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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Verie Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
The listener contributed to our earlier story about Souon Bang,
the owner of the spa in New Jersey. His name
is Sun Bang, and the woman arrested for prostitution is
sixty seven years old. You Shun Lee could have had
a more fun name for her. But a listener in
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the Tombole area emailed to tell me that there is
off two forty nine.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
The food center. He described it.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Called Hung Dong and I looked it up, but it's
not Hung Dong Food Center. It is and I quote,
if I'm lying, I'm dying.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Hung Dong Meat Market.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Located in between Antwine and it's like Bammel.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Well, let me go to the website. It's located in
Willow Plaza.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
People on that side of town probably know exactly where
that is, but everybody else wants to now look at
it because they're not going to believe them.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Reviews.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Nice place with exotic products, seafood and Asian food, great
variety of Asian products, Asian produce, fresh meats, chicken, hen
and seafood, good service, quality fresh meat. That is the
Hungdong meat market on two forty nine. There is a
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Gringos Taxmax under construction slated to open in June at
two forty nine and ninety nine. If that does not
become the biggest Gringos by twenty percent, I'll be shocked.
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Do you want to know what the number one sales
volume of an opening of a Gringos or Jimmy Chongins
is out of over?
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Was it?
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Twenty two locations? Now College Station? And by the way,
that one's hard to get to.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
You got to exit and go over two lanes within
ten feet, or you got to go down and come
back and it's still. Jonathan Kim, their president, said, man,
you wouldn't believe what.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
A treat it is to hire for our College Station.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Location because you get aggie students who have such great values.
They you know, they're not gonna be with you long term.
But that's okay, Yes, sir, No, sir, eager responsible it said,
it is. They're just they're fantastic. So yesterday I did
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something that you only do when you've reached a certain age,
and if you've never done this, then you haven't reached
this age, and that is I went to a doctor's
appointment with my wife. I'm not talking about fertility treatments.
You do that with your wife when you're young. But
I'm talking about going to the doctor where your wife
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accompanies you. If your wife is accompanying you to the doctor,
it is either because you've had a heart attack or
a stroke, or you're old. And I didn't have a
heart attack or stroke yesterday, although I could have. I
could have, considering what happened to the doctors my wife had.
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I've had bad allergies my entire life. My mother would
wake up and she would rub her eyes so loud
it would make a squeaking noise. Her eyes were so puffy,
and her allergies were so severe. And I was the
only one of the family, lucky me, who inherited her
degree of allergy problems. And she always had a kind
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of a low grade infection, which she didn't realize.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
That's what it was her entire life.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
It's always, you know, she could she could be as
the allergy doctors would refer it, or the lung doctors.
She could her cough could be productive at any time
if she so chose, and I, lucky me, inherited that.
So I go see the allergy doctor with my wife yesterday,
because five years ago she went to this guy and
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lo and behold she went. She got tested for everything,
the whole thing, and she started on the shots, and
lo and behold, she.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Doesn't have any of those problems any longer.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Well, some of you, because bless your heart, you got
to listen to me, and when I got problems, you
got to hear it. I've had this upper respiratory issue
which is up in my head as well pleasant radio.
I know since late October early November, and I finally decided,
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all right, I hate to admit she's right, but maybe,
just maybe, so she goes with me yesterday. It's my
second round of treatment, and this was the one where
they do the more advanced let's see what you're allergic to,
And I did something I'm not proud of. When doctor
Colosso's his name, Chris Colosso is an Indian guy. Surprise
Indian doctor. Great, great doctor in the sense that I
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like to quiz my doctors.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
He just sat down. It was my second visit. He
just sat down. Let me quiz it. Fact, I'm gonna
have him on the show. I think I think we're gonna.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Have him on early to mid next week because it's
pollen season starting next week. And he said, look, you're
going to have a flare this our pollen season. Apparently
he can explain it all. But apparently pollen season is
longer now than it's ever been because of the seasons
and when the when the trees produced based on the
temperature outside. I said, you better not be making a
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global warming argument. He goes, I'm gonna make it any argument.
I'm telling you, I don't care. I'm just telling you
that when the temperature is X, the pollen production is why.
And the temperature is X for more days of the
year today than it was in the past. And I
talked to allergy doctors going all the way back. If
you want to be connected with this guy, email me
through the website and I will I'll forward you to
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their office. But I am, I am, I am thoroughly impressed.
But I have to admit you've reached a certain age
when you're excited that the doctor tells you that your
allergies are one of the worst he's ever scene.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
And my wife, Rude I got excited when he said.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
That, and she said, oh, you have no idea about
his hamstring, and I thought, you know, you don't even understand, right,
you think that's funny. That's oh, Joeth Eisman, why do
you keep talking about your shin splitting in half? Because
it's one of the worst football injuries of all time. Oh,
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Nick Bona Kanie, We're real sorry about your kid.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Yeah, he was paralyzed.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
So anyway, we're leaving behind the hamstring entering the allergy zone.
My allergy. Well, there'll be time. There'll be time of
plenty to explain. But that is my way of saying,
if you are a person like me that has been suffering.
He's not a show sponsor.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
He will be eventually. He doesn't know it.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
But if I'm gonna talk about him this much, poor
old iihart O to get, you know, a quarter or
two back out of the.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Deal because we got pills bills to be paid. But
I'm very impressed with this guy.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
I'm very impressed with his operation and his ability to
answer my questions with regard to all these trees. And
you know, Cedar is a big one, dust Might is
a big one. But more importantly, how he was able
to treat my wife. Hers wasn't nearly as bad as mine.
But I mean, she's allergy free after the shots, and
that's that's kind of where I wanted to do.
