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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Time, luck and load.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
So Michael darry Show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Jolie, Jolie, Jolie, Jolie. I'm begging of you, please don't
take my man. Jolie, Jolie, Jolie and Jolie.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Please don't take him just because you can. Tyler mayhon
Co has podcast where he goes very deep into country
music and I've never heard anything like it. It's just amazing.
I since I don't want to speak out of school,
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but I sense he is in his personal mental place,
not necessarily good or stable, and he seems to struggle
to get the podcast out, which as you know, can
often happen with highly talented people. It is the best
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podcast I have ever heard in any field, across any host,
you name it. It's a niche because it's country music.
But the less and that's part of the charm of
it is that the amount of research and analysis and
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perspective he brings to bear on a subject that is
mostly not written down. This is kind of almost an
oral history industry country music. You know, if he did
this on science, there would be scientific journals to pull from,
or politics there would be articles written, but in this case,
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so much of it in how a particular you know,
guitarist at a particular Quanston Hut in Nashville affected these songs,
which went on to affect these songs which went on too.
It's really amazing, it's absolutely incredible. And I say all
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that to say this he uses as his theme song Joelene.
But what hits me about that is, I don't if
I remember correctly, he's only done two episodes, I mean
two seasons, and it takes him quite a while to
do one of these seasons, and so his first one
was like his lifetime of work. And then I think
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he was shocked how well it took off and how
well he was able to monetize it. And maybe a
year and a half later he came back with U
say it was called Cocaine and Rhinestones by Tyler Mayhan
co Coe's David allen Coe's son. He doesn't make much
of that to talk about his dad really almost ever.
He certainly doesn't use that as a as a way
to get special access, for sure, So it's not like
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he's embarrassed of it's just something he doesn't feel a
need to throw into conversation. But in the intro and
outro to the show, he uses the opening bed of Joelene.
And I never noticed the gravity of the sound of
that song, because all I ever thought about was was
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Dolly Parton's sort of plaintive but resolved but resul well
resolved voice in that right, this desperate woman doing everything
she can to keep her man. And I really think
she played it off. Maybe it came naturally to her.
Man I've been her personal story, but she'd seen enough
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of it. But anyway, play the opening few seconds of
that again, Ramon. When every episode of that podcast begins
in this arts, I remind myself, damn, that is a
strong opening if you don't think of it as we're
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about to go into a Dolly Parton song. It has
this almost like gun battle about to happen, you know, okay,
corral level drama about to occur. That there's a lot
of intensity to it, even though it is relatively simple,
something big is about to happen, and I never notice that.
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But this is a guy who's heard every country music
song ever recorded. For him to have chosen that, I
remember thinking, huh, that's odd he chose Joelene. And the
more times I would hear an episode because I binge listen.
The more times I would hear an episode, the more
times I would go Wow. Of all the songs his ear,
he's a musician himself, but of all the songs he
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knew that song a seemingly you know, light song had
that level of gravitas to it. One more time, Remo
and stop. So when she comes in, it becomes Dolly
Parton singing and then you don't notice that that intro
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sh It's amazing. He teaches you to notice things like that.
It's a wonderful podcast if you like classic country and
you like the drama of George and Tammy and what
really happened or how George did he stop loving her today?
Or the old Nashville sound you know from Hank Senior
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up through it it is man, it is something special.
Cocaine and rhinestone rhyin stones Tyler mahon co. So we
asked for somebody to call up and explain the Dolly
Pardon situation, and Carolyn was on, but we lost her.
Apparently she had kidney stones and it doesn't appear that
she wanted anyone else speaking on her behalf. We have
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a clip of her play in a moment. It doesn't
appear she wanted anyone speaking on her behalf or asking
for prayers on her behalf. You know, I have found
that some people use the asking for prayers as a
way to themselves, inuate them insinuate themselves into a situation.
I've seen that with church groups with us, say, please
pray for Roberto. As y'all know, he's gotten three women
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pregnant outside of his own marriage, and his wife is
suicidal and his son is a highlight addicted to drugs.
Can can we all uh, can we all please pray
for Roberto? Y'all remember he's been divorced three times and
he's really wanting to be a godly man and make
his marriage work this time. But he has slipped into
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some really bad situations. And so since we all love
him so much, we want to pray for him. I
think that's a gossip circles. What that is? Here's what
Dolly had to say. This right here, what Dolly had
to say. This is Dolly saying what Dolly had to say.
This is the audio being played. Oh really, that's it.
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Now you're going to do Dolly partner personation?
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Now?
Speaker 1 (07:40):
This was the moment in the program where if Ramon
had fired the Dolly Parton audio, you would be listening
to Dolly Parton.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
I want to say something one of today's October the eighth,
And obviously I'm here doing some commercials for the grand
Ola Lobbry, which is why I'm griss, kind of like
old country Western girl. But before I got started, I
wanted to say, I know lately everybody thinks that I
am sicker than I am. Do I look sick to you?
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I'm working hard here anyway. I wanted to put everybody's
mind at ease, those of you that seemed to be
real concern, which I appreciate. And I appreciate your prayers.
Because I'm a person of faith. I can always use
the prayers.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
This time, bred.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Scott writes, good day, Michael. I'm from Australia. We call
them prawns. Tell about shrimp, and no one uses the
term shrimp. I hadn't heard of the term shrimp till
I came here from Australia. With the guy trying to
pill for the shrimp, how was he going to carry
twenty pounds on his bicycle? I think you better carry
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twenty pounds on the subject of shrimp art rights. Don's
Seafood was the best. No, not that Jibra Floyd's in
Beaumont had the best fried fish. Their seafood Gumboat may
also be the best ever, but I still do it better.
