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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Verie Show is.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
On the air.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Monday. We played a story that had been covered from
the channel thirteen ABC thirteen locally in Houston about the
Katie Market Days. These markets, many many communities do this
kind of a community market, but the Old Town market
(00:49):
business owners in Old Town Katie have once a month
market days. And the allegation by the woman who puts
it on was it the city he was trying to
take it from her, And we played the story, we
talked about it. I had someone on yesterday named Lynn
Sullivan who said, well, you're not getting the full story.
(01:12):
That lady is actually charging the vendors a lot. She's
not doing things for the kids. There are a lot
of people that are unhappy. And I said that if
Betsy Proctor reaches out to us, which she did, we
would have her on the air and we will do that.
I did get an email yesterday that I thought was
kind of interesting from Baker Hill Ranch and it says,
(01:35):
your caller referred to downtown Katie, but you should know
it's actually Old Town Katie and like Old Town Spring,
it's only about maybe six blocks. There was some older
antique shops there already in a couple of smaller boutique
type businesses. When they renovated, they built a new city
hall and yes, a civic center, but it's not a
(01:57):
big civic center by any means. I think it's mostly
common conference rooms, no place for a concert, probably not
more than six thousand square feet. There is a newly
built restaurant and a beer garden type place. There's lots
of outdoor area for flea markets and concerts. And yes,
the bathrooms are nice and clean. Sounded good to me.
You know who I think is headed in that direction
(02:19):
is old Town Rosenberg, where our friends what is it?
A place back in time? What's the place that we like?
The little soda fountain place. Crockett and I and a
buddy of mine who's a DPS trooper went there on
the day that he met us up there, the day
that Crockett got his driver's license, and we had a
phosphate and we had a root beer float another time. Yeah,
(02:43):
I mean, and that little area is booming. And when
I say booming, it's not you know, the Vegas Strip,
but there's a little activity. People are really really liking
the old towns and the old town Square and the
owner operated business and that sort of stuff. Betsy proctory
is our guest. Welcome Betsy, Betsy.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
She might put us on mute. Yeah, bat finger to mute,
but it happened.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Hello, can you hear me?
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Betsy?
Speaker 4 (03:12):
What were you doing? I think I must have hit
mute by accident. I'm here a lot, all right, So
sorry about that.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
So the story that was covered by Channel thirteen, why
don't you take about five minutes. I want to interrupt
you and kind of talk us through the history of
this from your perspective and what's going on there, and
then I'll have lots of questions.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Okay. So I opened my antique store originally nineteen ninety
three and then moved to Second Street in nineteen ninety four,
which is the location that I'm currently at now. Has
been there for thirty years myself. And there was another
antique store at the time called Second Street Antiques, and
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the owner of that store had a big grassy area,
which is where that restaurant is now that you're talking about.
And her and I we're trying to figure out, we're brainstorming,
trying to figure out how are we going to get
people into town because it's like Deadsville. And we thought, well,
we'll try a market. So we started the market in
nineteen ninety four, the two of us, and we charged
like twenty dollars. We had maybe ten booths, and that
(04:16):
went on for quite a few years. It started to grow,
It started to get pretty you know, bigger, maybe twenty booths.
We started using one of the streets, and then we realized, yeah,
we're going to need to get police protection to close
the streets. So we went to city council and got
authorized to close the streets so that we were worried
about pedestrians somebody getting hit or something. And that continued
(04:39):
to grow. It got it got really, you know, pretty big,
and basically the market has become pretty very popular. I'm
really surprised the outpouring of love and how much everybody's
talking about how much they're going to miss it. I
guess I didn't really realize that. But the city this year,
(05:03):
I requested to have the streets closed, as I have
done for the last I don't know, seventeen years or so,
and they didn't put it on the agenda. And they
didn't put it on the agenda, so I finally contacted
the city and said, hey, guys, because I mean, I
know everybody in the city. You know, well, it's gotten
along really well for the last thirty years. So I
was kind of surprised when they said that they wanted
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to have a meeting with me and have an MoU,
a memorandum of understanding, which is like a handshake basically,
whereas I would make sure that everything was clean, which
I'd always do. We always pick up the trash. We
have our own trash receptacles in the back and all that,
but so they basically wanted me to sign the MoU.
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I went in for the meeting. Basically it was just like,
they'll give me barricades, I'll take care of trash, we'll
just be good friends, and off we go. And when
I went in to sign the MoU, they didn't bring
the MoU up. They started talking about when was I
going to retire, and was really kind of taken aback
because I hadn't thought about that. And I said, well,
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you know, basically, I hadn't thought about retiring. I mean,
I'm not thirty, but I still have a few years
left in me. And then they basically said that what
they wanted was they wanted me to work the market
for one year, train or guide their staff as to
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how to run the market, and at the end of
the year in twenty twenty six, I would give them
all of my intellectual property, my DBA website, maps, everything,
and for that they would give me fifteen thousand dollars. Well,
they said they would send me an MoU. When they
sent me the MoU, it wasn't ANU. It was a
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binding contract, and I said, you know, no, I can't
sign this. I had a lawyer look at it. He said,
don't sign this, So I didn't. So I wrote to
the city and I told them that I couldn't sign
that MoU. I mean that contract. Plus, it wasn't an MoU,
it was actually a contract, so that's a little bit different,
quite a bit different. They basically I sent them an
(07:13):
email and then I didn't hear from them again. And
then I noticed that they on their city council meeting
they had required a funds for an event assistant for
the lady that that was doing their events now, and
that's basically hiring somebody to do the job that I've
done for the last thirty years for free. So now
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they're going to pay taxpayer funds to do the market,
except I'm not giving them my information, so they're going
to have to start it from the ground up and
all the negative press that they've gotten, and my vendors
just don't want to do it with the city because
the city doesn't really have great reputation for pulling off
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very good events because they don't really advertise very much.
So anyway, that basically in a nutshell. I went to
city We were going to go to city council meeting
three weeks ago, but they changed the time from six
the usual time from six thirty to five thirty, so
we missed it. When I went to the city council
meeting on Monday, and both my husband and myself spoke,
(08:20):
but unfortunately the audio and the video didn't work when
we spoke, but it did work after we finished speaking.
