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I was watching a show on Bob Keishon who was
Captain Kangaroo. In addition to being on how they duty show.
He did several other things, but nothing with the incredible
success of the twenty nine year.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Run of Captain Kangaroo.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
And I did not realize the extent to which he
and Fred Rogers had such a close friendship.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
And they would call each other.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
They had a routine that they would call each other
on the afternoon of New Year's Day every year, and
of course many of you will remember, they would go
on to each other's shows on occasion and kind of
cross pollinate the audiences. It was such an interesting thing,
and I was imagining the influence that show had on
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my childhood. My brother at one point had his private email.
He had his work email as a sheriff's deputy, but
he had his private email, and it was something like
mister green Jean's sixty seven, which was a year he
was born at AOL dot com, or might not have
been AOL.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
It was a It was.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
A similar dial up in say the nineties. And I
asked him about it, and he said, you don't remember
mister green Jeans, And I said, of course I remember,
mister green Jeans. It's just funny. I'm just interested as
to how you arrived at that. He said, we love
that show, don't you remember?
Speaker 1 (03:22):
And I did.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
I just wanted to know if that, if that was
the reasoning behind it. It's just incredible to think that
where we are as hard, tough adults, and somewhere within
us was you know, that that little vulnerable child.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
And you know our interests and our excitement.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
I see Ramone's kids, his kids walking in and out
of the studio on occasion, and the things that they're
excited about. Or Emily's daughter who's always trailing behind her.
You know, she'll come in and bring me a document
to sign or something. You'll have her daughter because she's
picked him up. She's picked her up from school AT's
say three thirty or four o'clock, and her daughter's trailing
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around behind her. And it's just interesting because what's going
through their little mind compared to all the cynicism and
anger and hurt and frustration and resilience and all that's
going through ours, is just so different. You know, they
just really really want that ice cream they were promised,
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or they just really really want to watch that program.
And I don't know, but I don't think kids watch
TV today. They watched the iPad, or they play video games,
but the television per se. And I was thinking about
the fact that when we were kids, the big concern
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was watching too much television. O man, that was parents
obsessed over it. Your kid watching too much. You gotta
turn that television off and go outside. You got to
go out. I turned the TV on off and go outside.
And today you can't really turn it off because they're
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toting it around with them at all times. They've got
that that content device that they're they're carrying around with them.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
We had we had filters on my.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Kids iPads that prevented a lot of things from happening,
and then we could track what was happening. I don't
care if somebody thinks that's invasive. I don't really care.
I could be the Stazzi when it comes to being
a parent. I wanted to know what my kids were
exposed to. I don't think the child's brain is prepared
for porn or adult perverts, or.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Graphic violence for that matter.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
I think I think you remap the brain when you're
exposed to those things to too early. And I just
wonder how many kids parents either from lack of understanding
of how that works or just you know, single mom
or single dad don't have the time to focus on that,
and just like with our parents, it's just a break
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to have that kid distracted while you're returning phone calls
because you're you know, that's your job, or making sales calls,
or doing the things that you have to do, and
you just you're in custody of the child and you
just want the child to be distracted for a moment.
There was no point to that story, Ramone. I just
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thought about it, and it's amazing because I wish we could.
I wish we could pull back and see how those
things affected us and who we are. I do know
that when I hear the Captain Kangaroo theme, it makes
me happy, and I go back in my mind to
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my mother going into town for something and dropping me
off at my grandmother's on the way, and I remember
going into her little trailer and sitting on her feet,
and I remember sitting on my feet on her feet
and turning around and watching the TV and my back
against her shins, and it was just such a happy place.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
It was, you know, it was. It wasn't just a
safe place.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
I was under no threat, no danger ever in my
life as a child, but it was just such a
happy place to sit there and watch whatever that was.
And I can remember then if she got up and
went outside to smoke, or you know, was cooking or putting.
She she didn't have a washer dryer, so she put
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clothes out on the line. And if she go out
and do that, then I would I would crawl up
and get right in front of the TV and the
happiness you feel. My parents bought my brother and I
an orange and yellow bean bag and grabbing that bean
bag or you know, bean back, sat right in front
of TV, plopping into that bean bag where it would
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be kind of dug out with a bowl of cereal.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Man, I wish that was a drug I could get that.
It was nothing better.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
You will sleep like.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Perrier water.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
We won't drive.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
Side Dreams six Golden Globe nominations, one Gimmy nomination for
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a two year period, The third and fourth season of
the show the number one watch show on all of television.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Spin off of Happy Day, They were Friends with Phonsie.
I Saw something Yesterday. Apparently. Sylvester Stallone credits Henry Winkler
for his start.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Henry Winkler brought Sylvester Stallone into the fold.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
Hm.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
It was reading a description of the show. It said
the original Turk.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
The original working title was Laverne de Fazzio and Shirley Femi.
The characters were originally quote two girls who date the fleet,
but for Family Hour they had to be changed and
mellowed down, which, in Cindy Williams's opinion, gave the show
more depth. You know, when I hear a comedian who
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is funny but doesn't cuss, my immediate thought is that's
real comedy. There are a lot of comedians who I
don't find to be very funny, but they drop f
bombs and they kind of time it and use it,
but there's no actual comedy if you look at the
structure of their jokes. Their joke is that they're using
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words graphic words for effect that have a punch, and
look at them. They're up there doing it, and it
just it feels tripe to me. I'm not offended by it,
but I think it's cheap. I think it's a sign
that you're not good at what you do. If you're
good at what you do, you can structure jokes and
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delivery with your personality and charisma and be funny in
a way that even a child could listen, and they
may not get all the jokes, but.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
They don't.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
You don't have to worry that the words you're using
are so offensive. Harris County Precinct one Deputy Sheila Jones
was released from the hospital a day after being wounded
during a shootout with a career criminal in downtown Houston.
