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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Arry Show is.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
On the air.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
They tried to take out our Attorney general. A lot
of Republicans involved in that effort. You can come to
your own conclusions why they tried to do that, but
I will tell you, as I have many times before,
part of the reasons is he's going after the sacred
cows that even many Republicans don't want touched. You're not
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supposed to actually do your job. That ruins the party, folks,
that ruins the festivities. You just go home and give
a speech. You don't actually file the lawsuits and win them.
Makes the rest of us look bad. Ken Paxton has
alerted Bear County, of course, San anton and Harris County,
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Houston that they will not be allowed to engage in
behaviors that lead to voter election or to election fraud.
Attorney General Ken Paxton, as our guest, General Paxton, what
exactly have you notified Bear County and Harris County and why.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
So?
Speaker 4 (01:34):
We've notified both of them, but we just sued late
last night, we sued Bear which is San Antonio, for
what we believe is sending out illegal registration forms that've
got this group that is affiliated with very liberal politicians
that is sending out registration forms to all kinds of people,
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some likely ineligible to vote, which encourages illegal registration. And
counties are not specifically permitted to do this in the
way our laws work in Texas. Counties have to be
statutorily or constitutionally authorized to do what they do. They
can't just make stuff up. And in this case, not
only they send these out without having an authority, but
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they're tied in with this very liberal group and there
was no bidding process. They're required to have a transparent
bidding process, which they avoided for some reason. And we
know that Bears have done this Bear County, but we
also know that other counties are thinking about Houston is
Harris County, and we know that Travis County is considering this.
So we know there are other counties doing this, and conveniently,
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they're spending tax beay dollars to potentially encourage ineligible people
to vote.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
So you have alerted them that they are not allowed
to do this, and it would appear that Bear County
is defying you, and at this point has Harris County responded.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
We've gotten no response from Harris County. They have not
voted to do it, so right now, as far as
I'm concerned, they're in compliance. But clearly Bear Counties. You know,
they're not worried about laws in Texas or whatever, worrying
about whatever authority they have to do these things. They
just did it. So we're going to try to stop
them and make them follow state law given the fact
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that they're basically spitting in the face of what state
law allows them to do.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
And it would seem obvious, but I want you to
say yes or no, that there could be no other
reason to do this than to encourage voter fraud. Right.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Well, look, we know that we have millions of illegals
in here that we're encouraged to be here for a reason.
I'm very convinced that Joe Biden, he didn't if you'll remember,
he didn't wait till two months to ask to tell
the world that he wasn't deporting it. But he did
that on the first day. So he accomplished his goal.
We got millions and millions of people here. He put
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him in the states he wanted them to. He gave
the cartel's adequate nos to so that they could build
the infrastructure to do it. And now some of these
Democratic counties are using liberal groups. They're using our money
to encourage people to register when it's not their job
to do that, and do it in a way that
it looks like they're trying to encourage illegals to vote.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
That's what it looked like.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
It was very frustrating. In twenty twenty one, the state
legislature passed the law requiring the Secretary of State to
audit for counties drawn at random based on size. Harris
County was picked the twenty twenty two election was to
be audited. We had horrible fraud here. Clifford Tatum was
brought in by Rodney Ellis to basically skew the election.
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They didn't send ballots out to voters. I know you
know the story, but just reminding folks, they didn't send
ballots out to the West Side. If they had, Alex
Meeler would win. Knows. And it's taken until a week
or so ago for Jane Nelson, greg Abbott's Secretary of
State to finally release a report at this should have
been studied before and now they I don't think they've
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told what counties it's almost as if some of the
other Republicans certainly not you, are not determined to do
what it takes to stop the cheating.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
I totally agree with you, and I've seen it because
this even this last session, where you know, we already
knew that the Quarter Criminal Appeals took away my authority
after you know, seventy one years of the Attorney General
being directed by the legislature to prosecute voter fraud, Suddenly,
you know, the Quarter Criminal Appeals decides it's unconstitutional for
me to be in court, which is absolutely ludicrous because
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they're right. You know, every Attorney general in the United
States is violating the you know, the constitution separation of
powers clauses. So you know, the legislature could fix that,
and they failed to do it. I mean, it was
not done by the Speaker of the House didn't even
consider it. I was told that they didn't have time.
So one of the more serious issues is that who's
going to prosecute vote or fraud? And that's just one
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example where the legislature has just not worried about it,
and they've not given a proper authority to me to
do other things that some of these DA's are source
DA's aren't doing now.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
It's very frustrating because you have been willing to make
yourself the tip of the spear, and obviously there's a
political cost to that, and some of that is Republicans
coming after you, because it's clear to me they don't
want the dust up over all this that rather, as
long as they win their election, they'd rather move on
down the road and not have to confront this terrible,
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terrible trend. But at this rate, we end up losing
every office and there would be no one left to
prosecute these cases, no one left to advocate for the
taxpayer and for fair elections.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
That is the amazing short sighted strategy of Dade FeelA
and guys like Jeff Leach and Dustin Burroughs who have
adopted this strategy, and I think they feel like it.
You know, for the time being, they're in power and
they like that power and they get to get their
stuff done. But not that far down the road, they
aren't going to have that power because once the Democrats
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get controlled, and they will fix the election laws in
a way that we can't. When mail on ballots will
go out to everybody, there'll be no there'll be no
security on those ballots, and the people that are willing
to cheat, which is typically the Democrats, will cheat and
we'll have a hard time ever winning another election. So
it's a very short sighted strategy for their current position,
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which will only be short lived. It's just ridiculous that
that that they don't see this, see the handwriting on
the wall.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
That coupled with the fact that Civitek is a major
Democrat donor, and I guess in Austin they're sending out
these these ballots registrations of people at will after having
said that's the strategy. It's very disturbing. I am grateful
that you are willing to push back against this. I
got forty seconds, you can take it, go to break.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Yeah, and that's that's the same organization I'm talking about
doing it in Bear County. So they're clearly aligned with
the left. And this is where we're spending our taxpayer dollars.
Why is it the why is it that the county
commissioners have hired a democratic organization? Do you think that's
going to be fair? I don't, and I don't. It's
clearly not authorized by law. And if we don't stop this.
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We are going to lose our state, We're going to
lose our country. So that's why I'm in. That's what
I'm going to.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Keep doing it, amen, and that's why we fought for you.
Ken Paxton, Attorney General in the Great State of Texas.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
Thank you, sir, Thank you.
Speaker 6 (08:54):
And the girls all get pretty at closing time when
you're listening to the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
You didn't know that brass came in after a while,
did you. It takes it to a whole different level.