They fixed it. So that's basically it in a nutshell.
That's where we are. I'm not, you know, not having
the market anymore. We had the last market on last
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week and it was it was really good.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Betsy Proctor pulled down Katie the market days where we
are coming up.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
This is the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
To me, to you.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
So in my peer group, it's just how we are.
If Karen Carpenter.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Comes up, there's gonna be a reference to anorexia.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
It just is.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
That's how people know of her. It's really too bad
because or musical prowess.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
She and her brother really did accomplish something incredible. And
you know the amazing thing.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
He was the genius. He was the musical savant. She wasn't.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
He played every instrument. He was the star of growing up.
That wasn't her thing. But boy, those vocals. I mean,
I'm a dude. I don't normally like women lead singers,
but I have to just stand in awe of her voice.
And who does it is mesmerized. It's absolutely mesmerized. Betsy Procter,
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take thirty seconds and tell me what exactly your shop do,
because does it says antiques, but it's really kind of
movie posters and stuff.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Right, Yeah, Well, I started out with just antiques and artwork.
I do artwork as well. It morphed when my husband
retired from the oil industry. He started getting into the posters,
and so then we added on to our building. We
extended it into a poster gallery at the back and
(10:22):
that's really what our main business is now. I do
the artwork, retouching and posters if there's any restoration, and
he does the restoration, and then we sell posters and records.
We have huge amount of records. But we also have
The front of the shop is all antiques. I have
five dealers in there that put their antiques in there,
and we're like a little co op kind of family. Oh,
(10:48):
probably about three thousand, and you.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Have five other shops in there with you. Now, are
they staffing those, Well, they're just they are.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Yeah, they're my employees most well, not all of them
are employees. A couple of them are employees as well. Yeah,
they've put their antiques in their booths. There's five booths
in there, different people, and some of them work, some
of them are on my staff, and some of them
just rent out the little space that don't work. It
says you got and there's also this yeah. Yeah, they
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also are the ones that I hire them to help
me with the market, because you know, it's gotten so
big that I have to have staff to help me
run it. I can't do it by myself.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
So we're heading into twenty twenty five and the Internet's
a powerful thing, and.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
Yes it is.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
You are competing in an old line business against you know,
like you've got vintage cameras, vintage costume, jewelry, vengeance.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
How do you compete.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
When someone can go online and buy something from New
York or LA or wherever else? How do you compete
because they have to come in to find you. I
got to think that that makes you. That's a challenge
you have to rise to every day.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
Well, we do sell a lot of posters online, so
we are online. We have a big online presence as well,
not for the antiques so much because I don't like
mailing glass posters. We can mail, but we have a
big website and original Vintage Movie Posters is our website,
and we do sales and restoration. We have people that
(12:28):
mail us a posters from all over the world, although
we've toned that down lately because we've gotten too busy
and we just don't have enough staff to get people's
orders quick enough. So we're just doing local restoration jobs
and then a few old customers that we've done for years,
we still do them.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
But when you say restoration jobs, so somebody has it
all gone with the win movie poster and they bring
it in and you bring it back to life.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
So what we do is we put them on linen,
which is an archival method of restoration. It's a stretched canvas.
We put japan paper with wheat starts glue. We roll
the poster out. As the poster dries, all the fold
lines because they were always sent folded, they flatten out.
And then if there's any artwork missing or patches missing.
(13:18):
I've redone people's noses in their eyes and all kinds
of things. Then we I go in and do the
artwork to fill in whatever's missing and paint. Some people
are in print. Some people want that done and some
people just want to leave it in its original form.
So we do both. But yeah, yes we frame as well.
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But yeah, they hang them on the wall or you
can you can hang them on the wall without framing them.
Better to have them than a frame just because it's
you know, protect them from sunlight. But yeah, it's a
it's an archival method of poster restoration.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
What of your overall sales walk out the door versus Internet,
I have.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
To say Internet is probably more I would think.
Speaker 6 (14:06):
Unfortunately, is it about fifty to fifty Maybe maybe the
Internet maybe more mainly because the posters that we sell
online are about high dollar posters we do.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
You know, they're they're they can be pretty valuable with
Star Wars posters and stuff. You can't imagine how collectible
those are with the generation that, yeah, decorating their meteor.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Yeah, it's all about who's making money right now. I
saw last week that that the red Slippers from Dorothy
from Oz sold for twenty eight million dollars.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
It's crazy, good, greasy.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
It's it's where people.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Are, their lifespan and how much money they have. You know,
you got to wait for the generation that grew up
with that. But you know it's you raise an interesting
question because we think of the Internet as being evil
because the brick and mortars like you can't compete with
the Internet. But everybody I know that does what you
do is the Internet is what allowed them to survive.
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One of our show sponsors is Laboucherie on Kirkandall in Spring,
and you know, you think of them as this. You know,
they do the traduccans and they do the stuffed chickens
and de bone and a massive part of their business
is Cajunmeats dot com. So so they got people walking
in the door and buying, but then they're sending it
out the back. My buddy at canvaspress dot com they
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print onto a vinyl or a whatever and you put
it on the wall. But now you know, ninety percent
of their business is not local. It's Internet. I think
that's just what businesses are going to have to do.
The Internet could.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Actually keep a brick and mortar in business.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
In this case, well, an actual fact the Facebook and Marketplace.
I post a bunch of stuff on Marketplace for all
my vendors, and we get a lot of people that
drive in from you know, League city, from far away.
They've seen something on Marketplace, So we use it for
the actual shop as well. And for you know, I've
got a lady that sells ya DROs and we've got
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people that do you know, different types of glassware, and
so I'll post pretty much every pretty much every day.
Sometimes when I have time, I try and post every
day something from one of my vendors to try and
help them promote self. And it works. We get people in, oh,
you know, what time are you open, I'm coming and
they come and they buy stuff. So we do use
the internet for our store. The only way you're going
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to survive is if you get online. You have to.
