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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Very Show is on the air. The Democratic
nominee for Vice President, Governor Tim Walls.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Hide, Hi, I feel pretty, oh so pretty.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
I feel pretty and witty.
Speaker 5 (00:29):
And Governor Walls.
Speaker 6 (00:31):
Are you a progressive or are you a centrist?
Speaker 5 (00:34):
I'm a progressive. I'm a knucklehead at times.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
I feel charming. Who so charming? It's a love how
charming I do? I'm so pretty?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Believe somebody said, what's next?
Speaker 5 (00:52):
Child labor?
Speaker 6 (00:53):
Hell yeah, it's in there.
Speaker 5 (00:55):
That's what they've got in there. You see states doing that,
putting our children at risk. That's what they do. I
think we need to push back on this. There's no
guarantee of free speech on misinformation or or hate speech.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
I feels stunny and entruancy. Do you like running and dancing?
Speaker 3 (01:15):
What she's always done it with energy, with passion, and
with joy.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
Don't ever shy away from our progressive values. One person's
socialism is another person's neighborliness. The Vice President has made
it clear that she has policies that make a difference.
Her border policies are the most strongest, the fairest we've
seen you previously oppose an assault weapons ban.
Speaker 7 (01:44):
But it's only later in your political career did you
change your position?
Speaker 5 (01:47):
Why so, I've become friends with school shooters.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
I feel stunny and in truancy. Do you like running
and dancing?
Speaker 6 (01:55):
Emo?
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Petrow sends me a message for every new client. This
one kind of spoke to me. He started sponsoring the
podcast in addition to the show recently, and the first
person that called in was a guy in Brownsville, fifty
one year old man, recent kidney transplant and his donor,
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the kidney donor is his wife. And he said, I
feel like I owe it to my wife to take
care of my health now we got two young kids.
She gave me her kidney, pretty big sacrifice. I feel
like I need to take care of this for her.
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We got to laugh out of that. That's pretty good one.
We're going to open the phone line seven one three
nine nine nine one thousand if you have a squirrel story.
I was trying to remember his name. I cannot remember
his name. He was Gary. Somebody out there will know him.
I used to play tennis every morning at the Metropolitan
Racket Club in downtown. It was above I think three
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Allen Center. When you came into downtown off fifty nine.
Right there you could see it.
Speaker 6 (03:11):
It was.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
It was the rooftop of a downtown office building. And
I played every morning at six o'clock. And from when
I started as a baby lawyer, that was how I
got into downtown early and forced me to get up
and get my exercise in early. Because you might be
stuck at the office till midnight, you never get your
work out in. So I would have a standing group
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that I would play with every day at six am,
and it would rotate every day. And there was a
fella whose last name was Anderson, and he owned Anderson Oil,
and I think probably his father or his grandfather had
owned it. He was one of these guys that smart
enough but not nerdy by any stretch, social enough, but
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didn't need to make a lot of friends. There's a
lot of these guys that went to Kincaid Second Baptist.
Some of them memorial come from oil families. Smart guys,
likable guys.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
They seem like they're not trying, but they are. They
just they're just not overly pushy about it. They're never
they're never going to try to sell you anything, and
you never really know what they do for a living anyway,
Anderson Oil. I don't know if it's still there. Used
to be on let's say, wood Way at about trying
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to think where that would be. Woodway at about Post
Oak remove, you know where the you know where the
the tower there is. Giorgio Borlini started it. Okay, let's
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go from the GALLERYA. Let's come south on Uh sorryt's
go north on Post Oak. We're gonna pass Mac on
the right and go up and go to the corners
the Whole Foods. Right, make a left right there, so
we're gonna start west on uh Sam Philippy all right.
Then we're gonna turn right right there at the high
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rise there very Jewish. They don't have a lot of balconies.
They only had a couple of balconies at the top.
At one point it was it was heavily a Jewish
kind of hoy poloy Intown. A lot of a lot
of prominent Jewish families were in this billity kind of
a reddish all glass you I'm talking about. Turn right
right there. Used to be a grocery store right there.
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Maybe that was the Whole Foods. Then there was a
then there was a liquor store. There was a dry
cleaner store. There's always some little food food like leaf
and grain kind of store. Always some kind of you know,
peta and hummus, uh sand which store or whatever? All right,
so you continue on right there is that Post Oak
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and you would go down and on the right was
that standalone building. It's an Irani family that used to
be in Larry Levin's project at the corner of Sam
Philippie and Post Oak. They had that. Uh the old
man ran it and his son was you know, a
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little younger than me. Anyway, they had a they had
a kind of a catering facility there, kind of a
party planning place there. Anyway, you keep going this neighborhood
right there, you come up from there to Woodway. Okay,
you got the church on the right. You got that
big church. That's where the that's where it's kind of
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Catholic light. It's maybe uh it's where people that like
to be Christian but not really ever read the Bible. Yeah,
it's it's episcopal. What's it called Saint Martin's Yes, yes, yes,
very Catholic, very very kind of country club social you know, yes,
of course where Christians kind of Christian like, you know
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what I mean. I mean, we're not going to get
baptized or anything. Don't make it weird and talk about Jesus.
Right there, So if they're on the right, and you
turn to the left, so now you're going west again.
Oh no, no, just turn to the right right there,
Turn to the right right there, start heading the east.
That's where Anderson Oil was. It really doesn't matter, but
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now I lost track of where it was and I
had to I had to retrace my strata steps. Anyway,
So Anderson Anderson's one of these guys. I think he
probably had family money, and he might have expanded the
family money. Who knows. He don't need anybody, so he
doesn't need to be nice to anybody. So he just
kind of real grumpy guy. One morning after we played,
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we're eating breakfast and he'd been up all night because
he'd shot a whole in his roof in Tanglewood because
there was a squirrel in the roof in the in
the attic, and I said, Anderson, maybe Gary Anderson. What
was his name? Anyway, I said, why did you get
He said this thing?
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Michael, you don't understand you got up in there they're
really just rats. I know exactly what they are. So
he got into the attic because this thing had kept
him up too long. Up, they're scratching around. He starts
firing his twenty two through his attic. He's blowing holes
through the top of his head. To this day, that
story still makes me laugh, because you know, when you're
when it's late and you just you want something to
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be quiet, you.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Will do things in it. It's like being drunk, but
you don't even have to be drunk. You will do
the most irrational things. And to this day, when I
see him, I still think of that story.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
That makes me chuckle.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Oh no, I love the guy. No no, I liked him
a lot to be a funny guy. Do you believe
Americans are better off than they were four years ago?
