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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The investigators say that a Houston area postal worker has
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been arrested after stealing a check worth nearly forty four
thousand dollars. Investigators say back in July of twenty twenty
four so last year, a city official from Woodbranch Village
contacting the Montgomery County Precinct for Constable's office to report
a check fraud. They said a check totally forty four
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thousand dollars that was sent to a contractor had been stolen.
It was later discovered that the check had been altered
and deposited into an unknown account. The Montgomery County Precinct
four Constable said a lengthy investigation was conducted and the
suspect was identified as forty year old Bridget Ragland. Officials
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obtained an arrest warrant for the charge of theft, classified
as a third degree felony. Ragland was later arrested at
the post office where she worked in Northwest Houston on Thursday,
October ninth. According to court documents, Raglan told investigators she
obtained the check after calling a number posted on a
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sign labeled as business loans. That's kind of a clever response,
and said someone named Greg provided her with the check.
Uh oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no no,
I I've never seen that check before it's deposited into
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your account. Oh oh sorry, sorry that check. Yeah yeah, yeah,
I'm sorry, y yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah I have seen yeah.
Oh of course I've seen it. Yeah. I got a
business loan, a business loan. What's your business? I hadn't
decided yet, but I want to make sure we were
sufficiently capitalized for any situations we might make. You just
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never know when something might arise.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
What's the need to be talking to you about a
situation and that we made and we carry it out.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
So I got a business loan, really a business loan.
So what interest rate? I can't recall. I just remember
it was high. Remember it was real high. And I
thought to myself, you know, chase your dreams, baby, you
know what I mean, chase your dreams, shoot for the stars.
So I did it. I did it. Okay. So you
got a business loan, a business loan that looks that
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looks like a check to a contractor, and you marked
out the name of who it was to and put
in your name, and you figured that that that's how
a business loan would work. Is that the business loan
would be a check written from a business to Jose Rodriguez,
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and that it would arrive. But don't worry about all
that that it just technicalities, and just mark out Jose
and put in Bridget Ragling. You thought that, yes, yes,
that was I realized now hearing it, you know, said
like that, it sounds stupid. I mean, I feel so
stupid now, you know what. I am guilty of being stupid.
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That was dumb. I don't know why I let them
schnooker me like that. I don't know why I did it.
I uh oh, I can guarantee this. I'm so embarrassed. Uh.
I guess I'm not good at business, you know. I
guess I'm I can tell you this. I'm going to
do this again.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
This.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
I never want to be this embarrassed again. At the time,
it made sense, you know, chase my dreams. You know,
I told everybody I'm gonna start a business, start a business,
and they were like, you do it, girl, you go on, Bridget,
You're gonna do this, And so I thought, okay, so
you didn't know about the check and then here's your
signature on the check that you had written out. It
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changed to be in your name. So you remember the
check and you got the check. Make sure we get
this right for the investigation. Yeah, you got the check
as a business loan. Business loan. And the way you
got the business loan was from a sign in the
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middle of the esplanage that said business loans and a
phone number. Yeah. Yeah, you know now that you mentioned
it sounds stupid now, but at the time, it felt
like this was a message from God himself. I've been
praying on it. Oh, pray. Okay, all right, so you
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called the number and you got the loan. Did they
mail you the check or did you come pick it up?
I can't hardly remember. I was so excited, and I
was so busy, you know, I have a one child
that's ill, and you know I got I got some
medical conditions too, you know, and just caring for other
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people and being busy and a I really didn't have
time to think much about it. I just I really
want to get my business off the ground, you know,
because I want to make a good life for my children.
Is what I want to make. Good life for my children. Okay, Uh,
my children are real sick and everything. Yeah, okay, so
you got to you don't know how you got the loan,
but you know you called off of the sign for
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the loan and it's for a business that you don't
know what the business is going to be. But you
you took the loan for that amount, okay, and you
deposited into your account and the chack that you deposited
had Jose Rodriguez on there, and you put Bridget Ragland. Okay,
this this story is checking out. I can see where
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there's just just an honest uh you know, uh, misunderstanding. Okay. Yeah.
So one other thing, Jose Rodriguez lives on your postal
route and you deliver mail to him every No, no, no, no,
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I don't know Jose Rodriguez. Uh yeah, yeah. Actually we
took some video of you. This is you delivering mail
to his house. He's he's on your route. And uh,
here's video of you taking one of the pieces of
mail and not putting it in his box, but then turning,
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looking both ways and taking it back to that little
jeep thingy that y'all drive as postal workers. Oh oh
oh that Jose Rodriguez. Oh yeah, okay, yes, yes, yes, yes,
I'm a nice man, really really nice guy. I always
say hi to him. I don't judge him for nothing.
You know, he's Mexican, but I don't judge him for that.
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You know, he ain't never done nothing wrong to me.
You know if one day maybe we was to, I
don't know, make a situation.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
What's the need of me talking to you about a
situation and that we made and we carry it out.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
We might make a situation and carry it out. You
know I can see that. I can see that. So
oh yeah, yeah, I do remember him now, I do
remember mister Jose Rodriggs. What a nice man. He don't
have no dog, no nothing. He uh he you know,
keep his house real clean, he's real clean, he mows
his law. He you know, he seemed like real. Okay,
So so you do know who Jose Rodriguez is, and
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you do deliver mail on that route every day and
you look at his name every day when you now
you remember him? Yes, And I realize it sounds terrible.
