What is the messiest room in your house?

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• What is the messiest room in your home?

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Speaker 3 (00:31):
Happy Friday. We are raring and ready to go, and
I'm ready to talk to you about my OCD.

Speaker 4 (00:40):
Dud.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
Do you have OCD? Yeah? I have OCD. You know me.
Not as bad as it used to be. It was
really really bad maybe twenty twenty five years ago. I
blame to a certain extent, I blame my first wife
for for the OCD. See, to me, OCD is a
control issue, it know it really it's about It's about

(01:02):
controlling one thing in your life that you can't control.
And when you feel like your life is out of control,
that you have to find something you can control. I
think that's when the OCD kicks in. At least it
did for me. I can't vouch for everybody, but at
least it did for me. We did a Question of
the Day, not really about OCD this morning, but we
did a question about the messiest room in your house

(01:23):
or the most disorganized room in your home. That one
place in your house that just looks like a bomb
hit it, you know, just where you keep the door
closed because you can't stand a look at it. You
make sure a company never sees it. It just it
drives you crazy that it's there, but you're powerless to

(01:44):
do anything about it. That room. And what we found
in the survey, at least to what I found in
the polling that they did, is that generally speaking, most
of these rooms end up being rooms that are not
frequently used. For example, the garage, especially for guys, the
garage is sort of the catch all. And I know
a lot of guys. In fact, most of my male friends,

(02:08):
they have so much crap in their garage they can't
even use the garage at least not for cars that
they can't park their car in there. Our garage has
some crap in it, but we at least there's still
enough for him to park both the cars. Then again,
if it wasn't a really deep garage, that wouldn't be
the case. So yeah, our garage is a little bit
messy and disorganized. The other area in our house that

(02:32):
is messy and disorganized. And this is where my OCD
kicks in. I have really weird OCD. I only get
bothered by things that I can see. So if Elizabeth
makes a mess, and she's known to make a mess
or too, she's I refer to her loving least the
Sicilian pack ratch. She doesn't throw anything away. She rarely

(02:53):
puts things away because after all, she's gonna need it again,
and when she does, she knows where it is out
there in the counter, And the countercluttered rises to me crazy.
So what I end up doing is the clutter. I'll
tolerate it to a point, and then I'll get to
the point where I can't tolerate the clutter anymore, and
I'll start looking for a place to put it, and
usually it ends up in a closet. And a great

(03:15):
example of that is she took up the hobby of
cookie decorating, and so she got all this stuff from Amazon,
you all these different moles and all these different tips
for you know, for putting on icing and decorating and
all that kind of stuff. And it was in the
dining room she had she had these two racks chock

(03:36):
full of baking equipment sitting there in the dining room,
you know, just sitting there where anybody could see it,
and it was driving me crazy. So what I did
is I went into the office, which is a small
walking closet in the office, and I cleaned out that closet,
which still had some boxes in it that from from

(03:59):
when we moved into that house like eight years ago.
And I got rid of that stuff and moved that
stuff around and made enough room to put her racks
of baking equipment in that walk in closet. So now
I don't have to look at it. The dining room
is back to the way it was. The dining room
is clean and pristine, and there's not a bunch of

(04:19):
stuff in there, and that made me feel better. Now
has the baking equipment gone anywhere? Well to the closet.
If I could see inside the closet, it might drive
me crazy, But with the door to the closet stuck
shut at this point, it's not driving me crazy anymore.
That's kind of my weird logic and how I try
to make all this stuff work out. So we're asking

(04:41):
our listeners this morning, what is that one room in
your house that looks like somebody blew it up. It's
just completely disorganized, or it's messy, or what have you.
Here's some of the answers we got back.

Speaker 5 (04:54):
Good morning, this guy from New Cane. The room that
looks like a bomb went off is my garage thanks
to my son turning eighteen and working on his trunk
and having projects and leaving stuff everywhere, and me doing
the same. I guess that will didn't fall too far
from the tree. Good morning, mister Barrett, and got Mike.

Speaker 1 (05:15):
This is Carlos Border.

Speaker 3 (05:17):
My garage would be looking like a bomb went off
in it.

