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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time time, time walking load. The Michael
Very Show is on the air. How you doing it?
This here is Shirley cue lickum. I didn't get narrow.

(00:23):
We could sleep last night.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
I tried and tossed and turned and count about fourteen
or fifteen sheeps. That's as high as I went. And
I start over, and I went in there and look
at TV. See if you know all them shows as
ignant ten eleven o'clock at ninety not on TV. Ted Coppolo,
sponge wig Head sitting up there asking questions on one

(00:48):
Cham and Jerry springing them. Holland and ire To saw
that episode yesterday, and then they got the Psychic Friends
and the Tarot lady owned and George Forman selling some
kind of real it's ignorant.

Speaker 3 (01:02):
You know who I mission was on at night and they've.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
Never had nobody as good as him before. You remember
that mcmaid and man was come out there in HOLLYWHEI
go shine.

Speaker 4 (01:14):
His shining Carson with his Inka eggs and dot Sepam
Fir is here with the maid. He drank a lot
of liquor, he smoked a lot of cigarette.

Speaker 5 (01:28):
He's no mine, he's saying always.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
Knowing to ask Johnny Hausson, who beat the guests hosts
up on you this week it could be.

Speaker 3 (01:38):
Almost eaty by.

Speaker 5 (01:42):
Siy did shouting me tick?

Speaker 2 (01:45):
They gave me such a feeling of class, Sure did.

Speaker 5 (01:49):
I never got to meet the man.

Speaker 3 (01:51):
He's a fine.

Speaker 5 (01:52):
Listen Shoini Cutson.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
The way you tell your mamma in my eager by.

Speaker 6 (02:05):
Bases, I came on from work at your mail box
for fun. Here's million dollars telling you already long we'll
see a super Bowl this susant Chelselard ticket from Ed

(02:30):
mcmaine and his buddy Dick Clark. Game so much funny
that he's so both of seen. Your ads are.

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Bitter going by magazine giving away money.

Speaker 5 (02:51):
All about Si.

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Bisher, rain House, Sence Brock the jus fan.

Speaker 5 (03:02):
Rain House, I way to the super Bowl see the.

Speaker 6 (03:12):
Man by the man who are person you sto man
and I play song song bad Church remember so round
what discovered that s are shirt? Well we get so

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much funny, it's all bost scene.

Speaker 5 (03:37):
Your ads are better.

Speaker 7 (03:39):
Win by the magazine given away money voting.

Speaker 6 (03:46):
All about see brought the shirt ring out something on
bus red.

Speaker 3 (03:58):
House Ramone who was the spokesman for publisher's clearing house

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back in the eighties. That is the answer most people
would give. The song you just heard by Todd DeRemer
Publisher's clearing House mentions Ed McMahon. Ed McMahon is the
person most people would assume was the spokesman for a

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publisher's clearinghouse, which was a big deal when I was
a kid. But he wasn't the spokesman. Don't feel bad, everybody.
Everybody remembers Ed McMahon as the spokesman. You have a
clear publisher's clearing house commerce. Okay, here we go. Ramone
has a Publisher's clear House commercial. Let's see if Ed
McMahon is in it.

Speaker 8 (05:03):
What's the new Publisher's Clearinghouse sweepstakes doing over there?

Speaker 3 (05:07):
Fluttering my disks?

Speaker 5 (05:08):
Don't you know you could win two million dollars those contest?

Speaker 3 (05:13):
That's what we used to think. This check is real.

Speaker 5 (05:16):
It's just a big come on.

Speaker 3 (05:18):
That's what I used to think. Do you know what
this side could be to you? Millions of dollars? So
stop making excuses.

Speaker 8 (05:24):
It's entered all what and only publishers clearing House sweep steaks?

Speaker 4 (05:27):
Yes, come on?

