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Speaker 1 (00:02):
It's that time time time lucking load. So Michael Arry Show,
it's on the air. Guys looking into mic week.
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Gotta feed every beard. I don't plan to shave, and
it's good thing, but I just gotta see I'm doing
all right? Will you go make support me's beating verdict.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
That's the true.
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It's either drinking the drug and stool.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
I'm just doing all right.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
It's a great dad be.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
I know suns still shining in a close eyes. It's
hot times in the neighborhood. But why king every day
just seen years silent?
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Apparently, the court ordered him to wear an ankle monitor.
A monitor monitor, That joke required some knowledge of biology.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
No, no, not.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Furniture store salesman told me this sofa will see five
people without any problems. And I said, where am I
gonna find find five people without any problems. Therapist asked
the wife why she wanted to end her marriage. She
said she hated all his constant star wars day puns.
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The husband looked at the therapist and said, divorce is
wrong with this one. We got a state legislature in
session every two years, one hundred and fifty days.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
If you don't get it, done.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Then it doesn't get done, and they're talking about everything,
but what's important?
Speaker 1 (02:19):
What's important?
Speaker 4 (02:21):
I drove to Santon this weekend and we still have people,
maybe more than ever, driving slow in the left lane.
We still have people driving slow in the left lane.
There has got to be a solution to this. There
has got to be a better way. I'm not looking
to drive one hundred miles an hour on the freeway
like some people. I know, I'm not, but I've got
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to be able to drive the speed limit plus seven.
That's got to happen. And we can't do it. We
just can't do it because there's somebody over there. There's
always somebody over there, and it drives me just about insane.
But I'm gonna tell you something. I'm gonna tell you
right now. I studied my theory that I offered a
few weeks ago. You know why people stay in that
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lane and won't go over to the right twenty seven
percent of the time is because if they go into
the slow lane.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
You won't let them back in the fast lane.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
What ends up happening is you got an eighteen wheeler
and I don't want them driving crazy, right they they
can do a lot of harm up here, all right.
So they're kind of steady iss she goes. They're doing
about sixty eight and trucking along literally, and you're trying
to go around them. But as you're in the slow lane,
you're not driving the fast lane. You're not supposed to
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us just to pass. You pull up to go around,
and there's somebody and he's humming and he doesn't want
to pump the brakes even one time for you to
get in, so he doesn't let you in. The guy
doesn't behind you, doesn't let so you're going slower. And
so because you're having to come down to the speed
of that truck and nobody will let you in.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Not a chance.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
They're not about to be inconvenience for one second by
letting you in. So you stay over there for a while,
ten minutes over there, and all those cars go past you,
and you wanted to pass and get past that truck.
So what do you do? You go, Okay, they get over,
I just stay there. And that's what people do. They
get in that lane and they stay in that lane
because you won't let them back in. And that's the
fact I've seen it. Send it in my own two
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Eyes Fiesta Fiesta Texas in San Antono over the weekend.
I had a couple of people send me emails, Hey,
you need to be advised because I never know what
the weather's going to be, and I never know when
there's gonna be a crowd. I'm always impressed. I don't
know what these people do. They just I guess they
check crowd size and weather every day. People send me emails,
you need to be advised. It's gonna be you say,
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gonna be in sant anton It's gonna be fiesta. And
I thought, good grief, I thought my mom died. What
are you doing here? Why do I need to know that?
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Well?
Speaker 4 (04:46):
I needed to know that there were people everywhere. Some
of them was white, not many, but some of them.
My goodness. I brought my brother in law and sister
in law, and of course my wife. It's her sister
and her sister's husband, and I had to try to
explain to her Chicanos and Tehano's and what all that means.
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And about every fifteen minutes my brother law said, so
they're Mexican. Well no, we call them Mexican shorthand. Because
he'd say so, they're Mexican.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
No.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
No, they've lived here longer than my people have. Some
of them fall on this side and at the Alamo
or claim they did. Okay, so they've lived here. They
serve in the he's a military man, he was a
general Army. They's a lot of them serving the Marines
and a lot of them serving the armies. Some of
them serving the Navy, but a lot of them serving
the military. A lot of them are cops. They're nice people.
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They're good people, family people. They all play softball, very
you know, very loving to their kids. They're they're good people.
They but they have a different culture. Well they like
they like text mex Okay, so Mexican food. No, Mexican
food is different. This is text mex This is much better.
You don't want you ever get stuck somewhere and you
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get Mexican food and they make a big deals Mexican
food that's not gonna any good.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Okay, So they're Mexican. No, they're not Mexican.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
A tax mex The food is tax mex These are
Latinos or Hispanic changes.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
It's like black people. You got to keep up. It
changed every couple of years. But just don't call them Mexicans.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
Mexican is shorthand, and they will for shorthand call themselves Mexican.
They'll say, you know you're gonna have me the servesa
And You're like, what, yeah, you know, I'm Mexican. Okay, Well,
but you we we live in the same nigh You've
lived in the same neighborhood for sixty you were born
in Port Arthur.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
How are you mean you know, I mean over Mexican.
You know how we do.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
So I had to explain to him the shorthand use
of Mexican and not Mexican Texan And anyway, a lot
of people at Fiesta Texas, a lot of people. You
know what, I'm in awe of ver Moon the Riverwalk. Now,
I know what you're gonna say, You ain't everybody row.
I'm been in the riverwal one hundred times. There are
very few public projects that make a difference. Most of
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them are stupid, like the Hemisphere, that whole needle in
the in the air for the sixty eight World World's Fair.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
That was dumb, wasted money.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Most of the stadiums you built for the for the
for the Olympics dumb. Most of the big public projects,
most of the public art. I don't get public art.
It's stupid. Public art is just an opportunity to to
pay some dude that's weird as hell to cobble together something,
and everybody's so excited.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
We're gonna have an.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Art installation and we're gonna reveal it, and you see
it and you go, oh God. I got to look
at that every day. What the hell is that I
used to office at eleven hundred Louisiana Downtown and that
some frinchman had made and that somehow that made it better.