The story clip number fourteen ramon from ABC thirteen.
Speaker 7 (11:12):
A little more than twenty four hours after being shot,
Deputy Sheila Jones gave a wave and a smile as
she left the hospital to continue her recovery at home.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
The deputy was among six.
Speaker 7 (11:24):
Law enforcement officers who fired the multiple shots captured on
cell phone Monday around twelve twenty five pm, a far
cry from her usually quiet posting here next to the
Harris County Law Library entranch.
Speaker 8 (11:35):
She's just grateful too, that she, you know, wasn't hurt.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
More.
Speaker 8 (11:39):
Seriously, we had a bulletproof vest. The bullet slowed down,
it didn't you know, injure her terribly.
Speaker 7 (11:47):
An eyewitness also a captured video of the suspect, Parnell Bland,
moments after he was hit multiple times and as firefighters
worked to transport him sources tell ABC thirteen he has
a broken leg among other injuries. As one witness described
the chaotic scene on on this.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
They're firing in that direction, that direction, that correction and
office was running from over there, running this way, and
I could.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
See office was running from all over that way.
Speaker 7 (12:14):
It's Carnelle facing multiple charges and Jones back home. Law
enforcement officials took the time to marvel at how nobody
else was hurt, especially since a number of bullets landed elsewhere,
including a window in the Jury Assembly building and at
least one vehicle parked nearby.
Speaker 8 (12:29):
And thankfully, with all the people in and around this
shooting yesterday, this could have been a really bad situation
because people are moving from building to building and they're
moving around out in the downtown courthouse complex. So from
that perspective, I'm just thank god. I just thank God
for that, because easily there could have been lots of
people hit by bullets that were being fired yesterday.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Well, prayers answered, She's gonna make it.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
And it's got to stop being an issue of divide
as to whether criminals with repeated arrests are put back
out on the street again.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
It just.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
This should not be a political issue.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Is shame on the Democrats that they've let this be
an issue, that they've taken up this position. And I
have said it before and I will say it again.
Understand exactly what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
What I'm not.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
If criminals are going to harm one hundred people in society,
I would rather it be the families and Democrats themselves,
because then they have to process it. Although it makes
you wonder. Shapiro, the governor of Pennsylvania, who would have
been the vice presidential nominee, except he's a Jew and
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the Democrats hate Jews. His house was firebombed, his wife
and kids inside it by a guy professing hate for Jews,
and Maga. Well, Shapiro ain't maga. I am real good
with the process of elimination thing. But and Shapiro refused
to speak to that issue because he doesn't want to
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be too Jewy for the Democrats or they may cast
him out again, because he sees the writing on the wall.
It is not Jews who hold the power in the
Democrat Party and so they don't want to upset the
ilhan Omar and her brother husband. Credit to Ednie Martine,
I didn't see this coming. He said, are you talking
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about the Lords of Flatbush? That's where stillone was with Winkler.
Huh here, I am trying to do a programmer. He's
overy interrupted, but I'm impressed he knew that. I wonder
how many people knew it was from Lords of Flappert.
I didn't even mention it because I didn't think it
was relative relevant.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
And I try not believe it or not.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
I try not to go off into tangents that I
don't think anybody know anything about this one right here,
Chad describes as quote dang off the freaking pit owner
of barbecue Joint in the Highram Clark area in southwest
Houston says thieves broke into his restaurant and stole more
than a thousand dollars worth of brisket that was smoking
overnight on the pit, resulting in four to five thousand
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dollars in lost revenue. Paul Jacob, owner of Jacob's Barbecue, Jim,
will you see if you can get Paul Jacobs on
there on our show as soon as you can seven
one three nine nine nine one thousand. If somebody knows
him seven one three nine nine nine one thousand. I
like to imagine how that went down. Two dudes broke in,
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Get at brisket off fair, get every bit of it, okay,
but hold on cuts into it.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
We had to wait about it out.
Speaker 9 (15:50):
Lived life, learn doing it big. On The Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
You know they replaced Pharah Fawcet with another pretty blonde.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Just wasn't the same.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Well, how much time do we have before we have
to hand over to Clay and Buck? Do I have
time to tell that story about when Farah Fawcett.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Hit on me again.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
On this date in nineteen seventy nine? The top fifteen
prime time shows. Then we go to Paul Jacobs of
Jacob's Barbecue, who just called in Charlie's Angels at number fifteen.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
I'll give you the network.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Also when I say the name, you see if you
can say the network. If you remember, I used to
remember what network shows were on today, I have no idea.
I don't watch network TV. Charlie's Aanniels on ABC at fifteen, Alice,
I Love Dallas on CBS, The Dukes of Hazzard, which
you have to know, was on CBS at number twelve. Oh,
tied at number twelve was The Ropers on ABC. You
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have as many people watching the Ropers as Dukes of Hazzard.
That's jacked up. The number eleven on CBS was Dallas,
number tens CBS is killing It, Mash number nine.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Delta House on ABC. I don't even remember that. I
don't know what that was.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Number eight One Day at a Time, also CBS number
seven TAXI underrated role of Andy Dick on that show.
Speaker 10 (17:25):
He was really good. I mean Andy Kaufman. Who's Andy Dick.
Oh yeah, Andy Kaufman. I've been going back and watching
some of those. And Danny DeVito was surprising as well.
