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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time time.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Time, luck and load.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
So Michael Varry Show is.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
On the air.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
How you daring this show?
Speaker 1 (00:23):
The Cube Liquor.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
I am the constituency congress Lady at large of Rage, Texas,
Micah berry hometown. I had went to this discovery conference
on the Democrat Party that Crackett Lady Cockade Jasmine or
whatever name is. She was giving us tips on how
to act black. I never had that there before. But
she said, okay, number one, use the word play especially,
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don't play with me. She said, that's the number one rule.
Number two she said, don't touch me. She said that
somehow invoke your constitutional rights to be not bothered by
the police. Do not touch me.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
What she has a said a number three.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Oh, when you try and make a parent about something,
even if you do not know what you is talking about,
it is impertinent to clap your hands. Just don't matter
whether you testifying in Congress or is you a Supreme
Court justice, or if you just a colored lady. Want
to have a dispute with the manager at Popeye's Girl,
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It's like finding that I got some clearance from a
woman who know what they're doing.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Could I ask this question yes, what Tessa? What you
got Why she talk like she erudite and speak English
when she get on the road and have her fingernail
dead and then she gonna talk like she from.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
The fifth ward.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
She's an actress. Do you understand what the actress is?
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Actress?
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Because a lady who do a thing that they not
meant to to revolve and revolving revolution theyselves.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
Okay, I don't really care. I don't care about the news,
but I need my EVT car. I got to have
my Sniker Boys and a Pepsi cola and all these
other things. My snowballs is and my Moss Boys is
sheredy qre. You can guarantee me that I can't guarantee
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a damn thing.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
These days, girls tell up from the flow up seez.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Zara.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
I'm sure you've seen it, but if you haven't, On
the front page of this morning's Houston Chronicle is a
story about snap. Look at the picture of cars waiting
for food. The one in the picture is a late
madel Mercedes. I'm sure they didn't pay attention to it
and it slipped by the editors. That tells the whole story.
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We have people in our society who live better than
people who work for a living. You know, the guy
that works at the warehouse driving the forklift, busting ass.
His wife is at home raising the kids, maybe their
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first generation Hispanic here legally busting but and she's working
just as hard at home with these kids. And she
comes up. Maybe they don't have a car, or maybe
he has the one car, and he takes it to work,
and she takes the bus to bring him a little tiffing,
a little tupperware of his lunch and sits there with
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him while he eats it. And they are struggling. Not
a benefit one. And then you've got this whole sister class.
Oh they are special. They're out at the bars, they're
driving range rovers, they're wearing nice threads, they've got websites,
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they're posting on Instagram, and they don't work. What are
you doing? We have created so much slough in our
system that people that know they call it hustling. It
ain't hustling. It ain't hustling. In the Pete Rose turn third,
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head home, get there as fast as you can and
crush the guy, or dive for a ball. Hustling. It's
hustle and flow hustling. It is being a hustler, like
a pool hustler. That's what it is. It's scamming, it's frauding,
it's fronting. That's what it is. That is very common.
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There's entire TV shows with these people now, and there
is the whole the whole point of it is to
do things so that you can post it so other
people will think you're rich and important. It's the most
vapid thing I've ever seen. You go to a nice restaurant,
now you will see at a table next to you,
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there is some girl who'll come in with her man.
You're not sure if he's gay or not, and he's
not sure if he's gared not. But he's holding her person,
taking her pictures, and she's posing as they eat. She's
got her champagne flute and she's got it up and
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his job is to take photos, which, when you stop
and think about it, the whole point of these slutty
photos is to take the photo so that other dudes
will want to do her. So this dude is taking
the photos for her so that she can put up
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so that other dudes can do her. My goodness, can
you cut hold my purse? That's awful. I mean, good night.
That is some kind of bad. Meanwhile, let's check in
on John Wayne mccorny, shall we.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
John Wayne mccornan is one of us. He woke up
on Monday, felt that humidity in the air, gathered his
lasso and roped this cool front straight down to you, Texas.
John Wayne mccornan is so close to Donald J. Trump
that when Trump headed to Japan, mccornan ate sushi for
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a week and pretended to love that hot wine they
call sake. When Trump headed to China, mccornan ate rice
with chopsticks an impossible feet and just thirty minutes later
after that Chinese buffet, he was hungry again for you.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Yes, John Wayne mccornyn. The John Wayne mccornyn folks have
turned their artillery away from Paxton. Now they're attacking Wesley Hunt.
It's quite interesting. John Wayne mccornyn was to have had
this week in DC a closed door supposed to be well,
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a closed door session with the big donors. And my
understanding on somewhat reliable authority is that the donors are
telling him you need to get out. Well, here's the problem.
If he gets out his donors are going to Wesley Hunt.
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So in that sense, Wesley Hunt is a much bigger
threat today to John Cornyn than Paxton is, because Wesley
Hunt can take some of those donors, and Wesley Hunt
gives those donors an alternative to Paxton and an alternative
to Cornyn. So Cornyn right now is fighting off Hunt
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in the short term before he can even bother to
get to Paxton. The Michael Barry Show. You learn a
lot about artists when you run a concert venue, because
when you book an artist, you notice whether they sell
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tickets quickly or not. And when you book the artists
and they do a meet and greet, you learn that
some people are very eager to meet their fans, and
some people don't don't want to be around the fans.
You learn that some people are creating almost like an
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amusement park, an immersive experience in you know Cory Morrow
or Pat Green or Tracy Bird or the bellowin Brother
or whoever that is, that it's an evening of that
person's area, right, Yeah, I want to meet them before
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the show, I want to meet them after the show.
