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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So we had dinner with some friends last night, and
at the end of the dinner, they they were very
healthy people and you know, small portions, very healthy foods.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
They're not. They didn't grow up like I did. There's
no fried chicken here, right. We're not priding ourselves on
how much we eat, so I have to be on
my best behavior. Food was phenomenal. I had chicken. My
wife had fish. My wife would eat fish at every meal.
She could not me, not me. If I'm eating fish,
(00:34):
it's going to be fried yep. And you know, where
was I the other day? Where was I? The other day?
I could not get fried catfish? And I could not
believe they would not They did not have fried No,
it wasn't Dante's third level of Hell. It was somewhere
(00:59):
that I I would have expected. And they said, no,
we have drum, but not catfish. I don't want drum. Yeah,
the drums. One lives at his girlfriend's house. Uh what
what where was that? Hold on? Let me think about this.
The other day it was me and no though, and
(01:21):
I decide I'm going to have Oh, I can't remember anyway.
Did I ever tell you my story about Charles Clark
at brasswe nineteen, So a lot of restaurants, if you
go in and ask for catfish, it was what I
grew up on, they will make comments like ew, I've
(01:44):
been told by a restaurant owner I will not name
when I said, how come I don't fry catfish? That
catfish is a trash food? Be that as it may.
We can start listen. Your wife's got a tattoo that's
begun to sag. Let's not kidd it. I don't know
(02:05):
who said that to me, and I don't know if
that person that was it. I shouldn't say that because
whoever it was probably listening to the show, and I'll
be accused of insulting his wife when that's not what
I'm meant to do. But anyway, I have been told
before that catfish is a trash food, which I think
is ridiculous. Catfish is a delicious food. It's a bottom feeder.
Wait a second, what fish are you eating? And do
(02:30):
they just did they just float on top of the water.
Anything beneath the surface is beneath them? Literally, Ah, bottom feeder?
What does that even mean? When you're eating the flesh
of a fish, what are you Yes, it's a bottom feeder.
(02:50):
What do you think I'm down there nibbling on the
bottom of the lake. What kind of stupid people have
I said? Yeah, it's vegan. What do I care? Honestly,
what do I care? If you really want to get
down into your food source, whether meat based, fish based,
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or whatever else. And before you tell me how nasty
pigs are, let me fry you some bacon and you
have some of it, and you tell me how nasty
that pig was. Whoa, Let me get you a delicious
pork chop. Mm and let's talk about how honestly, But anyway,
(03:37):
can I need to get back to my fish? What yeap?
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Plus some bacon? Oh man, I don't eat pork. Are
you Jewish? I you're Jewish. I just don't dig on swine.
That's all.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Hold on the delivery of John Travolta in the way
he says, are you Jewish? Like half kind of at him,
but half kind of asking, knowing good and well he's not.
Travolta in this role is so good and it's so
different than the way he he's sort of off handles
(04:12):
are you Jewish? Do they get what's a bacon?
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Oh man, I don't eat poor. Are you jewish? I
ain't Jewish. I just don't dig on swine, that's all.
Why not pigs are filthy animals? I don't eat filthy animals. Yeah,
but bacon tastes good, pork chops taste good. Hey, sword
rat may taste like punkin pine. But I never know,
because I wouldn't eat the filthiest pigs sleep and group,
and that's a filthy animal. I ain't even nothing. Ain't
(04:38):
got sense enough to disregard its own ccs. But a dog,
dog eats his own feces. I don't eat dog eagle. Yeah,
but do you consider a dog to be a filthy animal.
I wouldn't go so far as to call a dog filthy,
but they're definitely dirty. But dogs got personality. Personality goes
the wrong way.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
So by that rationale, if a pig had a better personality,
he ceased to be fl the animal.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Is that true?
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Well, we have to be talking about one. I mean
he had to be ten tath more charming in that
armlold on green ankles. You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Good dialogue, good writing is lost in most films. Great
films should have wonderful writing and that's one of the
things that Tarantino does so well. If you haven't seen
the movie Vengeance, it's by bj what's his name, b
(05:31):
B Jay. I can't think his name. I can't think
of his name is guy's from New York. But it's
about Texas. It's what's set in Texas. The BJ Novak
you've seen it. The dialogue in that there's some scenes.
There's some discussions of water burger that you better not
drink anything while you're watching that movie, or you will
(05:52):
spew them out of your mouth. Like the church it
laid lay out to see you. It will blow your
mind how good the dialogue and and you will be
There's an opening scene of bj Novak and John Mayer
h two buddies and they go to party. It's kind
of like a wedding crasher type thing, uh, and they're
(06:13):
telling stories about the their their conquest. Anyway, So back
to my story. So we have this meal and then
at the end of it, they put on this plate
these very beautiful hand painted pieces of art. Well, I
(06:34):
know that sometimes I can ask questions that make people uncomfortable.
