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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time time time, lock and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
The Michael Verie Show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
So for those of you who remember the Yah Yah
Mary's location on the loop at sam Phillippi. The Houston Journal,
the Houston Business Journal is reporting the Lombardy family Concepts.
That's Alberto Lombardy is planning a new Greek restaurant in
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what was a Greek restaurant. It was the Yah Yah
is apparently what the Papas boys called their grandmother, which,
as I understand it, I'm no expert on the matter,
is a very common term for grandmother among Greeks.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
It is it will be.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Called Elias Stiatio at forty seven forty seven San Philippy.
If I have to take my glasses off to read
the letters because they're not intuitive and it's not easy
to pronounce for me, that's going to be a problem.
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There used to be a Chinese restaurant that was located
at West Gray, just east of Shepherd, about two blocks
if you know where Brassery nineteen is. Just to the
east of that, there's a Kroger there that there there
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was one building in between.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
It's been torn down.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Now it's a high rise and and Alberto Lombardi, oddly enough,
has a Chinese restaurant there called chin Wa. It's fantastic
restaurant where that is right now? That used to be
a place and I cannot remember the name, and I
could never remember the name. They ended up making it,
I think Cafe Ginger, but before that they gave it
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some name that was so awkward and so hard to
remember that I would just tell people they'd ask for,
you know, hey, where's a good record. I like China Garden.
China Garden, easy to remember, Leland right across from Toyota Center.
That's pretty straightforward, right, But if people would ask for
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two or three Chinese restaurants, I would say, well, that's
a that's a real high end Chinese restaurant. It's in
between Brassrit nineteen and it might have actually been that
might have been Tony Mandola's Gulf Coast Kitchen back then,
which is where Brassrey nineteen became. Is that many years ago,
but there was a great Chinese restaurant and nobody could
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ever remember the name, and it was the oddest name,
and so anyway, I did not realize it was going
to have such a weird name.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Elias Sta Torrio.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
St.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
TiO.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Okay, all right, Alberto didn't ask my opinion on how
to name the restaurant. I don't understand. I never have
understood making your place less accessible by a decision you make.
Make the name easy, make the parking easy, make the
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access in and out of the main road to get
there easy. Put it in a place that's easy to find,
make it easy to get in the door. These these
are things that I'm not the genius on the issue,
but for me, these are things that kind of just
generally make sense. Tampon Timmy Waltz is now defending the
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governor of Minnesota is now defending the fact that he
pardoned a convicted sex offender, a guy that was diddling children.
He pardoned him so that he wouldn't be deported, and
then Marco Rubio and DHS deported him anyway. And this
is what Tampon Timmy had to say. You imagine this
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little girl who was raped by this man. I think
she's ten years old. And then he said, no, no, no,
pardon him of the crime, so you can't keep him
out of the country. And this is what Tampon Timmy said.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Did that make us any safer.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Did that make the children that are left behind any
more stable?
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Did it improve the idea that we can't all be
judged by our worst day? And I want to be
very clear, these are horrific crimes.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
They often are.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
We can't all be judged by our worst day.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Yeah you can.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
If your worst day was raping a ten year old, yeah,
we're gonna judge you for the rest of your life
for that. If your worst day is a mass murder,
we're not old Pastor Jones.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
You know, Jim was a good man.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Now he had that one day and the kool aid
and all that, you know, but let's you know, let's
not judge him by this kind this. These people are psychotic.
They are truly psychotic. And when you understand that, you
realize liberalism is not harmless. These are people that if
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your family member is a victim of an illegal alien, rape, murder, torture,
it doesn't matter that yesterday you were their protected class.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Of Hispanic Spanish speaking poor welfare. It none of that matters.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
You're not useful to them at this moment. And that's
how they play ball. There are no principles, no convictions,
there is no decency there is no honor. I don't
know if you've seen this story of the gay crews.
It's been denied entry into Turkey and Egypt, and that
these countries are going no, no, we don't want to
uch gay dudes here, But surprise, Governor Minnesota has thoughts
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on that subject as well.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Hello friends, Jimmy Walls here in lovely Minnesota. My favorite
time of the year. By the way, July we're up
to a balmy seventy two degree, which means I get
to take out my sini. Some people are into the
big vessels, not me. I love my little dinghy. Now,
as you know how, Minnesota is the land of ten
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thousand legs, so many to choose.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
My favorite Johnson Lake.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
It's quiet, discreet, and a perfect little getaway to do
whatever makes you happy. AnyWho, while I'm aboard the Walls
Rainbow Regatta, I've got a chime in on this Egypt
and Turkey situation of denying the LGBTQ plus cruises from docking.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
At their ports. Are you nuts now?
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Egypt, let me tell you you've never known the level
of joy that you experience when you let a ship
of gay men enter your port. It's thrilling, not just
the tip of the dock either. You allow those men
to enter your ports fully. Now I'm just your rugged
old ball coach, So I'm no expert on this subject.
But I hear gay men love a good Egyptian leather jacket,
maybe some tight leather pants to go in. So I'm
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told by my constituents, I love the Chris Bear out
here makes me miss Gilligan's Island. What a great show.
You know, A lot of people love Ginger and Marianne.
I was more of a professor guy. Just something about
him drew me into that show. Oh look at the time,
I gotta get this dingy doctor, or i'man to Mi's
brunch with my bowie friends.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Shown like Whobery Show.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
There's a funny arc to the opinion of some people
toward Elton John because they didn't like Elton John because
he's gay and he like, he's unashamed of it, he's
not hiding it, and and so they're you know, if
Elton John's name came up, there's a certain set of
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people who would not say, wow, soundtrack of my life. Wow,
an incredible number of great songs that I have loved.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
They go Homo.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Yeah, but super time Homo just know just Homo, Okay.