And then you see when they come on stage, you
can see how much of themselves. They give to the
crowd they're fans, and then you see the people for
whom and some of these are stars, I mean big
stars that they show up, they go out and they
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might as well turn their back to the audience, which
is kind of one of the famous moves in music history.
But they might as well turn their back to the
audio and said sing to the backwall. They're not singing
to anyone, They're just going through the motions. And you
notice these things, and in most cases you can't know
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what someone's like until you do something like that. I'll
tell you the one that really the most surprising artists
we ever had at the RCC Steve Warner. He was
twenty five thousand, which was higher than I felt like
he was worth. But we had about a three week
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period that I didn't have anybody booked and I was
struggling to get somebody, and I called my buddy that
ran Nutty Jerry's in Beaumont, and I said, man, twenty
five thousand for Steve Warner seems high and he said,
you won't regret it, and he wasn't you know somebody
that promoted artists a lot? I said, okay, all right.
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And then I called Sharon that ran Schrader Hall and
I said, hey, I see you have Steve Warren three
times a year. Yes, he's one of my favorites. And
Sharon did this deal before the show. She instead of
having a green room before the show, she would make
dinner for people the artist at her house. Her and
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her husband would feed them at her house. It's a
small operation. She'd do it all herself. It was a
real neat, quaint kind of intimate deal. And the artist
all loved it. They thought it was the neatest thing ever.
And she said, oh, you'll love Steve Warner. I think
she might've been the one that had told me originally
to book him. So I booked them, and I had
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to be out of town, so I wasn't paying attention
to ticket sales as close as I normally would have.
But I noticed that we covered which in the business everybody,
if tickets can cover the artist, you're in the good now.
If tickets can cover the artist and marketing and all that,
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and that's even better. But for us, if tickets could
just cover the marketing the artists, we were good. So
we did cover twenty six like with twenty five with
maybe twenty six and everybody, not everybody, a lot of people.
By Monday, we're sending emails, please bring Steve Warner back.
That tells you a lot about what he did on stage.
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You learn a lot in such a moment. And so
we did about a year later, and I bet we
sold maybe thirty two in tickets because he put on
such a great such a great show. And then you
see the guys that just all right, just pay me
my check. I'm out of here. But anytime I hear
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Tracy Burder, I always think to myself about conversation the
first time I ever said to him, you know, do
you realize how proud you should be all these years
after you were charting, and people are still coming out
to see you, and they still love your music, and
they still want to hear you because he wasn't cutting
a lot of new stuff. He did cut a new album,
but they're coming out to hear songs that at this point,
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you know, mid nineties, these songs were twenty years old.
They were only being played on the Classic Country. But
they wanted to hear Tracy sing them, and they wanted
to be around Tracy, and they wanted to see Tracy perform,
and there's just something about when you provide that experience.
I saw Corey Morrill go through a period where I
think he probably got a little burned out, and he
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was still doing his show, still touring, but I have
noticed in him a passion again that has come back,
and a thrill to make music and evangelize. He looks
at it as, hey, I got a second chance on life.
I want to tell people what the Lord did for
me and which is kind of cool. And he says,
you know, I hope they'll listen without me, without me
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being too preachy. I get a chance to tell my
story and support my family and make my art, and
I enjoy it. It's a pretty unique deal if you
think about it. Let's go to Who's up next? Taylor?
You're on the Michael Berry Show. Let's say you.
Speaker 6 (14:12):
Sir, Hey, Michael, can you hear me?
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Hey?
Speaker 6 (14:20):
I just wanted to just give a well personal point
of recognition to north wind Ac. They're at my mom's
house right now and they're doing a great job. Man,
So I just really wanted to appreciate you for the recommendation. Yeah,
what was the issue one of the bedrooms in her house,
it was not cooling like the others. So while the
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others were nice and cool in the summer, it was
blazing hot. And so they're making work in their magic
and go to another event in it, and actually two
other events in that room.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
So right on named.
Speaker 6 (14:58):
Carlos, car Carlos and Carlos and Chris. So you know,
hopefully their bosses listening.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
You know, Darryl Konda listens to the show. In addition
to all the other stuff he does. He clips anytime
I or anyone else mentions a show sponsor, he sends
it to them and encourages them to share it with
the individual at the company that was responsible. So yes,
I assure you that will be duly noted. And you
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know we ought to do more of that. Thank you, Ray.
I'm Sheila Jnglee the Michael Barry Show. You merely adopted
the doc I was body. The DNC is short of
cash and are trying to raise some. So trying to
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do a fundraiser in San Francisco, and they thought, well,
who better to headline then Kamala Harris, right, it's where
she's from. Well, it turns out that when they went
looking for money with her as the headline, the donors
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rejected it. They want no part of it. Let's see
the Wall Street General Report of the DNC has been
struggling to raise money during President Trump's second term in office,
According to several people familiar with the conversations, the DNC
attempted to reach out to major donors earlier this year
through the San Francisco based fundraiser, but most had declined.
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The WSJ report reads upon receiving the invitation, one replied
with a profanity laced rejection. Others said they didn't want
to give to the party until it produced substantive plans
to win elections. Those who declined told the National Party
they had commitments and could not make it work. The
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Wall Street General Report of the DNC eventually found a
donor to host the event, but it raised far less
than organizers had hoped. The article continues. A top official
at a national Democratic group said some donors remain angry
about how their money was spent in last year's presidential
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election by outside groups, including on what they see as
excessive salaries for DC consultants. The official said the party
has failed to complete a public post election investigation into
what went wrong.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Humm.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Rachel Pritzker, chair of the think tank Third Way, also
told a Wall Street Journal it is shocking how little
reassessment the party and its leadership has done. Kamala's campaign
spent a billion and a half dollars in fifteen weeks.