I should have remembered, you know that, because I have
kids that are saying, you know, I'm sick. You know
I'm sick. I got I got disability, and I got
a lot of things, you know, wrong, wrong with me
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and uh and and everything and so uh yeah, yeah
it was a misunderstand I mean, I sound I feel
so silly now, you know, I should have known they
was tricking me. I should have known it. And what
was it? Got Greg? Did you ever meet? No? No,
his name was Greg, Greg, just Greg. He just he
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mailed it to Jose. It's good for Kamala Harris to keep,
you know, doing book tours and continuing to say really
stupid things because as irritating as it is for you,
and I understand that, and you go, why can't she
just go away? My life will be better she just
goes away. Oh, I got news for you. There's a
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certain acceptance you need to have right now. You didn't
know Katie Porter till ten days ago, and now she
has emerged on the scene and you realize how awful
she is, and hearing her talk is more nails on
a chalkboard for me than even Kamala. And that's the truth,
that is absolute truth. It's good for her to speak
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so you can be reminded how close we came, how
bad it could have been. It's good to be reminded
of why we do what we do, why we care
while we talk to our neighbors while we win them over,
and don't forget her stolen valor vice president who within
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the next last month said that the reason the Kamala
Harris campaign chose him as their vice president is that
he is the alpha white, alpha male whisperer. He's the
one can talk to them and all he knows how
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they talk, you know, as he shoots shotguns and coaches football.
He actually said that. Imagine that dude as a vice
president his crazy wife. Dudes like that always have a
crazy wife. She's the last one to know. He's prancing
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around the stage doing his jazz hands and she's nutter butters.
She's crazier than he is. Truth is, she's crazier than
he is. There came a point where people began hating
Joe Biden more than Joe Biden, and for good reason,
which doesn't make Joe any better. It just tells you
how bad she is. But on the issue of Kamala
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Harris and Timmy Walls, yeah, we were talking earlier during
the break. They're removing the rainbow crosswalk and you know,
I'll bet you that makes Timmy Waltz very very upset.
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I bet he's very out of sorts over not having
a rainbow crosswalk.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Ew look at the time, I bet it. Get a
little light and my loafer. It's gonna be late for
my podcast recording New Time. Where over the rainbow? What
in the tickle my nipple? It's my rainbow crosswalk? It's gone.
I mean, how do I even get across the road?
But I want to go run across here? I guess
get I get it with the guys. I mean, without
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a rainbow crosswalk, where's the guy to go? Everybody call
your congressman, write a letter, and do whatever it takes.
I don't people know what to do.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Depending on how your day is going today, maybe it's
dragging a little thinking. Maybe you'll get yourself a couple
of cats coffee. Maybe you need a little pick me up,
maybe have a diet coat, Maybe pop out for lunch
somewhere and treat yourself because you need a little pick
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me up, filling down the doldrums. Maybe something's bothering you.
Maybe maybe you're not sure if your kid's gonna get
into the college they want to go to, or maybe
you're not sure if you're gonna get the job you
want or close the deal you want, or your next
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door neighbors dog is barking too often. A friend of
mine brought his dad home from hospice yesterday expected to
have two days to sorry two days ago, so this
is this is the second day since they came home
from hospice. The doctors said he had probably about three
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days to live kidney failure. And so my question to
my friend, asking for an update, was is he at
least is he at least out of pain? And he said, yes,
he's on meds, he's mostly sleeping, and he is thankfully
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out of pain. He just sent me a message and
he said, I just finished his obituary, and so at
least you're not writing your dad'sary. To put that into perspective,
if today seemed like it wasn't such a great day,
we're going to have in our lives some very very
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bad days. And you may have had bad days before,
but that doesn't mean there won't be more bad days ahead.
And I've given a lot of thought to this and
what that means and how to try to make a
positive out of it, because you know it's possible, it's
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for some people entirely likely to simply live in a
state of dread and gloom that these things are going
to happen, and so on your good days, you're dreading
the bad days, which makes the good days not so
good days. And there's nothing really you can do. It's
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going to happen. But what I have chosen to do
make this better is to not take for granted an
average day and do everything I can to will it
to be a good day. If nothing else, it's a
good day relative to that other day which will happen.
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And since today is not that day, then I'll determine
that this is going to be a good day and
have as many of those good days as I possibly can.
We had a guy who came and sang at the
RCCs from Dallas. He had played white boy played pro
basketball for a brief period of time. I think he
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was a two guard, pretty outstanding basketball player. Became a
country music singer and singer songwriter, rather talented. I can't
remember his name, but that doesn't mean anything. There are
a lot of country There are a lot of talented folk,
especially the newer folks. But this was a few years
ago or ten years ago, and he had had I
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want to say it starts with an R like a ray,
like a ray name something like that. He had had.
It was probably Josh or Justin or Jake, which is
what most modern country singer's names are. No offense to Josh,
Justin or Jake. Am I leaving one out? Well, it's Jeremy's.
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Jeremy made a bit of a comeback there for a
little while. Not nearly as many Jake is probably the
most common of the young country music singer names. Now, anyway,
he had had football, Oh, he had football. He had
foot cancer, and he had had one half of one
foot removed, leaving him looking like Tom Dempsey. For those
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of you who are old NFL fans, back when Tom
Dempsey's record, I think it was sixty three yards, we
thought that would never be never be surpassed. Nobody ever
going to kick a sixty three And the only reason
he did is he had a club foot. Not fair,
they can kick him for seventy yards. But anyway, he
decided that the name of his album was No Bad Days.
He said, look, every day I shouldn't even be alive.
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I had horrible advanced cancer. I shouldn't even be alive.
So every day is going to be a good day.
I'm choosing that that will be the case. A nine
year old boy in Florida has been arrested for threatening
classmates with a knife. The Putnam County Sheriff's Office has
posted his mug shot, bringing up a debate if he
is too young to post his mug Well, at this rate,
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if he's ever going to have a mug shot posted publicly,
we better start now, because I don't think he's going
to get as many years to commit crime as most
criminals will do. You know, if he's dead at twelve
and never got his mug shot posted publicly, it feels
like he was cheated. You know, if he makes it
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to thirty, he'll have probably twenty five of them, and
then we can look back and say that was too early.
