December 29, 2025 • 32 mins
Michael Berry dives deep into yacht snobbery, caller boat bragging, and the state of the boating market — then pivots to a hilariously pathetic Family Dollar crime spree and a perfectly‑timed comedy bit that ties it all together.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Time, time, time.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Luck and load. So Michael Very Show is on the air.
(00:35):
All right, then I'm gonna let you finish your point
because you had originally called in about a mailman.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Yeah, it doesn't seem important anymore, but but you know what,
at the same time, I'm glad the guy finally established
that I had a yacht. So do you admit it?
Speaker 4 (00:58):
No?
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Okay, maybe, okay, you don't even have anymore. Well, you
don't even have it anymore.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
No, I said I had a yacht.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
That was Yeah, but it's it's a moot point at
this at this point in the process. Fair enough, it's
a non existent moat.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Well it still exists. Well, but you don't have We're
going to argue on something else.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
No, I don't go ahead.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
So I was calling in on the mail thing because
I thought it was a little funny story that you
would have appreciated. When I was a kid, I was
probably about eighteen years older, so about six foot tall,
and I used to mow the lawn for a mail carrier.
(01:47):
He would use his personal vehicle to go out and
do the mail, and so I would mow his lawn
free of charge because he was an elderly man, and I,
you know, I wanted to, you know, help him out,
and I would go in just to let him know
I was done. But when I would walk into his house,
it was like a hoarder's dream. You'd have to walk
(02:09):
down these little aisles for me to go to the
bathroom or something like that. And he had just stacks
of mail up to my waist, magazines, mail letters, whatever,
that he just never delivered, and he would take them home.
That was the reason why I called in, I thought, But.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
There's nothing wrong with that. Now, Force don't worry that
that's a bad call. Kent Withlttle Yacht Sales dot Com. Yes, sir,
hold on, I got another are you did you put
me on speakerphone me?
Speaker 4 (02:47):
No?
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Okay, all right, hold on, let me take Travis's call
real quick. Travis, go ahead.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
Hey, sorry to take you off speakerphone there. I just
come in mid conversation physical therapy. But I was going
to define a yacht for you, Okay, I'd say little
yacht thirty two feet the Bertram MAPI that came out
back in the seventies. To the commoner, that would look
(03:14):
like a yacht. But I would not classify that as
a yacht. I'd say you have to get start getting
in the forties because you have a full sized state
room in livable quarters. That thirty two foot boat gets
real tight, real quick.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Do you have a boat I do? What do you have?
Speaker 5 (03:34):
It's a Boston Whaler two seventy dauntless.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Where do you keep it? It's kept up.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
Here on Lake Ray Hubbard, but I'm fixing the move
it down to the coast where so well, if you're
going to run out of the Galvexy yacht basin there,
this boat would be the dream boat for you.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
And let me tell you why.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
I've run this boat from South Floor.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
And up in New Hampshire.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
I didn't run it from there to there, but I
lived in South Florida and I lived in New Hampson.
I've had this boat in really rough condition, six to
eight foot beam c's crossing from you know, going from
West Palm up to Boca. And it's a center console
and it's a hybrid. And the reason why there's such
a perfect boat for galveson Bay is because it whips
up so quick. You could run fifty miles off shore,
(04:25):
catch snapper out of this boat, or be up in
the bay in skinny water, you know a foot and
a half because it's got a real shallow draft catching trout,
redfish and flounder. It's got a dive door troll, the
motor power pole, it's got twenty two hundred merks radar.
It's fantastic, loaded to the gills. How much you want
(04:45):
for it, I'll do one eighty just for you.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
I'm not in the market, and I'm just curious. What
did you give for it? I got one eighty for it? No,
what did you give for it?
Speaker 5 (05:02):
And I got it? Paid one eighty for it, and
I got a hell of a deal.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
On can't What do you think.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
To see the boat?
Speaker 1 (05:12):
If I buy a boat. I got to buy it
from Little Yacht Sales because he's my boat expert. But
I was just curious what you thought.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
I'll look he can. He can take a fee off it.
If you get it for one I'll let him take
his cut. You know, the two happiest days that you have.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
Being a boat?
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Sell it? Why are you getting rid of it?
Speaker 6 (05:30):
That's right?
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Well for what I want to do, it's it's not
practical anymore. It was perfect for for South Florida. It
was perfect for New Hampshire. But I'm a I'm a
marsh fisherman, and uh, it's just you know, it's just
a little I've got it on. It's like a catfish
Cadillac right now. It's up here on late Ray Hubbard.
I look like an idiot, you know, I'm driving around
(05:54):
this this really fancy boat that's made for the coast,
the you know, the ocean, and it's just not.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
It just don't look good. You think they look down
on you.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
I don't.
Speaker 7 (06:07):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
Maybe they they probably think it's a really fine looking boat.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Do they put their pinky finger out when they're drinking
their Miller High Life as you go by, as their
way of saying, oh, mister fancy.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
Pants, Yeah, yeah, yeah it's it's it's pretty fancy. It's
pretty fancy. But like I said, you can run fifty
miles off shore and if a storm kicks up, I
mean it's it's great. It's a battle wacken and it's
not a full size off shore boat. So for somebody
that's new to boats, it's a it's a great boat.
This boat, brand new, runs three hundred and twenty five thousand.
It's a it's a twenty twenty that I have babied.
(06:40):
I've had an indoor storage. I've owned a lot of boats.
I grew up around boats. I was driving boats and
I was six years old, putting them on an off
the trailer and docking them. What do you do for
a living, So I'm gonna stay at home death?
Speaker 1 (06:53):
What does mama do?
Speaker 5 (06:56):
She works in telecommunications.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Well, she doesn't just work there. She like to senior
vice president.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
She's pretty high up there. Yeah, yeah, she's pretty hig
up there.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
She has sugar Mama. What did you do before you
were stay at home dad?
Speaker 5 (07:12):
I did respiratory medical equipment sales and Katie and Sugar Lamb.
And before that, I had a food truck, which you
actually have me on two segments of your show.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Was it Center Court? What was what was it called.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
Breakfast Burritos?
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Anonymous?
Speaker 5 (07:27):
I had it there at Inversion coffee House. Actually, I
met Avy back in the day before he was a
you know, super big shot, and he hooked me up
with with some coffee equipment when we did off site gigs.
But there at Inversion. His only deal with me was
just don't sell coffee.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
And I was like, all right, you got it man
Ouvy Kats has done. I am so proud of him.