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A billion and a half dollars. You've got to work
to spend that much money. I mean, you have to
actually work to spend that much money. If you went
to the mall every day and you bought everything you saw,
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you could not spend that amount of money because you
couldn't haul it out of there. You'd run out of time.
A billion and a half. They spent so much money
on Beyonce and Oprah and all these people, and think
what horrors they are. Think what horrors they have to be.
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You're being asked to support somebody for president. You're going
to present to the audience. I'm for this person. They're great.
I want to see them be president. You're just paid.
You don't believe it at all. If you did believe it,
you wouldn't get paid to do it, and not just
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paid paid insane amounts of money, crazy amounts of money. Well,
we've all received a rejection letter when we asked for
money before. But I bet the Kamala rejection letter, I
bet dad be a doozy.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Dear Democratic National Committee, we've received your request for funds.
Please see the following reasons we must decline your request.
Kamala Harris is a stupid who's in fact so and stupid.
She couldn't find her way out of a paper and sack.
Every in time I hear her laugh, it makes me
want to jump off a bridge and die an instant death.
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Foremous regards a former DNC donner.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Last night, our friend Gary Peterson was honored in the
with induction into the Texas Business Hall of Fame. He
and Marty Phillips and Bob Zorich went in together, and
their partner David Miller, was inducted last year. The group
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is called en CAP, which is short for Energy Capitalization.
They have been the most aggressive private equity source for
fracking in the Texas Shell to my knowledge, in the
last twenty five years. They have created a lot of
wealth for other people in whom they invested and for
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their investors. They have a fund they've raised about fifty
billion dollars. They managed the money of several large institutions
you would recognize, and they look at deals and put
money into them, and they'll have fun number one, fund
number two, fund number three in various places, and when
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the ship comes in, everybody gets rich and everybody's happy.
One of the other inductees was a woman named Thaggared.
I think I forget her first name, but she's the
one who created a product called Supergroup, which is a
sun block that supposedly doesn't have that awful feel to
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it because it doesn't have all the zines in it,
the oxidene and benzene and all the things that are
supposed to be so bad for you, which is why
I don't wear sunblock, because the sun block's worth worse
for you than the sun. Don't argue with me on this.
And then the next one was Ken Fisher, who's an
investment guy, and I forget out of Dallas. And then
I can't remember who the other one was. And then
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it was the Pappas brothers, Harris and Chris, and I
didn't realize how many restaurants they have. It's amazing how
many restaurants they have. They started with the Strawberry Patch,
the old Strawberry Patch that was a nice concept which
felt very clean and happy. Strawberry patch. Who don't want
to go to the straw berry patch? And then and
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then they were gonna start with a seafood restaurant, and
Chris Pappas said that they asked his dad, you know,
what do you think we're got to call it? And
you know they were thinking in the oh there, they
were gonna name it. They were gonna name it Shrimpy's.
That's right. They said they were gonna name it Shrimpies.
And his dad said, put your name behind it. Why
when your name is on it, you care more about
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the quality, because you don't want somebody to walk into
a place that has Pappas in the name and have
a bad experience. Everywhere you go in this town, it's
a small town. Everywhere you go, somebody, somebody you know
will be there that knows who you are, and they
will say, uh, hey, I was at your restaurant. If
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it's got some other name on it, you can hide
from that. But when it's got your name on it.
And then he tells the story, and Mike Rizzo is
the guy who's who they've hired now to kind of
be the day to day operations Chris and prisoner stepping back,
Harris are stepping back, and Mike Rizzo confirmed this is true.
He had a tile guy that was setting tile in
a restaurant they were doing, and they were going to
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do a text mix concept, and so the guy asked
him he did all his tier works, what are he
gonna name it? He said, I don't know, and they
had come up with Papa Dou. That had already done
Papa Doe and then he said, uh, he'say his first generation.
And he said, you ought to call it papasitos. And
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Chris said, with cole what you ought to call it papasitos?
And he said, oh oh oh, how would that be written?
How would that? He had no idea right because he's
I mean, he's Greek, he's not Spanish speaking. And the
guy comes up with papasitos and he goes, he hasn't
paid for a meal since then. That turned out to
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be pretty good. But you know, I had several people
tell me last night that they think Papa Doe is
their best concept, not the Delta Blues, not the Brisket House,
not the uh I got to tell you the steakhouse
that they do steakhouse as well as any Their steakhouse
is fantastic. If we're gonna do a steakhouse, we're gonna
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do Vican Anthony's, We're gonna do uh Papos Brothers, or
we're going to go to Federal American Grill. And that's
because my wife doesn't want a steak. I want a steak,
and she can get good dishes that are much lighter.
And that's hard to fire, especially stake.
Speaker 6 (24:26):
Down myself and the tire.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Blowed me some holes in the wall. Little city. Of course,
Canna dedicated a monument to Billy Joe Shaver two days ago,
and it's a good looking monument. It looks like Billy
Joe and it looks happy. He's got his arms outstretched
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and uh you got a big smile on his face.
It's kind of welcoming you as you walk up to
the square. It's a little more gold than I would like,
but I guess in time it will putina and kind
of bronze out and brown out and look like it's
supposed to look when you see those things. But what
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they've been doing for the last couple of years is
they hired one of those guys from Bourbon Street that
they paint silver, you know, and they dressed him up
like Billy Joe Shaver and he would just stand there,
you know, and you'd walk up and take a picture
and then he'd move and oh or he would ever
saw off and change. No, they didn't. But I like
those guys, I would admit I like those guys, And
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on more than one occasion, I love drama if it
doesn't involve me. I like to watch other people's drama.
And I have, on more than one occasion seen the
guys who do that fight with each other. And that's
awesome because you know they're methed out of their mind,
you know it. You know that everything is just screwed.