And then rush Limbaugh gets married, pays Elton John million
bucks to perform in his living room, and Elton John
gets all this criticism from the left, and they said.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Why did you perform for rush Limbaugh? And he said,
because he paid me.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
But he's a monster, He's I'm not playing new Yar games.
I don't ask the politics of the people who enjoy
my music. He's a huge fan of my music, and
it was his big moment, and he was willing to
pay my freight to entertain, and the.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Audience was lovely. Was his work, The audience was lovely.
That's what I do for a living.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
You do you?
Speaker 2 (09:56):
I do what I make music for fans.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
That's what I did.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Then all of a sudden, there were people who used
to tell me they hated Elton Johnny decide that his
music didn't change. What do you care who he sleeps with.
You don't want to sleep with him. I can't imagine
anybody would. But man, he can sing a song. If
Bernie Topin writes it, he can sing it. And he
can sing with no doubt about that. Well, there's been
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a story in the news you may have seen. I
don't think it's received top billing. But there was a
gay cruise and it was cruising around and I guess
it was set to doc in Turkey, and Turkish authorities said.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Uh uh no, you're not coming in.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
They said that the group who chartered it is quote
known for a behavior that does not align with the
values and moral standards of our society. The passengers said.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Well, you're not letting us.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
They're angry that the countries did not let them quote
be celebrated for who they are. We thought it would
be a great opportunity for those people in those countries
to also experience what it's like outside of the rest
of the world, where people can be free and be
celebrated for who they are. That's what one of the
guys on the cruise who's from Miami said. The cruise
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is called Virgin Voyages Scarlet Lady lgbt Q plus that's
a long name. I think Virgin is more the corporate
name than an adjective than a reference to sex. Because
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there have been several posts from gay dudes talking about, hey,
look these things are pretty raucous, so they're turned away
from Turkey, and so they set sail for Egypt, and
Egypt said, no, we're not going to do it either.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Well, my only thought on the matter is this is
a reminder.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
When you hear left wing activist nuts talking about how
hard it is to be gay in this country, it's
a lie. There are countries where you're murdered for being gay.
But the left doesn't want to criticize the Muslims, which
is where these countries are, by the way, Muslim countries,
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because the Muslims are now the heart and soul of
the Democrat Party, the Socialists and the Muslims, which, as
it turns out, work out well together, and so the
left doesn't want to criticize any so they will say
of Christians, you.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Hate gays and you hate women.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
No, actually the place that represses women and murders gays
is Muslim countries. But you won't dare say that, will you,
And of course the answer is no, they won't, and
they don't, which makes them liars. Now, I'm not saying
you necessarily have to approve of what they're doing on
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the cruise, or that you have to approve that docking
next to you, but I think the thing to note
is that these countries took a very harsh stance and
don't care what anybody else thinks about it.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
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Speaker 2 (15:04):
I was thinking we should ask gay Dave his thoughts.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
On this, But I don't know if that's a good idea,
because we're getting a lot of hate from the gay
contingent of our audience that Gay Dave has now become
the self appointed spokesman for all gayety, and they think
that's not fair. You know, I didn't realize he was
our guest the other day he called in. I forgot
he was a Capitol Police officer for six years. Did
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you remember that, Jim. He mentioned that he was a
Border Patrol agent, but he spent six years as a
Capital Police officer.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Did not realize that.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Every day I get an email from David Malsby, the
executive director of the PTSD Foundation of America, which is
Camp Hope, and it's somebody who's done something nice for
our veterans, and he knows I like to hear this.
Sometimes I'll call the people. Sometimes I'll send him an email.
Sometimes I'll mention him on air. So there's a restaurant
called Tumble twenty two. It's a chicken sandwich, chicken strips,
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salads with chicken I think they have three Houston locations
there from outside of Houston, but they did something on
their menu. They they did a sandwich of the month
for PTSD awareness. They wrote a check for twenty two
d dollars in a small matter to Camp Pape.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Tumble twenty two Michael Berry's show. We're not a.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Breaking news show because I like to be right rather
than being first. But there is a rumored trade that
is being well rumored that has already been done with
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regard to the Houston Astros. But since we're not a
breaking news show, I won't tell you what it is.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Do you want to know what it is? Jim?
Speaker 3 (16:53):
You like McTaggart, I do too, So is he not
writing for the Chronicle anymore? Well, it's being recorded. It's
being reported that Brian McTaggart of MLB dot com was
the first to report this news, which you would expect
because he's really tied in with the Astros and seemingly
a super cool guy. I don't know if he is
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or not, but I've heard that he's always been very
nice to me and Chandler Rome at The Atlantic announced
it after McTaggart first reported. It is that Lance mccullors
would go to the Milwaukee Brewers. Apparently mccullurs waived his
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no trade clause to make the deal with the Brewers happen,
and they're going to let's see mlb' Johnahan. A left
handed picture Colton Gordon would be included in the deal
to Milwaukee. It would be the second deal between the
two clubs in less than a week. The Brewers acquired
infielder Brayden Shoemake from the Astro, sending back cash considerations
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in the deal. If we ever traded you, Jim, where
would you want us to trade you? You ever thought
about that? We got you on waivers from the Josh
Innis Show, but I would be interested to know where
you would want to I mean, I'm not saying we're
going to trade Joe, just saying if we did trade you, well,
while you think about that. This was this morning's message
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from David Malsby. Over the weekend, the committee down at
the Sons of the American Legion Convention met, and let
me tell you, some incredible patriots stood in the gap
for our nation's heroes. They presented several checks to camp
Hope every single dime goes straight to the frontline battle
against the invisible wounds of war, but they didn't stop
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where there. Over the weekend, that committee voted on a massive,
game changing decision, officially naming the PTSD Foundation of America
and Camp Hope as their approved recipient for member donation funds.
