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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I played online chess. You play doubles, you play against somebody. Yep,
every day, play with the guy in Sydney, Australia. But
now he's moved to Prague. Now he's my checkmate. No,
(00:22):
that was a very very elaborate setup. All right, let's
hear your quick but hilarious are insightful fast food drive
through attendant or manager story. We'll start with I'm saving
the liquor store for last because that's gonna be a
doozy Adam and the pizza Hut? Go ahead? Hey, Ramon,
(00:44):
didn't you work with Pizza Hut? Yeah, Adam, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I worked for a pizzahut about twenty years ago and
we had to carry out window so people didn't have
anything to talk to, a microphone or anything. But there
was a Halloween. Well we did like five thousand dollars
in business that day, and the problem was we had
people ordering at the window and circling around the restaurant
and my manager was working the window and I was
(01:10):
working in the front house. He took an order from
an individual who circled around a couple of times. About
the third time he came around, he grabbed my manager
by the shirt and pulled him through the window and
I had to grab him by the waist basically, and
we'd played tugle war.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
So if it was a takeout window, would they call ahead?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Call ahead or drive up?
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Interesting? You know that's so interesting about that. Adam Ramon,
do you have any pizza hut like lingo you want
to throw in? How people do?
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Like?
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Well, you remember, I mean, did you ever work with
the CD poppy Head or pepper Hunt not too long ago? Come?
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Well?
Speaker 1 (01:52):
But it's technology has been a tay where technology has
been good. You remember how difficult it was when you
would call up to places if somebody didn't speak English
as the first language. I mean, try it today. Try
calling somewhere today and placing an order with someone for
whom English is not a second language. It is not
(02:13):
a first language. And I think I'm pretty good at
that because I've traveled and I'm patient and I listen
and I try to man somebody my mom's age. Oh
it's it's painful. It's painful to listen to. You know,
you had a reason, dumberhood. What uh? Hell, yeah, you
(02:35):
have a reason Dumberhoe. What what did it good for you?
What just happened. Yeah, uh, you got the special law?
We are having what you got the special law?
Speaker 4 (02:45):
You?
Speaker 3 (02:46):
We are having? What?
Speaker 5 (02:47):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Uh? How many? How much?
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Is?
Speaker 1 (02:51):
I mean? What can I get on the on the
is it too?
Speaker 6 (02:55):
Was it?
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Two soda?
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Is?
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Two pieces of? What have you did? Three piece of trouble?
And what?
Speaker 2 (03:01):
And so?
Speaker 1 (03:01):
What? How many? What? What's the what's the thing? What's
the how does it work?
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (03:07):
That's painful. But with technology, you go on the app
or I don't do this, but I know people do.
My kids. It's funny. My kids don't want to go
out to fast food restaurants. See to me, we want
to go to town. My kids will go, hey, can
you know as a treat, can we have this or
that delivered? And it'd be a different faster. Yeah, just
(03:27):
get me one, right, especially if I'm sitting out past
the fire and I'm still in my eating window. Yeah
you can if you get me one. Yeah, we're gonna
pile that on. But you do it all by the app.
Now you literally never have a conversation.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Ever.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
I always creep the uber drivers out because I like
to go out and do a little show prep, little
research on them. Oh hi, how are you doing. Where
are you from? And it's oh, crap, head down, and yeah,
it's it's not good for them. Whyat it, Sonic? You're up?
Speaker 7 (04:00):
Go ahead, Hey, miss Barry, how are you doing?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
I'm good.
Speaker 7 (04:07):
So there was multipoint since I used to work at
Sonic about seven eight years ago, and why didn't use
the skates. But you would always approach like the vehicles
with the order and all that. And I remember multiple
times I'd approached the vehicles and there'd be like these
young kids making out and it was the most awkward situation.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Excuse me, tap tap tip, Hey, let me ask you
a question because this bothers me. I like to tip
people who provide a service. I feel like I've reached
a point in my life that I can tip somebody
that is where I once was, and it gives me
a good feeling. It's not about them, it gives me
a good feeling. Sonic has the stupidest policy. You cannot
tip on your credit card.
Speaker 7 (04:47):
Yeah, you can't be cash. They got to know many kids.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
If I'm pulling up to pay with a credit card
and I don't have cash, what are we gonna do?
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Two?
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Are we gonna do? Two? Transactions? Why do they do that?
Speaker 7 (05:02):
I have no idea. So I know that when I
worked there, there was like no system to where you
could tip with credit card or debit cards, so it
was only cash. So a lot of times people would
ask if they could tip with their credit card debit card,
and there's just no way.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
And the time I'm at a Sonic for a Root
sixty six and Tater types, I think to myself, what
the hell, man, why would y'all do this? I mean,
you think how much more of their employees could make.
And it's awkward. It's awkward because it's always a young
Hispanic female or young Hispanic males. And I don't know why,
(05:41):
but Sonic car is very young, very young, but it's
always some young you know. I can always tell their
first generation, like from the East side of Houston. They're
maybe still in high school or they've just graduated. They're working,
they still live at home. I mean, they're doing everything right.
(06:02):
You want to reward them for good service, and you can't.
You know, our whole tipping system as a culture, it's
really quirky.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
All right, Everybody cough up some green for the memmidity.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Come on throwing a buck, uh, I don't tip.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
You don't tip.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
No, I don't believe in it.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Let me just get this straight. You don't have a tip, huh.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
I don't tip because society says I have to, all Right.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
I mean I'll tip if somebody really deserves the tip,
if they really put forth the effort, I'll give them
something extra.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
But I mean it's tipping automatically.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
It's for the birds.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
I mean, as far as I'm concerned, they're just doing
their job.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Hey, this girl was nice.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
She was okay, and she wasn't anything special.
Speaker 8 (06:42):
Jesus Christ.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
I mean, these ladies aren't starving to death. They make
minimum wage.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
And I used to work minimum wage, and when I.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Did, I wasn't lucky enough to have a job the
society deemed tip worthy.
Speaker 9 (06:52):
You don't care they'd counting on your tips to live.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
You know what this is.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
It's the world's smallest violin playing just for the waitresses.
You don't have any idea what you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
These people bust their ass.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
This is a hard job. So I was working at McDonald's.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
But you don't feel the need to tip them, do you?
Speaker 3 (07:10):
But why not?
Speaker 1 (07:10):
They're serving your food?
Speaker 5 (07:11):
But no society says, don't tip these guys over here,
but tip these guys over.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Here that we're interesting.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
Is the number one occupation for female non college graduates
in this country.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
The reason is because of their tips.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
I mean, I'm very sorry the government taxes their tips.
Speaker 8 (07:25):
That's that ain't my fault.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
I mean, if you show me a piece of paper
that say the government shouldn't do that, I'll sign it.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Put it to a vote, I'll vote for it.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
But what I won't do is play ball.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
It's true, though, isn't it. Isn't it? We don't tip
a number of people who deliver us food unless it's
in a certain context. My favorite is when you go
to a fast casual restaurant. You go all of the
thing to hang and there's a tip line on them.
