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Speaker 1 (00:02):
It's that time time time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Varie Show is on the air. All right, we're
talking to Holly at bc R in aesthetics. She's just
gonna do Ramon's limp uh what lip filler? We'll see,
(00:24):
h So what all do you do? You do the forehead,
you do the lips, you do the cheeks?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Yes, what else?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
So there, you know, different different products for different areas
are you know, different modalities. But skinhealth is really important.
You know, if you're if you're muscles that are causing
the wrinkles to relax, but your skin stuting it condition,
then you know you're not gonna clock as skipped as
you can. So it's definitely like multi multi approaches for
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best outcomes.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
And you're located Needing, Washington and.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Westcott six thousand and one Washington.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
What percentage of your customers of your patients are men?
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Maybe five or ten percent?
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Well, not many? What percent of them are gay?
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Maybe maybe thirty to forty percent?
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Okay, Well, supposedly ten percent of the population is gay,
So that's four times out performing. I would expect it
to be high, if not even higher, because I think
gay men are on average more concerned with their appearance
than straight dudes, and I do believe that on average.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Do you see a fair amount of streatment as well?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
You no, I'm not saying you wouldn't. What are they
coming in for? Right?
Speaker 3 (02:03):
So usually they don't come in knowing what they want.
It's just you know, this bothers me. And then we
based on like their their their individual face, I build
a custom treatment plan and then they decide what they
want to do.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
So what do you what do you like? What would
do something they want?
Speaker 3 (02:24):
So under so the lines around the eyes and between
the eyebrows seem to be, you know, a concern for
men and women. Under eyes are always way up there.
You know, it's one of the fastest aging areas of
skin on our faces. So college and stimulation treatments are
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some of my favorite things to do to improve skin quality,
like micro needling. Pr F easy jail is really incredible,
and that's from a blood raw. So we draw your
blood and then we spin it to isolate concentrate the
growth factors, and then we just inject it where your
skin meet some eating or it can or plane pier
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fu can be used topically topically for micro needling.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
You know what I'm gonna end up doing.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Holly, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 1 (03:16):
I've got these folds on the top of my eyes
that are droopy, and I didn't realize till I went
back and my mother had it and my brother had it,
and it makes you look sleepy. And so when I
take a photo sometimes I will I will do this
sort of stern look because it causes my eyebrow to
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control my eyelid to contract and to open and to
show my eye fully, because if left into my own devices,
my eyelids sort of droop and so you don't look
you don't look happy, you don't look alert, and it
don't look as good. So I'm gonna have that. I'm
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going to have that little fold lifted up a little bit.
I think that's vain. No, I don't like it.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
You mightn't be able to see better.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Right, You gotta think, right, I mean, you gotta think.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
So.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
I got all my surgeries planned in a row because
I have wits it doing this thing called l a
L which is a light adjusted lens replacement. And the
difference between that and your regular technics or restore or
one of those, is that over a two month period,
you go back, so they when they do normally, when
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you do surgery, you know, you hope you got it right,
and if you didn't, then then you know, any imperfection
you just live with. With the light adjusted, you go
back multiple times within a two month period, and he
tweaks it, and so you know, if you say, Okay,
this is really good. I can see better up close
and I can see better far, but my up close
(05:00):
is not as good as I want it to be.
And so he does a little tweaked there and a
little tweaked there, and uh, was that That's fascinating. It's
fascinating that they can do it because now you're you're
you know, you get the opportunity to edit, not just
you know, one draft and you're finished. And I like
the thought of that. The the reason everybody doesn't do
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it is you have to be committed to the cause
because for as long as he is still adjusting, you
can't be exposed to sunlight because the sunlight causes the
eyes to react, and then that reduces the ability for
him to tweak the surgery that he's done. But he
loves it, and and I've studied it online. I've read
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lots and lots of reviews and people really like it.
I mean the advances we've made in cosmetics and pure medicine. Uh,
the eye surgery, for instance, you know used to My
great grandmother had cataract, so they went in and removed
her cataracts, so she didn't get better vision. Well I
have a cat or I had a real bad injury
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a few years ago, and I had a real bad
have a real bad cataract, And so now instead of
just removing the cataract, I can walk out of there
with you know, near or perfect vision. Well, that's just
those are just scientific advancements. That's just fantastic. Girl tears
because I didn't get a single start here that our
(06:26):
country is failing you today.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
Invest in Kleenex, ladies and gentlemen. And this is the
Michael Berry Show. We had this song on an eight track.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
I can I can see the eight track in my
mind's I was black with a little label stuck on
the top of the baby ticks my smile and I
can remember listening to this. Oh, I love Charlie Rich.
I don't know how much I love Charlie Rich because
my mom played Charlie Rich and my mom loved Charlie Rich.
You don't don't know how many things you kind of
inherit by osmosis, but I follow on YouTube's a fellow
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who does it a little like a podcast. I guess
you'd call it. I don't know what the actual term
would be. His name is Andrew Pope. He's out of
Gadsden at Labama, and he did one that I watched
last night on this and it was about This was
Charlie Rich's first big hit. Charlie Rich was more of
(07:29):
a songwriter and this was this was the one that
hit it for him in seventy and it was written
by a guy named Kenny O'Donnell, and the basis of
the song was that there was criticism This was before Watergate,
but there was already criticism of of of Nixon, and
(07:52):
someone he saw a news report and someone said, well,
you just don't know what goes on when we get
behind closed doors. And Kenny O'Donnell's mind got to worry.
He liked that line, when when we get behind closed doors,
and then he decided to make a love song out
of that, when she gets behind closed doors, So he
(08:14):
wrote it Pig Robbin's uh is on it and then
a little Floyd Kramer, Well they call it slipnote. Is
that style that Floyd Kramer played slipnote? Isn't it that?