Speaker 5 (05:20):
One of the kids moved in temporarily and a lot
of it stored in there. Also my master bedroom. That's
because that's where I have all my recording equipment, along
with my guitars and.

Speaker 1 (05:32):
Amsday on Lake Conrad. Yeah, my band room in the
garage because we're I'm still trying to get moved into
this brand new house.

Speaker 3 (05:43):
Over by the lake.

Speaker 1 (05:45):
It's a mess, and I got a lot of stuff.
Like George Carlon would say.

Speaker 3 (05:50):
It's a mess. That's that's the sound of somebody who's
resigned to it, you know, who feels powerless to do
something about it. It's a mess. He knows that. I
guarantee you in this you're gonna learn a lot of this.
A lot of this stuff gets blamed on the kids.
You know, you got missy kids, or you got kids
that you know are just barely grown in out of

(06:12):
the house and they're moving to an apartment or whatever
they and they're using your pad as a temporary storage
at facility. Yeah, how about the shed in the back.
If you have a shed in the back, what kind
of shape is that in? I bet that's a mess too. Right,
let's get a few more Good morning all.

Speaker 6 (06:26):
This is Henry from Spring.

Speaker 1 (06:28):
My wife's craft room looks like hobby lobby and Michael
threw up in there.

Speaker 3 (06:36):
Y'all have a great day.

Speaker 4 (06:37):
Jimmy, I'm really ashamed to say this, but the master's
sweet no, no master bedroom. It is a master sweet
is the worst looking room in the house. And that's
because I've been very negligent with my credit card receipts
and other junk mail. I usually leave it on my
vanity and I haven't got around to burning it yet.

Speaker 3 (06:56):
That's what I do.

Speaker 4 (06:57):
I burned my receipts.

Speaker 3 (06:58):
I don't treat it. My burn them skip from Webster.

Speaker 1 (07:01):
The only room I have in my house looks like
a bomb went off in is my former office space
at my home, which has now been converted to.

Speaker 3 (07:08):
A cat room for a feral cat.

Speaker 1 (07:11):
There's excess letter droppings, food droppings, hair cat toys, you name.

Speaker 7 (07:18):
It, all for a feral cat that doesn't like me
or appreciate anything that we've done for it.

Speaker 3 (07:28):
I feel your pain. My wife is a little bit
of an animal rescuer herself, so yeah, she would be
more than happy to do exactly what your wife evidently
has done, which is rescue a feral cat and turn
that room over to the cat for the cat to destroy.
All right, quick, a little break, we are back with
more Happy Friday, back with more in a moment. Jimmy

(07:48):
Bird show here a name. I'm fifty k here Sea.

(08:09):
Probably heard by now that there was a Senate hearing
yesterday where RFK Jr. Was testifying and was basically getting
completely harassed by Democrats. This is in retaliation, at least
in part, in retaliation to him firing the head of
the CDC, who's a staunch Democrat and you know, buys

(08:32):
into all of the Democrat science. If you will, regarding
COVID nineteen and vaccines and everything else to go along
with it. Democrats are driving themselves crazy over RFK Jr.
And so when they had a chance yesterday to just
lamb baste him, that's exactly what they did. So I

(08:53):
got a little example here for you. Here is some
of the questioning going back and forth. And I'll I'll
give Robert Kennedy Junior credit for I mean, he's fighting back,
he's not taking it laying down. But you can tell
what an assault it is. Listen to this.

Speaker 8 (09:07):
This is about kids being pushed in harm's way.

Speaker 9 (09:11):
You've said, in that chair for how long, twenty twenty
five years while the chronic disease and our children went
up to seventy six percent and you said nothing.

Speaker 10 (09:21):
Yeah, it's a maha meltdown. RFK Junior defending his vaccine
policies against Democrats on Capitol Hill, furious over his ousing
of the CDC director, Junior says it's signed for new
blood at the Health agency after they failed Americans during COVID.

Speaker 9 (09:37):
CDC failed that response to her ability miserably during COVID
when it's DISASTERSK and nonsensical policies destroyed small businesses, violated
civil liberties, closed our schools, caused generational damage in doing so,
mass infants with no science, and heightened economic inequality. And

(09:59):
yet all those unscientific interventions failed to do anything about
the disease itself.