Hum interesting.
Speaker 8 (07:59):
Can I give you to guys a friendly piece of advice? Okay,
don't ever go up to the drive through.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Okay, always walk up to the county you know what, Okay,
I gotta tell me.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Okay, they with the drive tro Okay, they with the
drive troup.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
They know you're gonna be.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Mild away before you find out you got okay. They
know you're not gonna turn around and go back.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
So they don't care who that's?
Speaker 8 (08:19):
Oh leo, guess Okay, sure, I don't give up.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
I'm not even it doing.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Okay, shut up.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
You forget how good an actor Peshi is until you
see the scene with him and ray Lioda and am
I funny? How funny hot? Like the way he pulls
that off? And what's the one is it casino where
he's having the affair with Sharon Stone who's married to
(08:47):
de Niro. Oh man, all right, Jesse, what's your fast
food service story?
Speaker 2 (08:55):
So?
Speaker 3 (08:55):
I wasn't a manager at the time, but when I.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Took this tell and to put woman on there female
f oh good point. We can't define woman. Sorry, go ahead, Jesse.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
So I wasn't.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
I'm sorry. Oh this is so annoying, Jesse. Your age,
my age now? Stupid temographic profiles?
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Yes, great? Thirty six? Huh thirty six?
Speaker 1 (09:26):
You know it's so weird. Every time I ask a question,
I feel in an answer in my head, like a default,
and it's usually just a rent. Thirty six was the
number I had for you? That is crazy? Okay? All right?
White black, Hispanic American Eskimo.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
White.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Okay, do you know the ancestry, like, could you trace
it to Europe or wherever?
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Ireland? We're pretty younger the country. Okay, height, weight, five
foot even maybe? Wait, I've had three kids, so take
a guess. And I don't work out, Oh way over Nope,
(10:17):
I'm pretty fluffy.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Oh you mean way more than that. Okay, So just
it doesn't matter. Just I got to write something down.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
You decided we'll go one to eighty.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Okay, I don't care, honestly. Religious affiliation if any Lutheran?
And are you a native Texan? Were you born in Texas?
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Nope? Where were you born Michigan?
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Okay? Any education beyond high school?
Speaker 8 (10:52):
No?
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Okay? Average spend at the grocery store?
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Just an estimate average? Oh my gosh, I'm an age
every day.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
But what would be your average?
Speaker 3 (11:03):
You just, oh, maybe eighty bucks a day?
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Oh well, okay, that's a lot, make and model of
your minivan.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
I have the Texas minivan. I've got a poured expedition.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Okay, what year.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Twenty nineteen? I don't know whatever that newer model is new.
Speaker 8 (11:28):
Now?
Speaker 3 (11:28):
I think it was an old ren old car.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Oh well, okay, favorite soap opera? I don't have one,
do you get manny petties, just the manny. Where would
you guess she's from from? Where would I guess what
the person who does it is from?
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Oh, she's from Vietnam. We're friends on Facebook. She went
to school, was not born here, but was raised in
the Houston area.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
How much does that many cost you? On average? It
doesn't have to be exact?
Speaker 3 (12:00):
How does who talk? How does what?
Speaker 1 (12:02):
How much does that manicure cost you? On average? It
doesn't have to be an exact number, and not including
a tip if any.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
I just usually get them done once a month for
forty five bucks.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Okay, what would you estimate the cost of your beauty
supplies a month? Hair, skin, shampoo, everything.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
My mom does my hair, so that's free. I paid
for the product, which is like fifteen bucks, and I
don't keep up with it. I'm kind of low maintenance.
I do wear makeup every day, but I buy the
cheap stuffs from you know, HB and I don't know,
maybe I might send twenty bucks every three months.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Do you color your hair?
Speaker 7 (12:41):
I do?
Speaker 1 (12:42):
How much would you guess you spend on dental care
per year out of pocket?
Speaker 3 (12:47):
I don't take care of my teeth. I bruss them
every day and I flashed and I mouth washed. But
I haven't been to the dentist since I was pregnant
with my second baby.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
So what's funny about that is you don't you don't
look at that as but I'll do'll bet you spend
a couple hundred bucks by the time you mouthwash, toothpaste, toothbrush.
It's not just a dentist.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Yeah, I suppose. Well, I don't. I don't know. I don't.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Do you use any tobacco products?
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Unfortunately smoke.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Cigarette?
Speaker 1 (13:22):
How many per day would you estimate?
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Less than a pack?
Speaker 1 (13:27):
How much less than a pack?
Speaker 3 (13:30):
How much less? I don't know. I don't count them.
I go out and have one with my coffee in
the morning.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Okay, but if you buy a cart and how long
will that last year?
Speaker 3 (13:40):
A carton would lost me? I don't know. What comes
in a curtain ten pack? Yeah, I don't know, over
a week, maybe two weeks.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Have you ever felt compelled to put your cigarette in
one of those long, fancy extenders?
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Well, I'm not that fancy.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
How many purses would you guess you owned?
Speaker 3 (14:06):
I don't know because I don't currently use the person anymore.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
What do you do?
Speaker 3 (14:14):
I just carry my debit card, license, cash, whatever I
need in a side pocket.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Oh wow, do you work outside the home?
Speaker 3 (14:23):
No? I no, I'm say at home mother. I've got
a baby that I haul around everywhere with me, and
then I've got two older kids.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
So what was your burger king story?
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Oh gosh, that's still on that well. So when I
was sixteen, I wasn't a manager at the time. I
was working the driver at burg King and this guy
comes through to order and I couldn't hardly hear him,
so I asked her, could you speak up please? So,
like a jerk, he yells the order to me, and
I was just so stunned. I reponted, Sir, I said,
(14:56):
speak up, not yell. Pull up to the window. So
he pulled up. I guess thinks I'm to apologize up
and down. I get in trouble by my manager. She
tells me, you know, you can't yell at the customers
like that, and I'm like, look, he started it, It's okay.
I go to school with him, It's fine it. He
thinks it's a joke. Turns out a couple of months later,
(15:17):
I'm walking in the hall to my next class, and
we actually do go to school together, and we met
and I was twenty years ago and we married with
three kids.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
What does he do?
Speaker 3 (15:31):
What does he do?
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Yeah? What does he do for a living?
Speaker 3 (15:34):
He's in the marine industry and kind of sort of
oil and gas industry. I don't want to say too
much because I don't. I don't know if I can.
He worked for it's an m AK distributor.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Oh, okay, what would you estimate he makes per year?
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Last year? I think you brought in one hundred and thirty.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Oh that good money.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
I pollaly shouldn't have told all that. I'm all right,
I don't know, Michael Mary Show.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
All right, Eddie, you're up. Tell me your drive through
in a liquor store story.