Born on this day in nineteen nineteen was Howard Morris
extra credit if you know what role he played on
The Andy Griffith Show, and that was Ernest T. Bass.
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You know, TV was so much fun then. It's so
slapstick and so silly, the names, the hopiness. Everybody wasn't cynical.
Everything didn't have to be so complicated. It could be straightforward.
You could have a life lesson administered by Sheriff Andy
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the Opie through Barney or ain't be. You could come
away feeling more wholesome. My trainer, Michael Petru and I
will gather while we're working out. My wife says we
talk too much or I talk too much. That's why
I shouldn't like to work out with me. Even Crockett
tells my tells, my mom, tells, my wife, his mom,
(10:13):
He and Michael, but Michael wouldn't say it, but they
both say, yeah, it's you know, we work out with
dad he because sometimes they'll join him on my workout.
He talks the whole time. And she says, yeah, that's
that's what dad does. That way he doesn't feel the
pain or notice ities. That's what he Yeah, but I
mean he talks the whole time, the whole like he
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never stops. He's lifting, he's squatt and he's talking the
whole time. And we do. So Petru and his wife
decided some time ago that he will stay. He's very conservative,
which was how I discovered him. Actually, funny story. Do
you know the story behind this? Remm it's a good
story out too years ago? Chance McLean said. This was
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before Chance was doing Heritage films and he said, I
cut a commercial TV commercial spot for a guy and
you would love this guy. And I said, well why,
He said, well, he used to be at the Houstonian
for seventeen years. And I don't know how long ago
this was, but since in thirteen years he's been on
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his own and his business has just exploded since we've partnered.
But this was five, six, seven years ago. Before his
business exploded, it was just him. He didn't have his
ten trainers. Now at the time, it was just him.
And instead of you having to join a gym, he
comes to your house. And that was revolutionary because a
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lot of people, myself included, do not want to have
to go to the gym to work out because you've
got the time getting there and the time getting back.
That's an excuse not to do it. You got to park.
If you're not already a gym member, then you got
all that hassle. You got to work out around other people.
You can't ask an embarrassing question or try to figure
out how to do something new with other people looking
at you. You got all that gong. If you do
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it at home, then he come like, we do it
in my garage. He's got all the codes, access his keys, everything.
He's just waiting in the garage and every single time,
this is what an old soul he is. When I
walk into the garage, he's already in there and he'll
be doing pull ups. It's one hundred and eight, one
hundred and nine and I laugh and he laughs, and
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that's how we start every time. But the commercial was,
we don't want liberals, we want to train people who
share our values and love our country. Now, he was
already a Michael Berry Show listener, so maybe some of
these turns of phrase were mine. I don't know. I've
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actually never asked him that, but he'd been a long
time listener at that point. But it was basically, you
know these are this is what we stand for, and
we come to your house to train you, and it
doesn't matter your age. We will get you you. We
will get you results. And you set your goals. You
want to be able to walk up the stairs, We're
going to get you there. You want to get off
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your walker, We're going to get you there. And I
loved that TV commercial, So I hired him as my trainer,
and he was my trainer for a while before we
talked about him being a show sponsor. Anyway, So he
decided some time ago, in between going from client to
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client to train them, he would he would listen to
the news and be an informed citizen, but when he
got home, he and his wife Julie would not watch conservative,
liberal or any other news. They would focus on each other.
They would have dinner together. Their daughter went off to college.
You'll remember now she's gotten married and she's in the workforce,
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and they would only do things that they felt were
positive for their mindset. Put their phones down, no blue time,
screen time before her. He's a health nut, and so
is his wife. She's a former nurse, so it all
makes sense. But it's been years now, and he says,
what a difference is made. So they picked some TV
shows that they would go back and watch, and one
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of them is Andy Griffith. And I already know from
people who just refused to be have but Andy Griffin
became a liberal. You kind of what You can watch
the show and take from the show what you want.
If you're going to go out boycotting bugs because one
of them's liberal, you're gonna be a miserable person. You
can watch an old syndicated run of Andy Griffith without
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being upset. I can already anticipate in the emails. So anyway,
back to Ernest ta Bass, which was the important part
of all this. Howard Morris played Ernest Tea Bass. He
was also on a show called Uncle. It was also
Uncle Goopy on Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows. Now
that was nineteen fifty four, but I guarantee you there's
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somebody in our audience who watched Your Show of Shows.
He did voices for The Flintstones, The Jetsons, adam Ant Shaw,
Garfield and Friends. He was the regular voice of the
Mount Pilot Radio station's host on The Andy Griffith Show.
He directed the show. He directed Gomer Pyle Hogan's Heroes,
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Dick van Dijk, Get Smart, One Day at a Time,
bewhitiched Man. Those are some shows, Ramon, Those are some shows.
So just to kind of lower your blood pressure, I'm
going to play you. Ernest T. Bass comes to court
in Charlene. But before I do that, I need your help,
and don't tell me how to find her name. Just
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call her for me and have her call in. I
read a story from a downtown soda shop Rosenberg. Woman
preserves part of the town's history. Renee Butler opened Another
Time Soda Fountain and Cafe after her husband purchased a
building to restore it. And apparently it's an old time
soda shop like Lone Star down in Galveston. And I
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would like to talk to her, So somebody call her
and have her call us. Seven one three nine nine
nine one thousand, seven one three nine nine nine one
thousand one. Other thing, if you came to Houston as
the land of opportunity, I want to know when you
came and what was the purpose and rehearse what you're
gonna say. And we'll take those calls coming up. Seven
one three, nine nine nine one thousand, seven one three
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nine nine nine one thousand. Here's Ernest Tea. Bass comes
to court in Charlene.
Speaker 7 (16:25):
Oh, I'm riding jump in the fire fire too hot,
jump in the bot bought you black, jump in the
crack racked ju high jump in the sky, night you
blue jump in canoe? Can you too shallow? Jump into
tall tew too soft? Jump in the loft, loft to
rotting jump in the cotton cotton to watch. He's staying
there all night.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Tell them it was good.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
That's good, Ernest Tea.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Now you want to hear ything eating coober pea.
Speaker 7 (16:57):
No thanks tonight. Wait a minute. Look here, I can
do eight teen shinups.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
It's good nice.
Speaker 7 (17:08):
I can do chin ups. I'm the best rock throw
in the County and I'm saving up for gold tooth.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
I'm the man for you, Charlie, and.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
You know it.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Now.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Can I come over there and just say on the jaw.
Speaker 7 (17:21):
Jane earn his tea mass this here's my funny bride.