I'm sure you went there many times I did. Don's
Seafood on Ien was the ultimate fried seafood place for
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people who lived in the Golden Train. I don't know
if they had better fried seafood in Houston, but that's
what we ate, and by God, we liked it. We
liked it a lot. It was good. Let's see West
writes of several hats I've worn in the past. I
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was an NAMS certified and SAMs accredited marine surveyor. One
of my duties as a surveyor was to appraise the
work vessel being surveyed according to the uniform Standards for
Professional Appraisal practice. You, being an attorney and having a
real estate license, likely know it well. In past decades,
frozen farm raised trimp absolute crap became increasingly more commercially available,
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and it was detrimental to the local fishing industry. In
five and also eight, diesel prices spike to a staggering level.
Most one hundred foot steel golf shrimping vessels hold twenty
thousand to thirty thousand gallons of fuel. These things together
put the industry in bankruptcy mode. We wound up representing
the commercial fishing companies in bankruptcy courts, devaluing the vessels
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according to their inability as a tool to earn income.
I always felt for these folks. They're just hard working
people trying to scratch together a living. They don't make
a ton of money, but they love what they were doing.
I refused to buy frozen crap, and I wish we
could put a financial hurt on the importers. Golf seapfood
is hands down the world's best, unbeatable. Still keeping up
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with you on our tour. I can't remember where he's touring,
but he's touring Ramon. You need to know that, Michael
writes Czar. Someone is already rounding up the homeless and
put them all in one place. The Bayous Dan writes
funny Kenny Rodgers' story. My parents had season tickets to
the shows at the Arena. Theater are located at the
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corner of the Southwest Freeway at Fondren They would pass
along tickets to my wife and I occasionally, and we
scored a pair of Kenny Rogers tickets circa early nineties
or so. By then Kenny had evolved into the duets era,
which I found to be grading. We also got the
knowen to Holdems Lucille, Reuben James and Coward of the
County songs that I much preferred. The show was excellent.
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At the very end, he discussed growing up in Houston
and said he wanted to remember the next few songs
from his first band, the first edition that some fans
may not remember. The first song the band broke into
was just dropped in and at least half the audience
ran for the exits. He finished and laughed and said,
well that happens a lot. And yes, as members of
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the RCC, we attended his last show there. You know,
it amazes to me. It amazes me people lose any
sense of humanity when it comes to a singer an athlete.
You know, if a person likes coca cola, they love cocoa.
I do anything cocla, I love it. But if you
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show them a pepsi, they may say. They may use
terms like urine or trash or that you know, very
very harsh terms. Okay, let's find it's product. Nobody's feelings
are hurt. I mean maybe the people who make this stuff,
but they know it's PEPSI, they know it's not any good.
Why you have to pay places to keep it on
stock and not carry coke or people wuld always choose coke.
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But what amazes to me is the complete lack of
humanity toward human beings that someone who claims to be
a fan will exhibit. For instance, you have a concert
and there will be people who will say I'm your
biggest fan. I am your biggest fan. Person will say, okay,
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thank you. Do you mind not calling out so I
can do the show?
Speaker 6 (13:02):
Do you?
Speaker 1 (13:04):
But I'm your biggest fan? Okay? I think this might
be about you and not the artist. Now you need
some attention, sho. We got a green room. Let's take
you back in the green room while he sings, and
we'll off uss over you and we'll ask you where
you're from and what your favorite color is, and you know,
give you some chalk and you'll do some things like that.
Because this seems to be about you and not him.
But that person doesn't realize that in that person's mind,
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I'm his biggest fan, so I can interrupt this whole show.
In fact, I can do anything I want. I can
cut in line, I can go to the green room
if I don't have a ticket, I can walk down front.
I can take photos when I'm not supposed to. I
can go up on the stage when I'm not supposed to.
And then that same person, if he won't play the
song that they want or in some way accommodate their desire, Hey,
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come over here and take a picture of my sister.
She likes you. Cross over the rope, come across the
bridge down under there up here and take ten men.
Come over here and do what I want you to
do right now, because I'm your biggest fan. And when
the person doesn't, they go from biggest fan to hating
that person. Maybe, just maybe this whole fandom thing is
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not what it's cracked up to be. And that's why
you see so many times somebody getting into a fight
with someone who is supposed to be their fan because
that person has no The Kenny Rogers concert is such
a great example. Kenny Rogers had as great a body
of work as almost any artist in American history, and
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certainly in the top ten for his overall body of work.
It's amazing. It's absolutely incredible. It's staggering. It's not just
the best in a year, it's the best in multiple years.
It's so much better than so many people that were
famous and were big. It's you have to stop and
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really take a look at what he was able to
accomplish and the longevity of it. His popularity, particularly in
the eighties, is as big as any artist's popularity at
any time. You say the Beatles, but his was longer.
I mean, you know, it doesn't matter who's top. Let's
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just say he's in the conversation, right. So you go
to see him in a relatively intimate venue, the Arena
if you've probably all been there. It's called the arena
because it's an arena. You know, you got the artists
in the middle and the I think most nights the
stage would would would swivel and like the Montleon in
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New Orleans, and the audience is, you know, the darn
thing doesn't go twenty rows deep. Maybe, so everybody has
a very intimate seat. You're listening to Kenny Rodgers. He's
played all the hits for you, not like he's saying, hey,
I got a new album. Oh no, Billy Corgan. We
don't want to hear new smashing pumpanies want to hear
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what you've always done. But the minute he plays a
song that, by the way, was a massive hit, this
guy from Houston performing in Houston toward the end of
his career, and people get up and leaves. I mean
that you're a fan, I mean really like, I really
like it, so that one second, I don't. I need
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to find the clip of Kenny Rogers telling the story
at a I don't know if it was Kenny Rogers tribute,
if it was Lone Richie tribute, but he tells the
story with Lone Ritchie on the front row about Lionel
Richie writing that song, and he tells it better than
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I will, but I'll give you the abbreviated version. Kenny.