Speaker 3 (10:06):
And from there the dams came on glued.

Speaker 6 (10:09):
You're so wrong, you're you're interrupted me and sir, you're
a charlatan.

Speaker 3 (10:14):
That's what you are.

Speaker 6 (10:14):
You're the ones who conflate chronic disease with the need
for vaccines.

Speaker 8 (10:20):
Because you are citing data that you won't produce to
the public's objecting.

Speaker 11 (10:25):
You're making things up to scare people have It's.

Speaker 6 (10:28):
A lie, Sam, your Secretary of Health and Human Services
doesn't no matter how many Americans died from COVID, let
them know if the vaccine helped prevent any deaths. And
you were sitting as Secretary of Health and Human Services,
how can you be that ignorant.

Speaker 9 (10:44):
I never promised that I was going to recommend products
with which there is no real occasion. Wait, you said,
and I know you've taken eight hundred and fifty five
thousand dollars from pharmaceutical company.

Speaker 12 (10:55):
Senator on behalf of parents in schools and teachers all
over the United States of America who deserve so much
better than your leadership.

Speaker 3 (11:07):
That's what this conversation is about. Senator sham Is, I
don't know. They deserve the truth, and that's where we're
gonna give them for the first time. I think he
handled that pretty well. The problem is what really what
was really the point of the exercise? I guess when
you get right down to it, I mean it's it's

(11:29):
just partisan politics that it's worse. It's just people yelling
at each other. There's no civil discourse, there's no there's
no legitimate questions being asked, there's no time being given
for any responses. They're constantly interrupting each other. I think
Dana Prino did a pretty good job of pointing that out. Here,
here's what she got. She's on the five. Here's what

(11:49):
she got out of that entire exchange. No, sorry about that.
Let me let me find that and hit the button again. Here.
Sometimes this equipment is just so sensitive. Here is data,
b Reno.

Speaker 13 (12:02):
They all lost me today, and to the point that
I pulled up my IFB I couldn't even listen to
it anymore. I was extremely frustrated. I think these issues
are very important. It affects everybody, and I think sort
of like the debate when you have ten people on
stage and the format that we have in the time
that you have, I think that the broken system. I
think these hearings are totally broken if you actually if

(12:24):
the goal is to get information, to have a free
flow exchange of ideas and information, because that is.

Speaker 3 (12:30):
Not what's going on, and what do you think the
goal is?

Speaker 13 (12:34):
Well, so and Republicans and Democrats both do this. The
goal is to try to get a gotcha moment, so
where you try to figure out some way to capture
this guy, but they don't ever give him a really
ad chance to answer, and he interrupted them constantly too,
so I finally said enough. One of the goals is
to get yourself on cable TV, right, so if it's

(12:55):
MSNBC or Fox, there, we're CNN wherever you want to be.
You also want to figure out some sort of sound
by so that you have some small dollar donations, because
that's where a lot of this comes from. I think
that these issues. To me, I'm not a mom, so
I'm looking at this from a spectrum.

Speaker 3 (13:09):
Of maha, right.

Speaker 13 (13:10):
I like a lot of the nutrition stuff. I've covered
the food pyramid stuff since the mid nineties when I
first worked on Capitol Hill. I understand all of that's broken,
But I'm not an I can talk about a lot
of things. I am not an expert in public health
at all. I have to outsource that, and I don't
want to ever try to be. I don't want to
be a Google doctor. But the other night, Kennedy, I

(13:32):
was actually texting her about where does she go for
a doctor?

Speaker 3 (13:35):
Because I'm like, what about this? And what about that?

Speaker 13 (13:36):
And if you're over fifty and they're women, and there's
all this diff all the guidance is different, everything's different.
So now that's all true for children as well. So
it's complex and it's complicated. And all these people did
was yell over each other to the point that I
couldn't understand or hear anything.