I mean there's just no way, no way around it,
you can, right.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Challenge is, I don't know what you pay for rent,
but it can't be cheap. You know, you got that overhead,
the rental overhead and the utilities and all that that
has to be met at the beginning. Whereas if you're
working out of a home or whatever, you don't have that,
and that's a challenge.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
Right. Well, we did buy the building and thirty years ago.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Oh well for you, we own.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
The building, so we're good on the rent.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Thirty seconds or last. Because I'm up against a break,
Betsy Proctor, Okay, is the is the old town own
Katie Market days run by you done?
Speaker 4 (17:04):
It looks like it, but you don't want it. I
don't want Well, no, my vendors are just besides themselves.
I mean, the amount of emails and Facebook posts I've got,
people are really upset. I had no idea that that
people love the market as much as they do, but
I guess they do. We have a thirty five thousand
followers on Facebook and just a real outpouring of they
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just like the market. So yeah, I would I would
like it to be able to come back. Perhaps in May,
maybe they'll vote everybody out and we'll get a new
administration and we can bring it back. But that's probably
going to be the only way we're going to get
to do it.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Betsy Procter, thanks for being our guest. And I will
say to everyone at a number of people who said
Bessie Procter's are screaming liberal, that's why she won't come
on the show. And I addressed that with her. I said, listen, lady,
I don't care who you vote for for president. The
role of as it pertains to citizens and small businesses
is of great interest to me, and I want to
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get those stories out there and tell those stories and
your politics aside.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
That's what we do.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Here make Marco Berry's Show. When you stop and think
about the fact that we know Smokey Robinson as the smooth,
silky voice, as the front of the Miracles that would
go on and have a hit without him, because Barry
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Gordy's highest and best use for Smokey was identifying training talent.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
We're talking about Smokey Robinson here.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
We're not talking about some half whip when you think
about how earth shattering Motown was in its day, you
want to talk.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
About Black pride.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Barry Gordy had the foresight to bring in not just
choreographers to teach his artists how to present with dance
in their routines.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
He brought in stylists. He brought in.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
People who taught physical presentation, posture, how to speak properly
in an interview. What he did was what an NFL team,
the best NFL team would do now for their Tom Brady.
And he was doing that at a time where that
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wasn't done in the white world, much less to black world.
It's amazing, it really is.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
The story. It's incredible.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
It was on this day in nineteen sixty one that
it all began to change. Motown Records would have their
first number one on the Hot one hundred.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
And it wasn't with any of the artists you would expect.
It was the Marvelettes.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Please, mister Postman went to number one. There's just something
about that sound. I can hear the sound of Motown,
I can hear the sound of Stax Records with with
with our friend Steve Cropper and Otis Redding and and
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Sam and Dave and just what's that Booker t and
the I mean? And then you hear Phil Spector's Wall
of Sound. You see the patterns and the greatness, and
we take it for granted. But there was a day
that there was no Marvelettes, and there was no hits Town,
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there was no Motown. And then here's this guy that
has this vision and it morphs. I mean, to have
the vision to bring in people, to buy the clothes
and put them in them, to tell these these folks
who were coming from from little towns in Mississippi and
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Alabama and Louisiana, all right, you're gonna have to learn
to stand like this and speak like this and look
like this and and you know, flutter your eyes and
do this and don't do this, and this is what
you say, and this is what you don't say. And
and then you it was a Hollandozer Holland You got
these groups over here who are writing the songs, and
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then you got these people out here are recruiting these people.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
It really is amazing.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
If you know, when we talk about black history, the
people that get promoted as black history are Charlatan's and
grifters and losers like Al Sharpton. There should be a
trumpet blown for a Barry Barry Gordy. I mean, we're
talking George Washington Carver stuff. I'm not kidding his influence
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on American culture.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
By what he did.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
And it wasn't just a question of talent. He was
running a machine of his building. Please, mister postman started
at all? Well, did you know if you rearrange the
letters of postman they get really angry. Last week, ABC
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thirteen reported on the rampant mail theft in Houston by
post office employees. It starts to make sense now. The
post office employee charged with murdering a coworker at the
Missouri City processing facility. Oh he had been out on
a bond for assaulting a cop earlier this year. This
is the kind of people that they're hiring. It's why
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the president of the Postal Police Officers Association says there
are our pockets within Houston where the mail is unsafe.
It's being stolen. Clip number eleven, please, mister Roeblists courtesy
of executive producer Chad Nakanishi Khou.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
There's still activity today at this mall processing center in
Missouri City. But we're told operations were scaled back following
a deadly shooting last night involving two people.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
I can't tell you that they were both employees of facility.
Speaker 5 (23:26):
Missouri City Police and the US Postal Inspection Service responded
to reports of an active shooter around ten pm. We
had the sounds on damel Winnedelaki says he and others
initially thought a piece of machinery malfunctioned until an evacuation
was ordered. Sold me go out, go out like.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
That, you know.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
This afternoon, investigators identified the suspect as twenty four year
old Derek Lot of Humble. He's charged with murder and
is being held in the Fort Ben County Jail. We've
confirmed Lot was out on bond at the time of
last night shooting for the alleged to soil vult of
a peace officer earlier this year. Investigators say that coworker
he's accused of killing was thirty five year old Kevin J.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Hines.
Speaker 5 (24:09):
In a statement, uspis Acting Inspector in charge Mona Henderson said, quote,
this was a tragic and senseless act of violence. Our
employees deserve to feel safe when they come to work.
Postal inspectors are working tirelessly to ensure justice is served
on behalf of Kevin Hines, his family, and all of
the employees who work in this facility. It's a facility
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we've been allowed inside previously following stories about mail delays.
The Postal Service has yet to respond to questions about
how this incident may or may not impact operations.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Hey, what's happening. Race has destroyed this country, or at
least what we knew of it. So a lot of
people don't want to hire black employees because they're afraid
that once you do hire a black employee, if you
don't promote them, you'll be sued. If they cause a
problem and you fire them, you'll be sued. Everything that happens,
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you'll be sued and accused of being a racist. Better
just not to hire black employees, and that ends up
hurting black employees. That that's why you got to stop
that nonsense. So what ends up happening is people in
the private sector don't want to hire blacks, and so
what's left the government? So you put people in the
government who nobody wanted to hire on the outside.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
It's a it's a mess. It's got to be fixed.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
You're giving Michael Berry because you're a public Paul Revere
kind of ringing the warning though.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
I even saw a commercial in one of the football games,
and this was the song Elbing commercial and it's a
woman named Olivia Dean who.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Sings it, and she's got that she's got a voice like, uh,
who is the black English lady?
