December 18, 2025 • 32 mins
Michael Berry sits down with Brett, a Houston news photographer who lost 350 pounds after gastric bypass surgery. Hear his raw, inspiring story of transformation, the struggles behind the scenes, and what life looks like after shedding more than half his body weight. Plus, candid talk on habits, health, and the reality of skin removal surgery.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Very Show is on the air. The rat lost
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three hundred and fifty pounds or Ramon at his fattus.
He lost the entirety of Ramon, the head, the feet,
all of it. That's crazy. From six hundred down to
two fifty. Are you married?
Speaker 2 (01:04):
No?
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Gay?
Speaker 2 (01:07):
No straight?
Speaker 1 (01:10):
You can't. You can't catch a woman at two fifty?
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Well, I think it was all the years of being
the six hundred, that sort of you know, I never
really even tried, because every.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Dud I've ever known that loses a lot of weight.
They are out. They don't have to chase it anymore.
It comes out. They walk with a swagger, they go
buy a bunch of new clothes. Oh they're the cock
of the wall. I mean, they're just I mean, did
I've seen this? I've seen this movie. What do you
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do for little?
Speaker 2 (01:46):
I work for Channel two?
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Really, yep?
Speaker 1 (01:50):
What do you do for Channel two?
Speaker 2 (01:51):
I'm a stodbert.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Really have I met you?
Speaker 2 (01:55):
I don't believe so.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
How long have you been there?
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Five and a half years? Oh? Okay, you probably remember
if you saw him about six and a half foot
red air.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
And six hundred pounds back in today.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Yeah, well that was twenty years ago.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
It's a horrible lifestyle. Were you out on Yeah, well,
you know what, I can see how somebody gets to
be six. It's a horrible lifestyle. Just so much time
out chasing stories and sitting and waiting on something and
all that waiting for a minute of filming. I could
see that. I could absolutely see that. Yeah, there used
to be a guy there. It's his name, Isaiah Carey.
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Had had a guy, black guy's ball, black guy, kind
of young, dark skinned, funny, funny guy. And there was
a guy at Channel two. If I'm getting this right,
because I think I first met him with Phil Archer,
and he looked like like a young lous Avarice. He
looked like so, uh, my guess is he's Hispanic, tall
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and thin, black, curly hair. I'm trying to think who
he looked like. Maybe a young Ricardo Montalband. I'm not
helping you, am.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
I not tremendously.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
I don't know if I don't know if he'd still
be there. He was young enough. I was doing a
lot of Channel two hits back in the day, from
one to eight. No not built by Esau fool. He's Vietnam.
But I'll show some respective what was his name? Let
you see here if I have his If I have him, no,
(03:35):
I don't have him on my phone. Anyway. He was
a great He was a great photographer. I always liked him. Yeah,
so you're still not dating at two fifty?
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Not really. I mean it's sort of like a dog
chasing the car, right like at this point I wouldn't
know what to do with it if I called it.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Yeah, yeah, you got a dog.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
You live with your parents?
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (04:03):
They lived with me. I moved them out about two
years ago.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
I can respect that. Where do you live?
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Uh? Stupped on the north side around the airport?
Speaker 1 (04:13):
How much just a photographer? Mat It's not very much,
is it not enough? No? You don't have any vices? Though?
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Not not really?
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Well hold on, well you mean not really? Uh?
Speaker 2 (04:34):
There you know the do you talk about the Uh.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Don't tell me. I sing too much and sing too
loud in church? No, no, no, no, no, an occasionally
him or her don't know huh no.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
The people that talk about the addictive personality and things
like that. I mean, there's there's definitely been some struggles
with uh, with other stuff since the food went away.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Oh, I got it.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Definitely a real thing.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Well, it probably replaced what food was for you.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
You know, if you were line up one thousand people,
ten thousand people, three hundred thousand people, and you were
to say who are six hundred pounds, and you were
to say one of you or somebody among you will
get down to two fifty, you would be the only
person that steps forward, Like that's crazy, that is that
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is way more impressive than running an ultra marathon.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Well, there's a lot of people that have the surgery
that do really, really well and then they put the
weight back on right. And my doctor was sort of
frank with me when I had the surgery and said, hey,
for the first couple of years, you can go back
to your old lifestyle, you can go back to the
way that you were eating, and you're still going to
lose weight. But after that, you're just going to put
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it right back on. And you say, I think that's
what a lot of people struggle with when they have
the weight loss surgery is they see that they're still
losing weight and they start falling back into those old habits. Yeah,
and they think that oh, this is, you know, just
this fixed it?
Speaker 1 (06:12):
What was your rotteness? What was the thing when you
were six hundred one pounds? It was your weakness?
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Oh man, I for me to be that weight, it
was actually incredible how little food I ate. But the
stuff that I ate was entirely the wrong thing. All sugar, sweets, breads,
just no nutritional value at all.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
What was the one thing? If you were to say
this was the thing I ate more than anything else,
I'd be in trouble.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Probably like pizza and skittles.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Okay, you have good, good taste. Yeah, I could crush
some skittles from moment. I could crush some skills right now.
I love skittles. Good.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Got to be the purple bag.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
You do any work with Amy Davis? Oh yeah, I
think she's adorable. Great, I think she's fantastic. She's just
tough as nails. You know better than I do. When
she barged in on that party and put a mic
in Sylvester Turner's face and he said, you are not nice,
I had to send her a text and say you
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were very rude. Yeah, you are very You were there,
you remember. I had to tell her, my goodness, girl,
you are tough. I like that you got plucked. I
love that. I think she is so good those water stories.
I don't know if you if you did any of
the photography on that stuff.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
A little bit, A little bit.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
I also liked miss Mario.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Oh, I love Mario.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
You know who else loves Mario? Mario?
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Mario is his own biggest saying.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Mario is more narcissistic than I am. And that is
saying something. That is saying something. You know, he has
a background in boxing commentary. Did you know that?
Speaker 2 (07:54):
I did not?
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Uh huh, but Mario. I think if Mario could chuck
it all and go do boxing commentary Howard Cosell style,
he would do it. He was that big in the
Sweet Science. He loved it. In fact, Chad Nakanishi U
Chad our executive producer, spent years at at Channel two
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back in the day, and he's the one who found
a the audio of Mario calling a boxing fight. Yeah,
it blew my mind. He's an impressident give them the
star sale only a sound warehouse because he had kind
of the Gary p Nun love and fascination with Mexican
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Texas stuff, which is not Mexico per se it's the
lore of Mexico in Texas, which is a whole different
thing because there's a lot, a lot of Mexican stuff
going on with his music over the years, a lot.