You know, he is a child prodigy, and we could
have waited and let him develop, you know, age a little.
He's charged with aggravated assault with deadly weapon without intent
to kill after bringing a knife to school and brandishing
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it at his peers. Student was booked into the Putnam
County Jail before being released under listen to this under
their parents supervision? Oh they is does he have a
mouse in his pocket. He is one person. This local
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news report w SMV dot com chose not to refer
to his but as their parent supervision. Interestingly, that is
p A R E N t apostrophe meaning own only
one parent. Hmm. Therein is the source of your problem.
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Authorities say it all happened during recess at Middleton Bernie
Elementary School in Crescent City when the student got into
a fight, The Putnam County Sheriff's Office said in a
Facebook post on Thursday. The victim told deputies the child
said they were going to stab them during the fight,
the victim said, the nine year old then pulled a
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pocket knife from their backpack. Again the use of plurals
to avoid dealing with gender, which is the sex of
a noun. You know, things have gotten so much better
in this country under Trump already, and in some ways
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it is as if, now that folks have been exposed
to how much better things used to be and can
be in the future, the things that were the least
aggravating before now stick out more than ever. NBC has
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had layoffs of reporters, about one hundred and fifty employees,
roughly seven percent of their newsroom. I don't typically celebrate
nor am I here the laying off of anyone unless
they're like a cartel member or a drug dealer or
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something that it's a rough thing to be laid off.
It's a real rough thing. You've been laid off, Jim twice? Oh,
I know when the second went? Where was the first one?
Huh oh? Twice a day?
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Did you say?
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Oh, twice when you worked at AIG, Tell me about
the first one? Okay, okay? And when was this? Can
they hear you? Okay? So they were they were moving
some functions to Amarillo. You were in the Houston office. Okay,
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that was the first time you were laid off by AIG.
And then they brought you back. They brought you back
in a different department, and then they laid you off again.
They sent the rest of the head. Okay, so we're
laying you bad news, bad news. Here, we're laying you off.
We're sending the functions that you performed Tomillo. Oh man,
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good news. Huh oh. They sent you to Amorial to
train the people who were replacing you. Okay, well, all right,
bad news you're being laid off. Good news, we're sending
you to Amarillo for two more weeks. Bad news, then
you're really laid off, and then you come home. But
good news when you come home. We got another job
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in a different department that you can perform. Since your
your tasks were sent to Amreilla, Okay, bad news. In
very short order, we're going to lay you off again
and send your functions to Emerald. Did you go to
Amillo the second time to train them? You went Emerilla's
second time to train the people there. Okay, all right,
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so that happened. And then how many times you've been fired?
Just one time? That There's no way. You worked with
Josh Innis for ten years and you only got fired
one time. You worked together for four years. Okay, okay,
the one time you got fired with seven ninety I
find that hard to believe. All right, let's go back.
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So y'all joined up at Kilt. All right, So y'all
were at six ten am, and then y'all left and
came to seven ninety. Oh yeah, he had come from Philadelphia. Yeah,
that's a whole story. You know. I tried to hire
him when I was running the stations, and he was
going to come and do an hour of he was
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going to do an hour on air, so I could
as a kind of a test. Do you know the story?
Okay he was going to do? Oh, you're right, you
told me? Well, I remember just my side. So he
was coming from Baton Rouge where he was living. He
was coming to Houston. He was going to do an
hour for me, like ten to eleven. I was trying
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him out as a potential host. I was going to
hire and you know, everything is set be here at
ten o'clock. He's going to be here at nine thirty
to do to talk before he goes on there at ten.
And it's not really an interview yet because I want
to hear him on our show and see how he does,
because I don't he didn't even have a show yet,
did he. But you could tell he had a lot
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of talent. Obviously I wasn't the only one who thought that.
Because at nine thirty, nine thirty comes and goes, or
maybe it was not that time comes and goes, and
I have to find somebody in the hallway, you know,
Charlie Polillo, David Delai, Hey, can you just give me
an hour? Matt Thomas, can you get on the air
right now? I got this guy that's supposed to be
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here and he's not here, and obviously you can't have
dead air, so do the show. And I sent him
an email, dude, what I got it? You couldn't make it,
but let me know I'm pretty hot about it. So
years later I meet him and he tells me or
I get maybe it was Jim who told me the
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story that he was double dipping, which can good for him.
He was going to Kilt six ten AM Sports Radio.
He was going to interview with them in the morning
at it was eight, eight or nine. It must have been eight,
because he was going to come straight from there to
interview with us. He goes to the interview there and
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then he's going to come to us. But the interview
there went well, and I get they he must have
told them he had seven ninety coming up next because
they were very competitive, as they should be, and they said, no, no, no,
don't leave. No, no, no, don't stay right here giving you
a job offer right now. Well, let me call them,
no no, don't don't call them, let them learn they
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don't have a host. As the show starts, and that
is the rest of the story and as we're talking about,
he'll be so happy. Radio Michael Berry, NBC laid off
one hundred and fifty employees, roughly seven percent of their newsroom,
and in the process dissolved their dedicated editorial teams, their
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editorial team that covered black issues, their Latino issue team,
their Asian American issue team, their LGBTQ community team. Gosh,
what's left If you don't have these specific constituency group beats,
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you would just have to cover the news. How boring?
Nobody in the news. The basic old news is bold
and courageous. The move is part of a reorganization that
separates MSNBC from NBC News under a new entity called Versant.