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They're entertainers, which is already you know. You don't follow
the normal course and end up on Bourbon Street standing
on a box painted silver, holding yourself, you know, steady
for forty five seconds at a time. That's not a
normal course. Speaking of which, so Chris Pappas last night
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in his speech, he said, Papas Is he was talking
about the names of the businesses, and we didn't always
put our name in the first family business was retail
business because they're originally air conditioning business, sorry, refrigeration business,
like in I think nineteen twenty seven. I only remember
this because you have to learn it to work there.
They had the Dot Diner, and then they had Strawberry Patch,
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and then they had something else. I forget, Oh, brisket house.
They had brisket House. That was pretty early on too.
But he said, you know, they put our name in there.
And the funny thing is, Papas isn't even really our name.
Our real name was Papa. I think it was Papa
horror Docas. I'm gonna get that wrong, but I'm trying
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to remember. It's something like Papa horror Docas. So I
called Jimmy Pappas during the last break and I said,
are two breaks ago? So I can't remember exactly, and
he's very grumpy. So you can't just like ask a
question get an answer. You got to go through his
whole rigamarole to get, you know, decent bit of information
and response to your question. But I said, Chris Pappus's
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last name was not Papas. It was and I paused.
When they arrived from Greece it was, and I thought, well,
I'm wondering if Jimmy Pappas, because there's a lot of
Paposes if Jimmy Pappas had the same original last name,
and they shortened his to Papas too, And he said,
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I don't know what his last name was. And I said, well,
I think it was something. I think it was Chris,
Papa Horror, Papa Hard. I think it was Papa Hard Doccas,
something is very similar to that. And he said, oh, well,
our name wasn't Papas either. All right, well, can you
tell me what your name was? And he said it
was Papa Georgeiopolis. And I said, that's kind of a
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cool name, right, don't you know, as the cool last name. No, no,
I think that's I'm not making a joke. Papa Georgiopolis,
I think is a cool name. Now. I wouldn't want
to be in first grade named Papa Georgeopolis. But I
wouldn't want to be Ray Hunt either, you know what
I mean, Or Beth Dick or you know, I mean,
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there's a few Elizabeth Cott Glass. Well, there's some names
I would not want to be if I could help it,
you know what I mean? Uh yeah, I'm just saying yeah, yeah, anyway,
if we could go ahead, and resolve something right now.
Probably lower my blood pressure and help me out a
little bit, if you would. It is uh, papas Seafood.
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Papas Seafood. They say their name papas. They don't say
their name papus. The problem is after Papado and papasitos,
people then say papas and then I have to lose
my mind. So they're supposed to have a good little restaurant,
the the old you remember the old Papa Seafood on
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On Shepherd, little bitty one, little bee, tiny place. Well
they've made that into Petulli Wooley or something like some
it's like Brian Caswell. What is his name of Brian
Caswell's restaurant, Pauli Etuli, something like that, Petulia I think
it is. It's some fancy name that you can't remember,
which drives me crazy. You know who else did that?
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But he's French, so he can do that. That frenchman
in Uptown park a twelve. Let me tell you something.
You walk into that restaurant, you feel like you're in
a Dick novel. That dude's about six y three. He
hasn't bathed in four years. His name is like Francois
or something like that. Of course it is Pierre Philippe.
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He's probably got eight names, Pierre Philippe, Francois, Enrie. He
comes out and he smells, and he doesn't smell bad.
I'm not saying the man smells, but he's got that
gascone air about him. He's got the big chef's code
on that hasn't been washed in four years, and I
don't want him to wash it. It's like it's he's
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a character out of a movie, and I love characters
out of a movie. And he comes out and he's
got these big hands that are like mits, and he
asks you, I'm not gonna do my French accent, but
he asks you, you know, are you having a good time?
Is everything okay? What can I cook for y'all today?
And he's just just got like the steam of the
kitchen and the food and the muscles on him. You know,
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he's been steaming muscles and wine and all this, and
he's just streaking of it. It's a gastronomical experience when
he comes out to talk to you, and I like it.
Don't think I'm criticizing. I'm not afraid of criticizing, but
I like the guy. Anyway, it's a hell of a meal.
It's a hell of a meal. And then you walk
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out of there and you realize, Wow, I couldn't eat
like that every day. I could not eat that way
every day. I just it's a lot. It's like going
to Tony's. You can't. You can't do that every day.
You've got to pace yourself. But anyway, so they have
that little restaurant over on Shepherd. I was gonna tell you,
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and then there was one other Pappus updates and tell
you about. Well, funny thing, Mike Rizzo, who's now their CEO.
Mike Rizzo worked at Little Papacito's a year before me,
same location for Terry Mitchell, down across from the Astronome.
They moved his location and he said, we barely missed
each other. I said, how do you know that? He goes.
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Everybody knows your story. They love that you worked at Papas,
that Pappas. They love that you worked at Papas and
you tell the story that you worked at Papasitos. Yeah.
So anyway, and he went on to be the CEO.
And here I am sitting across looking at ramon Rolas
two woods diverged in a two roads diverged in a
wood than I took the one less travel by, and
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that has made all the difference. I bet Rizzo drives
a Rolls Royce or something, I bet he does. They
got more employees than you think. They got something like
fifteen thousand employees. That's big.
It's that time time time.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Time, luck and load.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
So Michael Varry Show is.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
On the air.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
How you daring this show?
Speaker 1 (00:23):
The Cube Liquor.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
I am the constituency congress Lady at large of Rage, Texas,
Micah berry hometown. I had went to this discovery conference
on the Democrat Party that Crackett Lady Cockade Jasmine or
whatever name is. She was giving us tips on how
to act black. I never had that there before. But
she said, okay, number one, use the word play especially,
(00:48):
don't play with me. She said, that's the number one rule.