Of course that was the era too, it was it
was definitely the era. I had somebody to send me
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an email, Ramon, I'm not sure I should read it
because there'll be somebody out there that'll be offended. You know,
I don't like to offend people. Just okay, I'll read
it to you, but nobody else. So if you're not
named Ramon robleist, don't listen. This is just for Ramone.
He yeah, it's like the bottom of emails. Yes, this
message was recycled, non transferable, legally binding unless it's not.
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Why are you doing that? Nobody's reading that crap. Oh,
it's at the bottom of the email. Hey, just so
you know, I cleaned out your bank account. Well, why
did you steal all my money? Well, it says at
the bottom of my email, I could you responded, which
is a tacit implicit endorsement of saying. So this was
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his email, And if you're listening and not supposed to
be so, stop for about ten seconds. He said, I
knew a woman that was so fat and when she
sat on the toilet, it took her five minutes to
line up holes. That's awful. That's not something to be.
That's not a nice thing to say. That's not something
that you should be, you know, sharing because it's not
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funny or uplifting. So I sent it to the Aggie
plumber and he said, that's hilarious, mostly because there's a
kernel of truth to it. Unrelated, I swear to you.
I had a customer call me one time and she
requested a toilet with the lower water level in the
bowl because her husband's nuts were hanging down the water.
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So I responded back with that clip from the San
Francisco news station, we too low, and he sent back,
throw them over your shoulder for you to cut down.
You know, you gotta figure if you're a plumber, you
better have a good sense of humor because you've pretty
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much seen it all. At that point, friend of mine
rights who lost My friend lost I think three hundred pounds.
He said, things that don't warn you about Before a
person has a huge weight loss Number one, they usually
develop gallstones. I just found out that I did. That's
this Guy Brett, did you get gallstones?
Speaker 2 (11:30):
No, not yet.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Okay, here's next on your list. Iron deficiency. Anemia is
almost universal. Yep, okay. Number three. You must take calcium
and vitamins for the rest of your life or your
bones will demineralize.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
I haven't none of that, but probably something to keep
an eye on or checked.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
There's a bunch of fat people out there right now
going oh, hell, I'll just stay fat. Oh yeah, And
then finally you end up having it throw away all
your clothes. But going from five X to XL is awesome.
So many more choices.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
That is very true.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Did we find out how much a photographer makes?
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Still not enough?
Speaker 1 (12:14):
How long you been doing it? Five years?
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Five years? Here been in the news about twenty five total.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Who were you with before.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
WGCO in Atlanta?
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Oh? What brought you to Houston?
Speaker 2 (12:28):
The job?
Speaker 1 (12:29):
So like? Was it more pay? Why'd you want to
come to Houston?
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Yeah? So I moved in the middle of the pandemic.
The company that I was with, they were cutting hours
and cutting back schedules and things like that. I've got
some family in the area, so I started talking to
him here about moving to Houston and figured at the
very least. I've got some family support nearby, So if
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things continued going downhill, I could, you know, at least
stay with them instead of being out on the street.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Used to be Steve Wasserman, who's the head of the station.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Now, Uh, Sean McLoughlin as a GM.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
I don't know him. Actually there was a guy after washerman.
I forget his name.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Uh, Jerry Brown.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Yeah, yeah, that's exactly right. Uh. And then and now
it's Sean McLoughlin. Yep. Oh interesting who is over there
these days? I don't I don't get to watch TV.
That's not an indictment of TV. It's just my patterns.
But when I come in, the crew cuts the stuff
that they think I might want to use. But I'm
curious who is there that would still be there from
from my old days.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Most of the investigats team that is still the same.
You got Mario Amy, Joel Eisenbaumer.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Joel Eronbaum's could Joel Eisenbaumer is the one who asked
Sheila Jackson leebramone. He said, so, who's money paid for
that trip? Uh? It's resources that I have, so uh
daxpayer money. He followed up, she wasn't ready for that. Eisenbaum.
Isn't Eisenbaum married to somebody in media?
Speaker 2 (13:58):
He was?
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Who was that?
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Amy Davis?
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Oh they were married? Okay, all right, So Eisenbaum Amy
Mario is the investigation. So what about Robert Robertold Robert?
Is he on the investigator team?
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Yep?
Speaker 1 (14:15):
He's an intrepid reporter. He was around when I was
around back then. I always liked him.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Oh he's great.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Uh and then and uh, I guess Phil Archer's not
there anymore.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
No, he's he left I think in twenty nineteen, twenty twenty,
somewhere around.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
There, Dominique Socks and her fine, I sitting there anymore?
Who anchors now six.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
O'clock, six o'clock and ten o'clock? Is Keith Garvin right now?
We just made an announcement yesterday that we're bringing on
a new female anchor for ten o'clock, But I don't
know if that's public yet.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
If I can't say, is Keith Darving a black guy? Yes,
he's smooth. I've seen him. I don't know him, but
he's very smooth. He's he's not Houston. Is he He's
not from Houston?
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Is he?
Speaker 1 (14:56):
He's got kind of a he's got kind of a
Chicago vibe. He's very very very very national.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
He seems to be to be a guy that will
probably end up national when they when they when they're
that slick, they don't stay in town very long.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Now he's got the talent to go wherever. Uh he
he would like, I think, but you know, he's got
four daughters and his and his family's all here, so hopefully,
hopefully he wants to stay.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Big money.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
He definitely had the talent to move on to.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Who was the kind of pretty boy that was at
eleven that went national? I heard what he got paid
when he went to CBS, and that was it. Greg Hurst,
did he go national? One of the guys that was
kind of a pretty boy, Ank a real good looking guy,
and I saw what he made to go national. I
couldn't be mad at him for that. Rett lost great
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hundred and fifty pounds. So you did Gastric bypass? Oh? Sorry,
you did Gastric bypass? Brett, Yes, strict. So it doesn't
seem like people do that as much as they used to.
I wonder if that's because of ozembic. But when did
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you have it done? Two thousand and nine and you've
kept the weight off. Ye. Good for you, dude, that's impressive.
Good for you. Because we all have habits. You know,
my mom ate too much, my brother ate too much.
I ate too much. My dad never ate too much.