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Should a white husband?
Speaker 3 (26:04):
He died of brain cancer at like thirty Uh not
from the Jeffers Karen Bailey Ray turn this up. This
woman has kind of a just kind of a Karen
Bailey Ray sound, And I thought, man, what a brilliant
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choice of a song, because it's one of those songs
that a lot of young people won't know that this
is a remake of an old Sam Cook song. There
are certain there are certain songs that it's.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
They're just so golden.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
That a young kid there's a there there TikTok or
one of these sights, because people will send them to
me where they'll have a young black kid first listening
to Merle Haggard, or they'll have a little redneck kid
first listening to Marvin Gaye and they're just their mind
is just blown. I mean, hell, you do that with
lady Gaga. Their pipes are pretty impressive, but it's one
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of those things that the first time you hear this song,
this arrangement is Sam Cook. And I heard it and
I was like, wait a second, that's an old Sam
Cook song. And I sat there for ten minutes, not
paying attention to what was on TV, thinking about, but
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why wouldn't you just use the original Sam Cook because
it's so wonderful, And I thought, no, they've updated it,
They've sped it up, They've made it more modern in
a very subtle way, but it still has that kind
of timeless sound. So young people won't even know, oh,
(28:00):
because ll being consumers are probably thirty and below. When
I was in law school, when I started college, I
had a Jan Sport backpack maybe Jan Sport backpack. Jan
Sport was the only brand I knew of, and I
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carried that backpack through college. Four years into law school
and my wife and I had a dear friend. She's
still our friend today. She lives in DC. She's a
high powered attorney there. Her name was Angela Holsey at
the time. Now it's Angela Wallet because she married a
fellow named a doctor named Brian Wallet, and he does
fibromiologia research at Johns Hopkins and she practices tax law
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before the Supreme Court. Brilliant, brilliant lady. And she was
our best friend in the whole world. We just loved
the door, still do. And she bought us one year
at Christmas for me and Adita, she bought LLB backpack.
She had an ll BEING backpack that she'd had since
she'd started at Yale six years earlier because she'd gone
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from there to work at the Heritage Foundation in DC.
And we have those backpacks to this day. And do
you know ramon that ll Bean If the zipper breaks
or there's a rip or whatever, you simply send that
to them with your name and address and they will
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send you a brand newan. Yeah. There are two American companies.
I have not looked up their politics because I'm sure
they'll be awful. There are two American companies that I
think established that kind of brand that I've always kind
of liked, and so I steer clear of digging too deep.
And it's lands in in ll Bean kind of this
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great American sort of you know, Maine, a state of Maine.
You know, quality crafts and ship you know that that
that sort of thing. But anyway, do you remember the
original Sam Cook version of that?
Speaker 1 (30:07):
I think it's just glorious. You have it, just give
it a.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
We're talking about Motown. Sam Cook is what led to Motown.
It wasn't Motown, it was our stables. Just just just
you turn on the top forty today and he has
no Sam Cook just for you. That is just it's
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just working till I wanted to say a big thank you.
Yesterday was the Saint Jude golf Tournament. We do the
golf tournament for them every year. We raised over a
million dollars this year in partnership with our sister station
Sunday ninety nine point one, Dana Tyson and her Mark
Sherman and the whole group. And I just wanted to
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say a quick thank you to the folks who came
on board. This was our tenth and I said this
would be our last year to do this. We focus
on Camp Hope and I have my own family foundation
that we raise money to its end of year, so
I'll be making another contribution. We mostly fund Camp Hope
out of it, but we do. If you remember Off
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Serviller who was shot, raised over one hundred thousand dollars
for him. It gives me the opportunity to make a contribution.
It has to be tax deductible or it has to
be charitable on short notice. And some of you actually
contribute to our foundation, and we very much appreciate that.
I don't run it because I don't ever want anybody
to say I stole a pity from it. So Greater
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Houston Community Foundation does that for us and make sure
that we're in compliance.
Speaker 6 (31:50):
With all of us.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
But I just want to say a quick thank you
to all the people who contributed to that. It's our
tenth and final year. People gave a lot of money
and over a million dollars was raised, and I think
that to them and that is Philip Ivy fifty thousand
dollars of KBR, Dennis Dillard. These folks all gave twenty
five thousand Dennis Dillard Double D Industries, Jim Mackingveil Gallery Furniture.
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By the way, Mack is out of surgery recovering. I
was hoping to have him on today, but he's not
ready just yet. Jeremy King, Great Guy, Colt Excavation, Russell
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of Republic Grand Ranch, Kenny ness Halco Group, Michael Lindsay
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Eric Nditioning, Stephen Cruz of Generator Supercenter. Five thousand dollars donors,
David Reddick Applied Gas, Ben Barlow, Hervey Barlow Specialty contract Contractors.
They always contribute to what we're doing. Kelly Bows of
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bills of people who speak out and are sued or
lose their job. David Jacobs, Dennis Donn, James van Hook,
That's Kirk of Bower Sports florist, Jonathan McBride, INSULTHURM. Kyle
Low of Halo Construction, Michelle Landry Landry Insurance Agency, moregg
mckinnis City Bank,
It's that time time time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Verie Show is.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
On the air.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Monday. We played a story that had been covered from
the channel thirteen ABC thirteen locally in Houston about the
Katie Market Days. These markets, many many communities do this
kind of a community market, but the Old Town market
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business owners in Old Town Katie have once a month
market days. And the allegation by the woman who puts
it on was it the city he was trying to
take it from her, And we played the story, we
talked about it. I had someone on yesterday named Lynn
Sullivan who said, well, you're not getting the full story.
(01:12):
That lady is actually charging the vendors a lot. She's
not doing things for the kids. There are a lot
of people that are unhappy. And I said that if
Betsy Proctor reaches out to us, which she did, we
would have her on the air and we will do that.