That opening line is very Floyd Kramer asked, can you
play just the opening again? It starts so strong. We
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started back over because I was talking already. I mean, yeah,
sweets is right. That's like a good corner doll. Hard
(08:57):
to get a good corn doll. I think they're harder
to do than people realize. I like my corn dog Crispy.
I don't know how people can eat a corn dog
out of the out of the freezer, you know, a
frozen corn dog, because you have the ingredients, they're just
not done right. I like my corn dog Crispy. The
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best corn dog I've ever had is, I'm proud to say.
Over on Bridge City on Texas Avenue, in front of
the walmarts, you go there, there's a little shop to
the side and it's it's just like a little hunting
cabin and they've dropped it looks like something you'd see
at the Old at the Old County Fair years and
(09:39):
years ago. Like it's sitting on a skid so they
could move it at any time, probably propane powered, and
the guy in there's kind of hunched over, and you know,
I think your life expectancy if you work inside one
of those places, like five years, is just awful. And
it's got the it's got the window that is designed
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to make it difficult for him and you to conduct business.
You know, it doesn't open properly, like an old camper window,
and so you kind of you kind of like, hey,
should I just mouth it and you hope you can
understand what I'm saying or you've put my head down
in there, like you know, I'm robbing to bank. Hey
could you send me out of corn though and put
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the bustard on the side, but they're corn dogs. Oh
my god, my niece Bailey, it was her wedding shower
years ago, I don't know, but maybe five years ago,
and my wife was driving her over and oh well
(10:44):
it was no, it was the year Chris died. Because
Chris was going to walk her down the alli. He
was so excited. So he died January twenty fifth, and
this was maybe October of that year, and that would
have been twenty two, so it's not that long ago.
Four years ago anyway. So the shower was at her
mother's house in Port Nature's or Neederland. And my parents
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live in Orange, actually live outside of Orange, and so
you'd come up sixty two and then whatever that highway
is that takes you to the Rainbow Bridge and then
you go down. So since I was already going that
way because I was supposed to pick my wife up,
she rode with my mom and we're going to go
to Houston. And I got the bright idea, I'm going
to get a corn dog for myself. I was looking
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forward to it, and so I thought, oh, I'll bring
a corn dog for all the ladies. Look at me,
mister nice guy. So I roll up and I said,
I didn't know how many ladies were there, but I said,
can I do a dozen corn dogs? And the dude
looked at me, and I don't remember where he was from,
(11:49):
so let's make him from Cambodia for the sake of
this argument. He was Polepot's and grandson. For the sake
of this conversation. I said, can I get a dozen
corn dogs? And he did. I thought he didn't know
what a dozen was, And I said, you know how
when people don't speak English, you just say it louder right,
A dozen, a dozen. So I said twelve, you know one, two,
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you know one, two, three, four five, I did chicken
bopo one two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, twelve.
So he heard me and he understood me, and he
did not want to make twelve corn dogs. Well, of course,
there was a lady behind me, and she started huffing
and puffing, and I thought to myself, well, I could
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let her go first, but we're gonna be at this
for a while. I mean, I'll just never get my
corn dogs. So, uh, he did my twelve corn dogs,
and I took my corn dogs and I ate. I
like it hot, man, you gotta eat that thing hot.
Like's so hot that when you bite into the meat,
it just burns. Uhs ooh, yeah, So there I am. Well,
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I arrived with eight corn dogs. We've all been there,
haven't we. So I arrived, and I'm so bloated because
you know, you're eating hot dog whinnies. That's not good
for you. That's just that's just lips and bungholes and salt.
And I arrived and they weren't hot anymore. And I
go walking in and it's all women and they're looking
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over and my wife's just giggling, and Bailey's embarrassed. And
I brought him in and I put them on the
table and I go to walk out, and Bailey's like,
that's my uncle Michael and all that. Within five minutes
they were gone demolished. This is that horn Dog story
and Charlie Rich that is the Floyd Kreamer force. You
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notice how he slips some notes in there the other
people can't get to. That's why he sells his stuff
on TV. If I need a time capsule of my childhood,
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it'd be the opening of the wide wide world of sports.
Russian dudes blowing an old ring by pulling a eighteen wheeler.
Want a chain? Floyd Kramer commercials, Mikey likes it? Life
cerial commercial, Wheaties. There's some rantsid stuff right there. My goodness,
(14:34):
that was awful Wheaties. It'd be such a boss move
to have Floyd Kramer in the corner at your house party.
(14:57):
But having played rap songs on piano, it was a track,
a backing track of Paul Wall and Little Troy. I'd
be good. You got a food delivery. There's a carp.
(15:36):
You like a harp. I don't mind, heart. When I
walk up on an event, how sets the tone? Very elegant.
I'm waiting. Are you about to say something? Is that
your delivery? Okay? Oh, we've got Liz, one of the
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owners of the Plum Coffee shop, Liz, I'm here. That
fellow bow he's something else?
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Oh yeah, bo, what's a yeah? He is something else?
Speaker 3 (16:18):
You're right?
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Hello?
Speaker 2 (16:20):
How are you? Thank you for taking my call? I
appreciate you.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Yes, I'm glad. Are you a black woman?
Speaker 2 (16:26):
I am not.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Where are you from New Orleans?
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Southwest Houston? No, born and raised? Yes? Yes, sir?
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Are you married?
Speaker 4 (16:36):
I sure ran twenty eight years Okay.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
What's his name?
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Jerry?
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Oh, Jerry and Lee. I knew that. I knew that.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
That's okay. It's a decent reminder. It's definitely a decent reminder. Yeah.
I was born in Southwest Houston in Sharpstown General Hospital.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Where'd you go to high school?
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Sharpstown?
Speaker 1 (16:54):
What year did you come out?
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Ninety eight?
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Ninety eight? And so you met him roight when you
came out of high school?
Speaker 2 (17:01):
M hm, sure did walking down the street. It just
got off the sixty five metro bus and what was
he doing walking down the street? Moved here from Lufkin?
He just moved here from Lufkin?
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Uh huh?