Moving forward, they are passing the torch and there is
no organization more qualified, more dedicated, or more effective at
saving veteran lives. To every member of the Sons of
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the American Legion who stood up and made this happen
over the weekend, thank you. You just changed the trajectory
of thousands of combat veterans' lives. You back to Camp Hope,
you back the PTSD Foundation of America, and you proved
once again that when our warriors come home, they are
never ever forgotten. Get behind them, folks, This is the
good stuff. The fellow's name is Max Maxwell with the
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Sons of the American Legion. For people who I've often
asked the question, why do I mention PTSD Foundation of America,
Because Camp Hope is the facility the charitable organization.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
I hate the word.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Charity with regard to our veterans who have earned our support,
but from a tax deductible perspective, it has to be
classified as a charitable organization. That organization is the PTSD
Foundation of America. The facility where the Russell le Barrow
Home for the Heroes is, where the chow hal is,
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where the Jonathan Kimp Weight Room is, where the houses
are that they live, where the buses are that take
themto medical appointments, where Paul Baker goes out and plays
concerts for the guys. That is that facility. That home
is known as Camp Hope. That's where they stay for
six months till they're back on their feet and ready
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to re enter the world, stronger, better, ready for the
challenges of the war, and changed they are. They are
changed people when they re enter the world, and it's
a beautiful, wonderful thing. And so many of you over
the years have made that happen and I am incredibly
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grateful for that.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
You are.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
You are just fantastic. So thank you to the sons
of the American Legion. Thank you to.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Tumble twenty two, which I guess is a chicken restaurant.
I think what happened is that Todd Graves, with raising canes,
showed the market for chicken tenders, and he just I mean,
I guess before that you had Chick fil A show
in the market for chicken sandwiches, and then you see
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the market for chicken tenders, and then the Chicken Wings
is its own deal, Big City Wings. They're not presently
a sponsor, but there are friends and they've been a
sponsor for years and they just keep growing. You see Pluckers.
I don't know where Pluckers is from. You see Lanes,
which is another one of those. I think it's kind
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of a Raising Canes competitor. That is a very very
booming business. I read the other day that Todd Graves
was worth I don't know if this is right. Brian
McMackin gave me this data point, and if it's wrong,
if you know Brian, contact him. But he told me
that he read that Todd Graves is worth twenty two
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billion dollars. I said, there's no way that's what it said.
I mean, sometimes they factor these figure these things all wrong.
I also did not realize this is what Brian mckintond me.
So if this is not true, I'm not the idiot
he is. That there are over nine hundred locations. Now
you believe that Jim over nine hundred. That's almost twenty
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locations per state. And you got to figure they don't
have one in Alaska. Right, that's a lot of raising canes.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Man.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
I don't know how many McDonald's there are, but you're
starting to get into some significant, significant number of locations
when you get up that high.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
That's that's crazy. That is a number that is that
is staggering to me.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
But in any case, Tumble twenty two is I guess
they have three locations in the Greater Houston area. And
what I love about that is they didn't ask me
to promote it. They didn't ask me for anything. They
showed up at Camp Hope and said, hey, for the
last month, our featured sandwich was the Camp Hope Chicken
sandwich or whatever it is, and we sold X number
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of these and so here's a check for twenty two
hundred dollars out of nowhere.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
So I do love to hear about those things.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Every single day I am hit up by somebody who says, hey,
mention my store, and for every I to my cell, I'll.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Give a couple of pennies to Camp Hope.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
So okay, so I'll be your marketing department, and out
of all this extra money you make, you'll kick a
little No, that's okay, that's okay. Russell Atbarrow gave millions
of dollars to Camp Hope before I ever knew anything
that was going on, and so yes, I will promote that,
But it was never a i'll do this if you'll
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do it. And that's not to say that that I'm
not trying to help every business succeed.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
I am.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
It's tough out there. It is to say there's a
limited bandwidth, and I want to make sure that what
we do is getting the maximum good, the maximum number
of dollars and helping our show sponsors.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
You know, it's funny. Eddie Martinez taught me over twenty.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Years to have tough conversations, whether as a boss or
a friend or in a transaction, sometimes you have to
just be able to say that somebody's saying, hey, look
I'm going to give preference to my show sponsors. I'm
going to put Americans over people in foreign countries.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Yeah that's who. Yeah, I'm good with that.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
I got an email this morning from Jenna Martin that said,
good morning, Zar, Well, I think you would want to
know that Lamar Little League won the state championship last
night in Paarland by defeating West University Little League seven
to nothing. We will now be playing in regionals in
Waco beginning August sixth. FYI Lamar went three and oh
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by wins over Western Hills Little League and Bridge City
Little League. Let's hope we went in Waco and head
to the Little League World Series.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Go Lamar.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Jenna Martin Grammy to Easton Martin number twelve, Well, congratulations Lamar.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Li League.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Little League is one of the great joys in life,
and it's always fun every year to root for the
local teams, whether they be Postoke or Nadville or Needville
comes up a lot Pairland Parlan's litt League Baseball is
so big in Perland. They've got at least two little
leagues down there and one or the other seems to
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go to the championship every other year. That's a that's
a juggernaut down there.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
In Paarland.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
West University bel Air won the national championship. It's been
a few years, but they won a national championship. I'm
trying to think of who else around here is.