And tomorrow we're having a preacher wedding just to satisfy you,
my gold Road you just.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
To thank you having the wedding tomorrow.
Speaker 7 (17:32):
Maybe ain't what do you say? I don't chewing my
cabbage twice and you ain't heard the last earnest tea bag.
Speaker 6 (17:56):
This is Nicky Gilly and you're listen to the seas
Are Radio Michael Barry.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Credit to Houston Public Media for this story. From a
downtown soda shop, Rosenberg woman preserves part of the town's history.
Renee Butler opened Another Time Soda Fountain and Cafe in
two thousand and three after her then husband purchased a
building to restore it. She hired an interior designer to
style the space with a nineteen twenties and nineteen thirties
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motif ramon, I'm going to tell you something. Knowing a
lot of women of wealth in this town, that's not us.
I know women of wealth when women use the term
style as a verb. Run cousin, Oh that's a beautiful outfit.
Who styles you? When you hear style as a verb,
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you about to throw down some money. Renee Butler is
our guest. Renee, welcome to the program. Hi, who called
you and told you to call?
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Oh my gosh, I've had. I can't get off the
phone fast enough with everybody calling me. My bluebelt guy
was the first one that called, and then somebody I
did a catering sport called my brother, called my cook called.
So yes, I've had.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
What's the name of your What are the names of
all those people? What is your ice cream guy's name?
Your blue belt guy?
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Ice cream Guy's name is Jake, Not State farm Jake,
but Jake Bluebelt Jake. Okay?
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Is he a white man, black man, Hispanic, Asian?
Speaker 3 (19:37):
He is a white man.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
How old would you guess he is?
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Oh my gosh, Jake, don't shoot me. He's young. He's
like in his maybe late thirties.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Is he a handsome fellow?
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Yes, he has bluebellt ice cream. He's got to be old.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
How often does he delivered to you?
Speaker 3 (20:03):
He comes once a week?
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Is it in an armored.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
A lot by the way, nice, you know we could
be we could.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Hook up with Jake Ramon we get the ice cream hookup.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Is it in a uh?
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Is it in a refrigerated secured like a bank vault
truck so nobody steals it?
Speaker 3 (20:23):
It should be it is definitely has lots of handles
and secure stuff. Yes, how much I don't want anybody Bluebell?
Speaker 1 (20:34):
How much ice cream do you think you order or
you have delivered in a week?
Speaker 3 (20:40):
I go through anywhere from twelve to sixteen three gallons
hubs a.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Week, forty to fifty gallons.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Oh that's a lot.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
That's a lot. That's awesome.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
It sounds like a lot more when when you're just
just ordering it by the numbers, it doesn't sound so much.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Wow, But you're camping at one by one and people
have to choose to come in, and they have other
places to go, and your old fashion and throw back
and you don't measure by the numbers.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
How many days a week are you at the shop?
Speaker 3 (21:13):
We're open Wednesday, do Sunday, And that's when I'm there
Wednesday do Sunday except right now. I took my mom
to visit friends. So where we're sitting at her place
right now, which is why I'm outside there there, and
in downtown I'm sorry, in Rosenberg at Cambridge Square, which
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is an assisted living home.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
I love this.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
They're they're chopping it up.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
No, you know what, that's what they're supposed to do.
I love it. I love this line. The store offers
old fashioned drinks like malts and phosphates A depression are soda.
I knew what a phosphate was. The original recipe used
phosphor phosphoric acid, but now it's made with citric acid,
which is less damaging to teeth. The restaurant has an
a regional soda fountain, meaning that when customers order a drink,
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the kitchen staff mixes the syrup with carbonated water. Quote
it's made with the formula from the fifties, for Ne
Butler said, so it's sweeter and less carbonation. The Soda
shop is part of a cultural arts district aimed at
preserving the town's historic appearance. Like much of Fort Ben County,
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Rosenberg has seen rapid growth in the past twenty years.
I love this story so much.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Thank you, thank you. That makes my heart feel so good.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Nie.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
What were you doing before this soda shop, because my
guess is you didn't have a full time job, and
you took this thing on as a passion project and
maybe you just decided I'm going to see it through.
But it was a lot harder work than you ever
could have imagined.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Well, most of that is correct, except I was working
full time and had just officially retired as an accountant
for about five minutes and did so much volunteer work
that have decided I might want to go and do
something else. So that's when my brother and I actually
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started it, and it was it has been totally a
labor of love ever since because it's been twenty one
years and I've met so many people and they're I mean,
they're truly regulars and come.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
In all the time, and it's it helps that my
place is still simple, old fashioned, it's not the hustle
and bustle, and so that it makes a difference.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
It's very nice. It's a good old That is exactly
why we're talking to you.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
There are fewer and fewer of these sorts of things,
and God bless you because you don't have to admit it,
but I'm betting you haven't made a dime out of
this thing, and you wouldn't trade it for the role.
It is called Another Time Soda Fountain and Cafe? Are
you there today?
Speaker 3 (24:06):
I leave from your my mom home.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Yes, okay, will you be there later there?
Speaker 3 (24:12):
I will be there till five o'clock today.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
What time will you get there?
Speaker 3 (24:17):
I will Well, you know, my mother's eighty five, and
so she's talking a lot, so I could be here
for another hour before you.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
No, No, I think that's wonderful you doing that. My
mother's seventy nine and my father's eighty four, and I
get it.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
You know what.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Every moment is precious and they need that that fellowship,
so so good for you. What what should I order
if I come into Another Time soda fountain in cafe?
Don't give me the fifteen things you or I want
you to pick one lead from me.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
I will tell you. You want a burger, yes, and
you want a mold. That's what you want?
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Yes, yes, yes, correct, that's exactly what I want.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Ding ding ding ding ding our burgers, our meat. I
go to a local meat market every day and get
my meat, which the burger reflects it to Kavosovik's meat marketing.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Oh yeah, of course yeah, no, I know those. I
mean we're not personal friends, but I know who they are.
I think they've emailed me before. You have an It's
at eight hundred and third Street in Rosenberg. Can you
hold with me for a minute, remain sure? Can you
think you can get your mom on with us?
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Actually she's in with someone that it wouldn't work real.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Well, Oh I got you, Okay, hold on Burgers and
ris They simple good bye, Oh little buddy, let me
come in, let me hold you to sign? And how
did you know? That's what I wanted you to play?
Speaker 6 (25:54):
Good?
Speaker 1 (25:55):
And uh man, this route, this takes me back to me.
I'm gonna get choked up. This takes me back to
being eight years old and my mom's little eight track
player and then her getting fired up listening to it
and say, let's go into town to the burger. Chef
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Renee Butler is the owner of Another Time Soda Fountain.