All in the Family at number six also on CBS,
and four of the top five on ABC.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Mork and Mindy at five sixty minutes on CBS, Happy
Days at number three on ABC, Three's Company, number two
on ABC.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Laverne and Shirley number one on ABC.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
NBC did not crack the top fifteen on this day
in nineteen seventy nine.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Paul Jacobs is our guest. Paul, Good Morning, Welcome to
the program, Sir, mister.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
Barry, Thank you, sir for having me.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Are you a white man?
Speaker 4 (18:20):
I am not. I'm African American, Sir. Originated out of
Western Kansas place called Hill City, Kansas. And we're here
in Houston, Texas. By way of my wife.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Where is she from?
Speaker 4 (18:38):
He is a Ustonian and she was raised in the
went to Madison High School in the area where our
restaurant is currently.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
And how did you start this barbecue?
Speaker 4 (18:49):
Join man, my family and I was just messing around
a lot our church members. Some of them would come
to the house and they'd eat eat my barbecue. And
it's been something I've been doing since twenty eleven. And
we started getting orders. Mister Barry and our church members
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just started ordering. It seemed like every other week we'd
have barbecue orders going out to families. And someone said,
you need to go in business for this because this
is probably some of the best barbecue. This is what
the people told me that they've ever eaten. And we
did that, and you know, for four years straight now
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we've been becoming known in the community of Houston, in
the Houston and well, yeah, in areas.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
They didn't they didn't steal from pit room or good company,
and that's kind of compliment.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
I guess. You know those are my brother's over there
at those places. There's some good barbecue over there. No no,
any of them. Yeah, yeah, yeah, they're still a pit master,
a master brother's own brotherhood.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
You are, Well, I'm sorry, I just I'm on your website.
Is it Jacko's, it's Jacob's Jacob's Okay?
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Your your name is Paul Jacob no s or with an.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
S, that's without an okay.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
So you're Paul okay, so you're Paul Jacob. Oh, Paul
Jacob the third. I see that, p J, p J three.
So you're Paul Jacob Jacob with the third. And but
it's called Jacob's Barbecue. Now, why not Jacob's Barbecue?
Speaker 4 (20:44):
You know, I didn't want it to be about me, right,
It's it's about the food. And if if we if
we didn't have to use my name, I would I
would move that in that direction. But it is what
it is. We with Jacob's. And that's now forced my
family members, like Dad, my daughter's saying, well, why don't
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you just say jacob Barbecue? And it just didn't. It
wasn't for me. I didn't like it, and so I.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Just don't like you.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
I kind of like it. It's growing on me. It's
a little different.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
I think I'm just more embarrassed I got it wrong,
and so I'm looking for something to pick about.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
I do like the logo. You can call me Mike
or Mike be because you're black.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
I don't let white people call me Mike because my
name is Michael, but black folks call me Mike anyway, So.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
You can go ahead and do that. Is that you
in this photo? Where are you in this photo of
the team. Uh, there's a big fellow with glass.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
I am the gentleman. Yep, yep, that's me on the
far left, Yes, sir, on the I don't have I
believe it's I'm the heavy set guy on the next
to my wife right there.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Oh yeah, she's she's wearing a red what do you
call that? Some kind a head gear? What do you
call that?
Speaker 4 (22:05):
I'm not looking at that photo right now. I'm actually
out here at the pit putting meat on as we talk.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
And what is her name?
Speaker 4 (22:12):
So my wife's name is Martha, Martha Jacob and she's
a postal worker for thirty years. I'm trying to get
her to get away from that place and come over
here and help me out.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Well, yeah, that would help.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
So you're in Hiram Clark, I know him Clark but
but where exactly are you get me there from downtown?
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Drive me there from downtown.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
So if you're coming from downtown, sir, you're going to
go all the way around to main streets. Okay, you're
going to pass up the stadium and get off on
Main Street. Make a left and go toward like you're
going toward to sugar Land. Make a left, not you know,
opposite of downtown. And then you're gonna come up on
a road called him Pluck yep, off of Maine, off Street,
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and you're gonna make that left on Iron Clark. You're
going to pass up Orum and we're in between Orum
and the West u Quay.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Yep, and that's and if you went if you.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
Would pass up Uh and that's us, we're right there.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
How long have you been there?
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Four years, sir?
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Four years?
Speaker 4 (23:25):
Yes, sir?
Speaker 1 (23:25):
What were you doing before that?
Speaker 4 (23:29):
So I worked for a company called INTERNOT, that's oil
and gas industry. We had a software a that monitored,
you know, at a large enterprises it could be the
city at piece in the school district, all of their facilities.
This software brought energy information to their fingertips, you know
the archaic way of those guys were utilizing with excel
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spread teat bread sheets, with teams of you know, one
hundred people managing every facility, we were able to bring
uh energy information to their you know. Unfortunately it put
a lot of people out of business, but we were
able to bring that energy information to those guys fingertips.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
So and then did did you just walk away to
this business?
Speaker 4 (24:15):
No, Internox sold out to another company, and uh like
ninety percent of the people who did not want to
take the packet that was being offered from that the
new buyer.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
But you took We took our one door closed and
another do hold with me, just say Paul Jacob, I
won't interrupt you in the next segment, hold on.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
He's well done. So this is the Michael Barry Show.