Speaker 3 (05:32):
If Ed McMahon was not the spokesman for Publisher's Clearinghouse.
Why do so many people remember him as having been
erroneously well? He went on with John Stewart years ago
and he was asked that question. Publishers here in clearinghouse? Right, No,
you show up with the it's not Publishers clear American.
What's Publisher's Clearinghouse? That's another company? What are you? That's

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our rival?

Speaker 9 (05:56):
Is that you're riding family American Family Publishers. Where American Family.
That's the scarehouse, Craig. Anybody can make a mistake. It
could happen to anybody.

Speaker 3 (06:14):
So why did I have to do with somebody who
knows Johnny Carson. No, it's American Family Publishers. We have rival.
It's like everything else. What did those guys giveaway?

Speaker 9 (06:23):
They gave away the same amount of money. You know
they they're on the Super Bowl. Everybody gets confused, So
don't feel badly so.

Speaker 3 (06:30):
Ed McMahon worked for American Family Publishers and not Publishers
clearing House.

Speaker 8 (06:36):
He is the secret folks of Where to Win the
biggest sweepstakes prize of all time. American giants Tim Blakeley
and Rebecca wright won millions of dollars. Now you can
win ten million dollars only from American family. No other
sweepstakes with the prize this big. I will personally award
this giant cash fortune. Be sure to enter the sweepstakes

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with my picture millions and millions of dollars all for you.

Speaker 3 (07:04):
What's crazy is we do this story about once every
ten years, and even then I go, oh, I didn't
realize that, but we've done the story before. I then
forget it again. I go back to publisher's clearinghouse going bankrupt.
One Oregon family who won an annual six figure quote
unquote forever payment says the company stopped paying. Wall Street

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Journal reports this February Tomorrow and Matthew veach, we're expecting
their annual six figure Publisher's clearing House forever prize payment
to arrive, as it had for the past four years.
It never came. The couple, both disabled Army veterans from
Cottage Grove, Oregon, reached out to the sweepstakes operator and
were told that the payment just under two hundred thousand
dollars after tax for tomorrow's annuity prize would resume in

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July on a quarterly schedule. Then in April, Publishers Clearinghouse
file for bankruptcy, listing ten prize winners among its largest
unsecured creditors. Court record show eight of those were owed
more than two million each, though their names were redacted
for privacy, and the promised July payment to tomorrow felled
to arrive. ARB Interactive, which brought PCH out of bankruptcy

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for seven million in July, would only honor prizes awarded
after July fifteenth. The beaches were told, can you imagine
say it again? That's why I had so guitar probably
out of tune.

Speaker 5 (08:28):
Now you might have to edit that.

Speaker 3 (08:30):
This is Mark Chestnut and jar the czar of Talk
Radio ontel Man. Those harmonies. It's just what a time,
what a time. The oak Bridge Boys, the Everly Brothers, Sattlers,

(08:51):
so many of those great harmonies. Harold Reid of the
Statler Brothers born on this day in nineteen thirty nine.
He would co write many of their hits, including Bed
of Roses, do you Know You Are My Sunshine? Some
great songs. Great band right there, absolutely great band right there.
I think one of the Everly Brothers was born on

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this data. You had no don Everly died of a
heart attack at eighty four, four years ago today on
this day. Celebrity birthdays today, Harold Reid, Kenney Rogers, Hugh
Wilson who created WKRP in Cincinnati from seventy eight to

(09:33):
eighty two, that ran on CBS. That was that was
a phenomenal, phenomenal show. So I had the crew over
to our house last night, and that consisted of the
King of Dane, Ramon Robles, executive producer Chatticoni Nakanishi, creative director,

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Jim Mudd, and under untitled Darrowayne Kunda. I like that.
That's good, that's clever. I like that, yes, and Emily
Bull because Emily is part of the show team technically,
so are Rachel, Sandy and Chance. But I tried to
keep this one a little bit tight. We were a
little overdue. And so anyway, we're having dinner and Jim