Speaker 3 (13:50):
They completely lost me. Chicks don't like a lot of
yelling when it comes to that stuff, but they're not alone.
I don't like a lot of yelling either. I like
that that that RFK Junior is standing up for himself.
I like the fact he's pointing out that Elizabeth Warren, Hey,
you've taken almost a million dollars from big Pharma. Why

(14:10):
should I listen to you? And that's true of most
of those Democrats. They've all had mega donations from big Pharma,
So you know that's who they're trying to protect because
they don't like it when information comes out about treatments
that are available for COVID that are more effective than
the COVID vaccine, don't cost very much money and are

(14:34):
readily available to anybody who wants to use them. They
ain't that because they have to help Big Farmer make
a lot of money so they can get a lot
of money from big Pharma for themselves. That's kind of
how that whole thing works out. And Mark Warner, Senator
Warner from Virginia, I know, Senator Warner. I used to
do and ask the Governor show when I was in
Virginia with this guy. He used to be saying, believe

(14:55):
it or not. Tim Kaine used to be saying, I
don't know what the hell happened to these people he's
talking about. You can't told so how many people died
from covidah blah blah blah. Nobody can tell you how
many people really died from COVID COVID, because we know
the numbers are all skewed. If you had COVID, you
remember this. If you had COVID and you went into

(15:19):
the hospital and you died from any other cause car crash,
brain tumor, heart attack, cause of death was listed as
COVID nineteen because they got money from the federal government
for that. So those numbers are skewed. We don't know
about the accuracy of those numbers. I don't blame, you know,

(15:44):
Secretary Kennedy for saying, we don't know how many people
died from COVID. That's what he meant by that. And
of course they're busy yelding each other, so nobody's going
to get any more of the rest of the message. Okay,
So anyway, make America healthy again. The Mohamed There was
a guest I saw his name is this is his

(16:06):
first time? I can't remember sure that he's the White
House senior advisor for MAHA. Al Kelly means this guy's
name here he is talking about the grilling of Robert F.
Kennedy Jr.

Speaker 11 (16:18):
I can't psychoanalyze craziness, but I can tell you that
Democrats are on the wrong side of history. The two
most popular political figures in America right now are President
Trump and Secretary Kennedy, and I think a lot of
that is because they are right on this MAHA message.
Every single mom here watching is concerned about the cascading
rates of autism, of diabetes, of cancer, of heart disease,

(16:42):
of almost every single chronic condition skyrocketing among children. We
have the highest rates, for instance, of pediatric cancer in
the world. All these conditions are exploding, and Bobby sending
a message putting a light with President Trump's full support
on that mission, is waking the country up. The second
problem that crats have is that Bobby and President Trump

(17:03):
are winning in just a year. In just the first
year of MAHA Jesse, baby formula standards reformed, food dyes eliminated,
Florida and water removed, academic freedom restored at the NIH,
Vaccine injury acknowledged, drug prices lowered, child mutilation which many
leading people at the CDC were supporting until their final day.

(17:24):
That's ended. Nutrition guidelines will be reformed, nutrition education med
school will be instituted, and the FDA This year Jesse,
the FDA will approve more drugs. We will see more
innovation than at any time in American history. But I
think you know this, Jesse. There's something much deeper, much
more spiritual, happening. Bobby Kennedy and this unlikely miraculous coalescing

(17:46):
with President Trump, I think has awoken something very special.
There is an awakening in this country. People around the
kitchen table, people on farms, people in classrooms. People are
awakening to the root cause of crime, disease. There is
a virtual force happening in this country. It canna go
back in the bottle. The Democrats do not know what
to do. Everybody watching, there is something special happening in there.

(18:08):
Bobby Kennedy is fighting. You can see that we need
to keep supporting him in President Trump.

Speaker 3 (18:13):
Huh do you think that's true? You think there's been
an awakening when it comes to the Make America Healthy
Again movement? I don't know. I don't know. I guess
time will tell. I do know this much that people
are less willing to just take the word of a doctor.
I don't know if that's always a good thing, but

(18:34):
we are much more skeptical of what we hear from
health officials. All right, tob We're gonna take a quick
little break. We'll be back in just a moment. Scheduled
to appear on our Friday show, Kara Leo Pardos. She's
the co founder of We the Studios is America's first
non woke streaming service. Van Jones. We played a cup
from Van Jones the other day about how he thinks

(18:56):
that you know, they've gone way too far with a
woke and it's time to go back back, and you know,
maybe maybe at least there are some Democrats that are
waking up this. We will talk to her next Jimmy
VERRICHI on Fridday here on AM nine fifty k PRC.