He was French had made some art installation years ago,
and lord knows what they.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Had paid for it.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
And it was it was like a Keith Herring painting
or something. It was the white stick figure me that
they were white, red and blue. It was idiots. I
had to look at it every day, had to go
out the other door. God forbid, how much do they
pay for that? Fan Now, world when you need to
escape from the every day escape of the.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
So I studied the Riverwalk different, not just as a
consumer or a tourist. First of all, if you say
you're going to San Anton, the two things that people
are gonna tell you got to say or expect you're
gonna say Alamo in a riverwalk, So it rises to
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that level. Nobody wants to see the Spurs because their
coach is an idiot. Oh how sickening he announced his retirement.
All the Spurs fans who are all idiots. You'll never
meet anybody who's a Spurs fan's not an idiot. Someone
says you they're a Spurs fan, you don't even need
to check. You already know they're an idiot. If you
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don't know them that, well, just they're an idiot.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
You don't need it.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Even when I'm a person. Yeah, well, okay, hello, I
think I keep that to myself. No, wouldn't I You
think you should too, So I'm not even gonna say
his name. This guy, this guy with the stupidest political views,
leaving Steve Kerr the field to himself to just be stupid.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
You know why they do this.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
You know why Popovich and Kurt did this.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
I'll tell you.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
You get these guys who have all black basketball players
except for maybe one Argentinian ever Swelt, and there's a
there's a gap between them and the players. So in
order to build credibility, with the guys. They come out
and say really stupid stuff with the belief that the
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guys go he's.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
One of us. Yeah, he's down for the cause.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
Okay, yeah, well I leave that alone. So anyway, people
go to Santone for the River Road. It's one of
those places you can go from Houston that you don't
have to have tickets to any event. It doesn't have
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to be a major festival going on there. It doesn't
have to be a reason. You just go there. You
don't just go to Amarillo, right, You don't just go
to Abilee. There's something going on, maybe rodeo days, a
big concert or whatever. You go to sant Anton and
you cobble together a couple things to do, maybe you
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and your girl, maybe your kids when they're young, and.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
You can have a good weekend of it. Except the drive, because.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
The aforementioned person that drives slow in the fast lane
you got a bucky stop. I have a theory when
I would ask my mom what they were doing this
weekend or what they had done the weekend before. You know,
she said, we went to Iowa Colony for the for
the lean market, and I paused, and she would think
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I was judging her. I wasn't, and she say it's
something to do. People need something to do. BUCkies is
something to do because otherwise you got the drive to
San Antoni. You're trying to put together a couple of things.
You want something to be excited about, right, BUCkies gives
you something to.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Be excited about.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
And they play in and you play in. We all agree, Oh,
we're having We're gonna look forward to BUCkies. They're gonna
have guests and they're gonna have signs on the way.
We're gonna pull in and everybody else it's doing. They're
doing exactly what we're doing, which is validating us. And
what exactly are we doing. We're peeing. A bathroom's pretty clean, Okay,
we're peeing. And listen if it was an awkward conversation.
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Because I started into the conversation, I realized, my I
don't think my wife was Indian, but my brother in
law my sister in law are Indians. So I'm having
to explain the reason that BUCkies is so got so
popular is because the Indians and Pakistani. So I just said,
to Pakistani's because my brother law has been at war
with the pakistanis for a year. So I just said,
the BUCkies so popular because Pakistani's closed the gas station down.
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They won't open the gas, they won't open the bathroom.
The bathroom is perpetually broke them. You're on it ten
and they know you're not coming back. But you know,
there's an interesting thing romon. There's a gas station across
the way. There's the loves. I believe this across the way.
So I said, I gotta cipher out who's going to
this station?
Speaker 1 (12:23):
And my wife said, locals.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
How you figure, she said, because locals don't want to
have to drive around and find a parking spot. Locals
don't want to walk in with all these people with this,
you know, unnaturally gleeful expression on their face, and they're
so excited they just want to get in and get out.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
I said, huh, I bet you're right. I bet you're right.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
So anyway, we stopped at BUCkies and did the requisite
BUCkies trip. My sister in law said, so they have
a department store in here. Said, well, that's a weird
way to look at it. I mean, I guess technically
it is true. I will tell you, rmon, I am surprised.
I'm very surprised that they sell enough clothing to make
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all that space worthwhile.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
I think that space is at a loss. Leader.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
I don't see people buy that much clothing, do you do?
I see them wear in it, yeah, but I don't
see people. It's not like you know, Pallei royal and
orange back to school time.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Now.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
I think they sell a number of you know, the
beaver nuggets and the different nuts and the different things
like that. I do think they sell. But primarily I
watched people in the line because Indians are very slow,
so I watched people in line while I'm waiting on
them to come at the exit to get out. And
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there was a line. You know, it's a weekend fiesta.
Last weekend of festa. It's a lot of people going
to San Antone. And I watched people, and most people
had a drink and not just a drink. Somewhere along
the way. I'm guessing it was about ninety five people
just decided I want to drink. I don't want a
gallon of it. You just you know it's gonna be
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so much. I just wonder they don't have a drink holder.
Where do people put that drink? That big old drink. Well,
you put it in your crotch, right, you need an
extra long straw. You don't have to pick it up,
just draw them. You don't even need to move, just
guzzling it. Then you've got to pee again. There's not
a bucket other BUCkies on the way, unless you're on
the way back there's another BUCkies on the way. I
do think having more than one BUCkies lost, you know,
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one percent of the luster. For me, it was like, oh,
you're going to Santoni. You're like, I had BUCkies. You've
been to BUCkies. That was the only BUCkies. Now there's
BUCkies everywhere, but it had to happen, so anyway, that
was BUCkies. Uh, it's not the easiest to get in
and out of. I'm go ahead and say that right now.
It's not the easiest to get in and out of.
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Not terribly easy. And then you can't just park and
go in. You better not need to go when you
get there. You can't just park and go in. You're
gonna you're gonna spend some time park it because people
are excited and you know they're they're walking across. There
is also an unnaturally high rate of fat people. The
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number of fat people at BUCkies is double what it
is in society. And that's a lot.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
That's really said a lot.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
So anyway, we went from there to me Tierra, which
was always a highlight of money.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
You've been to me Tierra in the market, it's Tracy Birds.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
Hey, y'all, if you drink, don't drive, do the watermelon
crawl and listen to the tsar of talk, my buddy
Michael Berry.
