June 3, 2025 • 46 mins
- On today's show veterinarian Jim Hurl talks about this career and Paula Bothe has information on the upcoming events celebrating the life of Babe Didrikson Zaharias.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, hello Southeast Texas. So glad you're joining us on
this Saturday, the last Saturday of May, the last day
in May. Man that month has flown by. We're about
to skip into June, and you know what that brings,
hurricane season. Next week, we're going to be talking more
about hurricane preparedness and what you need to be doing
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to be ready for the potential. Now, we are always
hoping it doesn't come here. We're always praying it doesn't
come here, but if for any reason, it does, we
want to all be prepared for that. Today's show, we
have a lot more fun that's going to be happening
than hurricane preparedness. We're going to be talking to Jim
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Hurl and Paula botha both who have so many amazing
stories to tell, and we have had so much fun
in the studio just having conversation here before we even
got started, So I know you're in for a treat today.
But before we begin to visit with them, I wanted
to give you a little bit of a update on
what's going on in the real estate world. Well, we're
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seeing that interest rates ticked up just a tad, not
a lot, but they are still in a very good position.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
You know.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
I heard Al and Jim talking yesterday about that as
they were on the Morning Show, and Jim was exactly right.
The average interest rate is about seven point seven percent
over the last thirty years, and we are absolutely lower
than that.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
We are under.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Seven in most situations, where you are in the sixes
and in a great position to purchase a house. The
other benefit to us right now is our inventory. We
have a really great inventory in most price ranges. Now,
in some of our price points the inventory is a
little bit lower, but in the majority of our price
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points we are seeing at least a six and a
half month inventory, which is a pretty even market. You know,
we've talked about any thing less than about five months,
you're in a seller's market. When you get over seven months,
you're really in a buyer's market. So this five to
six month price point, I mean months of inventory, gives
us a pretty good even market for both buyers and seller.
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So if you're thinking, you know, Dana, I don't know
if it's the right time for me, I think it
would be a great idea for you to call my
office and let's sit down and visit with you about
what it will take for you to know and have
the information you need to make a decision that you
feel confident about. You can give my office a call
at four zero nine eight six six eight three two
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six and one of my team members will gladly visit
with you. Set an appointment for us to just sit
down and visit. It doesn't cost you a thing to
get a market analysis. There is no cost at all
for you to see is it the right time for
me to sell or is it the right time for
me to buy. We are absolutely happy to be able
to give you their information at no cost at all.
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So today's show, can you expect Well, Paula Bothay is
going to talk a little bit about the Babe and
what's coming up for Babe Diedrichson Zaharias and what is
the excitement around what she has done and how are
we going to honor her. She's going to give us
that information. And then Jim Hurle is actually a past client.
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I met him as we were looking at houses, and
he has an interesting story and would love for you
to hear a little bit about what brought him to
Southeast Texas and all that got him to that point.
So we're going to go ahead and give it a
start with Paula and Paula, I'd love for you, although
probably everyone listening knows exactly who you are, and if
they don't, they should because.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
You've been here for a little while.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
And you've been involved in so many things in Southeast Texas.
But tell everyone just a little bit about you.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Well, all I can tell you about me is I'm
lucky to be in Southeast Texas.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
It's my home.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
I love it here, love the people, love all the
things they are to do, and I've worked around town
in numerous projects.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
Right now, I'm working.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
For the Babe Zaharia's Museum because she was the single
most famous woman whoever was here and this was her hometown.
Theyb's been gone a while, but a lot of people
remember her. Unfortunately, some of her relatives, nephew's, nieces and
all are around. I'm going to be talking about what's
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coming up to honor her birthday, which is the twenty
sixth of June, so lots of things surrounding that. I'm
on a mission here to try to get people to
know her and love her and go to her museum
and see what a remarkable woman she was. The primary
motivation for me is that this is a critical time
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in women's sports, and we have wonderful athletes at Lamar
who are getting Babe Zaharia's scholarships and who deserve the
support of the public. It's a critical time, So saluting
the greatest lady who ever was is my mission right now.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
And I don't think I'm all that big a deal,
but she was and he is.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Well, I think you're a pretty big of a deal.