Speaker 6 (16:18):
Well back in early ladies, I was going to college
at Louisiana Tech and working at Short Pork on the
south side of town. Rather I've heard.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
I'm sorry, You've got to be joking, Eddie. I apologize.
I need I'm we're keeping this to one minute. I
cannot keep doing this.
Speaker 6 (16:34):
Okay, to get quickty then huh, well had quick and dirty?
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Then no, no, no, I want to hear your story.
I'm just stupid requirements they're making me do they randomly.
It's like a drug test. I'm doing the minimum. Then, okay,
just real quick, I got to fill out a demographic
report for callers because I can't. I don't know. I
don't even want to get into the weeds. Real quick.
Speaker 6 (16:55):
Your age sixty five, height, waight sticks four to two
hundred and too much.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
This is too many times in one day. Seriously, this
has got to stop. White, black, Hispanic, white religion or filiation.
If any Lutheran, two Lutherans in one day? Where were
you born?
Speaker 6 (17:18):
Hello, Kansas.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
I don't have to get the city, do it? Okay?
What do you drive.
Speaker 6 (17:27):
The F one fifty?
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Any education be any formal education beyond high school?
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (17:37):
Engineering and an MBA.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
I didn't see that coming. Preferred gas station brand?
Speaker 6 (17:44):
Hey you at b.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
On a two meat barbecue platter? What are you getting?
Speaker 6 (17:51):
Pepper sausage and brisket at the spring Creek? Probably by
the house.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
M iced tea or a beer at five already?
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Oh? Beer?
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Is it a wallet or a bill folder?
Speaker 6 (18:07):
Wallet?
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Propane or charcoal.
Speaker 6 (18:10):
Propane?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Bing Crosby or Bill Cosby?
Speaker 6 (18:14):
For who Bill? Who? Bill Cosby?
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Yeah? Uh Bill Casey, all right, what you got my man?
Tell me your drive through the liquor store, and I apologize.
Speaker 6 (18:24):
O gor. We had to drive through there at Freeport
and we had a couple of guys come through of
African American persuasion.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
They drove an old.
Speaker 6 (18:31):
Monte Carlo had the vinyl top on the back.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Well.
Speaker 6 (18:34):
The guy in the pastor received his named Robert, and Robert.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Hit Are you serious you goofball? Yeah, just so y'all know.
At home, Ramon was trying to pick up another phone
(18:58):
line that was ringing and actually turned that that one off.
Give him back. That's Eddie if Eddie gets back on. Colin, Yes, sir,
you gotta be kidding me. Sorry, this has not due
to you.
Speaker 6 (19:09):
Colin.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
You cannot use a demographic report of the call is
not completed. That's the stupidest thing, all right, Colin, sir,
you're a McDonald's guys.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
Yes, sir, When I was sixteen, I.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Gotta do this crap again real quick. This is this
is becoming a distraction from all right, age, height, weight
six I didn't see that coming. I had you a
little bitty fellaw white black are Indian white? Religious affiliation
(19:44):
If any Church of Jesus Christ. What today say, We'll
just call that Mormon. Will be fine because I don't
have one. Okay, formal education beyond.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
High school, master's degree in biology from University of Texas
a tyler.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Okay, estimated income more or less than one fifty per year,
less less than one.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
Hundred, just barely just south of one hundreds.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
All right?
Speaker 1 (20:19):
And did I ask where you're born?
Speaker 4 (20:23):
Dallas?
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Okay? And describe your perfect Mexican platter?
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Oh right, now, I'm always getting the uh the soldana
ladder from the hop about Camp Vope?
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Oh good, one at at Ringos Yep.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Can't beat that.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
It's like a sort well, you can't beat it. Let's
just say that. And he raises millions of dollars for
Camp Hope out of that. It's incredible. It's absolutely incredible.
Baseball or football.
Speaker 6 (20:58):
Baseball?
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Clip your finger nails or bite him clip Marilyn Manson
or Charlie Manson, Maryland Rihanna or Mariah.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
Rihanna.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
All right, I got about a minute and a half.
Tell me your McDonald's story.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
So I was working McDonald's and I was helping out
on the drive through, and this one particular kid I
don't remember his name, but I do remember the nickname
we called him. It wasn't very nice. He had made
a less than perfect ice cream cone because he was
in a hurry, and he tried to give it to
some other high school kids and they wanted a better one.
He told him no because he was in a hurry,
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and they ended up throwing it back through the window,
him right in the face with it, and he started
screaming that he was being assaulted.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
And Wow, what was the most disgusting thing you discovered
working at that McDonald's.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
Just changing out the grease traps that they would do that? Wait,
I think they wait way too long to change up
the grease traps.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Was there anything that you discovered that you thought, well,
that kind of takes the luster off of it?
Speaker 4 (22:13):
Well, just about all of it. I don't particularly care
to eat a McDonald's anymore, Is that right, debsly have to?
My kids love it, but I don't.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Particularly My brother Chris, his first job. I got him
hired at the Kentucky Fried Chicken in Orange on Green Avenue.
My friend Brandon Landry's aunt who was like his own mom.
Along with his mom, she loved They raised him together.
I mean, she just loved him, loved me too. She
was like a big sister to me. Tommy hired my
brother Chris when he turned sixteen so he could buy
his Chevy Nova, which was his first car. It was
(22:41):
an old mail carrier's car. And every night Chris would
get off at ten, and it was about twenty minutes
to get home, so my mother and I would sit
and supposedly wait up on him to get home, right,
But what we were waiting up on was we'd call
down and asked Tommy if she could send us a bucket.
And it got to where Tommy would call and she'd go,
do y'all want extra crispy or do you want original?
(23:04):
And I liked extra crispy. My mom liked original, but
now I like original, And so she would send it
home and he'd come in at ten o'clock and he'd
still have that he'd still have flour on him and grease,
and he was exhausted and he had the smell on him,
and he would PLoP that chicken down and we would
throw it right down our throats. Yep, yep, Michael Berry's show.
(23:30):
All right, Henny, tell me your liquor store, start your
liquor store story, and I apologized. Ramone screwed that up.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
No problem.
Speaker 6 (23:37):
Technology sucks. Okay, well, well I was working at this
one inside straight four years ago. Back in the early eighties.
We had to drive through, had to counter all the
hard liquors behind the counter. We had a couple of
guys drive through all the time out a Monte Carlo.
Had the vinyl top halfway. Well, the dude didn't pastor
see his named Robert. Robert was legally blind and shot
with a twenty two short between the eyes. They told me, oh,
(23:58):
so they come through, Yeah, they come through. Robert big dude,
real big dude, had a head like a melon, you know.
But got to know the guys shooting the ball with him. Anyway,
they come through all the time for gin and juice.