Number two she said, don't touch me. She said that
somehow invoke your constitutional rights to be not bothered by
the police. Do not touch me.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
What she has a said a number three.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Oh, when you try and make a parent about something,
even if you do not know what you is talking about,
it is impertinent to clap your hands. Just don't matter
whether you testifying in Congress or is you a Supreme
Court justice, or if you just a colored lady. Want
to have a dispute with the manager at Popeye's Girl,
(01:27):
It's like finding that I got some clearance from a
woman who know what they're doing.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Could I ask this question yes, what Tessa? What you
got Why she talk like she erudite and speak English
when she get on the road and have her fingernail
dead and then she gonna talk like she from.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
The fifth ward.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
She's an actress. Do you understand what the actress is?
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Actress?
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Because a lady who do a thing that they not
meant to to revolve and revolving revolution theyselves.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
Okay, I don't really care. I don't care about the news,
but I need my EVT car. I got to have
my Sniker Boys and a Pepsi cola and all these
other things. My snowballs is and my Moss Boys is
sheredy qre. You can guarantee me that I can't guarantee
(02:22):
a damn thing.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
These days, girls tell up from the flow up seez.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Zara.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
I'm sure you've seen it, but if you haven't, On
the front page of this morning's Houston Chronicle is a
story about snap. Look at the picture of cars waiting
for food. The one in the picture is a late
madel Mercedes. I'm sure they didn't pay attention to it
and it slipped by the editors. That tells the whole story.
(02:57):
We have people in our society who live better than
people who work for a living. You know, the guy
that works at the warehouse driving the forklift, busting ass.
His wife is at home raising the kids, maybe their
(03:18):
first generation Hispanic here legally busting but and she's working
just as hard at home with these kids. And she
comes up. Maybe they don't have a car, or maybe
he has the one car, and he takes it to work,
and she takes the bus to bring him a little tiffing,
a little tupperware of his lunch and sits there with
(03:42):
him while he eats it. And they are struggling. Not
a benefit one. And then you've got this whole sister class.
Oh they are special. They're out at the bars, they're
driving range rovers, they're wearing nice threads, they've got websites,
(04:06):
they're posting on Instagram, and they don't work. What are
you doing? We have created so much slough in our
system that people that know they call it hustling. It
ain't hustling. It ain't hustling. In the Pete Rose turn third,
(04:27):
head home, get there as fast as you can and
crush the guy, or dive for a ball. Hustling. It's
hustle and flow hustling. It is being a hustler, like
a pool hustler. That's what it is. It's scamming, it's frauding,
it's fronting. That's what it is. That is very common.
(04:49):
There's entire TV shows with these people now, and there
is the whole the whole point of it is to
do things so that you can post it so other
people will think you're rich and important. It's the most
vapid thing I've ever seen. You go to a nice restaurant,
now you will see at a table next to you,
(05:13):
there is some girl who'll come in with her man.
You're not sure if he's gay or not, and he's
not sure if he's gared not. But he's holding her person,
taking her pictures, and she's posing as they eat. She's
got her champagne flute and she's got it up and
(05:34):
his job is to take photos, which, when you stop
and think about it, the whole point of these slutty
photos is to take the photo so that other dudes
will want to do her. So this dude is taking
the photos for her so that she can put up
(05:55):
so that other dudes can do her. My goodness, can
you cut hold my purse? That's awful. I mean, good night.
That is some kind of bad. Meanwhile, let's check in
on John Wayne mccorny, shall we.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
John Wayne mccornan is one of us. He woke up
on Monday, felt that humidity in the air, gathered his
lasso and roped this cool front straight down to you, Texas.
John Wayne mccornan is so close to Donald J. Trump
that when Trump headed to Japan, mccornan ate sushi for
(06:40):
a week and pretended to love that hot wine they
call sake. When Trump headed to China, mccornan ate rice
with chopsticks an impossible feet and just thirty minutes later
after that Chinese buffet, he was hungry again for you.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Yes, John Wayne mccornyn. The John Wayne mccornyn folks have
turned their artillery away from Paxton. Now they're attacking Wesley Hunt.
It's quite interesting. John Wayne mccornyn was to have had
this week in DC a closed door supposed to be well,
(07:38):
a closed door session with the big donors. And my
understanding on somewhat reliable authority is that the donors are
telling him you need to get out. Well, here's the problem.
If he gets out his donors are going to Wesley Hunt.
(08:02):
So in that sense, Wesley Hunt is a much bigger
threat today to John Cornyn than Paxton is, because Wesley
Hunt can take some of those donors, and Wesley Hunt
gives those donors an alternative to Paxton and an alternative
to Cornyn. So Cornyn right now is fighting off Hunt
(08:23):
in the short term before he can even bother to
get to Paxton. The Michael Barry Show. You learn a
lot about artists when you run a concert venue, because
when you book an artist, you notice whether they sell
(08:44):
tickets quickly or not. And when you book the artists
and they do a meet and greet, you learn that
some people are very eager to meet their fans, and
some people don't don't want to be around the fans.
You learn that some people are creating almost like an
(09:06):
amusement park, an immersive experience in you know Cory Morrow
or Pat Green or Tracy Bird or the bellowin Brother
or whoever that is, that it's an evening of that
person's area, right, Yeah, I want to meet them before
(09:26):
the show, I want to meet them after the show.
And then you see when they come on stage, you
can see how much of themselves. They give to the
crowd they're fans, and then you see the people for
whom and some of these are stars, I mean big
stars that they show up, they go out and they
(09:52):
might as well turn their back to the audience, which
is kind of one of the famous moves in music history.