Speaker 5 (08:19):
These chessh keep rolling around. Damn it all right, This
is Mark Chestnut. Enjoy Bizaar of Talk Radio with this.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
If I had asked you last week when we were
doing the are they dead or alive roverta flat, if
you'd ask me, I would have said she had passed already.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
But she passed yesterday. And you do not see.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Blacks of that age living that long. And there are
a number of reasons for that. Number one a lot,
especially if you're raised poor. They may not have had
sufficient healthcare. Secondly, there are cultural issues with regard to
diet and high blood pressure and the like.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
But and that wasn't always the case. Used to be.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
You would see cases in the fifties and sixties in
the United States of blacks who live to be one
hundred or more.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
And you still see some.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
And I think part of that is I think urbanization
led to in many cases cultural changes, particularly diet. But
also I don't think it's healthy to live all up
on each other. And I think that those things contribute
to a number of conditions in the major systems right,
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the lunger, the heart that prohibit or inhibit a long life.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Not Roberta Flat eighty eight years old has passed away. Roberta.
You know her middle name Ramon. That didn't either, I
had to look it up. Cleopatra.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Her mama had big things slated for her at day one,
Big Dreamer. She was also known as Rubina Flake. That
was one of her one of her aliases when she started.
She's born in Black Mountain, North Carolina. How about that husband, Oh,
they've been divorced for Steve Novasel. How about that Luther Vandross.
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I got the opportunity to meet Luther Vandross in December
of one big Luther Vandross fan And there was a wonderful,
wonderful man by the name of Alan Becker has since
passed away. And Alan Becker was best friends with one
of my mentor father figures named Barry Lewis. And these
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men were so good to me and helped me in
so many ways, not just kindnesses, but in terms of
mentoring me and not always with things I wanted to hear.
You know, Barry Lewis, over the years has had very
harsh things to say about me. Doing this or that,
and I shouldn't do this, I should, but I always
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know it comes from a position of love, because he
loves me, and he and his wife Barbara are dear
friends of ours and.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
We adore them anyway.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
So Barry Lewis had introduced me to Alan Becker, after
which the Becker School at Temple Emmanuel is named the
Becker family. The Becker family had founded a company called
Pace Concerts. Many of you remember Pace Concerts SFX all
that they.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Had done a number of things.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Barry Lewis had been raised in a family that was
a grocery family, which was Lewis and Coker. Some of
you who were around Houston will remember the old Lewis and.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Coker grocery stores. That was Barry Lewis's family.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Alan Becker was still very involved with what became Clear
Channel Entertainment. So our radio company which is now iHeart
was at the time Clear Channel Radio. But I wasn't
in radio yet, mind you, it was only two thousand
and one. But Clear Channel Entertainment, which would end up
becoming they would spin it off and it would be
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Live Nation, and then they would spin off the billboards
and I think they've kept the name clear. Channel Lee
Veyla runs that if anybody, some of you will know
him anyway. So my big thing if I won was
to meet Luther Vandross because I had a guy named
Carl Davis who had worked his tail off to get
me elected. He was the state chair, it was the
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state it was the vice chair of the state Democrat Party,
the first flag to hold that position. And he had
been Sheila Jackson Lee's chief of staff. So you can
imagine how brave it was for him to come work
for me. And I'll tell you this, I learned so
much from him. I learned so much that I have
employed in my life since then, which was fearlessness. If
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you don't ask, you can't get it. If you don't knock,
the door won't be open. He was fearless, and to
her credit, so was Sheila Jackson Lee.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
I don't like her.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
It's part of how I know so many things as
I saw the inside of her organization and how she
ran things.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
But she was fearless.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
You'll hear a lot of people say, yeah, she showed
up at our event and she's got on stage and
started talking, and you go, you're worth one hundred million dollars.
You're a tough guy, You've been people to your will.
Why'd you let her? Well, well, she's a member of Congress.
It ain't like to have any power. They literally have
no power. Would you have allowed that to happen if
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that was some white.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Dude that did that, No, you wouldn't. She learned to
get things done by being a bull, and I learned
a lot from Carl through her.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Through learned a lot about how to get things like
that done just by being fearless and brutal. Anyway, Carl
wanted to meet Luther vanros and truth, he told sodada.
So when we won, Alan Becker called his son Brian Becker,
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who at the time was leading Live Nation, and said, hey,
I got this favorite.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
They put us on the front row, fifty yard line.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
I'm kidding you, front row, right in front of the stage,
and Luther came out the whole night and he's talking
to us, and at the end of the show we
are invited back. We didn't know this was going to happen.
He invites us back and we're chatting away. I have
this great photo we took with him, and he's tall,
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and for whatever reason, he put himself in between me
and my wife, and my wife's a little bitty thing.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
She's about five to two, and Luther was well into
the sixes in a big uh.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Was he skinny Luther or fat Luther? He was probably
he was either on his way down or on his
way up, so he was somewhere in the middle. He
wasn't as big as as he would get, obviously, and
he wasn't as thin as he would get. I mean,
I guess anybody could look at a picture and December two,
there's probably plenty of articles out there about him, and
you can see what size he was. Anyway, he his partner,
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because he's homo. I'm assuming you know that his partner
brought out this this huge towel that was a warm
towel that he put around his throat afterwards, because he's
very protective of his throat. And I asked him my
one chance to meet Luther vanros And I said, tell
me about the first time you met ROBERTA. Flack, because
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he had been a background singer for her, and he
was very flamboyant off air, and he said, oh girl, okay,
all right, oh girl.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Let me tell you. So he goes into the story
and he was very excited. Tell s the story was
burna fly asked him over to her apartment in New
York to come in audition.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
No, and she said here, I want you to sing
along with me on this and she said three He
said three notes in she said.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Oh girl, let's just cook. You're hired. Luthandros. That was
a pretty good Luther Vandross. You don't appreciate it, but
you wouldn't know.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
Probably had a tune.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
You might have to edit that.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
This is Mark Chestnut, Enjoy Bizaar of Talk Radio.
Speaker 6 (16:43):
What Looktura and there? See what you mean to me?
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You're old?
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Then you close.
Speaker 6 (17:14):
To the name.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Alas, there are things people don't know, and I have
to keep reminding them. Just received an email regarding a
company that advertised on our station while our show is
going on. They're not a show sponsor, they are an advertiser.
That's why I use the number the name. It matters
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so for the five minutes, five millionth time, and I'll
do five million more because I'll have to remember this.