So I don't know if you can eat that art
because it's honestly too pretty, but it might be a chocolate.
And it was presented on a tap on a play
with on a plate with some macaroons. So I said,
oh man, these are gorgeous, thinking, you know, trying to
(06:58):
trying to flush out what exactly they were, and I said, wow, there,
these are really pretty. So I pick it up in
hopes that by picking it up, I might you know,
if it crumbles in my hands or when I set
it back down, if there's some color on my finger,
(07:19):
then that means that it was a chocolate. And there's
maybe six of them on the plate, along with about
four my karooms, and you if you saw them, well,
I'll explain in a minute after I side whether to
(07:41):
judge Michael Barris Michael Berry's show. So finally, I kind
of hemmed and hard around this thing. I've twisted it
over in my hand. I've held it for a while,
and this couple are very good friends of our. Sheep says, uh,
(08:02):
it's the best chocolates I've ever had, And I hope
that my body language did not reveal Oh, okay, it
is a chocolate. Now I say that to compliment the thing,
because it was truly a work of art. It was
something you might have bought at a museum. I mean
it was incredibly obviously hand painted and just it had
(08:27):
it had a like a a gloss over it, like
a like a you know when they'll do classic cars
or hot rod cars and then they put I don't
know what it is. It's like a glaze over it
so that it almost seems like the color is an inch
like yet yeah, like a lacquer type deal. Anyway, So
(08:49):
it was that. So I bite into it. It looked
like a ladybug. It was half orange, half green, the
coloring scheme on the hump of a lady bug. And
I said, wow, what is that? And she said carrot cake.
(09:10):
Not only did it look amazing, it tasted amazing. No,
we didn't then kick poor people. I ate more. And
it was an awkward situation because I was the only
one eating them. So there are four of us at
the table, and there were six of them the and
(09:32):
so I had my one, and in my mind I thought, okay,
if you have two, not everybody can have two. But
my wife every year takes a vow, she gives up
something every year. It's an Indian thing. And so this
year it's sweets. Oh she went ramon one year. She said,
(09:55):
for five years, I'm not eating meat or sweets. I thought, well,
what else? And she doesn't drink, so what else is there? Oh,
it's all And she did it for five years. She
did it anyway back to it, you know. So I've
already processed that if I have the second one, not
everybody can have two. So it's already kind of one
(10:15):
of those moves. But I thought, well, Nana, that's not
going to eat any So technically there's three of us,
so there's two each. And just so when I took
my second one, I was clear. I said, sweetheart, are
you going to eat any knowing she wouldn't, but to
tell them, I'm telegraphing to them I can have the
second one without overstepping the bounds. And she said, no,
(10:37):
you go ahead.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
All right?
Speaker 2 (10:38):
So I hit number two. We started with six. Now
there's four left. I've had two. There's two of them. Well,
how do I convey Suddenly I'd like another one.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
So everybody's sitting and we're talking, and I'm like a child,
just focused on those chocolates. And so I waited a
little while, and I kind of reached out a little.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Finally I picked one that was different than and I said,
I'm sorry to touch this, but I just have to
see it. And the husband said, oh, have it, okay.
So I waited, awhile and waited awhile, and we're thirty
minutes into nobody else has eaten one except for me,
and I finally just said, I feel like it's appropriate
(11:31):
if I have a fourth one, and before long there
weren't any left and I went home. So before I said,
where do you get these? And she says it's called
mostly chocolate, and she gives me the lady's name and
she does catering, but really it's it's a chocolate thing.
I said, okay, So ramon, let's see how much you know.
(11:56):
If I were to tell you that the maker of
these chocolates is from a place in the world that
if you go to a restaurant, I mean, if you
go to a shop anywhere in America and it's high
end chocolates, I mean three or four dollars per little
tiny chocolate, where would you guess she's from. There's two
(12:17):
countries they're most likely from. There's a number one that's
the obvious number. So Okay, Switzerland, good guests, all right,
I'll give you credit. There's three places they could be from.
Not Belgium, because the Belgians do chocolates, but they don't
do them like this. Let me let me tell you
if a place, if a place sells these, not necessarily
(12:38):
makes although they do make lits. It's where they're always from.
And there's a lot of these in Houston. There's probably
ten of them like this in Houston. No, it's where
people are from that will have high end chocolate shops.
They will also uh, it'll also be a coffee shop
and they'll have like a fresco dyninge. People will be
(12:59):
sitting out and smoking figarettes in the middle afternoon, dressed
to the nines in Italian clothing. The women will be beautiful.
They'll all be wearing shades. Uh. It lys a good guess.
It's it's where you see a lot of these people vacationing.
Not sweets, not Switzerland, not Italy. Focus on the chocolate.