You should probably call and warn them that y'all are
going to have some people coming.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
I love your hours Wednesday through Sunday eleven to five.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
I love that you're home at a reasonable hour, You
get cleaned up, you clean everything up. How far do
you live from there?
Speaker 4 (26:40):
I could walk out two miles.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Oh that's nice.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
I've been here all my life and I'm right around
the corner. So it's I grew up going to the
soda fountain, this particular one.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Yes, you're a kidding.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
It used to be before it was a soda fountain.
I mean it was always a soda fountains, but before
there was a doctor's office upstairs and a pharmacy with
the soda fountains. So we actually used that pharmacist as
ours to get our prescriptions. So we go sit at
the counter and then we would while we were waiting
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for the prescription to be filled, and we get our
ice cream.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Oh, Renee, you have taken me back to my childhood.
Did it have that funny pharmacy smell that they had
back then, the eye dine or whatever it was.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Oh? Yes, yes, yes it did. And I was fortunate
enough to get to meet the what it was used
to be called Frank's Pharmacy, And so I was able
to meet Frank Duddick, and he passed away right before
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we opened the soda fountain, but he was able to
see everything, and it just brought such a joy to
him because he never got married. He never you know,
and so that was kind of like his livelihood.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Thyme Soda Fountain you can find it at another time
Soda Fountain dot com. Raman, I'm going to give you
your order on what your half pound burger can come with.
We need to be quick. I need to know whether
you want or do not want each of these items. Okay, mayo?
Oh absolutely, no, hold on right now, I'm asking around.
You want milt mustard, no mustard, tomato, lettuce, pickles, onions, okay,
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served with fries. Would you like to add bacon, cheese, jalapannos.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
The extra.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
You could get a chili cheese hot dog with fries.
You can get a Patty Melt half pound burger with
grilled onions and American cheese on marble rye bread served
with fries. You can get an adult grilled cheese. I
love this woman so much. You can get a grilled
ham cheese, or you can get an adult grilled cheese,
which means it's served with a shot of whiskey. No,
(29:04):
I'm just kidding. It says sweets and American cheese, bacon
and tomato served with fries. Fried chicken striped sandwich, Texas
cheese steak. Then you've got a club sandwich. I like
a club sandwich to you.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
I do too.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
I had one this week, Turkey belt, tuna salad, sandwich,
chicken salad, sandwich, chef salad, howse salad? Blue paints? What's
the blueplate? Special today?
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Today is sausage and sarkraut with German potatoes.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
My goodness, do you know Sandy McGee? Over at Sandy McGee?
Do I love her?
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Yes, she's a great lady.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
I love her so much. She is so wonderful. She's
such a she's just a sweetheart. Ruben sandwich. Then you
got stuff for kids. We don't need to talk about
that right now. That you've got chili, cheese fries, you
got onion rings, French fries, sweet potato fries. Fruit our
soda jerks create fountain drinks the old fashioned way by
adding carbonation to the soda syrup. So please stir your
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soda ramon. Do you remember who's the stir Who?
Speaker 3 (30:10):
You know?
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Who you remember? Who the straw is that stirs the drink?
Reggie Jackson Fountain Soda Phosphates Fresh Squeeze Lemonade fresh squeeze,
lime made iced tea, hot tea, coffee, milk, chocolate. If
they don't have it, you don't need it. If this
place does not have it, you do not need it.
You got ice creams, You've got Sundays, you got a
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banana split, old Fashioned shakes, specialty shakes, one of those
specially shakes, Chocolate banana, strawberry banana, cookies and cream, Johnny Shake,
Pina Colada. You can even add powdered malt, ice cream, soda,
Coke shakes, Coke floats, lime cooler, Vernon Special, which is
a lime Srbert with hot fudge brownie Sunday. There's nothing
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on that menu I wouldn't crush. That's just fantastic. I love,
I love everything about.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
This Renee Well, thank you so much. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Did your husband give you a budget when you started
and said, look, you can lose, you can you can
spend a half million renovated, renovating, and you can lose
a half million bucks. But that's it, and that's all
because that's what my wife did with me at the RCC.
Bigger numbers, but the same same concept. I'm serious. She said,
you can do it. You can lose money. But here's
the limit name Joan, here's the limit.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
No, you know, it's been it's been a break even,
so it's all been okay. The actual to me, the
most important part when you were talking about the decorating
and stuff, actually, I hired the interior decorator. She got
antique stuff. And then she doesn't ever want to even
admit that she was the interior decorator because since then
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people bring me all kinds of stuff that they had
in their house that they want to share with the public.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
And it does keeap with her style.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
No, oh gosh, it is so cle now. But it's
a good clutter. I mean, you know, I've got a
uniform from an army guy. I've got just and his
kids still come. His kids are in their sixties and
they still come to the side of fountain. They bring
their grandkids and they you know, so it's that kind
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of stuff. They get to still see what they have
sent me, but other people get to see the history.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
I can tell that how much fun you're having creating
this special place and seeing how families are reacting, and
seeing how elderly folks are so happy to be there
and share this with the younger generations and the younger
generations saying this is the places my grandparents went to.
That that makes up for you know, when your meat
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delivery doesn't show up or Jake doesn't bring his ice cub,
I can tell that that's what sustains you. And I
love it. I love everything about this story. I'm so
glad you called. I love everything about street.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
Well, thank you so much for requesting me to call,
because I was like first person when Jay called, I went,
you're joking me, right, he is? No, Seriously, Renee, let's
call now.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
I got all sorts of emails from people that said
they had texted you, called you emailed, and I guess
they couldn't get through to you to make sure that
you called. Well. It is called Another Time Soda Fountain
at eight hundred third Street in Rosenberg. You can find
it online. But real quick, Renee, twenty seconds. If I'm
coming from downtown fifty nine Southwest Freeway, how do I
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get to you?
Speaker 3 (33:39):
You take the Rosenberg exit thirty six and you go
to Avenue I. You take a right, and you take
a first left in that second street, you go across
and you get in, take a right and you're there.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Please tell me the entirety of the Rosenberg Police Department
eats there every day.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
I actually the Rosenberg Police Department eats there a lot,
and I am appreciative of that because that means they're
always taking care of me.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Ne Butler, we love you. Another time Soda Fountain in
Rosenberg and find it online. Go support them, have a
great time.