And a couple of things that people should know about you.
You have a small business here and you've been working
in South East sexis a very long time.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
Yes, I have. I've had my advertising agencies public relations
and advertising firm since nineteen seventy seven. I am over
there on McFadden, just around the corner from Rayo's and
easy to find. So I work for a lot of
different companies and individuals and have had a really wonderful
time doing that and not.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
Ready to fall off my perch yet.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
So going business, You've also had lots of activities in
the community, one of which has been the Community Players Active.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
I used to direct for the community theater. My specialty
was musical comedies. The last thing I did was music man,
and it was wonderful and fun and I enjoyed every minute.
I've met a lot of great people along the way.
Even Al Caldwell was in a show I did not direct,
but that I did the check on. And he was
interesting because he was in a show where it was
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called Played against Sam and he was the ghost of
Humphrey Bogart. So I met a lot of interesting people
and had a lot of fun with the theater. Well.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Another activity that you are involved in is the Chamber
of Commerce. As a small business person, you see the
value of the Chamber of Commerce. And I know you've
been so active on the board and then on committees
and I'm always leading the charge in many of the events.
But you're also now the chairman elect elect.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
They call it the vice chair. I always wanted to
be in charge of vice and now I can be.
My main thrust right now is working on getting to
a thousand members in the Chamber because we have a
new president and.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
She is doing wonders for the Chamber.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
It's going to be a great year and it will
culminate in October on the seventh when we have our
annual meeting, when she will be introducing us to you.
Our new chairman of the board, and Amy Levevoy is
doing a fantastic job. She's very experienced and we are
working hard to make sure that the Chamber is valuable
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to every business in town. And we encourage people to join.
A lot of small businesses don't think they can afford it,
but they can. There are many packages, many ways to
get involved, and we also have free events that they
can attend. So if you want to get in business
or stay in business, come join us at the Chamber.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Yeah, and you and I are examples of that. We
are both small business owners and we have both seen
the benefit of being involved in the Chamber and not
only how it helps our business, but how it impacts
all businesses in South East Sexes in such a way
that it's growing our community.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
And Amy Lavoy is.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Homegrown, yes, and she comes from a small business background.
Her parents owned Lavoy and Soigns, and so she was
raised in that, worked in that participated in. So she
brings a unique perspective as our president and CEO.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
She does not only with her experience with her family's
pharmacy here in town. Even after she graduated from college,
she came back and got a med Tech certificate so
she could help out with the family business while she
got a master's degree. She's worked in Africa, she's worked
in Pakistan, and she's always been at the top of
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the chain. She is a person who can get the
job done.
Speaker 6 (08:31):
She does.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
We already see it, already see the impact that she's
making and the positive impact she's making at the Chamber.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
So her emphasis on the locals, her ability to relate
to the people who are here locally and who've been
in business for a short time or a long time.
I think her ability to relate to their experience in
Southeast Texas is very helpful. But her worldwide experience makes
her just the person to make those really tough decisions,
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and she's making them. She is making us stronger and better,
and we're going to have a great run. I think
at least three years here, we're going to have a
great run.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Super excited for what the Chamber has coming in the
next several years. So stay tuned, you're going to get
to watch it. If you're not a member, we would
love for you to join us. You can go on
to the Belmont Chamber website and ask questions there or
reach out to paul or I We're happy to talk
to you about the Chamber and the ways that you
can get involved.
Speaker 6 (09:29):
For sure.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
And every Friday morning except on holiday weekends, the Chamber
has a mix and Mingle where you can come and
meet other Chamber members. It's a great networking experience. And
just go online it gives you all the details, or
look on our Facebook page.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Absolutely, we'd love to see a Friday. You don't have
to be a chamber member to come. Just come and
join us and it's from eight to nine and you
can get more detail on the website or, like Paula said,
the Facebook page. Also joining us today, Jim Hurl and
Jim tell everyone a little bit about you.