I did get an email yesterday that I thought was
kind of interesting from Baker Hill Ranch and it says,
(01:35):
your caller referred to downtown Katie, but you should know
it's actually Old Town Katie and like Old Town Spring,
it's only about maybe six blocks. There was some older
antique shops there already in a couple of smaller boutique
type businesses. When they renovated, they built a new city
hall and yes, a civic center, but it's not a
(01:57):
big civic center by any means. I think it's mostly
common conference rooms, no place for a concert, probably not
more than six thousand square feet. There is a newly
built restaurant and a beer garden type place. There's lots
of outdoor area for flea markets and concerts. And yes,
the bathrooms are nice and clean. Sounded good to me.
You know who I think is headed in that direction
(02:19):
is old Town Rosenberg, where our friends what is it?
A place back in time? What's the place that we like?
The little soda fountain place. Crockett and I and a
buddy of mine who's a DPS trooper went there on
the day that he met us up there, the day
that Crockett got his driver's license, and we had a
phosphate and we had a root beer float another time. Yeah,
(02:43):
I mean, and that little area is booming. And when
I say booming, it's not you know, the Vegas Strip,
but there's a little activity. People are really really liking
the old towns and the old town Square and the
owner operated business and that sort of stuff. Betsy proctory
is our guest. Welcome Betsy, Betsy.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
She might put us on mute. Yeah, bat finger to mute,
but it happened.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Hello, can you hear me?
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Betsy?
Speaker 4 (03:12):
What were you doing? I think I must have hit
mute by accident. I'm here a lot, all right, So
sorry about that.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
So the story that was covered by Channel thirteen, why
don't you take about five minutes. I want to interrupt
you and kind of talk us through the history of
this from your perspective and what's going on there, and
then I'll have lots of questions.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Okay. So I opened my antique store originally nineteen ninety
three and then moved to Second Street in nineteen ninety four,
which is the location that I'm currently at now. Has
been there for thirty years myself. And there was another
antique store at the time called Second Street Antiques, and
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the owner of that store had a big grassy area,
which is where that restaurant is now that you're talking about.
And her and I we're trying to figure out, we're brainstorming,
trying to figure out how are we going to get
people into town because it's like Deadsville. And we thought, well,
we'll try a market. So we started the market in
nineteen ninety four, the two of us, and we charged
like twenty dollars. We had maybe ten booths, and that
(04:16):
went on for quite a few years. It started to grow,
It started to get pretty you know, bigger, maybe twenty booths.
We started using one of the streets, and then we realized, yeah,
we're going to need to get police protection to close
the streets. So we went to city council and got
authorized to close the streets so that we were worried
about pedestrians somebody getting hit or something. And that continued
(04:39):
to grow. It got it got really, you know, pretty big,
and basically the market has become pretty very popular. I'm
really surprised the outpouring of love and how much everybody's
talking about how much they're going to miss it. I
guess I didn't really realize that. But the city this year,
(05:03):
I requested to have the streets closed, as I have
done for the last I don't know, seventeen years or so,
and they didn't put it on the agenda. And they
didn't put it on the agenda, so I finally contacted
the city and said, hey, guys, because I mean, I
know everybody in the city. You know, well, it's gotten
along really well for the last thirty years. So I
was kind of surprised when they said that they wanted
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to have a meeting with me and have an MoU,
a memorandum of understanding, which is like a handshake basically,
whereas I would make sure that everything was clean, which
I'd always do. We always pick up the trash. We
have our own trash receptacles in the back and all that,
but so they basically wanted me to sign the MoU.
(05:47):
I went in for the meeting. Basically it was just like,
they'll give me barricades, I'll take care of trash, we'll
just be good friends, and off we go. And when
I went in to sign the MoU, they didn't bring
the MoU up. They started talking about when was I
going to retire, and was really kind of taken aback
because I hadn't thought about that. And I said, well,
(06:08):
you know, basically, I hadn't thought about retiring. I mean,
I'm not thirty, but I still have a few years
left in me. And then they basically said that what
they wanted was they wanted me to work the market
for one year, train or guide their staff as to
(06:28):
how to run the market, and at the end of
the year in twenty twenty six, I would give them
all of my intellectual property, my DBA website, maps, everything,
and for that they would give me fifteen thousand dollars. Well,
they said they would send me an MoU. When they
sent me the MoU, it wasn't ANU. It was a
(06:50):
binding contract, and I said, you know, no, I can't
sign this. I had a lawyer look at it. He said,
don't sign this, So I didn't. So I wrote to
the city and I told them that I couldn't sign
that MoU. I mean that contract. Plus, it wasn't an MoU,
it was actually a contract, so that's a little bit different,
quite a bit different. They basically I sent them an
(07:13):
email and then I didn't hear from them again. And
then I noticed that they on their city council meeting
they had required a funds for an event assistant for
the lady that that was doing their events now, and
that's basically hiring somebody to do the job that I've
done for the last thirty years for free. So now
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they're going to pay taxpayer funds to do the market,
except I'm not giving them my information, so they're going
to have to start it from the ground up and
all the negative press that they've gotten, and my vendors
just don't want to do it with the city because
the city doesn't really have great reputation for pulling off
(07:56):
very good events because they don't really advertise very much.
So anyway, that basically in a nutshell. I went to
city We were going to go to city council meeting
three weeks ago, but they changed the time from six
the usual time from six thirty to five thirty, so
we missed it. When I went to the city council
meeting on Monday, and both my husband and myself spoke,
(08:20):
but unfortunately the audio and the video didn't work when
we spoke, but it did work after we finished speaking.
They fixed it. So that's basically it in a nutshell.
That's where we are. I'm not, you know, not having
the market anymore. We had the last market on last
(08:41):
week and it was it was really good.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Betsy Proctor pulled down Katie the market days where we
are coming up.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
This is the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
To me, to you.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
So in my peer group, it's just how we are.
If Karen Carpenter.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Comes up, there's gonna be a reference to anorexia.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
It just is.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
That's how people know of her. It's really too bad
because or musical prowess.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
She and her brother really did accomplish something incredible. And
you know the amazing thing.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
He was the genius. He was the musical savant. She wasn't.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
He played every instrument. He was the star of growing up.
