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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Very Show is on the air. My wife had
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to send some things up to the studio with me today,
so she put it in a brown paper bag, rolled
it down, and wrote me a note inside it, and
she said, I knew you would enjoy that immensely, so
I couldn't couldn't let you miss out on the experience,
because I have always glamorized the concept of the wife
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making lunch for her husband as he heads off to
the construction site or the plant, which is what I'm
used to, my dad having worked at a plant, as
she sends him away with the brown paper bag with
his name on it and a note inside, and then
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all the little treats that he has. You remember years ago, Ramment,
when we had the woman on that her husband was
working at the Her husband was a he was a
supervisor for a remodeling company, a renovation company, and basically
they were doing tenant improvement type stuff in the medical
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center there. They were working on a project in the
medical center. And she went through everything that she had
sent in his lunch that day, all the little, the
little treats. That was it, Linda, It could be a Linda.
Yeah you found it. Were you looking for it? Did
you come across Linda? Okay, Linda sounds as right as
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anything anyway. So my wife sent me off with that
today and we were talking about that when I got
here and I come walking in and Ramon's kids are
here because it's a Jewish holiday on Kapoor, and he said, oh,
what's in the bag? I said, that's just some stuff
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that nothing had sent up for me today. He said, ah,
I love a brown paper bag. And then there we
went back into the nostalgia of the brown paper bag,
the paper bag lunch, that whole thing is very glamorized
to me, going to school with your brown paper bag
that you've rolled at the top in such a way
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that you can clasp it, that the claw can clasp
it properly. So here is my tribute to all the
ladies out there who don't just throw something into a
bag for your husband, but actually take the time to
put nice little things in there, and little treats and
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stuff that you make him. And if there's a certain
little something that is his thing, even if it's hard
to make or hard to get, you make sure to
put it in there. Is his little treat. I'll tell
you what. You never see contentment in the daylight hours,
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quite like when you see a guy that's been working
all day and he's got he's got his back leaned
against a tree and he's over there eating out of
his bag. Or I'll tell you and tell you who
else is the Mexican women. You can be here and
be legal, ramon, so don't get nervos. But these Mexican women,
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they'll send their men with the little what my wife
calls tiffins, you know, the little containers, you know, a
little uh like uh not rubber made, but tupperware type things,
and they'll send them off and they'll have their uh,
you know, their the beans over here, and their rice
over here, and their little sauces over here, and they
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got their whole little thing and they pull it out
and you see, boy, man, they look like they're about
to eat. And there is there is a level of
contentment and just mouth hung down that you will very
rarely see in public unless you go to a strip
club and you watch the guy down front and he's
got eighteen one dollar bills and by god, he can't
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get a single dance, but he is going to get
eighteen awkward encounters for sure, sign him up today, front rope.
But you're gonna drag it out a little and if
y'all could bring another water, so I've heard is a
movie about the whole deal. But anyway, so this is
my tribute to all of you wives out there who
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packed the most amazing lunch for your men, and for
all of you fellas that are listening, that you show
your appreciation and if you got a story of what
in particular you pack for your men, and the only
reason it matters is you know that's the thing that
he really likes and you want to make him happy.
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You know. It amazes me. In the era of what
was supposed to be called feminism, older women who were
the doyens, that the leaders, the mentor for the next generation,
Somewhere along the way they convinced women, young women that
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you don't want to do anything nice for your man
because that's an insult to you, that is beneath you.
So you know, he needs to handle everything himself. Don't
do anything nice to him. Where's the feminine charm to that?
If if the feminist plays out to the end degree
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their manifesto, there is nothing resembling traditional courtship or traditional
affection or intimacy. And that's not a stretch because if
you watch the television shows and you see this play
out as to what that looks like. This liberated woman,
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she's free, she can if every man she wants. And
then she's thirty eight years Then she wakes up one
day and she's Chelsea Handler and you know, or uh,
Nikki's the what's the comedian? She wakes up one day
and she's Sarah Silverman. She's making very graphic, gross jokes
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about her reproductive organ and about some dude and his
willie was too small, or when she was done having
sex with him, she wanted to kick him out of
the bed. And you're just thinking, oh, man, goodness, you
don't have children. Can you imagine this as a mother?
And that's that's what that whole movement of feminism has
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grown up to be. Not me, m M, sign me
up for men being men and women being women. And
a woman who loves her man enough that she wants
to please him, and a man who loves his woman
enough that he spoils her like crazy, not just his
daughter's but his wife, and she he'll do anything in
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the world for her because he loves her so much.
I don't understand how it came to pass it that
some women decided, oh no, I can't do I can't
do that nice thing for him. Why would I do
that nice thing for him? Then I would be beneath him,
Then I would be taken granted, then I would be
And I just think to myself, that is a sad,
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sad state of affairs, that that's how you view this relationship,
because it could be special, it could be wonderful, it
should be. So anyway, we'll open the phone lines. We're
gonna get to the show. But if anybody happens to
call in with that that sweet little thing you put
in your your man's box or falls if you want
to tell that sweet thing that your wife does te
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we want three nine nine nine one thousand, depart of
your life. King Jeffries was at the White House as
part of the negotiations because they've shut down the government
because they want health care for illegal aliens. They want
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to provide health care for people from other countries who
break into our country, and they finally now just had
to break down and admit it. So Trump to troll
Hakim Jeffries playing mariachi music, and of course he posted
the meme of Hakeem Jeffries with the sombrero and the
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over the top Mexican mustache, the big black mustache on
his face. And apparently it is very much under Hakeem
Jeffrey's skin because he's gone on television shows, on talk
shows and you know, just over the top. Oh, this
is so upsetting. There's no upsetting, dude. Y'all, y'all, y'all
have broken the rules. There's no You don't get to
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be upset. You just get to be trolled. You just
get to be controlled. There. Hakeem doesn't even have a
dream shake going around with that. You know, they retire numbers,
we should retire names. We're retiring Hakim. You are not Hakeem.
