker 6 (13:17):
I don't know? And let him take the reins?
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Do you do you not see an advantage to being married?
Speaker 4 (13:22):
Like?
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Does that not.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Matter to you?
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Either way?
Speaker 6 (13:27):
It's fine with me.
Speaker 5 (13:28):
I love him regardless of the status. But what he
does for me and who he is is more important
than what we call ourselves.
Speaker 6 (13:35):
But I wouldn't be opposed.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
I would love it and make me cry, and I'd
be real happy if you did.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
How much do you make per year?
Speaker 5 (13:44):
About forty hours?
Speaker 1 (13:46):
And how much does he make.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
More than me?
Speaker 6 (13:50):
But I don't have an exact number?
Speaker 1 (13:52):
But he does share a bank account?
Speaker 6 (13:56):
No, sir?
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Do you all live together? Who pays the rent? All
of it?
Speaker 6 (14:09):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (14:09):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Does he pay your car note?
Speaker 4 (14:14):
No?
Speaker 5 (14:14):
Very much?
Speaker 1 (14:16):
I can't hear you, sweetheart.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
No my truck pay okay, her truck.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
I love this girl.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Who pays the grocery bills mostly.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
But I'm always always said I, but I'm forgiving those
a lot.
Speaker 7 (14:33):
We don't hold.
Speaker 5 (14:34):
Anybody to whoever, you don't do it at the time, you.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
M hmm, okay, you seem happy. All right, Well that
was a good story, Jasmine. Thank you for calling. You're
a great sport. Go recruit us some lesbians and gays
because we're going to do that show in the in
the near future. And for anybody that's that's mad. We're
doing it because you don't like Homo's You want to
win this race or not, because the moment you decide,
(15:02):
you don't want every single group to vote for Trump.
And there are there are these people, a lot of
Republicans that they never trumpers. I want to save the country,
but I don't want Trump to be president. Well, I
got news for you. It's one or the other, whether
you like the man or not.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Is ED the car?
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Dude?
Speaker 4 (15:19):
Ed?
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Do you own this place?
Speaker 4 (15:23):
Ed?
Speaker 2 (15:27):
I don't huh?
Speaker 4 (15:30):
Ed?
Speaker 1 (15:30):
You hit mute on your phone?
Speaker 2 (15:32):
My goodness, chiefs Auto Group. You think he's fat fingering
it right now? He's mashing the buttons. He doesn't know
what to do. What do I do?
Speaker 5 (15:48):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (15:49):
Ed?
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Hello?
Speaker 2 (15:51):
What happened?
Speaker 3 (15:52):
This is no h Hello? This is Tony and Allen
from Chief ERSU super Plus.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Well, how did I get the name Ed.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
I don't have no idea, sir. I mean somebody told
me to call Michael Berry's show.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Do you own chiefs Auto Group, Chief.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
For Sister Plats and Chief Auto Group?
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Yea, okay, hold on this a second.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
The worst president, the worst vice president in the history
of our christ, Michael Berry. We can't afford four more
years of this. I was thumbling through the water ads
and the.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Shelby counter Tribune.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
One of this classified advertising called my it's that take immediately?
Why do you still have Bed on the screen when
he told us his name is Tony Tony, Yes see
he's Tony, He's not Ed. Did somebody did a did
a white dude named Tony call in? I mean named
(16:53):
Ed call in and then give you the phone?
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Uh? Nowaday, I heard that you guys talking about my
dealership and somebody's named Manny. He was a listener called
me said Tony, you need to call Michael Berry show.
And that's what I did, sir.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Okay, because Ramon thought your name was Ed.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
No, I'm Tony Down. I'm the owner of Chief pursuserplus Splash,
Chief Auto Group in Hmpstead, Texas.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
And how many how many of these I'm looking at
your site right now. How many of these vehicles do
you sell per year?
Speaker 3 (17:34):
I do about one hundred and twenty five to one
hundred and forty a months, a month a month. We have,
mister Barry, we have about one hundred and fourteen county
that we service and we help not only in Texas,
but we have Alabama, Kansas, Colorado. We're the second largest
(17:56):
in the country.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Who's the largest, the largest?
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Guy named Chicago Motor in Chicago has used PPP and SSV.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
What is PPP?
Speaker 3 (18:12):
I mean this is special cards for police officer.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Yeah, but what does it stand for.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Police Pursue Vehicle?
Speaker 7 (18:21):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (18:22):
PPV?
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Okay, yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Do you only sell to governmental entities or do you
sell to the public?
Speaker 3 (18:29):
No, only government, only government, because we do the utfitting too.