If someone buys advertising during our show and I'm not
telling you about them, doesn't mean they're a bad person.
Doesn't mean anything other than I don't personally endorse them.
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When we go to commercial break, whether it's the news
or the spots, I don't hear them. So sometimes people
will say, hey, you know that company that does this, this,
and this.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
I literally have no idea who it is. Why would I.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
In the radio business, you refer to this as going dark.
Our studio goes dark sound wise, because we're only a
sound medium. It's like you're turning off the lights. So
I don't hear anything anyone says during a break. I
certainly don't endorse any company, whatever that ad may say,
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and they're free to do that. That does not mean
that I indorse it. If you hear me say the
name of a company, I do endorse them. If you
have a problem with them, you let me know and
I will reach out. I was able to solve a
problem yesterday from somebody that didn't understand a product he
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had purchased, and why would he He was elderly man,
he thought he'd been ripped off.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
He described his problem.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
I took that email, shot it to the head of
the company. He put his best guy on it. Within
an hour, had a call back. Yes, here's a picture
of exactly what is happening. It's exactly what was supposed
to happen. The old man sends me an email later
in the day, I'm sorry I didn't realize, don't be.
You have every right to expect that if you use
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our show sponsor on my recommendation, you have every right
to expect a certain quality of performance, every right to
expect that. And if you don't, I can't necessarily get
your money back or make it right. But I can
tell you that my show sponsors live and die on
our business, most of them, and they don't want me unhappy.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
And so if I say, if.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
There's any way to make that person happy, then please.
Now I have also noted because even as many emails
as I read, you start noticing, you know, if somebody's
name is dou Fatzi, as my grandmother would use as
the name when she didn't know, you know, down there
at the bike shot up. What's his name, nanny, Oh,
do Fozi?
Speaker 3 (20:18):
You know? No, I don't know, don't.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Do FOXI I thought du Fozi was there was a
lot of dou Fazis in orange, but that was the
name she would use. But I will notice that dou
Fozi will email me on Monday, and then the following Monday,
and the following Monday. And each time he has used
a show sponsor, and each time he's got a different
complaint about each one. And most of the time he
never even consummates the transaction. He calls them and they're
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too expensive, and he decided that's too much for them
to charge.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
For their service.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Well, you're free to not use them, but you're not
free to set their prices. See, the business gets to
set their price. And that's an offer. When a company
says dairy queen says ninety nine cent burger, that's an offer.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
And in law, in.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Order to have a contract, whether written or not, you
have offer, acceptance and consideration, which can be as little
as a peppercorn.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
As the famous case goes, the.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Offer is I will sell you a burger right here,
right now, for ninety nine cents. The acceptance is here's
my ninety nine cents. So by giving the person your
ninety nine cents, you are accepting their offer. If you
give them your ninety nine cents, in bitch, why you
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do it in the marketplace, you're still confirming that that
is an acceptable price.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
The only way, the only way.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
To make them reduce their price is to reject their offer. Well, Michael,
if I do that, everybody else will still buy it. Yes,
you're not a market maker. Perhaps you're not willing to
pay what the market is willing to pay for a burger.
That's on you, not them. As long as they have
enough burger soul at the price they wish to say,
sell it that. Then you don't get to set their price.
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If you would like to sell a burger for seventy
five cents, start your own. You don't get to run
that business. See but I'm a conservative Trump supporter, y'all,
And you're a jackass, and you don't understand how this
business capitalism thing works.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
You're entitled.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
You don't get to tell them what price they will
sell their burger for, other than to reject their offer
of ninety nine cents.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
So not a nonsense? Is the offer?
Speaker 2 (22:28):
The acceptance is here's my ninety nine sense, and the consideration.
The acceptance is yes, I will buy it. The consideration,
that's the three elements. There has to be consideration. The
consideration in this case is the dollar bill you give them.
Without the consideration, an acceptance of an offer does not
a contract make.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
And the reason is.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Because you could say you accept, but you're not showing
that you accept. And that, my friends, is the first
week of contracts law at University of Texas in the
fall of nineteen ninety three, under the tutelage of the
Great Alan Scott Rail and that.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Is I'm gonna throw that one in free. Throw that
one in free.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
If you are interested in my allergy doctor. You can
see some of you are sending emails. I've asked them
for an email address. It's called Advanced Allergy or something.
It's over near It's over off of Wesland and bel Air,
bel Air slash Holcombe. If you remember where the old
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iw Marx used to be way back in the day.
It's about a block away from there on a street
called grammar Sya oddly enough, directly across the street, not
one hundred feet from where I was having my testing
done yesterday. I used to own a rundown old apartment complex,
a thirteen unit apartment complex. I sold it to a
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guy who sold it to a guy who built these big,
beautiful townhomes, and I mean beautiful townhomes that whole area has.
I don't want to call it gentrified because it was
very white before it, which is very Jewish, and now
it tends to be double income, no kid or kids
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because there's good public schools in that area. You know,
when you study real estate trends in a place like Houston,
you notice that there are pockets of homes that have
an outsized value relative to the region, and it's because
they feed into a good public school. Westbury would be
a great example. West u would be a great example,
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although west you had some other things going for it.
Brave's Heights would be an example. So you do see
a lot of families, just not in townhomes. You do
see a lot of families in those areas, and the
trade off is they will spend what they could spend
out in the suburbs. They will spend that on a
house because they don't have to send their kids to
private school. You know, they're spending I don't know what
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the prices are over there now, they're high. They're spending
one point five million on a house that they could
get in sugar Land for six hundred thousand.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
But if they did that inside.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
The Loop, that have to pay the exorbitant thirty thousand
a year on private schools, and they're not going to
do that, so they just plow it into their house
because it's a it's tax deduct wasn't mortgage right off,
and you're accumulating equity.
Speaker 5 (25:27):
And welcome to the lifestyles of the not so rich
and famous are as.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
I call it the Michael Barry Joe.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Possibly my greatest, the greatest five seconds of music from that.