Speaker 5 (15:40):
Sinco to my own I'm getting I think I always
enjoy Every year Russell Laborrow will send me the sales
numbers uh the next day or total sales number of
restaurants in.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
A year over year? This year it being on Sunday noon?
How does that work the next year? So if Cinco
de Mayo is on a Monday, was it last year
on Sunday?
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Is that how that works? Yeah? I think that's how
it works.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
So anyway, it's always interesting to see and I he'll
know the number off the top of his head. But
their sales are up. You got to figure Bringos is
always busy, so for them to be up. You know,
if a guy hadn't had a hit all year and
he gets up and gets a hit, he just blew
his batting average through the roof. But if you're already batting,
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you know, three p thirty three and you know it's
the last game of the season, you get a hit,
you're not going to make a huge difference to your
batting average. So considering that you're your sample size is
huge already. Because Gringos is never not busy. It's crazy
to think what they do on a day like today,
and then I always look forward to that. But this year,
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and he's kind enough to send me year over year,
this year will be less, I suspect than when it's
on a Friday or Saturday. When it's on Saturday, it's
huge because they'll get the lunch. They'll get a lunch
business today, but they'll get the lunch and then they'll
get the mid afternoon and the early dinner and the
dinner and all that, and they will absolutely knock it
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out of the park.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
If it's a Saturday.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
And if it's Friday, I guess people go with their office,
they'll go to eat text Mexican.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
It kind of crept up on me this year.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
It's an interesting story. Sinko to miow. If you don't
know the story, it's not actually Mexican independence people think
it is. It's actually a it's actually a day to
celebrate dead beats because the city of Puebla owed the
French government or the French, Yeah, I guess it was.
The French government had loaned the money and they were like,
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I'm not gonna pay, and the French were like, oh,
you are going to pay the Mexicans. They went back
and forth and back and forth, and they were like, well,
a little skirmish broke out and the Mexicans won, but
they hadn't had a lot of victories at that point.
So the people of Pueblo, known as Poblano's like the Pepper.
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They defeated the French and they celebrated, and that celebration
became a massive celebration because again, like Buckie's, people.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Want something to do, so single to Mayo. There you go.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
You can tell that story while you're having drinks with
with the people at.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Your office to day.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
You you always want to be that guy. Everybody loves
that guy. Y'all even know what singer to Maolia.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
He guess another round of margeritas.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Uh yeah, dress it with tahena in one half and
salt on there.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Y'all even know what singer to Miyoi?
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Can we get some ksoh, y'all even know what singer
to Mayo is Mexican of independence.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
No, that's the thing about it. Nobody knows. Why are
we even here? You don't even know.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
Let me tell you the story. So there was like
you Publano Peppers or something. Anyway, the river walk astounds me.
I'm trying to think of a better project, and it's
just off the top of my head. So I'm sure
there are others. Golden Gate Bridge doesn't even compare trying
to think of a public project Hoover Dan but that's
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not so much a tourist attraction. Trying to think of
a public project that is, that has more utility in
terms of tourism. That thing, you know a lot of
it is an actual river. And then there's the man
made canals they made for the sixty eight World's Fair.
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But when you think about the fact that you've got
all the storefronts on commerce and market in these various streets,
and that does only a people want to go down
well low grade and walk along a little canal that's
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in some places three or four feet deep. But it
creates an element. It draws people in, and crowds validate
we are pack animals at the end of the day,
and so.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
You just walk along.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
And part of the walking along is you're you're part
of the crowd that's walking along. I must be in
the right place because a lot of other people are
in the right place.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
A lot of other people are doing this.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
And you think about what that does for the San
Antonin economy. It's incredible and it really is something to behold.
It's a it's a beautiful thing, the way it works
in the little the little bridges, and there's where Selena,
there's where Jennifer Lopez, uh, you know in the movie.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
And I enjoy walking along the river Walk.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
I don't know if I live there, i walk along
every day, but I do enjoy walking. And I enjoyed
getting my brother in law sister in law's reaction to
various things. We stayed in the Western Riverwalk because I
wanted them to see the Riverwalk. And it's not like
it was Motel six, but I think it was less
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than tw hundred dollars for fiesta for what was a
nice room. Weston has you know a pretty good that
pre customer service and the quality of the room was good,
and I thought it was pretty good price for what
you got. And then we went to the Aliba. My
brother in law was one of the blue helmets at
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Hotel Rwanda when it all went down. Nick Nolty's character
was really my brother in law. He served in Rwanda,
he served in Mozambique, he served in Kenya with the
Indian Army. He fought against the Packis, he fought against
uh well not officially because it's not official, but against
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the Chinese on the eastern border.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
He's seen some things, so I knew he was going
to be interested.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
And Ramona, have you been since they built the new
Ralston or whatever it is building? So you know, Phil
Collins gave all this stuff. It's glorious they got stuff.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Man.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
I hate I hate to think there are people who
died that never saw all the stuff Phil Collins had
for all those years. He's got what claims to be
Santa Anna's sword, Santa Anna's actual sword from eighteen thirty five.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
He's got what's that it's don switchblade.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
No, you see, now, you're just making cultural stereotypes. I
don't know why they dated at eighteen thirty five, Like
did he not have it at the Alamo in eighteen
thirty I don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
But then they got they got a little deal.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
They've got a replica of the of the Alamo, and
Phil Collins narrates it and they go, you know, and
and they go, you know. At this point there was
a breach and it was like the home depot parking lot.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
The Mexicans were coming over the border here.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
And then they got the light and then uh, you know,
and then on this corner there was a breeze and poop,
the light pops up over there, and you can't help
but think to yourself at that point, part of the
problem is the damn thing is strung out too far.
The Mexicans had them stretched too far. And but it's
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really really, really cool. I mean it's really cool. I've
been obsessed for the Alamo since I was a kid.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
You know.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Obviously I always wanted to have a son, and I
always want a name in Crockett. Uh, so you know this,
this this runs deep with me. But if you haven't
been to the Alamo, that the new exhibit, it's worth said.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
This is Sevester Turner, the mayor and a human being.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Michael to my own, my brother in law, who has.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
UH.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
Toward the latter end of after he retired, he lectured
at the military colleges in India and abroad, and I
want him to come here and teach at maybe A
and M or one of the schools here that has programs.