Speaker 8 (08:55):
Michael Barrier, So, I was raised as a middle class kid.
Speaker 9 (09:09):
Well, when I was a kid, i'd take a trip
every summer down to Mississippi to visit my grandy center and.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
It bellam world.
Speaker 9 (09:18):
I'd run barefooted all day long, climbing trees, free as
a song. One day I happened to catch myself a squirrel,
but I stuffed him down in an old shoe box
punched a couple holes in the top.
Speaker 8 (09:32):
When Sunday came.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
I snug him into the church.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
I was sitting way.
Speaker 9 (09:37):
Back in the very last que showing him to my
good buddy Hugh, when that squirrel got loose and went
totally berserk. Well what happened next is hard to tell.
Some thought it was heaving, others thought it was hell.
But the fact that something was among us was playing
to see it. As the choir sang, I surrender all
the squirrel run up hard Newlam's cover rocks, and Hard
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leaped to his bea.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
He said, something's got a hold on me. The day
the squirrel went the circuit him.
Speaker 9 (10:05):
The first self batist church in that.
Speaker 8 (10:08):
Seat fend bit on town on past to love and
then was in fight for survival.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
But that bok died into the d It wasn't jumping.
Speaker 9 (10:17):
Hughes and shouting, had a loyah. Well, Harve hit the isles,
dashing and screaming. Some thought he had religious others thought
he had a demon. In horror, thought he had a
wheat eat or loose and his spruit and blooms. He
fell to his knees to plead and beg and the
squirrel ran out of his pitching leg unobserved to the
other side of the room, all the way down to
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the amen few, where sat Sister Bertha. Better than you,
who's been watching, all the commotion was subdistrictly, but shoot,
you should have seen the look in her eyes when
that squirrel jumped her gardeners and crossed her thighs.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
And she jumped to her feet and said, Lord, have
percy off me.
Speaker 9 (10:56):
As the squirrel made laps inside her dress she began
to cross. Had then to confess the sins that would
make a sailor plush with shade. She told of gossip
and church decision, but the thing that got the most
attention was when she talks about her love life.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
And then she started damon names.
Speaker 9 (11:13):
But deed the squirrel went dessertant. And then the first
self Baptist church in that sleep little town of past
to Goulve.
Speaker 6 (11:22):
It was in that boss Bible that.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
W got into Bible.
Speaker 8 (11:27):
They went up in uts and shouting had Lujah.
Speaker 9 (11:31):
Well, seven deacons and the pastor got saved. That twenty
five thousand dollars got raised in fifty volunteered permissions in
the Congo on the spot and even without an invitation,
there were at least five hundred rededications, and we all
got rebaptized, whether we needed it or not. Now you've
heard the Bible story, I guess how he parted the
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waters from Moses to pass all the miracles God has
wrought in this old world. But the one I'll remember
till a dying day is how he put that church
back on the narrow way with a half craize Mississippi Square,
and the day of the squirrel and desert in the
first sup bides of church in.
Speaker 8 (12:11):
That see little town of Baskets survival and then broke
out in were jumping us and shut Handeluga the day.
Speaker 9 (12:25):
Of the squirrels.
Speaker 8 (12:27):
Then the first updides church in that steep little town
of Pascagoon.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
If you don't know the story of Ray Stevens, it's
a great one. He was actually born Harold Ray Ragsdale
changed his name to Ray Stevens because it was obviously
a better stage name in Clarksdale, Georgia. It was an
old Southern family in Clarksdale, Georgia, Georgia. So when he
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sings about the Pasca goola Is, he comes by it
honestly boy, does he have some good stories in some
When I had a real estate brokerage in the late nineties,
I had left the practice of law to start a
real estate company, and I thought I was a pretty
smart guy, and I could negotiate parts of a real
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estate contract that a broker couldn't because I was a lawyer,
and I was building a little social network for myself.
I didn't have any I didn't have anybody that I'd
gone to high school with. So you know a lot
of people in their first and early jobs, whether they're
selling real estate or insurance or commercial tenant representation, they
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call upon their high school friends. Well, I didn't have that.
I hadn't I didn't have a Saint John's or Kincaid
or Memorial or Saint Thomas or whatever episcopal set of
friends drawn and I didn't. I wasn't an old family,
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so I wasn't one of the families that you know,
everybody knew in town. And I hadn't gone to University
of Texas or A and M. I hadn't been in
the fraternity. So I'm out there on my own trying
to trying to build this network. Any food can sell
a house. It's getting the listing. It's hard, so I
would be competing and I kept coming up against the
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name Jane Giamalva. She was very, very, very well respected.
I think she was at John Doherty at the time,
but the big three firms at the time were real
estate firms were John Dougherty, h Mark the Turner, Property Ease,
and that was how the woman answered the phone. And
this one was fascinating. They had an office. I think
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it was five to two oh nineteen eighty one, I
don't know. I remember that they had an office on
West Timer. It was a standalone office and you would
call to arrange a showing. You know, you had a
client that wanted to see the house at three o'clock
that afternoon, so you'd call over and she'd pick up
the phone seven one three nineteen eighty one, Mark the
Turner Properties. And I remember I had to go over
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to their building to drop off a contract or pick
up a check or whatever else. And I go walking
in and I can't wait to see who this lady
is that has this very distinct way of answering the phone,
Mark the Turner Properties. Walking in, there's this heavy set
black woman sitting behind the counter. And I thought, oh, man,
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whoever answers the phone's not here today. I wanted to
see what she looks like. So I go over and
I said, do you have the check? All right, here's
this check, and I need to get this contract and
she hands it to hold on just a second, hold
on ring ring mark the Turner properties. It was a
black woman. I would have never in my life. Yes,
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and I have told that story over the years, and
I have had more agents. I forget her name, Penny
or whatever, Oh that was Penny. Everybody knew this woman.
Everybody loved this woman, even if you didn't work for
Martha Turner anyway. The three big firms were John Dougherty
and John had built that firm into like a River Oaks.
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It had a reputation more like a more like a
Judge Elkins insurance company.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
What was what was.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
The the prestigious insurance company that was owned Alan Parkway
from on they sold out. Everybody knows what I'm talking about.