Right there, you got the isolated guitar and then you
bring in the organ. Can you just rewind that so
I can have a little more of that?
Speaker 3 (25:59):
One more hit of.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
That, don't happen? Something golden along. Someone's on the phone.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Three o'clock in the moon.
Speaker 5 (26:25):
Talking about.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
She can his two thousand autobiography Take Me to the
River Our Green set of that song Love and Happiness
was like mixing explosive chemicals. Everything had to be added
at just the right time and it just the right ghost.
The tempo was the most important thing to Willie. And
if you listen close, you can hear teeny counting off
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with his foot on a cardboard box.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
For the take that nailed cardboard box.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Brandan writes the craziest Asian store name here in Houston.
Whenever I first saw it, I did a triple take,
and then I had to choose who I showed it
to as I was worried about offending people. So please
read and review before saying on air. If you say
it on air, here it is, I'll spell it.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
It's a hair and skin care.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Spelled bich space n Ga yech in Ga. Molly Farina,
who came on our last Aspen trip. She's married to
Santa Claus true story, and they spend half their time
in Puerto Rico.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
Rights Zar. There are generations of Chinese immigrants in Puerto
Rico and have established the Borachina cuisine. I've tried it.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Yeah, there's a restaurant in San Juan named Ching Cream.
It's been there for years. But no, we have not
tried it, Darcy writes. In Katie's Asia Town, there is
I'll call.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
It Foe so that all the hipsters. He said, Now
that's fun, and then I'll call it foe. A restaurant
called Foe. Kay.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
She says, when we were in California, we went to
a i'll say fae restaurant called Faue King Way, hope
you get the jokes.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
I got to tell you the desire by some people
to pronounce pho as fu because that's say say it.
It'd be so proud to do that.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
It's not often that I want to hit people so
hard that their teeth fall back in their throat, but
that's sadly one of them. FBI Houston replies to Elon's
what did you do last week? Detailing the crazy week
they had. Here's what they posted during the last week.
FBI Houston and our partners. Number one arrested ten members
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of a violent chapter of the Bandido's Outlaw motorcycle gang
on federal charges of murder and racketeering.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
Number two.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Worked with local law enforcement partners that's Larry Bainbridge, our
buddy over at SBISD to save a school from a
mass casualty attack planned by two teenagers. Number three helped
lock up a child predator for twenty four years after
he sex storted, sex storted, and produced child sexual abuse
material of young girls in multiple states. Number four searched
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for a hondur and fugitive involved in the sale of
counterfeit Texas license plates which endangered lawful Texan drivers. And
number five continued to assist local law enforcement partners with
a triple homicide and arson investigation. Hey, FBI Houston, how
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about a round of applause for these boys and girls?
What for you, FBI Houston? It must be nice. I
actually hear good things about the operation here from FBI
agents around the country.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
They tell me the FBI.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Houston location is actually is actually pretty buttoned up, pretty solid.
It's not what you hear about, you know, some of
the Andrew McCabe, Andrew McCabe, they've lost their mind. Oh,
I'm sorry I have not mentioned this yet. There's so
much happening. I can't keep up with it, between these
Asian names and my allergy doctor visit and some things
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in a news Dan Bongino tapped by cash Pttel to
be his number two. He has the FBI the the
top brass criminals, alleged criminals. He has them on the run.
They are scared to death of Dan Bonging. He's not qualified.
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He's not qualified. He's a secret service agent and he's
a cop. He has years of experience and a brain.
By qualified, they mean he hasn't done what we've done
our entire career. Lyndon Johnson had a famous story that
he told he went on the speech circuit after he
left the White House, and he had a great story
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that he told about two guys that worked in his
office and one of them, I'm sorry, two guys that
worked in his administration when he was president, and one
of them had been part of the federal bureaucracy for
twenty two years, and the other one was an outside
guy who had worked for Lyndon Johnson for one year.
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And he had a political appointment to make, and he
chose the guy who'd been in his office for one
year over the guy who believed he deserved it, who'd
been working for the federal government for twenty two years.
And the guy comes in and says, mister President, you
should have hired me. And he said why, And he said,
because I have twenty two years experience and he's only
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got one.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
Or he's only got two, the guy two. And he said,
that's where you're he's.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Got two years experience, you've got one year's experience twenty
two times. And I have used that line many, many
times as a passive, aggressive way to tell people that
your longevity in a position does not necessarily translate into
growth and development and improved value. The idea of getting
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a pay raise because you stayed a job another year
is anathema to me. Why should somebody make more money
working in an operation for twenty years than the guy
who has been there for one year. If the guy
who's been there for one year is contributing more, oh well,
you don't understand, Michael. I do understand this. When the
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Tampa Bay Buccaneers brought Tom Brady down to the Buccaneers,
they paid him more than anyone else on the team.
You had players who'd been on that team for seven
or more years. They didn't say, well, Tom, I'm sure
you understand, but they've been Buccaneers longer than you have.
Because Tom Brady's value was assessed at the number they
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paid him, and the value of the guy who was
on special teams was far less.
Speaker 6 (33:14):
See.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
The reason we don't have these conversations is people are
uncomfortable assigning value to things because they know that their
value is not as high as.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
An xt guy.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
Donald Trump is more valuable to the United States government
than Adam Schiff.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
Is you're comfortable saying that, right? Okay? Well, Adam Schiff
has worked.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
In the government for longer than Donald Trump. You get
that right, Okay? Well, how long you've been doing something.
This is where people don't understand the This is where
Thomas Soul comes in. People do not understand the basics
of economics, which is the ultimate study to apply to
almost everything you do. To value, to marketplace, to communicate,
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to nonverbal communication through pricing, all of these things they
come up every single day. By the way, I see
your emails coming and I'll respond to your allergy.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
I'll hook you up.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
With this doctor colosso c O L L A c O.
Once the show's over, I'll connect those emails.