Speaker 6 (10:03):
Hi, Dana.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
It's a it's a blast to be here with you,
and I'm honored to be here with both Paula and
yourself today. Here I'm kind of the new kid in town.
So it's just wonderful to here's the cool things you
all are doing with the Chamber of Commerce. And again
it's it's neat to see the two of the business
people in the area that are making a difference for
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this great city.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
So yeah, a wonderful thing and we're so happy that
you've joined us. So you actually just relocated here less
than a year ago. And but in your past before
you came here, and we're going to talk a lot
about all the things in your past and the things
you're doing now. But you were a Northerner first, but
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you got to Texas as quick as you could, right.
Speaker 6 (10:51):
I'm a Yankee living in the South.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
I grew up in Michigan, spent many of my years there,
and I'm a veterinarian, a retired veterinarian now semi retire.
And I had my own practice in Michigan many years ago.
Over forty years ago, I started teaching veterinary nurses or
veterinary technicians, and I've been the director and professor in
four different programs over the last forty years. I've seen
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over three thousand of my students graduate in that time.
I'm a low tech man in a high tech world.
On a scale of one to one hundred, I'm probably
thirty seven.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
I don't believe that, nor.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Does my wife Tury. Yes, maybe i'm moderate tech now.
But basically I've taught in a face to face, two
face to face programs, a hybrid program and a totally
online program and during that time, and it's been a blast.
I loved my students throughout the years. I still have
some great connections through social media, especially Facebook, with some
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of my graduates from many years ago, so it's kind
of cool to stay in touch and see the awesome
things they're doing with their career. I came to Texas well.
Actually I came to the South in New Orleans, Louisiana
about two thousand and four to start a program at
Delgado Community College. And our first day of class was
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four days before Hurricane Katrina. And needless to say, that
pushed me into online technology that I had to do
if I wanted to keep this program going and graduate
the first class on time, which we did, so it's
been kind of an interesting journey there. I moved to
Texas about a little over ten years ago, and I
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have taught online for a program totally online. And also
I had an opportunity to start teaching at Blynn College
in Brian, Texas, associated with Texas A and M's Vet School.
What a wonderful, exciting opportunity, and we were actually housed,
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our students were housed in the Vet School at A
and m so it's kind of a cool thing. And
so I met this wonderful, wonderful woman, you know, Teresa,
a sweet, spirited, wonderful, beautiful Christian woman, and we just
got together. She was a widow and I had come
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through kind of an ugly divorce and we were just
getting together for dinner occasionally three years ago, and one
thing led to another, and we got married last summer,
and literally she wanted to live closer to her son,
daughter in law, and granddaughter who's in Sour Lake. So
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we up and moved. After we got married in June,
we up and moved to Beaumont area, and so here
we are. And the neat thing is because I'm doing
things online. I retired to spend more time with her,
but I'm teaching online part time. And I had a
consultant job that came up with a wonderful private company
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that's created heading wonderful quality continuing education for veterinary technicians, veterinarians,
veninary assistants, and receptionists. So I've had a blast with that.
And it's just it's been cool to be here. I
loved living my time in New Orleans. I used to
tease people in New Orleans that I live in the swamp,
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but I came from the swamp. There's a temperate swamp
up in Michigan called Wetlands, and the swamp the subtropical swamp.
In New Orleans they call Bayou. So moved to North
Texas to be close to Teresa. Then we got married
and we moved here, and I teased her and I said, well,
I live in the swamp. Again.
Speaker 6 (14:42):
I'm pretty excited about that. I love My undergraduate.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Degree was biology, and I was pursuing a master's in entomology,
believe it or not when I went to bed school,
and so I love all the critters, especially butterflies and moths,
and so I'm so excited again. I mean, North Texas
was okay, it had some some of my favorite things.
Speaker 6 (15:03):
But here in.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
This area it's it's not a rainforest, but it's a
lot of cool things to see. God's nature is so
dramatically beautiful and and so it's been fun to be here.