But he's still part of a think tank in India
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on this, an international think tank on war and geopolitical
peace and these sorts of things. But in any case,
he commented on the Battle of San Jacento and he said,
I don't recall a bigger, faster route in all of history.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Its in a while.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
That's sansom, He said, yeah, it really is. When you
study the logistics of what happened, it really is amazing.
It's an incredible thing that that that this happened. You know,
Santa Anna did a real disservice to Mexicans, the whole
Siesta thing. It's one thing to lose a battle, but
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you're sleeping in the middle of the afternoon, it just
it doesn't and you hold up with a woman. It
just doesn't look good. But it's not a good look.
There's no way around it. It's it's not a good look,
I should tell you so you're not angry with me.
The new the new portion of the Alamo. I'm a
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tactile person. I my wife loved the new portion because
you get to see, you know, because there's there's there's
a level of depth to the research that's brought to it.
But for me, what appeals to me is the same
thing it appealed to me when I was eight years
old when I went the first time, and that is
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the church.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
When you enter the church, and and when you.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
See the facade of the Alamo, when you walk the grounds,
when you see where the stone has weathered. That that
appeals to me. Seeing you know, the research. I've done
the research on my own. I don't need to go
into an air conditioned building and do that. But my
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wife loved it. She thought that this was our first
time to see the whole new and if you don't know,
it's it's a big new museum. But I find museums
themselves to be mostly sterile and clinical, not because the
information isn't useful, but because it's almost never the case
that I go into a museum that I haven't already
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read it all on the internet, so I can.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Read everything I'm going to read.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
Standing around other people, breathing down my neck, waiting to
get into that space and look at it. You know,
smoking a cigar on the back porch in the from
my own home and I probably usually have so it
wasn't my thing, but my wife really enjoyed it. I
don't enjoy seeing the little things they had as much
as my wife does. And my brother in law, did
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you know this is his knife and this is his razor,
and okay, I'd rather look at Okay, that's the wall
they scaled. Okay, okay, and that's where you know, an
amazing thing ramon the Alamo. It's not like the Alamo fell.
San de Sento. You know, Goliad happens, San Decento happens,
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We win the battle, but lose a war with Mexico.
We you know, become independent and everything that happens there,
and you know, the the Alamo becomes this historic site.
Far from it, I mean it was. It had a
number of commercial uses. I mean, it's hard to believe
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that people, well, that things were happening there that were
not treating the Alamo as the sacred space we see
it as today. I did get a little aggravated.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
I was.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
I go down these rabbit holes. So I was leaning
against a wall inside the habitation, which is the rooms
to the side when you enter to the to the left.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
This is free to the public.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
And I'm leaning against the wall in reading about the
particular that that particular place and thing, and some docent
screams at me, can't lean.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
On the wall. Oh okay, all right, all right.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
So my immediate reaction is to accommodate. Oh, I'm sorry, Yeah,
all right, she's just doing her job. I go ten
more steps in the next room, docent leaning on the wall,
and I thought to myself, you are really lucky I
hadn't had at least one pop, because I'd have been like,
do you know, because it's the spook effect, you know,
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when you f you're you're trying to read, and you're like,
you feel like there might be Mexicans around any corner.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
You know, you're getting ready, and.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
You know Travis has written his letter, how you're getting
all fired up, And then all of a sudden, Oh,
you didn't need to be like that, you know, you
You could have been a little softer, could have politely,
could have been a librarian voice you could have done
the librarian voice.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
That would have been nice. Anyway, I urge you to
go see it.
Speaker 4 (29:34):
The area around there, they've even done some things to
the old historic manger UH. But the area around there
is they've really spruced it up. I guess they're redoing
the UH hotel across the street. I meant to check,
but I didn't see. San Antonia has had a lot
of updates. It's really really it's it's fantastic now. I
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did see some home homeless people in downtown. It ain't
a Austin or Portland, don't get me wrong, or Houston,
but I don't recall ever seeing homeless people. Maybe I'm
more conscious now, but I did see some homeless people,
and I hope that's not going to continue. I really
hope that's not going to get because that will ruin everything.
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Nobody wants to bring their kids around that because they
were aggressive homeless. You know, they were panhandling and just
basically being a menace. They were at the point they're
at a nuisance. But it doesn't take long and you
get a few of them together and they just start
acting crazy. So weekend at sant Anton I highly recommend
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if I get around to it, which will probably not happen,
I will post everywhere we went. I will say this
from I went to meet Tierra on the way and
I had a speech to give in San Anton a
couple of months ago, and my wife couldn't make it
because Crockett had exams and all that, And she said,
won't you take Michael Robinson? So my buddy, the Aggie Plumber,
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and I he was kind enough to go with me,
and he drove when I smoked, and we went to
Metierra and it was fine.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
I didn't think anything of it, but.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
I took my brother law, sister in law, and I
metierr has always been part of my visit to San Anton.
Food was cold, they put us in the back corner.
They didn't take our order for twenty minutes. It just
the service wasn't good. The experience wasn't good. The food
was not good. And that's even the cas I wasn't good.
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And I said to my wife later asked, because I
wouldn't never ruin a meal at that time, I said,
this feels odd to say, but the food wasn't And
I never say I have a bad meal. I just
tell myself I had a good meal, and I had
a good meal. I said the food wasn't really good.
Did you notice that? And she goes, You're spoiled by gringoes,
and I thought, part of the reason I can't move
out of Houston. Do you ever try to eat text
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meac somewhere else? But it was disappointing because Metier as legendary.
We had Lafonda on Sunday. It's one of my favorite places.
We had a place called Tokyo Cowboy, which was a
Japanese text mex fusion sounds goofy.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
You been there? Really good? I mean a little little
fussy
Speaker 4 (32:15):
But it was good.