He has done so incredibly well. And he's done it
by being very good at what he did. It's incredible coffee,
by being Houston focused, by being extraordinarily charitable philanthropy. He
(08:07):
does more for Camp Hope. He says he does as
much for Camp Hope. He's in the Russell Ebara category
of how much he does for Camp Hope. It's incredible
what he has done at Cash Coffee. I mean, I'm
so proud. Hold On Ken, I got a boat question
for you and Michael Berry show if you're a Toto fan.
(08:32):
They are heavily featured in the yacht Rock special Wayne
writes boat versus yacht tzar. Boat manufacturers have corrupted the
term yacht by listing it as a yacht. The terms
center console, cabin cruiser, also motor yacht. Those are typically
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flush deck or multi deck with a very large stateroom.
I've been around boats since I was ten years old,
captain many of them, all the way up to eighty feet.
I don't think of anything less than fifty foot as
a yacht, only because I'm old school. The last boat
we had was a sixty foot sport fish. Most people
would consider it a yacht, but because it was a
sport fishing convertible configuration, I don't ever think of it
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that way. We're decent boats, but they were very middle
of the road as far as quality wise. Ramon, do
you have anything to say on this. I'm not a
boat expert. It's like guns or cars, you can get
outside of the problem is we got listeners that have
forgotten more about this than I would ever learn with
two years of intense study. And I'm very well aware
(09:37):
of that, and they love to point out when you
get something wrong. But from my very limited knowledge, my
own personal opinion is unless you have a state room,
unless you can go under and take a nap in
the air conditioning and pee, then it's not a yacht.
Well I can pee on any boat too, mister tough guy.
(09:59):
But you know what I'm sa saying. You get the
point right. Let me see something here. Well, now I've
now I've managed to activate the entire Bury boat Brigade.
Everybody out there with the boat interest Kent, I have
a question for you, Yes, Sir Kent at Little Yachtsales
dot com. So we rented a boat, Ramon, I haven't
(10:21):
told you this in Maui because my boys are never
happier than we are when we are out on a boat.
And I haven't bought a boat because their expensive is
held to maintain like a horse. And but we rented
a boat while we're out there with a captain, and
we went out to see this beautiful reef that is
(10:43):
where they did Captain Nemo. And so I sent an
email to Kent at Little Yachtsales dot com and I said, Hey,
this is the boat we've got. It's a thirty five
foot three point fifty realm Boston Whaler. And I know
that Boston Whaler makes it cost a lot more than
perhaps would be absolutely necessary because it's kind of a
(11:04):
Rolls Royce brand and and anyway, so he's I said,
how much is that boat? How much would this boat
be new? And you know, you're not a boat? Got
a million dollar boat? And I thought, my god, man,
do you know what like you look at a million
dollar house, you go you got a lot of stuff there.
You look at a million dollar boat you go, well,
well this is this is a nice boat. But it's not.
(11:27):
Is it just a boat? It's not it's not Tilman's
yacht or anything. But anyway, Kent, what is the status
of the boat business right now? You and I were
emailing about how crazy it got during COVID, and I
remember reading I have a buddy named Lance Parks. He
used to run the Galveston Yacht basin. Do you know Lance?
Speaker 6 (11:50):
I do know Lance.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
I know it's sorry too, Okay, Well, Lance and I
would email a lot during COVID, and he sent me
a Boat Trader article in the summer of twenty and
it said it was the highest boat sails in American
history that month. And then they broke it the next month.
And you said that sales were up. You wrote it
(12:10):
to me in an email a couple of days ago
that sales prices were up. I may get you wrong
fifty percent during that period of time, so a six
hundred thousand dollar boat would be a nine hundred thousand
dollars boat. I may be wrong in that, so correct me.
But where are we in pricing and volume of boat
sails right now?
Speaker 6 (12:31):
Back in COVID, it wasn't that they had gone up
any highers, just the demand was very high, so things
were selling at retail with very little discount now that's
slowed down some, which was expected. And the biggest problem
is the inflation has caused cost for new boats to
(12:52):
go up quite a bit. So boats have had a
pretty big increase in the last three years of about
ten percent a year, when normally they're about three percent
a year. But everything has gone up because of inflation.
I mean, you know, no f two to fifty truck,
it's one hundred thousand dollars now as well. So but
the state of the market's very good. We're busy, and
(13:14):
we're fortunate. We're here in Houston where we have a
year round season where it's not cold too terribly often,
and so people can boat year around here, which is fabulous.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Who's that coming and going.
Speaker 6 (13:28):
Sorry, I'm in one of my offices and the guys
are actually working here.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Oh okay, So who is who is buying boats today
that didn't buy boats before? Because I know that like
with vacation properties. They saw this in Colorado, they saw
this in Hawaii during COVID people were buying properties that
never would have because they in the past, they would
have gone to the south of France or they would
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have gone off the coast. Degreees and now because they
couldn't travel, they bought houses in Aspen and Pebble Beach.
And who's buying boats now that didn't buy boats ten
years ago.
Speaker 6 (14:06):
I would say we're starting to get younger and younger buyers,
people under the age of forty, whereas before it was
been the majority has been baby boomers have been the
majority of the buyers. But now that that market's gotten
better with the younger crowd.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
And is this younger crowd did they grow up boating
or are they first time buyers.
Speaker 6 (14:30):
We see a lot of people that have grown up
boating that eventually do buy their own boat, but some
of them are new boaters. And the one thing about
COVID is we thought we were going to have all
these boats on the market, you know, after COVID, after
everything wore off, But in reality we did not see that.
(14:51):
I think people kept the boats, they enjoyed the lifestyle
and they kept the boat, or they actually got more
involved and bought something else.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
That's interesting. I'm surprised somebody new to boating would come
in and buy a boat that big, because that's not
a to captain a boat like that if you have
no boating experience. Seems to me like that's a pretty
big undertaking.
Speaker 6 (15:15):
It is, but it's like learning anything. Once you learn it,
it's not very difficult, and usually we try to help
people get some captain instruction if they need it, if
they're brand.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
New for sure. You know, I guess my question would be,
I didn't grow up in a boating culture. My dad
had a boat when I was young, but he had
to sell it when he built our house. It was
just a little boat. He and his brother owned it together,
and bass fishing was big and orange. So if you
went out on somebody's boat, you go out on a
little boat, little john boat, or just a little bass boat.