Two cans, two cups of eyes cann of grapefruit juice
and a pint of gin. Drinking and driving. Okay, you
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know it was a gin and juice song man, so
minding their money. I guess I caught it. Anyway, So
they they come in all the time. They were rigulars.
They come in one night and they're sitting there at
the door and I'm getting their stuff, and some other
gentlemen behind them started exchanging pleasantries with them about their
mamas and everything else, honking at him and telling them
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to hurry up. And well, Robert the blind dude, he's
screaming out him out the winter. He climbs out the car,
reaches in the console, climbs out of the car with
a pistol in his hand, snub nose. There was like
a thirty eight. So I got a blind, drunk, black
dude waving a pistol around out there at about nine
thirty ten o'clock at night, And needless say, I got
I'm behind that metal door and didn't work there much longer. Michael.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
It was a that's a great story, Eddie. Great story,
all right, So over the weekend. I'll not over weekend.
A couple days ago, I got a late night text
from Ramone and the headline of the story was woman
smashes gender stereotypes with her own auto shop. A female
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mechanic is throwing a wrench into gender stereotypes. Tamara Casper
is the owner of six thirteen Tamra Sorry, shut up what.
Tamara Casper is the owner of six thirteen shop in
northeast Harris County, an auto shop with a focus on
helping underprivileged families. So here's a story about a chick
who is hosting weekend workshops called Pearls and Pistons, a
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do it yourself maintenance class for women, which I already
thought it was a neat story. And Ramone goes she
used to work for us at iHeart In fact, Callum
who now runs nine point fifty, which is our station
just up the dial. Callum and her were promotions kids
on a promotion years ago. That's where I first met Callum,
and so I thought, well, then we have a double
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reason to talk to this woman. Is it Tamara? But
she goes by TK.
Speaker 8 (26:14):
That's correct, what a great story. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
So did I ever meet you?
Speaker 8 (26:23):
I mean, it's I heard me. We all met each
other eventually, right, right?
Speaker 1 (26:28):
But was I nice in the hallway? Because I have
a reputation for not.
Speaker 8 (26:31):
Being Oh no, you're horrible.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Okay, good. I want to keep that reputation, so I'm
not bothered. So how did you get into turning wrenches
as a girl?
Speaker 8 (26:43):
It really is just the opportunity of getting a job
somewhere where if a college is a recession in the US,
and you know, kind of like now, but you know
it's well worth now. And I was just looking for
a job, and I was very open minded and and
just selling to mechanics because I always had the philosophy
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that every job matter, no matter what big or small.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
But nobody, no girls fall into mechanics.
Speaker 8 (27:14):
Well I did.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Are you good at it?
Speaker 8 (27:19):
I sure hope. So I can tell you. One thing
is that I've never paid for advertisements, but my word,
my name is getting around.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Well, yeah, it's a great story. I always tell folks,
you gotta It's like the Republicans, they need a better
message to sell in November. It doesn't matter what your
political party is, what's your campaign. You gotta have a
good story. And you you have a good story. I
tell people find your story. Everybody has a story. Are
you a Vietnam veteran? Did you serve an Iraq?
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Did you do this?
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Did you lose an arm? Did you? Whatever? Your story is,
you gotta do. Your story is you are a girl
in an industry dominated by men that most girls are
an intimidated of. And not only are you doing it,
but you're teaching women. Hey, guess what at least learn
the basics. Reminds me that great scene and my cousin Anny, Oh.
Speaker 5 (28:09):
Mister Vigo, being an expert on general automotive knowledge, can
you tell me what would the correct ignition timing be
on a nineteen fifty five bell As Chevrolet with a
three twenty seven cubic inch engine and a full barrel carberator?
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Subpost question?
Speaker 5 (28:26):
Does that mean that you can't answer it?
Speaker 9 (28:29):
Subpost question, It's impossible to answer.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Impossible because you don't.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Know the answer.
Speaker 8 (28:33):
Nobody could answer that.
Speaker 5 (28:35):
Question, Joanna, I moved to disqualify them as veto as
an expert witness.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Can you answer the question?
Speaker 9 (28:41):
No, it is a trick question.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Why is it a trick question?
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Watch this?
Speaker 9 (28:46):
Because Chevy didn't make a three twenty seven and fifty five,
The three twenty seven didn't come out to sixty two,
and it wasn't offered in the bel air with a
four barrel car till sixty four. However, in nineteen sixty four,
the correct ignition timing would be four degrees before top tens.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Well, oh, she's acceptable.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
You're on.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
I guess she's an expert.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Do you enjoy it?
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Do you find you know? I will tell you tk
I find being a problem solver in any way. I
used to do this a lot more than I do today,
but being sort of a fixer, people would call me
and their kid needed a job or whatever. I don't
have the energy or the time for it anymore, but
I always found that very satisfying, very rewarding. It strikes
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me that when you can fix something or even clean something,
like if I wipe something down that's dirty, it gives me.
When you fix a problem on an automobile, I'm assuming
that gives you a lot of joy.
Speaker 8 (29:40):
Yeah, it is very rewarding, absolutely, because a lot of times,
when you like different industries, you may be able, you
may be pushing paper, but you don't see the.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
End of it.
Speaker 8 (29:50):
And when you work on a car or a motorcycle,
you can see the problem and then you fix the problem.
You diagnose that, you fix it, and you see the
end result when you test ride it, have it, you know, car, car, moorcycle.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (30:03):
My shop has changed a little bit since that segment.
Before I was pushing to be a non profit, but
there's a lost things that comes with becoming a nonprofit.
One thing is that that it's really hard to compare
my the needs of of of you know, transportation and
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how much people do depend on their vehicles versus you know,
homelessness and ze and like disabilities and diseases around the world.
You know, it's really hard to compare that to someone
who need to, you know, to fix their vehicle.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (30:42):
I still, I'm very passionate with the workshops, and I
try to accumulate, like bring in a car that needs
to be fixed with the workshop and to be so
I'm able to teach people and fix the car at
the same time that someone needs to be fixed.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
But I think I'm up against the break. Let me
ask you this, how does somebody find you if they
want to if they want to talk to you?
Speaker 8 (31:05):
Six thirteen at gmail dot com. Six sixteen shop sorry
six one it's yeah, it's uh. Six is spelled as
I accident one three shop at gmail dot com.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Six thirty.
Speaker 8 (31:19):
I'm not only just I'm not only just kicking bumpers.
I'm sixty more cycles too.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Well, there you go, Thank you, dear. That's a lot
to process from them. Why do you have a Kleenex
stuck in your nose? Is your nose bleeding? Did you
pick it till it bled.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Are you?