You are quite useless. Actually, a barbecue dynasty's feud, according
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to the Wall Street Journal, is rocking a Texas town.
It's the Black brothers of the famed Blacks Barbecue and Lockhart.
They split years ago. So now there's the original Blacks
Barbecue and there's Terry Blacks Barbecue. Story from k x
A n TV.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
You may have mixed them up. At one point or
not known the difference original Blacks and Terry Black's Barbecue.
What started as one Lockhart restaurant in nineteen thirty two
splintered in twenty fourteen. It's when the nephews of the
current owner opened an Austin location and named it after
their dad and his brother Terry. We explore what turned
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into lawsuits, name changes and claims of a billboard cut
down by a chainsaw even before.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
We ever got Terry Likes Farbau opened. You know, my
uncle and the attorney in him constantly firing off law
seats at us. There's been an ongoing lawsuit or threat
of lawsuit, you know, since day one of operations. That's
kind of his im is to just keep fire in
lawsuits at us for whatever reason.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
My dad owns the property just south of town towards
a Loving He has a tire shot there that he
leases to and there was a billboard on there. Well,
we told Ken, hey, since we're no ller involved in
Blacks Barbecue organ prior billboard up, so you need to
take years down.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
It was a sign that I owned and I had
the permits.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
He cut the polls down at the base.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
Yeah, I took the sign down because it was my sign.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
We filed ants. I slapped lawsuit against Sam.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Signs are personal property.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
It was my sign and so I took down my sign.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
Anyway, we got a new billboard, brand new that he
paid for.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
I think it was somewhere on three thousand dollars, give
or take.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
The settlement said they were not supposed to discuss the case,
and so I'm respecting the settlement order that says to
not discuss the case.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Okay, nothing like a little drama. Family drama.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
There.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Crime is so rampant and an apartment complex in the
Miyerland area. The City of Houston has filed a nuisance lawsuit.
The city attorney sites murders, aggravated assaults, robberies and shootings
at the Life at Jackson Square apartments off North Braiswood.
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The latest crime caught on surveillance video shows residents confronting
burglars inside their apartment as the residents returned home. Story
from KHOU.
Speaker 6 (12:33):
They don't waste any time. In home surveillance video released
by HPD, the two suspects start grabbing things as soon
as they walk inside, but moments later, the apartments residents
show up and confront them. After that, the video appears
to be edited, jumping to the end of the encounter
with the two suspects taking off. Police say the residents
told investigators they were attacked and assaulted. Today. Other residents
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we showed that video to told us it was just disturbing,
but not surprising.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
That's sad, man.
Speaker 6 (13:02):
They got to rob people, just don't know, find them
some money, I guess.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
And it's sad.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
You know.
Speaker 6 (13:09):
I'm on my own business. The home invasion happening August
twenty sixth at the Life of Jackson Square Apartments, the
same complex the city sued in July and a so
called nuisance lawsuit. Attorneys cited some of the most serious crimes,
including the murder of a woman last October, along with
aggravated assaults, robberies, and shootings.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
They always on TVC is always this dead body found
here are the police running in this apartment?
Speaker 1 (13:35):
That apartment? Literally you never know what.
Speaker 6 (13:38):
You're gonna give. At the time, the apartment owners denied
the allegations, but the city says since the lawsuit, the
owners have replaced management and begun legally required crime reduction
measures that includes new security cameras, and better lighting, repaired gates,
and on site private security officers. Still, some residents say
they don't always feel safe. What kind of things are
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you seeing out here make you worried about your safety?
Speaker 1 (14:01):
A lot of break ins, a lot of harassment.
Speaker 6 (14:04):
The city attorney claims that calls for service have already
decreased here, but also says if crime does not improve,
the city's prepared to push the lawsuit further.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
I'm all for using everything you can to fix the problem.
But isn't it interesting that we have a really, really
bad crime problem at an apartment complex and the answer
is to file law suits against the owner. Wait a minute,
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how about we take some personal responsibility and put some
cops on the scene. How about we put law enforcement
into enforcing the law. We're dragging an apartment owner who granted,
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maybe he could should do more in the court because
thugs are being thugs. How about we put some officers
on the scene and arrest the punks. This is a
this is a classic shift of responsibility. We pay for taxes,
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all of us so that we have law enforcement officers
to prevent crime, and when it's committed, to catch them.
That's what they're for. We're going to court now. It
was a little squirrely.
Speaker 7 (15:43):
Michael Berry's soles move me.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
I love a good Mariachi nothing. I used to go
to uh Spanish Flowers over on North Maine in the
hour of the day, and that was doable because you know,
there was one little group of Mariacci's old Mexican dudes
walking around, truthfully kind of listless. Why why is your
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shirt off? Oh oh, so you're gonna take your white
shirt off because you're drinking coffee and do the show shirtless. Okay,
that's weird, Okay, all right, Uh not the first time
you want a white shirt. You don't. You've never worn
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a white shirt. Okay, well, maybe don't wear white shirts anymore.
The other thing I forget is you got all those
all those tattoos. The other thing that's weird is that
Ramona used to be really really fat. Now he's not.
And so when you look across on my glasses on,
but the size of the image has shrunk. Yeah, and
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it looks like he hasn't showered or something, because there's
like there's like blurs on his arm. But I realize
that's probably his tattoos. I take my glasses off to
do the show, so I can I can see it close.
But anyway, the mariachis at Spanish Flowers. That was manageable.