(19:30):
Let's talk about businesses that are Oh, by the way,
we were going to be talking with Carol Leo Leo Pardo,
co founder of We the Studio as America's first non
woke streaming service. We couldn't get ahold of her, so
you know, we're putting on that one. We'll move on
to a couple of other things we're going to talk about.
By the way, I would think there'd be a demand

(19:51):
for that kind of a streaming business. One this completely
non woke that was that was kind of her thing.
That's why I wanted to bring her back on so
she could publicize it again. Uh, but her We the
Studios is a streaming service that features one non woke material,
traditional families. There's no there's no there's no talk of

(20:14):
anything that's out of the out of the ordinary. There's
no woke issues that appear on any of the programming
they have. That's that's kind of a cool thing. Their
business will probably do well. A business that is doing
extremely well is American Eagle. You know with Sydney Sweeney ads. Yeah,
their stock is through the roof. There's stock. The return

(20:35):
on there's stock has been pretty amazing. Since those ads
first appeared, their stock has grown, they have, They have
grown seven hundred thousand new customers, people who had not
even were not using the American Eagle brand that are
now customers of American Eagle. Seven hundred thousand. That is

(20:56):
pretty amazing. They were talking about it on Fox Business.

Speaker 14 (20:59):
Oh you mean it if people can sell clothing, what
a concept?

Speaker 3 (21:02):
Right? I love it.

Speaker 14 (21:03):
No, I mean finally the pendulum have swung back the
other way. We've done years of woke advertisement. Even the
clients and their briefs are sick of They're sending it
to their advertisers and saying no, we don't want this anymore.
And even stoop Dogg has jumped in on this. He's saying, hey,
I'm not apologizing for wokeness, although his PR team did
because they were afraid of cancelation right right now?

Speaker 3 (21:25):
Yes what. Malcolm Bladwells did a video too. He said
he was bully and he actually says, you know, he
changed his mind.

Speaker 2 (21:30):
So people are now starting to feel independent that they
can speak out on this only.

Speaker 15 (21:33):
Yeah. Well, I do a lot of marketing and advertising,
as you know, for Big four townh one hundreds, and
I think it gets back to results. It's you can
have an opinion and a bias towards that, but ultimately
the consumer wins with their wallet and when you see
conversion rates therefore sales that now impact.

Speaker 3 (21:48):
The bottom line.

Speaker 15 (21:49):
That is ultimately the biggest gauge of a KPI of growth,
which goes above opinion or a piece in a checkbox
when you're creating that creative brief. So hey, I think
we need to have a come back to the numbers
conversation in this creative rooms.

Speaker 3 (22:02):
There you go, Sexy's back. I think that's I think
that's what we're talking about here. Sex sells, Sex always
is sold, and it will sell again and the wolk
may not like it, but guess what, the majority are
not woke. And that shows with what's happened with American Eagle.
All right, let's talk about, you know, speaking of businesses

(22:24):
doing well and not doing well, restaurants not doing so well,
and you know, you hear a lot of reasons for
why that is. And I think I think and I'm
a play a little clip from an interview we had
on this morning on our morning show on KTRH that
I think probably helps demonstrate this all. But but but

(22:44):
here's the thing I think you kind of need to
know about that, and that is his name, by the way,
Jonathan Horowitz. He's with Convived Hospitality Consulting. They are a
hospitality firm. They work with restaurants all the time. So
you know he's going to, i'm sure, explain that the
reason why restaurants cost so much is because of increased

(23:08):
costs to them, and certainly that's a part of it.
But I will ask him about that. You'll hear it
in the interview. I'm going to ask him a little
bit towards the end about the idea that maybe some
of this is a little bit of price gouging, because
you know, we were so we were so alienated during

(23:30):
COVID nineteen when we couldn't go out and we were
under lockdown and the restaurants couldn't be opened, and we all
got frustrated by that, and the first thing we did
when they open back up was to go back to
see them. And even though inflation was rearing its ugly
head and the prices were going up, we kept going
and we kept spending until we got to a point
where we couldn't spend anymore. And now we start to
see that restaurants are starting to struggle because we have

(23:53):
just run out of expendable income to spend on things
like restaurants. We can't afford to eat out the way
we were eating out before. But let's let's have a
conversation about that. This is from this morning's Morning show.
Jonathan Horowitz from Covive CONBB Hospitality consulting the Houston Chronicle
around a story like they just woke up to the

(24:13):
fact that we've had some restaurant inflation going on. Welcome
to the party, kron It's been going on for a
while hasn't it.