It was like a g but it was. It was
a Houston institution, very very well regarded or one of
the what's the one that was like Marsh Insurance? It
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was real, real, real, but you know, money management, and
there are these firms like these blue blood firm, but
there hadn't been a real estate company like that until
John Doherty did it. And then a lot of people
called it John Dotttery and that drove me crazy. So
that was our turn of properties, John Doherty and Greenwood King,
and Greenwood King was sort of West Houston. It was.
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It was Robin Robin, Meck Robin something. She had a
firm out there called house Hunters, and they came inside
the Loop and boy, that was not good for me.
They bought the they rented the space that was the
bank space on Kirby that was this bank lobby. Oh
my good. You did not want your clients to go
over there. I had a little tiny office in Rice
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Village and we were running development, construction, apartments and real
estate out of that. So I didn't have enough offen.
I had fourteen people. I didn't have enough offices for
my people. So I'd say, you know, just work from
home and meet people at Starbucks and just say, you know,
we're a new kind of firm. We don't we don't
meet it to the office because we didn't have all
we didn't have enough office space. It cost me too much. Anyway,
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Janet gm Alva was a legend in the business and
you could never win against her. Now she's a listener.
She's kind of funny. It's like I never thought I'd
be friends with Jenjmo. She sent me an email. Remember,
I asked you which what was the name of the
Anderson boy? I couldn't remember his name. She said there
were four boys, Neil, Scott, Kevin, and Craig Scott. Anderson
was his name. Neil recently passed away a few months ago.
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Great family, and yes, the oil and gas company is
still there across from Saint Martin's. There was a time
when you did not want to go into Tanglewood and
compete for a listing appointment with Jenny jim Alma because
I mean it may still be because she's she's lived
there her entire life. But you were not going to win.
She was just too good, too well established, and she
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knew everybody's wife, she knew, she knew the family, she
knew the You just wanted.
Speaker 6 (18:36):
Annoying nobody who became mental and peed. Michael Berry Tamala
was born that way.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
Yeah, to the end to the peace.
Speaker 6 (18:45):
Let me tell you a true story a lady had
a little pet squirrel. She loved the little squirrel. Neighbors
would come and watch the little squirrel gust of pakhan
hose when it's a little mouth, and they thought it
was cute. One day she was in the supermarket and
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she saw some beautiful pecans already whole in a beautiful
cellophane bag. Said, oh, and a shame that my little
squirrel's been working for its food. I'll feed my little
squirrel the whole pecans.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
She did.
Speaker 6 (19:26):
Five weeks later, the squirrel got sick. She carried to
the veterinarian. The veterinarian said, I can't understand what in
the world is happening. The teeth of this squirrel has
grown longer than normal. What have you been feeding it
shell pecans? Said, We'll feed it pecans where it can.
Speaker 10 (19:48):
Bust the hugs.
Speaker 6 (19:49):
That's the way God made some of his creatures was
to wear. She put the pecans over in the cage. Unfortunately,
she had loved the little squirrel so much that she
didn't want it to work, but she loved it to death.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
She deprived it.
Speaker 6 (20:11):
Of what it should have done, and the fan couldn't
shoot and would not eat, and the little squirrel died
grave yard dead. The morrow of this story is, if
you're able body, you go negotiate for you a job
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and go to work. You might have to drive up
and down the street and find the yard it needs mowing.
But people America needs its citizens if they're able to
go to work.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
It seems like we need Jerry Cloarer now more than ever.
The blue blood established Houston gold plate. Name that I
was thinking of was John L. Wortham. No, you don't
have names like that anymore. You know. When I came
to Houston in eighty nine and I started studying, you know,
where's the power? Who are the big names who can
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move mountains? And I started coming up with people like
Jack Trotter. Jack Trotter didn't have I don't think he
had his name on a building. But Jack Trotter was
a guy that I needed to know he was. Jack
Trotter was powerful. People respected him. You start studying the
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the roy Hawfins's and the people behind them. I went.
I took Louis Welch to former mayor on an all
day fishing trip, and I just nuggets would fall out
of his mouth of people to talk to it who
I needed to know. It's fascinating because the blue blood names,
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the Houston names that were so respected back then, most
of them have been sold off private equity, bottom they closed,
or they're just not known like that. When I was
a baby lawyer, the names Vincent and Elkins, Baker, Botts,
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Fulbright and Jeworski, and maybe just because I was a
little lawyer geek, but even out in society, boy Lock
of Ladell, Sap, Ziviley, Hell and Laboon. Walter Zivley was
my mentor. When people knew that, they looked at me,
You're Walter Zibley's boy like that that there was something
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to that. That guy was regarded and respected. We don't
have people like that anymore. I knew ken Lay when
he was at the top of the heap. When when
ken Lay was you know, when you needed something done
in this town, ken Lay was it. Jennifer writes, I
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was talking about the lay that Martha Turner property is.
She said, I remember that she ran into my red
Mustang in the nineties. She had a swank Mercedes Benz.
It happened in front of Bearra Parrettes on West Gray.
You remember that beara parettes You know Jonathan Kim worked there.
R Jonathan Kim Green goes, yeah, like thirty years ago.
She didn't want the popo involved and I didn't either.
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I suspect she was just having as much of a
good time as I did that night. She did pay
cash for my repairs. How about that? So when over
the years we've never done a syndication deal, and the
radio business is not intuitive in every sense of the word,
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but up until a few weeks ago, we were self syndicated,
and there were a lot of reasons for that, but
one of them was I didn't want our show to
be only a syndicated show where the business model was
not tied to Houston and our station here. And so
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what we've done now is a hybrid that I don't
think has been done anywhere else. I don't think he's
ever been done before. And part of the reason for
that people say, why do you do I mean, you
could only do one show a day now, Yes, I could,
But what I wanted to retain it took us a
long time to get to where we had the clout
to do this is I wanted to do the evening show,
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which is a national show, little bit of a focus
on Texas, but really a national show so that somebody
in Florida, California, New York listens and they wouldn't just go, oh,
it's a showdown in Houston. I don't want to listen.