It's that time time time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Verie Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
The listener contributed to our earlier story about Souon Bang,
the owner of the spa in New Jersey. His name
is Sun Bang, and the woman arrested for prostitution is
sixty seven years old. You Shun Lee could have had
a more fun name for her. But a listener in
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the Tombole area emailed to tell me that there is
off two forty nine.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
The food center. He described it.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Called Hung Dong and I looked it up, but it's
not Hung Dong Food Center. It is and I quote,
if I'm lying, I'm dying.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Hung Dong Meat Market.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Located in between Antwine and it's like Bammel.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Well, let me go to the website. It's located in
Willow Plaza.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
People on that side of town probably know exactly where
that is, but everybody else wants to now look at
it because they're not going to believe them.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Reviews.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Nice place with exotic products, seafood and Asian food, great
variety of Asian products, Asian produce, fresh meats, chicken, hen
and seafood, good service, quality fresh meat. That is the
Hungdong meat market on two forty nine. There is a
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Gringos Taxmax under construction slated to open in June at
two forty nine and ninety nine. If that does not
become the biggest Gringos by twenty percent, I'll be shocked.
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Do you want to know what the number one sales
volume of an opening of a Gringos or Jimmy Chongins
is out of over?
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Was it?
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Twenty two locations? Now College Station? And by the way,
that one's hard to get to.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
You got to exit and go over two lanes within
ten feet, or you got to go down and come
back and it's still. Jonathan Kim, their president, said, man,
you wouldn't believe what.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
A treat it is to hire for our College Station.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Location because you get aggie students who have such great values.
They you know, they're not gonna be with you long term.
But that's okay, Yes, sir, No, sir, eager responsible it said,
it is. They're just they're fantastic. So yesterday I did
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something that you only do when you've reached a certain age,
and if you've never done this, then you haven't reached
this age, and that is I went to a doctor's
appointment with my wife. I'm not talking about fertility treatments.
You do that with your wife when you're young. But
I'm talking about going to the doctor where your wife
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accompanies you. If your wife is accompanying you to the doctor,
it is either because you've had a heart attack or
a stroke, or you're old. And I didn't have a
heart attack or stroke yesterday, although I could have. I
could have, considering what happened to the doctors my wife had.
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I've had bad allergies my entire life. My mother would
wake up and she would rub her eyes so loud
it would make a squeaking noise. Her eyes were so puffy,
and her allergies were so severe. And I was the
only one of the family, lucky me, who inherited her
degree of allergy problems. And she always had a kind
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of a low grade infection, which she didn't realize.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
That's what it was her entire life.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
It's always, you know, she could she could be as
the allergy doctors would refer it, or the lung doctors.
She could her cough could be productive at any time
if she so chose, and I, lucky me, inherited that.
So I go see the allergy doctor with my wife yesterday,
because five years ago she went to this guy and
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lo and behold she went. She got tested for everything,
the whole thing, and she started on the shots, and
lo and behold, she.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Doesn't have any of those problems any longer.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Well, some of you, because bless your heart, you got
to listen to me, and when I got problems, you
got to hear it. I've had this upper respiratory issue
which is up in my head as well pleasant radio.
I know since late October early November, and I finally decided,
(05:29):
all right, I hate to admit she's right, but maybe,
just maybe, so she goes with me yesterday. It's my
second round of treatment, and this was the one where
they do the more advanced let's see what you're allergic to,
And I did something I'm not proud of. When doctor
Colosso's his name, Chris Colosso is an Indian guy. Surprise
Indian doctor. Great, great doctor in the sense that I
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like to quiz my doctors.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
He just sat down. It was my second visit. He
just sat down. Let me quiz it. Fact, I'm gonna
have him on the show. I think I think we're gonna.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Have him on early to mid next week because it's
pollen season starting next week. And he said, look, you're
going to have a flare this our pollen season. Apparently
he can explain it all. But apparently pollen season is
longer now than it's ever been because of the seasons
and when the when the trees produced based on the
temperature outside. I said, you better not be making a
(06:22):
global warming argument. He goes, I'm gonna make it any argument.
I'm telling you, I don't care. I'm just telling you
that when the temperature is X, the pollen production is why.
And the temperature is X for more days of the
year today than it was in the past. And I
talked to allergy doctors going all the way back. If
you want to be connected with this guy, email me
through the website and I will I'll forward you to
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their office. But I am, I am, I am thoroughly impressed.
But I have to admit you've reached a certain age
when you're excited that the doctor tells you that your
allergies are one of the worst he's ever scene.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
And my wife, Rude I got excited when he said.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
That, and she said, oh, you have no idea about
his hamstring, and I thought, you know, you don't even understand, right,
you think that's funny. That's oh, Joeth Eisman, why do
you keep talking about your shin splitting in half? Because
it's one of the worst football injuries of all time. Oh,
(07:25):
Nick Bona Kanie, We're real sorry about your kid.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Yeah, he was paralyzed.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
So anyway, we're leaving behind the hamstring entering the allergy zone.
My allergy. Well, there'll be time. There'll be time of
plenty to explain. But that is my way of saying,
if you are a person like me that has been suffering.
He's not a show sponsor.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
He will be eventually. He doesn't know it.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
But if I'm gonna talk about him this much, poor
old iihart O to get, you know, a quarter or
two back out of the.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Deal because we got pills bills to be paid. But
I'm very impressed with this guy.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
I'm very impressed with his operation and his ability to
answer my questions with regard to all these trees. And
you know, Cedar is a big one, dust Might is
a big one. But more importantly, how he was able
to treat my wife. Hers wasn't nearly as bad as mine.
But I mean, she's allergy free after the shots, and
that's that's kind of where I wanted to do.