Speaker 1 (31:37):
How old are you again? You sat in there and
picked your nose until it bled. Good breath, unbelievable, as
I live and breathe. I was on zoom call, I
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says anybody on here, but even telekinesis. Raise my hand,
I played online chess. You play doubles, you play against somebody. Yep,
every day, play with the guy in Sydney, Australia. But
now he's moved to Prague. Now he's my checkmate. No,
(00:22):
that was a very very elaborate setup. All right, let's
hear your quick but hilarious are insightful fast food drive
through attendant or manager story. We'll start with I'm saving
the liquor store for last because that's gonna be a
doozy Adam and the pizza Hut? Go ahead? Hey, Ramon,
(00:44):
didn't you work with Pizza Hut? Yeah, Adam, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I worked for a pizzahut about twenty years ago and
we had to carry out window so people didn't have
anything to talk to, a microphone or anything. But there
was a Halloween. Well we did like five thousand dollars
in business that day, and the problem was we had
people ordering at the window and circling around the restaurant
and my manager was working the window and I was
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working in the front house. He took an order from
an individual who circled around a couple of times. About
the third time he came around, he grabbed my manager
by the shirt and pulled him through the window and
I had to grab him by the waist basically, and
we'd played tugle war.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
So if it was a takeout window, would they call ahead?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Call ahead or drive up?
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Interesting? You know that's so interesting about that. Adam Ramon,
do you have any pizza hut like lingo you want
to throw in? How people do?
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Like?
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Well, you remember, I mean, did you ever work with
the CD poppy Head or pepper Hunt not too long ago? Come?
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Well?
Speaker 1 (01:52):
But it's technology has been a tay where technology has
been good. You remember how difficult it was when you
would call up to places if somebody didn't speak English
as the first language. I mean, try it today. Try
calling somewhere today and placing an order with someone for
whom English is not a second language. It is not
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a first language. And I think I'm pretty good at
that because I've traveled and I'm patient and I listen
and I try to man somebody my mom's age. Oh
it's it's painful. It's painful to listen to. You know,
you had a reason, dumberhood. What uh? Hell, yeah, you
(02:35):
have a reason Dumberhoe. What what did it good for you?
What just happened. Yeah, uh, you got the special law?
We are having what you got the special law?
Speaker 4 (02:45):
You?
Speaker 3 (02:46):
We are having? What?
Speaker 5 (02:47):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Uh? How many? How much?
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Is?
Speaker 1 (02:51):
I mean? What can I get on the on the
is it too?
Speaker 6 (02:55):
Was it?
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Two soda?
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Is?
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Two pieces of? What have you did? Three piece of trouble?
And what?
Speaker 2 (03:01):
And so?
Speaker 1 (03:01):
What? How many? What? What's the what's the thing? What's
the how does it work?
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (03:07):
That's painful. But with technology, you go on the app
or I don't do this, but I know people do.
My kids. It's funny. My kids don't want to go
out to fast food restaurants. See to me, we want
to go to town. My kids will go, hey, can
you know as a treat, can we have this or
that delivered? And it'd be a different faster. Yeah, just
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get me one, right, especially if I'm sitting out past
the fire and I'm still in my eating window. Yeah
you can if you get me one. Yeah, we're gonna
pile that on. But you do it all by the app.
Now you literally never have a conversation.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Ever.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
I always creep the uber drivers out because I like
to go out and do a little show prep, little
research on them. Oh hi, how are you doing. Where
are you from? And it's oh, crap, head down, and yeah,
it's it's not good for them. Whyat it, Sonic? You're up?
Speaker 7 (04:00):
Go ahead, Hey, miss Barry, how are you doing?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
I'm good.
Speaker 7 (04:07):
So there was multipoint since I used to work at
Sonic about seven eight years ago, and why didn't use
the skates. But you would always approach like the vehicles
with the order and all that. And I remember multiple
times I'd approached the vehicles and there'd be like these
young kids making out and it was the most awkward situation.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Excuse me, tap tap tip, Hey, let me ask you
a question because this bothers me. I like to tip
people who provide a service. I feel like I've reached
a point in my life that I can tip somebody
that is where I once was, and it gives me
a good feeling. It's not about them, it gives me
a good feeling. Sonic has the stupidest policy. You cannot
tip on your credit card.
Speaker 7 (04:47):
Yeah, you can't be cash. They got to know many kids.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
If I'm pulling up to pay with a credit card
and I don't have cash, what are we gonna do?
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Two?
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Are we gonna do? Two? Transactions? Why do they do that?
Speaker 7 (05:02):
I have no idea. So I know that when I
worked there, there was like no system to where you
could tip with credit card or debit cards, so it
was only cash. So a lot of times people would
ask if they could tip with their credit card debit card,
and there's just no way.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
And the time I'm at a Sonic for a Root
sixty six and Tater types, I think to myself, what
the hell, man, why would y'all do this? I mean,
you think how much more of their employees could make.
And it's awkward. It's awkward because it's always a young
Hispanic female or young Hispanic males. And I don't know why,
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but Sonic car is very young, very young, but it's
always some young you know. I can always tell their
first generation, like from the East side of Houston. They're
maybe still in high school or they've just graduated. They're working,
they still live at home. I mean, they're doing everything right.
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You want to reward them for good service, and you can't.
You know, our whole tipping system as a culture, it's
really quirky.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
All right, Everybody cough up some green for the memmidity.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Come on throwing a buck, uh, I don't tip.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
You don't tip.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
No, I don't believe in it.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Let me just get this straight. You don't have a tip, huh.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
I don't tip because society says I have to, all Right.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
I mean I'll tip if somebody really deserves the tip,
if they really put forth the effort, I'll give them
something extra.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
But I mean it's tipping automatically.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
It's for the birds.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
I mean, as far as I'm concerned, they're just doing
their job.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Hey, this girl was nice.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
She was okay, and she wasn't anything special.
Speaker 8 (06:42):
Jesus Christ.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
I mean, these ladies aren't starving to death. They make
minimum wage.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
And I used to work minimum wage, and when I.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Did, I wasn't lucky enough to have a job the
society deemed tip worthy.
Speaker 9 (06:52):
You don't care they'd counting on your tips to live.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
You know what this is.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
It's the world's smallest violin playing just for the waitresses.
You don't have any idea what you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
These people bust their ass.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
This is a hard job. So I was working at McDonald's.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
But you don't feel the need to tip them, do you?
Speaker 3 (07:10):
But why not?
Speaker 1 (07:10):
They're serving your food?
Speaker 5 (07:11):
But no society says, don't tip these guys over here,
but tip these guys over.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Here that we're interesting.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
Is the number one occupation for female non college graduates
in this country.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
The reason is because of their tips.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
I mean, I'm very sorry the government taxes their tips.
Speaker 8 (07:25):
That's that ain't my fault.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
I mean, if you show me a piece of paper
that say the government shouldn't do that, I'll sign it.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Put it to a vote, I'll vote for it.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
But what I won't do is play ball.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
It's true, though, isn't it. Isn't it? We don't tip
a number of people who deliver us food unless it's
in a certain context. My favorite is when you go
to a fast casual restaurant. You go all of the
thing to hang and there's a tip line on them.
