AM Show Hr 3 | Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Dry Ice

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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Arry Show is on the air. You're looking for

(00:32):
dry eyes or Carol Jew at China Garden and Jim,
why did you just say hib but you passed that office.
If it was your own who called, you didn't get
his name, just agb Well. Jim writes, you can get

(00:55):
dry eyes at some hgb's, but it's very expensive. It's
better to find an ice cream distributor, Southern ice Cream
in Stafford, or Elpie on Cross Timbers or nineteen sixty
just past I forty five love your show. I didn't

(01:16):
make up to love your show just because I paused.
I was yawning. Yeah, I got up too early this morning.
I don't know why I did that. I got up
with high hopes, which I realized, but I thought I'd
do a morning workout, sit in the ice bath, walk

(01:37):
ten thousand steps and listen to a podcast, which I did,
And that was a dumb idea because I didn't get
enough sleep. Yeah, it's all good in to do the exercise,
but I like my sleep anyway. If you do go
to China Garden, go if you don't mind crowds, go

(02:01):
when it is Rockets game before the Rockets game. So
if the game is at seven, then go at about
six o'clock and you will see it'll be a Who's who?
I mean, it could be Tilman for Tita, Lou Savaree

(02:22):
eats there all the time, Sories, it's for a world
heavyweight champion. You know who I met Lou Savaice through Huh?
Outlaw Dave is your friend? Yes, one of many cool
people I met through outlawd Dave? What percentage of people
who know who outlawd Dave is know his last name?

(02:47):
Five percent? Do you know his last name? Do you
think it's bad to say his last name? It's not
like he doesn't want it. Do you think you think
he just wants to Outlaw Dave? He's Outla Day, he's
your friend. Yeah, okay, huh the last name. You can
call him by his first name, Outlaw Christian Rights, Hello Zar.
Most of your AGB stores will have dry ice. The

(03:09):
one in Katie off ten and is that Pinnott or
Pino p I n O T has dry eyes for
that fellow that was looking for it from China Garden.
I'll just add this. I'm Houston Popo for thirty two years,
and I love eating there, and I love Carol. Mama
was awesome. She used to flirt with me. Well, don't

(03:31):
get the big head. She flirted with me too. Oh
you know who I bet this is? I know who
this is. His last name is not who he lists
his last name is. This is uh. This is an
officer I've known for a long time. He's a sergeant.

(03:52):
Is he the one that gave you a ticket? No?
I don't. I don't think so. James writes Production Logistics.
You can read Toyota Production System Book. I guess he's
saying that. Alan says that Kroger has dry eyes. The Kruger.

(04:15):
He was always the Kroger in our household. Nathan Barker says,
Chi b has dry ice. John says that there's someone
impersonating you on Facebook. Yes, I'm aware, and there's nothing

(04:36):
I can do about it. You just have to be careful.
There's there's spambots and all sorts of other things. Gerald
says chib and even some Walmarts sell dry eyes. Ramon,
what are the three reasons people are most likely to
need dry ice? What you played with it as kids? Oh?

(05:01):
You know all the reasons. Oh, you're fired up on
this one. Okay, well, what are all the reasons? Okay,
make bombs out of Okay, I don't think that's why
most of it's being bought, but okay, then you'd forget
in twenty minutes later, what boom? All right, what's the
second reason? That was it? You got really excited and

(05:23):
then and then he kind of petered out. Yeah, it's
funny how that happens. I really would like to know
the five top reasons without googling the five top reasons,
because there's somebody out there right now. There's some dude.
He's probably white. He's probably sixty seven years old. He

(05:43):
wears glasses with the by focus at the bottom that
weigh four pounds, so they dig into his nose. And
he bought him in nineteen eighty seven, and you know,
they work just fine. You don't buy any more. He's
probably got a pocket protector. He tucks his shirt in,
always has, always will. He mows his lawn wearing shorts
and socks up to his knees and dress shoes, old

(06:06):
dress shoes because they worked just fine. On pay for
some special shoes to be around the house. He's got
a Folger's can, or maybe Maxwell House or could be
could be. One time he splurged and took Mama to
New Orleans and they bought a Cafe Dumont, and he
came back and realized that chickor he ain't all it

(06:26):
was made up to be, because you're not in New
Orleans and you're not eating a beignet. And so he
poured it out and kept the can. And he's got
various and sundry nuts and bolts and screws and things
that he's not sure where they came from or what happened.
He's got them in that over there, and he's got
stuff hung on the walls maximizing the space in the garage.