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Arry Show is.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
On the air.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
They tried to take out our Attorney general. A lot
of Republicans involved in that effort. You can come to
your own conclusions why they tried to do that, but
I will tell you, as I have many times before,
part of the reasons is he's going after the sacred
cows that even many Republicans don't want touched. You're not
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supposed to actually do your job. That ruins the party, folks,
that ruins the festivities. You just go home and give
a speech. You don't actually file the lawsuits and win them.
Makes the rest of us look bad. Ken Paxton has
alerted Bear County, of course, San anton and Harris County,
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Houston that they will not be allowed to engage in
behaviors that lead to voter election or to election fraud.
Attorney General Ken Paxton, as our guest, General Paxton, what
exactly have you notified Bear County and Harris County and why.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
So?
Speaker 4 (01:34):
We've notified both of them, but we just sued late
last night, we sued Bear which is San Antonio, for
what we believe is sending out illegal registration forms that've
got this group that is affiliated with very liberal politicians
that is sending out registration forms to all kinds of people,
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some likely ineligible to vote, which encourages illegal registration. And
counties are not specifically permitted to do this in the
way our laws work in Texas. Counties have to be
statutorily or constitutionally authorized to do what they do. They
can't just make stuff up. And in this case, not
only they send these out without having an authority, but
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they're tied in with this very liberal group and there
was no bidding process. They're required to have a transparent
bidding process, which they avoided for some reason. And we
know that Bears have done this Bear County, but we
also know that other counties are thinking about Houston is
Harris County, and we know that Travis County is considering this.
So we know there are other counties doing this, and conveniently,
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they're spending tax beay dollars to potentially encourage ineligible people
to vote.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
So you have alerted them that they are not allowed
to do this, and it would appear that Bear County
is defying you, and at this point has Harris County responded.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
We've gotten no response from Harris County. They have not
voted to do it, so right now, as far as
I'm concerned, they're in compliance. But clearly Bear Counties. You know,
they're not worried about laws in Texas or whatever, worrying
about whatever authority they have to do these things. They
just did it. So we're going to try to stop
them and make them follow state law given the fact
(03:26):
that they're basically spitting in the face of what state
law allows them to do.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
And it would seem obvious, but I want you to
say yes or no, that there could be no other
reason to do this than to encourage voter fraud. Right.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Well, look, we know that we have millions of illegals
in here that we're encouraged to be here for a reason.
I'm very convinced that Joe Biden, he didn't if you'll remember,
he didn't wait till two months to ask to tell
the world that he wasn't deporting it. But he did
that on the first day. So he accomplished his goal.
We got millions and millions of people here. He put
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him in the states he wanted them to. He gave
the cartel's adequate nos to so that they could build
the infrastructure to do it. And now some of these
Democratic counties are using liberal groups. They're using our money
to encourage people to register when it's not their job
to do that, and do it in a way that
it looks like they're trying to encourage illegals to vote.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
That's what it looked like.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
It was very frustrating. In twenty twenty one, the state
legislature passed the law requiring the Secretary of State to
audit for counties drawn at random based on size. Harris
County was picked the twenty twenty two election was to
be audited. We had horrible fraud here. Clifford Tatum was
brought in by Rodney Ellis to basically skew the election.
(04:52):
They didn't send ballots out to voters. I know you
know the story, but just reminding folks, they didn't send
ballots out to the West Side. If they had, Alex
Meeler would win. Knows. And it's taken until a week
or so ago for Jane Nelson, greg Abbott's Secretary of
State to finally release a report at this should have
been studied before and now they I don't think they've
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told what counties it's almost as if some of the
other Republicans certainly not you, are not determined to do
what it takes to stop the cheating.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
I totally agree with you, and I've seen it because
this even this last session, where you know, we already
knew that the Quarter Criminal Appeals took away my authority
after you know, seventy one years of the Attorney General
being directed by the legislature to prosecute voter fraud, Suddenly,
you know, the Quarter Criminal Appeals decides it's unconstitutional for
me to be in court, which is absolutely ludicrous because
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they're right. You know, every Attorney general in the United
States is violating the you know, the constitution separation of
powers clauses. So you know, the legislature could fix that,
and they failed to do it. I mean, it was
not done by the Speaker of the House didn't even
consider it. I was told that they didn't have time.
So one of the more serious issues is that who's
going to prosecute vote or fraud? And that's just one
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example where the legislature has just not worried about it,
and they've not given a proper authority to me to
do other things that some of these DA's are source
DA's aren't doing now.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
It's very frustrating because you have been willing to make
yourself the tip of the spear, and obviously there's a
political cost to that, and some of that is Republicans
coming after you, because it's clear to me they don't
want the dust up over all this that rather, as
long as they win their election, they'd rather move on
down the road and not have to confront this terrible,
(06:46):
terrible trend. But at this rate, we end up losing
every office and there would be no one left to
prosecute these cases, no one left to advocate for the
taxpayer and for fair elections.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
That is the amazing short sighted strategy of Dade FeelA
and guys like Jeff Leach and Dustin Burroughs who have
adopted this strategy, and I think they feel like it.
You know, for the time being, they're in power and
they like that power and they get to get their
stuff done. But not that far down the road, they
aren't going to have that power because once the Democrats
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get controlled, and they will fix the election laws in
a way that we can't. When mail on ballots will
go out to everybody, there'll be no there'll be no
security on those ballots, and the people that are willing
to cheat, which is typically the Democrats, will cheat and
we'll have a hard time ever winning another election. So
it's a very short sighted strategy for their current position,
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which will only be short lived. It's just ridiculous that
that that they don't see this, see the handwriting on
the wall.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
That coupled with the fact that Civitek is a major
Democrat donor, and I guess in Austin they're sending out
these these ballots registrations of people at will after having
said that's the strategy. It's very disturbing. I am grateful
that you are willing to push back against this. I
got forty seconds, you can take it, go to break.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Yeah, and that's that's the same organization I'm talking about
doing it in Bear County. So they're clearly aligned with
the left. And this is where we're spending our taxpayer dollars.
Why is it the why is it that the county
commissioners have hired a democratic organization? Do you think that's
going to be fair? I don't, and I don't. It's
clearly not authorized by law. And if we don't stop this.
(08:32):
We are going to lose our state, We're going to
lose our country. So that's why I'm in. That's what
I'm going to.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Keep doing it, amen, and that's why we fought for you.
Ken Paxton, Attorney General in the Great State of Texas.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
Thank you, sir, Thank you.
Speaker 6 (08:54):
And the girls all get pretty at closing time when
you're listening to the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
You didn't know that brass came in after a while,
did you. It takes it to a whole different level.
Born on this day in nineteen nineteen was Howard Morris
extra credit if you know what role he played on
The Andy Griffith Show, and that was Ernest T. Bass.