Hum interesting.
Speaker 8 (07:59):
Can I give you to guys a friendly piece of advice? Okay,
don't ever go up to the drive through.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Okay, always walk up to the county you know what, Okay,
I gotta tell me.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Okay, they with the drive tro Okay, they with the
drive troup.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
They know you're gonna be.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Mild away before you find out you got okay. They
know you're not gonna turn around and go back.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
So they don't care who that's?
Speaker 8 (08:19):
Oh leo, guess Okay, sure, I don't give up.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
I'm not even it doing.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Okay, shut up.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
You forget how good an actor Peshi is until you
see the scene with him and ray Lioda and am
I funny? How funny hot? Like the way he pulls
that off? And what's the one is it casino where
he's having the affair with Sharon Stone who's married to
(08:47):
de Niro. Oh man, all right, Jesse, what's your fast
food service story?
Speaker 2 (08:55):
So?
Speaker 3 (08:55):
I wasn't a manager at the time, but when I.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Took this tell and to put woman on there female
f oh good point. We can't define woman. Sorry, go ahead, Jesse.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
So I wasn't.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
I'm sorry. Oh this is so annoying, Jesse. Your age,
my age now? Stupid temographic profiles?
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Yes, great? Thirty six? Huh thirty six?
Speaker 1 (09:26):
You know it's so weird. Every time I ask a question,
I feel in an answer in my head, like a default,
and it's usually just a rent. Thirty six was the
number I had for you? That is crazy? Okay? All right?
White black, Hispanic American Eskimo.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
White.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Okay, do you know the ancestry, like, could you trace
it to Europe or wherever?
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Ireland? We're pretty younger the country. Okay, height, weight, five
foot even maybe? Wait, I've had three kids, so take
a guess. And I don't work out, Oh way over Nope,
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I'm pretty fluffy.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Oh you mean way more than that. Okay, So just
it doesn't matter. Just I got to write something down.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
You decided we'll go one to eighty.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Okay, I don't care, honestly. Religious affiliation if any Lutheran?
And are you a native Texan? Were you born in Texas?
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Nope? Where were you born Michigan?
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Okay? Any education beyond high school?
Speaker 8 (10:52):
No?
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Okay? Average spend at the grocery store?
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Just an estimate average? Oh my gosh, I'm an age
every day.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
But what would be your average?
Speaker 3 (11:03):
You just, oh, maybe eighty bucks a day?
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Oh well, okay, that's a lot, make and model of
your minivan.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
I have the Texas minivan. I've got a poured expedition.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Okay, what year.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Twenty nineteen? I don't know whatever that newer model is new.
Speaker 8 (11:28):
Now?
Speaker 3 (11:28):
I think it was an old ren old car.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Oh well, okay, favorite soap opera? I don't have one,
do you get manny petties, just the manny. Where would
you guess she's from from? Where would I guess what
the person who does it is from?
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Oh, she's from Vietnam. We're friends on Facebook. She went
to school, was not born here, but was raised in
the Houston area.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
How much does that many cost you? On average? It
doesn't have to be exact?
Speaker 3 (12:00):
How does who talk? How does what?
Speaker 1 (12:02):
How much does that manicure cost you? On average? It
doesn't have to be an exact number, and not including
a tip if any.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
I just usually get them done once a month for
forty five bucks.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Okay, what would you estimate the cost of your beauty
supplies a month? Hair, skin, shampoo, everything.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
My mom does my hair, so that's free. I paid
for the product, which is like fifteen bucks, and I
don't keep up with it. I'm kind of low maintenance.
I do wear makeup every day, but I buy the
cheap stuffs from you know, HB and I don't know,
maybe I might send twenty bucks every three months.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Do you color your hair?
Speaker 7 (12:41):
I do?
Speaker 1 (12:42):
How much would you guess you spend on dental care
per year out of pocket?
Speaker 3 (12:47):
I don't take care of my teeth. I bruss them
every day and I flashed and I mouth washed. But
I haven't been to the dentist since I was pregnant
with my second baby.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
So what's funny about that is you don't you don't
look at that as but I'll do'll bet you spend
a couple hundred bucks by the time you mouthwash, toothpaste, toothbrush.
It's not just a dentist.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Yeah, I suppose. Well, I don't. I don't know. I don't.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Do you use any tobacco products?
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Unfortunately smoke.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Cigarette?
Speaker 1 (13:22):
How many per day would you estimate?
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Less than a pack?
Speaker 1 (13:27):
How much less than a pack?
Speaker 3 (13:30):
How much less? I don't know. I don't count them.
I go out and have one with my coffee in
the morning.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Okay, but if you buy a cart and how long
will that last year?
Speaker 3 (13:40):
A carton would lost me? I don't know. What comes
in a curtain ten pack? Yeah, I don't know, over
a week, maybe two weeks.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Have you ever felt compelled to put your cigarette in
one of those long, fancy extenders?
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Well, I'm not that fancy.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
How many purses would you guess you owned?
Speaker 3 (14:06):
I don't know because I don't currently use the person anymore.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
What do you do?
Speaker 3 (14:14):
I just carry my debit card, license, cash, whatever I
need in a side pocket.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Oh wow, do you work outside the home?
Speaker 3 (14:23):
No? I no, I'm say at home mother. I've got
a baby that I haul around everywhere with me, and
then I've got two older kids.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
So what was your burger king story?
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Oh gosh, that's still on that well. So when I
was sixteen, I wasn't a manager at the time. I
was working the driver at burg King and this guy
comes through to order and I couldn't hardly hear him,
so I asked her, could you speak up please? So,
like a jerk, he yells the order to me, and
I was just so stunned. I reponted, Sir, I said,
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speak up, not yell. Pull up to the window. So
he pulled up. I guess thinks I'm to apologize up
and down. I get in trouble by my manager. She
tells me, you know, you can't yell at the customers
like that, and I'm like, look, he started it, It's okay.
I go to school with him, It's fine it. He
thinks it's a joke. Turns out a couple of months later,
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I'm walking in the hall to my next class, and
we actually do go to school together, and we met
and I was twenty years ago and we married with
three kids.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
What does he do?
Speaker 3 (15:31):
What does he do?
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Yeah? What does he do for a living?
Speaker 3 (15:34):
He's in the marine industry and kind of sort of
oil and gas industry. I don't want to say too
much because I don't. I don't know if I can.
He worked for it's an m AK distributor.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Oh, okay, what would you estimate he makes per year?
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Last year? I think you brought in one hundred and thirty.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Oh that good money.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
I pollaly shouldn't have told all that. I'm all right,
I don't know, Michael Mary Show.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
All right, Eddie, you're up. Tell me your drive through
in a liquor store story.