(06:49):
He has an old fashioned peewee Herman bicycle that hangs
from the ceiling. Everything is maximized. He is the millionaire
next door. He is absolutely the millionaire next door. He's
the guy that you don't know what he's got in
his in his retirement account. You would never expect what
he has because he is so cheap. He is so

(07:15):
very cheap. He's probably that's a good question. He's probably Lutheran,
most likely Lutheran. Why would you ask his religion. But
he knows the answer to that, and he knows the
answer to a lot of things like that. And the
problem is a guy like that, even though he uses
the Internet, he really is kind of bummed out over

(07:38):
the Internet because there used to be a value to
having read all the manuals to everything. He's read the
manual for everything. He knows a CB radio, he's a
Ham radio operator. He knows the ins and outs of everything.
He's read things, he knows things, he remembered things, he
goes back and rereads things. This guy does not read fiction,

(08:02):
I'll just tell you that. And he doesn't watch movies,
none of that nonsense. He might he might watch one
Fox show per day, and he might indulge in maybe
a Tucker Carlson or an Alex Jones one episode, but
one and one only. This guy, this guy right here,

(08:24):
he uh, he repairs things. He knows. He's a no.
There is that guy out there right now, as tricky is.
If we can get him to call seven one three
one velves seven three one dolls. Scott in des Moines says,
Ramon's on the Ryans right track. Dryos is on the

(08:46):
is for the Mad Scientists station at the haunted house
you make in your basement at Halloween. It goes into
beakers with food coloring, so they bubble up in the
back light.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
Damn it. All right, This is Mark Chestnut Jar Bizaar
of Talk Radio.

Speaker 1 (09:07):
I said, back with my friend. So one of my
favorite emailers is a fellow named Bobby Crumpley. And Bobby
has some business. I still don't understand it, but he
does something. He works out of it. He has a garage. Uh.
He used to live down south somewhere, uh clear, Lake

(09:27):
League City, Santa Fe, Texas City, somewhere in that area,
and he sold up. He sold, he rolled up everything,
and he and his wife moved to I think Anderson
or in Avinesota somewhere up there, and he couldn't be happier.
I've never met him, but I mean we email back

(09:48):
and forth and he always has good show prep for me,
always has interesting things to help the show. And anyway,
he's got this business that they blast car parts. I
guess they're taking the rust off and any paint off
to get it back to its position to restore. Best
I can tell. He's tried to explain it a few times,

(10:09):
but it's always well, I'm in the middle of doing
something else. But anyway, so he said, funny coincidence, You're
talking about dry ice while I'm talking to my buddy Jim,
who has an automotive dry ice blasting business, and he
sends me a link which is always helpful, to dry
ice restore tech dot com. Ramon they're using dry ice.
I did get a number of emails that said that

(10:31):
some of the grocery store distributors and things they use
dry ice. I know this in cleaning, like it's sand blasting.
I had no idea. Well, so I go to the
website dry ice restore tech dot com and it says
taking automatic taking automotive restoration to the next level. Preserve

(10:52):
your vehicles with dry ice restoration technology. So I go
to the about page and it's him standing in front
of a bunch of tanks, which is I guess how
they get the dry ice. And I look at the
dude and I don't know how old he is, maybe
sixty one of those guys that could be seventy three,
And you go, you look sixty. You know, you can

(11:13):
tell he's taken care of himself. He's hit the weights
a little bit. He's got a little bit of a
tat poking out from under his short sleeve, which is surprising.
But there may be a story, right he could have
lost a child or best friend, and you know, there
could be a story. I don't think he's the type
to just get a tat. It might be his ex
wife's name. I don't know, but that's not the point.