Speaker 5 (08:19):
These chessh keep rolling around. Damn it all right, This
is Mark Chestnut. Enjoy Bizaar of Talk Radio with this.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
If I had asked you last week when we were
doing the are they dead or alive roverta flat, if
you'd ask me, I would have said she had passed already.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
But she passed yesterday. And you do not see.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Blacks of that age living that long. And there are
a number of reasons for that. Number one a lot,
especially if you're raised poor. They may not have had
sufficient healthcare. Secondly, there are cultural issues with regard to
diet and high blood pressure and the like.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
But and that wasn't always the case. Used to be.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
You would see cases in the fifties and sixties in
the United States of blacks who live to be one
hundred or more.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
And you still see some.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
And I think part of that is I think urbanization
led to in many cases cultural changes, particularly diet. But
also I don't think it's healthy to live all up
on each other. And I think that those things contribute
to a number of conditions in the major systems right,
(10:01):
the lunger, the heart that prohibit or inhibit a long life.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Not Roberta Flat eighty eight years old has passed away. Roberta.
You know her middle name Ramon. That didn't either, I
had to look it up. Cleopatra.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Her mama had big things slated for her at day one,
Big Dreamer. She was also known as Rubina Flake. That
was one of her one of her aliases when she started.
She's born in Black Mountain, North Carolina. How about that husband, Oh,
they've been divorced for Steve Novasel. How about that Luther Vandross.
(10:46):
I got the opportunity to meet Luther Vandross in December
of one big Luther Vandross fan And there was a wonderful,
wonderful man by the name of Alan Becker has since
passed away. And Alan Becker was best friends with one
of my mentor father figures named Barry Lewis. And these
(11:11):
men were so good to me and helped me in
so many ways, not just kindnesses, but in terms of
mentoring me and not always with things I wanted to hear.
You know, Barry Lewis, over the years has had very
harsh things to say about me. Doing this or that,
and I shouldn't do this, I should, but I always
(11:32):
know it comes from a position of love, because he
loves me, and he and his wife Barbara are dear
friends of ours and.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
We adore them anyway.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
So Barry Lewis had introduced me to Alan Becker, after
which the Becker School at Temple Emmanuel is named the
Becker family. The Becker family had founded a company called
Pace Concerts. Many of you remember Pace Concerts SFX all
that they.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Had done a number of things.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Barry Lewis had been raised in a family that was
a grocery family, which was Lewis and Coker. Some of
you who were around Houston will remember the old Lewis and.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Coker grocery stores. That was Barry Lewis's family.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Alan Becker was still very involved with what became Clear
Channel Entertainment. So our radio company which is now iHeart
was at the time Clear Channel Radio. But I wasn't
in radio yet, mind you, it was only two thousand
and one. But Clear Channel Entertainment, which would end up
becoming they would spin it off and it would be
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Live Nation, and then they would spin off the billboards
and I think they've kept the name clear. Channel Lee
Veyla runs that if anybody, some of you will know
him anyway. So my big thing if I won was
to meet Luther Vandross because I had a guy named
Carl Davis who had worked his tail off to get
me elected. He was the state chair, it was the
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state it was the vice chair of the state Democrat Party,
the first flag to hold that position. And he had
been Sheila Jackson Lee's chief of staff. So you can
imagine how brave it was for him to come work
for me. And I'll tell you this, I learned so
much from him. I learned so much that I have
employed in my life since then, which was fearlessness. If
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you don't ask, you can't get it. If you don't knock,
the door won't be open. He was fearless, and to
her credit, so was Sheila Jackson Lee.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
I don't like her.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
It's part of how I know so many things as
I saw the inside of her organization and how she
ran things.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
But she was fearless.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
You'll hear a lot of people say, yeah, she showed
up at our event and she's got on stage and
started talking, and you go, you're worth one hundred million dollars.
You're a tough guy, You've been people to your will.
Why'd you let her? Well, well, she's a member of Congress.
It ain't like to have any power. They literally have
no power. Would you have allowed that to happen if
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that was some white.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Dude that did that, No, you wouldn't. She learned to
get things done by being a bull, and I learned
a lot from Carl through her.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Through learned a lot about how to get things like
that done just by being fearless and brutal. Anyway, Carl
wanted to meet Luther vanros and truth, he told sodada.
So when we won, Alan Becker called his son Brian Becker,
(14:32):
who at the time was leading Live Nation, and said, hey,
I got this favorite.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
They put us on the front row, fifty yard line.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
I'm kidding you, front row, right in front of the stage,
and Luther came out the whole night and he's talking
to us, and at the end of the show we
are invited back. We didn't know this was going to happen.
He invites us back and we're chatting away. I have
this great photo we took with him, and he's tall,
(15:03):
and for whatever reason, he put himself in between me
and my wife, and my wife's a little bitty thing.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
She's about five to two, and Luther was well into
the sixes in a big uh.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Was he skinny Luther or fat Luther? He was probably
he was either on his way down or on his
way up, so he was somewhere in the middle. He
wasn't as big as as he would get, obviously, and
he wasn't as thin as he would get. I mean,
I guess anybody could look at a picture and December two,
there's probably plenty of articles out there about him, and
you can see what size he was. Anyway, he his partner,
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because he's homo. I'm assuming you know that his partner
brought out this this huge towel that was a warm
towel that he put around his throat afterwards, because he's
very protective of his throat. And I asked him my
one chance to meet Luther vanros And I said, tell
me about the first time you met ROBERTA. Flack, because
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he had been a background singer for her, and he
was very flamboyant off air, and he said, oh girl, okay,
all right, oh girl.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Let me tell you. So he goes into the story
and he was very excited. Tell s the story was
burna fly asked him over to her apartment in New
York to come in audition.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
No, and she said here, I want you to sing
along with me on this and she said three He
said three notes in she said.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Oh girl, let's just cook. You're hired. Luthandros. That was
a pretty good Luther Vandross. You don't appreciate it, but
you wouldn't know.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
Probably had a tune.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
You might have to edit that.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
This is Mark Chestnut, Enjoy Bizaar of Talk Radio.
Speaker 6 (16:43):
What Looktura and there? See what you mean to me?
(17:06):
You're old?
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Then you close.
Speaker 6 (17:14):
To the name.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Alas, there are things people don't know, and I have
to keep reminding them. Just received an email regarding a
company that advertised on our station while our show is
going on. They're not a show sponsor, they are an advertiser.
That's why I use the number the name. It matters
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so for the five minutes, five millionth time, and I'll
do five million more because I'll have to remember this.