Speaker 6 (16:18):
Well back in early ladies, I was going to college
at Louisiana Tech and working at Short Pork on the
south side of town. Rather I've heard.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
I'm sorry, You've got to be joking, Eddie. I apologize.
I need I'm we're keeping this to one minute. I
cannot keep doing this.
Speaker 6 (16:34):
Okay, to get quickty then huh, well had quick and dirty?
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Then no, no, no, I want to hear your story.
I'm just stupid requirements they're making me do they randomly.
It's like a drug test. I'm doing the minimum. Then, okay,
just real quick, I got to fill out a demographic
report for callers because I can't. I don't know. I
don't even want to get into the weeds. Real quick.
Speaker 6 (16:55):
Your age sixty five, height, waight sticks four to two
hundred and too much.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
This is too many times in one day. Seriously, this
has got to stop. White, black, Hispanic, white religion or filiation.
If any Lutheran, two Lutherans in one day? Where were
you born?
Speaker 6 (17:18):
Hello, Kansas.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
I don't have to get the city, do it? Okay?
What do you drive.
Speaker 6 (17:27):
The F one fifty?
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Any education be any formal education beyond high school?
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (17:37):
Engineering and an MBA.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
I didn't see that coming. Preferred gas station brand?
Speaker 6 (17:44):
Hey you at b.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
On a two meat barbecue platter? What are you getting?
Speaker 6 (17:51):
Pepper sausage and brisket at the spring Creek? Probably by
the house.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
M iced tea or a beer at five already?
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Oh? Beer?
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Is it a wallet or a bill folder?
Speaker 6 (18:07):
Wallet?
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Propane or charcoal.
Speaker 6 (18:10):
Propane?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Bing Crosby or Bill Cosby?
Speaker 6 (18:14):
For who Bill? Who? Bill Cosby?
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Yeah? Uh Bill Casey, all right, what you got my man?
Tell me your drive through the liquor store, and I apologize.
Speaker 6 (18:24):
O gor. We had to drive through there at Freeport
and we had a couple of guys come through of
African American persuasion.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
They drove an old.
Speaker 6 (18:31):
Monte Carlo had the vinyl top on the back.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Well.
Speaker 6 (18:34):
The guy in the pastor received his named Robert, and Robert.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Hit Are you serious you goofball? Yeah, just so y'all know.
At home, Ramon was trying to pick up another phone
(18:58):
line that was ringing and actually turned that that one off.
Give him back. That's Eddie if Eddie gets back on. Colin, Yes, sir,
you gotta be kidding me. Sorry, this has not due
to you.
Speaker 6 (19:09):
Colin.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
You cannot use a demographic report of the call is
not completed. That's the stupidest thing, all right, Colin, sir,
you're a McDonald's guys.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
Yes, sir, When I was sixteen, I.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Gotta do this crap again real quick. This is this
is becoming a distraction from all right, age, height, weight
six I didn't see that coming. I had you a
little bitty fellaw white black are Indian white? Religious affiliation
(19:44):
If any Church of Jesus Christ. What today say, We'll
just call that Mormon. Will be fine because I don't
have one. Okay, formal education beyond.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
High school, master's degree in biology from University of Texas
a tyler.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Okay, estimated income more or less than one fifty per year,
less less than one.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
Hundred, just barely just south of one hundreds.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
All right?
Speaker 1 (20:19):
And did I ask where you're born?
Speaker 4 (20:23):
Dallas?
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Okay? And describe your perfect Mexican platter?
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Oh right, now, I'm always getting the uh the soldana
ladder from the hop about Camp Vope?
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Oh good, one at at Ringos Yep.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Can't beat that.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
It's like a sort well, you can't beat it. Let's
just say that. And he raises millions of dollars for
Camp Hope out of that. It's incredible. It's absolutely incredible.
Baseball or football.
Speaker 6 (20:58):
Baseball?
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Clip your finger nails or bite him clip Marilyn Manson
or Charlie Manson, Maryland Rihanna or Mariah.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
Rihanna.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
All right, I got about a minute and a half.
Tell me your McDonald's story.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
So I was working McDonald's and I was helping out
on the drive through, and this one particular kid I
don't remember his name, but I do remember the nickname
we called him. It wasn't very nice. He had made
a less than perfect ice cream cone because he was
in a hurry, and he tried to give it to
some other high school kids and they wanted a better one.
He told him no because he was in a hurry,
(21:38):
and they ended up throwing it back through the window,
him right in the face with it, and he started
screaming that he was being assaulted.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
And Wow, what was the most disgusting thing you discovered
working at that McDonald's.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
Just changing out the grease traps that they would do that? Wait,
I think they wait way too long to change up
the grease traps.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Was there anything that you discovered that you thought, well,
that kind of takes the luster off of it?
Speaker 4 (22:13):
Well, just about all of it. I don't particularly care
to eat a McDonald's anymore, Is that right, debsly have to?
My kids love it, but I don't.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Particularly My brother Chris, his first job. I got him
hired at the Kentucky Fried Chicken in Orange on Green Avenue.
My friend Brandon Landry's aunt who was like his own mom.
Along with his mom, she loved They raised him together.
I mean, she just loved him, loved me too. She
was like a big sister to me. Tommy hired my
brother Chris when he turned sixteen so he could buy
his Chevy Nova, which was his first car. It was
(22:41):
an old mail carrier's car. And every night Chris would
get off at ten, and it was about twenty minutes
to get home, so my mother and I would sit
and supposedly wait up on him to get home, right,
But what we were waiting up on was we'd call
down and asked Tommy if she could send us a bucket.
And it got to where Tommy would call and she'd go,
do y'all want extra crispy or do you want original?
(23:04):
And I liked extra crispy. My mom liked original, but
now I like original, And so she would send it
home and he'd come in at ten o'clock and he'd
still have that he'd still have flour on him and grease,
and he was exhausted and he had the smell on him,
and he would PLoP that chicken down and we would
throw it right down our throats. Yep, yep, Michael Berry's show.
(23:30):
All right, Henny, tell me your liquor store, start your
liquor store story, and I apologized. Ramone screwed that up.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
No problem.
Speaker 6 (23:37):
Technology sucks. Okay, well, well I was working at this
one inside straight four years ago. Back in the early eighties.
We had to drive through, had to counter all the
hard liquors behind the counter. We had a couple of
guys drive through all the time out a Monte Carlo.
Had the vinyl top halfway. Well, the dude didn't pastor
see his named Robert. Robert was legally blind and shot
with a twenty two short between the eyes. They told me, oh,
(23:58):
so they come through, Yeah, they come through. Robert big dude,
real big dude, had a head like a melon, you know.
But got to know the guys shooting the ball with him. Anyway,
they come through all the time for gin and juice.