We're just kind of getting started and putting our roots down. Dana,
thank you, because originally Teresa was going to build on
her son's property, but there was just not enough room
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for the house. She wanted to build, and you helped
us to find a wonderful home. And Teresa loves interior design,
and she literally has taken a home that was beautiful
to start with and has renovated it.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
We'd like to invite you back to come see it.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Love to come see Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Yeah, you know, I could live anywhere. I could live
in a tent with this beautiful world. Yeah, but when
I see what she has done on the inside of
this house, it's like, wow, Yeah, we haven't even touched
a lot of the outside yet that she wants to fix.
I'm gonna have a butterfly garden, lots of flowers and
cool times of butterfly bushes and lantana and some of
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the things that really attract the butterflies, including the monarchs.
And I want to be able to grow those caterpillars
again like I did actually in Lubbock, Texas a few
years ago. So it's just been kind of a fun
journey and we're delighted to be here. We find a
wonderful church thanks to you, Dana, and we're just we're
loving being here.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
And so one of the things that I try to
tell people is when I'm helping guide someone to find
a home. It's not just finding a home, it's finding
a life, finding a lifestyle, getting connected and for you guys,
getting connected into a local church was super important, and
so gave you the names of several really good churches
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we have here and you ended up joining the one
I go to And so I get to see you
occasionally on a Sunday morning and say hello and be
able to with you and Teresa. But I'm super excited
to talk further about all that that you've just kind
of given us a little teaser on. So we are
going to come back, and when we come back, we
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are going to talk to Paula Bothe about uh, this
wonderful event coming up with the Babe.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Don't go away, We'll be right back. Welcome back.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
This is Dana Simmons, and I'm so excited to have
both Jim Hurl and Paula Bothe with me today. And Paula,
you have all kinds of exciting news to talk to
us about. The Babe Diedrichson Zaharia's birthday bash.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
That's coming up so last three days.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Yes, and so for those who don't know who is she,
talk to us a little bit about why she's so
important and should be honored here in Southeast Texas.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Babe diedricks and Zazaharias was the most unique female athlete
who ever lived. She won sixty two golf curtains by herself.
But the most important thing that she did was she
grew up as a little girl who was determined to
be the best at everything she did. She started running
track when she was very young, and she convinced the
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neighbors to cut their hedges at the proper height so
she could use them for her track run. So she'd
be jumping hurdles and she would run the neighborhood and
jump those hedges. Babe went to a championship event in
field and track as the only representative of Texas, and
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she won all the gold medals. This was in the thirties.
She managed to get herself to the Olympics in San
Francisco where she won three gold and I think four
or five silvers and once again was the member of
the team. She paid her own way, She had no sponsors.
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She works her whole life in sports. She did everything
from striking, out stand musial and you have to be
really old to know who stand musial was, we're a
big baseball fan.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
Like I am.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
She was the premiere female athlete athlete. She played professional basketball,
she played professional softball. She was the most unique and
accomplished female athlete who ever lived. Nobody has touched any
of her records. And it wasn't just that she could
swim or jump or run, she did it all. In fact,
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there is a lady here in town whose father was
her sparring partner when she boxed a little bit, and
I believe she's going to be at our event on Saturday,
the twenty eighth, so three days of birthday bash.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
On the twenty sixth.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
The city of Beaumont is declaring the twenty sixth of June,
which is actually Babe's birthday, her a official day in Beaumont.
And it's a great day if you're a family to
bring your kids out and show them what one person
can do when they set their mind to it, who
never took no for an answer all day long. The museum,
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which is very easy to find. It's on Interstate Access Road.
If you just go north on MLK and turn under
the freeway, it'll be on your.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
Right about half a block.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
It's beautiful it's shaped like a circle because it's one
of the five Olympic rings. The main building and then
four garden areas around it, which from the air look
like the rings of the Olympics. You can go online
to Babe Ditrichson Zaharias Museum or Foundation and see the pictures.
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It's really wonderful And a neat thing happened the other day.