(10:29):
makes a reference to the Turkey Drop, which is by
far the most famous episode on w k RP in Cincinnati,
and every radio junkie, and you know, everybody in this group,
everybody in the group other than me, grew up in radio.
These guys have been mashing buttons and listening to radio
and making radio their entire adult lives and as children

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dreaming of getting to do it. So yes, we all
know this episode. And Jim makes reference several times too.
When he worked with Josh Inness, which is where I've
discovered him. He was Ramone to Josh Ennis on the
Josh Ennis Show, and he was talking about wanting to
do the WKRP in Cincinnati turkey drop, and Josh was

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worried it was gonna get them in trouble, and so
they went back and forth and they were gonna do
it Thanksgiving and it didn't happen. And then somewhere along
the way, Ramone said, wait a second, you're talking about
doing actually dropping turkeys. You're not just talking about playing
it or making a bit.

Speaker 5 (11:28):
And did they They.

Speaker 3 (11:29):
Didn't do it? Is that what happened? They didn't do it, Ramon,
They did not do the turkey drop, but they were gonna.
So what was the thing he did in Mac's parking
lot where he's driving the steamroller? Do you remember what
that was about? That was part of the turkey Okay?
So oh, I see, Jim got to drive a steamroller

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in the parking lot at Gallery furniture and Mac was
really into this. He was enjoying it. Apparently a great deal,
and Mack was bringing out stuff for him trash. And
so when when Gallery Furniture delivers your furniture, if you
want them to, they will take your couch. Like if

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you don't have illegal aliens in your neighborhood or that
drive through your neighborhood for looking for garage sales and hubcaps.
Then you so people put their couch out, you know,
next to the road, which is the universal symbol for
steal this because I consent, so you know, there's no malice.
Just take the couch. It's trash, but you don't care.

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So if you live in a neighborhood where you don't
have people who come in and you know, circle a
drain looking for stuff that you've put out or maybe
you haven't, but they can get a five finger discount
on then Mac instructs the guys to take the furniture away,
which is a service. I mean people like that. And
so he ends up with furniture that he can't use.

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He'll donate it. He'll you know, usually he donates it
because obviously it's not me sold. So he says to Jim,
you want me to get some stuff for you to
run over, and Jim has little stuff for him to steamroll,
and Jim is when he's in character, he's in character,
so of course at this moment he can't say no

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because I am fearful that I'll tip this thing over
and kill myself. So Jim is all, yes, bring it all,
and apparently Matt goes in and with a team of people,
starts bringing out increasingly bigger items, whereupon Jim has to steamroll,
he has to drive over them, and he said, I

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realized there's a line of things coming out, and the
first few are not going to be that bad, but
they're increasingly getting bigger. And he's thinking, I don't want
to tap out, you know, because this whole thing is
being filmed, it's being live streamed. Oh, people are going
to give you hell because every redneck watching is out
here going do that.

Speaker 5 (13:57):
Why'd you quit?

Speaker 8 (13:58):
You what?

Speaker 3 (14:00):
And so at some point there was an item that
was very big but not spread out sufficiently. So it
was a taller item, but it had enough structural integrity
that it didn't immediately collapse, and so as Jim went
to go over it, I guess you know, you kind
of want to imagine you would high center on these things,

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and that's the goal. You know, you hit it straight
on and that would be the least worst alternative. But
he hits it slightly to the side. You know, this
is evil and evil not hitting the ramp properly. And
he goes a little bit to the side, and he said,
he turned that thing on its side as he's going
and he knows that if this thing turns over on him,
it's he's going to get steamrolled and it's going to

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be very, very bad. But it didn't. And that was
his story. And we all had a good laugh and
a good time and much mirth was made and merriment
and yeah, so so that was Can I tell what
you did last nighter? You don't want me to tell that, Ramon?

(15:05):
Can I tell what you did last nighter? You don't
want me to tell it? Do not tell it? Okay,
Ramone did something, but I can't tell y'all what it was.

Speaker 5 (15:13):
You sure.