They would say this show competes with every other national
show talking about national issues. And I enjoy that, right,
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you need to do that to be considered in the
big leagues. But I don't love that the way I
do spread in Houston gossip and talking about County Commissioner's
Court and sharing stories of Houston City Hall, and talking
about the lady that worked that Martha Turner properties and
comparing John Doherty with Greenwood King and Martha Turner properties
and uh, you know those sorts Akerbloom and those sorts
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of things. So that was the worry when we signed
our big national deal, was is the Houston Show going
to go away? The Houston Show will never go away,
because that's this is what I love to do. That's
why if you listen to both shows increasingly they sound
like two different shows. This is because the city of
Houston should have a Houston centric show that's this one,
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and then the evening show is where we compete against
everybody else. Imagine what that would look like us.
Speaker 10 (25:39):
You try.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Well, scoll, scoll sell well.
Speaker 7 (25:55):
As well. Just went with Molly, who is nursing back
to life. A blind squirrel that was picked up in
East Texas dropped off in El Paso at a wildlife
animal rescue run by missus Julie. Got to meet this
blind squirrel who's slowly regaining its sight.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Like his pad level James.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Runner o Heart fail Runner.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Yeah, hey, look at him, go the twenty.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Where's he might do it?
Speaker 6 (26:27):
Where's he's going to do it? Oh my goodness, buddy,
do it? Do it? Do it?
Speaker 8 (26:32):
God damn.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Man, he's my favorite squirrel.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
Look at him.
Speaker 10 (26:38):
Oh poor guys.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Tia Horn celebration. We're going to sell it for worn out.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
Honey.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Disney's doing a Rocky and Bullwink will remake. Yeah, they're
gonna Rocky's gonna be a black squirrel.
Speaker 10 (27:09):
The truth as I am and I have gotten into squirrels,
and now I'm going to get you into squirrels. I'm
not kidding. I learned a fun fact about squirrels. Squirrels
cannot find eighty percent of the nuts they hide.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 10 (27:31):
Is that the greatest thing you've ever heard in your life.
First of all, animals aren't supposed to make mistakes. But secondly,
hold your skulls in because your brains are gonna explode.
That's how trees are planted, are you That's how trees
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are planted. God or the universe or nature or whatever
the created this anxiety ridden haronoid coke head.
Speaker 6 (28:09):
I think got a.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Message from Mac about fifteen minutes ago, said, Hey, Cindy Siegel,
she's the chairman of the Harris Kenny Republican Party. Just
contact me. They want to do a Trump rally tomorrow
to counter program the Kamala rally in town. What do
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you think? Good idea, great idea. So be at Gallery
Furniture tomorrow morning at ten. I think it starts at
ten thirty. If you've ever been to anything like this,
if you arrive when it starts, just don't even go
because you'll spend your whole time trying to get to
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this that you'll never get there. So get there at
ten o'clocks, not even really early. But that is tomorrow
at Gallery furnashaw On from what's address again? I forty
five between Tidwell and Parker, you can't miss it. You
probably have to get there early to park. I don't
know what they're gonna do, because you know, you got
those deep ditches on the side. That's where there's going
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to be. That's where all the truck they'll straddle it,
the big trucks, because there'll be plenty of those. What oh,
you think he'll fill it up with punch. That's a
very Mac thing to do. Wouldn't it be fun to
program for Mac? Because everything you do has to be crazy, right?
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Carrie Strug breaks her ankle, wins the gold. How much
will it cost us to have her brought into the
press conference in our chair with our guys carrying her
like queen feeding her grapes. Well, it's going to be
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a quarter million bucks. But she doesn't like the grape thing.
Kill the grapes. Kill the grapes.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
You think about the things this dude has done over
the years, I mean, honestly, never a dull day, Always something.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Trump's the same way you think of the stuff Trump
has done. I mean, I was impressed. So much has
happened since then. I was impressed when after he's shot
in the head a couple days later, you get the
news Trump's gonna have another rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 6 (30:41):
Of course he is.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Why didn't I think of that? And I like to
think I'm an idea man, But I'll tell you this,
having these ideas and executing on them, that's the danger
because you get this idea. Do you know what we
ought to do is to have eighteen million people show
up and we'll have Trump a zip line across the
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top and what do it? And then at the end
of you go, how are we gonna get eighteen million people?
How are we gonna get him in there? How we're
gonna gethim parked? Who's gonna be there? But Mac doesn't
give a damn. So right now, every one of Max's
sellers who's trying to figure out what the inventory on
the floor is today, he's this is Mac. He's called
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everybody together and you better run to get there. He's
called everybody together, and he's like, Gerald, you're on parking, Uh, Opie,
you got bathrooms? What's the hispanic guy? That's my salesman?
Oh not Louise, got it? You've got whatever? I mean
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that to make something like that happen, if you show up,
you just think it happen, So Gerald McNeil, who is
what's my guy's name? I can't remember it anyway, So
that is tomorrow morning at ten o'clock. Lucy Franklin was
our receptionist at Martha Turner Properties, which is now Sotheby's International.
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She recently retired, and you wouldn't believe how many people
would come into our offices over the years to either
try to hire her or just to meet her. You
imitated her to a t Martha Turner Properties, FYI thank
you for your nice words. Stephen Rackling just called and
I've received emails and texts. Yes, I am still working
as a real estate broker. That was Jenna Gamova with
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Martha Turner Properties now Softhee's International. But I guess Marta
Turner Properties. You know, the first time she said that,
Martha must have loved it. You know what Martha had
done before she started that real estate firm, so school teacher.
That was before the days of the kind of blue chip,
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gold star real estate firm. That would be the name
of somebody in town. Greenwood King was Julie Greenwood, and
I forget King's first name, John Daugherty. Obviously Martha Turner
there were these Acker Blum was Gloria Acker and Jerry Blum.
There were these firms that were in Michael Berry properties.
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But yeah, it was that was the name of our firm.
But then the big boys came in and now it's
all Compass or Keller Williams or whatever else. I kind
of miss those days. You can slug this one Houston
reminiscing remembrances of Houston. Did I tell you it was
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John L Wortham that was That was the That was
the insurance, the well regarded insurance company. Well, y'all didn't
do a thing for me. On Frank Lorenzo, I had
a few people who said they were stewardess is when
he owned Continental. So I guess I'm gonna have to
wean this one opening question. Mister Lorenzo, I thought you
were dead, so to start with this interview is something
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of a miracle. To be honest with you. If he
says reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated, we're gonna
be friends.
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Very Show is on the air. The Democratic
nominee for Vice President, Governor Tim Walls.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Hide, Hi, I feel pretty, oh so pretty.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
I feel pretty and witty.