But they might as well turn their back to the
audio and said sing to the backwall. They're not singing
to anyone, They're just going through the motions. And you
notice these things, and in most cases you can't know
(10:12):
what someone's like until you do something like that. I'll
tell you the one that really the most surprising artists
we ever had at the RCC Steve Warner. He was
twenty five thousand, which was higher than I felt like
he was worth. But we had about a three week
(10:37):
period that I didn't have anybody booked and I was
struggling to get somebody, and I called my buddy that
ran Nutty Jerry's in Beaumont, and I said, man, twenty
five thousand for Steve Warner seems high and he said,
you won't regret it, and he wasn't you know somebody
that promoted artists a lot? I said, okay, all right.
(11:00):
And then I called Sharon that ran Schrader Hall and
I said, hey, I see you have Steve Warren three
times a year. Yes, he's one of my favorites. And
Sharon did this deal before the show. She instead of
having a green room before the show, she would make
dinner for people the artist at her house. Her and
(11:21):
her husband would feed them at her house. It's a
small operation. She'd do it all herself. It was a
real neat, quaint kind of intimate deal. And the artist
all loved it. They thought it was the neatest thing ever.
And she said, oh, you'll love Steve Warner. I think
she might've been the one that had told me originally
to book him. So I booked them, and I had
(11:42):
to be out of town, so I wasn't paying attention
to ticket sales as close as I normally would have.
But I noticed that we covered which in the business everybody,
if tickets can cover the artist, you're in the good now.
If tickets can cover the artist and marketing and all that,
(12:03):
and that's even better. But for us, if tickets could
just cover the marketing the artists, we were good. So
we did cover twenty six like with twenty five with
maybe twenty six and everybody, not everybody, a lot of people.
By Monday, we're sending emails, please bring Steve Warner back.
That tells you a lot about what he did on stage.
(12:24):
You learn a lot in such a moment. And so
we did about a year later, and I bet we
sold maybe thirty two in tickets because he put on
such a great such a great show. And then you
see the guys that just all right, just pay me
my check. I'm out of here. But anytime I hear
(12:47):
Tracy Burder, I always think to myself about conversation the
first time I ever said to him, you know, do
you realize how proud you should be all these years
after you were charting, and people are still coming out
to see you, and they still love your music, and
they still want to hear you because he wasn't cutting
a lot of new stuff. He did cut a new album,
but they're coming out to hear songs that at this point,
(13:11):
you know, mid nineties, these songs were twenty years old.
They were only being played on the Classic Country. But
they wanted to hear Tracy sing them, and they wanted
to be around Tracy, and they wanted to see Tracy perform,
and there's just something about when you provide that experience.
I saw Corey Morrill go through a period where I
think he probably got a little burned out, and he
(13:33):
was still doing his show, still touring, but I have
noticed in him a passion again that has come back,
and a thrill to make music and evangelize. He looks
at it as, hey, I got a second chance on life.
I want to tell people what the Lord did for
me and which is kind of cool. And he says,
you know, I hope they'll listen without me, without me
(13:57):
being too preachy. I get a chance to tell my
story and support my family and make my art, and
I enjoy it. It's a pretty unique deal if you
think about it. Let's go to Who's up next? Taylor?
You're on the Michael Berry Show. Let's say you.
Speaker 6 (14:12):
Sir, Hey, Michael, can you hear me?
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Hey?
Speaker 6 (14:20):
I just wanted to just give a well personal point
of recognition to north wind Ac. They're at my mom's
house right now and they're doing a great job. Man,
So I just really wanted to appreciate you for the recommendation. Yeah,
what was the issue one of the bedrooms in her house,
it was not cooling like the others. So while the
(14:44):
others were nice and cool in the summer, it was
blazing hot. And so they're making work in their magic
and go to another event in it, and actually two
other events in that room.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
So right on named.
Speaker 6 (14:58):
Carlos, car Carlos and Carlos and Chris. So you know,
hopefully their bosses listening.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
You know, Darryl Konda listens to the show. In addition
to all the other stuff he does. He clips anytime
I or anyone else mentions a show sponsor, he sends
it to them and encourages them to share it with
the individual at the company that was responsible. So yes,
I assure you that will be duly noted. And you
(15:30):
know we ought to do more of that. Thank you, Ray.
I'm Sheila Jnglee the Michael Barry Show. You merely adopted
the doc I was body. The DNC is short of
cash and are trying to raise some. So trying to
(15:50):
do a fundraiser in San Francisco, and they thought, well,
who better to headline then Kamala Harris, right, it's where
she's from. Well, it turns out that when they went
looking for money with her as the headline, the donors
(16:11):
rejected it. They want no part of it. Let's see
the Wall Street General Report of the DNC has been
struggling to raise money during President Trump's second term in office,
According to several people familiar with the conversations, the DNC
attempted to reach out to major donors earlier this year
through the San Francisco based fundraiser, but most had declined.
(16:33):
The WSJ report reads upon receiving the invitation, one replied
with a profanity laced rejection. Others said they didn't want
to give to the party until it produced substantive plans
to win elections. Those who declined told the National Party
they had commitments and could not make it work. The
(16:56):
Wall Street General Report of the DNC eventually found a
donor to host the event, but it raised far less
than organizers had hoped. The article continues. A top official
at a national Democratic group said some donors remain angry
about how their money was spent in last year's presidential
(17:16):
election by outside groups, including on what they see as
excessive salaries for DC consultants. The official said the party
has failed to complete a public post election investigation into
what went wrong.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Humm.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Rachel Pritzker, chair of the think tank Third Way, also
told a Wall Street Journal it is shocking how little
reassessment the party and its leadership has done. Kamala's campaign
spent a billion and a half dollars in fifteen weeks.