(13:24):
It'll be chocolates. It'll be uh, what's the Greek thing?
I like baklava? Chuck? Yeah, they do. Shut your filthy mouth.
I love them. Everybody loves blahcla ba see now, why
do you want? We're on a positive trainer. It'll always
it'll be chocolates. It might even be some real high
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end Italian, some gelato coffees. Germans don't do that. Lebanese,
they're always Lebanese. What are you doing? Everybody would guess Lebanese.
Everybody that knows anything, You don't pay attention anything. The
number one most likely place they would be from and
(14:06):
they would be is Lebanese, followed by Irani. I'm telling you,
anybody that knows knows. So I looked this place up.
It's called mostly Chocolate. Their website is mostly HTx dot com. Um, yeah,
like most of it. Now listen to this, I'm thinking,
oh yeah, these people like chocolates right. The woman's name
(14:32):
is Rena Kumkagi and says Rena's passion for cooking began
when she was just a child, kays music. Growing up
in Lebanon, Rena was taught by her mother to create
delectable Lebanese dishes and pastries. From working closely with her mother,
her love for cooking and food flourished. As she got older,
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Rena realized her passion and natural talent for cooking was
more than just a hobby when she crafted a pistachio
filled chocolate pastry. Let me read that again, a pistachio
filled chocolate pastry to serve over Thanksgiving. Her friends were
astounded by the delicate texture and full flavor of her pastry,
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and she was convinced to replicate the pastry for a
friend's wedding. Inspired to sharpen her craft, Rina completely specialty
courses completed, sorry, completed specialty courses with local Houston chef
and chocolate tier on A Gomez. So this woman was
a chef and a chocolatear We're about to talk about
chocolate worse than Somlie's do. This is like a PhD
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of chocolate along with local Houston chef and chocolatear on
A Gomez. And then went on to attend the Chocolate
Academy in Saint Hyacinth in Montreal, Quebec with world renowned
chocolateier Christophe Morell. Y'all are getting way too serious about
chocolate here, okay, So then it talks about her catering
(15:59):
this and here's her son. Rena's son, Danny Komkagi, joined
the team in twenty eleven. His endless drive and passion.
Bah blah blah blah. After various internships studying under renowned
master chocolatiers in New York and Montreal, Danny became head
chocolateer in twenty fifteen. Since Sinny's gone on to win
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various prestigious national and international awards, the three Dessert Grand
Champion Buckal Awards at the HLSR Houston Livestock Sean Rodeo
Best Bites competition for the Goat Cheese, Truffle, Pecan Pie,
Truffle and hazel Nut and Pop Rocks, a first place
gold finish in the International Chocolate Award America's competition, second
place silver finish in the International's Chocolate Awards World. These
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people are getting real serious about chocolate. The Michael Barry
Show all right, just for fun, because I can't be
serious all time. I was sitting out back recently preparing
for the show and reading and watching video, and I
came across a video from a site called Space City Sports.
(17:06):
They have a Facebook page, and they had put together
a video of a bunch of big moments in Houston
sports history, and I thought it was fun. You'll have
to go to their site on Facebook. It's called Space
City Sports. To see the video for yourself, which adds
a lot to it. But I think with the audio
(17:27):
you'll get enough of a sense. And for me, it's
just fun to go back. I mean, it's fun to
hear Rudy t talking about the heart of a champion
like that's just a great moment, right, That's a fun moment.
Professional sports is not what it used to be because
now the Left has infected it, and the athletes and
the coaches and the owners weren't smart enough to realize
(17:50):
that you're letting these people ruin your brand. Sports should
be a distraction from politics and polio and war and
famine and crime. But instead they've allowed the left to
infest it and infect it and ruin it. But anyway,
(18:10):
let's go back to a happier time and enjoy.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
And we had non believers all along the way. I
have one thing to say, those non believers. Here's a
grand ball. Right side could do it. Don't ever under us.
The mate Tucker comes on, Kyle Tuckler, fast us fine
much stark fo time, the heart of a champion, the.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Houston strolls.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
I want champions for the first time in franchise's history.
This time they finished the job. The hston ourselves who
champions Joe seconds.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
A long Jo.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
Fin come there, shut her, shut it up every old
trap shot, play swam or l magic it comes back.
Frady Caha. He shut the travity right out of the door. Buck.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
So you talk about a fine This is serious stuff.
Samson and delivers and the bitch swinging flying in.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
Your tell.
Speaker 5 (19:33):
To comes you set there Schot s lead. Why a bit?
He's like, there's a key line you lot start an
suck up by Jenny Jenny lost pstack in the past.
There he's over three blinging about this.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
He took me it down to three, down to two.
It's a brief.
Speaker 5 (20:05):
Good dude, he can't it's not the end.
Speaker 7 (20:13):
It's back pall Wow, probly.