Speaker 1 (17:14):
And did he did he approach you?
Speaker 2 (17:17):
I approached him, okay? So we met because I had
some birthday balloons in my hands and some homeless man
asked me for my birthday balloons, because you know, in
high school they give you birthday balloons and stuff like that,
and this homeless man asked me before I said no,
and then I stopped Jerry. I said, did you just
see that homeless man asked me for my balloons? And
Jerry was like no, but can I have them? And
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I'm like, no, absolutely not. You may not have them.
And then we went to Jack in the Box and
we've been together ever since.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
What did you order?
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Sourdough jack with curly fries and ranch dressing.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
My wife and I the first time, our first date,
I was broke and I took her to see Harlem
Knights at gulf Gate Mall and like not to Taco
Bell and I ordered. She tells the story that I
for the first year, I would order for both of us,
which is true. And I ordered my standard order for her,
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which was two bean burritos, no us, a tostada and
a water a dollar ninety two. I could eat for
under two bucks. It was perfect. And she tells the
story that she didn't know you could get onions and
stuff like that. And then when we went to a
burger joint, I would order for her fast food burger,
I would order a cheeseburger. I didn't eat mayonnaise at
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that point, just meating cheese with fries and a coke.
And she said she didn't know for a year, and
now she does her burgers loaded is rainomon. She didn't
know that you could get all that stuff on it,
and that I ordered for her, and then it took
her a while to figure out that I ordered exactly
what I got. So when she didn't eat her whole meal,
which was always I could finish what because if she
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got it different, I wouldn't want it right. So then
this way I whole. What do you attribute the challenges
at the Plumb coffee shop? Do people not know you're there,
or the cost too high or.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
You know, In all fairness, I'm not sure. Because we've
done the coffee science. We make a really delicious cup
of coffee, but then all these franchises have just bombarded
Barker Cypriss. We were the only ones out here for
a very very long time prior to COVID. Once COVID hit,
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then that's when Dutch Brothers comes, and then that's when
Summer Moon and all them came, and they just started
taking slices of the pie. Everyone used to know we
were out here, but you know, it's been a coffee
establishment for twenty one years. Jerry and I took over
six years prior to COVID because we already had a bakery,
a very well established bakery. Uh minimum COVID hit, it
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just oh my goodness, you know, it just died.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
COVID. It's not COVID. It's a crazy overreaction by a
lot of people. And many of them, our neighbors, want
to pretend they didn't, but they did. A lot of businesses,
you know, independently owned businesses went out of business and
they'll never come back. And and it's it's I think
about I think about the toll that what is your
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product mixed? What percent of your revenues are coffee versus
the pastries and that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
I would say it would be a twenty five to
seventy five splitfe seventy five.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Yes, okay, so coffee good.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
I was going to say, we do serve a decent
amount of food, but coffee is really what we push.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
That's just such a that's such a tough business and
there's no way.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Very very tough.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Do you have a driver, Very very tough.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
We do have a drive through, and during COVID, that's
what made it look like we were making money because
everybody because downtown was closed, everywhere else was closed. But
we had that drive through keep that distance, so that's
how we were able to make it. We didn't qualify, unfortunately,
because before we started, when we got into Plumb, we
weren't making any money yet, but then COVID happened, which
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it made it look like we were making money. We didn't
qualify for any of the PPE money, none of the
other kickbacks from the government, none of the government money
that everyone else qualified for. There's a million, multimillion dollar
companies qualified for. We didn't qualify for it. We only
have four employees, my husband and I and my children.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
That's that's that scandalous, scandalous story. How many people got
that that government welfare redistribution program, and how many people
really needed it didn't There's people in government who got
PPP money that knew how to work the system. That
that that that Oh, that's just that's just awful.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Yeah. And because because we technically made money, like what
five dollars over over the black line. Wow, we really
doing it there, buddy. But like, because we made this
a little bit of money during COVID, we didn't qualify,
but as soon as downtown opened up, as soon as
it opened back up, we went down. Yeah, and we're like,
all right, we're gonna do it, guys, We're gonna make
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it happen. The kids hadn't graduated yet, you know, so
we had those two with us that we didn't technically
have to pay for what we did pay them, So
that was helpful.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
It's plumb coffee, Insightril, It's just tough, man. My heart
goes out to people, and you can you can hear it.
You want to succeed, you're working hard, and the Jeff
you're old Michael Berry show. Go ahead, sir, how are
you good? I want to talk about all the wild
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hogs we.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
Have in state of Texas.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Okay, before you do, I can't hear you, So I
don't know, can you adjust something so that I can't.
Are you on a bluetooth?
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Ye?
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Much better. Bluetooth does not convey across the radio. It's
it's yeah, anyway.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
Go ahead fatally, Okay, Well all of won't talk to
you about the wild hogs problem that we have in Texas.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
I was doing the Ladies Club.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
No, no, no, we don't want to mess with those
wild hogs. We're talking about the fair.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Ones I've seen. Well, yeah, okay.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
So we got in Texas, we got about six and
a half million wild hogs and uh, and they're going
about and I don't know if people understand how fast
these things breed and how destructive they are to all
the landowners and the farmers and the HLA green spaces
and where there's a We've got a company that that
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goes out there, and what we do is we trap
them and we've got big commercial traps and run starlingk
systems and it's doing pretty good. And so I just
want to put it out there about how bad these
pigs are and uh what we do. And you know,
if anybody needs any kind of help with any wild
holes on.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Their property, let me know how much do you charge
to do that.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
So it varies. I typically would do about two hundred
a week on the trap, and it doesn't take but
a couple of weeks to get in there and uh
and get everything set up, and then you have the
hawks and work on with them. And you know, the
thing is are wild animals, so there's a good chance
that eventually they're going to come back. Particularly they don't
come back for a while, and it's it's it's a
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never ending process. I was explaining to somebody at my
real job the other day about the Sounders whenever they breed.