Speaker 5 (26:03):
No.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
I can't think who else, but there's some other really,
really good little leagues in the area. Who did you
say was on hole, Cheryl, You're on the Michael Berry.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Show, gleead.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
Oh.
Speaker 6 (26:13):
Yes, this whole thing shows a lack of respect for
our country. You've been in here thirty five years. Every
day you wake up, you know you are illegal. You
start a business and you have those people are illegal workers,
and when the cops are behind you, you have a
total disrespect for the law as usual. That's part of
your makeup. And you're not going to pull over. You
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are going to attempt to evade the law. And now
people are getting shot and everybody's surprised. But when I
was growing up in the nineteen fifties and sixties, you
were in danger of being shot if you did not
pull over, and people just used to pull over immediately.
But nobody does that anymore. When the light goes on,
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they just I mean they just got it and go.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
It's completely how you're raised. Thank you for the call, Cheryl.
Speaking of little league and names, I saw a I
saw a post, actually got it from Chance McClain and
I want to see if I could find it here.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
It was about.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
The James tell Rico campaign.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Put up a put up signs and they used the
Chilean flag instill the Texas flag. James tell Errico for
I guess he's running for senator in Chile. Or they
don't know the difference between the Chilean flag and Texas flag,
either because they're not from here.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Or they would never want to they would never wanted
to display the Texas flag until they needed your.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
Your vote.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Anyway, somebody asked me what the books were I bought
for ramone, and I will tell you because I posted
a picture of them.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
I brought it. I bought in this pen because he
wanted it.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
It's called a black wing matt In pencil or something,
and he said it writes like a crayon. And he
really likes it because when he marks things up, you know,
documents and show prep and things, he likes to use
that one because he likes the feel of the we
call it the action, the feel of the the nib
on the paper.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
I don't like.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
He likes the uh, the fatter lead or fatter fatter
application that that tends to kind of be a softer
touch to the paper. I like the point five pintel
because I like it to be very sharp, and I'm
very very tight that way.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Anyway.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
So the books I bought him were Paul McCartney Wings
It's it's McCartney's telling them, made documentary out of it.
You might have seen it it, you might have seen it.
It's about his years post Beatles with the band. After that,
and then I bought him Confederacy of Duneis because he
had not read it, which just shocked me.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
And then I read I bought him a biography of.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Stanley Kubrick because he loves Kubrick's movies and he had
not read this, this, this, And in case you saw
what I posted, I bought him something else that he
wants to read after I finish it, which I just
started yesterday or day before, and that is called The Gunfighters.
It's by Brian Burrow of Texas Monthly. I don't always
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agree with Brian Burrow's politics, but he does.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
He wrote The Big Six, about the.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
Original big oil company families, the independent oil company families,
and I really enjoyed that book a lot, and I've
read a lot of what a lot of what he writes.
He likes to poke fun at Texas in I think
a way that is almost kind of trying to unmask
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Texans as bad people. I don't always appreciate that, but
he does do a lot of research, and I can
take some things with a grain of salt. But I
found a chart this was the most recent Major League
Baseball draft and the names that they listed every name
of a player who was drafted and how many times
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it appeared. And I will just give you the top
names for this year's baseball Major League baseball draft. So
these guys must be around eighteen to twenty two, and
it was number one was Ryan with fifteen, then Jack, Jake, Luke,
Alex Carson, Cole, Ethan, Jacob, Michael was down it only
eight Michaels, Chris Connor, Gavin Tyler, Andrew Dominic, Dylan, Eric,
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will Aiden, Ben that's a throwback name, Ben, Brady, Caden,
Cody Cooper, Drew Mason, Owen, Anthony. That's kind of an
old fashioned name, Braden. I have a nephew named Braiden,
my brother, Chris's son, Charlie. There's an old fashion. Some
of those old names are making a comeback. Charlie and
George and William, David, Garrett, Jackson, just Landon Logan Matthew,
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Matthews Old, that's a new Testament, that's biblical. Max Tanner,
Why is Aiden coming up again? Aiden was already on.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
There wasn't it. No, maybe it wasn't. Oh, it's Caden,
A J.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
Blake, Caleb, Cameron, Colin Dalton, Evan, Grant, Griffin, Hudson. This
is all the new kid names, the kids that are,
you know, eighteen years old, Joey, Josh, Kyle, Matt, Nathan Parker, Trevor,
Zach Aiden. Oh, you got Aiden, Caden and you got
Aiden spelled differently. Adam, Austin, bear Bow, b E, a
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U and b O separate entries Braden with no, why Brandon,
Let's go Brett, Cad cal Camden, Carlos. That's the first
real Latino name in the whole group. Colin, Daniel, Dean,
Derek Diego, Dustin, Gabe Hunter, There's more.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
All of these just have two. But the top name
was Ryan with fifteen.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
Several people emailed in about Daniel, who called earlier the
artist who was not happy, and they thought that made
me mad.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
It doesn't make me mad.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
You need to understand this. I think it's very healthy
to have this conversation. It's okay that Daniel thinks that
I should not be talking about the illegal alien who
was killed by ICE. I'm not happy he was killed.
I'm not happy for his family. I don't think that's
I don't think that's funny. I don't think that's good.
I think that doing the right thing sometimes comes off
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as very harsh. It's why you shouldn't be friends with
your kids. You should be their parent. But I think
if you come to this country illegally, you suspend your rights.
You don't have any, and the longer you stay doesn't
make what you're doing any better. You have to follow
our laws. You have to respect our country because there's
a lot of people still in Mexico and other countries
that are still there because they're not doing what you're doing.
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And I'm sorry it ended up that way, I really am.
But I'm going to support our ICE agent.