He just there. There's personality types. And if you are
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a person who carries extra weight, it's because of your
habits and your patterns and all that. And breaking the
habits that you have is a very difficult thing. That
is That is congratulations. That is a very very difficult thing.
And it's not it's an ongoing thing. Obviously, you can
relapse tomorrow. Who did your very as.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
It was when I was still living in Alabama? Oh okay,
Doctorlaar named Chris Dyas And.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
So you come out of it? Was it painful?
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Not nearly as bad as the skin removal surgery that
was that was ten times more painful.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
How much Jelly Roll said he had thirty pounds of
the doctorm. He had thirty pounds of fat to take off.
How much was yours?
Speaker 2 (17:17):
So I've had two different surgeries so far. So the
gas you bypass was in two thousand and nine, twenty twelve,
I had fourteen point nine pounds of skin taken from
my stomach, and then twenty fifteen I had another fourteen
point six pounds of skin from my arms and chest.
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You know, I've still got the skin on my legs
and back and things like that. But you know, cosmetic
surgery is pretty pricey.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
So yeah, So the how do they do that? Because
I understand the concept of life assumption, but how do
they take off skin? I mean it seems like to
be like a burn victim or something what.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
So for the for the stomach, they sort of cut
you in an inverted tea. They'll start like in the
middle of your chest and go down a little below
your waistline, and then all the way around your hips
on both sides, and they just kind of take out
everything from there and then sinch everything up and tighten
it up. And on the arms, they they cut underneath
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the arm uh sort of just past your elbow and
uh all the way down to your armpit and then
down to meet that original line from the from the
first surgery, and and cut everything off from there. And
when when you when you've got as much to take
off as I did, they basically just go in and
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and cut everything off and this sort of rebuild you.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Wow, so you had thirty pounds of skin removed and
you still haven't gone below the wais you still have
your legs to do yeap and the back. Have you
been given a price on what that would be?
Speaker 2 (19:18):
It's about ten grand a pop for each surgery and.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
You need two separate surgeries.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Yeah. So they don't want the cosmetic surgeon that I
was working with in Alabama.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Sort of.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Due to risk of you know, blood loss and complications, infections,
things like that. They don't want to do more than
sort of one section at a time. Insurance paid for
the stomach and then arms and chests were that was
out of pocket. I think it was about fourteen grand
h worth it. Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
How long did it take? I mean I just can't
image how painful that had to be. How long did
it take?
Speaker 2 (20:08):
The first one I think I was out of work
for uh like six weeks, the second when I was
out for four weeks.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Wow, that's intense. I mean the only thing I would
compare this to, I would imagine is a burn victim,
because the skin is sensitive and and you've got so Wow,
that is uh.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
I never you Yeah, you're you're wrapped up tight like
a mummy with with ace bandages, and you've got you know,
drain lines coming out of you, uh, you know, to
drain off the EXCESSI that stuff like that, Well, it
makes it hard to get comfortable when you're when you're.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
I'd like to look at it, though, Like I like
to see cis busted and and things like that.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
That's just a way pictures I can send you.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Oh yes, let's please send me an email when we're done.
I would really enjoy seeing that. Yeah, absolutely, Well, good
for you, Brett. That is that is I cannot convey
to you properly how impressed I am over that. And
I appreciate how difficult that is to do. And I
know you do better than anybody, but most people can't.
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I don't think most people can understand how difficult that
would be to change your life patterns so dramatically that
you lose that kind of way so when you so
Obviously the bariatric surgery doesn't allow a lot of food
to pass through there, but some people kind of push
through that. Were you the lap band, no.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
I had the full bypass. Okay, I think the lap
band and the gastric sleeve and you know you mentioned
the ozmbic and things like that. I think those are
becoming more popular. But as much as I had to lose,
you know, the real full gas about that, I think
was the way to go at least that's you know,
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coming from the doctors.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
And then how did that change? You know, you know,
when you ate, did you feel you know, did you
feel indigestion or did you feel stomach pain? Or how
did that change? What were the things we wouldn't expect?
Speaker 2 (22:18):
You definitely notice when you eat too much. It's just
that that feeling of fullness, you know, that that that
uncomfortable you know, think after Thanksgiving when you you know,
sit back and got to take the belt off a
couple of notches, things like that. It's it's it's pretty
easy to get to that point. And of course might've
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been you know, sixteen years ago at this point. So
it's I think I've managed to stretch out my stomach
a little bit and I can eat a little bit
closer to a normal meal.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
But do you live in fear of getting that like
that again?
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Absolutely? Absolutely, that's you know, and that you asked me earlier.
You know what I was at now, and I don't know.
I'm around two fifty, but I don't weigh myself, you know,
daily or weekly anything like that, just because it becomes
so easy to focus on the number and say, well,
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I got to get back to where I was. I
got to get back to where I was, and that
can consume you. Do you exercise, you know, not like
going to the gym, you know, three times a week
or anything like that. But I'm pretty active, you know,
my job makes me be active a lot of the time.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Who do you work with the most over there?
Speaker 2 (23:45):
So I'm I'm a general assignment photographer, so I'm spread
out between most of the reporters. I've got a shoot
here in the next couple of minutes with Lisa Hernandez,
one of our anchors at the Humane Society. We're doing
our out of the Week segment.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Oh yeah, you know, people love that stuff. It's crazy
they love that Shoff Brett, you are an inspiration. There's
somebody that heard what you said that's about to change
their their life because of you. Thank you for calling
my man Felberry's show, The News Compact Desk. Bro It
simply works better.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Good Do you remember popping fish dough?
Speaker 4 (24:29):
I can't say that I did, but I do remember
the pillberry dough boy and you mash him in the
belly and he giggled.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Is that the same means?
Speaker 4 (24:37):
I do have a vague memory of Captain Kirk on
TV talking about some kind of olio that he say
contain many probably unsaturated fats. I don't know what that
word means, but I do know a girl who was
named probably unsaturated Fats Jeter, and apparently she changed it
to something I think she never goes by, Felicia Budway.
(24:59):
I don't blame or manage putting that on a job application,
the expecting somebody call your bas shoes.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Oh you know what, See, if I can find that
Mac is doing a good thing, Mattress Max, I'm gonna
get what as redundant he's always Hold on a second,
I'm gonna give you, Mattress Mac's cell phone. I want
you to text him and tell him he's a good dude. Uh.