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Executives describe the decision as an efficiency measure to eliminate
overlap and streamline operations across NBC Universal's news divisions, but
it also dismantles the network's identity based teams NBC BLK,
NBC Latino, NBC Asian America, and NBC out The homos
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are very angry. Rich Ferraro with GLAD says the move
is part of a dangerous pattern. It's dangerous, I tell
you of mainstream media outlets choosing to lose trusted and
talented journalists who focus on impotent lgb Oh sorry, important
LGBTQ news that otherwise is underreported or not reported at all.
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But who will report on the LGBTQ news if we
don't have a reporter who is one and dedicated to
just covering one. If you ever have flash on your screen,
one of these dedicated beats and their news, it's the
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saddest damn thing you've ever seen. You actually feel sorry
for them because the way it works is they don't
have anything to write about out You run out of
stuff pretty fast. You know, you have this black news sites,
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and the problem is there isn't enough news that's just
black news. You know, guy scores a touchdown where it's
not black news. That's about that, says football news. Guy
gets a new job, Well that's not black news, it's
just news. So it has to be the first black
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to do this, right, So there's only first so many
firsts you can have, so you'll do you try to
find the first black person to throw a baseball left handed,
standing on his ear with his toes double jointed, and
just it gets ridiculous and absurd. It's not you're not
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reporting on anything that anyone is reading and thinking, Wow,
I am up to date on what's going on in
the world now. So there's that kind of news the first,
and then there is always uh coverage of black organizations.
They do this in Houston. Houston Chronicle does this. There
is Black Restaurant Week. Oh well, what is that? That
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is where you're supposed to go to black owned restaurants. Oh,
everybody are just black people, everybody. But if everybody comes,
you'll be mad that we've appropriated your seats. Then you'll
but then you'll blow up and start There'll be hair
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pulling and wigs snatch and we can't have that. I
think what you mean is black people need to go
to black owned restaurants for Black Week. Is that what
you mean. I think that's what you mean. I'll do
that for you. I think that's what you mean. So
there is always the and then there's there's various black
chambers of commerce. There's a you know, you wonder about this,
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so Black Restaurant Week, do y'all? So y'all are black
owned restaurant. How's your restaurant any different? We're black owned? Okay, Well,
why is that important? Why is that something we need
to know? I'm just curious. We don't have restaurants with
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tile flooring associations where only restaurants with tile flooring gathered
together they support lines. We have tile flooring. Why would
we It's not relevant. Do you also participate in the
other restaurant weeks that everybody hates and people do hate them,
By the way, the most hated event in restaurants in Houston,
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in every chef, every operator right now is not in
their head. They already know what I'm going to say
is Houston Restaurant Week. Houston Restaurant Week is this thing
that was put together by one of them, Cleverly Stone Cleverly.
Cleverly was a big fan of ours. Nice ladid Nothing
against Cleverly. You worked her show, h Jim, You're you're
kind of a forest gump of weird stuff. So anyway,
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I liked Cleverly. She was very nice to me. She
was she was a big fan. She would she would
send nice things when I say things on air. Nothing
against Cleverly, But let me tell you what Houston Restaurant
Week is. And I think she passed away, so I
don't have to feel bad about saying this, although I
think they still do it. So they go to the
restaurants and they say, hey, Houston Restaurant Week. And it's
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kind of like groupon restaurants are always looking for ways
to make more money because they're all struggling. They're all
struggling all the time. And even if they weren't struggling,
a lot of restaurant owners are gamblers and drunks and
they go through multiple divorces. Not not my show sponsors,
but this is true of a lot of restaurants, and
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this is true of the industry. So so they're always
looking for more money. They're always short of cash because
they either don't have any cash, or when they do
have cash, they it's it's the nature of the beast.
It's a personality type very similar to the personality type
that is a bartender. But that's another subject for another day.
So Houston Restaurant Week, the way that works is they
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go to them and getting any of all this business.
We're gonna have all these people, we're gonna promote it,
and we're gonna list the restaurants in there, and the
only place people are going to go during that week
is to restaurants that are in Houston Restaurant Week. And
you want to be in there, Okay, I do it.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
I do it.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
I do it. And by the way, uh, some of
what we raise is going to go to charity. Oh wow, okay,
all right, okay, so supporting charity and gonna be really busy.
Now here's we're going to work with you in your menu.
So the menu goes, you need to charge less than usual,
and well, you need to charge less than usual, and
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you have to have restaurant week offerings. All right, So
the restaurant changes it. So the first year they do it,
they're always really excited. And then what they realize is,
just like groupon, you want quality, not quantity. Every restaurant,
every bar, every business comes to the point that they
learn you don't want every person out there as a customer.
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Some people will cost you more money showing up than
staying home. And you get young people, for instance, groups
of people who come together, for instance. So people have
this idea of you know, here's my customer base, and
I don't make as much as i'd like to, but
it's pretty good. I like more of people just like
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my customer base, but I like more of those people.
And that's not who comes during the restaurant week. And
during restaurant week, it's crowded with people who send their
food back and complain and don't tip, and they're obnoxious
and all that, and your regulars can't get a reservation
that week, so they're mad about it. So it's caused
a bunch of folks to drop out a fuston restaurant week. Obviously,
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Is there anybody
Speaker 2 (32:53):
We did need to be talking to you about a
situation and that we may and we care, We not
The investigators say that a Houston area postal worker has
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been arrested after stealing a check worth nearly forty four
thousand dollars. Investigators say back in July of twenty twenty
four so last year, a city official from Woodbranch Village
contacting the Montgomery County Precinct for Constable's office to report
a check fraud. They said a check totally forty four
(00:25):
thousand dollars that was sent to a contractor had been stolen.