That wasn't her thing. But boy, those vocals. I mean,
I'm a dude. I don't normally like women lead singers,
but I have to just stand in awe of her voice.
And who does it is mesmerized. It's absolutely mesmerized. Betsy Procter,
(09:53):
take thirty seconds and tell me what exactly your shop do,
because does it says antiques, but it's really kind of
movie posters and stuff.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Right, Yeah, Well, I started out with just antiques and artwork.
I do artwork as well. It morphed when my husband
retired from the oil industry. He started getting into the posters,
and so then we added on to our building. We
extended it into a poster gallery at the back and
(10:22):
that's really what our main business is now. I do
the artwork, retouching and posters if there's any restoration, and
he does the restoration, and then we sell posters and records.
We have huge amount of records. But we also have
The front of the shop is all antiques. I have
five dealers in there that put their antiques in there,
and we're like a little co op kind of family. Oh,
(10:48):
probably about three thousand, and you.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Have five other shops in there with you. Now, are
they staffing those, Well, they're just they are.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Yeah, they're my employees most well, not all of them
are employees. A couple of them are employees as well. Yeah,
they've put their antiques in their booths. There's five booths
in there, different people, and some of them work, some
of them are on my staff, and some of them
just rent out the little space that don't work. It
says you got and there's also this yeah. Yeah, they
(11:19):
also are the ones that I hire them to help
me with the market, because you know, it's gotten so
big that I have to have staff to help me
run it. I can't do it by myself.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
So we're heading into twenty twenty five and the Internet's
a powerful thing, and.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
Yes it is.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
You are competing in an old line business against you know,
like you've got vintage cameras, vintage costume, jewelry, vengeance.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
How do you compete.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
When someone can go online and buy something from New
York or LA or wherever else? How do you compete
because they have to come in to find you. I
got to think that that makes you. That's a challenge
you have to rise to every day.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
Well, we do sell a lot of posters online, so
we are online. We have a big online presence as well,
not for the antiques so much because I don't like
mailing glass posters. We can mail, but we have a
big website and original Vintage Movie Posters is our website,
and we do sales and restoration. We have people that
(12:28):
mail us a posters from all over the world, although
we've toned that down lately because we've gotten too busy
and we just don't have enough staff to get people's
orders quick enough. So we're just doing local restoration jobs
and then a few old customers that we've done for years,
we still do them.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
But when you say restoration jobs, so somebody has it
all gone with the win movie poster and they bring
it in and you bring it back to life.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
So what we do is we put them on linen,
which is an archival method of restoration. It's a stretched canvas.
We put japan paper with wheat starts glue. We roll
the poster out. As the poster dries, all the fold
lines because they were always sent folded, they flatten out.
And then if there's any artwork missing or patches missing.
(13:18):
I've redone people's noses in their eyes and all kinds
of things. Then we I go in and do the
artwork to fill in whatever's missing and paint. Some people
are in print. Some people want that done and some
people just want to leave it in its original form.
So we do both. But yeah, yes we frame as well.
(13:39):
But yeah, they hang them on the wall or you
can you can hang them on the wall without framing them.
Better to have them than a frame just because it's
you know, protect them from sunlight. But yeah, it's a
it's an archival method of poster restoration.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
What of your overall sales walk out the door versus Internet,
I have.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
To say Internet is probably more I would think.
Speaker 6 (14:06):
Unfortunately, is it about fifty to fifty Maybe maybe the
Internet maybe more mainly because the posters that we sell
online are about high dollar posters we do.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
You know, they're they're they can be pretty valuable with
Star Wars posters and stuff. You can't imagine how collectible
those are with the generation that, yeah, decorating their meteor.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Yeah, it's all about who's making money right now. I
saw last week that that the red Slippers from Dorothy
from Oz sold for twenty eight million dollars.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
It's crazy, good, greasy.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
It's it's where people.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Are, their lifespan and how much money they have. You know,
you got to wait for the generation that grew up
with that. But you know it's you raise an interesting
question because we think of the Internet as being evil
because the brick and mortars like you can't compete with
the Internet. But everybody I know that does what you
do is the Internet is what allowed them to survive.
(15:04):
One of our show sponsors is Laboucherie on Kirkandall in Spring,
and you know, you think of them as this. You know,
they do the traduccans and they do the stuffed chickens
and de bone and a massive part of their business
is Cajunmeats dot com. So so they got people walking
in the door and buying, but then they're sending it
out the back. My buddy at canvaspress dot com they
(15:26):
print onto a vinyl or a whatever and you put
it on the wall. But now you know, ninety percent
of their business is not local. It's Internet. I think
that's just what businesses are going to have to do.
The Internet could.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Actually keep a brick and mortar in business.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
In this case, well, an actual fact the Facebook and Marketplace.
I post a bunch of stuff on Marketplace for all
my vendors, and we get a lot of people that
drive in from you know, League city, from far away.
They've seen something on Marketplace, So we use it for
the actual shop as well. And for you know, I've
got a lady that sells ya DROs and we've got
(16:03):
people that do you know, different types of glassware, and
so I'll post pretty much every pretty much every day.
Sometimes when I have time, I try and post every
day something from one of my vendors to try and
help them promote self. And it works. We get people in, oh,
you know, what time are you open, I'm coming and
they come and they buy stuff. So we do use
the internet for our store. The only way you're going
(16:23):
to survive is if you get online. You have to.
I mean there's just no way, no way around it,
you can, right.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Challenge is, I don't know what you pay for rent,
but it can't be cheap. You know, you got that overhead,
the rental overhead and the utilities and all that that
has to be met at the beginning. Whereas if you're
working out of a home or whatever, you don't have that,
and that's a challenge.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
Right. Well, we did buy the building and thirty years ago.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Oh well for you, we own.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
The building, so we're good on the rent.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Thirty seconds or last. Because I'm up against a break,
Betsy Proctor, Okay, is the is the old town own
Katie Market days run by you done?
Speaker 4 (17:04):
It looks like it, but you don't want it. I
don't want Well, no, my vendors are just besides themselves.