Speaker 16 (24:21):
Yeah, we've seen a lot of this, Jimmy, since COVID. Really,
I mean, there's a lot of things conspiring against restaurants
in terms of costs of doing business, and one of
the only things that restaurants can do about it, unfortunately,
is to raise menu prices to try to generate more
revenue to cover those additional costs. We've seen labor go

(24:44):
up and costs of food go up, and generally inflation
kind of hurting businesses across the board.

Speaker 3 (24:51):
Well, certainly the price of meat has gone way out
that that's been a real killer of your steakhouse. It's
been really tough to keep competitive prices going on. But
here's what I have to wonder. After COVID nineteen, Johnathan,
we had all this pent up demand. We couldn't stand
that we got locked up for so long. We couldn't
wait to get back out and go to our favorite
restaurants and start living life again. So we were out

(25:12):
there and it didn't matter what the price was, we
were going to spend it. But I get the impression
now that's starting to matter what the price is, that
people are cutting back because the prices have gotten so high.

Speaker 16 (25:23):
Yeah, that's shifted a little bit in the past year
or so, and I think people are a little bit
more wary. Not everybody is out there spending as much
as they were right after we got back into society,
and with people being a little bit more cautious and
costs going up so much, restaurants are being put in

(25:44):
a very difficult position and trying to maintain some level
of profit margin, and it's getting harder and harder.

Speaker 3 (25:51):
As time goes on.

Speaker 16 (25:53):
We've seen people started to pull back, and we've just
had some reports in the past few weeks of the
country not drinking as much. That's another big factor, and
that alcohol sales have gone down dramatically, and that's typically
where restaurants make their biggest margins. So you've got a
lot of things coming together to make it more and
more economically difficult to own and operate restaurants right now.

Speaker 3 (26:17):
I saw a story and I want to get your
thoughts on this. The story I think it was on
Fox Business. They had reported that and they were using McDonald's,
which obviously is a fast food chain as an example.
But since COVID inflation for the foods that they serve
and the actual inflation rate has been thirty percent, but
the prices had gone up two hundred percent. So I
guess the question is, I know they're trying to cover

(26:38):
perhaps some other costs, but are there some at least
restaurants that are going above and beyond the price of
inflation and maybe have over calculated how much Americans are
willing to pay for their product.

Speaker 16 (26:52):
There may be some of that, but honestly, at this point,
a lot of it is just survival from the economics
sense for restaurants because there are so many different inputs
that have increased.

Speaker 3 (27:05):
It's not just the cost of food.

Speaker 16 (27:07):
It's the cost of labor, it's the cost of rent,
it's the cost of supplies. All of those things are
coming together. And on top of that, we've seen customers
and you know, the customers that used to be coming
to the restaurants are changing their habits. Things have changed
in the past five years in terms of expectations. So

(27:30):
all of those things are combining. It's it's kind of
a perfect storm right now, unfortunately. And you know, other
than trying to generate more business and get more people
to walk through the door, which is tougher and tougher now,
restaurants have to raise menu prices just to cover those costs.

Speaker 3 (27:46):
So do you suspect that there will be fewer people
going to restaurants, will be more restaurant closures here in
the Greater Houston areas resolve of all this. Yeah, we've
seen a lot of that recently.

Speaker 16 (27:55):
We've seen some big name closures, you know, things that
get a lot of press. But you're also you know,
having a lot of the mom and pops that just
can't hang on anymore. On one hand, we're seeing some closures.
On the other hand, we're seeing some openings, so you know,
hopefully it will balance itself out. But it is tougher
right now to run a restaurant than it has been

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in a long time.