(09:28):
You know, TV was so much fun then. It's so
slapstick and so silly, the names, the hopiness. Everybody wasn't cynical.
Everything didn't have to be so complicated. It could be straightforward.
You could have a life lesson administered by Sheriff Andy
(09:48):
the Opie through Barney or ain't be. You could come
away feeling more wholesome. My trainer, Michael Petru and I
will gather while we're working out. My wife says we
talk too much or I talk too much. That's why
I shouldn't like to work out with me. Even Crockett
tells my tells, my mom, tells, my wife, his mom,
(10:13):
He and Michael, but Michael wouldn't say it, but they
both say, yeah, it's you know, we work out with
dad he because sometimes they'll join him on my workout.
He talks the whole time. And she says, yeah, that's
that's what dad does. That way he doesn't feel the
pain or notice ities. That's what he Yeah, but I
mean he talks the whole time, the whole like he
(10:35):
never stops. He's lifting, he's squatt and he's talking the
whole time. And we do. So Petru and his wife
decided some time ago that he will stay. He's very conservative,
which was how I discovered him. Actually, funny story. Do
you know the story behind this? Remm it's a good
story out too years ago? Chance McLean said. This was
(10:59):
before Chance was doing Heritage films and he said, I
cut a commercial TV commercial spot for a guy and
you would love this guy. And I said, well why,
He said, well, he used to be at the Houstonian
for seventeen years. And I don't know how long ago
this was, but since in thirteen years he's been on
(11:21):
his own and his business has just exploded since we've partnered.
But this was five, six, seven years ago. Before his
business exploded, it was just him. He didn't have his
ten trainers. Now at the time, it was just him.
And instead of you having to join a gym, he
comes to your house. And that was revolutionary because a
(11:42):
lot of people, myself included, do not want to have
to go to the gym to work out because you've
got the time getting there and the time getting back.
That's an excuse not to do it. You got to park.
If you're not already a gym member, then you got
all that hassle. You got to work out around other people.
You can't ask an embarrassing question or try to figure
out how to do something new with other people looking
at you. You got all that gong. If you do
(12:05):
it at home, then he come like, we do it
in my garage. He's got all the codes, access his keys, everything.
He's just waiting in the garage and every single time,
this is what an old soul he is. When I
walk into the garage, he's already in there and he'll
be doing pull ups. It's one hundred and eight, one
hundred and nine and I laugh and he laughs, and
(12:27):
that's how we start every time. But the commercial was,
we don't want liberals, we want to train people who
share our values and love our country. Now, he was
already a Michael Berry Show listener, so maybe some of
these turns of phrase were mine. I don't know. I've
(12:47):
actually never asked him that, but he'd been a long
time listener at that point. But it was basically, you
know these are this is what we stand for, and
we come to your house to train you, and it
doesn't matter your age. We will get you you. We
will get you results. And you set your goals. You
want to be able to walk up the stairs, We're
going to get you there. You want to get off
(13:07):
your walker, We're going to get you there. And I
loved that TV commercial, So I hired him as my trainer,
and he was my trainer for a while before we
talked about him being a show sponsor. Anyway, So he
decided some time ago, in between going from client to
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client to train them, he would he would listen to
the news and be an informed citizen, but when he
got home, he and his wife Julie would not watch conservative,
liberal or any other news. They would focus on each other.
They would have dinner together. Their daughter went off to college.
You'll remember now she's gotten married and she's in the workforce,
(13:51):
and they would only do things that they felt were
positive for their mindset. Put their phones down, no blue time,
screen time before her. He's a health nut, and so
is his wife. She's a former nurse, so it all
makes sense. But it's been years now, and he says,
what a difference is made. So they picked some TV
shows that they would go back and watch, and one
(14:11):
of them is Andy Griffith. And I already know from
people who just refused to be have but Andy Griffin
became a liberal. You kind of what You can watch
the show and take from the show what you want.
If you're going to go out boycotting bugs because one
of them's liberal, you're gonna be a miserable person. You
can watch an old syndicated run of Andy Griffith without
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being upset. I can already anticipate in the emails. So anyway,
back to Ernest ta Bass, which was the important part
of all this. Howard Morris played Ernest Tea Bass. He
was also on a show called Uncle. It was also
Uncle Goopy on Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows. Now
that was nineteen fifty four, but I guarantee you there's
(14:56):
somebody in our audience who watched Your Show of Shows.
He did voices for The Flintstones, The Jetsons, adam Ant Shaw,
Garfield and Friends. He was the regular voice of the
Mount Pilot Radio station's host on The Andy Griffith Show.
He directed the show. He directed Gomer Pyle Hogan's Heroes,
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Dick van Dijk, Get Smart, One Day at a Time,
bewhitiched Man. Those are some shows, Ramon, Those are some shows.
So just to kind of lower your blood pressure, I'm
going to play you. Ernest T. Bass comes to court
in Charlene. But before I do that, I need your help,
and don't tell me how to find her name. Just
(15:38):
call her for me and have her call in. I
read a story from a downtown soda shop Rosenberg. Woman
preserves part of the town's history. Renee Butler opened Another
Time Soda Fountain and Cafe after her husband purchased a
building to restore it. And apparently it's an old time
soda shop like Lone Star down in Galveston. And I
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would like to talk to her, So somebody call her
and have her call us. Seven one three nine nine
nine one thousand, seven one three nine nine nine one
thousand one. Other thing, if you came to Houston as
the land of opportunity, I want to know when you
came and what was the purpose and rehearse what you're
gonna say. And we'll take those calls coming up. Seven
one three, nine nine nine one thousand, seven one three
(16:21):
nine nine nine one thousand. Here's Ernest Tea. Bass comes
to court in Charlene.
Speaker 7 (16:25):
Oh, I'm riding jump in the fire fire too hot,
jump in the bot bought you black, jump in the
crack racked ju high jump in the sky, night you
blue jump in canoe? Can you too shallow? Jump into
tall tew too soft? Jump in the loft, loft to
rotting jump in the cotton cotton to watch. He's staying
there all night.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Tell them it was good.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
That's good, Ernest Tea.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Now you want to hear ything eating coober pea.
Speaker 7 (16:57):
No thanks tonight. Wait a minute. Look here, I can
do eight teen shinups.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
It's good nice.
Speaker 7 (17:08):
I can do chin ups. I'm the best rock throw
in the County and I'm saving up for gold tooth.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
I'm the man for you, Charlie, and.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
You know it.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Now.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Can I come over there and just say on the jaw.
Speaker 7 (17:21):
Jane earn his tea mass this here's my funny bride.