Speaker 5 (00:29):
And Governor Walls.
Speaker 6 (00:31):
Are you a progressive or are you a centrist?
Speaker 5 (00:34):
I'm a progressive. I'm a knucklehead at times.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
I feel charming. Who so charming? It's a love how
charming I do? I'm so pretty?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Believe somebody said, what's next?
Speaker 5 (00:52):
Child labor?
Speaker 6 (00:53):
Hell yeah, it's in there.
Speaker 5 (00:55):
That's what they've got in there. You see states doing that,
putting our children at risk. That's what they do. I
think we need to push back on this. There's no
guarantee of free speech on misinformation or or hate speech.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
I feels stunny and entruancy. Do you like running and dancing?
Speaker 3 (01:15):
What she's always done it with energy, with passion, and
with joy.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
Don't ever shy away from our progressive values. One person's
socialism is another person's neighborliness. The Vice President has made
it clear that she has policies that make a difference.
Her border policies are the most strongest, the fairest we've
seen you previously oppose an assault weapons ban.
Speaker 7 (01:44):
But it's only later in your political career did you
change your position?
Speaker 5 (01:47):
Why so, I've become friends with school shooters.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
I feel stunny and in truancy. Do you like running
and dancing?
Speaker 6 (01:55):
Emo?
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Petrow sends me a message for every new client. This
one kind of spoke to me. He started sponsoring the
podcast in addition to the show recently, and the first
person that called in was a guy in Brownsville, fifty
one year old man, recent kidney transplant and his donor,
(02:24):
the kidney donor is his wife. And he said, I
feel like I owe it to my wife to take
care of my health now we got two young kids.
She gave me her kidney, pretty big sacrifice. I feel
like I need to take care of this for her.
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We got to laugh out of that. That's pretty good one.
We're going to open the phone line seven one three
nine nine nine one thousand if you have a squirrel story.
I was trying to remember his name. I cannot remember
his name. He was Gary. Somebody out there will know him.
I used to play tennis every morning at the Metropolitan
Racket Club in downtown. It was above I think three
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Allen Center. When you came into downtown off fifty nine.
Right there you could see it.
Speaker 6 (03:11):
It was.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
It was the rooftop of a downtown office building. And
I played every morning at six o'clock. And from when
I started as a baby lawyer, that was how I
got into downtown early and forced me to get up
and get my exercise in early. Because you might be
stuck at the office till midnight, you never get your
work out in. So I would have a standing group
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that I would play with every day at six am,
and it would rotate every day. And there was a
fella whose last name was Anderson, and he owned Anderson Oil,
and I think probably his father or his grandfather had
owned it. He was one of these guys that smart
enough but not nerdy by any stretch, social enough, but
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didn't need to make a lot of friends. There's a
lot of these guys that went to Kincaid Second Baptist.
Some of them memorial come from oil families. Smart guys,
likable guys.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
They seem like they're not trying, but they are. They
just they're just not overly pushy about it. They're never
they're never going to try to sell you anything, and
you never really know what they do for a living anyway,
Anderson Oil. I don't know if it's still there. Used
to be on let's say, wood Way at about trying
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to think where that would be. Woodway at about Post
Oak remove, you know where the you know where the
the tower there is. Giorgio Borlini started it. Okay, let's
(05:00):
go from the GALLERYA. Let's come south on Uh sorryt's
go north on Post Oak. We're gonna pass Mac on
the right and go up and go to the corners
the Whole Foods. Right, make a left right there, so
we're gonna start west on uh Sam Philippy all right.
Then we're gonna turn right right there at the high
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rise there very Jewish. They don't have a lot of balconies.
They only had a couple of balconies at the top.
At one point it was it was heavily a Jewish
kind of hoy poloy Intown. A lot of a lot
of prominent Jewish families were in this billity kind of
a reddish all glass you I'm talking about. Turn right
right there. Used to be a grocery store right there.
(05:44):
Maybe that was the Whole Foods. Then there was a
then there was a liquor store. There was a dry
cleaner store. There's always some little food food like leaf
and grain kind of store. Always some kind of you know,
peta and hummus, uh sand which store or whatever? All right,
so you continue on right there is that Post Oak
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and you would go down and on the right was
that standalone building. It's an Irani family that used to
be in Larry Levin's project at the corner of Sam
Philippie and Post Oak. They had that. Uh the old
man ran it and his son was you know, a
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little younger than me. Anyway, they had a they had
a kind of a catering facility there, kind of a
party planning place there. Anyway, you keep going this neighborhood
right there, you come up from there to Woodway. Okay,
you got the church on the right. You got that
big church. That's where the that's where it's kind of
(06:51):
Catholic light. It's maybe uh it's where people that like
to be Christian but not really ever read the Bible. Yeah,
it's it's episcopal. What's it called Saint Martin's Yes, yes, yes,
very Catholic, very very kind of country club social you know, yes,
of course where Christians kind of Christian like, you know
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what I mean. I mean, we're not going to get
baptized or anything. Don't make it weird and talk about Jesus.
Right there, So if they're on the right, and you
turn to the left, so now you're going west again.
Oh no, no, just turn to the right right there,
Turn to the right right there, start heading the east.
That's where Anderson Oil was. It really doesn't matter, but
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now I lost track of where it was and I
had to I had to retrace my strata steps. Anyway,
So Anderson Anderson's one of these guys. I think he
probably had family money, and he might have expanded the
family money. Who knows. He don't need anybody, so he
doesn't need to be nice to anybody. So he just
kind of real grumpy guy. One morning after we played,
(07:54):
we're eating breakfast and he'd been up all night because
he'd shot a whole in his roof in Tanglewood because
there was a squirrel in the roof in the in
the attic, and I said, Anderson, maybe Gary Anderson. What
was his name? Anyway, I said, why did you get
He said this thing?
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Michael, you don't understand you got up in there they're
really just rats. I know exactly what they are. So
he got into the attic because this thing had kept
him up too long. Up, they're scratching around. He starts
firing his twenty two through his attic. He's blowing holes
through the top of his head. To this day, that
story still makes me laugh, because you know, when you're
when it's late and you just you want something to
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be quiet, you.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Will do things in it. It's like being drunk, but
you don't even have to be drunk. You will do
the most irrational things. And to this day, when I
see him, I still think of that story.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
That makes me chuckle.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Oh no, I love the guy. No no, I liked him
a lot to be a funny guy. Do you believe
Americans are better off than they were four years ago?