Speaker 3 (28:18):
Yeah, I think that's probably true. I think it's but
I think it's always tough to run a restaurant. You know.
I've flirted with the idea of having a restaurant, and
I don't know the first thing about running a restaurant.
You know, I just have a concept, idea in my
mind of the kind of restaurant I would love to have,
But the reality is, you know, I go to a

(28:40):
fair amount of restaurants, so I frequent on a fairly
you know, consistent basis, and I see the same problems
at all of them. It's really hard to find weight staff.
Still hard to find weight staff. There are a lot
more openings for weight staff than there are people to
fill the openings. For whatever reason, there's a large turnover

(29:01):
with white staff, so you're constantly looking for new people
and retraining new people. Cooks are kind of hard to find,
and it's just you know, in fact, there's one breakfast
place I go to that it's supposed to be a
diner that's open all day breakfast, lunch, and dinner, not
twenty four hours, but all day, and they have never

(29:22):
been able to open for the dinner because they can't
get enough help, you know, for people to fill the positions.
So it's kind of doggy dog out there in restaurant
world right now. If you were going to open up
a restaurant, what kind of restaurant would you open? Would
you open up a fine dining restaurant, because you know,
those places seem to keep fairly busy. The ones that
are our high end have a very specialty crowd, the

(29:45):
taste the Texases of the world. It's the ones that
are kind of in the middle. You know, the drillly
cheap restaurants are doing okay, not that there's anything that's
really cheap right now. The really expensive was seen to
be doing okay, but there's a lot of ones in
the middle that aren't doing so well because they just
they're just not seeing as much foot traffic as they
used to have. Anyway, thank you for checking that out

(30:07):
and talking to me about restaurants, or me talking to
you about restaurants. All right, quick little break. We are
back with more in the moment, including lottery numbers. Here,
are you going to play Powerball this weekend? But if
you're going to play power Ball this weekend, would you
like to know the most popular numbers were the ones
that are most frequently drawn and the ones that are
least likely drawn if you're going to pick your own

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numbers that make him a handy Back with more of
the moment, Jimmy Verrett Show here at AM nine fifty KPRC.
All right, I'm talking a little bit about powerful here

(30:50):
in a minute, not because not because I'm a big
power ball player, not because I'm not trying. I'm not
really trying to promote the lottery but let's face it,
we all have a fascination with the idea of winning
one point seven billion dollars. So I've got a story
about this that for those of you who are playing,

(31:12):
especially those of you who are maybe playing for the
first time or haven't played in a long time, would
you be interested to know which numbers are most likely
and least likely to come up and powerful? Okay, I
thought you might like that. We'll get to that in
just a second. But first, our friends in Galveston are
going for a Guinness World Record for the largest walkway

(31:38):
longest walkway in the world. Now, the current record holder
evidently is in Florida. But I noticed that our television partner,
KPRC two is in Galveston, Yess to do a report
on this, and they're they're looking for some help from
the public in order to pull this off. So here
is that report from KPRC two about the attempt to

(32:01):
break a world to get US world record in Galveston.

Speaker 8 (32:04):
Galveston Island home to the newest world record.

Speaker 3 (32:08):
That has a pretty nice ring to it, doesn't it.

Speaker 7 (32:10):
But what for not for a building, not for a person,
this time it's for a walkway or really long one
at that. The Galveston Seawall stretches for more than ten miles.
It's ten point four to be exact.

Speaker 5 (32:23):
Boy.

Speaker 3 (32:23):
The seawall was built to protect.

Speaker 8 (32:25):
The project to build this seawall actually raised the entire
city of Galveston about seventeen feet. It's the primary reason
that Galveston is what it is today. It's why hotels
like this can be here. It's why we can drive,
it's why we can run along the sea wall. Without it,
storm after storm would have probably wiped out Galveston by now.
But this wall, more than one hundred years old, has

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fended back the waters from storms like Harvey, even ike
images that we'll never forget.

Speaker 7 (32:52):
The folks in Galveston hoping Guinness will crown the seawall
the world's longest walkway. Right now, that title belongs to
Bayshore Boulevard, another seawall. It's over in Tampa, Florida. It's
four and a half miles long. Cute, right, but not
even close to Texas.