(11:33):
He's got short crop black hair on the top, like
he might have a military background. My guess is he
does kind of early George Jones. You remember the possum,
more of that, and it's not a flat top, it's
more a crew cup, but it's kind of dark on top.
He might die that, but maybe not because then it's
great on the side. But I tell you all that

(11:54):
to you this very intense look. Guessing he's a military veteran.
Is he's got a handlebar mustache, but the handlebar, one
of the handlebars has kind of broke off, so he's
got a handlebar mustache where part of the so on
his left side, which is your right in the photo,

(12:14):
he's got the full mustache coming down to the chin,
but on his right side it's it's kind of patchy,
And I'm thinking at that point. Let's go ahead and
get that thing out of there. Right, Let's let's give
the whole thing a chance. But here's what it says.
Meet Jim Galushka Galushka g A l U s z Ka.

(12:36):
There's polls just hiding everywhere. Jim has been involved in
the automotive industry for more than twenty five years. Jim
worked as an automotive technician for twenty years in a
variety of different dealerships. Jim also spent another twenty years
working in the oil and gas industry as a journeyman
repair technician, working on C and C machines. This is

(12:58):
a dude that can fix some stuff, right. This is
a guy probably didn't go to college, could fix anything
in your house. Hey, Jim, the plumbing's out. Could you
sweat some pipe and get this going? Yeah? If I
figure it out. This guy could figure anything. I guarantee you.
He's got a welding machine and probably in his back,
in the back of his truck. He's got a welding machine.

(13:18):
He's got all sorts of stuff he should never need.
And he could shoe a horse as well, just randomly,
just do that too. Jim then had the opportunity to
train and learn the art of dry ice cleaning and restoration.
What makes this the best is he wrote this himself.
I love that Jim takes the time and has an
eye for detail, which is imperative in this type of work.

(13:41):
It is his goal to return your vehicle to you
in better condition than when it arrived at my shop. Wait,
is someone else rate write this? Jim prides himself on
treating every vehicle like it were his own. Jim Galushka
brings that knowledge with him to dry ice restoration technology.
He began in his dry ice cleaning business in twenty

(14:02):
twenty and opened his own shop in twenty twenty one.
Jim is meticulous in his handling and workmanship on every
project he undertakes. Your vehicle or project is in the
best hands possible. And then it goes through all lesson
environmental hazards and tattetutu, and then there's all the other reasons,
and then there's a bunch of cars that he is

(14:23):
presumably restored, and it looks like he just rented a
little shop space somewhere and set up shop and going
to town. I love that this still happens. I love
that I love the fact that there are people who
may or may not have ever gone to college. Most
of them probably served in the military. A lot of

(14:44):
them got training there, but for whatever reason, from the
time they were little, they were helping their dad. Not
just change the oil and change the tires and rotate
and all that sort of stuff, but I mean they
were tearing engines apart, hanging it on a tree, you know,
all the stuff Skip Partley's people do. They were doing

(15:05):
that as a kid with their dad and learning it
and they didn't even think anything of it. You know.
It's sort of like you also learned to drive and
shoot a gun. They learned to tear engines apartment, repair
them and put them back together, figure problems out. And
they use words like manifold, intake, you know, these these

(15:27):
types of things, and they're just all over. And if
it wouldn't be creepy and I wouldn't get shot or
walk up on a cartel drug dealing going down. When
I see a run down industrial park that I'm driving by,
I am tempted to just pull off and drive in there.

(15:48):
And I kind of wish they knew who I was,
so they'd know, oh, he's the kind of dude that
would do this kind of thing where I could just
get out. They go smile on my face and go straw,
Go whatch you guys up to? Ah little la Another
day in paradise? Okay, but what do y'all do? And
then you know the guy would have he'd be wearing
an old shop shirt when he was a mechanic three

(16:10):
jobs ago did to say Jerome on it or you know,
Skeeter or Buster or Dave, and it would be a
blue patch with his name in blue on there. And
he'd be a blue shirt and he'd have it untucked
and it's kind of frayed at the edges, and that's
he doesn't even work for that shop anymore. And maybe
he's got on his right sleeve he's got a pack

(16:34):
of cigarettes that's been rolled up into the sleeve because
where else are you going to carry them? Right, I'm hello.
And he's got these work boots that look like they've
never been cleaned. Why would they? They'll be dirty again tomorrow,
the big you know, steel toed deal and some blue
jeans that I'm pretty sure when he gets home he
takes off and stands up in a corner because there's there.