(15:48):
But then I came to Houston, and you know, you
would get invited with people to this what we would
have called a yacht because it did have a state
room and it was a you know, thirty thirty five
forty foot foot vote. But it strikes me that you
either everybody I knew either grew up around voting or
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or never did it at all. And so I guess
I'm interested in who these people are who just decide,
never having been into boting culture, I'm gonna buy a.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
Boat captain something Wong well, something must be right.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
You're listening to Michael Berry. So this song comes out,
this is eighty two eighty three, we could find it
two let's again. I would have been six or seven,
eighty two or eighty three. This song comes out, and
I remember hearing this on Casey's EB. Ninety five out
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of bomat the top forty. It was because it was
a top forty song. At that point you didn't, you know,
old songs you got to put into you know, a genre.
But at the time it is the top song. It's
just come out, that sweet sing or song. And I yes,
because of the subject, I mean, the sound, the references.
I thought this song, I thought they brought it back
(17:06):
as an oldie like it felt like something that you know,
it was Sinatra, early Sinatra era. It was a new
song that had an old feel to it because I
just it wasn't over produced.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
Maybe this can be.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
We turn it up, turned up.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
We had.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Just liked Lady Sure singing away?
Speaker 7 (17:40):
Did she love.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Kids looking at you?
Speaker 1 (17:49):
I mean when you quote it, e Largo and Casablanca
in a song with that kind of raspy voice and
you got that over the top cheesy female backers past purchase,
(18:10):
should add Jenny Fricky do the background. But another day,
all right, soon in a week can.
Speaker 6 (18:19):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
So the boating business today right now, if you were
to tell me where that's going to be a year
from now, Obviously twenty twenty we had this absolute boom.
May not see that again in our lifetime, right I
doubt it what you said that you expected at the
end of COVID that those properties, that those boats would
(18:44):
go on the market, and it didn't happen. So people
liked the boating lifestyle. But at some point it strikes
me that you've you've affected the inventory and production unless
they're just not making as many because there it just
strikes me that there's no way that all of a
sudden you had all these new boats bought and then
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at some point those boats have to go back out
on the market to compete against the new boats. I'll
give you an example. So Tesla right now has a
real problem on their hands because for the last two
years they haven't sold enough cars and I think they're
making something like fifty more cars than they're selling. So
(19:27):
Elon cuts the market, cuts the price, slashes the price
and tries to put a lot of other people out
of business, which he did. But the problem with that
is the used tesla market was destroyed. So there are
a lot of people that had a five year old
Tesla that can't get anything for that tesla because at
some point the supply and demand have to line up.
(19:49):
And when you make when the demand goes massive overnight
and the supply doesn't change, at some point, there has
to be a true up, right, Yeah, So do you
foresee that happening.
Speaker 6 (20:04):
I think it's already happened. Twenty twenty four was quite
a bit of a slowdown in the boat market in
just about every field you know, power sail, small boats,
large boats. But now the demand is starting to come
back because the supply is starting to dwindle some. And
the biggest issue is you know areas that you know, Fortunately,
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where we are there's plenty of slips and there's plenty
of places to keep a boat large, you know, yacht
club style marinas, But in other parts of the country,
like Florida, there's huge shortage of slips, So people are
trying to buy a boat. Came and you know, some
place is fine place to put it. But I think
a year from now the demand will actually be higher.
We've been busy since the election and had the best
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November and December we've had in probably five years.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
What does that mean? How many boats do you sell
in November December?
Speaker 6 (20:57):
To say that, well, usually would do about one hundred
and seventy five boats a year, and we did about twenty.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
In November and December each.
Speaker 6 (21:11):
Combined ten boats a month.
Speaker 8 (21:16):
And you normally do how many we've done about one
hundred and seventy five, but in twenty twenty four we
were down quite a bit, probably around one hundred, so
it was quite a bit of a drop thirty percent.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
What's the top month for boat sails? April and May
because it's starting to get warm and people starting to
think about going out on the boat.
Speaker 6 (21:39):
It is, but we've been as busy because of the
season here. Although it's pretty cold right now. You know
in December it can be as nice as May or
June sometimes, so you know we can be as busy
in December as we are in June.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Where do you keep your boats?
Speaker 6 (21:54):
We're well, it got two offices, one at Soushore Harbor
in Leake City and one at Waterford Harbor in Chema,
which they're only a mile apart.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
I used to do that boat club, Carefree boat Club,
and they were Yes, I think they were at south
Shore Harbor, Is that right?
Speaker 6 (22:12):
I think they are at south Shore.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Still, that was kind of a good for a guy
like me that just wanted a basic little boat and
take my kids out for the weekend. I think it
was four hundred bucks a month. That was a great
deal for me.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Yes, that wasn't.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
I wasn't in the yacht business, although I did go
get my captain's training from from the owner there. He
was a show sponsor. But that was I did it
for several years. I thought that was you know, you're
in and out. You didn't if you weren't, you know,
because to buy a boat's kind of a big commitment.
But to see how much we were going to use it,
I thought that was fantastic.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (22:44):
I think those those clubs, care Free and Freedom both
club are both great. They introduced a lot of people
into the market, and of course a lot of those
people do eventually want to buy something to own it.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Well, I'm lazy coming down in the wall. If I
if I if I know that at the end of
a day out with my kids. I've got to come
back and clean the boat. That I think about that
the whole. It kind of takes a little bit of
the of the fun off for me. So are all
of those marinas booked up right now? No, they're not.
Speaker 6 (23:17):
There's vacancies. And I can tell you there's no lazier
boater than me. I've got to you just call a
fella and have him come clean the boat. Afterwards, we
just write a check and be happy.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
And go home.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
So we we we've leased a house over the years
at Pirates and so we would. I would always lease
a boat from from Lance Parks and then just go
over to Waterman's Marina and eat, come back, just to
have somewhere to go, right, It's like the guys on
the motorcycle or the airplane's go somewhere to go, and
you they they haven't had a slip available in I'll
(23:53):
bet you ten years. It's not a big marina. But
that was kind of my you know, my barometer of
there's not a lot of space for boats. Thank you,
Buddy Sales dot Com. Damn it all right, this is
Mark Chestnut Enjoy Bizaar of talk radio. Well let's say
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you're an enterprising criminal, not a violent one, just an
enterprising one. You remember, what was it Dillinger? Who they
asked him that they thought he had some issue against
the banks, Remember, John, was it Dillinger? Derringer? Do you
(24:41):
remember them on check that? I think it was Dillinger.