Speaker 8 (20:16):
Don't turn out the matter.
Speaker 7 (20:18):
Brady will win.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
Yeah, put some away dead hate Pad he did chas
my corback.
Speaker 7 (20:33):
Co Pland Third, let's get I brought some joy in
a world that can be tough.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Sometimes we brought our families together and I did my
job slinging there in three down in head.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
Caress another showing little fly Jo brought sper third, believe
it all?
Speaker 2 (21:05):
How two seven seven.
Speaker 7 (21:10):
Hot for the bod Cope one Petska ship.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
Can hear listen into line.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Down the line.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
Ten minutes. That's in the him comes Fisher f M
Beer steels when first the time was Alvarez launches deep
right field. That's what it is gone And they asked
Streets who should go a third by Brian time Stross
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of the World Series No Inner.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
She wanted Albarets inside center field, bearing dank, you, gentleman,
don't use that tone to me.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Not a joke.
Speaker 7 (22:14):
That's sarcastic, contemptuous tone that means you know everything because
you're a man, and I know nothing because I'm a woman.
Speaker 5 (22:21):
That is not a joke. That is a natural fact.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
The Michael, if you're wondering, yes, that was Bosiphus. That
was Hank Williams Jr. I thought I'd heard every Hank
Williams Junior song ever released. It really did. But our
buddy Chance McClain of your Heritage Film dot Com sent
(22:48):
along something he had just discovered. It was from the Simpsons,
and apparently there was an episode of the Simpsons. I
wasn't a big Simpsons watcher. I mean, I've watched a
clip here. I didn't watch Seinfeld not a TV watcher.
After after a certain era, I just didn't and uh,
Hank Williams Junior sang that jingle for the commercial advertising
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a fictitious SUV called the Kenyon EO. Now we just
played a few seconds of it there. But you're gonna
have to indulge me and listen to this thing. Ramon
says that if there were a real suv, then then
Jess Sebastian at Classic Chevy Sugarland would offer you the
(23:37):
best deal. Why am I where? Why am I supposed
to read this? You don't get to be the GMC
Dealer of the Year for life without offering the best deals.
Is he the GMC Dealer of the of the year
or is he Chevy? No, he's not? Is he really? Oh? Wow? Okay, Now,
(23:57):
as you would imagine, Homer would buy him helf a
Canyon Arrow, and honest truth, if if the Canyon Arrow,
which is completely fabricated, if the Canyon Arrow had been
if it was real and Hank Junior was was hawking it,
I'd buy it too. Here here is Homer Simpson buying
(24:20):
a Canyon Arrow. And then we're gonna give you a
little more of the song because it's just too funny.
The Simpsons is so good. I didn't really watch much
of it, but it really is so good.
Speaker 8 (24:33):
Canyonaiaro, I had drew all you want. You can't hurt
that finished now, rain water that'll strip it right off.
S Oh, I shouldn't have said that out by Gil,
Hey you red one?
Speaker 5 (24:54):
Could I buy that?
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Please?
Speaker 7 (24:56):
Well?
Speaker 2 (24:56):
If you really hot dog a sail, I'll take it
from here. Gil.
Speaker 8 (25:06):
No, wait on, no, you can't take my sale. My
wife's gonna leave me if I don't start bringing in
the green. Come on, let me have this one.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Stand.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
I'm begging you. Look at me. I'm begging you. Stand.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
Let's go right this up, shall we?
Speaker 8 (25:23):
Honey? You should have seen me with my last customer. No,
but I came so close. This guy was Whose voice is.
Speaker 5 (25:31):
That is that?
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Fred?
Speaker 8 (25:34):
You said it was over?
Speaker 2 (25:35):
No, don't put him on it?
Speaker 4 (25:37):
Hello, Fred?
Speaker 7 (25:38):
Hahi.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
Okay, you've got the undercoating, clear coating, rustproofing, underguard, spray,
gravel guard x jay viticeal repels it. But if you
want to protect the paint, you better keep it in
this tent, will do? Okay, Here's how your lease breaks down.
This is your down payment. Then here's your monthly, and
there's your weekly and it right yep. Well, then after
(26:02):
your final monthly payment, there is the routine CBP or
crippling balloon payment.
Speaker 5 (26:05):
But that's not for a while, right right, sweet?
Speaker 7 (26:13):
Maybe sorry, Homer, we thought you were one of those
hot to trot soccer moms.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Yeah, you don't see many men driving the F series.
Speaker 7 (26:26):
See instead of a cigarette light, it's got a lipstick holder.
Speaker 5 (26:31):
Ah crap, it's a girl's car. I can't drive this.
Speaker 7 (26:35):
Oh sure, you can, doll face.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Pretty thing like you can do whatever she wants.