It's that time time time lucking load. So Michael Arry Show,
it's on the air. Guys looking into mic week.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Gotta feed every beard. I don't plan to shave, and
it's good thing, but I just gotta see I'm doing
all right? Will you go make support me's beating verdict.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
That's the true.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
It's either drinking the drug and stool.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
I'm just doing all right.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
It's a great dad be.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
I know suns still shining in a close eyes. It's
hot times in the neighborhood. But why king every day
just seen years silent?
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Apparently, the court ordered him to wear an ankle monitor.
A monitor monitor, That joke required some knowledge of biology.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
No, no, not.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Furniture store salesman told me this sofa will see five
people without any problems. And I said, where am I
gonna find find five people without any problems. Therapist asked
the wife why she wanted to end her marriage. She
said she hated all his constant star wars day puns.
(01:58):
The husband looked at the therapist and said, divorce is
wrong with this one. We got a state legislature in
session every two years, one hundred and fifty days.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
If you don't get it, done.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Then it doesn't get done, and they're talking about everything,
but what's important?
Speaker 1 (02:19):
What's important?
Speaker 4 (02:21):
I drove to Santon this weekend and we still have people,
maybe more than ever, driving slow in the left lane.
We still have people driving slow in the left lane.
There has got to be a solution to this. There
has got to be a better way. I'm not looking
to drive one hundred miles an hour on the freeway
like some people. I know, I'm not, but I've got
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to be able to drive the speed limit plus seven.
That's got to happen. And we can't do it. We
just can't do it because there's somebody over there. There's
always somebody over there, and it drives me just about insane.
But I'm gonna tell you something. I'm gonna tell you
right now. I studied my theory that I offered a
few weeks ago. You know why people stay in that
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lane and won't go over to the right twenty seven
percent of the time is because if they go into
the slow lane.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
You won't let them back in the fast lane.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
What ends up happening is you got an eighteen wheeler
and I don't want them driving crazy, right they they
can do a lot of harm up here, all right.
So they're kind of steady iss she goes. They're doing
about sixty eight and trucking along literally, and you're trying
to go around them. But as you're in the slow lane,
you're not driving the fast lane. You're not supposed to
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us just to pass. You pull up to go around,
and there's somebody and he's humming and he doesn't want
to pump the brakes even one time for you to
get in, so he doesn't let you in. The guy
doesn't behind you, doesn't let so you're going slower. And
so because you're having to come down to the speed
of that truck and nobody will let you in.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Not a chance.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
They're not about to be inconvenience for one second by
letting you in. So you stay over there for a while,
ten minutes over there, and all those cars go past you,
and you wanted to pass and get past that truck.
So what do you do? You go, Okay, they get over,
I just stay there. And that's what people do. They
get in that lane and they stay in that lane
because you won't let them back in. And that's the
fact I've seen it. Send it in my own two
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Eyes Fiesta Fiesta Texas in San Antono over the weekend.
I had a couple of people send me emails, Hey,
you need to be advised because I never know what
the weather's going to be, and I never know when
there's gonna be a crowd. I'm always impressed. I don't
know what these people do. They just I guess they
check crowd size and weather every day. People send me emails,
you need to be advised. It's gonna be you say,
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gonna be in sant anton It's gonna be fiesta. And
I thought, good grief, I thought my mom died. What
are you doing here? Why do I need to know that?
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Well?
Speaker 4 (04:46):
I needed to know that there were people everywhere. Some
of them was white, not many, but some of them.
My goodness. I brought my brother in law and sister
in law, and of course my wife. It's her sister
and her sister's husband, and I had to try to
explain to her Chicanos and Tehano's and what all that means.
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And about every fifteen minutes my brother law said, so
they're Mexican. Well no, we call them Mexican shorthand. Because
he'd say so, they're Mexican.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
No.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
No, they've lived here longer than my people have. Some
of them fall on this side and at the Alamo
or claim they did. Okay, so they've lived here. They
serve in the he's a military man, he was a
general Army. They's a lot of them serving the Marines
and a lot of them serving the armies. Some of
them serving the Navy, but a lot of them serving
the military. A lot of them are cops. They're nice people.
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They're good people, family people. They all play softball, very
you know, very loving to their kids. They're they're good people.
They but they have a different culture. Well they like
they like text mex Okay, so Mexican food. No, Mexican
food is different. This is text mex This is much better.
You don't want you ever get stuck somewhere and you
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get Mexican food and they make a big deals Mexican
food that's not gonna any good.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Okay, So they're Mexican. No, they're not Mexican.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
A tax mex The food is tax mex These are
Latinos or Hispanic changes.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
It's like black people. You got to keep up. It
changed every couple of years. But just don't call them Mexicans.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
Mexican is shorthand, and they will for shorthand call themselves Mexican.
They'll say, you know you're gonna have me the servesa
And You're like, what, yeah, you know, I'm Mexican. Okay, Well,
but you we we live in the same nigh You've
lived in the same neighborhood for sixty you were born
in Port Arthur.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
How are you mean you know, I mean over Mexican.
You know how we do.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
So I had to explain to him the shorthand use
of Mexican and not Mexican Texan And anyway, a lot
of people at Fiesta Texas, a lot of people. You
know what, I'm in awe of ver Moon the Riverwalk. Now,
I know what you're gonna say, You ain't everybody row.
I'm been in the riverwal one hundred times. There are
very few public projects that make a difference. Most of
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them are stupid, like the Hemisphere, that whole needle in
the in the air for the sixty eight World World's Fair.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
That was dumb, wasted money.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Most of the stadiums you built for the for the
for the Olympics dumb. Most of the big public projects,
most of the public art. I don't get public art.
It's stupid. Public art is just an opportunity to to
pay some dude that's weird as hell to cobble together something,
and everybody's so excited.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
We're gonna have an.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Art installation and we're gonna reveal it, and you see
it and you go, oh God. I got to look
at that every day. What the hell is that I
used to office at eleven hundred Louisiana Downtown and that
some frinchman had made and that somehow that made it better.