They thought he had some big issue with the banks,
you know, banks or evil banks or hoarding the money.
Banks are bad people. And they asked him Dillinger. It
is Dellinger. Okay, yes, well admit I got it right.
So so the press is asking him. You know, they
(25:02):
love this guy, you know that the bank robber Bonnie
and Clyde. All right, so they asked Ellinger, why'd you
rob the bank? Expecting him to give them some big
stories so they can make a rice because that's where
the money is. So with that in mind, you're thinking
to yourself, I don't have any money, but I want
(25:23):
some money. I'm gonna go take some money from somebody
else that has money. Okay, So where do I go home?
I go to Connie and Billy's it a Corey Diamond. No,
that place is like Fort Knock, sir. Okay, well, gringos,
they're really busy. They got to have a lot of money. No,
(25:45):
remember they got hit like ten times. They fixed that.
They they went hard. Co don't try, that's a waste
of time. Let's see Eddie Martini's house. No, his wife
is his armed h Ramon's house No, nobody knows where
he lives. Let's see who would we rob? Who would
(26:08):
we rob that will have a bunch of money? Oh?
Family Dollar? Yeah, yeah, let's go. Let's go steal everything
we can at the Family Dollar because if we make
out of there with a thousand items, we've got one
(26:29):
hundred dollars worth of stuff. Because it's not worth a dollar,
that is, sell it for a dollar. Family Dollar not
the most lucrative spot. A couple along with their nineteen
year old son. These are real smart ones arrested for
a series of robberies at Family Dollar in the Houston area.
(26:51):
But you know it's a family that prays together, the
family that robs together. I mean, I guess you got
to give them credit for that clip number fourteen.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
The everyday low price is at Family Dollar. Apparently not
low enough for one family. They're on a Jennifer Whittle
as well as Jennifer's nineteen year old son at Gavin
Harper accused of robbing six dollar stores from May twelfth
to June twenty.
Speaker 9 (27:16):
Seventh, and there was a black ski mess.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
The Ron Whittle, looking incredulous at times as the tales
of his alleged crimes were read out in court. Investigators
say the couple and their son would frequently case stores
before deciding unwe to rob. It soon attracted the attention
of undercover officers who set up surveillance.
Speaker 9 (27:36):
He can also be seen on video in the store,
distracting the employees while the step son robs the store.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
There were alleged crimes for he came to an end Friday,
A police say they saw them pull up to this
Southside family dollar. They say the Wittles waited in their
car well. Harper got out and robbed the store at gunpoint.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Told the clerk he was gonna buy some.
Speaker 9 (28:00):
When she opened the registr he pulled out a gun
on the employee, telling the employee give me all of
the money.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Or I will shoot you.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Police say he only made off with a little more
than two hundred dollars. Officers moved in and arrested him
and his parents as they were driving away. According to
the couple's public defender. Both husband and wife are disabled
and only moved to Houston a few months ago. Record
show they most recently lived to Kentucky, where deronwood All
(28:30):
is due in court for an unknown offense next month.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
He does have a dollar that's blind, his wife and
seven children six months to twenty one years old.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Lots of kids, and, according to the hearing officer, lots
of out of state arrests, twenty in total.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Wait a minute, your defense of these armed robbers is
that they're disabled and blind with a bunch of kids.
How about you stop having so many kids? How about
you stop being arrested? Twenty kids, twenty arrests. Huh honey,
(29:15):
we gotta go celebrate. We got another baby. We gotta
go do another stick up, and then maybe we'll come
home and have sex again. That's your defense, is that
you're disabled. It's an armed robbery. Can you imagine the
cop that has to arrest these people? Can you imagine
(29:38):
what he's thinking.
Speaker 10 (29:41):
In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by
two separate and equally important groups, the police who investigate
crime and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
These are their stories.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
You see the thing here is, pal, I don't understand
why why the family Dollar Store?
Speaker 7 (30:00):
We needed them dollar?
Speaker 4 (30:01):
Yeah, I know that, but why the Family Dollar Store?
I mean, why not let's say the Dollar Tree or
the Dollar General.
Speaker 7 (30:07):
Because we're a family who bobbed together. We robbed a
family dollar. We've been in the army. Hell, that Dollar
General will be out of the dollars?
Speaker 1 (30:15):
You feel me?
Speaker 9 (30:16):
Dog?
Speaker 4 (30:16):
I think so, But by all means, please go on.
Speaker 7 (30:19):
It's like this, every store name for the people who
are supposed to shop there.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Right.
Speaker 7 (30:23):
I don't go to no MacDonald's because I ain't irick.
I go to that Burger King.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
Let me guess, because serrat king. You know that's right?
So let me see if I got this year? U
the genius? You contend that every store is named for the.
Speaker 7 (30:37):
People who shop there. That's what I've been saying, dolls.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
So if you're not a cartoon sailor, we don't live
in Kentucky. Where do you find your fright chicken?
Speaker 8 (30:47):
Yo?
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Were Christian folk?
Speaker 7 (30:48):
We eat at that churches? Man, because they not denomination
and all that stuff.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
Okay, now I'm really curious where do you go for
your shoe?
Speaker 7 (30:57):
I'm gonna tell you what now, no shoe carnival at
clown In fact, what you're saying, no, no, no, nuh.
What about Wing, y'all? I'm gonna tell you right now,
I don't dig on no bisones. I forget that buffalo
wild Wing. I live up in that motropolist dog, Big
City Wing.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Wait, you managed to work in a show sponsor in
a in a comedy bit?
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Uh, Jim Mutt and Darryl Kunda bonuses all the way around.
I mean, Big City Wings will have to pay for it. Ramon,
play that last fifteen seconds. I did not see that coming.
Play the last fifteen twenty seconds of that bit. I
don't what about.
Speaker 7 (31:53):
Wing, y'all. I'm gonna tell you right now. I don't
dig on no bisones. I forget that buffalo wild Wing.
I live up in that moralist dog, be shitty Wing.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Okay, that's clever, I really honestly, one more time, play
that last little bit. How does that work?
Speaker 7 (32:13):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (32:14):
Guys?
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Uh, we managed to work you into a bit.