Speaker 5 (26:44):
Screw you, guys,
So we had dinner with some friends last night, and
at the end of the dinner, they they were very
healthy people and you know, small portions, very healthy foods.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
They're not. They didn't grow up like I did. There's
no fried chicken here, right. We're not priding ourselves on
how much we eat, so I have to be on
my best behavior. Food was phenomenal. I had chicken. My
wife had fish. My wife would eat fish at every meal.
She could not me, not me. If I'm eating fish,
(00:34):
it's going to be fried yep. And you know, where
was I the other day? Where was I? The other day?
I could not get fried catfish? And I could not
believe they would not They did not have fried No,
it wasn't Dante's third level of Hell. It was somewhere
(00:59):
that I I would have expected. And they said, no,
we have drum, but not catfish. I don't want drum. Yeah,
the drums. One lives at his girlfriend's house. Uh what
what where was that? Hold on? Let me think about this.
The other day it was me and no though, and
(01:21):
I decide I'm going to have Oh, I can't remember anyway.
Did I ever tell you my story about Charles Clark
at brasswe nineteen, So a lot of restaurants, if you
go in and ask for catfish, it was what I
grew up on, they will make comments like ew, I've
(01:44):
been told by a restaurant owner I will not name
when I said, how come I don't fry catfish? That
catfish is a trash food? Be that as it may.
We can start listen. Your wife's got a tattoo that's
begun to sag. Let's not kidd it. I don't know
(02:05):
who said that to me, and I don't know if
that person that was it. I shouldn't say that because
whoever it was probably listening to the show, and I'll
be accused of insulting his wife when that's not what
I'm meant to do. But anyway, I have been told
before that catfish is a trash food, which I think
is ridiculous. Catfish is a delicious food. It's a bottom feeder.
Wait a second, what fish are you eating? And do
(02:30):
they just did they just float on top of the water.
Anything beneath the surface is beneath them? Literally, Ah, bottom feeder?
What does that even mean? When you're eating the flesh
of a fish, what are you Yes, it's a bottom feeder.
(02:50):
What do you think I'm down there nibbling on the
bottom of the lake. What kind of stupid people have
I said? Yeah, it's vegan. What do I care? Honestly,
what do I care? If you really want to get
down into your food source, whether meat based, fish based,
(03:16):
or whatever else. And before you tell me how nasty
pigs are, let me fry you some bacon and you
have some of it, and you tell me how nasty
that pig was. Whoa, Let me get you a delicious
pork chop. Mm and let's talk about how honestly, But anyway,
(03:37):
can I need to get back to my fish? What yeap?
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Plus some bacon? Oh man, I don't eat pork. Are
you Jewish? I you're Jewish. I just don't dig on swine.
That's all.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Hold on the delivery of John Travolta in the way
he says, are you Jewish? Like half kind of at him,
but half kind of asking, knowing good and well he's not.
Travolta in this role is so good and it's so
different than the way he he's sort of off handles
(04:12):
are you Jewish? Do they get what's a bacon?
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Oh man, I don't eat poor. Are you jewish? I
ain't Jewish. I just don't dig on swine, that's all.
Why not pigs are filthy animals? I don't eat filthy animals. Yeah,
but bacon tastes good, pork chops taste good. Hey, sword
rat may taste like punkin pine. But I never know,
because I wouldn't eat the filthiest pigs sleep and group,
and that's a filthy animal. I ain't even nothing. Ain't
(04:38):
got sense enough to disregard its own ccs. But a dog,
dog eats his own feces. I don't eat dog eagle. Yeah,
but do you consider a dog to be a filthy animal.
I wouldn't go so far as to call a dog filthy,
but they're definitely dirty. But dogs got personality. Personality goes
the wrong way.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
So by that rationale, if a pig had a better personality,
he ceased to be fl the animal.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Is that true?
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Well, we have to be talking about one. I mean
he had to be ten tath more charming in that
armlold on green ankles. You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Good dialogue, good writing is lost in most films. Great
films should have wonderful writing and that's one of the
things that Tarantino does so well. If you haven't seen
the movie Vengeance, it's by bj what's his name, b
(05:31):
B Jay. I can't think his name. I can't think
of his name is guy's from New York. But it's
about Texas. It's what's set in Texas. The BJ Novak
you've seen it. The dialogue in that there's some scenes.
There's some discussions of water burger that you better not
drink anything while you're watching that movie, or you will
(05:52):
spew them out of your mouth. Like the church it
laid lay out to see you. It will blow your
mind how good the dialogue and and you will be
There's an opening scene of bj Novak and John Mayer
h two buddies and they go to party. It's kind
of like a wedding crasher type thing, uh, and they're
(06:13):
telling stories about the their their conquest. Anyway, So back
to my story. So we have this meal and then
at the end of it, they put on this plate
these very beautiful hand painted pieces of art. Well, I
(06:34):
know that sometimes I can ask questions that make people uncomfortable.