He was French had made some art installation years ago,
and lord knows what they.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Had paid for it.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
And it was it was like a Keith Herring painting
or something. It was the white stick figure me that
they were white, red and blue. It was idiots. I
had to look at it every day, had to go
out the other door. God forbid, how much do they
pay for that? Fan Now, world when you need to
escape from the every day escape of the.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
So I studied the Riverwalk different, not just as a
consumer or a tourist. First of all, if you say
you're going to San Anton, the two things that people
are gonna tell you got to say or expect you're
gonna say Alamo in a riverwalk, So it rises to
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that level. Nobody wants to see the Spurs because their
coach is an idiot. Oh how sickening he announced his retirement.
All the Spurs fans who are all idiots. You'll never
meet anybody who's a Spurs fan's not an idiot. Someone
says you they're a Spurs fan, you don't even need
to check. You already know they're an idiot. If you
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don't know them that, well, just they're an idiot.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
You don't need it.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Even when I'm a person. Yeah, well, okay, hello, I
think I keep that to myself. No, wouldn't I You
think you should too, So I'm not even gonna say
his name. This guy, this guy with the stupidest political views,
leaving Steve Kerr the field to himself to just be stupid.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
You know why they do this.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
You know why Popovich and Kurt did this.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
I'll tell you.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
You get these guys who have all black basketball players
except for maybe one Argentinian ever Swelt, and there's a
there's a gap between them and the players. So in
order to build credibility, with the guys. They come out
and say really stupid stuff with the belief that the
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guys go he's.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
One of us. Yeah, he's down for the cause.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
Okay, yeah, well I leave that alone. So anyway, people
go to Santone for the River Road. It's one of
those places you can go from Houston that you don't
have to have tickets to any event. It doesn't have
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to be a major festival going on there. It doesn't
have to be a reason. You just go there. You
don't just go to Amarillo, right, You don't just go
to Abilee. There's something going on, maybe rodeo days, a
big concert or whatever. You go to sant Anton and
you cobble together a couple things to do, maybe you
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and your girl, maybe your kids when they're young, and.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
You can have a good weekend of it. Except the drive, because.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
The aforementioned person that drives slow in the fast lane
you got a bucky stop. I have a theory when
I would ask my mom what they were doing this
weekend or what they had done the weekend before. You know,
she said, we went to Iowa Colony for the for
the lean market, and I paused, and she would think
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I was judging her. I wasn't, and she say it's
something to do. People need something to do. BUCkies is
something to do because otherwise you got the drive to
San Antoni. You're trying to put together a couple of things.
You want something to be excited about, right, BUCkies gives
you something to.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Be excited about.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
And they play in and you play in. We all agree, Oh,
we're having We're gonna look forward to BUCkies. They're gonna
have guests and they're gonna have signs on the way.
We're gonna pull in and everybody else it's doing. They're
doing exactly what we're doing, which is validating us. And
what exactly are we doing. We're peeing. A bathroom's pretty clean, Okay,
we're peeing. And listen if it was an awkward conversation.
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Because I started into the conversation, I realized, my I
don't think my wife was Indian, but my brother in
law my sister in law are Indians. So I'm having
to explain the reason that BUCkies is so got so
popular is because the Indians and Pakistani. So I just said,
to Pakistani's because my brother law has been at war
with the pakistanis for a year. So I just said,
the BUCkies so popular because Pakistani's closed the gas station down.
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They won't open the gas, they won't open the bathroom.
The bathroom is perpetually broke them. You're on it ten
and they know you're not coming back. But you know,
there's an interesting thing romon. There's a gas station across
the way. There's the loves. I believe this across the way.
So I said, I gotta cipher out who's going to
this station?
Speaker 1 (12:23):
And my wife said, locals.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
How you figure, she said, because locals don't want to
have to drive around and find a parking spot. Locals
don't want to walk in with all these people with this,
you know, unnaturally gleeful expression on their face, and they're
so excited they just want to get in and get out.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
I said, huh, I bet you're right. I bet you're right.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
So anyway, we stopped at BUCkies and did the requisite
BUCkies trip. My sister in law said, so they have
a department store in here. Said, well, that's a weird
way to look at it. I mean, I guess technically
it is true. I will tell you, rmon, I am surprised.
I'm very surprised that they sell enough clothing to make
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all that space worthwhile.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
I think that space is at a loss. Leader.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
I don't see people buy that much clothing, do you do?
I see them wear in it, yeah, but I don't
see people. It's not like you know, Pallei royal and
orange back to school time.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Now.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
I think they sell a number of you know, the
beaver nuggets and the different nuts and the different things
like that. I do think they sell. But primarily I
watched people in the line because Indians are very slow,
so I watched people in line while I'm waiting on
them to come at the exit to get out. And
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there was a line. You know, it's a weekend fiesta.
Last weekend of festa. It's a lot of people going
to San Antone. And I watched people, and most people
had a drink and not just a drink. Somewhere along
the way. I'm guessing it was about ninety five people
just decided I want to drink. I don't want a
gallon of it. You just you know it's gonna be
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so much. I just wonder they don't have a drink holder.
Where do people put that drink? That big old drink. Well,
you put it in your crotch, right, you need an
extra long straw. You don't have to pick it up,
just draw them. You don't even need to move, just
guzzling it. Then you've got to pee again. There's not
a bucket other BUCkies on the way, unless you're on
the way back there's another BUCkies on the way. I
do think having more than one BUCkies lost, you know,
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one percent of the luster. For me, it was like, oh,
you're going to Santoni. You're like, I had BUCkies. You've
been to BUCkies. That was the only BUCkies. Now there's
BUCkies everywhere, but it had to happen, so anyway, that
was BUCkies. Uh, it's not the easiest to get in
and out of. I'm go ahead and say that right now.
It's not the easiest to get in and out of.
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Not terribly easy. And then you can't just park and
go in. You better not need to go when you
get there. You can't just park and go in. You're
gonna you're gonna spend some time park it because people
are excited and you know they're they're walking across. There
is also an unnaturally high rate of fat people. The
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number of fat people at BUCkies is double what it
is in society. And that's a lot.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
That's really said a lot.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
So anyway, we went from there to me Tierra, which
was always a highlight of money.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
You've been to me Tierra in the market, it's Tracy Birds.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
Hey, y'all, if you drink, don't drive, do the watermelon
crawl and listen to the tsar of talk, my buddy
Michael Berry.