Speaker 8 (08:55):
Michael Barrier, So, I was raised as a middle class kid.
Speaker 9 (09:09):
Well, when I was a kid, i'd take a trip
every summer down to Mississippi to visit my grandy center and.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
It bellam world.
Speaker 9 (09:18):
I'd run barefooted all day long, climbing trees, free as
a song. One day I happened to catch myself a squirrel,
but I stuffed him down in an old shoe box
punched a couple holes in the top.
Speaker 8 (09:32):
When Sunday came.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
I snug him into the church.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
I was sitting way.
Speaker 9 (09:37):
Back in the very last que showing him to my
good buddy Hugh, when that squirrel got loose and went
totally berserk. Well what happened next is hard to tell.
Some thought it was heaving, others thought it was hell.
But the fact that something was among us was playing
to see it. As the choir sang, I surrender all
the squirrel run up hard Newlam's cover rocks, and Hard
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leaped to his bea.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
He said, something's got a hold on me. The day
the squirrel went the circuit him.
Speaker 9 (10:05):
The first self batist church in that.
Speaker 8 (10:08):
Seat fend bit on town on past to love and
then was in fight for survival.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
But that bok died into the d It wasn't jumping.
Speaker 9 (10:17):
Hughes and shouting, had a loyah. Well, Harve hit the isles,
dashing and screaming. Some thought he had religious others thought
he had a demon. In horror, thought he had a
wheat eat or loose and his spruit and blooms. He
fell to his knees to plead and beg and the
squirrel ran out of his pitching leg unobserved to the
other side of the room, all the way down to
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the amen few, where sat Sister Bertha. Better than you,
who's been watching, all the commotion was subdistrictly, but shoot,
you should have seen the look in her eyes when
that squirrel jumped her gardeners and crossed her thighs.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
And she jumped to her feet and said, Lord, have
percy off me.
Speaker 9 (10:56):
As the squirrel made laps inside her dress she began
to cross. Had then to confess the sins that would
make a sailor plush with shade. She told of gossip
and church decision, but the thing that got the most
attention was when she talks about her love life.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
And then she started damon names.
Speaker 9 (11:13):
But deed the squirrel went dessertant. And then the first
self Baptist church in that sleep little town of past
to Goulve.
Speaker 6 (11:22):
It was in that boss Bible that.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
W got into Bible.
Speaker 8 (11:27):
They went up in uts and shouting had Lujah.
Speaker 9 (11:31):
Well, seven deacons and the pastor got saved. That twenty
five thousand dollars got raised in fifty volunteered permissions in
the Congo on the spot and even without an invitation,
there were at least five hundred rededications, and we all
got rebaptized, whether we needed it or not. Now you've
heard the Bible story, I guess how he parted the
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waters from Moses to pass all the miracles God has
wrought in this old world. But the one I'll remember
till a dying day is how he put that church
back on the narrow way with a half craize Mississippi Square,
and the day of the squirrel and desert in the
first sup bides of church in.
Speaker 8 (12:11):
That see little town of Baskets survival and then broke
out in were jumping us and shut Handeluga the day.
Speaker 9 (12:25):
Of the squirrels.
Speaker 8 (12:27):
Then the first updides church in that steep little town
of Pascagoon.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
If you don't know the story of Ray Stevens, it's
a great one. He was actually born Harold Ray Ragsdale
changed his name to Ray Stevens because it was obviously
a better stage name in Clarksdale, Georgia. It was an
old Southern family in Clarksdale, Georgia, Georgia. So when he
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sings about the Pasca goola Is, he comes by it
honestly boy, does he have some good stories in some
When I had a real estate brokerage in the late nineties,
I had left the practice of law to start a
real estate company, and I thought I was a pretty
smart guy, and I could negotiate parts of a real
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estate contract that a broker couldn't because I was a lawyer,
and I was building a little social network for myself.
I didn't have any I didn't have anybody that I'd
gone to high school with. So you know a lot
of people in their first and early jobs, whether they're
selling real estate or insurance or commercial tenant representation, they
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call upon their high school friends. Well, I didn't have that.
I hadn't I didn't have a Saint John's or Kincaid
or Memorial or Saint Thomas or whatever episcopal set of
friends drawn and I didn't. I wasn't an old family,
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so I wasn't one of the families that you know,
everybody knew in town. And I hadn't gone to University
of Texas or A and M. I hadn't been in
the fraternity. So I'm out there on my own trying
to trying to build this network. Any food can sell
a house. It's getting the listing. It's hard, so I
would be competing and I kept coming up against the
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name Jane Giamalva. She was very, very, very well respected.
I think she was at John Doherty at the time,
but the big three firms at the time were real
estate firms were John Dougherty, h Mark the Turner, Property Ease,
and that was how the woman answered the phone. And
this one was fascinating. They had an office. I think
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it was five to two oh nineteen eighty one, I
don't know. I remember that they had an office on
West Timer. It was a standalone office and you would
call to arrange a showing. You know, you had a
client that wanted to see the house at three o'clock
that afternoon, so you'd call over and she'd pick up
the phone seven one three nineteen eighty one, Mark the
Turner Properties. And I remember I had to go over
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to their building to drop off a contract or pick
up a check or whatever else. And I go walking
in and I can't wait to see who this lady
is that has this very distinct way of answering the phone,
Mark the Turner Properties. Walking in, there's this heavy set
black woman sitting behind the counter. And I thought, oh, man,
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whoever answers the phone's not here today. I wanted to
see what she looks like. So I go over and
I said, do you have the check? All right, here's
this check, and I need to get this contract and
she hands it to hold on just a second, hold
on ring ring mark the Turner properties. It was a
black woman. I would have never in my life. Yes,
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and I have told that story over the years, and
I have had more agents. I forget her name, Penny
or whatever, Oh that was Penny. Everybody knew this woman.
Everybody loved this woman, even if you didn't work for
Martha Turner anyway. The three big firms were John Dougherty
and John had built that firm into like a River Oaks.
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It had a reputation more like a more like a
Judge Elkins insurance company.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
What was what was.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
The the prestigious insurance company that was owned Alan Parkway
from on they sold out. Everybody knows what I'm talking about.