(16:55):
They stand on their own and he's got some little
shop and there's you know, if not our show, there
is a classic rock playing in the background, and it's
just you know, because he's an old metal head and
he's just jamming away, not too loud, and it's not
a nice radio. It's an old transistor that's kind of
barely got it. And then it's listening. It's you know,

(17:17):
it's it's doing that. And then there may be some
other guy you know, that will come out from the back.
There's an old refrigerator over there with some beers and
some cokes. But he might be a recovered alcoholic, in
which case he has Doctor Pepper's and and like he's
really invested in his in his coke, I mean, in
his uh what do you call I call them cokes,

(17:39):
carbonated drink selection whatever they're called. I'm thinking of cold
drinks whatever. Because so maybe he's got some nice stuff
in there that kind of takes pride in. But he
figured he can still smoke and just to see, you know,
what does that guy do? And then you find out
you're like, uh, so, what do you do? Well? I
do this particular procedure nobody else can do. That's a C. J.

(18:01):
Stroud's car over there, and maybe the dealers and the
different guys send them here. Maybe Muscle Cars of Texas
send some stuff. Those guys are all over you. Just
I can't go walking up.

Speaker 2 (18:12):
I wish probably out of tune.

Speaker 1 (18:16):
Now you might have to edit that.

Speaker 2 (18:18):
This is Mark Chestnut. Enjoy the czar of talk radio.

Speaker 1 (18:22):
Carlo's, writes eltil Sino. I've listened for many years, but
ever since I moved to Austin five years ago, I
can never catch the morning show. There's a podcast, but
I've just been super busy and it's always more fun
listening live. I was in town today. I'm sorry. I
was in town for a twenty one Pilot's concert and

(18:43):
I took today off too, so it was a treat
listening to you all live, especially when helping the community.
Thank you, Zar. It's the little pleasures in life. Ps.
I parked next to China Garden last night for the concert. Ramona.
I wish we could make everybody understand you can listen
live to the show on your phone or computer on

(19:05):
the app. It's free and you can carry us wherever
you go. Donnie writes Altosino. You should know regarding the
dry ice in pipeline welding. We're making our tie in
welds welding new pipe to end service pipe, we throw
dry ice into the open end of the pipe in

(19:28):
order to suppress oxygen and render the atmosphere none flammable.
Joe writes, I lived with the Vietnamese family in college
after they bought the boarding house I lived in. Their
names were men when sin when it's not a joke, Ben,

(19:50):
when twin win, twe win, and the dad's name was Frank.
Make that up. You cannot make that up. I got
more good wind jokes. I could go toe to toe
in wind jokes with anybody, and I have no doubt

(20:11):
I'm coming out on top. I could have you in
splits of laughter. And by the way, not one of
them is my own joke. They're all from my Vietnamese
friends growing up. Food manufacturer container plants use crushed dry
ice for cleaning, just as you would a sand blaster. Well,
I just go ahead and admit it. I don't understand

(20:33):
how that works, do you. I have no idea how
that works. And I would have never guessed that. I
would have never guessed that I would have been the
last thing I would have expected. Craig Moritz Rights, don't
be fooled on dry ice. Get ready to the moon.
You're about to learn a little something right here. Last

(20:53):
time I looked a month or so ago, the HB
at Bunker Hill doesn't have it. The Kroger Echo Lane
doesn't have it, and the ghetto Kroger at Westview and
Work doesn't have it. Their cases look like nothing's been
in there for years. Some of y'all have been sending
me to the HV and the Kroger. Craig is here

(21:16):
to tell you not so fast, Lee Corso style, because
they don't have it. The Aggie Plumber Michael Robinson writes
the three top uses for dry ice realistically Number one
school science projects. Number two send food somewhere. Number three

(21:36):
fancy drink recipes for parties. Well, Michael turned twelve years old.
We had a birthday party for him at the RCC
for him and all of his classmates, probably one hundred kids.
And Uncle Jerry made a special drink for the occasion,
which was a dry ice Shirley Temple and it was

(21:58):
the coolest thing. I mean, you know, it's you don't
want to you sound like a goober's saying it, but
it's true. You feel good when you can do something
that makes your kid proud amongst their peers and the
kids coming up there and getting to order you know,
coke sprite or that drink, and I forget what we

(22:19):
called it, but that's a yeah, that's that's something else
right there. Let's see the pickleman is getting suspicious. Male
at home, Meg with dry eyes, evy dog on dry ice,
Common sense, Bob, Let's do common sense, Bob, Bob, you're up.