It's that time time time time, lock and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
The Michael Verie Show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
So for those of you who remember the Yah Yah
Mary's location on the loop at sam Phillippi. The Houston Journal,
the Houston Business Journal is reporting the Lombardy family Concepts.
That's Alberto Lombardy is planning a new Greek restaurant in
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what was a Greek restaurant. It was the Yah Yah
is apparently what the Papas boys called their grandmother, which,
as I understand it, I'm no expert on the matter,
is a very common term for grandmother among Greeks.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
It is it will be.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Called Elias Stiatio at forty seven forty seven San Philippy.
If I have to take my glasses off to read
the letters because they're not intuitive and it's not easy
to pronounce for me, that's going to be a problem.
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There used to be a Chinese restaurant that was located
at West Gray, just east of Shepherd, about two blocks
if you know where Brassery nineteen is. Just to the
east of that, there's a Kroger there that there there
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was one building in between.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
It's been torn down.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Now it's a high rise and and Alberto Lombardi, oddly enough,
has a Chinese restaurant there called chin Wa. It's fantastic
restaurant where that is right now? That used to be
a place and I cannot remember the name, and I
could never remember the name. They ended up making it,
I think Cafe Ginger, but before that they gave it
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some name that was so awkward and so hard to
remember that I would just tell people they'd ask for,
you know, hey, where's a good record. I like China Garden.
China Garden, easy to remember, Leland right across from Toyota Center.
That's pretty straightforward, right, But if people would ask for
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two or three Chinese restaurants, I would say, well, that's
a that's a real high end Chinese restaurant. It's in
between Brassrit nineteen and it might have actually been that
might have been Tony Mandola's Gulf Coast Kitchen back then,
which is where Brassrey nineteen became. Is that many years ago,
but there was a great Chinese restaurant and nobody could
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ever remember the name, and it was the oddest name,
and so anyway, I did not realize it was going
to have such a weird name.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Elias Sta Torrio.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
St.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
TiO.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Okay, all right, Alberto didn't ask my opinion on how
to name the restaurant. I don't understand. I never have
understood making your place less accessible by a decision you make.
Make the name easy, make the parking easy, make the
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access in and out of the main road to get
there easy. Put it in a place that's easy to find,
make it easy to get in the door. These these
are things that I'm not the genius on the issue,
but for me, these are things that kind of just
generally make sense. Tampon Timmy Waltz is now defending the
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governor of Minnesota is now defending the fact that he
pardoned a convicted sex offender, a guy that was diddling children.
He pardoned him so that he wouldn't be deported, and
then Marco Rubio and DHS deported him anyway. And this
is what Tampon Timmy had to say. You imagine this
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little girl who was raped by this man. I think
she's ten years old. And then he said, no, no, no,
pardon him of the crime, so you can't keep him
out of the country. And this is what Tampon Timmy said.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Did that make us any safer.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Did that make the children that are left behind any
more stable?
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Did it improve the idea that we can't all be
judged by our worst day? And I want to be
very clear, these are horrific crimes.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
They often are.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
We can't all be judged by our worst day.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Yeah you can.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
If your worst day was raping a ten year old, yeah,
we're gonna judge you for the rest of your life
for that. If your worst day is a mass murder,
we're not old Pastor Jones.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
You know, Jim was a good man.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Now he had that one day and the kool aid
and all that, you know, but let's you know, let's
not judge him by this kind this. These people are psychotic.
They are truly psychotic. And when you understand that, you
realize liberalism is not harmless. These are people that if
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your family member is a victim of an illegal alien, rape, murder, torture,
it doesn't matter that yesterday you were their protected class.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Of Hispanic Spanish speaking poor welfare. It none of that matters.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
You're not useful to them at this moment. And that's
how they play ball. There are no principles, no convictions,
there is no decency there is no honor. I don't
know if you've seen this story of the gay crews.
It's been denied entry into Turkey and Egypt, and that
these countries are going no, no, we don't want to
uch gay dudes here, But surprise, Governor Minnesota has thoughts
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on that subject as well.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Hello friends, Jimmy Walls here in lovely Minnesota. My favorite
time of the year. By the way, July we're up
to a balmy seventy two degree, which means I get
to take out my sini. Some people are into the
big vessels, not me. I love my little dinghy. Now,
as you know how, Minnesota is the land of ten
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thousand legs, so many to choose.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
My favorite Johnson Lake.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
It's quiet, discreet, and a perfect little getaway to do
whatever makes you happy. AnyWho, while I'm aboard the Walls
Rainbow Regatta, I've got a chime in on this Egypt
and Turkey situation of denying the LGBTQ plus cruises from docking.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
At their ports. Are you nuts now?
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Egypt, let me tell you you've never known the level
of joy that you experience when you let a ship
of gay men enter your port. It's thrilling, not just
the tip of the dock either. You allow those men
to enter your ports fully. Now I'm just your rugged
old ball coach, So I'm no expert on this subject.
But I hear gay men love a good Egyptian leather jacket,
maybe some tight leather pants to go in. So I'm
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told by my constituents, I love the Chris Bear out
here makes me miss Gilligan's Island. What a great show.
You know, A lot of people love Ginger and Marianne.
I was more of a professor guy. Just something about
him drew me into that show. Oh look at the time,
I gotta get this dingy doctor, or i'man to Mi's
brunch with my bowie friends.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Shown like Whobery Show.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
There's a funny arc to the opinion of some people
toward Elton John because they didn't like Elton John because
he's gay and he like, he's unashamed of it, he's
not hiding it, and and so they're you know, if
Elton John's name came up, there's a certain set of
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people who would not say, wow, soundtrack of my life. Wow,
an incredible number of great songs that I have loved.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
They go Homo.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Yeah, but super time Homo just know just Homo, Okay.