I mean, the amount of emails and Facebook posts I've got,
people are really upset. I had no idea that that
people love the market as much as they do, but
I guess they do. We have a thirty five thousand
followers on Facebook and just a real outpouring of they
(17:30):
just like the market. So yeah, I would I would
like it to be able to come back. Perhaps in May,
maybe they'll vote everybody out and we'll get a new
administration and we can bring it back. But that's probably
going to be the only way we're going to get
to do it.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Betsy Procter, thanks for being our guest. And I will
say to everyone at a number of people who said
Bessie Procter's are screaming liberal, that's why she won't come
on the show. And I addressed that with her. I said, listen, lady,
I don't care who you vote for for president. The
role of as it pertains to citizens and small businesses
is of great interest to me, and I want to
(18:05):
get those stories out there and tell those stories and
your politics aside.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
That's what we do.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Here make Marco Berry's Show. When you stop and think
about the fact that we know Smokey Robinson as the smooth,
silky voice, as the front of the Miracles that would
go on and have a hit without him, because Barry
(18:36):
Gordy's highest and best use for Smokey was identifying training talent.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
We're talking about Smokey Robinson here.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
We're not talking about some half whip when you think
about how earth shattering Motown was in its day, you
want to talk.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
About Black pride.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Barry Gordy had the foresight to bring in not just
choreographers to teach his artists how to present with dance
in their routines.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
He brought in stylists. He brought in.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
People who taught physical presentation, posture, how to speak properly
in an interview. What he did was what an NFL team,
the best NFL team would do now for their Tom Brady.
And he was doing that at a time where that
(19:43):
wasn't done in the white world, much less to black world.
It's amazing, it really is.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
The story. It's incredible.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
It was on this day in nineteen sixty one that
it all began to change. Motown Records would have their
first number one on the Hot one hundred.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
And it wasn't with any of the artists you would expect.
It was the Marvelettes.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Please, mister Postman went to number one. There's just something
about that sound. I can hear the sound of Motown,
I can hear the sound of Stax Records with with
with our friend Steve Cropper and Otis Redding and and
(20:37):
Sam and Dave and just what's that Booker t and
the I mean? And then you hear Phil Spector's Wall
of Sound. You see the patterns and the greatness, and
we take it for granted. But there was a day
that there was no Marvelettes, and there was no hits Town,
(20:58):
there was no Motown. And then here's this guy that
has this vision and it morphs. I mean, to have
the vision to bring in people, to buy the clothes
and put them in them, to tell these these folks
who were coming from from little towns in Mississippi and
(21:20):
Alabama and Louisiana, all right, you're gonna have to learn
to stand like this and speak like this and look
like this and and you know, flutter your eyes and
do this and don't do this, and this is what
you say, and this is what you don't say. And
and then you it was a Hollandozer Holland You got
these groups over here who are writing the songs, and
(21:41):
then you got these people out here are recruiting these people.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
It really is amazing.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
If you know, when we talk about black history, the
people that get promoted as black history are Charlatan's and
grifters and losers like Al Sharpton. There should be a
trumpet blown for a Barry Barry Gordy. I mean, we're
talking George Washington Carver stuff. I'm not kidding his influence
(22:09):
on American culture.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
By what he did.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
And it wasn't just a question of talent. He was
running a machine of his building. Please, mister postman started
at all? Well, did you know if you rearrange the
letters of postman they get really angry. Last week, ABC
(22:32):
thirteen reported on the rampant mail theft in Houston by
post office employees. It starts to make sense now. The
post office employee charged with murdering a coworker at the
Missouri City processing facility. Oh he had been out on
a bond for assaulting a cop earlier this year. This
is the kind of people that they're hiring. It's why
(22:55):
the president of the Postal Police Officers Association says there
are our pockets within Houston where the mail is unsafe.
It's being stolen. Clip number eleven, please, mister Roeblists courtesy
of executive producer Chad Nakanishi Khou.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
There's still activity today at this mall processing center in
Missouri City. But we're told operations were scaled back following
a deadly shooting last night involving two people.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
I can't tell you that they were both employees of facility.
Speaker 5 (23:26):
Missouri City Police and the US Postal Inspection Service responded
to reports of an active shooter around ten pm. We
had the sounds on damel Winnedelaki says he and others
initially thought a piece of machinery malfunctioned until an evacuation
was ordered. Sold me go out, go out like.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
That, you know.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
This afternoon, investigators identified the suspect as twenty four year
old Derek Lot of Humble. He's charged with murder and
is being held in the Fort Ben County Jail. We've
confirmed Lot was out on bond at the time of
last night shooting for the alleged to soil vult of
a peace officer earlier this year. Investigators say that coworker
he's accused of killing was thirty five year old Kevin J.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Hines.
Speaker 5 (24:09):
In a statement, uspis Acting Inspector in charge Mona Henderson said, quote,
this was a tragic and senseless act of violence. Our
employees deserve to feel safe when they come to work.
Postal inspectors are working tirelessly to ensure justice is served
on behalf of Kevin Hines, his family, and all of
the employees who work in this facility. It's a facility
(24:32):
we've been allowed inside previously following stories about mail delays.
The Postal Service has yet to respond to questions about
how this incident may or may not impact operations.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Hey, what's happening. Race has destroyed this country, or at
least what we knew of it. So a lot of
people don't want to hire black employees because they're afraid
that once you do hire a black employee, if you
don't promote them, you'll be sued. If they cause a
problem and you fire them, you'll be sued. Everything that happens,
(25:08):
you'll be sued and accused of being a racist. Better
just not to hire black employees, and that ends up
hurting black employees. That that's why you got to stop
that nonsense. So what ends up happening is people in
the private sector don't want to hire blacks, and so
what's left the government? So you put people in the
government who nobody wanted to hire on the outside.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
It's a it's a mess. It's got to be fixed.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
You're giving Michael Berry because you're a public Paul Revere
kind of ringing the warning though.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
I even saw a commercial in one of the football games,
and this was the song Elbing commercial and it's a
woman named Olivia Dean who.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Sings it, and she's got that she's got a voice like, uh,
who is the black English lady?
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Should a white husband?