Whatever Kenny Rogers whispered into a microphone was gonna go
to the top ten and sell a bunch of songs.
At certain point in the eighties, he was the hottest
thing in the market, so they had to find songs
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for him, and they bring in Linel Richie and Line Richie.
Much like Barry Gibb, his career has kind of dropped
off with the end of disco. But he's a great songwriter.
Not his greatest songwriter as Barry Gibb, but dad gumt
he's pretty good. And so they realized that his style
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is perfect for Kenny, so they bring him over. The
label brings him over to write songs and they've got
to write a song and Lionel they've just thrown this
on line and he's not he doesn't have a song
in there. Studio time is very expensive and it's precious.
You know, when you have studio time. You got to
a lot of songs were rushed because they were running
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short on studio time. They got to get this thing finished.
And Kenny Rogers talks about Lionel Richie not having anything,
and then he goes to the restroom and he stays
in the restroom for quite some time, which of course
means he's sitting on the pot. And he comes bounding
out and he says, I've got it, and Kenny Rogers, okay,
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he's got the song. He said, all right, give me,
you know, sing it for me, and he sings the
word lady in that key just like that. He said, Okay,
what else, That's all I got so far. But he
built the song around that, and obviously it ends up
being a huge, huge hit for Kenny Rogers. But it's
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just kind of a funny moment that Lionel Richie knew
he had the song because he had the concept. I
don't write my speeches out. I haven't. It comes back
to debating. In high school. You learn how to communicate
and present in a way with you keep certain things
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in your head. Now I do it much more extemporaneously,
but I always have a concept that I'm going to
work with, and finding the concept is not a nine
percent of the work. It is the idea. I've read
books about people who like Walter Isaacson, who writes these
Tomes You a thousand page biographies of Steve Jobs and
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Elon Musk and others, and he says, the biggest challenge
for me is finding the subject I'm going to write about.
The writing itself is on autopilot. I know how to
dig in and do the research and talk to the
people I needed to talk to and begin to formulate
the story. It's figuring that out. It's just interesting that
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a song like that that appears out of thin air.
I am amazed by the song writing process because we
we know that songs are an important part of our lives.
You know, you go to a wedding and you see
people come off the wall and start dancing that haven't
danced in forty years because that's their song. Songs are
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very powerful. They are embedded deeper. They're not surface level.
They're like the smell of Grandma's corn bread or cake,
or a certain fried chicken or a place that you've been.
They have that incredible power over you. And we don't
celebrate songwriters today the way poets were one. You know,
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you ever think about that, who's a modern day poet
that you know? Oh, they elevate some black women because
we have to have, you know, a Tony Morrison ever
so often or Amaya Angelo, and that makes everybody feel good.
And that's nothing wrong with their writings. But we don't
have we still have people putting words down that reflect
our emotions. Right. I've said before how much I hate
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the view and everything those dumb broad stand for. But
sometimes they say stuff so stupid. Whoopy Goldberg says, everybody
get your makeup creams and paint your faces brown so
they can't tell who to round up. Well, when there's
a chance to apply makeup. You know, our good friend
Timmy Wats got excited and just had to comment on
his weekly.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Podition, Hell My Minnesota, do minions, it's you boy, Jimmy Walls,
with a reminder, you're listening to the number one podcast
in Traverse County between midnight and three am. And do
we have a big announcement tonight. We've been picked up
by our first ever affiliate.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Who's got the slack of who's got the plan?
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Yes, Jimmy Walls, he's the many man. He did not
expect this. Welcome to New Shoreham Road Island. Now you
might be the tiniest little tiny point the way upper
East Coast, but a big.
Speaker 5 (21:58):
Was applause to those four.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Families that could be listening at this very moment at day. Okay,
we've got a big topic today that involves my girls
from the view that are liked by just a few.
I know, I know, Joy and my girl Whoopee are
in the news because they said that satan spawn of
a woman, Christine Oham, would be going to the Super
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Bowl with her mean, ugly bullies from Ice and rounding
up people to deport all because of my eye. Bad
Bunny here, this is what they.
Speaker 6 (22:33):
Say it she's threatening to go to the super Bowl
when bad Bunny is there and round up all these
people that are illegal immigrants. Do you think that she
would go if it was goth.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Brooks, Randon low Places or Eminem.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Wait a minstrel minute?
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Is he even white?
Speaker 6 (22:49):
Or Taylor Swift or any.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Of the white labs?
Speaker 4 (22:51):
To understand what you're saying, Because she's going to go
to the super Bowl and round up, how's she gonna
know who's who?
Speaker 6 (22:59):
Because this Supreme Court has given permission to question anyone
who has a Spanish Accentdo has a dark skin?
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (23:06):
So his wife?
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Here's the whooper ass. Whoopy, everybody, get a little colo
butter set in the sun.
Speaker 6 (23:13):
That's the first thing.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
And then and this is the only time you can
probably ever do this, give yourself a Latin accident, you.
Speaker 6 (23:22):
Know, Whoopy, that's such a.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
Great deal, and see if she can tell who's who?
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Now you see, that's a big molliebian my girl, Whoopy,
I love this idea. Now I am sitting in front
of my wife's vanity which he spends so much time
away from me but seems to love it. And I
am picking through some of her facial creams that I
can wear to the Super Bowl. Let's see here, we've
got nutter butter. Oh, and then there's tooty fruity. Look
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at this, I could layer on the mounds of brown.
Oh and what is this here? Shimmy, shimmy coco now
mm hmm smells so nice to avoid the ice. Oh,
I'm in heaven. We're out of time again. Join us
next week with our special guest head dancing and his
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thoughts on making a WHOOPI with.