Speaker 7 (32:17):
What about Wing, y'all? I'm gonna tell you right now,
I don't dig on no bises. I forget that Buffalo
wild Wing. I live up in that motropolist dog be
shitty wing
It's that time.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Time, time, time.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Luck and load. So Michael Very Show is on the air.
(00:35):
All right, then I'm gonna let you finish your point
because you had originally called in about a mailman.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Yeah, it doesn't seem important anymore, but but you know what,
at the same time, I'm glad the guy finally established
that I had a yacht. So do you admit it?
Speaker 4 (00:58):
No?
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Okay, maybe, okay, you don't even have anymore. Well, you
don't even have it anymore.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
No, I said I had a yacht.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
That was Yeah, but it's it's a moot point at
this at this point in the process. Fair enough, it's
a non existent moat.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Well it still exists. Well, but you don't have We're
going to argue on something else.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
No, I don't go ahead.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
So I was calling in on the mail thing because
I thought it was a little funny story that you
would have appreciated. When I was a kid, I was
probably about eighteen years older, so about six foot tall,
and I used to mow the lawn for a mail carrier.
(01:47):
He would use his personal vehicle to go out and
do the mail, and so I would mow his lawn
free of charge because he was an elderly man, and I,
you know, I wanted to, you know, help him out,
and I would go in just to let him know
I was done. But when I would walk into his house,
it was like a hoarder's dream. You'd have to walk
(02:09):
down these little aisles for me to go to the
bathroom or something like that. And he had just stacks
of mail up to my waist, magazines, mail letters, whatever,
that he just never delivered, and he would take them home.
That was the reason why I called in, I thought, But.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
There's nothing wrong with that. Now, Force don't worry that
that's a bad call. Kent Withlttle Yacht Sales dot Com. Yes, sir,
hold on, I got another are you did you put
me on speakerphone me?
Speaker 4 (02:47):
No?
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Okay, all right, hold on, let me take Travis's call
real quick. Travis, go ahead.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
Hey, sorry to take you off speakerphone there. I just
come in mid conversation physical therapy. But I was going
to define a yacht for you, Okay, I'd say little
yacht thirty two feet the Bertram MAPI that came out
back in the seventies. To the commoner, that would look
(03:14):
like a yacht. But I would not classify that as
a yacht. I'd say you have to get start getting
in the forties because you have a full sized state
room in livable quarters. That thirty two foot boat gets
real tight, real quick.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Do you have a boat I do? What do you have?
Speaker 5 (03:34):
It's a Boston Whaler two seventy dauntless.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Where do you keep it? It's kept up.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
Here on Lake Ray Hubbard, but I'm fixing the move
it down to the coast where so well, if you're
going to run out of the Galvexy yacht basin there,
this boat would be the dream boat for you.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
And let me tell you why.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
I've run this boat from South Floor.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
And up in New Hampshire.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
I didn't run it from there to there, but I
lived in South Florida and I lived in New Hampson.
I've had this boat in really rough condition, six to
eight foot beam c's crossing from you know, going from
West Palm up to Boca. And it's a center console
and it's a hybrid. And the reason why there's such
a perfect boat for galveson Bay is because it whips
up so quick. You could run fifty miles off shore,
(04:25):
catch snapper out of this boat, or be up in
the bay in skinny water, you know a foot and
a half because it's got a real shallow draft catching trout,
redfish and flounder. It's got a dive door troll, the
motor power pole, it's got twenty two hundred merks radar.
It's fantastic, loaded to the gills. How much you want
(04:45):
for it, I'll do one eighty just for you.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
I'm not in the market, and I'm just curious. What
did you give for it? I got one eighty for it? No,
what did you give for it?
Speaker 5 (05:02):
And I got it? Paid one eighty for it, and
I got a hell of a deal.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
On can't What do you think.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
To see the boat?
Speaker 1 (05:12):
If I buy a boat. I got to buy it
from Little Yacht Sales because he's my boat expert. But
I was just curious what you thought.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
I'll look he can. He can take a fee off it.
If you get it for one I'll let him take
his cut. You know, the two happiest days that you have.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
Being a boat?
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Sell it? Why are you getting rid of it?
Speaker 6 (05:30):
That's right?
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Well for what I want to do, it's it's not
practical anymore. It was perfect for for South Florida. It
was perfect for New Hampshire. But I'm a I'm a
marsh fisherman, and uh, it's just you know, it's just
a little I've got it on. It's like a catfish
Cadillac right now. It's up here on late Ray Hubbard.
I look like an idiot, you know, I'm driving around
(05:54):
this this really fancy boat that's made for the coast,
the you know, the ocean, and it's just not.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
It just don't look good. You think they look down
on you.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
I don't.
Speaker 7 (06:07):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
Maybe they they probably think it's a really fine looking boat.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Do they put their pinky finger out when they're drinking
their Miller High Life as you go by, as their
way of saying, oh, mister fancy.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
Pants, Yeah, yeah, yeah it's it's it's pretty fancy. It's
pretty fancy. But like I said, you can run fifty
miles off shore and if a storm kicks up, I
mean it's it's great. It's a battle wacken and it's
not a full size off shore boat. So for somebody
that's new to boats, it's a it's a great boat.
This boat, brand new, runs three hundred and twenty five thousand.
It's a it's a twenty twenty that I have babied.
(06:40):
I've had an indoor storage. I've owned a lot of boats.
I grew up around boats. I was driving boats and
I was six years old, putting them on an off
the trailer and docking them. What do you do for
a living, So I'm gonna stay at home death?
Speaker 1 (06:53):
What does mama do?
Speaker 5 (06:56):
She works in telecommunications.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Well, she doesn't just work there. She like to senior
vice president.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
She's pretty high up there. Yeah, yeah, she's pretty hig
up there.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
She has sugar Mama. What did you do before you
were stay at home dad?
Speaker 5 (07:12):
I did respiratory medical equipment sales and Katie and Sugar Lamb.
And before that, I had a food truck, which you
actually have me on two segments of your show.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Was it Center Court? What was what was it called.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
Breakfast Burritos?
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Anonymous?
Speaker 5 (07:27):
I had it there at Inversion coffee House. Actually, I
met Avy back in the day before he was a
you know, super big shot, and he hooked me up
with with some coffee equipment when we did off site gigs.
But there at Inversion. His only deal with me was
just don't sell coffee.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
And I was like, all right, you got it man
Ouvy Kats has done. I am so proud of him.