(17:56):
A billion and a half dollars. You've got to work
to spend that much money. I mean, you have to
actually work to spend that much money. If you went
to the mall every day and you bought everything you saw,
(18:17):
you could not spend that amount of money because you
couldn't haul it out of there. You'd run out of time.
A billion and a half. They spent so much money
on Beyonce and Oprah and all these people, and think
what horrors they are. Think what horrors they have to be.
(18:39):
You're being asked to support somebody for president. You're going
to present to the audience. I'm for this person. They're great.
I want to see them be president. You're just paid.
You don't believe it at all. If you did believe it,
you wouldn't get paid to do it, and not just
(19:02):
paid paid insane amounts of money, crazy amounts of money. Well,
we've all received a rejection letter when we asked for
money before. But I bet the Kamala rejection letter, I
bet dad be a doozy.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Dear Democratic National Committee, we've received your request for funds.
Please see the following reasons we must decline your request.
Kamala Harris is a stupid who's in fact so and stupid.
She couldn't find her way out of a paper and sack.
Every in time I hear her laugh, it makes me
want to jump off a bridge and die an instant death.
(19:45):
Foremous regards a former DNC donner.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Last night, our friend Gary Peterson was honored in the
with induction into the Texas Business Hall of Fame. He
and Marty Phillips and Bob Zorich went in together, and
their partner David Miller, was inducted last year. The group
(20:11):
is called en CAP, which is short for Energy Capitalization.
They have been the most aggressive private equity source for
fracking in the Texas Shell to my knowledge, in the
last twenty five years. They have created a lot of
wealth for other people in whom they invested and for
(20:33):
their investors. They have a fund they've raised about fifty
billion dollars. They managed the money of several large institutions
you would recognize, and they look at deals and put
money into them, and they'll have fun number one, fund
number two, fund number three in various places, and when
(20:54):
the ship comes in, everybody gets rich and everybody's happy.
One of the other inductees was a woman named Thaggared.
I think I forget her first name, but she's the
one who created a product called Supergroup, which is a
sun block that supposedly doesn't have that awful feel to
(21:17):
it because it doesn't have all the zines in it,
the oxidene and benzene and all the things that are
supposed to be so bad for you, which is why
I don't wear sunblock, because the sun block's worth worse
for you than the sun. Don't argue with me on this.
And then the next one was Ken Fisher, who's an
investment guy, and I forget out of Dallas. And then
I can't remember who the other one was. And then
(21:40):
it was the Pappas brothers, Harris and Chris, and I
didn't realize how many restaurants they have. It's amazing how
many restaurants they have. They started with the Strawberry Patch,
the old Strawberry Patch that was a nice concept which
felt very clean and happy. Strawberry patch. Who don't want
to go to the straw berry patch? And then and
(22:03):
then they were gonna start with a seafood restaurant, and
Chris Pappas said that they asked his dad, you know,
what do you think we're got to call it? And
you know they were thinking in the oh there, they
were gonna name it. They were gonna name it Shrimpy's.
That's right. They said they were gonna name it Shrimpies.
And his dad said, put your name behind it. Why
when your name is on it, you care more about
(22:24):
the quality, because you don't want somebody to walk into
a place that has Pappas in the name and have
a bad experience. Everywhere you go in this town, it's
a small town. Everywhere you go, somebody, somebody you know
will be there that knows who you are, and they
will say, uh, hey, I was at your restaurant. If
(22:47):
it's got some other name on it, you can hide
from that. But when it's got your name on it.
And then he tells the story, and Mike Rizzo is
the guy who's who they've hired now to kind of
be the day to day operations Chris and prisoner stepping back,
Harris are stepping back, and Mike Rizzo confirmed this is true.
He had a tile guy that was setting tile in
a restaurant they were doing, and they were going to
(23:08):
do a text mix concept, and so the guy asked
him he did all his tier works, what are he
gonna name it? He said, I don't know, and they
had come up with Papa Dou. That had already done
Papa Doe and then he said, uh, he'say his first generation.
And he said, you ought to call it papasitos. And
(23:29):
Chris said, with cole what you ought to call it papasitos?
And he said, oh oh oh, how would that be written?
How would that? He had no idea right because he's
I mean, he's Greek, he's not Spanish speaking. And the
guy comes up with papasitos and he goes, he hasn't
paid for a meal since then. That turned out to
(23:50):
be pretty good. But you know, I had several people
tell me last night that they think Papa Doe is
their best concept, not the Delta Blues, not the Brisket House,
not the uh I got to tell you the steakhouse
that they do steakhouse as well as any Their steakhouse
is fantastic. If we're gonna do a steakhouse, we're gonna
(24:11):
do Vican Anthony's, We're gonna do uh Papos Brothers, or
we're going to go to Federal American Grill. And that's
because my wife doesn't want a steak. I want a steak,
and she can get good dishes that are much lighter.
And that's hard to fire, especially stake.
Speaker 6 (24:26):
Down myself and the tire.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Blowed me some holes in the wall. Little city. Of course,
Canna dedicated a monument to Billy Joe Shaver two days ago,
and it's a good looking monument. It looks like Billy
Joe and it looks happy. He's got his arms outstretched
(24:53):
and uh you got a big smile on his face.
It's kind of welcoming you as you walk up to
the square. It's a little more gold than I would like,
but I guess in time it will putina and kind
of bronze out and brown out and look like it's
supposed to look when you see those things. But what
(25:14):
they've been doing for the last couple of years is
they hired one of those guys from Bourbon Street that
they paint silver, you know, and they dressed him up
like Billy Joe Shaver and he would just stand there,
you know, and you'd walk up and take a picture
and then he'd move and oh or he would ever
saw off and change. No, they didn't. But I like
those guys, I would admit I like those guys, And
(25:36):
on more than one occasion, I love drama if it
doesn't involve me. I like to watch other people's drama.