Speaker 5 (24:16):
Whoopy hey, Miss Tracy Bird, and I tip my hand
to the keeper, the star and the sod.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Time to leave me another hellbin them to song track
of our life. We did our show sponsor event last night,
where our eighty plus show sponsors came out to Republic
Boot Company for a gathering of just them. We've gotten
big enough now that I have to work to stay
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constantly in touch with these folks, even though I try
to make a phone call at least one, sometimes more
every day when I leave the studio in the middle
of the afternoon. You think about with that many, and
not on weekend days. It's twice a year that I'm
able to connect with that person by phone because there
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are so many and then if I don't reach them,
the likelihood they're going to be able to reach me
because I'm in the studio and my phone is off
goes down. So it's always a treat to get together
with our folks and we always try to do We've
done that at Federal American Grill quite a few times.
We still do a lot of events at Federal American Grill.
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Matt Brice rolls out the red car but as he
will do for you, time to start thinking about your
Christmas party is great, great Christmas party location. And he
has been such a big supporter of our show. Oh
he was there last night. He's been such a big
supporter of our show over the years, and it has
been a lot of fun to watch him grow and develop.
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He Matt Brice spent a lot of years in a
kitchen and then in front of house as a chef,
and in Milwaukee and then New York at a prize
steakhouse there, and then when he came to Houston, he
ran mose a place for hose on Post Oak, and
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then when he started, when he started Federal American Grill
on Shepherd at Washington, which he still has over all
these years, that's when I got to know him. I
actually knew him from Mose the place for Hose, but
I didn't he didn't own that, he ran it, but
I didn't. I didn't really know him, and I just
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you just see him there. I knew Johnny V a
lot of folks in town News quite quite the personality,
and they were business partners in them. So when Matt
and his wife opened Federal American Grill on Shepherd near Washington,
I spoke for him for about a year, but it
was hard to monetize. You know, our folks if we
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if we tell them about something that I enjoy and
it's something they need, they'll go there. But one location
like that, it just it didn't make sense. And the
economics were there, weren't there, and we both agreed it
wasn't a good idea. So we remained friends. And it
wasn't until you know, seven eight years later when he
opened his it location, and he opened it just before
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the COVID shutdown started, and then we told the story
about him, and then of course Ed Hindi and Nina
Hindi came and all the folks in the near west side,
the villages and then Memorial and tangled what everybody supported him,
and it was really at that time it was there.
There weren't there weren't a lot of fine, fun, fine
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dining locations on the west Side, so people were going
into the heights, they were going to Montrose, Midtown, downtown.
So the community was dying for it. I mean, they
were just so eager and they responded in such a
big way. And since then, of course he's opened the Katie.
The Woodlands are now the downtown next to, very close to.
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It's not minute made any more, diking. I should know
that my niece works there in the marketing department. She
would not appreciate me calling it minute made. But it
was minute made for so long. Actually, I don't really
think it was minu made. I think of it as
in run and it was only inron for a minute,
and then it became minute made forever. I never thought
of it as minute made or the juice box. It
was always inron Field and in my mind, in my
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mind that tall building on post O Transco Tower, and
then it became Williams and I don't know what it
is now, but it'll always be Transco Tower. There's a
lot of things like that for me that I just
I'm not trying to be difficult. That's just the way
it is in my mind. I still work for Clear Channel,
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have them in Clear Channel in fifteen years. It's iHeart.
It's been iHeart, but I still think of it as
Clear Channel because that was where I started. There's a
lot of those things. Send me an email as to
one of those that you still think of in that
old way. Not to be defiant, not to make the
point of I will not say the proper name. That's
just what is in my head. But anyway, we had
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a show sponsor event last night and as I look
out from the stage over that group of people, it's
over eighty companies that are our show sponsors. And by
the way, advertisers are people who pay to be on
our show during the break. That doesn't make them bad people.
I'm not dismissing them, but that is not someone that
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I personally endorse. Those are people who want you as
their customers. And I will tell you everybody in Houston
media knows this. It is insanely expensive even to advertise
on our show. Not because of me, but because of you.
Because you are the cream of the crop of the customer,
and this is widely discussed in media circles. You are
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the qualitative buy, not the quantitative. You're the qualitative by
if you are selling them. You're not the richest you are,
but that's not the reason for it. You are the
people who restaurants, car dealerships, home and everybody wants you
as a customer. You are people who pay your bills
on time, refer customers, very polite, you can imagine. You know.
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You're Trump supporting, patriotic Americans. Companies want you. Even liberals
want you as customers, even though they hate politics. So
but as I look out over that group of people
who are what I call show sponsors, not advertisers, and
I don't read for them or speak for them or
all those stupid radio terms, I endorse them, and your
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emails come in to me and I forward it to them.
Many of you go directly with them, but many of
you email it into me, and I connected, and I
look out over that and I see the power of
what we that's you and me. Mostly you have built
and that every one of these people they're small business owners,
they have families, they have companies, they have a place
to work. They're not being laid off. They can be
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proud of it. Many of them have grown and expanded
because of you. And that is all because you know,
we could have done this show and gotten no reaction
and we'd still be the same people. But you reacted
and continue to and you have created a family, a
community of Brigade, and we are so thankful to you.
It's that time, time, time.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Time, luck and load.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
So Michael darry Show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Jolie, Jolie, Jolie, Jolie. I'm begging of you, please don't
take my man. Jolie, Jolie, Jolie and Jolie.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Please don't take him just because you can. Tyler mayhon
Co has podcast where he goes very deep into country
music and I've never heard anything like it. It's just amazing.
I since I don't want to speak out of school,
(01:13):
but I sense he is in his personal mental place,
not necessarily good or stable, and he seems to struggle
to get the podcast out, which as you know, can
often happen with highly talented people. It is the best
(01:34):
podcast I have ever heard in any field, across any host,
you name it. It's a niche because it's country music.