Speaker 15 (33:07):
We're attempting to get into Innis Rural Records Club for
the longest walkway.

Speaker 7 (33:14):
But Saturday isn't just about a shiny new record. The
seawall was built after the nineteen hundred hurricane. It's America's
deadliest natural disaster, killing as many as eight thousand people.
More than a century later, it's still protecting Galveston Island,
and this weekend, Galveston will stand hand in hand literally
forming a human chain lining the seawall all to remember
those who lost their lives. If you want to get involved,

(33:36):
there's still time. You can sign up and register. We
have all that information posted on our website click to
Houston dot com.

Speaker 3 (33:42):
Or you could just go right to the Galveston website
and register. You have to register ahead of time if
you want to participate in this. They're evidently looking for
eighty one hundred and twenty five people to participate. They'll
be stretched along this this ten point four miles and
again the it's part a tribute and part going for

(34:03):
a Guinness World Record. The tribute part is the anniversary
of the nineteen hundred hurricane that devastated Galveston and just
virtually destroyed it. That's how they ended up building that
seawall to begin with. And then you know, having the
eighty one hundred twenty five that's the approximately how many
people died in that hurricane, So that's where that number

(34:25):
came from. They're going to stretch them out across the
ten point four miles, making it a walkway, which hopefully
would be recognized by the Guinness World Record people as
the world's longest walkway. So that's that's how the whole
thing came all right. Now the lottery thing, the lottery thing.
Have you been buying powerball tickets?

Speaker 2 (34:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (34:44):
Me too, me too? Well more, Elizabeth, I'm not I
shouldn't blame her. I mean, I'm a willing participant. We're
spending maybe twenty thirty bucks a crack, so it's not
it's not the end of our budget. Maybe that's part
of the problem. You ever noticed that the people who
seem to win powerball or win the lottery are the

(35:06):
people who are spending their last they got They got
their last ten dollars, so they stopped by a convenience
store and they brought a slushy or whatever, and they'd
spent the change what was left on a lottery ticket,
and then they win a million dollars or something. You
ever ever notice how often that seems to happen? If

(35:26):
you also noticed that more often than not. It feels
like it's a convenience store that's kind of located in
the ghetto or someplace that is an area that you
wouldn't normally frequent. So I'm beginning to wonder, I mean,
is that what it takes to win these things? Not
everyone who's like that, but of course I guess those
are the ones that get the most publicity. But most
of us let the computer pick the numbers. And I'm

(35:49):
also wondering about that strategy now too. Should should you
just instead of having the computer randomly picked numbers for you?
Should you maybe play certain numbers because you can play
whatever numbers you want to play, And if so, which
numbers have the best chance of coming up? Now, over
the last ten years of Powerball drawings, the number that's
most likely to come up of all the numbers is

(36:11):
sixty one. Really sixty one, That number has gotten drawn
at least thirteen times. The number that's the most overdue
to hit is twenty six. So here's the question. Do
you play the numbers they come up more often? Or

(36:32):
do you play the numbers that are most over two
to come up. I guess that's where you've got to
try to figure it out right. So the first five
numbers of the powerball drawing can be anywhere between one
to sixty nine, and of those, sixty one has been
drawn one hundred and fifteen times, including by the way,
the drawing this last one on Wednesday. The five most

(36:54):
commonly drawn numbers over the last ten years are sixty one,
twenty one, twenty three, thirty three, and sixty nine. Number
the least likely to be drawn is thirteen. It's only
been drawn sixty six times in the last ten years,
so here the five least likely numbers thirteen, forty nine,
twenty six, forty six, and sixty five. So again, the

(37:17):
most likely numbers are sixty one, twenty one, twenty three,
thirty three, and sixty nine. The five least likely thirteen,
forty nine, twenty six, forty six, and sixty five. Now,
when it comes to the powerball numbers, the most likely
powerball number to hit is four. The three most common

(37:39):
power balls are four, twenty one, and twenty four. So
if you want to play some combination of those, why not?
Why not? Hey listen, have a great weekend. I'll see
you Monday morning, bright and early five am over our
news radio seven forty k TRH. We are back here
at four on AM nine fifty KPRC, the

Speaker 14 (38:04):
Founder the band