We do the cages, partition, light bar, everything from A
to Z. We do the decal, the wrap, I mean
fire department, EMS, police shure, I mean every agency, government agency.
They'll come to us.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Well, I'm going to tell you if I get hold
of one of these, I'm gonna regulate. It's going to
be on like outlaw Josie Wales. Would you sell me one.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
If you have life on it. I'm not allowed to.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Okay, well we'll leave the lights off. What if the
lights are on it, you just don't plug them in?
Speaker 3 (19:07):
No, No, I mean the thing is everybody, individual person
will come step into my Because we're family business. We
have about thirty five employees here. We are very strict
on a car that have lights, we build the lights.
If he pushes it from a government have lights, they'll
make me sign an fie David that I'm not allowed
(19:28):
to sell to any individual. And this is how we
go to the process. We will not no matter what
we have, lights will take him off.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Okay, okay, well hold on, I want I want the lights.
What if a friend of mine who's a cop buys it.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
If he's a cop, and he can show me his
idea and he can show me that he worked for agency.
I have no issue with that because this is they
work side job, and every officer that works side job,
they come to us. If we have a car that's
not equipped, we will equip it for them.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Awesome, Okay, give me give me the menu of things
he can get on there, and I'll tell you right
now what he wants on it. Yeah, he's gonna want
to lift kit, All right?
Speaker 1 (20:15):
What else?
Speaker 3 (20:15):
What else? Can we don't lift card?
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Yeah, you don't do a lift.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
No, we don't lift RD. We just do a fitting,
which is a light bar partition prisoner cage.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Yes, yes, yeah, I mean he's gonna want to yes, Okay,
what else? I mean?
Speaker 3 (20:33):
I'm gonna give you an example. A Klein ID purchas
about nineteen unit from me and we did everything for them.
Harris County Sheriff Department pursas twenty four unit from me.
Waller County purchase nine unit from me. I mean, we
just sell cars and we help and I'm happy and
(20:53):
glad that I can do and help those agency Tony.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Let me ask you a question. What does this word mean?
F E N I e X.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Phoenix is a company that does provide light bars and
supply for like wheeling, sound off, federal sign, federal sign.
I mean they're light company that they provide. They're the
second largest in the country too, because they provide lighting
and everything.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Interesting, I just never heard of them. You didn't say
Phoenix from Phoenix are.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
They're corporating in Austin and they're based in Austin. They
have over three hundred employees they're they're competing with Wheeling,
which is Wheeling is the biggest in the whole world.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
But do you do all of those are just Phoenix?
Speaker 3 (21:47):
No, usually we do only Phoenix. And now we're going
to do a lot of agency. They're they're requesting different
than Phoenix.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
He's going to want that hold on a second, Tony.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
I'm fast this whole long.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
It was just officially endorsed by IRS agency.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
You believe the Michael Berry Show. I'd rather not have
that endorsement.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
One day, I devised myself a plan that should be
the envy of most any man.
Speaker 6 (22:14):
I'd sneak it out of there.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
And did you know this in my.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Hand diarrhea is hereditary now kidness, it runs in your genes.
Speaker 5 (22:21):
But I figured i'd have it all by the time
I retired Email of the day.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
For at least one hundred grand.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Tzar, I totaled my car and I needed to buy
a reliable cash car. I bought an all white twenty
ten CROWNVIC police Interceptor from a cop so I figured
I could trust him. Six months later, the differential fell
out and now all four wheels turned. I tell people
it's a custom job. Please use the four point six
(22:49):
liter V eight as a lead in to segue into
a swap shop segment and get this thing out of
my driveway. Sorry, Eddie, but I had.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
To do it. That's funny right there.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
That'd be a good swap shop Tony.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Yes, sir, Where were you born? I was born in Beirut, Lebanon.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Beyroot, Lebanon.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
How did you get into this business?
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Since nineteen ninety one?
Speaker 2 (23:19):
That's when?
Speaker 1 (23:20):
But how, oh my how?
Speaker 3 (23:23):
I came here in nineteen eighty seven, and I've been
here thirty seven years. And I came and I started
working at the gas station at the time, and it
took me about three years to save some money, and
I opened my first dealership in Houston nineteen ninety one and.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Was the dealership doing cop cars.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
I was buying some cop cars on the side, like
three four five. My inventory was about three hundred. I
was one of the one of the ten largest dealership
in Texas. I was doing about two hundred to three
hundred cars eight months and.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
So and you where were you getting these cars?
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Auctions?
Speaker 3 (24:09):
From auctions? You're talking about a regular car, yes, from auction?
In two thousand cars eighteen was the top cars I bought.
I bought them from agency.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Okay, so like a surplus agency, yes, sir.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
And after I start buying a lot, we buy about
five to seven million dollars a year. They end up
calling me straight all this agency and fill me their cars.