(25:29):
Let's see, I got Eddie Martinez reminded me to uh
mention Max thing he's got going on the weekend, which
feels a little below Eddie's paygrade. But you know what,
I'm kind of the opinion. When you get to a
certain level of management, there's nothing left to do. It's
like generals in the army. They're sitting around. Remember Petraeus
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was sitting around banging that Lebanese girl. Or I mean
he's not shooting at anybody or getting shot at it.
You know, not a whole lot to do. I think
when you get to a certain level as as an executive,
you just sit around. You come up with stuff like,
oh what am I gonna make everybody else do? And
then you send out an email or have a meeting,
and then I guess you go play golf or something, right,
and then here we are slaving over a hot mic
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five hours to day, just grinding away like coffee roasters.
So Mac is doing a deal with Puncho Claws at
Gallery Furniture at six thousand and six forty five North
between Tidwell and Parker from nine A to nine P.
This Sunday is a toy donation. I actually think these
are great. Camp Hope does one as well. Wherever you
(26:34):
take your toy, I think there's something to be said
for that A kid doesn't choose to be poor, and
I do have a heart for such a thing. Were
you poor?
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Mom?
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Oh, you weren't nod in your head like you feel
so you couldn't pay attention. I believe that I went
to school with some kids that were by by the
standards of a lot of people, we were poor, but
by orange standards we were not poor. But I did
go to school with people who were poor, who got
nothing for Christmas. Nothing. My mother told the story that
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her she called it a car coat. I don't know
where that term comes from, but she had a coat
she had outgrown, and my uncle Preston, her younger brother,
got it for Christmas. That was what was presented to
him on Christmas, was his older sister's hand me down coat.
And I know that story was indelibly burned into her
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mind because it came up on occasion like that's how
poor they were. And you know, the anticipation of a gift.
Maybe that's entitlement, but the anticipation of a gift and
the thrill you get from that gift. You know, there
are certain things that just if nothing else you could,
(27:52):
You could be as hard hearted as Jimmy Pappus, and
even that would touch your heart, you know what I'm saying.
Even that, what would pierce your old heart. That is
this Saturday at the I forty five Gallery Furniture, Mac
and Poncho Clause will be receiving toys. Go in and
UH and bring your toys to him. I said, I
(28:13):
would give you Max's phone number. You can tell him
you're on the way, or just send him a message.
Tell me he's a good dude. Everybody used to get
a message. You're a good dude. Eight one eight four
four nineteen sixty three. Two eight one eight four four
nineteen sixty three. Well, just think of the year that
Kennedy was killed, and think of two eight one, which
was the second Houston UH area code. And all you
(28:36):
have to remember is eight four to four because you
got two eight one, which is what what is that
an inappropriate thing to say?
Speaker 3 (28:43):
Why?
Speaker 1 (28:44):
How else do you remember nineteen sixty three? That's how
I think of things, all right, So you got nineteen
sixty three. Okay, you don't want to think of the
year Kennedy was killed. Oh you thought he was killed
in sixty two. Oh okay, No, it was sixty three.
So you got the two eight one, which is the
alter to seventy one three. And then at the end
of it. You got the year Kennedy was killed. So
all you have to remember is eight four to four
(29:05):
two eight one eight four four nineteen sixty three. What
four plus four is a h ramone? How do you
come up with such stupid ways to conflate the number
two eight one eight four four nineteen sixty three. That's Mac.
That's Mac right there, and he will be there with
(29:26):
Poncho Claus all day Saturday. You ought to go very remote.
You ought to go over and stand all day with Mac.
You can't stand longer than Mac, I'll tell you that
right now. And he's a couple of years older than you.
From time to time on the program, we like to
poke around and check out certain podcasts that might provide
content for the show. Today we check in on our
favorite Mexican tomato farmer, who had some advice for the
(29:48):
Venezuelan Narcos terrorists.
Speaker 5 (29:53):
Pulls and Hello to the Green Law, he says, our
favorite tomelo farmer and Letten Today, I won't take up.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Too much for your time.
Speaker 5 (29:59):
I know you're doing the Christmas shopping, or if you're
in America, you're cooking some kind of food and posting
it all over the Facebook. Listen, man, you got to
calm down. With all those pictures. You're like the crossfitters. Man,
look at me, look at me lifting waste. I have
to put it on Facebook to make sure everybody know
that I'm lifting the waist. Look at all of my Tamali,
look at all my cookies. Man, you people are crazy. Anyway,
I did not come here for that today. I came
(30:19):
to talk about the Narcos boasts. Okay, the Narcos boast. Listen,
my Venezuelan brothers. Take it from the Mexican man. When
you're trying to move something along, you know that maybe
you shouldn't and don't. Hey, listen, I'm just an honest
to made a farmer. But I have some family that
maybe got caught up in a little bit of the
narco stuff themselves. When we move our drugs here in Mexico,
(30:41):
we move it under the tunnel. You listen, You got
to get your hands a little dirty. You gotta what
do the Americans say, pull the boots up by the straps. Okay,
and you got to get a little to the dirty work.
But you build a tunnel, ain't nobody gonna catch you. Listen, man,
what are you doing on a boat. You might go fishing,
you might go on vacation on whatever cruises.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
You move your trys in.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
A bot capile. Boom, they see you easy.
Speaker 5 (31:06):
Anyway, I'd better get off of my almost a.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
D say soap box. Got to work to do.
Speaker 5 (31:10):
I gotta move all these tomatoes and remember all she
was fresh tomails.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
We're making even walk am and you got the sweet peaks.
Please delight.
Speaker 4 (31:19):
On.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
We need to check in on Jazzy Jasmine Crockett. She's
had a tough week. She's sleep deprived and apparently she's
seeing ghosts. And this one might be the scariest hand.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
He's been one head of a week.
Speaker 5 (31:29):
And according to that chainy ghost, I got one more
of them ghosts coming tonight.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
Who we got tonight, Cheney.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Jazzy, I told you one more ghosts. This is a
Christmas future.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
Oh Hillary Clinton, Oh my god, this is amazing.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
You are my hero.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
Please give me some advice that I can use on
my campaign. Girl, you can run the best campaign.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
You could even become the nominee, and you can have
the elections stolen from you.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
We're still going with that.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
You still got that Trump by this girl. They make
pills for that. You know, look at me, listen, automotive
crazy train. You will okay, Donna, something will have with
the family if your
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Very Show is on the air. The rat lost
(00:46):
three hundred and fifty pounds or Ramon at his fattus.