Speaker 3 (22:39):
Hey, it's a common Sense Bob Morning Show. And our
next collar is from Houston. It's Michael Berry. Michael Berry,
how are you doing? Thanks for calling the Common Sense
Bob Show.

Speaker 1 (22:48):
I'm confused.

Speaker 3 (22:49):
You know something else about dry ice?

Speaker 1 (22:51):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (22:51):
You binge watching enough episodes of Law and Order, you'll
find out that dry ice can kill people? Really, Yes, sir,
you have some dry ice, some dry ice in a
room and they lock them in a room or some
you know, like a closet or something, and it sucks
out the oxygen and a person dies of asphixiation.

Speaker 1 (23:08):
How about that? Okay, So, hells the chemical reaction that
is occurring that dry ice is sucking out the oxygen.
I don't. I would like to understand that.

Speaker 3 (23:20):
I I that that's above my pay grades, sir. That
just uh. I think the the composition of the dry ice,
whatever the chemical compound is, reacts to the oxygen and
takes out one of the o's or something. I have
to look I have to look that up for you.

Speaker 1 (23:38):
I would be interested to know how that works. Uh.
Apparently Spex Downtown technically midtown, but Spex Downtown has dry ice.
And I seem to recall that. If you go to
Spex Downtown, ask to see Ryan, who is the store

(24:00):
manager there. While you're there. He's a great, great guy.
Believe he's a marine. I believe he's a marine. He's
about fifty years old. He wears glasses. Used to be
kind of a chubby fellow, but he lost a bunch
of weight. He's an old car enthusiast, and he is

(24:22):
a cigar and bourbon enthusiast. So if any of those
are something you like, go to the back area which
is called which is the will call area, and ask
if Ryan is there and shake his hand. You will love,
absolutely love Ryan. Ryan is the store manager there. Now,

(24:44):
don't ask to meet Steve Moore because he'll get mad
at me because he is the president of the whole
operation and he's upstairs. And if he has to come
down because people are asking for a minute's because of me,
I'm going to get in trouble. But that is between
the two. Those two, those are those are my experts
on all things drinks and the like. And so I'm

(25:07):
going to ask them what the dry ice process because
Steve Moore respects, will will absolutely know. And if he
doesn't know, he'll have somebody. And if they're carrying dry ice,
which would make sense. You know you can buy fat
ice from Specs downtown. Oh yeah, it keeps. You have
a party you want you want that block of ice

(25:27):
like you get it a real high end bar. Yeah,
you can buy.

Speaker 2 (25:30):
That bar as I call it the Michael Barry Joe.

Speaker 1 (25:42):
Do you have any idea how much I love this song?
What a great choice? You say Tavares or Tavares? Do
you say Tavares, Well, it's it's their dad's last name.
It's their last name, so it should be tell Otis.

(26:06):
This was before they had amber alerts. You'd have to
write a song. I think this is the only original

(26:35):
they had that ever did anything, But every cover they
did is just fantastic. In fact, they did Hall of
Notes as She's Gone, and it's better than the Hall
of Notes. Verson play it. But that song has such
a good vibe to it. It's it's it's such a

(26:57):
it's such an era, I mean, and it's obviously it's
the disco era, but we get have you heard this before, polish?
It's better than a riginal all right, fellas, that's too

(27:21):
long when it.

Speaker 4 (27:38):
Tell me about this time constantly show everybody's trying to
tell me what is right for me. I need a
drink at a quick dicision.

Speaker 2 (27:57):
Now it's up to.

Speaker 3 (28:04):
She is God.

Speaker 1 (28:08):
Rewind that you hear you hear that old dude with
inphasm oh, I mean that there's some soul to that.
Listen to.

Speaker 4 (28:19):
Decision.

Speaker 2 (28:22):
Now it's to she is Gone.