Speaker 3 (15:16):
Well? Now people are now I'm going to get a
bunch of people asking me. Can I just tell just
a little bit? Okay, I'll say, Emily did Ramone instructs Emily.
Emily wears many hats on the show, and one of
them is she's our personal assistant. We're going to break now.

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So he instructs her to go get those Native Spirit
cigarettes so he can smoke last night in my smoking room.
But like we're this is not classy cigars cigarette. So
there he is smoking cigarettes. We had everybody with me
smoking cigarettes like NASA's first civilian astronaut was named Neil Armstrong.

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NASA's second civilian astronaut was named Elliot c NASA's third
civilian astronaut was Walt Cunningham, a celebrated legend of a man.

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The official photo of Baut Cunningham from nineteen sixty four
that NASA uses has him with a flattop, standing serious
but not overly stern, with a model mock up lunar

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module in his hand, looking like an astronaut should look.
He was a lunar module islot on the Apollo seven
mission in nineteen sixty eight, and while he was born
in Iowa and went to high school in Los Angeles,

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the school auditorium is now named for him. Like many
sports figures, businessman astronauts who came to Houston to train
with NASA ended up calling Houston home a lot of people.
Ramona and I were having a smoke out in public

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the other day at a little smoking lounge, and there
was a guy named Mo Morris. Is that his name?
Get his name? He's one of the Texans ambassadors, And
I forget where he said he's from, but he's not
from Houston. He retired in Houston with the Houston Texans,

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much like Indie Kalou and a lot of a lot
of folks and just stayed here. They liked Houston more
than they expected to. So Walt Cunningham, an absolute legend
of space exploration. He passed two years ago and he

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his widow called my friend Vinnie Tortorello and Muscle Cars
of Texas this morning and said, Hey, Walt had this
great Vet Corvette that he absolutely adored, and I would

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like to give it to you and like to donate
it to you for your auction. Vinnie's doing when it
twenty ninth and thirtieth with that, that's not this weekend,
that's next weekend, thirties. Next weekend he's doing the Galveston
Classic Car auction. And then September sixth and seventh, a

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week later, he's doing the Moody Cars Sorry Moody Gardens
Car Show. And you know, if you're Vinnie and you've
you've been restoring cars your entire life, you love the
restoration process. You love He sends me pictures of projects,
and corvettes are one of the areas that he's He's

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won all these awards for, you know, nineteen sixties corvettes.
He does all cars, not just muscle cars. But that's
one of the things forty five years this guy's been
doing this. It's one of the things that that is
a is a deep, deep passion of his. So he
gets the call that she wants to donate Walt Cunningham's.

Speaker 9 (19:55):
Vet.

Speaker 3 (19:56):
I think it's donate. Maybe she's just saying put it
in the auction, sell it. I don't know where the
I don't know the proceeds go to her or the
proceeds go to charity. I may have gotten that part
of it wrong. I just know that Vinnie is over
the moon and it makes what's uh oh, no pun intent? No,
you know what, I'm going to pretend there was a

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pun intended. That's very clever romon. Okay, I'll do it.
So you know, Vinnie, I mean, this guy's he's owned
his own muscle cars or Texas shop, doing vets, for
doing corvettes and muscle cars and every other kind of
restoration for forty five years. It's really nice to see
him so excited like a kidney candy store. I mean,

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he is over the moon, thank you. Anyway. His voice
is shaking with excitement, just thrilled out of his mind.
And you know, if nothing excites you any more, if
nothing thrills you anymore, you're partly dead. You gotta find things,

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you gotta find joy in things. And it's just cool
because if you're Vinni Tortorella, every day somebody's bringing in
some cool vehicle that your job is to make more cool.
Right after a while, you get used to that, right,
But to see him this thrilled about this anyway. So