He has done so incredibly well. And he's done it
by being very good at what he did. It's incredible coffee,
by being Houston focused, by being extraordinarily charitable philanthropy. He
(08:07):
does more for Camp Hope. He says he does as
much for Camp Hope. He's in the Russell Ebara category
of how much he does for Camp Hope. It's incredible
what he has done at Cash Coffee. I mean, I'm
so proud. Hold On Ken, I got a boat question
for you and Michael Berry show if you're a Toto fan.
(08:32):
They are heavily featured in the yacht Rock special Wayne
writes boat versus yacht tzar. Boat manufacturers have corrupted the
term yacht by listing it as a yacht. The terms
center console, cabin cruiser, also motor yacht. Those are typically
(08:54):
flush deck or multi deck with a very large stateroom.
I've been around boats since I was ten years old,
captain many of them, all the way up to eighty feet.
I don't think of anything less than fifty foot as
a yacht, only because I'm old school. The last boat
we had was a sixty foot sport fish. Most people
would consider it a yacht, but because it was a
sport fishing convertible configuration, I don't ever think of it
(09:16):
that way. We're decent boats, but they were very middle
of the road as far as quality wise. Ramon, do
you have anything to say on this. I'm not a
boat expert. It's like guns or cars, you can get
outside of the problem is we got listeners that have
forgotten more about this than I would ever learn with
two years of intense study. And I'm very well aware
(09:37):
of that, and they love to point out when you
get something wrong. But from my very limited knowledge, my
own personal opinion is unless you have a state room,
unless you can go under and take a nap in
the air conditioning and pee, then it's not a yacht.
Well I can pee on any boat too, mister tough guy.
(09:59):
But you know what I'm sa saying. You get the
point right. Let me see something here. Well, now I've
now I've managed to activate the entire Bury boat Brigade.
Everybody out there with the boat interest Kent, I have
a question for you, Yes, Sir Kent at Little Yachtsales
dot com. So we rented a boat, Ramon, I haven't
(10:21):
told you this in Maui because my boys are never
happier than we are when we are out on a boat.
And I haven't bought a boat because their expensive is
held to maintain like a horse. And but we rented
a boat while we're out there with a captain, and
we went out to see this beautiful reef that is
(10:43):
where they did Captain Nemo. And so I sent an
email to Kent at Little Yachtsales dot com and I said, Hey,
this is the boat we've got. It's a thirty five
foot three point fifty realm Boston Whaler. And I know
that Boston Whaler makes it cost a lot more than
perhaps would be absolutely necessary because it's kind of a
(11:04):
Rolls Royce brand and and anyway, so he's I said,
how much is that boat? How much would this boat
be new? And you know, you're not a boat? Got
a million dollar boat? And I thought, my god, man,
do you know what like you look at a million
dollar house, you go you got a lot of stuff there.
You look at a million dollar boat you go, well,
well this is this is a nice boat. But it's not.
(11:27):
Is it just a boat? It's not it's not Tilman's
yacht or anything. But anyway, Kent, what is the status
of the boat business right now? You and I were
emailing about how crazy it got during COVID, and I
remember reading I have a buddy named Lance Parks. He
used to run the Galveston Yacht basin. Do you know Lance?
Speaker 6 (11:50):
I do know Lance.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
I know it's sorry too, Okay, Well, Lance and I
would email a lot during COVID, and he sent me
a Boat Trader article in the summer of twenty and
it said it was the highest boat sails in American
history that month. And then they broke it the next month.
And you said that sales were up. You wrote it
(12:10):
to me in an email a couple of days ago
that sales prices were up. I may get you wrong
fifty percent during that period of time, so a six
hundred thousand dollar boat would be a nine hundred thousand
dollars boat. I may be wrong in that, so correct me.
But where are we in pricing and volume of boat
sails right now?
Speaker 6 (12:31):
Back in COVID, it wasn't that they had gone up
any highers, just the demand was very high, so things
were selling at retail with very little discount now that's
slowed down some, which was expected. And the biggest problem
is the inflation has caused cost for new boats to
(12:52):
go up quite a bit. So boats have had a
pretty big increase in the last three years of about
ten percent a year, when normally they're about three percent
a year. But everything has gone up because of inflation.
I mean, you know, no f two to fifty truck,
it's one hundred thousand dollars now as well. So but
the state of the market's very good. We're busy, and
(13:14):
we're fortunate. We're here in Houston where we have a
year round season where it's not cold too terribly often,
and so people can boat year around here, which is fabulous.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Who's that coming and going.
Speaker 6 (13:28):
Sorry, I'm in one of my offices and the guys
are actually working here.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Oh okay, So who is who is buying boats today
that didn't buy boats before? Because I know that like
with vacation properties. They saw this in Colorado, they saw
this in Hawaii during COVID people were buying properties that
never would have because they in the past, they would
have gone to the south of France or they would
(13:53):
have gone off the coast. Degreees and now because they
couldn't travel, they bought houses in Aspen and Pebble Beach.
And who's buying boats now that didn't buy boats ten
years ago.
Speaker 6 (14:06):
I would say we're starting to get younger and younger buyers,
people under the age of forty, whereas before it was
been the majority has been baby boomers have been the
majority of the buyers. But now that that market's gotten
better with the younger crowd.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
And is this younger crowd did they grow up boating
or are they first time buyers.
Speaker 6 (14:30):
We see a lot of people that have grown up
boating that eventually do buy their own boat, but some
of them are new boaters. And the one thing about
COVID is we thought we were going to have all
these boats on the market, you know, after COVID, after
everything wore off, But in reality we did not see that.
(14:51):
I think people kept the boats, they enjoyed the lifestyle
and they kept the boat, or they actually got more
involved and bought something else.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
That's interesting. I'm surprised somebody new to boating would come
in and buy a boat that big, because that's not
a to captain a boat like that if you have
no boating experience. Seems to me like that's a pretty
big undertaking.
Speaker 6 (15:15):
It is, but it's like learning anything. Once you learn it,
it's not very difficult, and usually we try to help
people get some captain instruction if they need it, if
they're brand.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
New for sure. You know, I guess my question would be,
I didn't grow up in a boating culture. My dad
had a boat when I was young, but he had
to sell it when he built our house. It was
just a little boat. He and his brother owned it together,
and bass fishing was big and orange. So if you
went out on somebody's boat, you go out on a
little boat, little john boat, or just a little bass boat.