And then rush Limbaugh gets married, pays Elton John million
bucks to perform in his living room, and Elton John
gets all this criticism from the left, and they said.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Why did you perform for rush Limbaugh? And he said,
because he paid me.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
But he's a monster, He's I'm not playing new Yar games.
I don't ask the politics of the people who enjoy
my music. He's a huge fan of my music, and
it was his big moment, and he was willing to
pay my freight to entertain, and the.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Audience was lovely. Was his work, The audience was lovely.
That's what I do for a living.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
You do you?
Speaker 2 (09:56):
I do what I make music for fans.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
That's what I did.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Then all of a sudden, there were people who used
to tell me they hated Elton Johnny decide that his
music didn't change. What do you care who he sleeps with.
You don't want to sleep with him. I can't imagine
anybody would. But man, he can sing a song. If
Bernie Topin writes it, he can sing it. And he
can sing with no doubt about that. Well, there's been
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a story in the news you may have seen. I
don't think it's received top billing. But there was a
gay cruise and it was cruising around and I guess
it was set to doc in Turkey, and Turkish authorities said.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Uh uh no, you're not coming in.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
They said that the group who chartered it is quote
known for a behavior that does not align with the
values and moral standards of our society. The passengers said.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Well, you're not letting us.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
They're angry that the countries did not let them quote
be celebrated for who they are. We thought it would
be a great opportunity for those people in those countries
to also experience what it's like outside of the rest
of the world, where people can be free and be
celebrated for who they are. That's what one of the
guys on the cruise who's from Miami said. The cruise
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is called Virgin Voyages Scarlet Lady lgbt Q plus that's
a long name. I think Virgin is more the corporate
name than an adjective than a reference to sex. Because
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there have been several posts from gay dudes talking about, hey,
look these things are pretty raucous, so they're turned away
from Turkey, and so they set sail for Egypt, and
Egypt said, no, we're not going to do it either.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Well, my only thought on the matter is this is
a reminder.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
When you hear left wing activist nuts talking about how
hard it is to be gay in this country, it's
a lie. There are countries where you're murdered for being gay.
But the left doesn't want to criticize the Muslims, which
is where these countries are, by the way, Muslim countries,
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because the Muslims are now the heart and soul of
the Democrat Party, the Socialists and the Muslims, which, as
it turns out, work out well together, and so the
left doesn't want to criticize any so they will say
of Christians, you.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Hate gays and you hate women.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
No, actually the place that represses women and murders gays
is Muslim countries. But you won't dare say that, will you,
And of course the answer is no, they won't, and
they don't, which makes them liars. Now, I'm not saying
you necessarily have to approve of what they're doing on
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the cruise, or that you have to approve that docking
next to you, but I think the thing to note
is that these countries took a very harsh stance and
don't care what anybody else thinks about it.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
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Speaker 2 (15:04):
I was thinking we should ask gay Dave his thoughts.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
On this, But I don't know if that's a good idea,
because we're getting a lot of hate from the gay
contingent of our audience that Gay Dave has now become
the self appointed spokesman for all gayety, and they think
that's not fair. You know, I didn't realize he was
our guest the other day he called in. I forgot
he was a Capitol Police officer for six years. Did
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you remember that, Jim. He mentioned that he was a
Border Patrol agent, but he spent six years as a
Capital Police officer.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Did not realize that.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Every day I get an email from David Malsby, the
executive director of the PTSD Foundation of America, which is
Camp Hope, and it's somebody who's done something nice for
our veterans, and he knows I like to hear this.
Sometimes I'll call the people. Sometimes I'll send him an email.
Sometimes I'll mention him on air. So there's a restaurant
called Tumble twenty two. It's a chicken sandwich, chicken strips,
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salads with chicken I think they have three Houston locations
there from outside of Houston, but they did something on
their menu. They they did a sandwich of the month
for PTSD awareness. They wrote a check for twenty two
d dollars in a small matter to Camp Pape.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Tumble twenty two Michael Berry's show. We're not a.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Breaking news show because I like to be right rather
than being first. But there is a rumored trade that
is being well rumored that has already been done with
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regard to the Houston Astros. But since we're not a
breaking news show, I won't tell you what it is.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Do you want to know what it is? Jim?
Speaker 3 (16:53):
You like McTaggart, I do too, So is he not
writing for the Chronicle anymore? Well, it's being recorded. It's
being reported that Brian McTaggart of MLB dot com was
the first to report this news, which you would expect
because he's really tied in with the Astros and seemingly
a super cool guy. I don't know if he is
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or not, but I've heard that he's always been very
nice to me and Chandler Rome at The Atlantic announced
it after McTaggart first reported. It is that Lance mccullors
would go to the Milwaukee Brewers. Apparently mccullurs waived his
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no trade clause to make the deal with the Brewers happen,
and they're going to let's see mlb' Johnahan. A left
handed picture Colton Gordon would be included in the deal
to Milwaukee. It would be the second deal between the
two clubs in less than a week. The Brewers acquired
infielder Brayden Shoemake from the Astro, sending back cash considerations
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in the deal. If we ever traded you, Jim, where
would you want us to trade you? You ever thought
about that? We got you on waivers from the Josh
Innis Show, but I would be interested to know where
you would want to I mean, I'm not saying we're
going to trade Joe, just saying if we did trade you, well,
while you think about that. This was this morning's message
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from David Malsby. Over the weekend, the committee down at
the Sons of the American Legion Convention met, and let
me tell you, some incredible patriots stood in the gap
for our nation's heroes. They presented several checks to camp
Hope every single dime goes straight to the frontline battle
against the invisible wounds of war, but they didn't stop
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where there. Over the weekend, that committee voted on a massive,
game changing decision, officially naming the PTSD Foundation of America
and Camp Hope as their approved recipient for member donation funds.