So I don't know if you can eat that art
because it's honestly too pretty, but it might be a chocolate.
And it was presented on a tap on a play
with on a plate with some macaroons. So I said,
oh man, these are gorgeous, thinking, you know, trying to
(06:58):
trying to flush out what exactly they were, and I said, wow, there,
these are really pretty. So I pick it up in
hopes that by picking it up, I might you know,
if it crumbles in my hands or when I set
it back down, if there's some color on my finger,
(07:19):
then that means that it was a chocolate. And there's
maybe six of them on the plate, along with about
four my karooms, and you if you saw them, well,
I'll explain in a minute after I side whether to
(07:41):
judge Michael Barris Michael Berry's show. So finally, I kind
of hemmed and hard around this thing. I've twisted it
over in my hand. I've held it for a while,
and this couple are very good friends of our. Sheep says, uh,
(08:02):
it's the best chocolates I've ever had, And I hope
that my body language did not reveal Oh, okay, it
is a chocolate. Now I say that to compliment the thing,
because it was truly a work of art. It was
something you might have bought at a museum. I mean
it was incredibly obviously hand painted and just it had
(08:27):
it had a like a a gloss over it, like
a like a you know when they'll do classic cars
or hot rod cars and then they put I don't
know what it is. It's like a glaze over it
so that it almost seems like the color is an inch
like yet yeah, like a lacquer type deal. Anyway, So
(08:49):
it was that. So I bite into it. It looked
like a ladybug. It was half orange, half green, the
coloring scheme on the hump of a lady bug. And
I said, wow, what is that? And she said carrot cake.
(09:10):
Not only did it look amazing, it tasted amazing. No,
we didn't then kick poor people. I ate more. And
it was an awkward situation because I was the only
one eating them. So there are four of us at
the table, and there were six of them the and
(09:32):
so I had my one, and in my mind I thought, okay,
if you have two, not everybody can have two. But
my wife every year takes a vow, she gives up
something every year. It's an Indian thing. And so this
year it's sweets. Oh she went ramon one year. She said,
(09:55):
for five years, I'm not eating meat or sweets. I thought, well,
what else? And she doesn't drink, so what else is there? Oh,
it's all And she did it for five years. She
did it anyway back to it, you know. So I've
already processed that if I have the second one, not
everybody can have two. So it's already kind of one
(10:15):
of those moves. But I thought, well, Nana, that's not
going to eat any So technically there's three of us,
so there's two each. And just so when I took
my second one, I was clear. I said, sweetheart, are
you going to eat any knowing she wouldn't, but to
tell them, I'm telegraphing to them I can have the
second one without overstepping the bounds. And she said, no,
(10:37):
you go ahead.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
All right?
Speaker 2 (10:38):
So I hit number two. We started with six. Now
there's four left. I've had two. There's two of them. Well,
how do I convey Suddenly I'd like another one.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
So everybody's sitting and we're talking, and I'm like a child,
just focused on those chocolates. And so I waited a
little while, and I kind of reached out a little.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Finally I picked one that was different than and I said,
I'm sorry to touch this, but I just have to
see it. And the husband said, oh, have it, okay.
So I waited, awhile and waited awhile, and we're thirty
minutes into nobody else has eaten one except for me,
and I finally just said, I feel like it's appropriate
(11:31):
if I have a fourth one, and before long there
weren't any left and I went home. So before I said,
where do you get these? And she says it's called
mostly chocolate, and she gives me the lady's name and
she does catering, but really it's it's a chocolate thing.
I said, okay, So ramon, let's see how much you know.
(11:56):
If I were to tell you that the maker of
these chocolates is from a place in the world that
if you go to a restaurant, I mean, if you
go to a shop anywhere in America and it's high
end chocolates, I mean three or four dollars per little
tiny chocolate, where would you guess she's from. There's two
(12:17):
countries they're most likely from. There's a number one that's
the obvious number. So Okay, Switzerland, good guests, all right,
I'll give you credit. There's three places they could be from.
Not Belgium, because the Belgians do chocolates, but they don't
do them like this. Let me let me tell you
if a place, if a place sells these, not necessarily
(12:38):
makes although they do make lits. It's where they're always from.
And there's a lot of these in Houston. There's probably
ten of them like this in Houston. No, it's where
people are from that will have high end chocolate shops.
They will also uh, it'll also be a coffee shop
and they'll have like a fresco dyninge. People will be
(12:59):
sitting out and smoking figarettes in the middle afternoon, dressed
to the nines in Italian clothing. The women will be beautiful.
They'll all be wearing shades. Uh. It lys a good guess.
It's it's where you see a lot of these people vacationing.
Not sweets, not Switzerland, not Italy. Focus on the chocolate.
(13:24):
It'll be chocolates. It'll be uh, what's the Greek thing?