I mean they strip them sometimes they strip them. They
don't sell it to me with lis or anything. But
we have an upfitting company, outfitting company here. I got
(24:47):
about ten acres on the highway. We have about forty
employees and we do We have about nine technicians that
does upfitting, and we have we have a buddy shop.
We have a mechanic shop. I mean we're a big
operation here. And for the last six years we start
growing and growing and growing, and every agency trust us.
(25:08):
They call us. They don't even come check the car.
They even called me and they said, Tony, we need
about in nine unit, we need twelve unit, we need
six units. And I'll go ahead and have them ready
for them. Outfitting, the lights, the decal, the names. I mean,
I get names. I can start naming all those agencies
a buy from me. We have five star online. We
(25:31):
stand behind our work. We helped even three months later,
anything happened to their car I'll go pick up those
cars and fix it for them. You can ask every
agency how good we treat every agency. We were glad
Win honored to help them.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
So Tony, let's go back to about ninety one. You
were buying from the agency and they're stripping these cars down.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
So no, I wasn't. I'm sorry. In ninety one till
twenty fifteen, I wasn't selling cars. I was one of
the biggest dealers that's selling regular car.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
But but when you you were talking about these stripped
down cop cars that just could be sold to the public, right,
like the old Caprice or the Crown Vix or some
of those, Right you sold those.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
Back in the days. Yeah, I wasn't. I wasn't selling
I mean, like I said, I would buy one or
two Tahoo that has no rights.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
And what kind of producer buys that car because they
know it's been ragged out.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Not really never because government maintained their cars. When when when? When? When?
I when you buy a Caprice or I'm just telling you,
I mean, I don't know why they're buying them, but
they're buying them because it's Caprice. It's hard to find
they have six point oh and they're built for police only.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
You still have any right now?
Speaker 3 (26:56):
None? Zero?
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Do you only do police cars?
Speaker 3 (27:03):
We do only police cars, and you do only police.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
You put all the lights in everything. What's the number
one light is Phoenix the light company?
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Yes, Phoenix is the number one. We partner with them.
They came here and they partner with us.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
What is the up sell on a unit, because I
noticed there's a lot of tahoes. What is the up
sell from the cost of the unit to all if
you do the full package, the cage in the back,
because he's gonna definitely want that, all the lights and everything,
what does that add to the cost of the base.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
It depends. It depends, mister Barry. What happened is like,
give you an example with Klein ISD we did we
did the supervisors units, which of course about forty six thousand.
We did patrol unit it will be like twelve thousand,
and we did some canine that's eighteen thousand and up.
(27:59):
I mean, it depends the way you want it. Some
officer they want to buy buy a car just only
to do a side job that will cost about three
thousand dollars thirty two hundred dollars, which is we don't
make a lot of money on light and outfitting, which
maybe make about ten to fifteen percent, But our profit
is on the unit. Right.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
What if they have their own unit and they just
want you to deck it out.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Oh, that's that's what we're here for. Just so we'll
let you know. There's about two three major outfitting company
in Taxes. Any agency that can go try to outfit
the car, it will take nine months on waiting cold
wait out on a waiting list. That's why those agency
come into us now and we can do it in
(28:46):
the week. We can outfit about four or five units
in a week for them. And then we hire a
team about five sealmen to go start knocking on doors
talking to agency to come and start, you know, taking
their business. No, nobody know who we are, but I
believe in a few months in the year, everybody will
(29:08):
know who we are. We're gonna be big on outfitting
because this agency in Texas need the help. And there's
the other two big ones. Like I said, they're not helping,
they're just h you called. You try to get your
units fitted, it's going to be seven to eight months waiting.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
That's the ones out of Chicago.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
No, no, no, we're talking Texas. And if you want,
I can say the names of that outfitting company. Sure,
there's CAP's Fleet, and there's Dana Dana, d A and A.
There's two big larger.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
But they're not the entire you're saying.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
They're very good, they're the best.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
What's something you could have known from my friend's car
that that other people don't have? That's kind of like
questionable whether you've you know, ought to be putting that
on there, because I don't know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
I can help him first. First, at all, our prices
are way cheaper than anybod less expensive than anybody. Yeah,
like I said, we we buy the lights and all
that he needs to us give us to pay us
for the labors.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Yeah, can you anything like that? Like if he was
to want to mount something on there, you know, like, no, no.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
We don't do that.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Well, because here's the reason.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Another buddy of mine's got a ranch. Sometimes we go
out hog hunting and you come up on a sounder
of about forty of them, and you can't shoulder mountain
enough to kill him
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