Moving forward, they are passing the torch and there is
no organization more qualified, more dedicated, or more effective at
saving veteran lives. To every member of the Sons of
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the American Legion who stood up and made this happen
over the weekend, thank you. You just changed the trajectory
of thousands of combat veterans' lives. You back to Camp Hope,
you back the PTSD Foundation of America, and you proved
once again that when our warriors come home, they are
never ever forgotten. Get behind them, folks, This is the
good stuff. The fellow's name is Max Maxwell with the
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Sons of the American Legion. For people who I've often
asked the question, why do I mention PTSD Foundation of America,
Because Camp Hope is the facility the charitable organization.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
I hate the word.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Charity with regard to our veterans who have earned our support,
but from a tax deductible perspective, it has to be
classified as a charitable organization. That organization is the PTSD
Foundation of America. The facility where the Russell le Barrow
Home for the Heroes is, where the chow hal is,
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where the Jonathan Kimp Weight Room is, where the houses
are that they live, where the buses are that take
themto medical appointments, where Paul Baker goes out and plays
concerts for the guys. That is that facility. That home
is known as Camp Hope. That's where they stay for
six months till they're back on their feet and ready
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to re enter the world, stronger, better, ready for the
challenges of the war, and changed they are. They are
changed people when they re enter the world, and it's
a beautiful, wonderful thing. And so many of you over
the years have made that happen and I am incredibly
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grateful for that.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
You are.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
You are just fantastic. So thank you to the sons
of the American Legion. Thank you to.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Tumble twenty two, which I guess is a chicken restaurant.
I think what happened is that Todd Graves, with raising canes,
showed the market for chicken tenders, and he just I mean,
I guess before that you had Chick fil A show
in the market for chicken sandwiches, and then you see
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the market for chicken tenders, and then the Chicken Wings
is its own deal, Big City Wings. They're not presently
a sponsor, but there are friends and they've been a
sponsor for years and they just keep growing. You see Pluckers.
I don't know where Pluckers is from. You see Lanes,
which is another one of those. I think it's kind
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of a Raising Canes competitor. That is a very very
booming business. I read the other day that Todd Graves
was worth I don't know if this is right. Brian
McMackin gave me this data point, and if it's wrong,
if you know Brian, contact him. But he told me
that he read that Todd Graves is worth twenty two
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billion dollars. I said, there's no way that's what it said.
I mean, sometimes they factor these figure these things all wrong.
I also did not realize this is what Brian mckintond me.
So if this is not true, I'm not the idiot
he is. That there are over nine hundred locations. Now
you believe that Jim over nine hundred. That's almost twenty
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locations per state. And you got to figure they don't
have one in Alaska. Right, that's a lot of raising canes.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Man.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
I don't know how many McDonald's there are, but you're
starting to get into some significant, significant number of locations
when you get up that high.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
That's that's crazy. That is a number that is that
is staggering to me.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
But in any case, Tumble twenty two is I guess
they have three locations in the Greater Houston area. And
what I love about that is they didn't ask me
to promote it. They didn't ask me for anything. They
showed up at Camp Hope and said, hey, for the
last month, our featured sandwich was the Camp Hope Chicken
sandwich or whatever it is, and we sold X number
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of these and so here's a check for twenty two
hundred dollars out of nowhere.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
So I do love to hear about those things.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Every single day I am hit up by somebody who says, hey,
mention my store, and for every I to my cell, I'll.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Give a couple of pennies to Camp Hope.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
So okay, so I'll be your marketing department, and out
of all this extra money you make, you'll kick a
little No, that's okay, that's okay. Russell Atbarrow gave millions
of dollars to Camp Hope before I ever knew anything
that was going on, and so yes, I will promote that,
But it was never a i'll do this if you'll
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do it. And that's not to say that that I'm
not trying to help every business succeed.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
I am.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
It's tough out there. It is to say there's a
limited bandwidth, and I want to make sure that what
we do is getting the maximum good, the maximum number
of dollars and helping our show sponsors.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
You know, it's funny. Eddie Martinez taught me over twenty.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Years to have tough conversations, whether as a boss or
a friend or in a transaction, sometimes you have to
just be able to say that somebody's saying, hey, look
I'm going to give preference to my show sponsors. I'm
going to put Americans over people in foreign countries.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Yeah that's who. Yeah, I'm good with that.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
I got an email this morning from Jenna Martin that said,
good morning, Zar, Well, I think you would want to
know that Lamar Little League won the state championship last
night in Paarland by defeating West University Little League seven
to nothing. We will now be playing in regionals in
Waco beginning August sixth. FYI Lamar went three and oh
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by wins over Western Hills Little League and Bridge City
Little League. Let's hope we went in Waco and head
to the Little League World Series.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Go Lamar.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Jenna Martin Grammy to Easton Martin number twelve, Well, congratulations Lamar.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Li League.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Little League is one of the great joys in life,
and it's always fun every year to root for the
local teams, whether they be Postoke or Nadville or Needville
comes up a lot Pairland Parlan's litt League Baseball is
so big in Perland. They've got at least two little
leagues down there and one or the other seems to
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go to the championship every other year. That's a that's
a juggernaut down there.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
In Paarland.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
West University bel Air won the national championship. It's been
a few years, but they won a national championship. I'm
trying to think of who else around here is.
Speaker 5 (26:03):
No.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
I can't think who else, but there's some other really,
really good little leagues in the area. Who did you
say was on hole, Cheryl, You're on the Michael Berry.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Show, gleead.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
Oh.