But the less and that's part of the charm of
it is that the amount of research and analysis and
(01:56):
perspective he brings to bear on a subject that is
mostly not written down. This is kind of almost an
oral history industry country music. You know, if he did
this on science, there would be scientific journals to pull from,
or politics there would be articles written, but in this case,
(02:21):
so much of it in how a particular you know,
guitarist at a particular Quanston Hut in Nashville affected these songs,
which went on to affect these songs which went on too.
It's really amazing, it's absolutely incredible. And I say all
(02:44):
that to say this he uses as his theme song Joelene.
But what hits me about that is, I don't if
I remember correctly, he's only done two episodes, I mean
two seasons, and it takes him quite a while to
do one of these seasons, and so his first one
was like his lifetime of work. And then I think
(03:06):
he was shocked how well it took off and how
well he was able to monetize it. And maybe a
year and a half later he came back with U
say it was called Cocaine and Rhinestones by Tyler Mayhan
co Coe's David allen Coe's son. He doesn't make much
of that to talk about his dad really almost ever.
He certainly doesn't use that as a as a way
to get special access, for sure, So it's not like
(03:28):
he's embarrassed of it's just something he doesn't feel a
need to throw into conversation. But in the intro and
outro to the show, he uses the opening bed of Joelene.
And I never noticed the gravity of the sound of
that song, because all I ever thought about was was
(03:54):
Dolly Parton's sort of plaintive but resolved but resul well
resolved voice in that right, this desperate woman doing everything
she can to keep her man. And I really think
she played it off. Maybe it came naturally to her.
Man I've been her personal story, but she'd seen enough
(04:14):
of it. But anyway, play the opening few seconds of
that again, Ramon. When every episode of that podcast begins
in this arts, I remind myself, damn, that is a
strong opening if you don't think of it as we're
(04:36):
about to go into a Dolly Parton song. It has
this almost like gun battle about to happen, you know, okay,
corral level drama about to occur. That there's a lot
of intensity to it, even though it is relatively simple,
something big is about to happen, and I never notice that.
(05:00):
But this is a guy who's heard every country music
song ever recorded. For him to have chosen that, I
remember thinking, huh, that's odd he chose Joelene. And the
more times I would hear an episode because I binge listen.
The more times I would hear an episode, the more
times I would go Wow. Of all the songs his ear,
he's a musician himself, but of all the songs he
(05:24):
knew that song a seemingly you know, light song had
that level of gravitas to it. One more time, Remo
and stop. So when she comes in, it becomes Dolly
Parton singing and then you don't notice that that intro
(05:46):
sh It's amazing. He teaches you to notice things like that.
It's a wonderful podcast if you like classic country and
you like the drama of George and Tammy and what
really happened or how George did he stop loving her today?
Or the old Nashville sound you know from Hank Senior
(06:08):
up through it it is man, it is something special.
Cocaine and rhinestone rhyin stones Tyler mahon co. So we
asked for somebody to call up and explain the Dolly
Pardon situation, and Carolyn was on, but we lost her.
Apparently she had kidney stones and it doesn't appear that
she wanted anyone else speaking on her behalf. We have
(06:30):
a clip of her play in a moment. It doesn't
appear she wanted anyone speaking on her behalf or asking
for prayers on her behalf. You know, I have found
that some people use the asking for prayers as a
way to themselves, inuate them insinuate themselves into a situation.
I've seen that with church groups with us, say, please
pray for Roberto. As y'all know, he's gotten three women
(06:54):
pregnant outside of his own marriage, and his wife is
suicidal and his son is a highlight addicted to drugs.
Can can we all uh, can we all please pray
for Roberto? Y'all remember he's been divorced three times and
he's really wanting to be a godly man and make
his marriage work this time. But he has slipped into
(07:15):
some really bad situations. And so since we all love
him so much, we want to pray for him. I
think that's a gossip circles. What that is? Here's what
Dolly had to say. This right here, what Dolly had
to say. This is Dolly saying what Dolly had to say.
This is the audio being played. Oh really, that's it.
(07:38):
Now you're going to do Dolly partner personation?
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Now?
Speaker 1 (07:40):
This was the moment in the program where if Ramon
had fired the Dolly Parton audio, you would be listening
to Dolly Parton.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
I want to say something one of today's October the eighth,
And obviously I'm here doing some commercials for the grand
Ola Lobbry, which is why I'm griss, kind of like
old country Western girl. But before I got started, I
wanted to say, I know lately everybody thinks that I
am sicker than I am. Do I look sick to you?
(08:09):
I'm working hard here anyway. I wanted to put everybody's
mind at ease, those of you that seemed to be
real concern, which I appreciate. And I appreciate your prayers.
Because I'm a person of faith. I can always use
the prayers.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
This time, bred.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Scott writes, good day, Michael. I'm from Australia. We call
them prawns. Tell about shrimp, and no one uses the
term shrimp. I hadn't heard of the term shrimp till
I came here from Australia. With the guy trying to
pill for the shrimp, how was he going to carry
twenty pounds on his bicycle? I think you better carry
(08:52):
twenty pounds on the subject of shrimp art rights. Don's
Seafood was the best. No, not that Jibra Floyd's in
Beaumont had the best fried fish. Their seafood Gumboat may
also be the best ever, but I still do it better.
I'm sure you went there many times I did. Don's
Seafood on Ien was the ultimate fried seafood place for
(09:19):
people who lived in the Golden Train. I don't know
if they had better fried seafood in Houston, but that's
what we ate, and by God, we liked it. We
liked it a lot. It was good. Let's see West
writes of several hats I've worn in the past. I
(09:39):
was an NAMS certified and SAMs accredited marine surveyor. One
of my duties as a surveyor was to appraise the
work vessel being surveyed according to the uniform Standards for
Professional Appraisal practice. You, being an attorney and having a
real estate license, likely know it well. In past decades,
frozen farm raised trimp absolute crap became increasingly more commercially available,
(10:04):
and it was detrimental to the local fishing industry. In
five and also eight, diesel prices spike to a staggering level.