It was like a g but it was. It was
a Houston institution, very very well regarded or one of
the what's the one that was like Marsh Insurance? It
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was real, real, real, but you know, money management, and
there are these firms like these blue blood firm, but
there hadn't been a real estate company like that until
John Doherty did it. And then a lot of people
called it John Dotttery and that drove me crazy. So
that was our turn of properties, John Doherty and Greenwood King,
and Greenwood King was sort of West Houston. It was.
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It was Robin Robin, Meck Robin something. She had a
firm out there called house Hunters, and they came inside
the Loop and boy, that was not good for me.
They bought the they rented the space that was the
bank space on Kirby that was this bank lobby. Oh
my good. You did not want your clients to go
over there. I had a little tiny office in Rice
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Village and we were running development, construction, apartments and real
estate out of that. So I didn't have enough offen.
I had fourteen people. I didn't have enough offices for
my people. So I'd say, you know, just work from
home and meet people at Starbucks and just say, you know,
we're a new kind of firm. We don't we don't
meet it to the office because we didn't have all
we didn't have enough office space. It cost me too much. Anyway,
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Janet gm Alva was a legend in the business and
you could never win against her. Now she's a listener.
She's kind of funny. It's like I never thought I'd
be friends with Jenjmo. She sent me an email. Remember,
I asked you which what was the name of the
Anderson boy? I couldn't remember his name. She said there
were four boys, Neil, Scott, Kevin, and Craig Scott. Anderson
was his name. Neil recently passed away a few months ago.
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Great family, and yes, the oil and gas company is
still there across from Saint Martin's. There was a time
when you did not want to go into Tanglewood and
compete for a listing appointment with Jenny jim Alma because
I mean it may still be because she's she's lived
there her entire life. But you were not going to win.
She was just too good, too well established, and she
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knew everybody's wife, she knew, she knew the family, she
knew the You just wanted.
Speaker 6 (18:36):
Annoying nobody who became mental and peed. Michael Berry Tamala
was born that way.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
Yeah, to the end to the peace.
Speaker 6 (18:45):
Let me tell you a true story a lady had
a little pet squirrel. She loved the little squirrel. Neighbors
would come and watch the little squirrel gust of pakhan
hose when it's a little mouth, and they thought it
was cute. One day she was in the supermarket and
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she saw some beautiful pecans already whole in a beautiful
cellophane bag. Said, oh, and a shame that my little
squirrel's been working for its food. I'll feed my little
squirrel the whole pecans.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
She did.
Speaker 6 (19:26):
Five weeks later, the squirrel got sick. She carried to
the veterinarian. The veterinarian said, I can't understand what in
the world is happening. The teeth of this squirrel has
grown longer than normal. What have you been feeding it
shell pecans? Said, We'll feed it pecans where it can.
Speaker 10 (19:48):
Bust the hugs.
Speaker 6 (19:49):
That's the way God made some of his creatures was
to wear. She put the pecans over in the cage. Unfortunately,
she had loved the little squirrel so much that she
didn't want it to work, but she loved it to death.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
She deprived it.
Speaker 6 (20:11):
Of what it should have done, and the fan couldn't
shoot and would not eat, and the little squirrel died
grave yard dead. The morrow of this story is, if
you're able body, you go negotiate for you a job
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and go to work. You might have to drive up
and down the street and find the yard it needs mowing.
But people America needs its citizens if they're able to
go to work.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
It seems like we need Jerry Cloarer now more than ever.
The blue blood established Houston gold plate. Name that I
was thinking of was John L. Wortham. No, you don't
have names like that anymore. You know. When I came
to Houston in eighty nine and I started studying, you know,
where's the power? Who are the big names who can
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move mountains? And I started coming up with people like
Jack Trotter. Jack Trotter didn't have I don't think he
had his name on a building. But Jack Trotter was
a guy that I needed to know he was. Jack
Trotter was powerful. People respected him. You start studying the
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the roy Hawfins's and the people behind them. I went.
I took Louis Welch to former mayor on an all
day fishing trip, and I just nuggets would fall out
of his mouth of people to talk to it who
I needed to know. It's fascinating because the blue blood names,
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the Houston names that were so respected back then, most
of them have been sold off private equity, bottom they closed,
or they're just not known like that. When I was
a baby lawyer, the names Vincent and Elkins, Baker, Botts,
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Fulbright and Jeworski, and maybe just because I was a
little lawyer geek, but even out in society, boy Lock
of Ladell, Sap, Ziviley, Hell and Laboon. Walter Zivley was
my mentor. When people knew that, they looked at me,
You're Walter Zibley's boy like that that there was something
(22:35):
to that. That guy was regarded and respected. We don't
have people like that anymore. I knew ken Lay when
he was at the top of the heap. When when
ken Lay was you know, when you needed something done
in this town, ken Lay was it. Jennifer writes, I
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was talking about the lay that Martha Turner property is.
She said, I remember that she ran into my red
Mustang in the nineties. She had a swank Mercedes Benz.
It happened in front of Bearra Parrettes on West Gray.
You remember that beara parettes You know Jonathan Kim worked there.
R Jonathan Kim Green goes, yeah, like thirty years ago.
She didn't want the popo involved and I didn't either.
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I suspect she was just having as much of a
good time as I did that night. She did pay
cash for my repairs. How about that? So when over
the years we've never done a syndication deal, and the
radio business is not intuitive in every sense of the word,
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but up until a few weeks ago, we were self syndicated,
and there were a lot of reasons for that, but
one of them was I didn't want our show to
be only a syndicated show where the business model was
not tied to Houston and our station here. And so
(24:03):
what we've done now is a hybrid that I don't
think has been done anywhere else. I don't think he's
ever been done before. And part of the reason for
that people say, why do you do I mean, you
could only do one show a day now, Yes, I could,
But what I wanted to retain it took us a
long time to get to where we had the clout
to do this is I wanted to do the evening show,
(24:25):
which is a national show, little bit of a focus
on Texas, but really a national show so that somebody
in Florida, California, New York listens and they wouldn't just go, oh,
it's a showdown in Houston. I don't want to listen.