Speaker 5 (15:40):
Sinco to my own I'm getting I think I always
enjoy Every year Russell Laborrow will send me the sales
numbers uh the next day or total sales number of
restaurants in.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
A year over year? This year it being on Sunday noon?
How does that work the next year? So if Cinco
de Mayo is on a Monday, was it last year
on Sunday?
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Is that how that works? Yeah? I think that's how
it works.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
So anyway, it's always interesting to see and I he'll
know the number off the top of his head. But
their sales are up. You got to figure Bringos is
always busy, so for them to be up. You know,
if a guy hadn't had a hit all year and
he gets up and gets a hit, he just blew
his batting average through the roof. But if you're already batting,
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you know, three p thirty three and you know it's
the last game of the season, you get a hit,
you're not going to make a huge difference to your
batting average. So considering that you're your sample size is
huge already. Because Gringos is never not busy. It's crazy
to think what they do on a day like today,
and then I always look forward to that. But this year,
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and he's kind enough to send me year over year,
this year will be less, I suspect than when it's
on a Friday or Saturday. When it's on Saturday, it's
huge because they'll get the lunch. They'll get a lunch
business today, but they'll get the lunch and then they'll
get the mid afternoon and the early dinner and the
dinner and all that, and they will absolutely knock it
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out of the park.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
If it's a Saturday.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
And if it's Friday, I guess people go with their office,
they'll go to eat text Mexican.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
It kind of crept up on me this year.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
It's an interesting story. Sinko to miow. If you don't
know the story, it's not actually Mexican independence people think
it is. It's actually a it's actually a day to
celebrate dead beats because the city of Puebla owed the
French government or the French, Yeah, I guess it was.
The French government had loaned the money and they were like,
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I'm not gonna pay, and the French were like, oh,
you are going to pay the Mexicans. They went back
and forth and back and forth, and they were like, well,
a little skirmish broke out and the Mexicans won, but
they hadn't had a lot of victories at that point.
So the people of Pueblo, known as Poblano's like the Pepper.
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They defeated the French and they celebrated, and that celebration
became a massive celebration because again, like Buckie's, people.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Want something to do, so single to Mayo. There you go.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
You can tell that story while you're having drinks with
with the people at.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Your office to day.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
You you always want to be that guy. Everybody loves
that guy. Y'all even know what singer to Maolia.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
He guess another round of margeritas.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Uh yeah, dress it with tahena in one half and
salt on there.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Y'all even know what singer to Miyoi?
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Can we get some ksoh, y'all even know what singer
to Mayo is Mexican of independence.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
No, that's the thing about it. Nobody knows. Why are
we even here? You don't even know.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
Let me tell you the story. So there was like
you Publano Peppers or something. Anyway, the river walk astounds me.
I'm trying to think of a better project, and it's
just off the top of my head. So I'm sure
there are others. Golden Gate Bridge doesn't even compare trying
to think of a public project Hoover Dan but that's
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not so much a tourist attraction. Trying to think of
a public project that is, that has more utility in
terms of tourism. That thing, you know a lot of
it is an actual river. And then there's the man
made canals they made for the sixty eight World's Fair.
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But when you think about the fact that you've got
all the storefronts on commerce and market in these various streets,
and that does only a people want to go down
well low grade and walk along a little canal that's
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in some places three or four feet deep. But it
creates an element. It draws people in, and crowds validate
we are pack animals at the end of the day,
and so.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
You just walk along.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
And part of the walking along is you're you're part
of the crowd that's walking along. I must be in
the right place because a lot of other people are
in the right place.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
A lot of other people are doing this.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
And you think about what that does for the San
Antonin economy. It's incredible and it really is something to behold.
It's a it's a beautiful thing, the way it works
in the little the little bridges, and there's where Selena,
there's where Jennifer Lopez, uh, you know in the movie.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
And I enjoy walking along the river Walk.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
I don't know if I live there, i walk along
every day, but I do enjoy walking. And I enjoyed
getting my brother in law sister in law's reaction to
various things. We stayed in the Western Riverwalk because I
wanted them to see the Riverwalk. And it's not like
it was Motel six, but I think it was less
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than tw hundred dollars for fiesta for what was a
nice room. Weston has you know a pretty good that
pre customer service and the quality of the room was good,
and I thought it was pretty good price for what
you got. And then we went to the Aliba. My
brother in law was one of the blue helmets at
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Hotel Rwanda when it all went down. Nick Nolty's character
was really my brother in law. He served in Rwanda,
he served in Mozambique, he served in Kenya with the
Indian Army. He fought against the Packis, he fought against
uh well not officially because it's not official, but against
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the Chinese on the eastern border.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
He's seen some things, so I knew he was going
to be interested.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
And Ramona, have you been since they built the new
Ralston or whatever it is building? So you know, Phil
Collins gave all this stuff. It's glorious they got stuff.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Man.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
I hate I hate to think there are people who
died that never saw all the stuff Phil Collins had
for all those years. He's got what claims to be
Santa Anna's sword, Santa Anna's actual sword from eighteen thirty five.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
He's got what's that it's don switchblade.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
No, you see, now, you're just making cultural stereotypes. I
don't know why they dated at eighteen thirty five, Like
did he not have it at the Alamo in eighteen
thirty I don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
But then they got they got a little deal.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
They've got a replica of the of the Alamo, and
Phil Collins narrates it and they go, you know, and
and they go, you know. At this point there was
a breach and it was like the home depot parking lot.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
The Mexicans were coming over the border here.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
And then they got the light and then uh, you know,
and then on this corner there was a breeze and poop,
the light pops up over there, and you can't help
but think to yourself at that point, part of the
problem is the damn thing is strung out too far.
The Mexicans had them stretched too far. And but it's
(23:21):
really really, really cool. I mean it's really cool. I've
been obsessed for the Alamo since I was a kid.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
You know.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Obviously I always wanted to have a son, and I
always want a name in Crockett. Uh, so you know this,
this this runs deep with me. But if you haven't
been to the Alamo, that the new exhibit, it's worth said.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
This is Sevester Turner, the mayor and a human being.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Michael to my own, my brother in law, who has.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
UH.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
Toward the latter end of after he retired, he lectured
at the military colleges in India and abroad, and I
want him to come here and teach at maybe A
and M or one of the schools here that has programs.