He lost the entirety of Ramon, the head, the feet,
all of it. That's crazy. From six hundred down to
two fifty. Are you married?
Speaker 2 (01:04):
No?
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Gay?
Speaker 2 (01:07):
No straight?
Speaker 1 (01:10):
You can't. You can't catch a woman at two fifty?
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Well, I think it was all the years of being
the six hundred, that sort of you know, I never
really even tried, because every.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Dud I've ever known that loses a lot of weight.
They are out. They don't have to chase it anymore.
It comes out. They walk with a swagger, they go
buy a bunch of new clothes. Oh they're the cock
of the wall. I mean, they're just I mean, did
I've seen this? I've seen this movie. What do you
(01:44):
do for little?
Speaker 2 (01:46):
I work for Channel two?
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Really, yep?
Speaker 1 (01:50):
What do you do for Channel two?
Speaker 2 (01:51):
I'm a stodbert.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Really have I met you?
Speaker 2 (01:55):
I don't believe so.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
How long have you been there?
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Five and a half years? Oh? Okay, you probably remember
if you saw him about six and a half foot
red air.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
And six hundred pounds back in today.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Yeah, well that was twenty years ago.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
It's a horrible lifestyle. Were you out on Yeah, well,
you know what, I can see how somebody gets to
be six. It's a horrible lifestyle. Just so much time
out chasing stories and sitting and waiting on something and
all that waiting for a minute of filming. I could
see that. I could absolutely see that. Yeah, there used
to be a guy there. It's his name, Isaiah Carey.
(02:36):
Had had a guy, black guy's ball, black guy, kind
of young, dark skinned, funny, funny guy. And there was
a guy at Channel two. If I'm getting this right,
because I think I first met him with Phil Archer,
and he looked like like a young lous Avarice. He
looked like so, uh, my guess is he's Hispanic, tall
(02:59):
and thin, black, curly hair. I'm trying to think who
he looked like. Maybe a young Ricardo Montalband. I'm not
helping you, am.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
I not tremendously.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
I don't know if I don't know if he'd still
be there. He was young enough. I was doing a
lot of Channel two hits back in the day, from
one to eight. No not built by Esau fool. He's Vietnam.
But I'll show some respective what was his name? Let
you see here if I have his If I have him, no,
(03:35):
I don't have him on my phone. Anyway. He was
a great He was a great photographer. I always liked him. Yeah,
so you're still not dating at two fifty?
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Not really. I mean it's sort of like a dog
chasing the car, right like at this point I wouldn't
know what to do with it if I called it.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Yeah, yeah, you got a dog.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
You live with your parents?
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (04:03):
They lived with me. I moved them out about two
years ago.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
I can respect that. Where do you live?
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Uh? Stupped on the north side around the airport?
Speaker 1 (04:13):
How much just a photographer? Mat It's not very much,
is it not enough? No? You don't have any vices? Though?
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Not not really?
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Well hold on, well you mean not really? Uh?
Speaker 2 (04:34):
There you know the do you talk about the Uh.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Don't tell me. I sing too much and sing too
loud in church? No, no, no, no, no, an occasionally
him or her don't know huh no.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
The people that talk about the addictive personality and things
like that. I mean, there's there's definitely been some struggles
with uh, with other stuff since the food went away.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Oh, I got it.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Definitely a real thing.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Well, it probably replaced what food was for you.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
You know, if you were line up one thousand people,
ten thousand people, three hundred thousand people, and you were
to say who are six hundred pounds, and you were
to say one of you or somebody among you will
get down to two fifty, you would be the only
person that steps forward, Like that's crazy, that is that
(05:30):
is way more impressive than running an ultra marathon.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Well, there's a lot of people that have the surgery
that do really, really well and then they put the
weight back on right. And my doctor was sort of
frank with me when I had the surgery and said, hey,
for the first couple of years, you can go back
to your old lifestyle, you can go back to the
way that you were eating, and you're still going to
lose weight. But after that, you're just going to put
(05:55):
it right back on. And you say, I think that's
what a lot of people struggle with when they have
the weight loss surgery is they see that they're still
losing weight and they start falling back into those old habits. Yeah,
and they think that oh, this is, you know, just
this fixed it?
Speaker 1 (06:12):
What was your rotteness? What was the thing when you
were six hundred one pounds? It was your weakness?
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Oh man, I for me to be that weight, it
was actually incredible how little food I ate. But the
stuff that I ate was entirely the wrong thing. All sugar, sweets, breads,
just no nutritional value at all.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
What was the one thing? If you were to say
this was the thing I ate more than anything else,
I'd be in trouble.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Probably like pizza and skittles.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Okay, you have good, good taste. Yeah, I could crush
some skittles from moment. I could crush some skills right now.
I love skittles. Good.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Got to be the purple bag.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
You do any work with Amy Davis? Oh yeah, I
think she's adorable. Great, I think she's fantastic. She's just
tough as nails. You know better than I do. When
she barged in on that party and put a mic
in Sylvester Turner's face and he said, you are not nice,
I had to send her a text and say you
(07:14):
were very rude. Yeah, you are very You were there,
you remember. I had to tell her, my goodness, girl,
you are tough. I like that you got plucked. I
love that. I think she is so good those water stories.
I don't know if you if you did any of
the photography on that stuff.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
A little bit, A little bit.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
I also liked miss Mario.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Oh, I love Mario.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
You know who else loves Mario? Mario?
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Mario is his own biggest saying.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Mario is more narcissistic than I am. And that is
saying something. That is saying something. You know, he has
a background in boxing commentary. Did you know that?
Speaker 2 (07:54):
I did not?
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Uh huh, but Mario. I think if Mario could chuck
it all and go do boxing commentary Howard Cosell style,
he would do it. He was that big in the
Sweet Science. He loved it. In fact, Chad Nakanishi U
Chad our executive producer, spent years at at Channel two
(08:15):
back in the day, and he's the one who found
a the audio of Mario calling a boxing fight. Yeah,
it blew my mind. He's an impressident give them the
star sale only a sound warehouse because he had kind
of the Gary p Nun love and fascination with Mexican
(08:38):
Texas stuff, which is not Mexico per se it's the
lore of Mexico in Texas, which is a whole different
thing because there's a lot, a lot of Mexican stuff
going on with his music over the years, a lot.