Speaker 6 (26:13):
Yes, this whole thing shows a lack of respect for
our country. You've been in here thirty five years. Every
day you wake up, you know you are illegal. You
start a business and you have those people are illegal workers,
and when the cops are behind you, you have a
total disrespect for the law as usual. That's part of
your makeup. And you're not going to pull over. You
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are going to attempt to evade the law. And now
people are getting shot and everybody's surprised. But when I
was growing up in the nineteen fifties and sixties, you
were in danger of being shot if you did not
pull over, and people just used to pull over immediately.
But nobody does that anymore. When the light goes on,
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they just I mean they just got it and go.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
It's completely how you're raised. Thank you for the call, Cheryl.
Speaking of little league and names, I saw a I
saw a post, actually got it from Chance McClain and
I want to see if I could find it here.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
It was about.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
The James tell Rico campaign.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Put up a put up signs and they used the
Chilean flag instill the Texas flag. James tell Errico for
I guess he's running for senator in Chile. Or they
don't know the difference between the Chilean flag and Texas flag,
either because they're not from here.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Or they would never want to they would never wanted
to display the Texas flag until they needed your.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
Your vote.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Anyway, somebody asked me what the books were I bought
for ramone, and I will tell you because I posted
a picture of them.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
I brought it. I bought in this pen because he
wanted it.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
It's called a black wing matt In pencil or something,
and he said it writes like a crayon. And he
really likes it because when he marks things up, you know,
documents and show prep and things, he likes to use
that one because he likes the feel of the we
call it the action, the feel of the the nib
on the paper.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
I don't like.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
He likes the uh, the fatter lead or fatter fatter
application that that tends to kind of be a softer
touch to the paper. I like the point five pintel
because I like it to be very sharp, and I'm
very very tight that way.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Anyway.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
So the books I bought him were Paul McCartney Wings
It's it's McCartney's telling them, made documentary out of it.
You might have seen it it, you might have seen it.
It's about his years post Beatles with the band. After that,
and then I bought him Confederacy of Duneis because he
had not read it, which just shocked me.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
And then I read I bought him a biography of.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Stanley Kubrick because he loves Kubrick's movies and he had
not read this, this, this, And in case you saw
what I posted, I bought him something else that he
wants to read after I finish it, which I just
started yesterday or day before, and that is called The Gunfighters.
It's by Brian Burrow of Texas Monthly. I don't always
(29:15):
agree with Brian Burrow's politics, but he does.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
He wrote The Big Six, about the.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
Original big oil company families, the independent oil company families,
and I really enjoyed that book a lot, and I've
read a lot of what a lot of what he writes.
He likes to poke fun at Texas in I think
a way that is almost kind of trying to unmask
(29:45):
Texans as bad people. I don't always appreciate that, but
he does do a lot of research, and I can
take some things with a grain of salt. But I
found a chart this was the most recent Major League
Baseball draft and the names that they listed every name
of a player who was drafted and how many times
(30:06):
it appeared. And I will just give you the top
names for this year's baseball Major League baseball draft. So
these guys must be around eighteen to twenty two, and
it was number one was Ryan with fifteen, then Jack, Jake, Luke,
Alex Carson, Cole, Ethan, Jacob, Michael was down it only
eight Michaels, Chris Connor, Gavin Tyler, Andrew Dominic, Dylan, Eric,
(30:35):
will Aiden, Ben that's a throwback name, Ben, Brady, Caden,
Cody Cooper, Drew Mason, Owen, Anthony. That's kind of an
old fashioned name, Braden. I have a nephew named Braiden,
my brother, Chris's son, Charlie. There's an old fashion. Some
of those old names are making a comeback. Charlie and
George and William, David, Garrett, Jackson, just Landon Logan Matthew,
(31:03):
Matthews Old, that's a new Testament, that's biblical. Max Tanner,
Why is Aiden coming up again? Aiden was already on.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
There wasn't it. No, maybe it wasn't. Oh, it's Caden,
A J.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
Blake, Caleb, Cameron, Colin Dalton, Evan, Grant, Griffin, Hudson. This
is all the new kid names, the kids that are,
you know, eighteen years old, Joey, Josh, Kyle, Matt, Nathan Parker, Trevor,
Zach Aiden. Oh, you got Aiden, Caden and you got
Aiden spelled differently. Adam, Austin, bear Bow, b E, a
(31:42):
U and b O separate entries Braden with no, why Brandon,
Let's go Brett, Cad cal Camden, Carlos. That's the first
real Latino name in the whole group. Colin, Daniel, Dean,
Derek Diego, Dustin, Gabe Hunter, There's more.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
All of these just have two. But the top name
was Ryan with fifteen.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
Several people emailed in about Daniel, who called earlier the
artist who was not happy, and they thought that made
me mad.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
It doesn't make me mad.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
You need to understand this. I think it's very healthy
to have this conversation. It's okay that Daniel thinks that
I should not be talking about the illegal alien who
was killed by ICE. I'm not happy he was killed.
I'm not happy for his family. I don't think that's
I don't think that's funny. I don't think that's good.
I think that doing the right thing sometimes comes off
(32:36):
as very harsh. It's why you shouldn't be friends with
your kids. You should be their parent. But I think
if you come to this country illegally, you suspend your rights.
You don't have any, and the longer you stay doesn't
make what you're doing any better. You have to follow
our laws. You have to respect our country because there's
a lot of people still in Mexico and other countries
that are still there because they're not doing what you're doing.
(32:57):
And I'm sorry it ended up that way, I really am.
But I'm going to support our ICE agent.
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