Most one hundred foot steel golf shrimping vessels hold twenty
thousand to thirty thousand gallons of fuel. These things together
put the industry in bankruptcy mode. We wound up representing
the commercial fishing companies in bankruptcy courts, devaluing the vessels
(10:26):
according to their inability as a tool to earn income.
I always felt for these folks. They're just hard working
people trying to scratch together a living. They don't make
a ton of money, but they love what they were doing.
I refused to buy frozen crap, and I wish we
could put a financial hurt on the importers. Golf seapfood
is hands down the world's best, unbeatable. Still keeping up
(10:48):
with you on our tour. I can't remember where he's touring,
but he's touring Ramon. You need to know that, Michael
writes Czar. Someone is already rounding up the homeless and
put them all in one place. The Bayous Dan writes
funny Kenny Rodgers' story. My parents had season tickets to
the shows at the Arena. Theater are located at the
(11:10):
corner of the Southwest Freeway at Fondren They would pass
along tickets to my wife and I occasionally, and we
scored a pair of Kenny Rogers tickets circa early nineties
or so. By then Kenny had evolved into the duets era,
which I found to be grading. We also got the
knowen to Holdems Lucille, Reuben James and Coward of the
County songs that I much preferred. The show was excellent.
(11:33):
At the very end, he discussed growing up in Houston
and said he wanted to remember the next few songs
from his first band, the first edition that some fans
may not remember. The first song the band broke into
was just dropped in and at least half the audience
ran for the exits. He finished and laughed and said,
well that happens a lot. And yes, as members of
(11:53):
the RCC, we attended his last show there. You know,
it amazes to me. It amazes me people lose any
sense of humanity when it comes to a singer an athlete.
You know, if a person likes coca cola, they love cocoa.
I do anything cocla, I love it. But if you
(12:15):
show them a pepsi, they may say. They may use
terms like urine or trash or that you know, very
very harsh terms. Okay, let's find it's product. Nobody's feelings
are hurt. I mean maybe the people who make this stuff,
but they know it's PEPSI, they know it's not any good.
Why you have to pay places to keep it on
stock and not carry coke or people wuld always choose coke.
(12:38):
But what amazes to me is the complete lack of
humanity toward human beings that someone who claims to be
a fan will exhibit. For instance, you have a concert
and there will be people who will say I'm your
biggest fan. I am your biggest fan. Person will say, okay,
(12:59):
thank you. Do you mind not calling out so I
can do the show?
Speaker 6 (13:02):
Do you?
Speaker 1 (13:04):
But I'm your biggest fan? Okay? I think this might
be about you and not the artist. Now you need
some attention, sho. We got a green room. Let's take
you back in the green room while he sings, and
we'll off uss over you and we'll ask you where
you're from and what your favorite color is, and you know,
give you some chalk and you'll do some things like that.
Because this seems to be about you and not him.
But that person doesn't realize that in that person's mind,
(13:27):
I'm his biggest fan, so I can interrupt this whole show.
In fact, I can do anything I want. I can
cut in line, I can go to the green room
if I don't have a ticket, I can walk down front.
I can take photos when I'm not supposed to. I
can go up on the stage when I'm not supposed to.
And then that same person, if he won't play the
song that they want or in some way accommodate their desire, Hey,
(13:50):
come over here and take a picture of my sister.
She likes you. Cross over the rope, come across the
bridge down under there up here and take ten men.
Come over here and do what I want you to
do right now, because I'm your biggest fan. And when
the person doesn't, they go from biggest fan to hating
that person. Maybe, just maybe this whole fandom thing is
(14:12):
not what it's cracked up to be. And that's why
you see so many times somebody getting into a fight
with someone who is supposed to be their fan because
that person has no The Kenny Rogers concert is such
a great example. Kenny Rogers had as great a body
of work as almost any artist in American history, and
(14:34):
certainly in the top ten for his overall body of work.
It's amazing. It's absolutely incredible. It's staggering. It's not just
the best in a year, it's the best in multiple years.
It's so much better than so many people that were
famous and were big. It's you have to stop and
(14:57):
really take a look at what he was able to
accomplish and the longevity of it. His popularity, particularly in
the eighties, is as big as any artist's popularity at
any time. You say the Beatles, but his was longer.
I mean, you know, it doesn't matter who's top. Let's
(15:18):
just say he's in the conversation, right. So you go
to see him in a relatively intimate venue, the Arena
if you've probably all been there. It's called the arena
because it's an arena. You know, you got the artists
in the middle and the I think most nights the
stage would would would swivel and like the Montleon in
(15:43):
New Orleans, and the audience is, you know, the darn
thing doesn't go twenty rows deep. Maybe, so everybody has
a very intimate seat. You're listening to Kenny Rodgers. He's
played all the hits for you, not like he's saying, hey,
I got a new album. Oh no, Billy Corgan. We
don't want to hear new smashing pumpanies want to hear
(16:04):
what you've always done. But the minute he plays a
song that, by the way, was a massive hit, this
guy from Houston performing in Houston toward the end of
his career, and people get up and leaves. I mean
that you're a fan, I mean really like, I really
like it, so that one second, I don't. I need
(16:25):
to find the clip of Kenny Rogers telling the story
at a I don't know if it was Kenny Rogers tribute,
if it was Lone Richie tribute, but he tells the
story with Lone Ritchie on the front row about Lionel
Richie writing that song, and he tells it better than
(16:46):
I will, but I'll give you the abbreviated version. Kenny.
Whatever Kenny Rogers whispered into a microphone was gonna go
to the top ten and sell a bunch of songs.
At certain point in the eighties, he was the hottest
thing in the market, so they had to find songs
(17:07):
for him, and they bring in Linel Richie and Line Richie.
Much like Barry Gibb, his career has kind of dropped
off with the end of disco. But he's a great songwriter.