Of course that was the era too, it was it
was definitely the era. I had somebody to send me
(09:04):
an email, Ramon, I'm not sure I should read it
because there'll be somebody out there that'll be offended. You know,
I don't like to offend people. Just okay, I'll read
it to you, but nobody else. So if you're not
named Ramon robleist, don't listen. This is just for Ramone.
He yeah, it's like the bottom of emails. Yes, this
message was recycled, non transferable, legally binding unless it's not.
(09:29):
Why are you doing that? Nobody's reading that crap. Oh,
it's at the bottom of the email. Hey, just so
you know, I cleaned out your bank account. Well, why
did you steal all my money? Well, it says at
the bottom of my email, I could you responded, which
is a tacit implicit endorsement of saying. So this was
(09:49):
his email, And if you're listening and not supposed to
be so, stop for about ten seconds. He said, I
knew a woman that was so fat and when she
sat on the toilet, it took her five minutes to
line up holes. That's awful. That's not something to be.
That's not a nice thing to say. That's not something
that you should be, you know, sharing because it's not
(10:10):
funny or uplifting. So I sent it to the Aggie
plumber and he said, that's hilarious, mostly because there's a
kernel of truth to it. Unrelated, I swear to you.
I had a customer call me one time and she
requested a toilet with the lower water level in the
bowl because her husband's nuts were hanging down the water.
(10:47):
So I responded back with that clip from the San
Francisco news station, we too low, and he sent back,
throw them over your shoulder for you to cut down.
You know, you gotta figure if you're a plumber, you
better have a good sense of humor because you've pretty
(11:10):
much seen it all. At that point, friend of mine
rights who lost My friend lost I think three hundred pounds.
He said, things that don't warn you about Before a
person has a huge weight loss Number one, they usually
develop gallstones. I just found out that I did. That's
this Guy Brett, did you get gallstones?
Speaker 2 (11:30):
No, not yet.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Okay, here's next on your list. Iron deficiency. Anemia is
almost universal. Yep, okay. Number three. You must take calcium
and vitamins for the rest of your life or your
bones will demineralize.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
I haven't none of that, but probably something to keep
an eye on or checked.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
There's a bunch of fat people out there right now
going oh, hell, I'll just stay fat. Oh yeah, And
then finally you end up having it throw away all
your clothes. But going from five X to XL is awesome.
So many more choices.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
That is very true.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Did we find out how much a photographer makes?
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Still not enough?
Speaker 1 (12:14):
How long you been doing it? Five years?
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Five years? Here been in the news about twenty five total.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Who were you with before.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
WGCO in Atlanta?
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Oh? What brought you to Houston?
Speaker 2 (12:28):
The job?
Speaker 1 (12:29):
So like? Was it more pay? Why'd you want to
come to Houston?
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Yeah? So I moved in the middle of the pandemic.
The company that I was with, they were cutting hours
and cutting back schedules and things like that. I've got
some family in the area, so I started talking to
him here about moving to Houston and figured at the
very least. I've got some family support nearby, So if
(12:55):
things continued going downhill, I could, you know, at least
stay with them instead of being out on the street.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Used to be Steve Wasserman, who's the head of the station.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Now, Uh, Sean McLoughlin as a GM.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
I don't know him. Actually there was a guy after washerman.
I forget his name.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Uh, Jerry Brown.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Yeah, yeah, that's exactly right. Uh. And then and now
it's Sean McLoughlin. Yep. Oh interesting who is over there
these days? I don't I don't get to watch TV.
That's not an indictment of TV. It's just my patterns.
But when I come in, the crew cuts the stuff
that they think I might want to use. But I'm
curious who is there that would still be there from
from my old days.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Most of the investigats team that is still the same.
You got Mario Amy, Joel Eisenbaumer.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Joel Eronbaum's could Joel Eisenbaumer is the one who asked
Sheila Jackson leebramone. He said, so, who's money paid for
that trip? Uh? It's resources that I have, so uh
daxpayer money. He followed up, she wasn't ready for that. Eisenbaum.
Isn't Eisenbaum married to somebody in media?
Speaker 2 (13:58):
He was?
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Who was that?
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Amy Davis?
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Oh they were married? Okay, all right, So Eisenbaum Amy
Mario is the investigation. So what about Robert Robertold Robert?
Is he on the investigator team?
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Yep?
Speaker 1 (14:15):
He's an intrepid reporter. He was around when I was
around back then. I always liked him.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Oh he's great.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Uh and then and uh, I guess Phil Archer's not
there anymore.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
No, he's he left I think in twenty nineteen, twenty twenty,
somewhere around.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
There, Dominique Socks and her fine, I sitting there anymore?
Who anchors now six.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
O'clock, six o'clock and ten o'clock? Is Keith Garvin right now?
We just made an announcement yesterday that we're bringing on
a new female anchor for ten o'clock, But I don't
know if that's public yet.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
If I can't say, is Keith Darving a black guy? Yes,
he's smooth. I've seen him. I don't know him, but
he's very smooth. He's he's not Houston. Is he He's
not from Houston?
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Is he?
Speaker 1 (14:56):
He's got kind of a he's got kind of a
Chicago vibe. He's very very very very national.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
He seems to be to be a guy that will
probably end up national when they when they when they're
that slick, they don't stay in town very long.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Now he's got the talent to go wherever. Uh he
he would like, I think, but you know, he's got
four daughters and his and his family's all here, so hopefully,
hopefully he wants to stay.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Big money.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
He definitely had the talent to move on to.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Who was the kind of pretty boy that was at
eleven that went national? I heard what he got paid
when he went to CBS, and that was it. Greg Hurst,
did he go national? One of the guys that was
kind of a pretty boy, Ank a real good looking guy,
and I saw what he made to go national. I
couldn't be mad at him for that. Rett lost great
(15:47):
hundred and fifty pounds. So you did Gastric bypass? Oh? Sorry,
you did Gastric bypass? Brett, Yes, strict. So it doesn't
seem like people do that as much as they used to.
I wonder if that's because of ozembic. But when did
(16:10):
you have it done? Two thousand and nine and you've
kept the weight off. Ye. Good for you, dude, that's impressive.
Good for you. Because we all have habits. You know,
my mom ate too much, my brother ate too much.
I ate too much. My dad never ate too much.
He just there. There's personality types. And if you are
(16:31):
a person who carries extra weight, it's because of your
habits and your patterns and all that. And breaking the
habits that you have is a very difficult thing. That
is That is congratulations. That is a very very difficult thing.