Paul Jacob the third.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Owns, along with his wife Martha, a Houston native, a
barbecue joint called Jacob's Barbecue and Hiram Clark in southwest
US south of the Dome. So if you know, head
south off Maine, there's a Waterburger to your left right there,
and then you go down and make a left on
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Hiram Clark and it's between.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Aurum and Fuquid.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Didn't he say, yeah, they were hit by the West Quay, Yes,
West few Quid, they were hit by thieves. Tell me, see,
we normally close the restaurant about so why don't you
just tell me what happened, Paul.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
Well, last Wednesday, you know, we did close at seven
pm every day except for Monday. Mondays were closed at
five o'clock, eleven to eleven to five on Mondays, eleven
to seven Tuesday through Saturday, and we're closed on Sunday. However,
on last Wednesday, mind you, we we've got barboir fence
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on the entry fence eight foot. We have a pit
that's commercial with tissery pit that is locked down with locks,
welded locks, so it would be very difficult to get
into this pit. They literally spent some time, if you
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look at the video, Dolman on Wednesday spent some time,
you know, upward twenty four minutes trying to get that
pit open and was successful. He started with a shovel,
fried around for about twelve fourteen minutes, walked away, came
back with a tool and that tool was able to
penetrate the chain, break it from the welded you know,
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this is lost still and was able to penetrate that
and get through and pull all the meat off. That
was on Wednesday. All of that is on video camera.
We've taken measures over the last few years and trying
to protect because we were hit a couple of years
ago a few times. My concern has always been that
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you know, them taking that meat at that early in
the you know, uh, the in the morning. You know
that meet's only been on four hours maybe, so it's
still pretty wrong.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Yeah, let's concern that they've stolen your barbecue is that
they will do barbecue.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
Yeah, I mean what are they you know, are they are? They?
Are they putting this stuff out back out on the streets.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
It's going to do that much.
Speaker 4 (27:40):
They're not going to you know, you know, yeah, So
I mean what else is they're already doing with it?
But no, I'm very concerned. It's it's a violation. I
don't know if you've ever been robbed or somebody broke
in your home and just to feel violated, you know.
And anyway, So that happened, and then two nights ago
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it happened again another individual This is a whole separate person.
The first night was an African American that is, and
then the second two nights ago. It was a Hispanic
guy that came in, and he was unsuccessful because last Wednesday,
after all that happened on Thursday, well the same day actually,
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I called my wilder and he came out and did
something to the pit to where he was pretty confident
that the person would have a hard time breaking into
the pit. So thank god I got that done. He
also did something with the fence, because you can see
the fence where it was taken off of, like the
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hinges an eight foot, it's a heavy fence. My wilder
had the literally lifted with a lift that fence with
a jack. He and his father lifted that with a
jack to get it back up on a hinge, and
so he did some kind of weld into to work
it would it would not be easy for them to
like unscrew the boats and lift it up and get
through the fence. However, the guy that came two nights ago,
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he bent the fence terribly. I don't know it was
a strong guy, because I noticed the front he had done.
Pushed out the ice with you know the cooler the
ice school that's outdoors. He moved that like it took
five of us of us to move that back. He
was seeing the video. He literally moved that thing by
by myself. So I was shocked that he was unable
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to penetrate that uh that pit. But anyway, he he
uh literally you could see he was very aggressive and
trying to get that get that fit open, and he
was unsuccessful. But he just had a lot of damage
on you know, fence damage, pit damage that you know,
from two nights ago. He was unable to get the
meat from the pit. And I'm just glad that my
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wilder I called him when I did, because there could
have been another another meat loss. And you know, we
we serve our briskets are running from anywhere from one
oh five. I try to get you know, get you know,
and we've been doing this for four years. We always
serve the best brisket, and so our briskets are running,
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you know, one hundred and five to one hundred and twelve,
just depends on you know, if it's a fifteen, seventeen,
eighteen twenty founder, just depending on how big it is.
So I mean it's it's this stuff is expensive and
it's a hit on any small business. And I got
a lot of friends in the restaurant business rest even
barbecue guys that they've gone out of business here recently
in the last you know year, they've posed their doors
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because the cost is so there's the margins are very slim.
Once you you know, you got your sales tax, you
got your boy tax, you got federal tax, you got
you know, it's just a lot of different things, and
it just takes away your margins. I mean, just to
have a sign on the building, you got to face
the city a certain amount of money a year. So
our margins are very slim. And that's why ninety percent
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of your barbecue restaurant the food is expensive, and you know,
it's just it's really hard trying to try to stay
in business. But when you get hits and we're dated.
We're a small business, you know, we're very small business.
We serve over one hundred people a day, a lot
of teachers in the surrounding area. You know, we get
a lot of business here and we're day to day.
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You know, the money we make today, it's usual food
for tomorrow, and we pray about payroll, and so me
and my wife we're coming out of our pockets, you know,
three four times a month, just to make sure everything
is covered. So I hit like that. You know, you
put you know, you know the police officers that came
out yesterday, they are the ones who value the fencing
(31:45):
and the pit to protect me to say, you know,
if you get an estenate for the fence, if things change,
if it's less so, if it's more, just let us know.
But they put a number and say, hey man, this
fence is going to cost you upward of you know,
the whole front end of that fence to get it.
If they don't make you know, the way it's been
and everything is just it's gonna be upward of twelve
thousand dollars just for your fence. And I couldn't. I
(32:06):
couldn't give it. I'm not a fence guy. I can't
give them, you know, ask them matter whether it's ass.
But I do have companies that I'm that I've reached
out to to come take a look at that. But
it's it's a I'm not worried about it. I'm not
worried about it now because that pit is sealed and
it will take you have to bring up well, you
would have to come in like well did a loose
to get in that pit. That's how sturdy he eat
(32:28):
My world. He guy, he made it, made it real
tough for somebody to get back in there.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
Paul, hold with me for just a moment. Paul Jacob
Jacob j A c O. Jacob's Barbecue, on hiring Clark.
I have an idea, hold on just a moment. Zero
It's that time.
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Good morning.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
I was watching a show on Bob Keishon who was
Captain Kangaroo. In addition to being on how they duty show.