Not his greatest songwriter as Barry Gibb, but dad gumt
he's pretty good. And so they realized that his style
(17:30):
is perfect for Kenny, so they bring him over. The
label brings him over to write songs and they've got
to write a song and Lionel they've just thrown this
on line and he's not he doesn't have a song
in there. Studio time is very expensive and it's precious.
You know, when you have studio time. You got to
a lot of songs were rushed because they were running
(17:53):
short on studio time. They got to get this thing finished.
And Kenny Rogers talks about Lionel Richie not having anything,
and then he goes to the restroom and he stays
in the restroom for quite some time, which of course
means he's sitting on the pot. And he comes bounding
out and he says, I've got it, and Kenny Rogers, okay,
(18:18):
he's got the song. He said, all right, give me,
you know, sing it for me, and he sings the
word lady in that key just like that. He said, Okay,
what else, That's all I got so far. But he
built the song around that, and obviously it ends up
being a huge, huge hit for Kenny Rogers. But it's
(18:45):
just kind of a funny moment that Lionel Richie knew
he had the song because he had the concept. I
don't write my speeches out. I haven't. It comes back
to debating. In high school. You learn how to communicate
and present in a way with you keep certain things
(19:07):
in your head. Now I do it much more extemporaneously,
but I always have a concept that I'm going to
work with, and finding the concept is not a nine
percent of the work. It is the idea. I've read
books about people who like Walter Isaacson, who writes these
Tomes You a thousand page biographies of Steve Jobs and
(19:31):
Elon Musk and others, and he says, the biggest challenge
for me is finding the subject I'm going to write about.
The writing itself is on autopilot. I know how to
dig in and do the research and talk to the
people I needed to talk to and begin to formulate
the story. It's figuring that out. It's just interesting that
(19:51):
a song like that that appears out of thin air.
I am amazed by the song writing process because we
we know that songs are an important part of our lives.
You know, you go to a wedding and you see
people come off the wall and start dancing that haven't
danced in forty years because that's their song. Songs are
(20:13):
very powerful. They are embedded deeper. They're not surface level.
They're like the smell of Grandma's corn bread or cake,
or a certain fried chicken or a place that you've been.
They have that incredible power over you. And we don't
celebrate songwriters today the way poets were one. You know,
(20:36):
you ever think about that, who's a modern day poet
that you know? Oh, they elevate some black women because
we have to have, you know, a Tony Morrison ever
so often or Amaya Angelo, and that makes everybody feel good.
And that's nothing wrong with their writings. But we don't
have we still have people putting words down that reflect
our emotions. Right. I've said before how much I hate
(20:58):
the view and everything those dumb broad stand for. But
sometimes they say stuff so stupid. Whoopy Goldberg says, everybody
get your makeup creams and paint your faces brown so
they can't tell who to round up. Well, when there's
a chance to apply makeup. You know, our good friend
Timmy Wats got excited and just had to comment on
his weekly.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Podition, Hell My Minnesota, do minions, it's you boy, Jimmy Walls,
with a reminder, you're listening to the number one podcast
in Traverse County between midnight and three am. And do
we have a big announcement tonight. We've been picked up
by our first ever affiliate.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Who's got the slack of who's got the plan?
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Yes, Jimmy Walls, he's the many man. He did not
expect this. Welcome to New Shoreham Road Island. Now you
might be the tiniest little tiny point the way upper
East Coast, but a big.
Speaker 5 (21:58):
Was applause to those four.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Families that could be listening at this very moment at day. Okay,
we've got a big topic today that involves my girls
from the view that are liked by just a few.
I know, I know, Joy and my girl Whoopee are
in the news because they said that satan spawn of
a woman, Christine Oham, would be going to the Super
(22:23):
Bowl with her mean, ugly bullies from Ice and rounding
up people to deport all because of my eye. Bad
Bunny here, this is what they.
Speaker 6 (22:33):
Say it she's threatening to go to the super Bowl
when bad Bunny is there and round up all these
people that are illegal immigrants. Do you think that she
would go if it was goth.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Brooks, Randon low Places or Eminem.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Wait a minstrel minute?
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Is he even white?
Speaker 6 (22:49):
Or Taylor Swift or any.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Of the white labs?
Speaker 4 (22:51):
To understand what you're saying, Because she's going to go
to the super Bowl and round up, how's she gonna
know who's who?
Speaker 6 (22:59):
Because this Supreme Court has given permission to question anyone
who has a Spanish Accentdo has a dark skin?
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (23:06):
So his wife?
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Here's the whooper ass. Whoopy, everybody, get a little colo
butter set in the sun.
Speaker 6 (23:13):
That's the first thing.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
And then and this is the only time you can
probably ever do this, give yourself a Latin accident, you.
Speaker 6 (23:22):
Know, Whoopy, that's such a.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
Great deal, and see if she can tell who's who?
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Now you see, that's a big molliebian my girl, Whoopy,
I love this idea. Now I am sitting in front
of my wife's vanity which he spends so much time
away from me but seems to love it. And I
am picking through some of her facial creams that I
can wear to the Super Bowl. Let's see here, we've
got nutter butter. Oh, and then there's tooty fruity. Look
(23:52):
at this, I could layer on the mounds of brown.
Oh and what is this here? Shimmy, shimmy coco now
mm hmm smells so nice to avoid the ice. Oh,
I'm in heaven. We're out of time again. Join us
next week with our special guest head dancing and his
(24:13):
thoughts on making a WHOOPI with.
Speaker 5 (24:16):
Whoopy hey, Miss Tracy Bird, and I tip my hand
to the keeper, the star and the sod.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Time to leave me another hellbin them to song track
of our life. We did our show sponsor event last night,
where our eighty plus show sponsors came out to Republic
Boot Company for a gathering of just them. We've gotten
big enough now that I have to work to stay
(25:02):
constantly in touch with these folks, even though I try
to make a phone call at least one, sometimes more
every day when I leave the studio in the middle
of the afternoon. You think about with that many, and
not on weekend days. It's twice a year that I'm
able to connect with that person by phone because there
(25:26):
are so many and then if I don't reach them,
the likelihood they're going to be able to reach me
because I'm in the studio and my phone is off
goes down. So it's always a treat to get together
with our folks and we always try to do We've
done that at Federal American Grill quite a few times.