And it's not it's an ongoing thing. Obviously, you can
relapse tomorrow. Who did your very as.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
It was when I was still living in Alabama? Oh okay,
Doctorlaar named Chris Dyas And.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
So you come out of it? Was it painful?
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Not nearly as bad as the skin removal surgery that
was that was ten times more painful.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
How much Jelly Roll said he had thirty pounds of
the doctorm. He had thirty pounds of fat to take off.
How much was yours?
Speaker 2 (17:17):
So I've had two different surgeries so far. So the
gas you bypass was in two thousand and nine, twenty twelve,
I had fourteen point nine pounds of skin taken from
my stomach, and then twenty fifteen I had another fourteen
point six pounds of skin from my arms and chest.
(17:40):
You know, I've still got the skin on my legs
and back and things like that. But you know, cosmetic
surgery is pretty pricey.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
So yeah, So the how do they do that? Because
I understand the concept of life assumption, but how do
they take off skin? I mean it seems like to
be like a burn victim or something what.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
So for the for the stomach, they sort of cut
you in an inverted tea. They'll start like in the
middle of your chest and go down a little below
your waistline, and then all the way around your hips
on both sides, and they just kind of take out
everything from there and then sinch everything up and tighten
it up. And on the arms, they they cut underneath
(18:32):
the arm uh sort of just past your elbow and
uh all the way down to your armpit and then
down to meet that original line from the from the
first surgery, and and cut everything off from there. And
when when you when you've got as much to take
off as I did, they basically just go in and
(18:57):
and cut everything off and this sort of rebuild you.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Wow, so you had thirty pounds of skin removed and
you still haven't gone below the wais you still have
your legs to do yeap and the back. Have you
been given a price on what that would be?
Speaker 2 (19:18):
It's about ten grand a pop for each surgery and.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
You need two separate surgeries.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Yeah. So they don't want the cosmetic surgeon that I
was working with in Alabama.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Sort of.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Due to risk of you know, blood loss and complications, infections,
things like that. They don't want to do more than
sort of one section at a time. Insurance paid for
the stomach and then arms and chests were that was
out of pocket. I think it was about fourteen grand
h worth it. Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
How long did it take? I mean I just can't
image how painful that had to be. How long did
it take?
Speaker 2 (20:08):
The first one I think I was out of work
for uh like six weeks, the second when I was
out for four weeks.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Wow, that's intense. I mean the only thing I would
compare this to, I would imagine is a burn victim,
because the skin is sensitive and and you've got so Wow,
that is uh.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
I never you Yeah, you're you're wrapped up tight like
a mummy with with ace bandages, and you've got you know,
drain lines coming out of you, uh, you know, to
drain off the EXCESSI that stuff like that, Well, it
makes it hard to get comfortable when you're when you're.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
I'd like to look at it, though, Like I like
to see cis busted and and things like that.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
That's just a way pictures I can send you.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Oh yes, let's please send me an email when we're done.
I would really enjoy seeing that. Yeah, absolutely, Well, good
for you, Brett. That is that is I cannot convey
to you properly how impressed I am over that. And
I appreciate how difficult that is to do. And I
know you do better than anybody, but most people can't.
(21:22):
I don't think most people can understand how difficult that
would be to change your life patterns so dramatically that
you lose that kind of way so when you so
Obviously the bariatric surgery doesn't allow a lot of food
to pass through there, but some people kind of push
through that. Were you the lap band, no.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
I had the full bypass. Okay, I think the lap
band and the gastric sleeve and you know you mentioned
the ozmbic and things like that. I think those are
becoming more popular. But as much as I had to lose,
you know, the real full gas about that, I think
was the way to go at least that's you know,
(22:04):
coming from the doctors.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
And then how did that change? You know, you know,
when you ate, did you feel you know, did you
feel indigestion or did you feel stomach pain? Or how
did that change? What were the things we wouldn't expect?
Speaker 2 (22:18):
You definitely notice when you eat too much. It's just
that that feeling of fullness, you know, that that that
uncomfortable you know, think after Thanksgiving when you you know,
sit back and got to take the belt off a
couple of notches, things like that. It's it's it's pretty
easy to get to that point. And of course might've
(22:41):
been you know, sixteen years ago at this point. So
it's I think I've managed to stretch out my stomach
a little bit and I can eat a little bit
closer to a normal meal.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
But do you live in fear of getting that like
that again?
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Absolutely? Absolutely, that's you know, and that you asked me earlier.
You know what I was at now, and I don't know.
I'm around two fifty, but I don't weigh myself, you know,
daily or weekly anything like that, just because it becomes
so easy to focus on the number and say, well,
(23:20):
I got to get back to where I was. I
got to get back to where I was, and that
can consume you. Do you exercise, you know, not like
going to the gym, you know, three times a week
or anything like that. But I'm pretty active, you know,
my job makes me be active a lot of the time.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Who do you work with the most over there?
Speaker 2 (23:45):
So I'm I'm a general assignment photographer, so I'm spread
out between most of the reporters. I've got a shoot
here in the next couple of minutes with Lisa Hernandez,
one of our anchors at the Humane Society. We're doing
our out of the Week segment.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Oh yeah, you know, people love that stuff. It's crazy
they love that Shoff Brett, you are an inspiration. There's
somebody that heard what you said that's about to change
their their life because of you. Thank you for calling
my man Felberry's show, The News Compact Desk. Bro It
simply works better.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Good Do you remember popping fish dough?
Speaker 4 (24:29):
I can't say that I did, but I do remember
the pillberry dough boy and you mash him in the
belly and he giggled.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Is that the same means?
Speaker 4 (24:37):
I do have a vague memory of Captain Kirk on
TV talking about some kind of olio that he say
contain many probably unsaturated fats. I don't know what that
word means, but I do know a girl who was
named probably unsaturated Fats Jeter, and apparently she changed it
to something I think she never goes by, Felicia Budway.
(24:59):
I don't blame or manage putting that on a job application,
the expecting somebody call your bas shoes.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Oh you know what, See, if I can find that
Mac is doing a good thing, Mattress Max, I'm gonna
get what as redundant he's always Hold on a second,
I'm gonna give you, Mattress Mac's cell phone. I want
you to text him and tell him he's a good dude. Uh.