He did several other things, but nothing with the incredible
success of the twenty nine year.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Run of Captain Kangaroo.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
And I did not realize the extent to which he
and Fred Rogers had such a close friendship.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
And they would call each other.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
They had a routine that they would call each other
on the afternoon of New Year's Day every year, and
of course many of you will remember, they would go
on to each other's shows on occasion and kind of
cross pollinate the audiences. It was such an interesting thing,
and I was imagining the influence that show had on
(02:43):
my childhood. My brother at one point had his private email.
He had his work email as a sheriff's deputy, but
he had his private email, and it was something like
mister green Jean's sixty seven, which was a year he
was born at AOL dot com, or might not have
been AOL.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
It was a It was.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
A similar dial up in say the nineties. And I
asked him about it, and he said, you don't remember
mister green Jeans, And I said, of course I remember,
mister green Jeans. It's just funny. I'm just interested as
to how you arrived at that. He said, we love
that show, don't you remember?
Speaker 1 (03:22):
And I did.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
I just wanted to know if that, if that was
the reasoning behind it. It's just incredible to think that
where we are as hard, tough adults, and somewhere within
us was you know, that that little vulnerable child.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
And you know our interests and our excitement.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
I see Ramone's kids, his kids walking in and out
of the studio on occasion, and the things that they're
excited about. Or Emily's daughter who's always trailing behind her.
You know, she'll come in and bring me a document
to sign or something. You'll have her daughter because she's
picked him up. She's picked her up from school AT's
say three thirty or four o'clock, and her daughter's trailing
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around behind her. And it's just interesting because what's going
through their little mind compared to all the cynicism and
anger and hurt and frustration and resilience and all that's
going through ours, is just so different. You know, they
just really really want that ice cream they were promised,
(04:26):
or they just really really want to watch that program.
And I don't know, but I don't think kids watch
TV today. They watched the iPad, or they play video games,
but the television per se. And I was thinking about
the fact that when we were kids, the big concern
(04:46):
was watching too much television. O man, that was parents
obsessed over it. Your kid watching too much. You gotta
turn that television off and go outside. You got to
go out. I turned the TV on off and go outside.
And today you can't really turn it off because they're
(05:08):
toting it around with them at all times. They've got
that that content device that they're they're carrying around with them.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
We had we had filters on my.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Kids iPads that prevented a lot of things from happening,
and then we could track what was happening. I don't
care if somebody thinks that's invasive. I don't really care.
I could be the Stazzi when it comes to being
a parent. I wanted to know what my kids were
exposed to. I don't think the child's brain is prepared
for porn or adult perverts, or.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Graphic violence for that matter.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
I think I think you remap the brain when you're
exposed to those things to too early. And I just
wonder how many kids parents either from lack of understanding
of how that works or just you know, single mom
or single dad don't have the time to focus on that,
and just like with our parents, it's just a break
(06:08):
to have that kid distracted while you're returning phone calls
because you're you know, that's your job, or making sales calls,
or doing the things that you have to do, and
you just you're in custody of the child and you
just want the child to be distracted for a moment.
There was no point to that story, Ramone. I just
(06:29):
thought about it, and it's amazing because I wish we could.
I wish we could pull back and see how those
things affected us and who we are. I do know
that when I hear the Captain Kangaroo theme, it makes
me happy, and I go back in my mind to
(06:49):
my mother going into town for something and dropping me
off at my grandmother's on the way, and I remember
going into her little trailer and sitting on her feet,
and I remember sitting on my feet on her feet
and turning around and watching the TV and my back
against her shins, and it was just such a happy place.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
It was, you know, it was. It wasn't just a
safe place.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
I was under no threat, no danger ever in my
life as a child, but it was just such a
happy place to sit there and watch whatever that was.
And I can remember then if she got up and
went outside to smoke, or you know, was cooking or putting.
She she didn't have a washer dryer, so she put
(07:35):
clothes out on the line. And if she go out
and do that, then I would I would crawl up
and get right in front of the TV and the
happiness you feel. My parents bought my brother and I
an orange and yellow bean bag and grabbing that bean
bag or you know, bean back, sat right in front
of TV, plopping into that bean bag where it would
(07:57):
be kind of dug out with a bowl of cereal.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Man, I wish that was a drug I could get that.
It was nothing better.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
You will sleep like.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Perrier water.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
We won't drive.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
Side Dreams six Golden Globe nominations, one Gimmy nomination for
(08:58):
a two year period, The third and fourth season of
the show the number one watch show on all of television.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Spin off of Happy Day, They were Friends with Phonsie.
I Saw something Yesterday. Apparently. Sylvester Stallone credits Henry Winkler
for his start.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Henry Winkler brought Sylvester Stallone into the fold.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
Hm.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
It was reading a description of the show. It said
the original Turk.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
The original working title was Laverne de Fazzio and Shirley Femi.
The characters were originally quote two girls who date the fleet,
but for Family Hour they had to be changed and
mellowed down, which, in Cindy Williams's opinion, gave the show
more depth. You know, when I hear a comedian who
(09:57):
is funny but doesn't cuss, my immediate thought is that's
real comedy. There are a lot of comedians who I
don't find to be very funny, but they drop f
bombs and they kind of time it and use it,
but there's no actual comedy if you look at the
structure of their jokes. Their joke is that they're using
(10:21):
words graphic words for effect that have a punch, and
look at them. They're up there doing it, and it
just it feels tripe to me. I'm not offended by it,
but I think it's cheap. I think it's a sign
that you're not good at what you do. If you're
good at what you do, you can structure jokes and
(10:43):
delivery with your personality and charisma and be funny in
a way that even a child could listen, and they
may not get all the jokes, but.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
They don't.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
You don't have to worry that the words you're using
are so offensive. Harris County Precinct one Deputy Sheila Jones
was released from the hospital a day after being wounded
during a shootout with a career criminal in downtown Houston.