What you don't want to do is go to one
of those places like me Tienda in San Anton where
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they've allowed anybody and everybody in there. So you've got say,
forty mariachi bands and forty tables, and so they're all
so you're trying to eat, you know, and you down
there digging into a tortilla, and one on do you
like music? No, No, I'm okay, John Kay, And so
then they all sort of like ah, and now it
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becomes like you're at the intersection, right, Like, if you're
gonna sit at the intersection, sit over to my right
so I don't have to look at you, and don't
let the dog look at me, because no matter how
flea ridden it is, those damn things are sympathetic. If
you'll make a clever sign and we'll talk. And if
you're gonna sit there without a sign and all that,
just at least stay out of the way and don't
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bother me. But then there's that one, you know, you know,
that one, you know what I'm talking about. He gets up,
he goes out in front of you. He can't run
him over. He goes out in front of you. He
shrugs his shoulders, like you got to give him credit
for the effort, because how many times does he have
to look disappointed in the course of a day to
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get through his job like that? That's exhausting, right, because
most people aren't gonna give. So he does the could
you give? And you go nah, and you always overdo.
Then no, some of them you can ignore and they'll
keep going. But then there's some are like, now, you're
not ignoring me. You can tell me no, but you're
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not ignoring me if you ignore him and look off
to the left, so off the driver's side window. They'll
come around there and lock down on you like kujo,
And so they're right on your eyeball to eyeball. There
you all are. And then there's that one. This one's
the one that gets me. He starts into the to
the window wash. He knows you don't want your window washed.
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Why would you. The water's filthy, he's filthy. Your window
will look worse after he's done than when he started.
But he knows that there's this emotional contract that occurs
that if he washes your windows, you have to pay him.
You don't, but that's the way the game is played, right,
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So if he can just get good and started on
your windows and then at the end of he's like, hey,
look what I did, and you don't want your windows
to watch not that way. But you kind of have
this emotional tie, should I? That is why like it
or not. When I pull up at an intersection, I'm
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not getting right up on the person behind me. I
never understood how people let themselves get pinned in. I've
got my I've got my exit strategy prepared. I got
plenty of room. You come out there on me. You
you start trying to wash the back window, I'll just
ease up a little bit and now I got a
little way. I got a little ways to do that
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on or I'll accidentally hit that rear that uh rear
wind uh window washer thing and maybe shoot shoot a
little stream on you on that. I can't stand that,
but you know what what Uh anyway, the mariachi is
at me tienda. They come around and they aggressively ask
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you if you would like to be serenaded. You know
the other thing, it's kind of like Mario. It's kind
of like, uh, karaoke, Ramon is having a mariachi seems
like a good idea for a moment. Oh it's mom's birthday. Yeah,
go ahead and do. And there's only like three songs
it's ever requested because it's the only three songs that
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white people know, and they feel like, yeah, I could
come up with some songs they'll know. Watch this, kids,
can you do via condios?
Speaker 7 (21:29):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Yeah, sure, see boys, I do that another thing or two.
I went hunting down there one time. Well, yeah, it's
called lio Byo Condello's. And dad sits there and sits
there and sits there and sits there. In about forty seconds,
he and here Vaya condeos my darling, and then they
go along. But the problem with mariachi is, just like karaoke,
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it seems like a real good idea when it started,
but then you find out that song is long. Woo,
it is long. So what starts as a really clever
cute if they're saying, everybody's looking around, maybe maybe you've
pulled out your camera and you're filming, the kids are
having fun, moms feeling the mom's blushing, but she's flattered.
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You know, this is all really really nice, and now
you you filmed the mariachi singers and then it's still
going on and you're two minutes into the thing, and
you you kind of don't want to go back and
pan back through everybody. Everybody's been on the video videos
run for a while. This is really taking a long time,
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and they show no signs of letting up. I don't
know if they're getting overtime for the song. And when
they're done, you're like, whoa, thank you you lack anohing, No, no, don't.
You got a lot of other tables. We don't want
to keep it to ourselves. You you know, you've been
too kind already, and so then they but you know
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where I do like tomorrow, jeez, Texans games. I don't
know who came up with this strategy. Somebody in the
Texans organization said, listen, we are going to live or
die by first generation Mexicans becoming Texans fans because they're
just not enough white people willing to come, and black
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people don't hardly go to NFL games. Don't be mad
at me. That's just the way it is, which is ironic,
but it's the way it is, but you get the
first generation Mexicans and then if you get it, if
you can tap into second third, if you get tapped
into just Latinos that live here with a little bit
of you know, Latino. Oh you got it, You got it.
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And that's I asked Crockett on Sunday. On the way,
I said, Crockett, I want you to notice how many
Latinos have how many I was reading I'm sorry, I
was reading your comment. How many Latinos are at the game,
and notice how how high that person is. Just take
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a note of it in case you hadn't a right
okay into the first quarter He's like, wow, Dad, you're right.
So that's why they got like the mariachi and truth
be told, every white dude and those Mario they got
nice uniforms. Have you seen the mariachis at halftime? It's
a show.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
And what I see it all over the place is
people who care about looking good while doing evil.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
The Michael Barry Show. I want you to make for
me the list of the five most requested mariachi songs.
I can just go ahead and tell you right now
that one oarms LaBamba. The problem is.
Speaker 8 (24:45):
You go to.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
A tex mex restaurant where they've got Mariachi's. And the
first time you hear lobamba, you're like, oh, lobamba, what happened?
Can we get some case over here? We're having queso
and chips and beer, and we're all having a good time.
There's a bunch of us and we don't care that
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the food service is slow because we got chips in queso.
We're happy. And then you hear la bamba again, you go, oh, okay, Well,
you know it's a very popular song. You know, LaBamba. No,
everybody likes LaBamba. You know Ritchie Valens and you know
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Buddy Holly and kids. You know, you know, he was there,
you know the day the music died. And yeah he's
a young father. He's seventeen, eighteen years old when he died. Yeah, yeah,
this was his song. No, he really didn't have much more.