(25:29):
Let's see, I got Eddie Martinez reminded me to uh
mention Max thing he's got going on the weekend, which
feels a little below Eddie's paygrade. But you know what,
I'm kind of the opinion. When you get to a
certain level of management, there's nothing left to do. It's
like generals in the army. They're sitting around. Remember Petraeus
(25:49):
was sitting around banging that Lebanese girl. Or I mean
he's not shooting at anybody or getting shot at it.
You know, not a whole lot to do. I think
when you get to a certain level as as an executive,
you just sit around. You come up with stuff like,
oh what am I gonna make everybody else do? And
then you send out an email or have a meeting,
and then I guess you go play golf or something, right,
and then here we are slaving over a hot mic
(26:11):
five hours to day, just grinding away like coffee roasters.
So Mac is doing a deal with Puncho Claws at
Gallery Furniture at six thousand and six forty five North
between Tidwell and Parker from nine A to nine P.
This Sunday is a toy donation. I actually think these
are great. Camp Hope does one as well. Wherever you
(26:34):
take your toy, I think there's something to be said
for that A kid doesn't choose to be poor, and
I do have a heart for such a thing. Were
you poor?
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Mom?
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Oh, you weren't nod in your head like you feel
so you couldn't pay attention. I believe that I went
to school with some kids that were by by the
standards of a lot of people, we were poor, but
by orange standards we were not poor. But I did
go to school with people who were poor, who got
nothing for Christmas. Nothing. My mother told the story that
(27:09):
her she called it a car coat. I don't know
where that term comes from, but she had a coat
she had outgrown, and my uncle Preston, her younger brother,
got it for Christmas. That was what was presented to
him on Christmas, was his older sister's hand me down coat.
And I know that story was indelibly burned into her
(27:30):
mind because it came up on occasion like that's how
poor they were. And you know, the anticipation of a gift.
Maybe that's entitlement, but the anticipation of a gift and
the thrill you get from that gift. You know, there
are certain things that just if nothing else you could,
(27:52):
You could be as hard hearted as Jimmy Pappus, and
even that would touch your heart, you know what I'm saying.
Even that, what would pierce your old heart. That is
this Saturday at the I forty five Gallery Furniture, Mac
and Poncho Clause will be receiving toys. Go in and
UH and bring your toys to him. I said, I
(28:13):
would give you Max's phone number. You can tell him
you're on the way, or just send him a message.
Tell me he's a good dude. Everybody used to get
a message. You're a good dude. Eight one eight four
four nineteen sixty three. Two eight one eight four four
nineteen sixty three. Well, just think of the year that
Kennedy was killed, and think of two eight one, which
was the second Houston UH area code. And all you
(28:36):
have to remember is eight four to four because you
got two eight one, which is what what is that
an inappropriate thing to say?
Speaker 3 (28:43):
Why?
Speaker 1 (28:44):
How else do you remember nineteen sixty three? That's how
I think of things, all right, So you got nineteen
sixty three. Okay, you don't want to think of the
year Kennedy was killed. Oh you thought he was killed
in sixty two. Oh okay, No, it was sixty three.
So you got the two eight one, which is the
alter to seventy one three. And then at the end
of it. You got the year Kennedy was killed. So
all you have to remember is eight four to four
(29:05):
two eight one eight four four nineteen sixty three. What
four plus four is a h ramone? How do you
come up with such stupid ways to conflate the number
two eight one eight four four nineteen sixty three. That's Mac.
That's Mac right there, and he will be there with
(29:26):
Poncho Claus all day Saturday. You ought to go very remote.
You ought to go over and stand all day with Mac.
You can't stand longer than Mac, I'll tell you that
right now. And he's a couple of years older than you.
From time to time on the program, we like to
poke around and check out certain podcasts that might provide
content for the show. Today we check in on our
favorite Mexican tomato farmer, who had some advice for the
(29:48):
Venezuelan Narcos terrorists.
Speaker 5 (29:53):
Pulls and Hello to the Green Law, he says, our
favorite tomelo farmer and Letten Today, I won't take up.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Too much for your time.
Speaker 5 (29:59):
I know you're doing the Christmas shopping, or if you're
in America, you're cooking some kind of food and posting
it all over the Facebook. Listen, man, you got to
calm down. With all those pictures. You're like the crossfitters. Man,
look at me, look at me lifting waste. I have
to put it on Facebook to make sure everybody know
that I'm lifting the waist. Look at all of my Tamali,
look at all my cookies. Man, you people are crazy. Anyway,
I did not come here for that today. I came
(30:19):
to talk about the Narcos boasts. Okay, the Narcos boast. Listen,
my Venezuelan brothers. Take it from the Mexican man. When
you're trying to move something along, you know that maybe
you shouldn't and don't. Hey, listen, I'm just an honest
to made a farmer. But I have some family that
maybe got caught up in a little bit of the
narco stuff themselves. When we move our drugs here in Mexico,
(30:41):
we move it under the tunnel. You listen, You got
to get your hands a little dirty. You gotta what
do the Americans say, pull the boots up by the straps. Okay,
and you got to get a little to the dirty work.
But you build a tunnel, ain't nobody gonna catch you. Listen, man,
what are you doing on a boat. You might go fishing,
you might go on vacation on whatever cruises.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
You move your trys in.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
A bot capile. Boom, they see you easy.
Speaker 5 (31:06):
Anyway, I'd better get off of my almost a.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
D say soap box. Got to work to do.
Speaker 5 (31:10):
I gotta move all these tomatoes and remember all she
was fresh tomails.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
We're making even walk am and you got the sweet peaks.
Please delight.
Speaker 4 (31:19):
On.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
We need to check in on Jazzy Jasmine Crockett. She's
had a tough week. She's sleep deprived and apparently she's
seeing ghosts. And this one might be the scariest hand.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
He's been one head of a week.
Speaker 5 (31:29):
And according to that chainy ghost, I got one more
of them ghosts coming tonight.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
Who we got tonight, Cheney.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Jazzy, I told you one more ghosts. This is a
Christmas future.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
Oh Hillary Clinton, Oh my god, this is amazing.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
You are my hero.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
Please give me some advice that I can use on
my campaign. Girl, you can run the best campaign.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
You could even become the nominee, and you can have
the elections stolen from you.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
We're still going with that.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
You still got that Trump by this girl. They make
pills for that. You know, look at me, listen, automotive
crazy train. You will okay, Donna, something will have with
the family if your
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