The story clip number fourteen ramon from ABC thirteen.
Speaker 7 (11:12):
A little more than twenty four hours after being shot,
Deputy Sheila Jones gave a wave and a smile as
she left the hospital to continue her recovery at home.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
The deputy was among six.
Speaker 7 (11:24):
Law enforcement officers who fired the multiple shots captured on
cell phone Monday around twelve twenty five pm, a far
cry from her usually quiet posting here next to the
Harris County Law Library entranch.
Speaker 8 (11:35):
She's just grateful too, that she, you know, wasn't hurt.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
More.
Speaker 8 (11:39):
Seriously, we had a bulletproof vest. The bullet slowed down,
it didn't you know, injure her terribly.
Speaker 7 (11:47):
An eyewitness also a captured video of the suspect, Parnell Bland,
moments after he was hit multiple times and as firefighters
worked to transport him sources tell ABC thirteen he has
a broken leg among other injuries. As one witness described
the chaotic scene on on this.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
They're firing in that direction, that direction, that correction and
office was running from over there, running this way, and
I could.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
See office was running from all over that way.
Speaker 7 (12:14):
It's Carnelle facing multiple charges and Jones back home. Law
enforcement officials took the time to marvel at how nobody
else was hurt, especially since a number of bullets landed elsewhere,
including a window in the Jury Assembly building and at
least one vehicle parked nearby.
Speaker 8 (12:29):
And thankfully, with all the people in and around this
shooting yesterday, this could have been a really bad situation
because people are moving from building to building and they're
moving around out in the downtown courthouse complex. So from
that perspective, I'm just thank god. I just thank God
for that, because easily there could have been lots of
people hit by bullets that were being fired yesterday.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Well, prayers answered, She's gonna make it.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
And it's got to stop being an issue of divide
as to whether criminals with repeated arrests are put back
out on the street again.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
It just.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
This should not be a political issue.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Is shame on the Democrats that they've let this be
an issue, that they've taken up this position. And I
have said it before and I will say it again.
Understand exactly what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
What I'm not.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
If criminals are going to harm one hundred people in society,
I would rather it be the families and Democrats themselves,
because then they have to process it. Although it makes
you wonder. Shapiro, the governor of Pennsylvania, who would have
been the vice presidential nominee, except he's a Jew and
(13:50):
the Democrats hate Jews. His house was firebombed, his wife
and kids inside it by a guy professing hate for Jews,
and Maga. Well, Shapiro ain't maga. I am real good
with the process of elimination thing. But and Shapiro refused
to speak to that issue because he doesn't want to
(14:14):
be too Jewy for the Democrats or they may cast
him out again, because he sees the writing on the wall.
It is not Jews who hold the power in the
Democrat Party and so they don't want to upset the
ilhan Omar and her brother husband. Credit to Ednie Martine,
I didn't see this coming. He said, are you talking
(14:36):
about the Lords of Flatbush? That's where stillone was with Winkler.
Huh here, I am trying to do a programmer. He's
overy interrupted, but I'm impressed he knew that. I wonder
how many people knew it was from Lords of Flappert.
I didn't even mention it because I didn't think it
was relative relevant.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
And I try not believe it or not.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
I try not to go off into tangents that I
don't think anybody know anything about this one right here,
Chad describes as quote dang off the freaking pit owner
of barbecue Joint in the Highram Clark area in southwest
Houston says thieves broke into his restaurant and stole more
than a thousand dollars worth of brisket that was smoking
overnight on the pit, resulting in four to five thousand
(15:17):
dollars in lost revenue. Paul Jacob, owner of Jacob's Barbecue, Jim,
will you see if you can get Paul Jacobs on
there on our show as soon as you can seven
one three nine nine nine one thousand. If somebody knows
him seven one three nine nine nine one thousand. I
like to imagine how that went down. Two dudes broke in,
(15:38):
Get at brisket off fair, get every bit of it, okay,
but hold on cuts into it.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
We had to wait about it out.
Speaker 9 (15:50):
Lived life, learn doing it big. On The Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
You know they replaced Pharah Fawcet with another pretty blonde.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Just wasn't the same.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Well, how much time do we have before we have
to hand over to Clay and Buck? Do I have
time to tell that story about when Farah Fawcett.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Hit on me again.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
On this date in nineteen seventy nine? The top fifteen
prime time shows. Then we go to Paul Jacobs of
Jacob's Barbecue, who just called in Charlie's Angels at number fifteen.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
I'll give you the network.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Also when I say the name, you see if you
can say the network. If you remember, I used to
remember what network shows were on today, I have no idea.
I don't watch network TV. Charlie's Aanniels on ABC at fifteen, Alice,
I Love Dallas on CBS, The Dukes of Hazzard, which
you have to know, was on CBS at number twelve. Oh,
tied at number twelve was The Ropers on ABC. You
(16:53):
have as many people watching the Ropers as Dukes of Hazzard.
That's jacked up. The number eleven on CBS was Dallas,
number tens CBS is killing It, Mash number nine.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Delta House on ABC. I don't even remember that. I
don't know what that was.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Number eight One Day at a Time, also CBS number
seven TAXI underrated role of Andy Dick on that show.
Speaker 10 (17:25):
He was really good. I mean Andy Kaufman. Who's Andy Dick.
Oh yeah, Andy Kaufman. I've been going back and watching
some of those. And Danny DeVito was surprising as well.