And tomorrow we're having a preacher wedding just to satisfy you,
my gold Road you just.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
To thank you having the wedding tomorrow.
Speaker 7 (17:32):
Maybe ain't what do you say? I don't chewing my
cabbage twice and you ain't heard the last earnest tea bag.
Speaker 6 (17:56):
This is Nicky Gilly and you're listen to the seas
Are Radio Michael Barry.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Credit to Houston Public Media for this story. From a
downtown soda shop, Rosenberg woman preserves part of the town's history.
Renee Butler opened Another Time Soda Fountain and Cafe in
two thousand and three after her then husband purchased a
building to restore it. She hired an interior designer to
style the space with a nineteen twenties and nineteen thirties
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motif ramon, I'm going to tell you something. Knowing a
lot of women of wealth in this town, that's not us.
I know women of wealth when women use the term
style as a verb. Run cousin, Oh that's a beautiful outfit.
Who styles you? When you hear style as a verb,
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you about to throw down some money. Renee Butler is
our guest. Renee, welcome to the program. Hi, who called
you and told you to call?
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Oh my gosh, I've had. I can't get off the
phone fast enough with everybody calling me. My bluebelt guy
was the first one that called, and then somebody I
did a catering sport called my brother, called my cook called.
So yes, I've had.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
What's the name of your What are the names of
all those people? What is your ice cream guy's name?
Your blue belt guy?
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Ice cream Guy's name is Jake, Not State farm Jake,
but Jake Bluebelt Jake. Okay?
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Is he a white man, black man, Hispanic, Asian?
Speaker 3 (19:37):
He is a white man.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
How old would you guess he is?
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Oh my gosh, Jake, don't shoot me. He's young. He's
like in his maybe late thirties.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Is he a handsome fellow?
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Yes, he has bluebellt ice cream. He's got to be old.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
How often does he delivered to you?
Speaker 3 (20:03):
He comes once a week?
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Is it in an armored.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
A lot by the way, nice, you know we could
be we could.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Hook up with Jake Ramon we get the ice cream hookup.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Is it in a uh?
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Is it in a refrigerated secured like a bank vault
truck so nobody steals it?
Speaker 3 (20:23):
It should be it is definitely has lots of handles
and secure stuff. Yes, how much I don't want anybody Bluebell?
Speaker 1 (20:34):
How much ice cream do you think you order or
you have delivered in a week?
Speaker 3 (20:40):
I go through anywhere from twelve to sixteen three gallons
hubs a.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Week, forty to fifty gallons.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Oh that's a lot.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
That's a lot. That's awesome.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
It sounds like a lot more when when you're just
just ordering it by the numbers, it doesn't sound so much.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Wow, But you're camping at one by one and people
have to choose to come in, and they have other
places to go, and your old fashion and throw back
and you don't measure by the numbers.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
How many days a week are you at the shop?
Speaker 3 (21:13):
We're open Wednesday, do Sunday, And that's when I'm there
Wednesday do Sunday except right now. I took my mom
to visit friends. So where we're sitting at her place
right now, which is why I'm outside there there, and
in downtown I'm sorry, in Rosenberg at Cambridge Square, which
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is an assisted living home.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
I love this.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
They're they're chopping it up.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
No, you know what, that's what they're supposed to do.
I love it. I love this line. The store offers
old fashioned drinks like malts and phosphates A depression are soda.
I knew what a phosphate was. The original recipe used
phosphor phosphoric acid, but now it's made with citric acid,
which is less damaging to teeth. The restaurant has an
a regional soda fountain, meaning that when customers order a drink,
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the kitchen staff mixes the syrup with carbonated water. Quote
it's made with the formula from the fifties, for Ne
Butler said, so it's sweeter and less carbonation. The Soda
shop is part of a cultural arts district aimed at
preserving the town's historic appearance. Like much of Fort Ben County,
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Rosenberg has seen rapid growth in the past twenty years.
I love this story so much.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Thank you, thank you. That makes my heart feel so good.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Nie.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
What were you doing before this soda shop, because my
guess is you didn't have a full time job, and
you took this thing on as a passion project and
maybe you just decided I'm going to see it through.
But it was a lot harder work than you ever
could have imagined.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Well, most of that is correct, except I was working
full time and had just officially retired as an accountant
for about five minutes and did so much volunteer work
that have decided I might want to go and do
something else. So that's when my brother and I actually
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started it, and it was it has been totally a
labor of love ever since because it's been twenty one
years and I've met so many people and they're I mean,
they're truly regulars and come.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
In all the time, and it's it helps that my
place is still simple, old fashioned, it's not the hustle
and bustle, and so that it makes a difference.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
It's very nice. It's a good old That is exactly
why we're talking to you.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
There are fewer and fewer of these sorts of things,
and God bless you because you don't have to admit it,
but I'm betting you haven't made a dime out of
this thing, and you wouldn't trade it for the role.
It is called Another Time Soda Fountain and Cafe? Are
you there today?
Speaker 3 (24:06):
I leave from your my mom home.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Yes, okay, will you be there later there?
Speaker 3 (24:12):
I will be there till five o'clock today.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
What time will you get there?
Speaker 3 (24:17):
I will Well, you know, my mother's eighty five, and
so she's talking a lot, so I could be here
for another hour before you.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
No, No, I think that's wonderful you doing that. My
mother's seventy nine and my father's eighty four, and I
get it.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
You know what.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Every moment is precious and they need that that fellowship,
so so good for you. What what should I order
if I come into Another Time soda fountain in cafe?
Don't give me the fifteen things you or I want
you to pick one lead from me.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
I will tell you. You want a burger, yes, and
you want a mold. That's what you want?
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Yes, yes, yes, correct, that's exactly what I want.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Ding ding ding ding ding our burgers, our meat. I
go to a local meat market every day and get
my meat, which the burger reflects it to Kavosovik's meat marketing.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Oh yeah, of course yeah, no, I know those. I
mean we're not personal friends, but I know who they are.
I think they've emailed me before. You have an It's
at eight hundred and third Street in Rosenberg. Can you
hold with me for a minute, remain sure? Can you
think you can get your mom on with us?
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Actually she's in with someone that it wouldn't work real.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Well, Oh I got you, Okay, hold on Burgers and
ris They simple good bye, Oh little buddy, let me
come in, let me hold you to sign? And how
did you know? That's what I wanted you to play?
Speaker 6 (25:54):
Good?
Speaker 1 (25:55):
And uh man, this route, this takes me back to me.