It was later discovered that the check had been altered
and deposited into an unknown account. The Montgomery County Precinct
four Constable said a lengthy investigation was conducted and the
suspect was identified as forty year old Bridget Ragland. Officials
(00:48):
obtained an arrest warrant for the charge of theft, classified
as a third degree felony. Ragland was later arrested at
the post office where she worked in Northwest Houston on Thursday,
October ninth. According to court documents, Raglan told investigators she
obtained the check after calling a number posted on a
(01:09):
sign labeled as business loans. That's kind of a clever response,
and said someone named Greg provided her with the check.
Uh oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no no,
I I've never seen that check before it's deposited into
(01:34):
your account. Oh oh sorry, sorry that check. Yeah yeah, yeah,
I'm sorry, y yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah I have seen yeah.
Oh of course I've seen it. Yeah. I got a
business loan, a business loan. What's your business? I hadn't
decided yet, but I want to make sure we were
sufficiently capitalized for any situations we might make. You just
(01:55):
never know when something might arise.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
What's the need to be talking to you about a
situation and that we made and we carry it out.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
So I got a business loan, really a business loan.
So what interest rate? I can't recall. I just remember
it was high. Remember it was real high. And I
thought to myself, you know, chase your dreams, baby, you
know what I mean, chase your dreams, shoot for the stars.
So I did it. I did it. Okay. So you
got a business loan, a business loan that looks that
(02:31):
looks like a check to a contractor, and you marked
out the name of who it was to and put
in your name, and you figured that that that's how
a business loan would work. Is that the business loan
would be a check written from a business to Jose Rodriguez,
(02:52):
and that it would arrive. But don't worry about all
that that it just technicalities, and just mark out Jose
and put in Bridget Ragling. You thought that, yes, yes,
that was I realized now hearing it, you know, said
like that, it sounds stupid. I mean, I feel so
stupid now, you know what. I am guilty of being stupid.
(03:13):
That was dumb. I don't know why I let them
schnooker me like that. I don't know why I did it.
I uh oh, I can guarantee this. I'm so embarrassed. Uh.
I guess I'm not good at business, you know. I
guess I'm I can tell you this. I'm going to
do this again.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
This.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
I never want to be this embarrassed again. At the time,
it made sense, you know, chase my dreams. You know,
I told everybody I'm gonna start a business, start a business,
and they were like, you do it, girl, you go on, Bridget,
You're gonna do this, And so I thought, okay, so
you didn't know about the check and then here's your
signature on the check that you had written out. It
(03:51):
changed to be in your name. So you remember the
check and you got the check. Make sure we get
this right for the investigation. Yeah, you got the check
as a business loan. Business loan. And the way you
got the business loan was from a sign in the
(04:17):
middle of the esplanage that said business loans and a
phone number. Yeah. Yeah, you know now that you mentioned
it sounds stupid now, but at the time, it felt
like this was a message from God himself. I've been
praying on it. Oh, pray. Okay, all right, so you
(04:37):
called the number and you got the loan. Did they
mail you the check or did you come pick it up?
I can't hardly remember. I was so excited, and I
was so busy, you know, I have a one child
that's ill, and you know I got I got some
medical conditions too, you know, and just caring for other
(04:58):
people and being busy and a I really didn't have
time to think much about it. I just I really
want to get my business off the ground, you know,
because I want to make a good life for my children.
Is what I want to make. Good life for my children. Okay, Uh,
my children are real sick and everything. Yeah, okay, so
you got to you don't know how you got the loan,
but you know you called off of the sign for
(05:19):
the loan and it's for a business that you don't
know what the business is going to be. But you
you took the loan for that amount, okay, and you
deposited into your account and the chack that you deposited
had Jose Rodriguez on there, and you put Bridget Ragland. Okay,
this this story is checking out. I can see where
(05:40):
there's just just an honest uh you know, uh, misunderstanding. Okay. Yeah.
So one other thing, Jose Rodriguez lives on your postal
route and you deliver mail to him every No, no, no, no,
(06:03):
I don't know Jose Rodriguez. Uh yeah, yeah. Actually we
took some video of you. This is you delivering mail
to his house. He's he's on your route. And uh,
here's video of you taking one of the pieces of
mail and not putting it in his box, but then turning,
(06:25):
looking both ways and taking it back to that little
jeep thingy that y'all drive as postal workers. Oh oh
oh that Jose Rodriguez. Oh yeah, okay, yes, yes, yes, yes,
I'm a nice man, really really nice guy. I always
say hi to him. I don't judge him for nothing.
You know, he's Mexican, but I don't judge him for that.
(06:46):
You know, he ain't never done nothing wrong to me.
You know if one day maybe we was to, I
don't know, make a situation.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
What's the need of me talking to you about a
situation and that we made and we carry it out.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
We might make a situation and carry it out. You
know I can see that. I can see that. So
oh yeah, yeah, I do remember him now, I do
remember mister Jose Rodriggs. What a nice man. He don't
have no dog, no nothing. He uh he you know,
keep his house real clean, he's real clean, he mows
his law. He you know, he seemed like real. Okay,
So so you do know who Jose Rodriguez is, and
(07:24):
you do deliver mail on that route every day and
you look at his name every day when you now
you remember him? Yes, And I realize it sounds terrible.