Most of the times when I catch these baby pigs,
there's you know, if there's ten of them, more than
half of them are going to be females. And so
if they can breathe up to three times a year
and they can start breeding us six months old. So
if you got six females out of ten, and then
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those states have another stake, it's just it's a horrible
cycle and it's really hard to stay on top of it.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Yeah, it's they're a fascinating species. I have been fascinated
with them for some number of years. How fast how
first of all, and I've argued this with people, but
I believe it to be true. They're very smart and
they're skiddish, which is to their advantage. You know, if
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a deer gets wind of you, they'll turn their head
to look at you and keep you know, the broad
side of a barn shot available for you. It's as
if the second of us, a faral hog, smells you,
or hears you, or has any idea that you might
be or that some threat might be present, they don't
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bother to look and see if they're just gone. And
I don't know if anything else. It's like that, and
uh there, what what what'd you say? Oh?
Speaker 4 (25:38):
I was saying, No, you're right, your homes are right.
The first the first sign of any kind of danger
or any noise that they hear, that they take off.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
So my printer was printing right in my ear. Did
you say, y'all are setting up cages to catch them?
Speaker 4 (25:51):
Yes, sir, So I go out and set this trap.
I out landowners or rachel as you know, a school
disc or they'll give us a holler and we'll go
out and set up our big traps. And my traps
are about forty foot diameter, thirty five forty foot diameter,
and they've got gates that are controlled. I control them
off myself.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Yep, I've seen those. I watch YouTube pages that that
do what you're doing. I love that. You may you
may see my YouTube page.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
I got a YouTube page. I'm on all the socials
and what's the name of your YouTube page, Texas Feral
hol Trappers.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Yeah. I like that. There's no messing around. You know
exactly what he's doing. Texas Feral Trappers up. Yep, there
we go.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
Yeah, I've got I've got a big following on Facebook
about twenty five thousand people and growing out of that
page and all that. People need to go on there
and look at it, and everyone of them, all the
socials are Texas farrel hold trappers.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Okay, so you're taking those panels out and setting those
up to make the perimeter.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
That's great, Yes, and they have okay.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
So the only so the remote control is to the door.
That's right.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
That's right. So the the there's a there's a camera
and the camera's kind of like a ring camera at
your house. So it alerts me on my phone and
I'll open up the app and I can move the
camera around make sure all the pigs are in there.
And then once they do, I hit the button and
drop the trap door, and I go up the next
day and get them out.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
So are you.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
Pretty simple a process? Pretty farn too. Actually, I'm actually
going to get some right now.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Yeah, So how stable is that fence for them not
to be able to drill through it cut under it?
Because they are I mean, they are ingenious.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
That they are. And so now I haven't had any
get out on me. But these these things the way,
they're pretty heavy. These panels are pretty heavy, number one.
And there's a big piece of rebar that holds it
all together. And I draw that rebar between each panel
and the ground kind of deep like a t pose.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Oh I got so.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
It gives its legity and and uh and then but
sometimes they'll hit you get them big boards and there
they'll hit that thing so hard theyn't shove that thing
around a little bit. But typically you know, they'll just
make to shove at home and eat all the food
until I get up there and they load them up
get them out of there.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
So what are you are you using corn or what
are you putting in there?
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (28:01):
I used corn. We got a secret sauce that we
used also. Uh, but for the most part, the main
ingredient is corn.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
And Uncle Jerry and I had a place in Welder
and we enjoyed messing with them, and uh, it was
kind of a pastime for us, us versus them. It
was a battle royale. And he was putting diesel oil
or diesel on there and I didn't I was not
aware that that was a But he fashioned these things,
I guess you can buy them, which was like a
(28:30):
PVC pipe, and then he drew some holes along there
and uh, and get them, get them in the area
so that and then they couldn't eat the corn so
so quickly. But we were using those to just hunt them,
like set up a tent and hunt them for sport.
We didn't have a terrible problem and we didn't have
a you know, a cash crop that we were worried
about them them destroying. What do you charge to go
(28:53):
out and and set this whole That's a lot of work.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
It is a lot of work. And i'ma be honest
with you, ain't getting itself none of it. As a
matter of fact, I probably lose on the backside, to
be honest. But we go out and it's it varies
depending on the location.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
But just tell me what you charge.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
Uh, it's about two hundred dollars a week, is what
it is. And it typically takes a few weeks. But
if you go out down the river bottoms.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
You burn your gas, you set this thing up, you
haul the hogs out for two hundred dollars a week.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
Yeah, but I'm getting paid on the front side and
the backside them. So if you like the other day
lupon Centerville, the buar was buying pigs over one hundred
pounds or fifty cents a pounds, So it took ten
pigs in there. That's five hundred dollars, okay, And and
they every pigs over one hundred and all all of
them are okay.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
So you always so you you that's a bonus you
get per hog that you catch.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
That's all right. That's that's the park of it for
the most part. And there's a lot of times where
we'll we'll just go out there and if there's not
a whole lot orf there, a bunch of babies or
small ones, will just kill them and get rid of them,
suppose of them.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
So how many on average hogs are you is in
that forty foot dam.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
So last night I was watching the camera and I
had about twenty five.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
So twenty five twenty five, so you'll get you'll make
twelve hundred dollars today.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
Yeah, if they're all over one hundred pounds, you know,
if it's still fifty cents a pound. Hugs. But a
lot of these are juvenile pigs. So there's a lot
of them, aren't roth Dad.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (30:33):
That's pretty cool. You're a firefighter by day, aren't you.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
I was.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
I used to be.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
No, I actually in the oil and gas industry. Now
I've been there for a long time, but I was
in the fire department.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
You could have been in the oil and gas industry
and kept the fire gig. People do that, you know,
It's that time time time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Varie Show is on the air. All right, we're
talking to Holly at bc R in aesthetics. She's just
gonna do Ramon's limp uh what lip filler? We'll see,
(00:24):
h So what all do you do? You do the forehead,
you do the lips, you do the cheeks?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Yes, what else?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
So there, you know, different different products for different areas
are you know, different modalities. But skinhealth is really important.