(15:48):
But then I came to Houston, and you know, you
would get invited with people to this what we would
have called a yacht because it did have a state
room and it was a you know, thirty thirty five
forty foot foot vote. But it strikes me that you
either everybody I knew either grew up around voting or
(16:09):
or never did it at all. And so I guess
I'm interested in who these people are who just decide,
never having been into boting culture, I'm gonna buy a.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
Boat captain something Wong well, something must be right.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
You're listening to Michael Berry. So this song comes out,
this is eighty two eighty three, we could find it
two let's again. I would have been six or seven,
eighty two or eighty three. This song comes out, and
I remember hearing this on Casey's EB. Ninety five out
(16:46):
of bomat the top forty. It was because it was
a top forty song. At that point you didn't, you know,
old songs you got to put into you know, a genre.
But at the time it is the top song. It's
just come out, that sweet sing or song. And I yes,
because of the subject, I mean, the sound, the references.
I thought this song, I thought they brought it back
(17:06):
as an oldie like it felt like something that you know,
it was Sinatra, early Sinatra era. It was a new
song that had an old feel to it because I
just it wasn't over produced.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
Maybe this can be.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
We turn it up, turned up.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
We had.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Just liked Lady Sure singing away?
Speaker 7 (17:40):
Did she love.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Kids looking at you?
Speaker 1 (17:49):
I mean when you quote it, e Largo and Casablanca
in a song with that kind of raspy voice and
you got that over the top cheesy female backers past purchase,
(18:10):
should add Jenny Fricky do the background. But another day,
all right, soon in a week can.
Speaker 6 (18:19):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
So the boating business today right now, if you were
to tell me where that's going to be a year
from now, Obviously twenty twenty we had this absolute boom.
May not see that again in our lifetime, right I
doubt it what you said that you expected at the
end of COVID that those properties, that those boats would
(18:44):
go on the market, and it didn't happen. So people
liked the boating lifestyle. But at some point it strikes
me that you've you've affected the inventory and production unless
they're just not making as many because there it just
strikes me that there's no way that all of a
sudden you had all these new boats bought and then
(19:06):
at some point those boats have to go back out
on the market to compete against the new boats. I'll
give you an example. So Tesla right now has a
real problem on their hands because for the last two
years they haven't sold enough cars and I think they're
making something like fifty more cars than they're selling. So
(19:27):
Elon cuts the market, cuts the price, slashes the price
and tries to put a lot of other people out
of business, which he did. But the problem with that
is the used tesla market was destroyed. So there are
a lot of people that had a five year old
Tesla that can't get anything for that tesla because at
some point the supply and demand have to line up.
(19:49):
And when you make when the demand goes massive overnight
and the supply doesn't change, at some point, there has
to be a true up, right, Yeah, So do you
foresee that happening.
Speaker 6 (20:04):
I think it's already happened. Twenty twenty four was quite
a bit of a slowdown in the boat market in
just about every field you know, power sail, small boats,
large boats. But now the demand is starting to come
back because the supply is starting to dwindle some. And
the biggest issue is you know areas that you know, Fortunately,
(20:28):
where we are there's plenty of slips and there's plenty
of places to keep a boat large, you know, yacht
club style marinas, But in other parts of the country,
like Florida, there's huge shortage of slips, So people are
trying to buy a boat. Came and you know, some
place is fine place to put it. But I think
a year from now the demand will actually be higher.
We've been busy since the election and had the best
(20:51):
November and December we've had in probably five years.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
What does that mean? How many boats do you sell
in November December?
Speaker 6 (20:57):
To say that, well, usually would do about one hundred
and seventy five boats a year, and we did about twenty.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
In November and December each.
Speaker 6 (21:11):
Combined ten boats a month.
Speaker 8 (21:16):
And you normally do how many we've done about one
hundred and seventy five, but in twenty twenty four we
were down quite a bit, probably around one hundred, so
it was quite a bit of a drop thirty percent.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
What's the top month for boat sails? April and May
because it's starting to get warm and people starting to
think about going out on the boat.
Speaker 6 (21:39):
It is, but we've been as busy because of the
season here. Although it's pretty cold right now. You know
in December it can be as nice as May or
June sometimes, so you know we can be as busy
in December as we are in June.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Where do you keep your boats?
Speaker 6 (21:54):
We're well, it got two offices, one at Soushore Harbor
in Leake City and one at Waterford Harbor in Chema,
which they're only a mile apart.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
I used to do that boat club, Carefree boat Club,
and they were Yes, I think they were at south
Shore Harbor, Is that right?
Speaker 6 (22:12):
I think they are at south Shore.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Still, that was kind of a good for a guy
like me that just wanted a basic little boat and
take my kids out for the weekend. I think it
was four hundred bucks a month. That was a great
deal for me.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Yes, that wasn't.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
I wasn't in the yacht business, although I did go
get my captain's training from from the owner there. He
was a show sponsor. But that was I did it
for several years. I thought that was you know, you're
in and out. You didn't if you weren't, you know,
because to buy a boat's kind of a big commitment.
But to see how much we were going to use it,
I thought that was fantastic.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (22:44):
I think those those clubs, care Free and Freedom both
club are both great. They introduced a lot of people
into the market, and of course a lot of those
people do eventually want to buy something to own it.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Well, I'm lazy coming down in the wall. If I
if I if I know that at the end of
a day out with my kids. I've got to come
back and clean the boat. That I think about that
the whole. It kind of takes a little bit of
the of the fun off for me. So are all
of those marinas booked up right now? No, they're not.
Speaker 6 (23:17):
There's vacancies. And I can tell you there's no lazier
boater than me. I've got to you just call a
fella and have him come clean the boat. Afterwards, we
just write a check and be happy.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
And go home.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
So we we we've leased a house over the years
at Pirates and so we would. I would always lease
a boat from from Lance Parks and then just go
over to Waterman's Marina and eat, come back, just to
have somewhere to go, right, It's like the guys on
the motorcycle or the airplane's go somewhere to go, and
you they they haven't had a slip available in I'll
(23:53):
bet you ten years. It's not a big marina. But
that was kind of my you know, my barometer of
there's not a lot of space for boats. Thank you,
Buddy Sales dot Com. Damn it all right, this is
Mark Chestnut Enjoy Bizaar of talk radio. Well let's say
(24:18):
you're an enterprising criminal, not a violent one, just an
enterprising one. You remember, what was it Dillinger? Who they
asked him that they thought he had some issue against
the banks, Remember, John, was it Dillinger? Derringer? Do you
(24:41):
remember them on check that? I think it was Dillinger.