I should have remembered, you know that, because I have
kids that are saying, you know, I'm sick. You know
I'm sick. I got I got disability, and I got
a lot of things, you know, wrong, wrong with me
(07:44):
and uh and and everything and so uh yeah, yeah
it was a misunderstand I mean, I sound I feel
so silly now, you know, I should have known they
was tricking me. I should have known it. And what
was it? Got Greg? Did you ever meet? No? No,
his name was Greg, Greg, just Greg. He just he
(08:07):
mailed it to Jose. It's good for Kamala Harris to keep,
you know, doing book tours and continuing to say really
stupid things because as irritating as it is for you,
and I understand that, and you go, why can't she
just go away? My life will be better she just
goes away. Oh, I got news for you. There's a
(08:30):
certain acceptance you need to have right now. You didn't
know Katie Porter till ten days ago, and now she
has emerged on the scene and you realize how awful
she is, and hearing her talk is more nails on
a chalkboard for me than even Kamala. And that's the truth,
that is absolute truth. It's good for her to speak
(08:56):
so you can be reminded how close we came, how
bad it could have been. It's good to be reminded
of why we do what we do, why we care
while we talk to our neighbors while we win them over,
and don't forget her stolen valor vice president who within
(09:18):
the next last month said that the reason the Kamala
Harris campaign chose him as their vice president is that
he is the alpha white, alpha male whisperer. He's the
one can talk to them and all he knows how
(09:39):
they talk, you know, as he shoots shotguns and coaches football.
He actually said that. Imagine that dude as a vice
president his crazy wife. Dudes like that always have a
crazy wife. She's the last one to know. He's prancing
(10:00):
around the stage doing his jazz hands and she's nutter butters.
She's crazier than he is. Truth is, she's crazier than
he is. There came a point where people began hating
Joe Biden more than Joe Biden, and for good reason,
which doesn't make Joe any better. It just tells you
how bad she is. But on the issue of Kamala
(10:23):
Harris and Timmy Walls, yeah, we were talking earlier during
the break. They're removing the rainbow crosswalk and you know,
I'll bet you that makes Timmy Waltz very very upset.
(10:43):
I bet he's very out of sorts over not having
a rainbow crosswalk.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Ew look at the time, I bet it. Get a
little light and my loafer. It's gonna be late for
my podcast recording New Time. Where over the rainbow? What
in the tickle my nipple? It's my rainbow crosswalk? It's gone.
I mean, how do I even get across the road?
But I want to go run across here? I guess
get I get it with the guys. I mean, without
(11:11):
a rainbow crosswalk, where's the guy to go? Everybody call
your congressman, write a letter, and do whatever it takes.
I don't people know what to do.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Depending on how your day is going today, maybe it's
dragging a little thinking. Maybe you'll get yourself a couple
of cats coffee. Maybe you need a little pick me up,
maybe have a diet coat, Maybe pop out for lunch
somewhere and treat yourself because you need a little pick
(11:44):
me up, filling down the doldrums. Maybe something's bothering you.
Maybe maybe you're not sure if your kid's gonna get
into the college they want to go to, or maybe
you're not sure if you're gonna get the job you
want or close the deal you want, or your next
(12:05):
door neighbors dog is barking too often. A friend of
mine brought his dad home from hospice yesterday expected to
have two days to sorry two days ago, so this
is this is the second day since they came home
from hospice. The doctors said he had probably about three
(12:28):
days to live kidney failure. And so my question to
my friend, asking for an update, was is he at
least is he at least out of pain? And he said, yes,
he's on meds, he's mostly sleeping, and he is thankfully
(12:48):
out of pain. He just sent me a message and
he said, I just finished his obituary, and so at
least you're not writing your dad'sary. To put that into perspective,
if today seemed like it wasn't such a great day,
we're going to have in our lives some very very
(13:12):
bad days. And you may have had bad days before,
but that doesn't mean there won't be more bad days ahead.
And I've given a lot of thought to this and
what that means and how to try to make a
positive out of it, because you know it's possible, it's
(13:34):
for some people entirely likely to simply live in a
state of dread and gloom that these things are going
to happen, and so on your good days, you're dreading
the bad days, which makes the good days not so
good days. And there's nothing really you can do. It's
(13:56):
going to happen. But what I have chosen to do
make this better is to not take for granted an
average day and do everything I can to will it
to be a good day. If nothing else, it's a
good day relative to that other day which will happen.
(14:19):
And since today is not that day, then I'll determine
that this is going to be a good day and
have as many of those good days as I possibly can.
We had a guy who came and sang at the
RCCs from Dallas. He had played white boy played pro
basketball for a brief period of time. I think he
(14:41):
was a two guard, pretty outstanding basketball player. Became a
country music singer and singer songwriter, rather talented. I can't
remember his name, but that doesn't mean anything. There are
a lot of country There are a lot of talented folk,
especially the newer folks. But this was a few years
ago or ten years ago, and he had had I
(15:02):
want to say it starts with an R like a ray,
like a ray name something like that. He had had.
It was probably Josh or Justin or Jake, which is
what most modern country singer's names are. No offense to Josh,
Justin or Jake. Am I leaving one out? Well, it's Jeremy's.
(15:23):
Jeremy made a bit of a comeback there for a
little while. Not nearly as many Jake is probably the
most common of the young country music singer names. Now, anyway,
he had had football, Oh, he had football. He had
foot cancer, and he had had one half of one
foot removed, leaving him looking like Tom Dempsey. For those
(15:46):
of you who are old NFL fans, back when Tom
Dempsey's record, I think it was sixty three yards, we
thought that would never be never be surpassed. Nobody ever
going to kick a sixty three And the only reason
he did is he had a club foot. Not fair,
they can kick him for seventy yards. But anyway, he
decided that the name of his album was No Bad Days.
He said, look, every day I shouldn't even be alive.
(16:07):
I had horrible advanced cancer. I shouldn't even be alive.
So every day is going to be a good day.
I'm choosing that that will be the case. A nine
year old boy in Florida has been arrested for threatening
classmates with a knife. The Putnam County Sheriff's Office has
posted his mug shot, bringing up a debate if he
is too young to post his mug Well, at this rate,
(16:30):
if he's ever going to have a mug shot posted publicly,
we better start now, because I don't think he's going
to get as many years to commit crime as most
criminals will do. You know, if he's dead at twelve
and never got his mug shot posted publicly, it feels
like he was cheated. You know, if he makes it
(16:52):
to thirty, he'll have probably twenty five of them, and
then we can look back and say that was too early.