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his his auctions are coming up the Galveston one on
twenty ninth and thirtieth, Moody Gardens the following week, the
sixth and seventh, and he's Muscle Cars of Texas dot Com.
His wife jan answers the phone when you call, it's
seven one three seven seven seven, nineteen fifty seven, which
reminds me Ramon. When I was a kid, my two

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dream cars were a nineteen fifty seven Chevy, fifty seven Chevy.
That was it, man. I think that was in American graffiti,
the fifty seven Chevy, that black fifty seven Chevy with
the flames on the back. And I'm sure there are
more details to that car. But I'm a person who
enjoys looking at cars and driving cars. I don't know

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what's under the hood. I admit it. I get my
years confused. So there's cars are like guns and a
number of other things people love to call. You got
that wrong by one percent? Okay, thank you. Do you
feel better now? I hope today is a really important
day in your life. Yes, I got that wrong. So
I don't know any details other than it was called
a fifty seven Chevy. In fact, I don't even know

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what model it is, right, it was always referred to.
I think my dad loved fifty seven Chevies, and that
must have been why I'll ask him today. That must
have been why I had a love for fifty seven Chevies,
and my mother loved sixty five Mustangs, so I grew
to have a love affair with sixty five Mustangs, and

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so I can remember. My brother wouldn't go on vacation
with us. He was too cool for school once he
reached a certain age, so he would stay back during
the summer. He was girl crazy too. He was sixteen
seventeen and I was twelve. I loved going on vacation
with my parents, and our vacation consisted of getting the
car and just driving, and we'd go places, and we'd
stay at the holiday inn, which paid for itself because

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we restock our towels and we're low on towels go
on vacation, and my dad would find car shows and
we would go. The three of us would go to
car shows. So before my mom passed, she gave me
all the photos in the house, and I boxes and
boxes and boxes, and I love to go through them.
Anybody that follows me on Facebook knows that I love

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to enjoy memories of photos, and I'm always looking for
some photo or another, and while I'm looking, I come
across stuff and I just post it randomly because it
makes people crazy and I enjoy it. But there's all
these pictures of us at old car shows. So I
always tell Vinie Tordarelli if I ever leave radio, coming
to muscle cars, attection walk, counting him fat. That's a story.

Speaker 5 (24:04):
Uri show.

Speaker 3 (24:15):
Awsome put the bottle out of her turn donuts in
the back on the lawnmower.

Speaker 6 (24:30):
They call us country punkins for sticking to our rooms.

Speaker 5 (24:34):
I'm just glad we're in a country.

Speaker 3 (24:37):
Well, we're all.

Speaker 5 (24:38):
Free to choose. I was country. I was country.

Speaker 3 (24:42):
What contry was a cool?

Speaker 1 (24:48):
Hey?

Speaker 9 (24:48):
I was contrast.

Speaker 5 (24:53):
Wasn't all this country down a great moment?

Speaker 3 (25:11):
Okay?

Speaker 5 (25:12):
I did not know this. Did you know?

Speaker 3 (25:15):
There's a thing between astronauts and corvettes? Michael Robinson, of
all people sent this to me. The astronaut corvette in quotes,
refers to a symbolic relationship between astronauts and corvettes that
began in the sixties. The connection started when Alan Sheppard,

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the first American in space, received a nineteen sixty two
corvette as a gift after his return. GM saw a
marketing opportunity and arranged for astronauts to lease corvettes for
a dollar a year. Six of the seven Project Mercury
astronauts took the deal, including Gordon Cooper, Buzz Aldrin, and

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Gus grissolm My friend Michael Robinson writes, astronauts and corvettes
go together like peas and carrots. It started with the
Mercury Project and continued through Apollo and even today. And
he sent some photos of the astronauts in there in
their Pillsbury Doboy outfits. What do you call those things?