And I have, on more than one occasion seen the
guys who do that fight with each other. And that's
awesome because you know they're methed out of their mind,
you know it. You know that everything is just screwed.
(26:00):
They're entertainers, which is already you know. You don't follow
the normal course and end up on Bourbon Street standing
on a box painted silver, holding yourself, you know, steady
for forty five seconds at a time. That's not a
normal course. Speaking of which, so Chris Pappas last night
(26:23):
in his speech, he said, Papas Is he was talking
about the names of the businesses, and we didn't always
put our name in the first family business was retail
business because they're originally air conditioning business, sorry, refrigeration business,
like in I think nineteen twenty seven. I only remember
this because you have to learn it to work there.
They had the Dot Diner, and then they had Strawberry Patch,
(26:47):
and then they had something else. I forget, Oh, brisket house.
They had brisket House. That was pretty early on too.
But he said, you know, they put our name in there.
And the funny thing is, Papas isn't even really our name.
Our real name was Papa. I think it was Papa
horror Docas. I'm gonna get that wrong, but I'm trying
(27:08):
to remember. It's something like Papa horror Docas. So I
called Jimmy Pappas during the last break and I said,
are two breaks ago? So I can't remember exactly, and
he's very grumpy. So you can't just like ask a
question get an answer. You got to go through his
whole rigamarole to get, you know, decent bit of information
and response to your question. But I said, Chris Pappus's
(27:31):
last name was not Papas. It was and I paused.
When they arrived from Greece it was, and I thought, well,
I'm wondering if Jimmy Pappas, because there's a lot of
Paposes if Jimmy Pappas had the same original last name,
and they shortened his to Papas too, And he said,
(27:53):
I don't know what his last name was. And I said, well,
I think it was something. I think it was Chris,
Papa Horror, Papa Hard. I think it was Papa Hard Doccas,
something is very similar to that. And he said, oh, well,
our name wasn't Papas either. All right, well, can you
tell me what your name was? And he said it
was Papa Georgeiopolis. And I said, that's kind of a
(28:17):
cool name, right, don't you know, as the cool last name. No, no,
I think that's I'm not making a joke. Papa Georgiopolis,
I think is a cool name. Now. I wouldn't want
to be in first grade named Papa Georgeopolis. But I
wouldn't want to be Ray Hunt either, you know what
I mean, Or Beth Dick or you know, I mean,
(28:39):
there's a few Elizabeth Cott Glass. Well, there's some names
I would not want to be if I could help it,
you know what I mean? Uh yeah, I'm just saying yeah, yeah, anyway,
if we could go ahead, and resolve something right now.
Probably lower my blood pressure and help me out a
little bit, if you would. It is uh, papas Seafood.
(29:05):
Papas Seafood. They say their name papas. They don't say
their name papus. The problem is after Papado and papasitos,
people then say papas and then I have to lose
my mind. So they're supposed to have a good little restaurant,
the the old you remember the old Papa Seafood on
(29:28):
On Shepherd, little bitty one, little bee, tiny place. Well
they've made that into Petulli Wooley or something like some
it's like Brian Caswell. What is his name of Brian
Caswell's restaurant, Pauli Etuli, something like that, Petulia I think
it is. It's some fancy name that you can't remember,
which drives me crazy. You know who else did that?
(29:49):
But he's French, so he can do that. That frenchman
in Uptown park a twelve. Let me tell you something.
You walk into that restaurant, you feel like you're in
a Dick novel. That dude's about six y three. He
hasn't bathed in four years. His name is like Francois
or something like that. Of course it is Pierre Philippe.
(30:11):
He's probably got eight names, Pierre Philippe, Francois, Enrie. He
comes out and he smells, and he doesn't smell bad.
I'm not saying the man smells, but he's got that
gascone air about him. He's got the big chef's code
on that hasn't been washed in four years, and I
don't want him to wash it. It's like it's he's
(30:32):
a character out of a movie, and I love characters
out of a movie. And he comes out and he's
got these big hands that are like mits, and he
asks you, I'm not gonna do my French accent, but
he asks you, you know, are you having a good time?
Is everything okay? What can I cook for y'all today?
And he's just just got like the steam of the
kitchen and the food and the muscles on him. You know,
(30:55):
he's been steaming muscles and wine and all this, and
he's just streaking of it. It's a gastronomical experience when
he comes out to talk to you, and I like it.
Don't think I'm criticizing. I'm not afraid of criticizing, but
I like the guy. Anyway, it's a hell of a meal.
It's a hell of a meal. And then you walk
(31:16):
out of there and you realize, Wow, I couldn't eat
like that every day. I could not eat that way
every day. I just it's a lot. It's like going
to Tony's. You can't. You can't do that every day.
You've got to pace yourself. But anyway, so they have
that little restaurant over on Shepherd. I was gonna tell you,
(31:37):
and then there was one other Pappus updates and tell
you about. Well, funny thing, Mike Rizzo, who's now their CEO.
Mike Rizzo worked at Little Papacito's a year before me,
same location for Terry Mitchell, down across from the Astronome.
They moved his location and he said, we barely missed
each other. I said, how do you know that? He goes.
(31:59):
Everybody knows your story. They love that you worked at Papas,
that Pappas. They love that you worked at Papas and
you tell the story that you worked at Papasitos. Yeah.
So anyway, and he went on to be the CEO.
And here I am sitting across looking at ramon Rolas
two woods diverged in a two roads diverged in a
wood than I took the one less travel by, and
(32:22):
that has made all the difference. I bet Rizzo drives
a Rolls Royce or something, I bet he does. They
got more employees than you think. They got something like
fifteen thousand employees. That's big.
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If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.