You know, he is a child prodigy, and we could
have waited and let him develop, you know, age a little.
He's charged with aggravated assault with deadly weapon without intent
to kill after bringing a knife to school and brandishing
(17:16):
it at his peers. Student was booked into the Putnam
County Jail before being released under listen to this under
their parents supervision? Oh they is does he have a
mouse in his pocket. He is one person. This local
(17:40):
news report w SMV dot com chose not to refer
to his but as their parent supervision. Interestingly, that is
p A R E N t apostrophe meaning own only
one parent. Hmm. Therein is the source of your problem.
(18:08):
Authorities say it all happened during recess at Middleton Bernie
Elementary School in Crescent City when the student got into
a fight, The Putnam County Sheriff's Office said in a
Facebook post on Thursday. The victim told deputies the child
said they were going to stab them during the fight,
the victim said, the nine year old then pulled a
(18:28):
pocket knife from their backpack. Again the use of plurals
to avoid dealing with gender, which is the sex of
a noun. You know, things have gotten so much better
in this country under Trump already, and in some ways
(18:52):
it is as if, now that folks have been exposed
to how much better things used to be and can
be in the future, the things that were the least
aggravating before now stick out more than ever. NBC has
(19:15):
had layoffs of reporters, about one hundred and fifty employees,
roughly seven percent of their newsroom. I don't typically celebrate
nor am I here the laying off of anyone unless
they're like a cartel member or a drug dealer or
(19:37):
something that it's a rough thing to be laid off.
It's a real rough thing. You've been laid off, Jim twice? Oh,
I know when the second went? Where was the first one?
Huh oh? Twice a day?
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Did you say?
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Oh, twice when you worked at AIG, Tell me about
the first one? Okay, okay? And when was this? Can
they hear you? Okay? So they were they were moving
some functions to Amarillo. You were in the Houston office. Okay,
(20:20):
that was the first time you were laid off by AIG.
And then they brought you back. They brought you back
in a different department, and then they laid you off again.
They sent the rest of the head. Okay, so we're
laying you bad news, bad news. Here, we're laying you off.
We're sending the functions that you performed Tomillo. Oh man,
(20:42):
good news. Huh oh. They sent you to Amorial to
train the people who were replacing you. Okay, well, all right,
bad news you're being laid off. Good news, we're sending
you to Amarillo for two more weeks. Bad news, then
you're really laid off, and then you come home. But
good news when you come home. We got another job
(21:06):
in a different department that you can perform. Since your
your tasks were sent to Amreilla, Okay, bad news. In
very short order, we're going to lay you off again
and send your functions to Emerald. Did you go to
Amillo the second time to train them? You went Emerilla's
second time to train the people there. Okay, all right,
(21:29):
so that happened. And then how many times you've been fired?
Just one time? That There's no way. You worked with
Josh Innis for ten years and you only got fired
one time. You worked together for four years. Okay, okay,
the one time you got fired with seven ninety I
find that hard to believe. All right, let's go back.
(21:50):
So y'all joined up at Kilt. All right, So y'all
were at six ten am, and then y'all left and
came to seven ninety. Oh yeah, he had come from Philadelphia. Yeah,
that's a whole story. You know. I tried to hire
him when I was running the stations, and he was
going to come and do an hour of he was
(22:12):
going to do an hour on air, so I could
as a kind of a test. Do you know the story?
Okay he was going to do? Oh, you're right, you
told me? Well, I remember just my side. So he
was coming from Baton Rouge where he was living. He
was coming to Houston. He was going to do an
hour for me, like ten to eleven. I was trying
(22:32):
him out as a potential host. I was going to
hire and you know, everything is set be here at
ten o'clock. He's going to be here at nine thirty
to do to talk before he goes on there at ten.
And it's not really an interview yet because I want
to hear him on our show and see how he does,
because I don't he didn't even have a show yet,
did he. But you could tell he had a lot
(22:53):
of talent. Obviously I wasn't the only one who thought that.
Because at nine thirty, nine thirty comes and goes, or
maybe it was not that time comes and goes, and
I have to find somebody in the hallway, you know,
Charlie Polillo, David Delai, Hey, can you just give me
an hour? Matt Thomas, can you get on the air
right now? I got this guy that's supposed to be
(23:14):
here and he's not here, and obviously you can't have
dead air, so do the show. And I sent him
an email, dude, what I got it? You couldn't make it,
but let me know I'm pretty hot about it. So
years later I meet him and he tells me or
I get maybe it was Jim who told me the
(23:34):
story that he was double dipping, which can good for him.
He was going to Kilt six ten AM Sports Radio.
He was going to interview with them in the morning
at it was eight, eight or nine. It must have been eight,
because he was going to come straight from there to
interview with us. He goes to the interview there and
(23:55):
then he's going to come to us. But the interview
there went well, and I get they he must have
told them he had seven ninety coming up next because
they were very competitive, as they should be, and they said, no, no, no,
don't leave. No, no, no, don't stay right here giving you
a job offer right now. Well, let me call them,
no no, don't don't call them, let them learn they
(24:17):
don't have a host. As the show starts, and that
is the rest of the story and as we're talking about,
he'll be so happy. Radio Michael Berry, NBC laid off
one hundred and fifty employees, roughly seven percent of their newsroom,
and in the process dissolved their dedicated editorial teams, their
(24:42):
editorial team that covered black issues, their Latino issue team,
their Asian American issue team, their LGBTQ community team. Gosh,
what's left If you don't have these specific constituency group beats,
(25:06):
you would just have to cover the news. How boring?