You know, if you're if you're muscles that are causing
the wrinkles to relax, but your skin stuting it condition,
then you know you're not gonna clock as skipped as
you can. So it's definitely like multi multi approaches for
(01:01):
best outcomes.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
And you're located Needing, Washington and.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Westcott six thousand and one Washington.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
What percentage of your customers of your patients are men?
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Maybe five or ten percent?
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Well, not many? What percent of them are gay?
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Maybe maybe thirty to forty percent?
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Okay, Well, supposedly ten percent of the population is gay,
So that's four times out performing. I would expect it
to be high, if not even higher, because I think
gay men are on average more concerned with their appearance
than straight dudes, and I do believe that on average.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Do you see a fair amount of streatment as well?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
You no, I'm not saying you wouldn't. What are they
coming in for? Right?
Speaker 3 (02:03):
So usually they don't come in knowing what they want.
It's just you know, this bothers me. And then we
based on like their their their individual face, I build
a custom treatment plan and then they decide what they
want to do.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
So what do you what do you like? What would
do something they want?
Speaker 3 (02:24):
So under so the lines around the eyes and between
the eyebrows seem to be, you know, a concern for
men and women. Under eyes are always way up there.
You know, it's one of the fastest aging areas of
skin on our faces. So college and stimulation treatments are
(02:44):
some of my favorite things to do to improve skin quality,
like micro needling. Pr F easy jail is really incredible,
and that's from a blood raw. So we draw your
blood and then we spin it to isolate concentrate the
growth factors, and then we just inject it where your
skin meet some eating or it can or plane pier
(03:07):
fu can be used topically topically for micro needling.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
You know what I'm gonna end up doing.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Holly, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 1 (03:16):
I've got these folds on the top of my eyes
that are droopy, and I didn't realize till I went
back and my mother had it and my brother had it,
and it makes you look sleepy. And so when I
take a photo sometimes I will I will do this
sort of stern look because it causes my eyebrow to
(03:38):
control my eyelid to contract and to open and to
show my eye fully, because if left into my own devices,
my eyelids sort of droop and so you don't look
you don't look happy, you don't look alert, and it
don't look as good. So I'm gonna have that. I'm
(04:00):
going to have that little fold lifted up a little bit.
I think that's vain. No, I don't like it.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
You mightn't be able to see better.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Right, You gotta think, right, I mean, you gotta think.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
So.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
I got all my surgeries planned in a row because
I have wits it doing this thing called l a
L which is a light adjusted lens replacement. And the
difference between that and your regular technics or restore or
one of those, is that over a two month period,
you go back, so they when they do normally, when
(04:39):
you do surgery, you know, you hope you got it right,
and if you didn't, then then you know, any imperfection
you just live with. With the light adjusted, you go
back multiple times within a two month period, and he
tweaks it, and so you know, if you say, Okay,
this is really good. I can see better up close
and I can see better far, but my up close
(05:00):
is not as good as I want it to be.
And so he does a little tweaked there and a
little tweaked there, and uh, was that That's fascinating. It's
fascinating that they can do it because now you're you're
you know, you get the opportunity to edit, not just
you know, one draft and you're finished. And I like
the thought of that. The the reason everybody doesn't do
(05:24):
it is you have to be committed to the cause
because for as long as he is still adjusting, you
can't be exposed to sunlight because the sunlight causes the
eyes to react, and then that reduces the ability for
him to tweak the surgery that he's done. But he
loves it, and and I've studied it online. I've read
(05:45):
lots and lots of reviews and people really like it.
I mean the advances we've made in cosmetics and pure medicine. Uh,
the eye surgery, for instance, you know used to My
great grandmother had cataract, so they went in and removed
her cataracts, so she didn't get better vision. Well I
have a cat or I had a real bad injury
(06:05):
a few years ago, and I had a real bad
have a real bad cataract, And so now instead of
just removing the cataract, I can walk out of there
with you know, near or perfect vision. Well, that's just
those are just scientific advancements. That's just fantastic. Girl tears
because I didn't get a single start here that our
(06:26):
country is failing you today.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
Invest in Kleenex, ladies and gentlemen. And this is the
Michael Berry Show. We had this song on an eight track.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
I can I can see the eight track in my
mind's I was black with a little label stuck on
the top of the baby ticks my smile and I
can remember listening to this. Oh, I love Charlie Rich.
I don't know how much I love Charlie Rich because
my mom played Charlie Rich and my mom loved Charlie Rich.
You don't don't know how many things you kind of
inherit by osmosis, but I follow on YouTube's a fellow
(07:09):
who does it a little like a podcast. I guess
you'd call it. I don't know what the actual term
would be. His name is Andrew Pope. He's out of
Gadsden at Labama, and he did one that I watched
last night on this and it was about This was
Charlie Rich's first big hit. Charlie Rich was more of
(07:29):
a songwriter and this was this was the one that
hit it for him in seventy and it was written
by a guy named Kenny O'Donnell, and the basis of
the song was that there was criticism This was before Watergate,
but there was already criticism of of of Nixon, and
(07:52):
someone he saw a news report and someone said, well,
you just don't know what goes on when we get
behind closed doors. And Kenny O'Donnell's mind got to worry.
He liked that line, when when we get behind closed doors,
and then he decided to make a love song out
of that, when she gets behind closed doors, So he
(08:14):
wrote it Pig Robbin's uh is on it and then
a little Floyd Kramer, Well they call it slipnote. Is
that style that Floyd Kramer played slipnote? Isn't it that?
That opening line is very Floyd Kramer asked, can you
play just the opening again? It starts so strong. We
(08:36):
started back over because I was talking already. I mean, yeah,
sweets is right. That's like a good corner doll. Hard
(08:57):
to get a good corn doll. I think they're harder
to do than people realize. I like my corn dog Crispy.