I like baklava? Chuck? Yeah, they do. Shut your filthy mouth.
I love them. Everybody loves blahcla ba see now, why
do you want? We're on a positive trainer. It'll always
it'll be chocolates. It might even be some real high
(13:46):
end Italian, some gelato coffees. Germans don't do that. Lebanese,
they're always Lebanese. What are you doing? Everybody would guess Lebanese.
Everybody that knows anything, You don't pay attention anything. The
number one most likely place they would be from and
(14:06):
they would be is Lebanese, followed by Irani. I'm telling you,
anybody that knows knows. So I looked this place up.
It's called mostly Chocolate. Their website is mostly HTx dot com. Um, yeah,
like most of it. Now listen to this, I'm thinking,
oh yeah, these people like chocolates right. The woman's name
(14:32):
is Rena Kumkagi and says Rena's passion for cooking began
when she was just a child, kays music. Growing up
in Lebanon, Rena was taught by her mother to create
delectable Lebanese dishes and pastries. From working closely with her mother,
her love for cooking and food flourished. As she got older,
(14:52):
Rena realized her passion and natural talent for cooking was
more than just a hobby when she crafted a pistachio
filled chocolate pastry. Let me read that again, a pistachio
filled chocolate pastry to serve over Thanksgiving. Her friends were
astounded by the delicate texture and full flavor of her pastry,
(15:13):
and she was convinced to replicate the pastry for a
friend's wedding. Inspired to sharpen her craft, Rina completely specialty
courses completed, sorry, completed specialty courses with local Houston chef
and chocolate tier on A Gomez. So this woman was
a chef and a chocolatear We're about to talk about
chocolate worse than Somlie's do. This is like a PhD
(15:38):
of chocolate along with local Houston chef and chocolatear on
A Gomez. And then went on to attend the Chocolate
Academy in Saint Hyacinth in Montreal, Quebec with world renowned
chocolateier Christophe Morell. Y'all are getting way too serious about
chocolate here, okay, So then it talks about her catering
(15:59):
this and here's her son. Rena's son, Danny Komkagi, joined
the team in twenty eleven. His endless drive and passion.
Bah blah blah blah. After various internships studying under renowned
master chocolatiers in New York and Montreal, Danny became head
chocolateer in twenty fifteen. Since Sinny's gone on to win
(16:20):
various prestigious national and international awards, the three Dessert Grand
Champion Buckal Awards at the HLSR Houston Livestock Sean Rodeo
Best Bites competition for the Goat Cheese, Truffle, Pecan Pie,
Truffle and hazel Nut and Pop Rocks, a first place
gold finish in the International Chocolate Award America's competition, second
place silver finish in the International's Chocolate Awards World. These
(16:42):
people are getting real serious about chocolate. The Michael Barry
Show all right, just for fun, because I can't be
serious all time. I was sitting out back recently preparing
for the show and reading and watching video, and I
came across a video from a site called Space City Sports.
(17:06):
They have a Facebook page, and they had put together
a video of a bunch of big moments in Houston
sports history, and I thought it was fun. You'll have
to go to their site on Facebook. It's called Space
City Sports. To see the video for yourself, which adds
a lot to it. But I think with the audio
(17:27):
you'll get enough of a sense. And for me, it's
just fun to go back. I mean, it's fun to
hear Rudy t talking about the heart of a champion
like that's just a great moment, right, That's a fun moment.
Professional sports is not what it used to be because
now the Left has infected it, and the athletes and
the coaches and the owners weren't smart enough to realize
(17:50):
that you're letting these people ruin your brand. Sports should
be a distraction from politics and polio and war and
famine and crime. But instead they've allowed the left to
infest it and infect it and ruin it. But anyway,
(18:10):
let's go back to a happier time and enjoy.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
And we had non believers all along the way. I
have one thing to say, those non believers. Here's a
grand ball. Right side could do it. Don't ever under us.
The mate Tucker comes on, Kyle Tuckler, fast us fine
much stark fo time, the heart of a champion, the.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Houston strolls.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
I want champions for the first time in franchise's history.
This time they finished the job. The hston ourselves who
champions Joe seconds.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
A long Jo.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
Fin come there, shut her, shut it up every old
trap shot, play swam or l magic it comes back.
Frady Caha. He shut the travity right out of the door. Buck.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
So you talk about a fine This is serious stuff.
Samson and delivers and the bitch swinging flying in.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
Your tell.
Speaker 5 (19:33):
To comes you set there Schot s lead. Why a bit?
He's like, there's a key line you lot start an
suck up by Jenny Jenny lost pstack in the past.
There he's over three blinging about this.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
He took me it down to three, down to two.
It's a brief.
Speaker 5 (20:05):
Good dude, he can't it's not the end.
Speaker 7 (20:13):
It's back pall Wow, probly.