Nobody in the news. The basic old news is bold
and courageous. The move is part of a reorganization that
separates MSNBC from NBC News under a new entity called Versant.
(25:33):
Executives describe the decision as an efficiency measure to eliminate
overlap and streamline operations across NBC Universal's news divisions, but
it also dismantles the network's identity based teams NBC BLK,
NBC Latino, NBC Asian America, and NBC out The homos
(25:57):
are very angry. Rich Ferraro with GLAD says the move
is part of a dangerous pattern. It's dangerous, I tell
you of mainstream media outlets choosing to lose trusted and
talented journalists who focus on impotent lgb Oh sorry, important
LGBTQ news that otherwise is underreported or not reported at all.
(26:25):
But who will report on the LGBTQ news if we
don't have a reporter who is one and dedicated to
just covering one. If you ever have flash on your screen,
one of these dedicated beats and their news, it's the
(26:48):
saddest damn thing you've ever seen. You actually feel sorry
for them because the way it works is they don't
have anything to write about out You run out of
stuff pretty fast. You know, you have this black news sites,
(27:09):
and the problem is there isn't enough news that's just
black news. You know, guy scores a touchdown where it's
not black news. That's about that, says football news. Guy
gets a new job, Well that's not black news, it's
just news. So it has to be the first black
(27:30):
to do this, right, So there's only first so many
firsts you can have, so you'll do you try to
find the first black person to throw a baseball left handed,
standing on his ear with his toes double jointed, and
just it gets ridiculous and absurd. It's not you're not
(27:52):
reporting on anything that anyone is reading and thinking, Wow,
I am up to date on what's going on in
the world now. So there's that kind of news the first,
and then there is always uh coverage of black organizations.
They do this in Houston. Houston Chronicle does this. There
is Black Restaurant Week. Oh well, what is that? That
(28:16):
is where you're supposed to go to black owned restaurants. Oh,
everybody are just black people, everybody. But if everybody comes,
you'll be mad that we've appropriated your seats. Then you'll
but then you'll blow up and start There'll be hair
(28:37):
pulling and wigs snatch and we can't have that. I
think what you mean is black people need to go
to black owned restaurants for Black Week. Is that what
you mean. I think that's what you mean. I'll do
that for you. I think that's what you mean. So
there is always the and then there's there's various black
chambers of commerce. There's a you know, you wonder about this,
(28:57):
so Black Restaurant Week, do y'all? So y'all are black
owned restaurant. How's your restaurant any different? We're black owned? Okay, Well,
why is that important? Why is that something we need
to know? I'm just curious. We don't have restaurants with
(29:20):
tile flooring associations where only restaurants with tile flooring gathered
together they support lines. We have tile flooring. Why would
we It's not relevant. Do you also participate in the
other restaurant weeks that everybody hates and people do hate them,
By the way, the most hated event in restaurants in Houston,
(29:45):
in every chef, every operator right now is not in
their head. They already know what I'm going to say
is Houston Restaurant Week. Houston Restaurant Week is this thing
that was put together by one of them, Cleverly Stone Cleverly.
Cleverly was a big fan of ours. Nice ladid Nothing
against Cleverly. You worked her show, h Jim, You're you're
kind of a forest gump of weird stuff. So anyway,
(30:09):
I liked Cleverly. She was very nice to me. She
was she was a big fan. She would she would
send nice things when I say things on air. Nothing
against Cleverly, But let me tell you what Houston Restaurant
Week is. And I think she passed away, so I
don't have to feel bad about saying this, although I
think they still do it. So they go to the
restaurants and they say, hey, Houston Restaurant Week. And it's
(30:29):
kind of like groupon restaurants are always looking for ways
to make more money because they're all struggling. They're all
struggling all the time. And even if they weren't struggling,
a lot of restaurant owners are gamblers and drunks and
they go through multiple divorces. Not not my show sponsors,
but this is true of a lot of restaurants, and
(30:50):
this is true of the industry. So so they're always
looking for more money. They're always short of cash because
they either don't have any cash, or when they do
have cash, they it's it's the nature of the beast.
It's a personality type very similar to the personality type
that is a bartender. But that's another subject for another day.
So Houston Restaurant Week, the way that works is they
(31:11):
go to them and getting any of all this business.
We're gonna have all these people, we're gonna promote it,
and we're gonna list the restaurants in there, and the
only place people are going to go during that week
is to restaurants that are in Houston Restaurant Week. And
you want to be in there, Okay, I do it.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
I do it.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
I do it. And by the way, uh, some of
what we raise is going to go to charity. Oh wow, okay,
all right, okay, so supporting charity and gonna be really busy.
Now here's we're going to work with you in your menu.
So the menu goes, you need to charge less than usual,
and well, you need to charge less than usual, and
(31:46):
you have to have restaurant week offerings. All right, So
the restaurant changes it. So the first year they do it,
they're always really excited. And then what they realize is,
just like groupon, you want quality, not quantity. Every restaurant,
every bar, every business comes to the point that they
learn you don't want every person out there as a customer.
(32:09):
Some people will cost you more money showing up than
staying home. And you get young people, for instance, groups
of people who come together, for instance. So people have
this idea of you know, here's my customer base, and
I don't make as much as i'd like to, but
it's pretty good. I like more of people just like
(32:30):
my customer base, but I like more of those people.
And that's not who comes during the restaurant week. And
during restaurant week, it's crowded with people who send their
food back and complain and don't tip, and they're obnoxious
and all that, and your regulars can't get a reservation
that week, so they're mad about it. So it's caused
a bunch of folks to drop out a fuston restaurant week. Obviously,
(32:52):
Is there anybody
Speaker 2 (32:53):
We did need to be talking to you about a
situation and that we may and we care, We not
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