They thought he had some big issue with the banks,
you know, banks or evil banks or hoarding the money.
Banks are bad people. And they asked him Dillinger. It
is Dellinger. Okay, yes, well admit I got it right.
So so the press is asking him. You know, they
(25:02):
love this guy, you know that the bank robber Bonnie
and Clyde. All right, so they asked Ellinger, why'd you
rob the bank? Expecting him to give them some big
stories so they can make a rice because that's where
the money is. So with that in mind, you're thinking
to yourself, I don't have any money, but I want
(25:23):
some money. I'm gonna go take some money from somebody
else that has money. Okay, So where do I go home?
I go to Connie and Billy's it a Corey Diamond. No,
that place is like Fort Knock, sir. Okay, well, gringos,
they're really busy. They got to have a lot of money. No,
(25:45):
remember they got hit like ten times. They fixed that.
They they went hard. Co don't try, that's a waste
of time. Let's see Eddie Martini's house. No, his wife
is his armed h Ramon's house No, nobody knows where
he lives. Let's see who would we rob? Who would
(26:08):
we rob that will have a bunch of money? Oh?
Family Dollar? Yeah, yeah, let's go. Let's go steal everything
we can at the Family Dollar because if we make
out of there with a thousand items, we've got one
(26:29):
hundred dollars worth of stuff. Because it's not worth a dollar,
that is, sell it for a dollar. Family Dollar not
the most lucrative spot. A couple along with their nineteen
year old son. These are real smart ones arrested for
a series of robberies at Family Dollar in the Houston area.
(26:51):
But you know it's a family that prays together, the
family that robs together. I mean, I guess you got
to give them credit for that clip number fourteen.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
The everyday low price is at Family Dollar. Apparently not
low enough for one family. They're on a Jennifer Whittle
as well as Jennifer's nineteen year old son at Gavin
Harper accused of robbing six dollar stores from May twelfth
to June twenty.
Speaker 9 (27:16):
Seventh, and there was a black ski mess.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
The Ron Whittle, looking incredulous at times as the tales
of his alleged crimes were read out in court. Investigators
say the couple and their son would frequently case stores
before deciding unwe to rob. It soon attracted the attention
of undercover officers who set up surveillance.
Speaker 9 (27:36):
He can also be seen on video in the store,
distracting the employees while the step son robs the store.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
There were alleged crimes for he came to an end Friday,
A police say they saw them pull up to this
Southside family dollar. They say the Wittles waited in their
car well. Harper got out and robbed the store at gunpoint.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Told the clerk he was gonna buy some.
Speaker 9 (28:00):
When she opened the registr he pulled out a gun
on the employee, telling the employee give me all of
the money.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Or I will shoot you.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Police say he only made off with a little more
than two hundred dollars. Officers moved in and arrested him
and his parents as they were driving away. According to
the couple's public defender. Both husband and wife are disabled
and only moved to Houston a few months ago. Record
show they most recently lived to Kentucky, where deronwood All
(28:30):
is due in court for an unknown offense next month.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
He does have a dollar that's blind, his wife and
seven children six months to twenty one years old.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Lots of kids, and, according to the hearing officer, lots
of out of state arrests, twenty in total.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Wait a minute, your defense of these armed robbers is
that they're disabled and blind with a bunch of kids.
How about you stop having so many kids? How about
you stop being arrested? Twenty kids, twenty arrests. Huh honey,
(29:15):
we gotta go celebrate. We got another baby. We gotta
go do another stick up, and then maybe we'll come
home and have sex again. That's your defense, is that
you're disabled. It's an armed robbery. Can you imagine the
cop that has to arrest these people? Can you imagine
(29:38):
what he's thinking.
Speaker 10 (29:41):
In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by
two separate and equally important groups, the police who investigate
crime and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
These are their stories.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
You see the thing here is, pal, I don't understand
why why the family Dollar Store?
Speaker 7 (30:00):
We needed them dollar?
Speaker 4 (30:01):
Yeah, I know that, but why the Family Dollar Store?
I mean, why not let's say the Dollar Tree or
the Dollar General.
Speaker 7 (30:07):
Because we're a family who bobbed together. We robbed a
family dollar. We've been in the army. Hell, that Dollar
General will be out of the dollars?
Speaker 1 (30:15):
You feel me?
Speaker 9 (30:16):
Dog?
Speaker 4 (30:16):
I think so, But by all means, please go on.
Speaker 7 (30:19):
It's like this, every store name for the people who
are supposed to shop there.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Right.
Speaker 7 (30:23):
I don't go to no MacDonald's because I ain't irick.
I go to that Burger King.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
Let me guess, because serrat king. You know that's right?
So let me see if I got this year? U
the genius? You contend that every store is named for the.
Speaker 7 (30:37):
People who shop there. That's what I've been saying, dolls.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
So if you're not a cartoon sailor, we don't live
in Kentucky. Where do you find your fright chicken?
Speaker 8 (30:47):
Yo?
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Were Christian folk?
Speaker 7 (30:48):
We eat at that churches? Man, because they not denomination
and all that stuff.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
Okay, now I'm really curious where do you go for
your shoe?
Speaker 7 (30:57):
I'm gonna tell you what now, no shoe carnival at
clown In fact, what you're saying, no, no, no, nuh.
What about Wing, y'all? I'm gonna tell you right now,
I don't dig on no bisones. I forget that buffalo
wild Wing. I live up in that motropolist dog, Big
City Wing.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Wait, you managed to work in a show sponsor in
a in a comedy bit?
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Uh, Jim Mutt and Darryl Kunda bonuses all the way around.
I mean, Big City Wings will have to pay for it. Ramon,
play that last fifteen seconds. I did not see that coming.
Play the last fifteen twenty seconds of that bit. I
don't what about.
Speaker 7 (31:53):
Wing, y'all. I'm gonna tell you right now. I don't
dig on no bisones. I forget that buffalo wild Wing.
I live up in that moralist dog, be shitty Wing.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Okay, that's clever, I really honestly, one more time, play
that last little bit. How does that work?
Speaker 7 (32:13):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (32:14):
Guys?
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Uh, we managed to work you into a bit.
Speaker 7 (32:17):
What about Wing, y'all? I'm gonna tell you right now,
I don't dig on no bises. I forget that Buffalo
wild Wing. I live up in that motropolist dog be
shitty wing
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