All in the Family at number six also on CBS,
and four of the top five on ABC.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Mork and Mindy at five sixty minutes on CBS, Happy
Days at number three on ABC, Three's Company, number two
on ABC.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Laverne and Shirley number one on ABC.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
NBC did not crack the top fifteen on this day
in nineteen seventy nine.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Paul Jacobs is our guest. Paul, Good Morning, Welcome to
the program, Sir, mister.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
Barry, Thank you, sir for having me.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Are you a white man?
Speaker 4 (18:20):
I am not. I'm African American, Sir. Originated out of
Western Kansas place called Hill City, Kansas. And we're here
in Houston, Texas. By way of my wife.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Where is she from?
Speaker 4 (18:38):
He is a Ustonian and she was raised in the
went to Madison High School in the area where our
restaurant is currently.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
And how did you start this barbecue?
Speaker 4 (18:49):
Join man, my family and I was just messing around
a lot our church members. Some of them would come
to the house and they'd eat eat my barbecue. And
it's been something I've been doing since twenty eleven. And
we started getting orders. Mister Barry and our church members
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just started ordering. It seemed like every other week we'd
have barbecue orders going out to families. And someone said,
you need to go in business for this because this
is probably some of the best barbecue. This is what
the people told me that they've ever eaten. And we
did that, and you know, for four years straight now
(19:35):
we've been becoming known in the community of Houston, in
the Houston and well, yeah, in areas.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
They didn't they didn't steal from pit room or good company,
and that's kind of compliment.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
I guess. You know those are my brother's over there
at those places. There's some good barbecue over there. No no,
any of them. Yeah, yeah, yeah, they're still a pit master,
a master brother's own brotherhood.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
You are, Well, I'm sorry, I just I'm on your website.
Is it Jacko's, it's Jacob's Jacob's Okay?
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Your your name is Paul Jacob no s or with an.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
S, that's without an okay.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
So you're Paul okay, so you're Paul Jacob. Oh, Paul
Jacob the third. I see that, p J, p J three.
So you're Paul Jacob Jacob with the third. And but
it's called Jacob's Barbecue. Now, why not Jacob's Barbecue?
Speaker 4 (20:44):
You know, I didn't want it to be about me, right,
It's it's about the food. And if if we if
we didn't have to use my name, I would I
would move that in that direction. But it is what
it is. We with Jacob's. And that's now forced my
family members, like Dad, my daughter's saying, well, why don't
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you just say jacob Barbecue? And it just didn't. It
wasn't for me. I didn't like it, and so I.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Just don't like you.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
I kind of like it. It's growing on me. It's
a little different.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
I think I'm just more embarrassed I got it wrong,
and so I'm looking for something to pick about.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
I do like the logo. You can call me Mike
or Mike be because you're black.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
I don't let white people call me Mike because my
name is Michael, but black folks call me Mike anyway, So.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
You can go ahead and do that. Is that you
in this photo? Where are you in this photo of
the team. Uh, there's a big fellow with glass.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
I am the gentleman. Yep, yep, that's me on the
far left, Yes, sir, on the I don't have I
believe it's I'm the heavy set guy on the next
to my wife right there.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Oh yeah, she's she's wearing a red what do you
call that? Some kind a head gear? What do you
call that?
Speaker 4 (22:05):
I'm not looking at that photo right now. I'm actually
out here at the pit putting meat on as we talk.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
And what is her name?
Speaker 4 (22:12):
So my wife's name is Martha, Martha Jacob and she's
a postal worker for thirty years. I'm trying to get
her to get away from that place and come over
here and help me out.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Well, yeah, that would help.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
So you're in Hiram Clark, I know him Clark but
but where exactly are you get me there from downtown?
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Drive me there from downtown.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
So if you're coming from downtown, sir, you're going to
go all the way around to main streets. Okay, you're
going to pass up the stadium and get off on
Main Street. Make a left and go toward like you're
going toward to sugar Land. Make a left, not you know,
opposite of downtown. And then you're gonna come up on
a road called him Pluck yep, off of Maine, off Street,
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and you're gonna make that left on Iron Clark. You're
going to pass up Orum and we're in between Orum
and the West u Quay.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Yep, and that's and if you went if you.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
Would pass up Uh and that's us, we're right there.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
How long have you been there?
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Four years, sir?
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Four years?
Speaker 4 (23:25):
Yes, sir?
Speaker 1 (23:25):
What were you doing before that?
Speaker 4 (23:29):
So I worked for a company called INTERNOT, that's oil
and gas industry. We had a software a that monitored,
you know, at a large enterprises it could be the
city at piece in the school district, all of their facilities.
This software brought energy information to their fingertips, you know
the archaic way of those guys were utilizing with excel
(23:52):
spread teat bread sheets, with teams of you know, one
hundred people managing every facility, we were able to bring
uh energy information to their you know. Unfortunately it put
a lot of people out of business, but we were
able to bring that energy information to those guys fingertips.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
So and then did did you just walk away to
this business?
Speaker 4 (24:15):
No, Internox sold out to another company, and uh like
ninety percent of the people who did not want to
take the packet that was being offered from that the
new buyer.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
But you took We took our one door closed and
another do hold with me, just say Paul Jacob, I
won't interrupt you in the next segment, hold on.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
He's well done. So this is the Michael Barry Show.