Speaker 3 (26:04):
He died of brain cancer at like thirty Uh not
from the Jeffers Karen Bailey Ray turn this up. This
woman has kind of a just kind of a Karen
Bailey Ray sound, And I thought, man, what a brilliant
(26:28):
choice of a song, because it's one of those songs
that a lot of young people won't know that this
is a remake of an old Sam Cook song. There
are certain there are certain songs that it's.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
They're just so golden.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
That a young kid there's a there there TikTok or
one of these sights, because people will send them to
me where they'll have a young black kid first listening
to Merle Haggard, or they'll have a little redneck kid
first listening to Marvin Gaye and they're just their mind
is just blown. I mean, hell, you do that with
lady Gaga. Their pipes are pretty impressive, but it's one
(27:17):
of those things that the first time you hear this song,
this arrangement is Sam Cook. And I heard it and
I was like, wait a second, that's an old Sam
Cook song. And I sat there for ten minutes, not
paying attention to what was on TV, thinking about, but
(27:39):
why wouldn't you just use the original Sam Cook because
it's so wonderful, And I thought, no, they've updated it,
They've sped it up, They've made it more modern in
a very subtle way, but it still has that kind
of timeless sound. So young people won't even know, oh,
(28:00):
because ll being consumers are probably thirty and below. When
I was in law school, when I started college, I
had a Jan Sport backpack maybe Jan Sport backpack. Jan
Sport was the only brand I knew of, and I
(28:21):
carried that backpack through college. Four years into law school
and my wife and I had a dear friend. She's
still our friend today. She lives in DC. She's a
high powered attorney there. Her name was Angela Holsey at
the time. Now it's Angela Wallet because she married a
fellow named a doctor named Brian Wallet, and he does
fibromiologia research at Johns Hopkins and she practices tax law
(28:46):
before the Supreme Court. Brilliant, brilliant lady. And she was
our best friend in the whole world. We just loved
the door, still do. And she bought us one year
at Christmas for me and Adita, she bought LLB backpack.
She had an ll BEING backpack that she'd had since
she'd started at Yale six years earlier because she'd gone
(29:07):
from there to work at the Heritage Foundation in DC.
And we have those backpacks to this day. And do
you know ramon that ll Bean If the zipper breaks
or there's a rip or whatever, you simply send that
to them with your name and address and they will
(29:28):
send you a brand newan. Yeah. There are two American companies.
I have not looked up their politics because I'm sure
they'll be awful. There are two American companies that I
think established that kind of brand that I've always kind
of liked, and so I steer clear of digging too deep.
And it's lands in in ll Bean kind of this
(29:50):
great American sort of you know, Maine, a state of Maine.
You know, quality crafts and ship you know that that
that sort of thing. But anyway, do you remember the
original Sam Cook version of that?
Speaker 1 (30:07):
I think it's just glorious. You have it, just give
it a.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
We're talking about Motown. Sam Cook is what led to Motown.
It wasn't Motown, it was our stables. Just just just
you turn on the top forty today and he has
no Sam Cook just for you. That is just it's
(30:41):
just working till I wanted to say a big thank you.
Yesterday was the Saint Jude golf Tournament. We do the
golf tournament for them every year. We raised over a
million dollars this year in partnership with our sister station
Sunday ninety nine point one, Dana Tyson and her Mark
Sherman and the whole group. And I just wanted to
(31:04):
say a quick thank you to the folks who came
on board. This was our tenth and I said this
would be our last year to do this. We focus
on Camp Hope and I have my own family foundation
that we raise money to its end of year, so
I'll be making another contribution. We mostly fund Camp Hope
out of it, but we do. If you remember Off
(31:25):
Serviller who was shot, raised over one hundred thousand dollars
for him. It gives me the opportunity to make a contribution.
It has to be tax deductible or it has to
be charitable on short notice. And some of you actually
contribute to our foundation, and we very much appreciate that.
I don't run it because I don't ever want anybody
to say I stole a pity from it. So Greater
(31:46):
Houston Community Foundation does that for us and make sure
that we're in compliance.
Speaker 6 (31:50):
With all of us.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
But I just want to say a quick thank you
to all the people who contributed to that. It's our
tenth and final year. People gave a lot of money
and over a million dollars was raised, and I think
that to them and that is Philip Ivy fifty thousand
dollars of KBR, Dennis Dillard. These folks all gave twenty
five thousand Dennis Dillard Double D Industries, Jim Mackingveil Gallery Furniture.
(32:11):
By the way, Mack is out of surgery recovering. I
was hoping to have him on today, but he's not
ready just yet. Jeremy King, Great Guy, Colt Excavation, Russell
lebar Gringo's Adam Keaton Specks, Robin Orlando Houston, Powder Coaters,
(32:32):
Victoria Gilliland, Beckham Maston, Scott Mann Safe Money with Scott Man,
Christopher Holmes, Helms Landscape Design, John Weigel and viro Smart
Multi Family Pest Solutions. Connie and Billy Stagner are Corey
Diamonds in Design, Chris McGinley, Kirk Holmes, Gary Sumner head
of Republic Grand Ranch, Kenny ness Halco Group, Michael Lindsay
(32:56):
of Lindsay Office Furniture, Richard Sod of Nick's Plumbing and
Eric Nditioning, Stephen Cruz of Generator Supercenter. Five thousand dollars donors,
David Reddick Applied Gas, Ben Barlow, Hervey Barlow Specialty contract Contractors.
They always contribute to what we're doing. Kelly Bows of
Kelly and Julie Bows, Brent and Jan Bork, Brett Crawford
(33:19):
s CE Power Plus, Chris Fallon and his wife Rosie
Platinum Environmental Solutions, Clarence Cheatham, Cottie, Connie Fettgatter Phoenix Pollution
Control and Environmental Dan Aghan of the He created a
cause at charity, we Won't be Canceled, to cover the
(33:39):
bills of people who speak out and are sued or
lose their job. David Jacobs, Dennis Donn, James van Hook,
That's Kirk of Bower Sports florist, Jonathan McBride, INSULTHURM. Kyle
Low of Halo Construction, Michelle Landry Landry Insurance Agency, moregg
mckinnis City Bank,
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