This was about it. But heck, he was barely I
mean if he going to high school, he wouldn't even
be a senior in high school. I mean, she'sa LaBamba
was a lot for such a young age. You got
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to understand. So instead of playing all his songs, they're
just gonna play this one. Song a bunch of times,
and that'll represent a body of work that he would
have had had he lived to be sixty and no deed.
So there you go, and now you got Lebama the
second time. About ten minutes later, another one strikes up
over there because somehow someway people with no sense of
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irony say, hey, uh, let's get let's get a mariachi
for our table. Oh no, honey, don't, no, no, no, no,
don't do it. Don't do it all? Hey, ma, man
oh her music?
Speaker 4 (26:28):
Man?
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Oh? Dad, Dad, No, Mom, I don't think she really
wants it. Dad, I don't think she really wants Yeah yeah, hey,
oh hurt, sir, Honey, please, you're embarrassing. You're embarrassing me.
You're embarrassing all of us. Honey, you've had too much.
You've had too much mariachi. Come here, hey, do us
a song, new one for us. It's my wife's birthday, Honey,
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you know it's not my birthday. Why are you doing this?
Why are you doing this? This is my my wife birthday?
Say because sing her something? What do you want de
la bamba that we just we just heard Obama? Three
tails over? Is that Obama I paid for Obama. It's
twenty dollars of Lobama. And now you got another LaBamba
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that can go on for a while. It's like a
it's like a virus. It spreads, all right. So you
got via Condio's condos and lbamba? What else you got?
Are you serious? You didn't come up with that on
your own?
Speaker 7 (27:27):
You know?
Speaker 8 (27:28):
That? Is it?
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Conci concion de mariacci Okay, I'm gonna put that down.
The truth is you're feeling awkward because your name is
Ramon Roles and your shirt is off, and you're standing
up for some reason, and you don't know any mariacchi songs,
and you feel like you're kind of supposed to, you know,
like kids from India that grew up in this country
and they go off to college and their friends are like,
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let's go eat Indian and like, ooh, they don't want to,
but yeah, I love Indian food. And then they get
there and they go, hey, uh, what's what's this green
spinachy looking stuff called? And they're called they're texting your
parents back home, Hey, what what is the dupreoneer stuff
that they're everybody's asking me what what it's? What it's called?
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All right, So you got bi Va Condio's La Bamba
and Concion de Mariacci, which I'm putting an asterisk beside
that one I wanted to get to. There is a
story that I definitely definitely want to get to. And
let me see if I can find it here. Oh,
let me do this call while I'm finding it. All Right,
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there we go, Brian, you're up.
Speaker 8 (28:36):
Go ahead, Yes, sir, Michael A longtime listener.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Yes, sirs, I'm on.
Speaker 8 (28:41):
The on the radio. My memories from Friday. I couldn't
get in, but the oilers. I remember seeing coach bum
walking across the street there in the Highway six when
it was a two later, and going to the country
store and there in d Wall and uh, I pulled
back around and went in and there was well he
used with several of the old oilers from Mike Barber,
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Billy White's Shoes and Pearl Campbell. And I said, oh
my gosh, but that was a Love You Blue with
the first I Love You Blue are in nineteen seventy
seven or seventy eight, seventy eight.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Oh, you're in the era itself. Yes, Oh that's awesome.
Speaker 8 (29:18):
I was just I didn't know much about the oilers
in but I just remember Love You Blue, and I
grew up a kind of a RAMS fan in the
Los Angeles area, but I'd died and gone to heaven
with the oilers. I never It's just amazing time, and
I was kind of hoping too. My question was what
happened to all the memorabilia used to be down their
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fingers Fursture off Color and I took my daughters down there,
and they really enjoyed that home plate. And I don't
know what happened to all that. That was my question.
Where did it go?
Speaker 1 (29:51):
I'm sure that a collector ended up buying it. I
mean that stuff, you know. I get these questions a
lot when somebody has this or that collection, but typically
there's somebody that comes in. Used to be a guy
who was Jerry Hart. It was heart Galleries Hart, and
he was off of Hillcroft and he would go in
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and sometimes he would buy out somebody's collection and then
he would auction it or he would do it on
a consignment. But that was one of the guys I
ended up at a lunch he was at one time.
I didn't really know him, but he that was kind
of one of his areas of expertise, is he would
go in and do that. That's how those things kind
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of get disposed of, is you know, you try to
you try to buy really any memorabilia, but especially a
time specific, very emotional sense of memorabilia like that. It'll
cost you an arm and a leg. But then the
owner dies or the business closes or whatever else, and
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then it's kind of catches catch can, And so the
trick is to find when when places go out of
business that have a collection, the trick is to find
a person like that and go in and get as
much of it as as you can because they'll sell
it to you for cheap. They're they're not. It's a
lot easier for them to part with it. At that point,
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I had several professional hunters text me ramon from the
round top send and tone utility areas to tell me
that it's not me Tierra, it's not me Tenda, it's
me Tierra, which is interesting because if you think about it,
it might have been a subliminal slip because it is
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kind of me Tender because they're always trying to sell
you something. Maybe that's what my mind was going to.
That's right, we have an interview at nine. I'm out
of sorts because at an audio clip I wanted to play. Now,
I can't find this game the thing, and I'm aggravating.
(32:08):
That's it, Charlie Colliam. Yeah, who is that? He's not
a martial arts expert. Oh I know what it is? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
I set this up. I wonder if he knows any
Mariachi song. I wonder if he ends up at a
restaurant and Mariachi says, well, what she want us to play?