Speaker 1 (28:33):
There's some grit in that. Boy said, I love that.
I just looked it up because I knew I had
I knew they had great names. Their real names were
Ralph Edward Viea Tavares, Arthur Paul Tavares, Antone Lee Tavares,
Feliciano Vieira Tavares, and Perry Lee Tavares, but they went

(28:58):
by Ralph Poucci, Chubby, Butch, and Tiny. You gotta love
guys that go by names like that, especially that one
of them's named Pooch. I love that. Kristen Wrights, you
asked for stories online about what brought people to Houston.
I did, and I'm aggravated because hardly anybody responded. I

(29:19):
was looking for us from good stories. What happened is
I had an old friend of mine named John Gannon.
He's been a mentor of mine, a friend of mine
for many years. He's supported my political campaigns. He's everything
I've ever asked for. He's always been there for me,
including an especially advice. If you drive around and you

(29:40):
see the billboards that are yellow and blue, they're mostly
yellow with a little blue on them, and they say JG.
It says for lease JG. I Outdoors. Now that I
mention it, you'll notice there's a lot of them he's got.
He only has fourteen hundred billboards. He's probably the largest
independent bill owner, certainly in the state, maybe in the country.

(30:03):
Because that's a lot of they call them faces, because
some of them is one board. He calls them sticks.
So it'll be one set of sticks, but there's four faces,
so one on top, one on bottom, and then flip
it around, one on top one, so there might be
four on that thing. He's got five hundred and fifty
or so of those. But anyway, I thought he was

(30:26):
a lifelong Texan, and he's very much a Texan. You know,
he's got his he's got his hair comb, it's got
a silver white. It's a good looking guy. He's always
very sun tank. He's always outside, he's got his hair
combed straight back, and if you're very rugged, he wears
boots and jeans and his shirts chucked in, and you know,

(30:49):
he's your classic seventies oil man, except he's not an
oil man. And you know, like Mac, he's got a
perfect set of white teeth, and he smiles a lot,
and he's always always tanned. So he's straight out of
the movies. I'm trying to think who he would look like.

(31:13):
There's a there was a takeover executive that had this look,
and he would wear black suits with the big collars. Anyway,
So anyway, so I'm talking to God John Gannon and
I said, where'd you grow up? And I thought he
was a lifelong Texan. I thought that all these years.

(31:35):
He's got a ranch out in if you know where
Lost Palmetto's State Park is, if you know where the
BUCkies is in Louli, directly behind there. He's got like
four thousand acres. He's got an insane number of acres.
And then he spends a lot of his time down
in Miguel Miguel Sen sen Allende. Have you been down there?

(31:57):
So I asked him to bring me some pictures of
his place, Theres Palace. He owns a hotel there. He
absolutely loves it. But all that by which to say
he has succeeded financially, I said, did you ever expect
to do as well financially as you have? He said,
not a chance. I never would have believed where I

(32:17):
would end up. This is a great country. So he
grows up in Ohio and he doesn't go to school.
He's done go to college. He starts working and he
just kind of bounces around just working. And his buddy
has come to Texas, to Houston. This is nineteen seventy one,

(32:38):
and he said, man, come down here. You can get
hired on anywhere anytime. There are jobs of plenty, and
of course, the rust belt was dying and Texas was thriving,
and there's so many guys like that. So he came
down here, he starts doing this, he starts doing that.
Before long back then, you could just lease a piece

(33:00):
of property, put two poles in the ground, and you know,
put a plywood sign up there and rent it out.
And that's how he got started. And he's I mean,
he's done phenomenally, phenomenally well. But he was just talking
about the Texas he came to and that you know,
he doesn't want doesn't want that to change. And it

(33:22):
really it kind of like it's Chariot's a fire plan
in my in my mind as he's telling his stories, like,
we have to be mindful of that. That's the city
and state the city I came to, which is Houston,
obviously from Orange. That's a state I've lived in. I
want our state to stay that way. And that requires
that requires not just governmental action, It requires a culture

(33:44):
of that. It requires that we raise kids who want
to grow up into that. It requires it if we
own a business, every one of you that owns a business,
adopt one kid. I don't mean into your house, I
mean hire one person and mentor them. Every single one
of you can do that, every single one of you
could raise the next John Gann and Michael Berry and

(34:05):
God forbid. Ramon Rogins, Ramon, how hard is it to
seduce a large woman piece of cake