I don't know how people can eat a corn dog
out of the out of the freezer, you know, a
frozen corn dog, because you have the ingredients, they're just
not done right. I like my corn dog Crispy. The
(09:18):
best corn dog I've ever had is, I'm proud to say.
Over on Bridge City on Texas Avenue, in front of
the walmarts, you go there, there's a little shop to
the side and it's it's just like a little hunting
cabin and they've dropped it looks like something you'd see
at the Old at the Old County Fair years and
(09:39):
years ago. Like it's sitting on a skid so they
could move it at any time, probably propane powered, and
the guy in there's kind of hunched over, and you know,
I think your life expectancy if you work inside one
of those places, like five years, is just awful. And
it's got the it's got the window that is designed
(09:59):
to make it difficult for him and you to conduct business.
You know, it doesn't open properly, like an old camper window,
and so you kind of you kind of like, hey,
should I just mouth it and you hope you can
understand what I'm saying or you've put my head down
in there, like you know, I'm robbing to bank. Hey
could you send me out of corn though and put
(10:21):
the bustard on the side, but they're corn dogs. Oh
my god, my niece Bailey, it was her wedding shower
years ago, I don't know, but maybe five years ago,
and my wife was driving her over and oh well
(10:44):
it was no, it was the year Chris died. Because
Chris was going to walk her down the alli. He
was so excited. So he died January twenty fifth, and
this was maybe October of that year, and that would
have been twenty two, so it's not that long ago.
Four years ago anyway. So the shower was at her
mother's house in Port Nature's or Neederland. And my parents
(11:07):
live in Orange, actually live outside of Orange, and so
you'd come up sixty two and then whatever that highway
is that takes you to the Rainbow Bridge and then
you go down. So since I was already going that
way because I was supposed to pick my wife up,
she rode with my mom and we're going to go
to Houston. And I got the bright idea, I'm going
to get a corn dog for myself. I was looking
(11:29):
forward to it, and so I thought, oh, I'll bring
a corn dog for all the ladies. Look at me,
mister nice guy. So I roll up and I said,
I didn't know how many ladies were there, but I said,
can I do a dozen corn dogs? And the dude
looked at me, and I don't remember where he was from,
(11:49):
so let's make him from Cambodia for the sake of
this argument. He was Polepot's and grandson. For the sake
of this conversation. I said, can I get a dozen
corn dogs? And he did. I thought he didn't know
what a dozen was, And I said, you know how
when people don't speak English, you just say it louder right,
A dozen, a dozen. So I said twelve, you know one, two,
(12:16):
you know one, two, three, four five, I did chicken
bopo one two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, twelve.
So he heard me and he understood me, and he
did not want to make twelve corn dogs. Well, of course,
there was a lady behind me, and she started huffing
and puffing, and I thought to myself, well, I could
(12:37):
let her go first, but we're gonna be at this
for a while. I mean, I'll just never get my
corn dogs. So, uh, he did my twelve corn dogs,
and I took my corn dogs and I ate. I
like it hot, man, you gotta eat that thing hot.
Like's so hot that when you bite into the meat,
it just burns. Uhs ooh, yeah, So there I am. Well,
(12:57):
I arrived with eight corn dogs. We've all been there,
haven't we. So I arrived, and I'm so bloated because
you know, you're eating hot dog whinnies. That's not good
for you. That's just that's just lips and bungholes and salt.
And I arrived and they weren't hot anymore. And I
go walking in and it's all women and they're looking
(13:19):
over and my wife's just giggling, and Bailey's embarrassed. And
I brought him in and I put them on the
table and I go to walk out, and Bailey's like,
that's my uncle Michael and all that. Within five minutes
they were gone demolished. This is that horn Dog story
and Charlie Rich that is the Floyd Kreamer force. You
(13:44):
notice how he slips some notes in there the other
people can't get to. That's why he sells his stuff
on TV. If I need a time capsule of my childhood,
(14:05):
it'd be the opening of the wide wide world of sports.
Russian dudes blowing an old ring by pulling a eighteen wheeler.
Want a chain? Floyd Kramer commercials, Mikey likes it? Life
cerial commercial, Wheaties. There's some rantsid stuff right there. My goodness,
(14:34):
that was awful Wheaties. It'd be such a boss move
to have Floyd Kramer in the corner at your house party.
(14:57):
But having played rap songs on piano, it was a track,
a backing track of Paul Wall and Little Troy. I'd
be good. You got a food delivery. There's a carp.
(15:36):
You like a harp. I don't mind, heart. When I
walk up on an event, how sets the tone? Very elegant.
I'm waiting. Are you about to say something? Is that
your delivery? Okay? Oh, we've got Liz, one of the
(16:01):
owners of the Plum Coffee shop, Liz, I'm here. That
fellow bow he's something else?
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Oh yeah, bo, what's a yeah? He is something else?
Speaker 3 (16:18):
You're right?
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Hello?
Speaker 2 (16:20):
How are you? Thank you for taking my call? I
appreciate you.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Yes, I'm glad. Are you a black woman?
Speaker 2 (16:26):
I am not.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Where are you from New Orleans?
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Southwest Houston? No, born and raised? Yes? Yes, sir?
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Are you married?
Speaker 4 (16:36):
I sure ran twenty eight years Okay.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
What's his name?
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Jerry?
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Oh, Jerry and Lee. I knew that. I knew that.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
That's okay. It's a decent reminder. It's definitely a decent reminder. Yeah.
I was born in Southwest Houston in Sharpstown General Hospital.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Where'd you go to high school?
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Sharpstown?
Speaker 1 (16:54):
What year did you come out?
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Ninety eight?
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Ninety eight? And so you met him roight when you
came out of high school?
Speaker 2 (17:01):
M hm, sure did walking down the street. It just
got off the sixty five metro bus and what was
he doing walking down the street? Moved here from Lufkin?
He just moved here from Lufkin?