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There's something else that I'm trying to remember that you
always hear if I went over there right now, I
guarantee that song would start to you go, oh god,
there he goes again
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Very Show is on the air. My wife had
(00:48):
to send some things up to the studio with me today,
so she put it in a brown paper bag, rolled
it down, and wrote me a note inside it, and
she said, I knew you would enjoy that immensely, so
I couldn't couldn't let you miss out on the experience,
because I have always glamorized the concept of the wife
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making lunch for her husband as he heads off to
the construction site or the plant, which is what I'm
used to, my dad having worked at a plant, as
she sends him away with the brown paper bag with
his name on it and a note inside, and then
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all the little treats that he has. You remember years ago, Ramment,
when we had the woman on that her husband was
working at the Her husband was a he was a
supervisor for a remodeling company, a renovation company, and basically
they were doing tenant improvement type stuff in the medical
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center there. They were working on a project in the
medical center. And she went through everything that she had
sent in his lunch that day, all the little, the
little treats. That was it, Linda, It could be a Linda.
Yeah you found it. Were you looking for it? Did
you come across Linda? Okay, Linda sounds as right as
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anything anyway. So my wife sent me off with that
today and we were talking about that when I got
here and I come walking in and Ramon's kids are
here because it's a Jewish holiday on Kapoor, and he said, oh,
what's in the bag? I said, that's just some stuff
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that nothing had sent up for me today. He said, ah,
I love a brown paper bag. And then there we
went back into the nostalgia of the brown paper bag,
the paper bag lunch, that whole thing is very glamorized
to me, going to school with your brown paper bag
that you've rolled at the top in such a way
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that you can clasp it, that the claw can clasp
it properly. So here is my tribute to all the
ladies out there who don't just throw something into a
bag for your husband, but actually take the time to
put nice little things in there, and little treats and
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stuff that you make him. And if there's a certain
little something that is his thing, even if it's hard
to make or hard to get, you make sure to
put it in there. Is his little treat. I'll tell
you what. You never see contentment in the daylight hours,
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quite like when you see a guy that's been working
all day and he's got he's got his back leaned
against a tree and he's over there eating out of
his bag. Or I'll tell you and tell you who
else is the Mexican women. You can be here and
be legal, ramon, so don't get nervos. But these Mexican women,
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they'll send their men with the little what my wife
calls tiffins, you know, the little containers, you know, a
little uh like uh not rubber made, but tupperware type things,
and they'll send them off and they'll have their uh,
you know, their the beans over here, and their rice
over here, and their little sauces over here, and they
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got their whole little thing and they pull it out
and you see, boy, man, they look like they're about
to eat. And there is there is a level of
contentment and just mouth hung down that you will very
rarely see in public unless you go to a strip
club and you watch the guy down front and he's
got eighteen one dollar bills and by god, he can't
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get a single dance, but he is going to get
eighteen awkward encounters for sure, sign him up today, front rope.
But you're gonna drag it out a little and if
y'all could bring another water, so I've heard is a
movie about the whole deal. But anyway, so this is
my tribute to all of you wives out there who
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packed the most amazing lunch for your men, and for
all of you fellas that are listening, that you show
your appreciation and if you got a story of what
in particular you pack for your men, and the only
reason it matters is you know that's the thing that
he really likes and you want to make him happy.
(05:31):
You know. It amazes me. In the era of what
was supposed to be called feminism, older women who were
the doyens, that the leaders, the mentor for the next generation,
Somewhere along the way they convinced women, young women that
(05:51):
you don't want to do anything nice for your man
because that's an insult to you, that is beneath you.
So you know, he needs to handle everything himself. Don't
do anything nice to him. Where's the feminine charm to that?
If if the feminist plays out to the end degree
(06:17):
their manifesto, there is nothing resembling traditional courtship or traditional
affection or intimacy. And that's not a stretch because if
you watch the television shows and you see this play
out as to what that looks like. This liberated woman,
(06:37):
she's free, she can if every man she wants. And
then she's thirty eight years Then she wakes up one
day and she's Chelsea Handler and you know, or uh,
Nikki's the what's the comedian? She wakes up one day
and she's Sarah Silverman. She's making very graphic, gross jokes
(06:59):
about her reproductive organ and about some dude and his
willie was too small, or when she was done having
sex with him, she wanted to kick him out of
the bed. And you're just thinking, oh, man, goodness, you
don't have children. Can you imagine this as a mother?
And that's that's what that whole movement of feminism has
(07:21):
grown up to be. Not me, m M, sign me
up for men being men and women being women. And
a woman who loves her man enough that she wants
to please him, and a man who loves his woman
enough that he spoils her like crazy, not just his
daughter's but his wife, and she he'll do anything in
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the world for her because he loves her so much.
I don't understand how it came to pass it that
some women decided, oh no, I can't do I can't
do that nice thing for him. Why would I do
that nice thing for him? Then I would be beneath him,
Then I would be taken granted, then I would be
And I just think to myself, that is a sad,
(08:04):
sad state of affairs, that that's how you view this relationship,
because it could be special, it could be wonderful, it
should be. So anyway, we'll open the phone lines. We're
gonna get to the show. But if anybody happens to
call in with that that sweet little thing you put
in your your man's box or falls if you want
to tell that sweet thing that your wife does te
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we want three nine nine nine one thousand, depart of
your life. King Jeffries was at the White House as
part of the negotiations because they've shut down the government
because they want health care for illegal aliens. They want
(08:46):
to provide health care for people from other countries who
break into our country, and they finally now just had
to break down and admit it. So Trump to troll
Hakim Jeffries playing mariachi music, and of course he posted
the meme of Hakeem Jeffries with the sombrero and the
(09:07):
over the top Mexican mustache, the big black mustache on
his face. And apparently it is very much under Hakeem
Jeffrey's skin because he's gone on television shows, on talk
shows and you know, just over the top. Oh, this
is so upsetting. There's no upsetting, dude. Y'all, y'all, y'all
have broken the rules. There's no You don't get to
(09:28):
be upset. You just get to be trolled. You just
get to be controlled. There. Hakeem doesn't even have a
dream shake going around with that. You know, they retire numbers,
we should retire names. We're retiring Hakim. You are not Hakeem.