They would say this show competes with every other national
show talking about national issues. And I enjoy that, right,
(24:45):
you need to do that to be considered in the
big leagues. But I don't love that the way I
do spread in Houston gossip and talking about County Commissioner's
Court and sharing stories of Houston City Hall, and talking
about the lady that worked that Martha Turner properties and
comparing John Doherty with Greenwood King and Martha Turner properties
and uh, you know those sorts Akerbloom and those sorts
(25:10):
of things. So that was the worry when we signed
our big national deal, was is the Houston Show going
to go away? The Houston Show will never go away,
because that's this is what I love to do. That's
why if you listen to both shows increasingly they sound
like two different shows. This is because the city of
Houston should have a Houston centric show that's this one,
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and then the evening show is where we compete against
everybody else. Imagine what that would look like us.
Speaker 10 (25:39):
You try.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Well, scoll, scoll sell well.
Speaker 7 (25:55):
As well. Just went with Molly, who is nursing back
to life. A blind squirrel that was picked up in
East Texas dropped off in El Paso at a wildlife
animal rescue run by missus Julie. Got to meet this
blind squirrel who's slowly regaining its sight.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Like his pad level James.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Runner o Heart fail Runner.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Yeah, hey, look at him, go the twenty.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Where's he might do it?
Speaker 6 (26:27):
Where's he's going to do it? Oh my goodness, buddy,
do it? Do it? Do it?
Speaker 8 (26:32):
God damn.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Man, he's my favorite squirrel.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
Look at him.
Speaker 10 (26:38):
Oh poor guys.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Tia Horn celebration. We're going to sell it for worn out.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
Honey.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Disney's doing a Rocky and Bullwink will remake. Yeah, they're
gonna Rocky's gonna be a black squirrel.
Speaker 10 (27:09):
The truth as I am and I have gotten into squirrels,
and now I'm going to get you into squirrels. I'm
not kidding. I learned a fun fact about squirrels. Squirrels
cannot find eighty percent of the nuts they hide.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 10 (27:31):
Is that the greatest thing you've ever heard in your life.
First of all, animals aren't supposed to make mistakes. But secondly,
hold your skulls in because your brains are gonna explode.
That's how trees are planted, are you That's how trees
(27:56):
are planted. God or the universe or nature or whatever
the created this anxiety ridden haronoid coke head.
Speaker 6 (28:09):
I think got a.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Message from Mac about fifteen minutes ago, said, Hey, Cindy Siegel,
she's the chairman of the Harris Kenny Republican Party. Just
contact me. They want to do a Trump rally tomorrow
to counter program the Kamala rally in town. What do
(28:37):
you think? Good idea, great idea. So be at Gallery
Furniture tomorrow morning at ten. I think it starts at
ten thirty. If you've ever been to anything like this,
if you arrive when it starts, just don't even go
because you'll spend your whole time trying to get to
(28:58):
this that you'll never get there. So get there at
ten o'clocks, not even really early. But that is tomorrow
at Gallery furnashaw On from what's address again? I forty
five between Tidwell and Parker, you can't miss it. You
probably have to get there early to park. I don't
know what they're gonna do, because you know, you got
those deep ditches on the side. That's where there's going
(29:21):
to be. That's where all the truck they'll straddle it,
the big trucks, because there'll be plenty of those. What oh,
you think he'll fill it up with punch. That's a
very Mac thing to do. Wouldn't it be fun to
program for Mac? Because everything you do has to be crazy, right?
(29:42):
Carrie Strug breaks her ankle, wins the gold. How much
will it cost us to have her brought into the
press conference in our chair with our guys carrying her
like queen feeding her grapes. Well, it's going to be
(30:04):
a quarter million bucks. But she doesn't like the grape thing.
Kill the grapes. Kill the grapes.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
You think about the things this dude has done over
the years, I mean, honestly, never a dull day, Always something.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Trump's the same way you think of the stuff Trump
has done. I mean, I was impressed. So much has
happened since then. I was impressed when after he's shot
in the head a couple days later, you get the
news Trump's gonna have another rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 6 (30:41):
Of course he is.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Why didn't I think of that? And I like to
think I'm an idea man, But I'll tell you this,
having these ideas and executing on them, that's the danger
because you get this idea. Do you know what we
ought to do is to have eighteen million people show
up and we'll have Trump a zip line across the
(31:08):
top and what do it? And then at the end
of you go, how are we gonna get eighteen million people?
How are we gonna get him in there? How we're
gonna gethim parked? Who's gonna be there? But Mac doesn't
give a damn. So right now, every one of Max's
sellers who's trying to figure out what the inventory on
the floor is today, he's this is Mac. He's called
(31:28):
everybody together and you better run to get there. He's
called everybody together, and he's like, Gerald, you're on parking, Uh, Opie,
you got bathrooms? What's the hispanic guy? That's my salesman?
Oh not Louise, got it? You've got whatever? I mean
(31:54):
that to make something like that happen, if you show up,
you just think it happen, So Gerald McNeil, who is
what's my guy's name? I can't remember it anyway, So
that is tomorrow morning at ten o'clock. Lucy Franklin was
our receptionist at Martha Turner Properties, which is now Sotheby's International.
(32:18):
She recently retired, and you wouldn't believe how many people
would come into our offices over the years to either
try to hire her or just to meet her. You
imitated her to a t Martha Turner Properties, FYI thank
you for your nice words. Stephen Rackling just called and
I've received emails and texts. Yes, I am still working
as a real estate broker. That was Jenna Gamova with
(32:42):
Martha Turner Properties now Softhee's International. But I guess Marta
Turner Properties. You know, the first time she said that,
Martha must have loved it. You know what Martha had
done before she started that real estate firm, so school teacher.
That was before the days of the kind of blue chip,
(33:07):
gold star real estate firm. That would be the name
of somebody in town. Greenwood King was Julie Greenwood, and
I forget King's first name, John Daugherty. Obviously Martha Turner
there were these Acker Blum was Gloria Acker and Jerry Blum.
There were these firms that were in Michael Berry properties.
(33:30):
But yeah, it was that was the name of our firm.
But then the big boys came in and now it's
all Compass or Keller Williams or whatever else. I kind
of miss those days. You can slug this one Houston
reminiscing remembrances of Houston. Did I tell you it was
(33:51):
John L Wortham that was That was the That was
the insurance, the well regarded insurance company. Well, y'all didn't
do a thing for me. On Frank Lorenzo, I had
a few people who said they were stewardess is when
he owned Continental. So I guess I'm gonna have to
wean this one opening question. Mister Lorenzo, I thought you
were dead, so to start with this interview is something
(34:14):
of a miracle. To be honest with you. If he
says reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated, we're gonna
be friends.
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