But he's still part of a think tank in India
(24:21):
on this, an international think tank on war and geopolitical
peace and these sorts of things. But in any case,
he commented on the Battle of San Jacento and he said,
I don't recall a bigger, faster route in all of history.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Its in a while.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
That's sansom, He said, yeah, it really is. When you
study the logistics of what happened, it really is amazing.
It's an incredible thing that that that this happened. You know,
Santa Anna did a real disservice to Mexicans, the whole
Siesta thing. It's one thing to lose a battle, but
(25:12):
you're sleeping in the middle of the afternoon, it just
it doesn't and you hold up with a woman. It
just doesn't look good. But it's not a good look.
There's no way around it. It's it's not a good look,
I should tell you so you're not angry with me.
The new the new portion of the Alamo. I'm a
(25:33):
tactile person. I my wife loved the new portion because
you get to see, you know, because there's there's there's
a level of depth to the research that's brought to it.
But for me, what appeals to me is the same
thing it appealed to me when I was eight years
old when I went the first time, and that is
(25:56):
the church.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
When you enter the church, and and when you.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
See the facade of the Alamo, when you walk the grounds,
when you see where the stone has weathered. That that
appeals to me. Seeing you know, the research. I've done
the research on my own. I don't need to go
into an air conditioned building and do that. But my
(26:25):
wife loved it. She thought that this was our first
time to see the whole new and if you don't know,
it's it's a big new museum. But I find museums
themselves to be mostly sterile and clinical, not because the
information isn't useful, but because it's almost never the case
that I go into a museum that I haven't already
(26:45):
read it all on the internet, so I can.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Read everything I'm going to read.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
Standing around other people, breathing down my neck, waiting to
get into that space and look at it. You know,
smoking a cigar on the back porch in the from
my own home and I probably usually have so it
wasn't my thing, but my wife really enjoyed it. I
don't enjoy seeing the little things they had as much
as my wife does. And my brother in law, did
(27:12):
you know this is his knife and this is his razor,
and okay, I'd rather look at Okay, that's the wall
they scaled. Okay, okay, and that's where you know, an
amazing thing ramon the Alamo. It's not like the Alamo fell.
San de Sento. You know, Goliad happens, San Decento happens,
(27:34):
We win the battle, but lose a war with Mexico.
We you know, become independent and everything that happens there,
and you know, the the Alamo becomes this historic site.
Far from it, I mean it was. It had a
number of commercial uses. I mean, it's hard to believe
(27:59):
that people, well, that things were happening there that were
not treating the Alamo as the sacred space we see
it as today. I did get a little aggravated.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
I was.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
I go down these rabbit holes. So I was leaning
against a wall inside the habitation, which is the rooms
to the side when you enter to the to the left.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
This is free to the public.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
And I'm leaning against the wall in reading about the
particular that that particular place and thing, and some docent
screams at me, can't lean.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
On the wall. Oh okay, all right, all right.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
So my immediate reaction is to accommodate. Oh, I'm sorry, Yeah,
all right, she's just doing her job. I go ten
more steps in the next room, docent leaning on the wall,
and I thought to myself, you are really lucky I
hadn't had at least one pop, because I'd have been like,
do you know, because it's the spook effect, you know,
(29:05):
when you f you're you're trying to read, and you're like,
you feel like there might be Mexicans around any corner.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
You know, you're getting ready, and.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
You know Travis has written his letter, how you're getting
all fired up, And then all of a sudden, Oh,
you didn't need to be like that, you know, you
You could have been a little softer, could have politely,
could have been a librarian voice you could have done
the librarian voice.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
That would have been nice. Anyway, I urge you to
go see it.
Speaker 4 (29:34):
The area around there, they've even done some things to
the old historic manger UH. But the area around there
is they've really spruced it up. I guess they're redoing
the UH hotel across the street. I meant to check,
but I didn't see. San Antonia has had a lot
of updates. It's really really it's it's fantastic now. I
(29:59):
did see some home homeless people in downtown. It ain't
a Austin or Portland, don't get me wrong, or Houston,
but I don't recall ever seeing homeless people. Maybe I'm
more conscious now, but I did see some homeless people,
and I hope that's not going to continue. I really
hope that's not going to get because that will ruin everything.
(30:20):
Nobody wants to bring their kids around that because they
were aggressive homeless. You know, they were panhandling and just
basically being a menace. They were at the point they're
at a nuisance. But it doesn't take long and you
get a few of them together and they just start
acting crazy. So weekend at sant Anton I highly recommend
(30:42):
if I get around to it, which will probably not happen,
I will post everywhere we went. I will say this
from I went to meet Tierra on the way and
I had a speech to give in San Anton a
couple of months ago, and my wife couldn't make it
because Crockett had exams and all that, And she said,
won't you take Michael Robinson? So my buddy, the Aggie Plumber,
(31:04):
and I he was kind enough to go with me,
and he drove when I smoked, and we went to
Metierra and it was fine.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
I didn't think anything of it, but.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
I took my brother law, sister in law, and I
metierr has always been part of my visit to San Anton.
Food was cold, they put us in the back corner.
They didn't take our order for twenty minutes. It just
the service wasn't good. The experience wasn't good. The food
was not good. And that's even the cas I wasn't good.
(31:36):
And I said to my wife later asked, because I
wouldn't never ruin a meal at that time, I said,
this feels odd to say, but the food wasn't And
I never say I have a bad meal. I just
tell myself I had a good meal, and I had
a good meal. I said the food wasn't really good.
Did you notice that? And she goes, You're spoiled by gringoes,
and I thought, part of the reason I can't move
out of Houston. Do you ever try to eat text
(31:57):
meac somewhere else? But it was disappointing because Metier as legendary.
We had Lafonda on Sunday. It's one of my favorite places.
We had a place called Tokyo Cowboy, which was a
Japanese text mex fusion sounds goofy.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
You been there? Really good? I mean a little little
fussy
Speaker 4 (32:15):
But it was good.
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