I'm gonna get choked up. This takes me back to
being eight years old and my mom's little eight track
player and then her getting fired up listening to it
and say, let's go into town to the burger. Chef
(26:16):
Renee Butler is the owner of Another Time Soda Fountain.
You should probably call and warn them that y'all are
going to have some people coming.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
I love your hours Wednesday through Sunday eleven to five.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
I love that you're home at a reasonable hour, You
get cleaned up, you clean everything up. How far do
you live from there?
Speaker 4 (26:40):
I could walk out two miles.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Oh that's nice.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
I've been here all my life and I'm right around
the corner. So it's I grew up going to the
soda fountain, this particular one.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Yes, you're a kidding.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
It used to be before it was a soda fountain.
I mean it was always a soda fountains, but before
there was a doctor's office upstairs and a pharmacy with
the soda fountains. So we actually used that pharmacist as
ours to get our prescriptions. So we go sit at
the counter and then we would while we were waiting
(27:19):
for the prescription to be filled, and we get our
ice cream.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Oh, Renee, you have taken me back to my childhood.
Did it have that funny pharmacy smell that they had
back then, the eye dine or whatever it was.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Oh? Yes, yes, yes it did. And I was fortunate
enough to get to meet the what it was used
to be called Frank's Pharmacy, And so I was able
to meet Frank Duddick, and he passed away right before
(27:53):
we opened the soda fountain, but he was able to
see everything, and it just brought such a joy to
him because he never got married. He never you know,
and so that was kind of like his livelihood.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Thyme Soda Fountain you can find it at another time
Soda Fountain dot com. Raman, I'm going to give you
your order on what your half pound burger can come with.
We need to be quick. I need to know whether
you want or do not want each of these items. Okay, mayo?
Oh absolutely, no, hold on right now, I'm asking around.
You want milt mustard, no mustard, tomato, lettuce, pickles, onions, okay,
(28:35):
served with fries. Would you like to add bacon, cheese, jalapannos.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
The extra.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
You could get a chili cheese hot dog with fries.
You can get a Patty Melt half pound burger with
grilled onions and American cheese on marble rye bread served
with fries. You can get an adult grilled cheese. I
love this woman so much. You can get a grilled
ham cheese, or you can get an adult grilled cheese,
which means it's served with a shot of whiskey. No,
(29:04):
I'm just kidding. It says sweets and American cheese, bacon
and tomato served with fries. Fried chicken striped sandwich, Texas
cheese steak. Then you've got a club sandwich. I like
a club sandwich to you.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
I do too.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
I had one this week, Turkey belt, tuna salad, sandwich,
chicken salad, sandwich, chef salad, howse salad? Blue paints? What's
the blueplate? Special today?
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Today is sausage and sarkraut with German potatoes.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
My goodness, do you know Sandy McGee? Over at Sandy McGee?
Do I love her?
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Yes, she's a great lady.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
I love her so much. She is so wonderful. She's
such a she's just a sweetheart. Ruben sandwich. Then you
got stuff for kids. We don't need to talk about
that right now. That you've got chili, cheese fries, you
got onion rings, French fries, sweet potato fries. Fruit our
soda jerks create fountain drinks the old fashioned way by
adding carbonation to the soda syrup. So please stir your
(30:07):
soda ramon. Do you remember who's the stir Who?
Speaker 3 (30:10):
You know?
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Who you remember? Who the straw is that stirs the drink?
Reggie Jackson Fountain Soda Phosphates Fresh Squeeze Lemonade fresh squeeze,
lime made iced tea, hot tea, coffee, milk, chocolate. If
they don't have it, you don't need it. If this
place does not have it, you do not need it.
You got ice creams, You've got Sundays, you got a
(30:31):
banana split, old Fashioned shakes, specialty shakes, one of those
specially shakes, Chocolate banana, strawberry banana, cookies and cream, Johnny Shake,
Pina Colada. You can even add powdered malt, ice cream, soda,
Coke shakes, Coke floats, lime cooler, Vernon Special, which is
a lime Srbert with hot fudge brownie Sunday. There's nothing
(30:53):
on that menu I wouldn't crush. That's just fantastic. I love,
I love everything about.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
This Renee Well, thank you so much. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Did your husband give you a budget when you started
and said, look, you can lose, you can you can
spend a half million renovated, renovating, and you can lose
a half million bucks. But that's it, and that's all
because that's what my wife did with me at the RCC.
Bigger numbers, but the same same concept. I'm serious. She said,
you can do it. You can lose money. But here's
the limit name Joan, here's the limit.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
No, you know, it's been it's been a break even,
so it's all been okay. The actual to me, the
most important part when you were talking about the decorating
and stuff, actually, I hired the interior decorator. She got
antique stuff. And then she doesn't ever want to even
admit that she was the interior decorator because since then
(31:47):
people bring me all kinds of stuff that they had
in their house that they want to share with the public.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
And it does keeap with her style.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
No, oh gosh, it is so cle now. But it's
a good clutter. I mean, you know, I've got a
uniform from an army guy. I've got just and his
kids still come. His kids are in their sixties and
they still come to the side of fountain. They bring
their grandkids and they you know, so it's that kind
(32:20):
of stuff. They get to still see what they have
sent me, but other people get to see the history.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
I can tell that how much fun you're having creating
this special place and seeing how families are reacting, and
seeing how elderly folks are so happy to be there
and share this with the younger generations and the younger
generations saying this is the places my grandparents went to.
That that makes up for you know, when your meat
(32:51):
delivery doesn't show up or Jake doesn't bring his ice cub,
I can tell that that's what sustains you. And I
love it. I love everything about this story. I'm so
glad you called. I love everything about street.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
Well, thank you so much for requesting me to call,
because I was like first person when Jay called, I went,
you're joking me, right, he is? No, Seriously, Renee, let's
call now.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
I got all sorts of emails from people that said
they had texted you, called you emailed, and I guess
they couldn't get through to you to make sure that
you called. Well. It is called Another Time Soda Fountain
at eight hundred third Street in Rosenberg. You can find
it online. But real quick, Renee, twenty seconds. If I'm
coming from downtown fifty nine Southwest Freeway, how do I
(33:37):
get to you?
Speaker 3 (33:39):
You take the Rosenberg exit thirty six and you go
to Avenue I. You take a right, and you take
a first left in that second street, you go across
and you get in, take a right and you're there.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Please tell me the entirety of the Rosenberg Police Department
eats there every day.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
I actually the Rosenberg Police Department eats there a lot,
and I am appreciative of that because that means they're
always taking care of me.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Ne Butler, we love you. Another time Soda Fountain in
Rosenberg and find it online. Go support them, have a
great time.
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