You are quite useless. Actually, a barbecue dynasty's feud, according
(09:51):
to the Wall Street Journal, is rocking a Texas town.
It's the Black brothers of the famed Blacks Barbecue and Lockhart.
They split years ago. So now there's the original Blacks
Barbecue and there's Terry Blacks Barbecue. Story from k x
A n TV.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
You may have mixed them up. At one point or
not known the difference original Blacks and Terry Black's Barbecue.
What started as one Lockhart restaurant in nineteen thirty two
splintered in twenty fourteen. It's when the nephews of the
current owner opened an Austin location and named it after
their dad and his brother Terry. We explore what turned
(10:29):
into lawsuits, name changes and claims of a billboard cut
down by a chainsaw even before.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
We ever got Terry Likes Farbau opened. You know, my
uncle and the attorney in him constantly firing off law
seats at us. There's been an ongoing lawsuit or threat
of lawsuit, you know, since day one of operations. That's
kind of his im is to just keep fire in
lawsuits at us for whatever reason.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
My dad owns the property just south of town towards
a Loving He has a tire shot there that he
leases to and there was a billboard on there. Well,
we told Ken, hey, since we're no ller involved in
Blacks Barbecue organ prior billboard up, so you need to
take years down.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
It was a sign that I owned and I had
the permits.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
He cut the polls down at the base.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
Yeah, I took the sign down because it was my sign.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
We filed ants. I slapped lawsuit against Sam.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Signs are personal property.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
It was my sign and so I took down my sign.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
Anyway, we got a new billboard, brand new that he
paid for.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
I think it was somewhere on three thousand dollars, give
or take.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
The settlement said they were not supposed to discuss the case,
and so I'm respecting the settlement order that says to
not discuss the case.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Okay, nothing like a little drama. Family drama.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
There.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Crime is so rampant and an apartment complex in the
Miyerland area. The City of Houston has filed a nuisance lawsuit.
The city attorney sites murders, aggravated assaults, robberies and shootings
at the Life at Jackson Square apartments off North Braiswood.
(12:23):
The latest crime caught on surveillance video shows residents confronting
burglars inside their apartment as the residents returned home. Story
from KHOU.
Speaker 6 (12:33):
They don't waste any time. In home surveillance video released
by HPD, the two suspects start grabbing things as soon
as they walk inside, but moments later, the apartments residents
show up and confront them. After that, the video appears
to be edited, jumping to the end of the encounter
with the two suspects taking off. Police say the residents
told investigators they were attacked and assaulted. Today. Other residents
(12:57):
we showed that video to told us it was just disturbing,
but not surprising.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
That's sad, man.
Speaker 6 (13:02):
They got to rob people, just don't know, find them
some money, I guess.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
And it's sad.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
You know.
Speaker 6 (13:09):
I'm on my own business. The home invasion happening August
twenty sixth at the Life of Jackson Square Apartments, the
same complex the city sued in July and a so
called nuisance lawsuit. Attorneys cited some of the most serious crimes,
including the murder of a woman last October, along with
aggravated assaults, robberies, and shootings.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
They always on TVC is always this dead body found
here are the police running in this apartment?
Speaker 1 (13:35):
That apartment? Literally you never know what.
Speaker 6 (13:38):
You're gonna give. At the time, the apartment owners denied
the allegations, but the city says since the lawsuit, the
owners have replaced management and begun legally required crime reduction
measures that includes new security cameras, and better lighting, repaired gates,
and on site private security officers. Still, some residents say
they don't always feel safe. What kind of things are
(13:59):
you seeing out here make you worried about your safety?
Speaker 1 (14:01):
A lot of break ins, a lot of harassment.
Speaker 6 (14:04):
The city attorney claims that calls for service have already
decreased here, but also says if crime does not improve,
the city's prepared to push the lawsuit further.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
I'm all for using everything you can to fix the problem.
But isn't it interesting that we have a really, really
bad crime problem at an apartment complex and the answer
is to file law suits against the owner. Wait a minute,
(14:43):
how about we take some personal responsibility and put some
cops on the scene. How about we put law enforcement
into enforcing the law. We're dragging an apartment owner who granted,
(15:06):
maybe he could should do more in the court because
thugs are being thugs. How about we put some officers
on the scene and arrest the punks. This is a
this is a classic shift of responsibility. We pay for taxes,
(15:27):
all of us so that we have law enforcement officers
to prevent crime, and when it's committed, to catch them.
That's what they're for. We're going to court now. It
was a little squirrely.
Speaker 7 (15:43):
Michael Berry's soles move me.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
I love a good Mariachi nothing. I used to go
to uh Spanish Flowers over on North Maine in the
hour of the day, and that was doable because you know,
there was one little group of Mariacci's old Mexican dudes
walking around, truthfully kind of listless. Why why is your
(16:38):
shirt off? Oh oh, so you're gonna take your white
shirt off because you're drinking coffee and do the show shirtless. Okay,
that's weird, Okay, all right, Uh not the first time
you want a white shirt. You don't. You've never worn
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a white shirt. Okay, well, maybe don't wear white shirts anymore.
The other thing I forget is you got all those
all those tattoos. The other thing that's weird is that
Ramona used to be really really fat. Now he's not.
And so when you look across on my glasses on,
but the size of the image has shrunk. Yeah, and
(17:21):
it looks like he hasn't showered or something, because there's
like there's like blurs on his arm. But I realize
that's probably his tattoos. I take my glasses off to
do the show, so I can I can see it close.
But anyway, the mariachis at Spanish Flowers. That was manageable.