If someone buys advertising during our show and I'm not
telling you about them, doesn't mean they're a bad person.
Doesn't mean anything other than I don't personally endorse them.
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When we go to commercial break, whether it's the news
or the spots, I don't hear them. So sometimes people
will say, hey, you know that company that does this, this,
and this.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
I literally have no idea who it is. Why would I.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
In the radio business, you refer to this as going dark.
Our studio goes dark sound wise, because we're only a
sound medium. It's like you're turning off the lights. So
I don't hear anything anyone says during a break. I
certainly don't endorse any company, whatever that ad may say,
(18:43):
and they're free to do that. That does not mean
that I indorse it. If you hear me say the
name of a company, I do endorse them. If you
have a problem with them, you let me know and
I will reach out. I was able to solve a
problem yesterday from somebody that didn't understand a product he
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had purchased, and why would he He was elderly man,
he thought he'd been ripped off.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
He described his problem.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
I took that email, shot it to the head of
the company. He put his best guy on it. Within
an hour, had a call back. Yes, here's a picture
of exactly what is happening. It's exactly what was supposed
to happen. The old man sends me an email later
in the day, I'm sorry I didn't realize, don't be.
You have every right to expect that if you use
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our show sponsor on my recommendation, you have every right
to expect a certain quality of performance, every right to
expect that. And if you don't, I can't necessarily get
your money back or make it right. But I can
tell you that my show sponsors live and die on
our business, most of them, and they don't want me unhappy.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
And so if I say, if.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
There's any way to make that person happy, then please.
Now I have also noted because even as many emails
as I read, you start noticing, you know, if somebody's
name is dou Fatzi, as my grandmother would use as
the name when she didn't know, you know, down there
at the bike shot up. What's his name, nanny, Oh,
do Fozi?
Speaker 3 (20:18):
You know? No, I don't know, don't.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Do FOXI I thought du Fozi was there was a
lot of dou Fazis in orange, but that was the
name she would use. But I will notice that dou
Fozi will email me on Monday, and then the following Monday,
and the following Monday. And each time he has used
a show sponsor, and each time he's got a different
complaint about each one. And most of the time he
never even consummates the transaction. He calls them and they're
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too expensive, and he decided that's too much for them
to charge.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
For their service.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Well, you're free to not use them, but you're not
free to set their prices. See, the business gets to
set their price. And that's an offer. When a company
says dairy queen says ninety nine cent burger, that's an offer.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
And in law, in.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Order to have a contract, whether written or not, you
have offer, acceptance and consideration, which can be as little
as a peppercorn.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
As the famous case goes, the.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Offer is I will sell you a burger right here,
right now, for ninety nine cents. The acceptance is here's
my ninety nine cents. So by giving the person your
ninety nine cents, you are accepting their offer. If you
give them your ninety nine cents, in bitch, why you
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do it in the marketplace, you're still confirming that that
is an acceptable price.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
The only way, the only way.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
To make them reduce their price is to reject their offer. Well, Michael,
if I do that, everybody else will still buy it. Yes,
you're not a market maker. Perhaps you're not willing to
pay what the market is willing to pay for a burger.
That's on you, not them. As long as they have
enough burger soul at the price they wish to say,
sell it that. Then you don't get to set their price.
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If you would like to sell a burger for seventy
five cents, start your own. You don't get to run
that business. See but I'm a conservative Trump supporter, y'all,
And you're a jackass, and you don't understand how this
business capitalism thing works.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
You're entitled.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
You don't get to tell them what price they will
sell their burger for, other than to reject their offer
of ninety nine cents.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
So not a nonsense? Is the offer?
Speaker 2 (22:28):
The acceptance is here's my ninety nine sense, and the consideration.
The acceptance is yes, I will buy it. The consideration,
that's the three elements. There has to be consideration. The
consideration in this case is the dollar bill you give them.
Without the consideration, an acceptance of an offer does not
a contract make.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
And the reason is.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Because you could say you accept, but you're not showing
that you accept. And that, my friends, is the first
week of contracts law at University of Texas in the
fall of nineteen ninety three, under the tutelage of the
Great Alan Scott Rail and that.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Is I'm gonna throw that one in free. Throw that
one in free.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
If you are interested in my allergy doctor. You can
see some of you are sending emails. I've asked them
for an email address. It's called Advanced Allergy or something.
It's over near It's over off of Wesland and bel Air,
bel Air slash Holcombe. If you remember where the old
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iw Marx used to be way back in the day.
It's about a block away from there on a street
called grammar Sya oddly enough, directly across the street, not
one hundred feet from where I was having my testing
done yesterday. I used to own a rundown old apartment complex,
a thirteen unit apartment complex. I sold it to a
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guy who sold it to a guy who built these big,
beautiful townhomes, and I mean beautiful townhomes that whole area has.
I don't want to call it gentrified because it was
very white before it, which is very Jewish, and now
it tends to be double income, no kid or kids
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because there's good public schools in that area. You know,
when you study real estate trends in a place like Houston,
you notice that there are pockets of homes that have
an outsized value relative to the region, and it's because
they feed into a good public school. Westbury would be
a great example. West u would be a great example,
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although west you had some other things going for it.
Brave's Heights would be an example. So you do see
a lot of families, just not in townhomes. You do
see a lot of families in those areas, and the
trade off is they will spend what they could spend
out in the suburbs. They will spend that on a
house because they don't have to send their kids to
private school. You know, they're spending I don't know what
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the prices are over there now, they're high. They're spending
one point five million on a house that they could
get in sugar Land for six hundred thousand.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
But if they did that inside.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
The Loop, that have to pay the exorbitant thirty thousand
a year on private schools, and they're not going to
do that, so they just plow it into their house
because it's a it's tax deduct wasn't mortgage right off,
and you're accumulating equity.
Speaker 5 (25:27):
And welcome to the lifestyles of the not so rich
and famous are as.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
I call it the Michael Barry Joe.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Possibly my greatest, the greatest five seconds of music from that.