Two cans, two cups of eyes cann of grapefruit juice
and a pint of gin. Drinking and driving. Okay, you
(24:19):
know it was a gin and juice song man, so
minding their money. I guess I caught it. Anyway, So
they they come in all the time. They were rigulars.
They come in one night and they're sitting there at
the door and I'm getting their stuff, and some other
gentlemen behind them started exchanging pleasantries with them about their
mamas and everything else, honking at him and telling them
(24:41):
to hurry up. And well, Robert the blind dude, he's
screaming out him out the winter. He climbs out the car,
reaches in the console, climbs out of the car with
a pistol in his hand, snub nose. There was like
a thirty eight. So I got a blind, drunk, black
dude waving a pistol around out there at about nine
thirty ten o'clock at night, And needless say, I got
I'm behind that metal door and didn't work there much longer. Michael.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
It was a that's a great story, Eddie. Great story,
all right, So over the weekend. I'll not over weekend.
A couple days ago, I got a late night text
from Ramone and the headline of the story was woman
smashes gender stereotypes with her own auto shop. A female
(25:24):
mechanic is throwing a wrench into gender stereotypes. Tamara Casper
is the owner of six thirteen Tamra Sorry, shut up what.
Tamara Casper is the owner of six thirteen shop in
northeast Harris County, an auto shop with a focus on
helping underprivileged families. So here's a story about a chick
who is hosting weekend workshops called Pearls and Pistons, a
(25:47):
do it yourself maintenance class for women, which I already
thought it was a neat story. And Ramone goes she
used to work for us at iHeart In fact, Callum
who now runs nine point fifty, which is our station
just up the dial. Callum and her were promotions kids
on a promotion years ago. That's where I first met Callum,
and so I thought, well, then we have a double
(26:09):
reason to talk to this woman. Is it Tamara? But
she goes by TK.
Speaker 8 (26:14):
That's correct, what a great story. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
So did I ever meet you?
Speaker 8 (26:23):
I mean, it's I heard me. We all met each
other eventually, right, right?
Speaker 1 (26:28):
But was I nice in the hallway? Because I have
a reputation for not.
Speaker 8 (26:31):
Being Oh no, you're horrible.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Okay, good. I want to keep that reputation, so I'm
not bothered. So how did you get into turning wrenches
as a girl?
Speaker 8 (26:43):
It really is just the opportunity of getting a job
somewhere where if a college is a recession in the US,
and you know, kind of like now, but you know
it's well worth now. And I was just looking for
a job, and I was very open minded and and
just selling to mechanics because I always had the philosophy
(27:04):
that every job matter, no matter what big or small.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
But nobody, no girls fall into mechanics.
Speaker 8 (27:14):
Well I did.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Are you good at it?
Speaker 8 (27:19):
I sure hope. So I can tell you. One thing
is that I've never paid for advertisements, but my word,
my name is getting around.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Well, yeah, it's a great story. I always tell folks,
you gotta It's like the Republicans, they need a better
message to sell in November. It doesn't matter what your
political party is, what's your campaign. You gotta have a
good story. And you you have a good story. I
tell people find your story. Everybody has a story. Are
you a Vietnam veteran? Did you serve an Iraq?
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Did you do this?
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Did you lose an arm? Did you? Whatever? Your story is,
you gotta do. Your story is you are a girl
in an industry dominated by men that most girls are
an intimidated of. And not only are you doing it,
but you're teaching women. Hey, guess what at least learn
the basics. Reminds me that great scene and my cousin Anny, Oh.
Speaker 5 (28:09):
Mister Vigo, being an expert on general automotive knowledge, can
you tell me what would the correct ignition timing be
on a nineteen fifty five bell As Chevrolet with a
three twenty seven cubic inch engine and a full barrel carberator?
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Subpost question?
Speaker 5 (28:26):
Does that mean that you can't answer it?
Speaker 9 (28:29):
Subpost question, It's impossible to answer.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Impossible because you don't.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Know the answer.
Speaker 8 (28:33):
Nobody could answer that.
Speaker 5 (28:35):
Question, Joanna, I moved to disqualify them as veto as
an expert witness.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Can you answer the question?
Speaker 9 (28:41):
No, it is a trick question.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Why is it a trick question?
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Watch this?
Speaker 9 (28:46):
Because Chevy didn't make a three twenty seven and fifty five,
The three twenty seven didn't come out to sixty two,
and it wasn't offered in the bel air with a
four barrel car till sixty four. However, in nineteen sixty four,
the correct ignition timing would be four degrees before top tens.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Well, oh, she's acceptable.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
You're on.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
I guess she's an expert.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Do you enjoy it?
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Do you find you know? I will tell you tk
I find being a problem solver in any way. I
used to do this a lot more than I do today,
but being sort of a fixer, people would call me
and their kid needed a job or whatever. I don't
have the energy or the time for it anymore, but
I always found that very satisfying, very rewarding. It strikes
(29:29):
me that when you can fix something or even clean something,
like if I wipe something down that's dirty, it gives me.
When you fix a problem on an automobile, I'm assuming
that gives you a lot of joy.
Speaker 8 (29:40):
Yeah, it is very rewarding, absolutely, because a lot of times,
when you like different industries, you may be able, you
may be pushing paper, but you don't see the.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
End of it.
Speaker 8 (29:50):
And when you work on a car or a motorcycle,
you can see the problem and then you fix the problem.
You diagnose that, you fix it, and you see the
end result when you test ride it, have it, you know, car, car, moorcycle.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (30:03):
My shop has changed a little bit since that segment.
Before I was pushing to be a non profit, but
there's a lost things that comes with becoming a nonprofit.
One thing is that that it's really hard to compare
my the needs of of of you know, transportation and
(30:25):
how much people do depend on their vehicles versus you know,
homelessness and ze and like disabilities and diseases around the world.
You know, it's really hard to compare that to someone
who need to, you know, to fix their vehicle.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (30:42):
I still, I'm very passionate with the workshops, and I
try to accumulate, like bring in a car that needs
to be fixed with the workshop and to be so
I'm able to teach people and fix the car at
the same time that someone needs to be fixed.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
But I think I'm up against the break. Let me
ask you this, how does somebody find you if they
want to if they want to talk to you?
Speaker 8 (31:05):
Six thirteen at gmail dot com. Six sixteen shop sorry
six one it's yeah, it's uh. Six is spelled as
I accident one three shop at gmail dot com.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Six thirty.
Speaker 8 (31:19):
I'm not only just I'm not only just kicking bumpers.
I'm sixty more cycles too.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Well, there you go, Thank you, dear. That's a lot
to process from them. Why do you have a Kleenex
stuck in your nose? Is your nose bleeding? Did you
pick it till it bled.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Are you?
Speaker 1 (31:37):
How old are you again? You sat in there and
picked your nose until it bled. Good breath, unbelievable, as
I live and breathe. I was on zoom call, I
(31:58):
says anybody on here, but even telekinesis. Raise my hand,
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