What you don't want to do is go to one
of those places like me Tienda in San Anton where
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they've allowed anybody and everybody in there. So you've got say,
forty mariachi bands and forty tables, and so they're all
so you're trying to eat, you know, and you down
there digging into a tortilla, and one on do you
like music? No, No, I'm okay, John Kay, And so
then they all sort of like ah, and now it
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becomes like you're at the intersection, right, Like, if you're
gonna sit at the intersection, sit over to my right
so I don't have to look at you, and don't
let the dog look at me, because no matter how
flea ridden it is, those damn things are sympathetic. If
you'll make a clever sign and we'll talk. And if
you're gonna sit there without a sign and all that,
just at least stay out of the way and don't
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bother me. But then there's that one, you know, you know,
that one, you know what I'm talking about. He gets up,
he goes out in front of you. He can't run
him over. He goes out in front of you. He
shrugs his shoulders, like you got to give him credit
for the effort, because how many times does he have
to look disappointed in the course of a day to
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get through his job like that? That's exhausting, right, because
most people aren't gonna give. So he does the could
you give? And you go nah, and you always overdo.
Then no, some of them you can ignore and they'll
keep going. But then there's some are like, now, you're
not ignoring me. You can tell me no, but you're
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not ignoring me if you ignore him and look off
to the left, so off the driver's side window. They'll
come around there and lock down on you like kujo,
And so they're right on your eyeball to eyeball. There
you all are. And then there's that one. This one's
the one that gets me. He starts into the to
the window wash. He knows you don't want your window washed.
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Why would you. The water's filthy, he's filthy. Your window
will look worse after he's done than when he started.
But he knows that there's this emotional contract that occurs
that if he washes your windows, you have to pay him.
You don't, but that's the way the game is played, right,
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So if he can just get good and started on
your windows and then at the end of he's like, hey,
look what I did, and you don't want your windows
to watch not that way. But you kind of have
this emotional tie, should I? That is why like it
or not. When I pull up at an intersection, I'm
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not getting right up on the person behind me. I
never understood how people let themselves get pinned in. I've
got my I've got my exit strategy prepared. I got
plenty of room. You come out there on me. You
you start trying to wash the back window, I'll just
ease up a little bit and now I got a
little way. I got a little ways to do that
(20:36):
on or I'll accidentally hit that rear that uh rear
wind uh window washer thing and maybe shoot shoot a
little stream on you on that. I can't stand that,
but you know what what Uh anyway, the mariachi is
at me tienda. They come around and they aggressively ask
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you if you would like to be serenaded. You know
the other thing, it's kind of like Mario. It's kind
of like, uh, karaoke, Ramon is having a mariachi seems
like a good idea for a moment. Oh it's mom's birthday. Yeah,
go ahead and do. And there's only like three songs
it's ever requested because it's the only three songs that
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white people know, and they feel like, yeah, I could
come up with some songs they'll know. Watch this, kids,
can you do via condios?
Speaker 7 (21:29):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Yeah, sure, see boys, I do that another thing or two.
I went hunting down there one time. Well, yeah, it's
called lio Byo Condello's. And dad sits there and sits
there and sits there and sits there. In about forty seconds,
he and here Vaya condeos my darling, and then they
go along. But the problem with mariachi is, just like karaoke,
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it seems like a real good idea when it started,
but then you find out that song is long. Woo,
it is long. So what starts as a really clever
cute if they're saying, everybody's looking around, maybe maybe you've
pulled out your camera and you're filming, the kids are
having fun, moms feeling the mom's blushing, but she's flattered.
(22:14):
You know, this is all really really nice, and now
you you filmed the mariachi singers and then it's still
going on and you're two minutes into the thing, and
you you kind of don't want to go back and
pan back through everybody. Everybody's been on the video videos
run for a while. This is really taking a long time,
(22:36):
and they show no signs of letting up. I don't
know if they're getting overtime for the song. And when
they're done, you're like, whoa, thank you you lack anohing, No, no, don't.
You got a lot of other tables. We don't want
to keep it to ourselves. You you know, you've been
too kind already, and so then they but you know
(22:59):
where I do like tomorrow, jeez, Texans games. I don't
know who came up with this strategy. Somebody in the
Texans organization said, listen, we are going to live or
die by first generation Mexicans becoming Texans fans because they're
just not enough white people willing to come, and black
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people don't hardly go to NFL games. Don't be mad
at me. That's just the way it is, which is ironic,
but it's the way it is, but you get the
first generation Mexicans and then if you get it, if
you can tap into second third, if you get tapped
into just Latinos that live here with a little bit
of you know, Latino. Oh you got it, You got it.
(23:40):
And that's I asked Crockett on Sunday. On the way,
I said, Crockett, I want you to notice how many
Latinos have how many I was reading I'm sorry, I
was reading your comment. How many Latinos are at the game,
and notice how how high that person is. Just take
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a note of it in case you hadn't a right
okay into the first quarter He's like, wow, Dad, you're right.
So that's why they got like the mariachi and truth
be told, every white dude and those Mario they got
nice uniforms. Have you seen the mariachis at halftime? It's
a show.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
And what I see it all over the place is
people who care about looking good while doing evil.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
The Michael Barry Show. I want you to make for
me the list of the five most requested mariachi songs.
I can just go ahead and tell you right now
that one oarms LaBamba. The problem is.
Speaker 8 (24:45):
You go to.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
A tex mex restaurant where they've got Mariachi's. And the
first time you hear lobamba, you're like, oh, lobamba, what happened?
Can we get some case over here? We're having queso
and chips and beer, and we're all having a good time.
There's a bunch of us and we don't care that
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the food service is slow because we got chips in queso.
We're happy. And then you hear la bamba again, you go, oh, okay, Well,
you know it's a very popular song. You know, LaBamba. No,
everybody likes LaBamba. You know Ritchie Valens and you know
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Buddy Holly and kids. You know, you know, he was there,
you know the day the music died. And yeah he's
a young father. He's seventeen, eighteen years old when he died. Yeah, yeah,
this was his song. No, he really didn't have much more.