Right there, you got the isolated guitar and then you
bring in the organ. Can you just rewind that so
I can have a little more of that?
Speaker 3 (25:59):
One more hit of.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
That, don't happen? Something golden along. Someone's on the phone.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Three o'clock in the moon.
Speaker 5 (26:25):
Talking about.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
She can his two thousand autobiography Take Me to the
River Our Green set of that song Love and Happiness
was like mixing explosive chemicals. Everything had to be added
at just the right time and it just the right ghost.
The tempo was the most important thing to Willie. And
if you listen close, you can hear teeny counting off
(26:50):
with his foot on a cardboard box.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
For the take that nailed cardboard box.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Brandan writes the craziest Asian store name here in Houston.
Whenever I first saw it, I did a triple take,
and then I had to choose who I showed it
to as I was worried about offending people. So please
read and review before saying on air. If you say
it on air, here it is, I'll spell it.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
It's a hair and skin care.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Spelled bich space n Ga yech in Ga. Molly Farina,
who came on our last Aspen trip. She's married to
Santa Claus true story, and they spend half their time
in Puerto Rico.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
Rights Zar. There are generations of Chinese immigrants in Puerto
Rico and have established the Borachina cuisine. I've tried it.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Yeah, there's a restaurant in San Juan named Ching Cream.
It's been there for years. But no, we have not
tried it, Darcy writes. In Katie's Asia Town, there is
I'll call.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
It Foe so that all the hipsters. He said, Now
that's fun, and then I'll call it foe. A restaurant
called Foe. Kay.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
She says, when we were in California, we went to
a i'll say fae restaurant called Faue King Way, hope
you get the jokes.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
I got to tell you the desire by some people
to pronounce pho as fu because that's say say it.
It'd be so proud to do that.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
It's not often that I want to hit people so
hard that their teeth fall back in their throat, but
that's sadly one of them. FBI Houston replies to Elon's
what did you do last week? Detailing the crazy week
they had. Here's what they posted during the last week.
FBI Houston and our partners. Number one arrested ten members
(29:01):
of a violent chapter of the Bandido's Outlaw motorcycle gang
on federal charges of murder and racketeering.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
Number two.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Worked with local law enforcement partners that's Larry Bainbridge, our
buddy over at SBISD to save a school from a
mass casualty attack planned by two teenagers. Number three helped
lock up a child predator for twenty four years after
he sex storted, sex storted, and produced child sexual abuse
material of young girls in multiple states. Number four searched
(29:32):
for a hondur and fugitive involved in the sale of
counterfeit Texas license plates which endangered lawful Texan drivers. And
number five continued to assist local law enforcement partners with
a triple homicide and arson investigation. Hey, FBI Houston, how
(29:54):
about a round of applause for these boys and girls?
What for you, FBI Houston? It must be nice. I
actually hear good things about the operation here from FBI
agents around the country.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
They tell me the FBI.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Houston location is actually is actually pretty buttoned up, pretty solid.
It's not what you hear about, you know, some of
the Andrew McCabe, Andrew McCabe, they've lost their mind. Oh,
I'm sorry I have not mentioned this yet. There's so
much happening. I can't keep up with it, between these
Asian names and my allergy doctor visit and some things
(30:29):
in a news Dan Bongino tapped by cash Pttel to
be his number two. He has the FBI the the
top brass criminals, alleged criminals. He has them on the run.
They are scared to death of Dan Bonging. He's not qualified.
(30:50):
He's not qualified. He's a secret service agent and he's
a cop. He has years of experience and a brain.
By qualified, they mean he hasn't done what we've done
our entire career. Lyndon Johnson had a famous story that
he told he went on the speech circuit after he
left the White House, and he had a great story
(31:11):
that he told about two guys that worked in his
office and one of them, I'm sorry, two guys that
worked in his administration when he was president, and one
of them had been part of the federal bureaucracy for
twenty two years, and the other one was an outside
guy who had worked for Lyndon Johnson for one year.
(31:33):
And he had a political appointment to make, and he
chose the guy who'd been in his office for one
year over the guy who believed he deserved it, who'd
been working for the federal government for twenty two years.
And the guy comes in and says, mister President, you
should have hired me. And he said why, And he said,
because I have twenty two years experience and he's only
(31:55):
got one.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
Or he's only got two, the guy two. And he said,
that's where you're he's.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Got two years experience, you've got one year's experience twenty
two times. And I have used that line many, many
times as a passive, aggressive way to tell people that
your longevity in a position does not necessarily translate into
growth and development and improved value. The idea of getting
(32:23):
a pay raise because you stayed a job another year
is anathema to me. Why should somebody make more money
working in an operation for twenty years than the guy
who has been there for one year. If the guy
who's been there for one year is contributing more, oh well,
you don't understand, Michael. I do understand this. When the
(32:47):
Tampa Bay Buccaneers brought Tom Brady down to the Buccaneers,
they paid him more than anyone else on the team.
You had players who'd been on that team for seven
or more years. They didn't say, well, Tom, I'm sure
you understand, but they've been Buccaneers longer than you have.
Because Tom Brady's value was assessed at the number they
(33:07):
paid him, and the value of the guy who was
on special teams was far less.
Speaker 6 (33:14):
See.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
The reason we don't have these conversations is people are
uncomfortable assigning value to things because they know that their
value is not as high as.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
An xt guy.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
Donald Trump is more valuable to the United States government
than Adam Schiff.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
Is you're comfortable saying that, right? Okay? Well, Adam Schiff
has worked.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
In the government for longer than Donald Trump. You get
that right, Okay? Well, how long you've been doing something.
This is where people don't understand the This is where
Thomas Soul comes in. People do not understand the basics
of economics, which is the ultimate study to apply to
almost everything you do. To value, to marketplace, to communicate,
(33:57):
to nonverbal communication through pricing, all of these things they
come up every single day. By the way, I see
your emails coming and I'll respond to your allergy.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
I'll hook you up.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
With this doctor colosso c O L L A c O.
Once the show's over, I'll connect those emails.
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