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Uh huh?
Speaker 1 (17:14):
And did he did he approach you?
Speaker 2 (17:17):
I approached him, okay? So we met because I had
some birthday balloons in my hands and some homeless man
asked me for my birthday balloons, because you know, in
high school they give you birthday balloons and stuff like that,
and this homeless man asked me before I said no,
and then I stopped Jerry. I said, did you just
see that homeless man asked me for my balloons? And
Jerry was like no, but can I have them? And
(17:39):
I'm like, no, absolutely not. You may not have them.
And then we went to Jack in the Box and
we've been together ever since.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
What did you order?
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Sourdough jack with curly fries and ranch dressing.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
My wife and I the first time, our first date,
I was broke and I took her to see Harlem
Knights at gulf Gate Mall and like not to Taco
Bell and I ordered. She tells the story that I
for the first year, I would order for both of us,
which is true. And I ordered my standard order for her,
(18:13):
which was two bean burritos, no us, a tostada and
a water a dollar ninety two. I could eat for
under two bucks. It was perfect. And she tells the
story that she didn't know you could get onions and
stuff like that. And then when we went to a
burger joint, I would order for her fast food burger,
I would order a cheeseburger. I didn't eat mayonnaise at
(18:34):
that point, just meating cheese with fries and a coke.
And she said she didn't know for a year, and
now she does her burgers loaded is rainomon. She didn't
know that you could get all that stuff on it,
and that I ordered for her, and then it took
her a while to figure out that I ordered exactly
what I got. So when she didn't eat her whole meal,
which was always I could finish what because if she
(18:56):
got it different, I wouldn't want it right. So then
this way I whole. What do you attribute the challenges
at the Plumb coffee shop? Do people not know you're there,
or the cost too high or.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
You know, In all fairness, I'm not sure. Because we've
done the coffee science. We make a really delicious cup
of coffee, but then all these franchises have just bombarded
Barker Cypriss. We were the only ones out here for
a very very long time prior to COVID. Once COVID hit,
(19:31):
then that's when Dutch Brothers comes, and then that's when
Summer Moon and all them came, and they just started
taking slices of the pie. Everyone used to know we
were out here, but you know, it's been a coffee
establishment for twenty one years. Jerry and I took over
six years prior to COVID because we already had a bakery,
a very well established bakery. Uh minimum COVID hit, it
(19:53):
just oh my goodness, you know, it just died.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
COVID. It's not COVID. It's a crazy overreaction by a
lot of people. And many of them, our neighbors, want
to pretend they didn't, but they did. A lot of businesses,
you know, independently owned businesses went out of business and
they'll never come back. And and it's it's I think
about I think about the toll that what is your
(20:18):
product mixed? What percent of your revenues are coffee versus
the pastries and that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
I would say it would be a twenty five to
seventy five splitfe seventy five.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Yes, okay, so coffee good.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
I was going to say, we do serve a decent
amount of food, but coffee is really what we push.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
That's just such a that's such a tough business and
there's no way.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Very very tough.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Do you have a driver, Very very tough.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
We do have a drive through, and during COVID, that's
what made it look like we were making money because
everybody because downtown was closed, everywhere else was closed. But
we had that drive through keep that distance, so that's
how we were able to make it. We didn't qualify, unfortunately,
because before we started, when we got into Plumb, we
weren't making any money yet, but then COVID happened, which
(21:11):
it made it look like we were making money. We didn't
qualify for any of the PPE money, none of the
other kickbacks from the government, none of the government money
that everyone else qualified for. There's a million, multimillion dollar
companies qualified for. We didn't qualify for it. We only
have four employees, my husband and I and my children.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
That's that's that scandalous, scandalous story. How many people got
that that government welfare redistribution program, and how many people
really needed it didn't There's people in government who got
PPP money that knew how to work the system. That
that that that Oh, that's just that's just awful.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Yeah. And because because we technically made money, like what
five dollars over over the black line. Wow, we really
doing it there, buddy. But like, because we made this
a little bit of money during COVID, we didn't qualify,
but as soon as downtown opened up, as soon as
it opened back up, we went down. Yeah, and we're like,
all right, we're gonna do it, guys, We're gonna make
(22:09):
it happen. The kids hadn't graduated yet, you know, so
we had those two with us that we didn't technically
have to pay for what we did pay them, So
that was helpful.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
It's plumb coffee, Insightril, It's just tough, man. My heart
goes out to people, and you can you can hear it.
You want to succeed, you're working hard, and the Jeff
you're old Michael Berry show. Go ahead, sir, how are
you good? I want to talk about all the wild
(22:38):
hogs we.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
Have in state of Texas.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Okay, before you do, I can't hear you, So I
don't know, can you adjust something so that I can't.
Are you on a bluetooth?
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Ye?
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Much better. Bluetooth does not convey across the radio. It's
it's yeah, anyway.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
Go ahead fatally, Okay, Well all of won't talk to
you about the wild hogs problem that we have in Texas.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
I was doing the Ladies Club.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
No, no, no, we don't want to mess with those
wild hogs. We're talking about the fair.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Ones I've seen. Well, yeah, okay.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
So we got in Texas, we got about six and
a half million wild hogs and uh, and they're going
about and I don't know if people understand how fast
these things breed and how destructive they are to all
the landowners and the farmers and the HLA green spaces
and where there's a We've got a company that that
(23:34):
goes out there, and what we do is we trap
them and we've got big commercial traps and run starlingk
systems and it's doing pretty good. And so I just
want to put it out there about how bad these
pigs are and uh what we do. And you know,
if anybody needs any kind of help with any wild
holes on.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Their property, let me know how much do you charge
to do that.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
So it varies. I typically would do about two hundred
a week on the trap, and it doesn't take but
a couple of weeks to get in there and uh
and get everything set up, and then you have the
hawks and work on with them. And you know, the
thing is are wild animals, so there's a good chance
that eventually they're going to come back. Particularly they don't
come back for a while, and it's it's it's a
(24:17):
never ending process. I was explaining to somebody at my
real job the other day about the Sounders whenever they breed.