This was about it. But heck, he was barely I
mean if he going to high school, he wouldn't even
be a senior in high school. I mean, she'sa LaBamba
was a lot for such a young age. You got
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to understand. So instead of playing all his songs, they're
just gonna play this one. Song a bunch of times,
and that'll represent a body of work that he would
have had had he lived to be sixty and no deed.
So there you go, and now you got Lebama the
second time. About ten minutes later, another one strikes up
over there because somehow someway people with no sense of
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irony say, hey, uh, let's get let's get a mariachi
for our table. Oh no, honey, don't, no, no, no, no,
don't do it. Don't do it all? Hey, ma, man
oh her music?
Speaker 4 (26:28):
Man?
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Oh? Dad, Dad, No, Mom, I don't think she really
wants it. Dad, I don't think she really wants Yeah yeah, hey,
oh hurt, sir, Honey, please, you're embarrassing. You're embarrassing me.
You're embarrassing all of us. Honey, you've had too much.
You've had too much mariachi. Come here, hey, do us
a song, new one for us. It's my wife's birthday, Honey,
(26:50):
you know it's not my birthday. Why are you doing this?
Why are you doing this? This is my my wife birthday?
Say because sing her something? What do you want de
la bamba that we just we just heard Obama? Three
tails over? Is that Obama I paid for Obama. It's
twenty dollars of Lobama. And now you got another LaBamba
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that can go on for a while. It's like a
it's like a virus. It spreads, all right. So you
got via Condio's condos and lbamba? What else you got?
Are you serious? You didn't come up with that on
your own?
Speaker 7 (27:27):
You know?
Speaker 8 (27:28):
That? Is it?
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Conci concion de mariacci Okay, I'm gonna put that down.
The truth is you're feeling awkward because your name is
Ramon Roles and your shirt is off, and you're standing
up for some reason, and you don't know any mariacchi songs,
and you feel like you're kind of supposed to, you know,
like kids from India that grew up in this country
and they go off to college and their friends are like,
(27:52):
let's go eat Indian and like, ooh, they don't want to,
but yeah, I love Indian food. And then they get
there and they go, hey, uh, what's what's this green
spinachy looking stuff called? And they're called they're texting your
parents back home, Hey, what what is the dupreoneer stuff
that they're everybody's asking me what what it's? What it's called?
(28:14):
All right, So you got bi Va Condio's La Bamba
and Concion de Mariacci, which I'm putting an asterisk beside
that one I wanted to get to. There is a
story that I definitely definitely want to get to. And
let me see if I can find it here. Oh,
let me do this call while I'm finding it. All Right,
(28:35):
there we go, Brian, you're up.
Speaker 8 (28:36):
Go ahead, Yes, sir, Michael A longtime listener.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Yes, sirs, I'm on.
Speaker 8 (28:41):
The on the radio. My memories from Friday. I couldn't
get in, but the oilers. I remember seeing coach bum
walking across the street there in the Highway six when
it was a two later, and going to the country
store and there in d Wall and uh, I pulled
back around and went in and there was well he
used with several of the old oilers from Mike Barber,
(29:01):
Billy White's Shoes and Pearl Campbell. And I said, oh
my gosh, but that was a Love You Blue with
the first I Love You Blue are in nineteen seventy
seven or seventy eight, seventy eight.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Oh, you're in the era itself. Yes, Oh that's awesome.
Speaker 8 (29:18):
I was just I didn't know much about the oilers
in but I just remember Love You Blue, and I
grew up a kind of a RAMS fan in the
Los Angeles area, but I'd died and gone to heaven
with the oilers. I never It's just amazing time, and
I was kind of hoping too. My question was what
happened to all the memorabilia used to be down their
(29:38):
fingers Fursture off Color and I took my daughters down there,
and they really enjoyed that home plate. And I don't
know what happened to all that. That was my question.
Where did it go?
Speaker 1 (29:51):
I'm sure that a collector ended up buying it. I
mean that stuff, you know. I get these questions a
lot when somebody has this or that collection, but typically
there's somebody that comes in. Used to be a guy
who was Jerry Hart. It was heart Galleries Hart, and
he was off of Hillcroft and he would go in
(30:15):
and sometimes he would buy out somebody's collection and then
he would auction it or he would do it on
a consignment. But that was one of the guys I
ended up at a lunch he was at one time.
I didn't really know him, but he that was kind
of one of his areas of expertise, is he would
go in and do that. That's how those things kind
(30:36):
of get disposed of, is you know, you try to
you try to buy really any memorabilia, but especially a
time specific, very emotional sense of memorabilia like that. It'll
cost you an arm and a leg. But then the
owner dies or the business closes or whatever else, and
(30:58):
then it's kind of catches catch can, And so the
trick is to find when when places go out of
business that have a collection, the trick is to find
a person like that and go in and get as
much of it as as you can because they'll sell
it to you for cheap. They're they're not. It's a
lot easier for them to part with it. At that point,
(31:21):
I had several professional hunters text me ramon from the
round top send and tone utility areas to tell me
that it's not me Tierra, it's not me Tenda, it's
me Tierra, which is interesting because if you think about it,
it might have been a subliminal slip because it is
(31:43):
kind of me Tender because they're always trying to sell
you something. Maybe that's what my mind was going to.
That's right, we have an interview at nine. I'm out
of sorts because at an audio clip I wanted to play. Now,
I can't find this game the thing, and I'm aggravating.
(32:08):
That's it, Charlie Colliam. Yeah, who is that? He's not
a martial arts expert. Oh I know what it is? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
I set this up. I wonder if he knows any
Mariachi song. I wonder if he ends up at a
restaurant and Mariachi says, well, what she want us to play?
(32:32):
There's something else that I'm trying to remember that you
always hear if I went over there right now, I
guarantee that song would start to you go, oh god,
there he goes again
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