We still do a lot of events at Federal American Grill.
(25:48):
Matt Brice rolls out the red car but as he
will do for you, time to start thinking about your
Christmas party is great, great Christmas party location. And he
has been such a big supporter of our show. Oh
he was there last night. He's been such a big
supporter of our show over the years, and it has
been a lot of fun to watch him grow and develop.
(26:09):
He Matt Brice spent a lot of years in a
kitchen and then in front of house as a chef,
and in Milwaukee and then New York at a prize
steakhouse there, and then when he came to Houston, he
ran mose a place for hose on Post Oak, and
(26:31):
then when he started, when he started Federal American Grill
on Shepherd at Washington, which he still has over all
these years, that's when I got to know him. I
actually knew him from Mose the place for Hose, but
I didn't he didn't own that, he ran it, but
I didn't. I didn't really know him, and I just
(26:51):
you just see him there. I knew Johnny V a
lot of folks in town News quite quite the personality,
and they were business partners in them. So when Matt
and his wife opened Federal American Grill on Shepherd near Washington,
I spoke for him for about a year, but it
was hard to monetize. You know, our folks if we
(27:13):
if we tell them about something that I enjoy and
it's something they need, they'll go there. But one location
like that, it just it didn't make sense. And the
economics were there, weren't there, and we both agreed it
wasn't a good idea. So we remained friends. And it
wasn't until you know, seven eight years later when he
opened his it location, and he opened it just before
(27:37):
the COVID shutdown started, and then we told the story
about him, and then of course Ed Hindi and Nina
Hindi came and all the folks in the near west side,
the villages and then Memorial and tangled what everybody supported him,
and it was really at that time it was there.
There weren't there weren't a lot of fine, fun, fine
(27:57):
dining locations on the west Side, so people were going
into the heights, they were going to Montrose, Midtown, downtown.
So the community was dying for it. I mean, they
were just so eager and they responded in such a
big way. And since then, of course he's opened the Katie.
The Woodlands are now the downtown next to, very close to.
(28:17):
It's not minute made any more, diking. I should know
that my niece works there in the marketing department. She
would not appreciate me calling it minute made. But it
was minute made for so long. Actually, I don't really
think it was minu made. I think of it as
in run and it was only inron for a minute,
and then it became minute made forever. I never thought
of it as minute made or the juice box. It
was always inron Field and in my mind, in my
(28:39):
mind that tall building on post O Transco Tower, and
then it became Williams and I don't know what it
is now, but it'll always be Transco Tower. There's a
lot of things like that for me that I just
I'm not trying to be difficult. That's just the way
it is in my mind. I still work for Clear Channel,
(29:00):
have them in Clear Channel in fifteen years. It's iHeart.
It's been iHeart, but I still think of it as
Clear Channel because that was where I started. There's a
lot of those things. Send me an email as to
one of those that you still think of in that
old way. Not to be defiant, not to make the
point of I will not say the proper name. That's
just what is in my head. But anyway, we had
(29:22):
a show sponsor event last night and as I look
out from the stage over that group of people, it's
over eighty companies that are our show sponsors. And by
the way, advertisers are people who pay to be on
our show during the break. That doesn't make them bad people.
I'm not dismissing them, but that is not someone that
(29:42):
I personally endorse. Those are people who want you as
their customers. And I will tell you everybody in Houston
media knows this. It is insanely expensive even to advertise
on our show. Not because of me, but because of you.
Because you are the cream of the crop of the customer,
and this is widely discussed in media circles. You are
(30:04):
the qualitative buy, not the quantitative. You're the qualitative by
if you are selling them. You're not the richest you are,
but that's not the reason for it. You are the
people who restaurants, car dealerships, home and everybody wants you
as a customer. You are people who pay your bills
on time, refer customers, very polite, you can imagine. You know.
(30:28):
You're Trump supporting, patriotic Americans. Companies want you. Even liberals
want you as customers, even though they hate politics. So
but as I look out over that group of people
who are what I call show sponsors, not advertisers, and
I don't read for them or speak for them or
all those stupid radio terms, I endorse them, and your
(30:51):
emails come in to me and I forward it to them.
Many of you go directly with them, but many of
you email it into me, and I connected, and I
look out over that and I see the power of
what we that's you and me. Mostly you have built
and that every one of these people they're small business owners,
they have families, they have companies, they have a place
to work. They're not being laid off. They can be
(31:13):
proud of it. Many of them have grown and expanded
because of you. And that is all because you know,
we could have done this show and gotten no reaction
and we'd still be the same people. But you reacted
and continue to and you have created a family, a
community of Brigade, and we are so thankful to you.
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My Favorite Murder is a true crime comedy podcast hosted by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark. Each week, Karen and Georgia share compelling true crimes and hometown stories from friends and listeners. Since MFM launched in January of 2016, Karen and Georgia have shared their lifelong interest in true crime and have covered stories of infamous serial killers like the Night Stalker, mysterious cold cases, captivating cults, incredible survivor stories and important events from history like the Tulsa race massacre of 1921. My Favorite Murder is part of the Exactly Right podcast network that provides a platform for bold, creative voices to bring to life provocative, entertaining and relatable stories for audiences everywhere. The Exactly Right roster of podcasts covers a variety of topics including historic true crime, comedic interviews and news, science, pop culture and more. Podcasts on the network include Buried Bones with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes, That's Messed Up: An SVU Podcast, This Podcast Will Kill You, Bananas and more.