(26:20):
Mister Goodyear? Mister uh uh? What's mister good What was
the good Year Blimm michelin Man outfit? I don't know
what those out what the astronaut outfits are called actually anyway,
So I guess there's there's an even bigger It's not
just that it was Walt Cunningham's corvette. It's that the corvettes,
and for for car geeks, the kind of person that's

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going to buy that corvette is going to know that
history already, that that's going to be well known. We
should ask Mike Matchis at lone Star Chevy. We should
tell him that we're astronauts and he should give us
a corvette. He won't know, how would he know, He's
so busy. I walked in to visit him Tuesday of

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this week and he's got what do you call these?
These stickers? Post it notes everywhere different colors mean different things.
And I said, what are you working on? He said,
all your people. I said, what do you mean? He said, well,
I got a charity that wants to buy a van,
but they got a low budget, and I'm trying to

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find them a van on their budget that I know
will be good. And I couldn't find one anywhere. I
had to go to Pennsylvania. I had to look. I
had to find the van in Pennsylvania. I had it delivered.
It just arrived an hour ago. If you can hang around,
these people are listeners of yours. They bought it for
their charity, and I was able to get lower than

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the price they gave me as the ceiling or what
they paid, so they're very happy with me.

Speaker 9 (27:52):
Right now.

Speaker 3 (27:52):
I said, okay, give me a note. So another guy,
I don't remember what his was, what he was buying,
it's not all new. He does moves a lot of
used cars as well. I said, Mike, you're the general
manager of this whole big operation. You're the master of
all you surveil. And he said, yeah, but you give

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out my cell phone number, and when someone calls me,
they don't want to call Mike Bachis. They can't believe
they got the GM on the phone and then I go, here,
my guy's going to take care of you, so I
got to take care of your people. I said, oh,
I'm really going to give the cell phone nowt Now,
I mean, that's that's first class right there. Barbara Mandrel

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born on Christmas Day in nineteen forty eight in Houston, Texas.
They would end up moving to Corpus CHRISTI but all
three of the girls, Louise and Geene what knowing not
Maria quits Louise, and I had the hots for Louise

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Irene I believe it's Irene as the other one. But
I think all three of the girls were born in Houston,
and then they moved to Corpus. Barbara Mandrel, I'll bet
you played more instruments than any country woman singer to
ever have a top one hundred song in history. You know,

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Dolly played a lot of instruments, but Barbara Mandreau, man
what Karen Carpenter was an amazing drummer. Wow, you just
I don't know where that came from. You have really
contributed like two times today. This is amazing. So tex
Crowley writes stuff on the curb. You were talking about

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stuff on the curb earlier. What's hard to get rid
of is a portable basketball goal. Now think about this,
the type with a heavy plastic bass and two wheels
on one end, whereas one may tilt the goal over
to allow transport around the driveway. Hours blew over in
a storm a while back put a sizeable dent in
the fender of my beloved seventy seven Chevy Silverado. I

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marked it for removal, but it dawned on me. If
I just set it on the curb, people would think
it's still in use. This morning, I finally disassembled it
and placed it on the curb in pieces. I made
sure to put all the nuts, bolts and spacers in
a double lined A HB bag on top of the pile.
It's big trash pickup day here in College Station. Y'all

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have a couple hours left to find it if you
want it, to take it and rebuild it. Text, that's
quite the dilemma if you think about it. Honey, I
know you hate that basketball goal, and the kids are
thirty two years old and hadn't been used in fifteen years.
But it's all right with you. I'm gonna give it away.
Old text. Nobody wants that old thing.

Speaker 5 (30:43):
Yeah, they do.

Speaker 3 (30:44):
The illegals. The illegals will take anything. They don't play basketball, well,
they'll practice their shots, they'll kick soccer balls into do
what you want with it. I'm glad to see you
get rid of it. All right, I'll put it out
at the curb. Two weeks. All the neighborhood kids are
playing basketball next to your driveway, and you can't get

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rid of the goal that the whole point was to dump.
And now all day you got the banging the basketball dribbling. Well,
that'll get on your last good nerve. You see some
kid out in public and they got some kind of
ball and they can't stop bouncing. Their kids won't, their
parents won't make them