Paul Jacob the third.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Owns, along with his wife Martha, a Houston native, a
barbecue joint called Jacob's Barbecue and Hiram Clark in southwest
US south of the Dome. So if you know, head
south off Maine, there's a Waterburger to your left right there,
and then you go down and make a left on
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Hiram Clark and it's between.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Aurum and Fuquid.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Didn't he say, yeah, they were hit by the West Quay, Yes,
West few Quid, they were hit by thieves. Tell me, see,
we normally close the restaurant about so why don't you
just tell me what happened, Paul.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
Well, last Wednesday, you know, we did close at seven
pm every day except for Monday. Mondays were closed at
five o'clock, eleven to eleven to five on Mondays, eleven
to seven Tuesday through Saturday, and we're closed on Sunday. However,
on last Wednesday, mind you, we we've got barboir fence
(26:00):
on the entry fence eight foot. We have a pit
that's commercial with tissery pit that is locked down with locks,
welded locks, so it would be very difficult to get
into this pit. They literally spent some time, if you
(26:22):
look at the video, Dolman on Wednesday spent some time,
you know, upward twenty four minutes trying to get that
pit open and was successful. He started with a shovel,
fried around for about twelve fourteen minutes, walked away, came
back with a tool and that tool was able to
penetrate the chain, break it from the welded you know,
(26:48):
this is lost still and was able to penetrate that
and get through and pull all the meat off. That
was on Wednesday. All of that is on video camera.
We've taken measures over the last few years and trying
to protect because we were hit a couple of years
ago a few times. My concern has always been that
(27:13):
you know, them taking that meat at that early in
the you know, uh, the in the morning. You know
that meet's only been on four hours maybe, so it's
still pretty wrong.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Yeah, let's concern that they've stolen your barbecue is that
they will do barbecue.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
Yeah, I mean what are they you know, are they are? They?
Are they putting this stuff out back out on the streets.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
It's going to do that much.
Speaker 4 (27:40):
They're not going to you know, you know, yeah, So
I mean what else is they're already doing with it?
But no, I'm very concerned. It's it's a violation. I
don't know if you've ever been robbed or somebody broke
in your home and just to feel violated, you know.
And anyway, So that happened, and then two nights ago
(28:01):
it happened again another individual This is a whole separate person.
The first night was an African American that is, and
then the second two nights ago. It was a Hispanic
guy that came in, and he was unsuccessful because last Wednesday,
after all that happened on Thursday, well the same day actually,
(28:24):
I called my wilder and he came out and did
something to the pit to where he was pretty confident
that the person would have a hard time breaking into
the pit. So thank god I got that done. He
also did something with the fence, because you can see
the fence where it was taken off of, like the
(28:45):
hinges an eight foot, it's a heavy fence. My wilder
had the literally lifted with a lift that fence with
a jack. He and his father lifted that with a
jack to get it back up on a hinge, and
so he did some kind of weld into to work
it would it would not be easy for them to
like unscrew the boats and lift it up and get
through the fence. However, the guy that came two nights ago,
(29:08):
he bent the fence terribly. I don't know it was
a strong guy, because I noticed the front he had done.
Pushed out the ice with you know the cooler the
ice school that's outdoors. He moved that like it took
five of us of us to move that back. He
was seeing the video. He literally moved that thing by
by myself. So I was shocked that he was unable
(29:29):
to penetrate that uh that pit. But anyway, he he
uh literally you could see he was very aggressive and
trying to get that get that fit open, and he
was unsuccessful. But he just had a lot of damage
on you know, fence damage, pit damage that you know,
from two nights ago. He was unable to get the
meat from the pit. And I'm just glad that my
(29:52):
wilder I called him when I did, because there could
have been another another meat loss. And you know, we
we serve our briskets are running from anywhere from one
oh five. I try to get you know, get you know,
and we've been doing this for four years. We always
serve the best brisket, and so our briskets are running,
(30:17):
you know, one hundred and five to one hundred and twelve,
just depends on you know, if it's a fifteen, seventeen,
eighteen twenty founder, just depending on how big it is.
So I mean it's it's this stuff is expensive and
it's a hit on any small business. And I got
a lot of friends in the restaurant business rest even
barbecue guys that they've gone out of business here recently
in the last you know year, they've posed their doors
(30:40):
because the cost is so there's the margins are very slim.
Once you you know, you got your sales tax, you
got your boy tax, you got federal tax, you got
you know, it's just a lot of different things, and
it just takes away your margins. I mean, just to
have a sign on the building, you got to face
the city a certain amount of money a year. So
our margins are very slim. And that's why ninety percent
(31:01):
of your barbecue restaurant the food is expensive, and you know,
it's just it's really hard trying to try to stay
in business. But when you get hits and we're dated.
We're a small business, you know, we're very small business.
We serve over one hundred people a day, a lot
of teachers in the surrounding area. You know, we get
a lot of business here and we're day to day.
(31:22):
You know, the money we make today, it's usual food
for tomorrow, and we pray about payroll, and so me
and my wife we're coming out of our pockets, you know,
three four times a month, just to make sure everything
is covered. So I hit like that. You know, you
put you know, you know the police officers that came
out yesterday, they are the ones who value the fencing
(31:45):
and the pit to protect me to say, you know,
if you get an estenate for the fence, if things change,
if it's less so, if it's more, just let us know.
But they put a number and say, hey man, this
fence is going to cost you upward of you know,
the whole front end of that fence to get it.
If they don't make you know, the way it's been
and everything is just it's gonna be upward of twelve
thousand dollars just for your fence. And I couldn't. I
(32:06):
couldn't give it. I'm not a fence guy. I can't
give them, you know, ask them matter whether it's ass.
But I do have companies that I'm that I've reached
out to to come take a look at that. But
it's it's a I'm not worried about it. I'm not
worried about it now because that pit is sealed and
it will take you have to bring up well, you
would have to come in like well did a loose
to get in that pit. That's how sturdy he eat
(32:28):
My world. He guy, he made it, made it real
tough for somebody to get back in there.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
Paul, hold with me for just a moment. Paul Jacob
Jacob j A c O. Jacob's Barbecue, on hiring Clark.
I have an idea, hold on just a moment. Zero
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