Most of the times when I catch these baby pigs,
there's you know, if there's ten of them, more than
half of them are going to be females. And so
if they can breathe up to three times a year
and they can start breeding us six months old. So
if you got six females out of ten, and then
(24:40):
those states have another stake, it's just it's a horrible
cycle and it's really hard to stay on top of it.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Yeah, it's they're a fascinating species. I have been fascinated
with them for some number of years. How fast how
first of all, and I've argued this with people, but
I believe it to be true. They're very smart and
they're skiddish, which is to their advantage. You know, if
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a deer gets wind of you, they'll turn their head
to look at you and keep you know, the broad
side of a barn shot available for you. It's as
if the second of us, a faral hog, smells you,
or hears you, or has any idea that you might
be or that some threat might be present, they don't
(25:27):
bother to look and see if they're just gone. And
I don't know if anything else. It's like that, and
uh there, what what what'd you say? Oh?
Speaker 4 (25:38):
I was saying, No, you're right, your homes are right.
The first the first sign of any kind of danger
or any noise that they hear, that they take off.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
So my printer was printing right in my ear. Did
you say, y'all are setting up cages to catch them?
Speaker 4 (25:51):
Yes, sir, So I go out and set this trap.
I out landowners or rachel as you know, a school
disc or they'll give us a holler and we'll go
out and set up our big traps. And my traps
are about forty foot diameter, thirty five forty foot diameter,
and they've got gates that are controlled. I control them
off myself.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Yep, I've seen those. I watch YouTube pages that that
do what you're doing. I love that. You may you
may see my YouTube page.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
I got a YouTube page. I'm on all the socials
and what's the name of your YouTube page, Texas Feral
hol Trappers.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Yeah. I like that. There's no messing around. You know
exactly what he's doing. Texas Feral Trappers up. Yep, there
we go.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
Yeah, I've got I've got a big following on Facebook
about twenty five thousand people and growing out of that
page and all that. People need to go on there
and look at it, and everyone of them, all the
socials are Texas farrel hold trappers.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Okay, so you're taking those panels out and setting those
up to make the perimeter.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
That's great, Yes, and they have okay.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
So the only so the remote control is to the door.
That's right.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
That's right. So the the there's a there's a camera
and the camera's kind of like a ring camera at
your house. So it alerts me on my phone and
I'll open up the app and I can move the
camera around make sure all the pigs are in there.
And then once they do, I hit the button and
drop the trap door, and I go up the next
day and get them out.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
So are you.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
Pretty simple a process? Pretty farn too. Actually, I'm actually
going to get some right now.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Yeah, So how stable is that fence for them not
to be able to drill through it cut under it?
Because they are I mean, they are ingenious.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
That they are. And so now I haven't had any
get out on me. But these these things the way,
they're pretty heavy. These panels are pretty heavy, number one.
And there's a big piece of rebar that holds it
all together. And I draw that rebar between each panel
and the ground kind of deep like a t pose.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Oh I got so.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
It gives its legity and and uh and then but
sometimes they'll hit you get them big boards and there
they'll hit that thing so hard theyn't shove that thing
around a little bit. But typically you know, they'll just
make to shove at home and eat all the food
until I get up there and they load them up
get them out of there.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
So what are you are you using corn or what
are you putting in there?
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (28:01):
I used corn. We got a secret sauce that we
used also. Uh, but for the most part, the main
ingredient is corn.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
And Uncle Jerry and I had a place in Welder
and we enjoyed messing with them, and uh, it was
kind of a pastime for us, us versus them. It
was a battle royale. And he was putting diesel oil
or diesel on there and I didn't I was not
aware that that was a But he fashioned these things,
I guess you can buy them, which was like a
(28:30):
PVC pipe, and then he drew some holes along there
and uh, and get them, get them in the area
so that and then they couldn't eat the corn so
so quickly. But we were using those to just hunt them,
like set up a tent and hunt them for sport.
We didn't have a terrible problem and we didn't have
a you know, a cash crop that we were worried
about them them destroying. What do you charge to go
(28:53):
out and and set this whole That's a lot of work.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
It is a lot of work. And i'ma be honest
with you, ain't getting itself none of it. As a
matter of fact, I probably lose on the backside, to
be honest. But we go out and it's it varies
depending on the location.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
But just tell me what you charge.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
Uh, it's about two hundred dollars a week, is what
it is. And it typically takes a few weeks. But
if you go out down the river bottoms.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
You burn your gas, you set this thing up, you
haul the hogs out for two hundred dollars a week.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
Yeah, but I'm getting paid on the front side and
the backside them. So if you like the other day
lupon Centerville, the buar was buying pigs over one hundred
pounds or fifty cents a pounds, So it took ten
pigs in there. That's five hundred dollars, okay, And and
they every pigs over one hundred and all all of
them are okay.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
So you always so you you that's a bonus you
get per hog that you catch.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
That's all right. That's that's the park of it for
the most part. And there's a lot of times where
we'll we'll just go out there and if there's not
a whole lot orf there, a bunch of babies or
small ones, will just kill them and get rid of them,
suppose of them.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
So how many on average hogs are you is in
that forty foot dam.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
So last night I was watching the camera and I
had about twenty five.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
So twenty five twenty five, so you'll get you'll make
twelve hundred dollars today.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
Yeah, if they're all over one hundred pounds, you know,
if it's still fifty cents a pound. Hugs. But a
lot of these are juvenile pigs. So there's a lot
of them, aren't roth Dad.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (30:33):
That's pretty cool. You're a firefighter by day, aren't you.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
I was.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
I used to be.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
No, I actually in the oil and gas industry. Now
I've been there for a long time, but I was
in the fire department.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
You could have been in the oil and gas industry
and kept the fire gig. People do that, you know,
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