Speaker 8 (20:16):
Don't turn out the matter.
Speaker 7 (20:18):
Brady will win.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
Yeah, put some away dead hate Pad he did chas
my corback.
Speaker 7 (20:33):
Co Pland Third, let's get I brought some joy in
a world that can be tough.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Sometimes we brought our families together and I did my
job slinging there in three down in head.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
Caress another showing little fly Jo brought sper third, believe
it all?
Speaker 2 (21:05):
How two seven seven.
Speaker 7 (21:10):
Hot for the bod Cope one Petska ship.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
Can hear listen into line.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Down the line.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
Ten minutes. That's in the him comes Fisher f M
Beer steels when first the time was Alvarez launches deep
right field. That's what it is gone And they asked
Streets who should go a third by Brian time Stross
(21:53):
of the World Series No Inner.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
She wanted Albarets inside center field, bearing dank, you, gentleman,
don't use that tone to me.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Not a joke.
Speaker 7 (22:14):
That's sarcastic, contemptuous tone that means you know everything because
you're a man, and I know nothing because I'm a woman.
Speaker 5 (22:21):
That is not a joke. That is a natural fact.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
The Michael, if you're wondering, yes, that was Bosiphus. That
was Hank Williams Jr. I thought I'd heard every Hank
Williams Junior song ever released. It really did. But our
buddy Chance McClain of your Heritage Film dot Com sent
(22:48):
along something he had just discovered. It was from the Simpsons,
and apparently there was an episode of the Simpsons. I
wasn't a big Simpsons watcher. I mean, I've watched a
clip here. I didn't watch Seinfeld not a TV watcher.
After after a certain era, I just didn't and uh,
Hank Williams Junior sang that jingle for the commercial advertising
(23:13):
a fictitious SUV called the Kenyon EO. Now we just
played a few seconds of it there. But you're gonna
have to indulge me and listen to this thing. Ramon
says that if there were a real suv, then then
Jess Sebastian at Classic Chevy Sugarland would offer you the
(23:37):
best deal. Why am I where? Why am I supposed
to read this? You don't get to be the GMC
Dealer of the Year for life without offering the best deals.
Is he the GMC Dealer of the of the year
or is he Chevy? No, he's not? Is he really? Oh? Wow? Okay, Now,
(23:57):
as you would imagine, Homer would buy him helf a
Canyon Arrow, and honest truth, if if the Canyon Arrow,
which is completely fabricated, if the Canyon Arrow had been
if it was real and Hank Junior was was hawking it,
I'd buy it too. Here here is Homer Simpson buying
(24:20):
a Canyon Arrow. And then we're gonna give you a
little more of the song because it's just too funny.
The Simpsons is so good. I didn't really watch much
of it, but it really is so good.
Speaker 8 (24:33):
Canyonaiaro, I had drew all you want. You can't hurt
that finished now, rain water that'll strip it right off.
S Oh, I shouldn't have said that out by Gil,
Hey you red one?
Speaker 5 (24:54):
Could I buy that?
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Please?
Speaker 7 (24:56):
Well?
Speaker 2 (24:56):
If you really hot dog a sail, I'll take it
from here. Gil.
Speaker 8 (25:06):
No, wait on, no, you can't take my sale. My
wife's gonna leave me if I don't start bringing in
the green. Come on, let me have this one.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Stand.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
I'm begging you. Look at me. I'm begging you. Stand.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
Let's go right this up, shall we?
Speaker 8 (25:23):
Honey? You should have seen me with my last customer. No,
but I came so close. This guy was Whose voice is.
Speaker 5 (25:31):
That is that?
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Fred?
Speaker 8 (25:34):
You said it was over?
Speaker 2 (25:35):
No, don't put him on it?
Speaker 4 (25:37):
Hello, Fred?
Speaker 7 (25:38):
Hahi.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
Okay, you've got the undercoating, clear coating, rustproofing, underguard, spray,
gravel guard x jay viticeal repels it. But if you
want to protect the paint, you better keep it in
this tent, will do? Okay, Here's how your lease breaks down.
This is your down payment. Then here's your monthly, and
there's your weekly and it right yep. Well, then after
(26:02):
your final monthly payment, there is the routine CBP or
crippling balloon payment.
Speaker 5 (26:05):
But that's not for a while, right right, sweet?
Speaker 7 (26:13):
Maybe sorry, Homer, we thought you were one of those
hot to trot soccer moms.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Yeah, you don't see many men driving the F series.
Speaker 7 (26:26):
See instead of a cigarette light, it's got a lipstick holder.
Speaker 5 (26:31):
Ah crap, it's a girl's car. I can't drive this.
Speaker 7 (26:35):
Oh sure, you can, doll face.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Pretty thing like you can do whatever she wants.
Speaker 5 (26:44):
Screw you, guys,
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