Some guy who was here for a motorcycle event has
a motorcycle named Babe, so he came and posed in
front of the Babe with his Babe to put online
as his tribute to Babe Zaharias. And we're trying to
get the kids to come out and have their picture
made in front of the Babe when they're there to
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visit a lot of neat things. They're marvelous things there.
The Thursday, the twenty sixth of June is a great
day to go. On Friday, the twenty seventh, the city
of Beaumont is going to be showing the movie Babe.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
Now it's not about the pig.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
It's about Babe Zaharias and her life in sports. And
mister Zaharias was a professional wrestler. Her name was Dietrichson,
and they called her Babe because she hit as many
home runs in her little league as Babe Ruth hit
in the Big Times, and she was playing against some boys,
so she was the Babe. On Friday night, we will
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have a showing of the movie. We'll be recognizing the
Lamar University ladies who have won the Babez Haarias Scholarships,
and some of Babe's retives are going to be in
the house to talk a little bit about her, and
it's just going to be a great time, a great evening.
Speaker 5 (22:06):
The organ is going to.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
Mystically rise out of the floor of the Jefferson for
the first time in a really long time, and good
old Tom is going to play the organ for a
concert before the movie, and I think that's going to
be a really neat thing, an even neater thing as
far as I'm concerned. Saturday morning, at ten o'clock, we
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are going to unveil the Presidential Medal of Freedom that
was avoided posthumously to the Babe by President Trump, and
our friend W. L. Bubba Pate, who is a longtime
fixture in this area, received it. On behalf of the museum.
We have the actual medal, the certificate that's signed by
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mister Trump. We're going to unveil that at the museum
on the twenty eighth at about ten oh two. We
like to be prompt and there will be cake. Jake t.
Taurus promised me there will be cake from REOs.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
So if you don't know anything about.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
Medals of Freedom, you don't know anything about the President's Award,
you don't know anything about the Olympics or Athletics or
babes areas, you do know about cake. So come join
us and get to know the wonders of this great lady.
Who is ours ours, I tell you, And I'm always
surprised when people say, well, I've been here my whole
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life and I've never been shame on you go.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
It's really great. And it's open five.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Days a week, Monday through Saturday, nine to five, and
it is fr e Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
And this summer while the kids are out and you
have no idea what to do with them, what a
great inspiration to be able to take them over to
that museum, even if you can't get there, while we
would love for you to get there. The twenty sixth,
twenty seventh, and twenty eight for the events. I'll tell you,
you have the whole summer to head out there, especially
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for moms of girls.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Oh yeah, I think.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
It's just such a testimony that in the thirties, when
it wasn't a thing for women to do all that
she did, she overcame all of that. Yes, and if
she was alive today and it had won all of that,
her face would be on every magazine, she would be
on every TV. You know, the things that she would have,
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what did accomplish, would be just crazy today. And so
for us, I think it is such an honor that
we have her information here, and the challenge is that
we don't take it seriously enough. So I'm super excited.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
I am.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
I am going to be there on the twenty six
I would love to see that movie on the twenty seventh,
and that's going to be at the Jefferson Theater. And
it's a pretty inexpensive ticket to be able to do that.
I think it's six dollars for a ticket. So you
can bring the family. They have popcorn, they have all
the things you need to sit and enjoy a show. Uh,
And so we would like to invite you to do
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that when we come back. We will talk to Jim
Hurl and maybe follow up with a few more points
from Paula BOTHI but don't go away. This is the
Dana Simmons Show, Na Simmons and we have been visiting
with Paula Bothe about the Babe Didrichs and Zaharias birthday
bash that's going to be going on in Southeast Texas,
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and that's going to be on June twenty sixth, twenty seventh,
and twenty eighth. And we will get back to Paula
in just a little bit for her to talk a
little bit more about that. But for right now, I'd
love for you to hear more from Jim Hurl. And
Jim gave you a little bit of an intro into
who he is and what he has done. He was
up in Michigan, but then headed down south and he
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and his beautiful wife Teresa found their way into Sour
Lake and are a part of our community now. And
so Jim talk a little bit about I know that
you started out in Michigan as a veterinarian, but then
you've you've moved on to so many different things and
now you have a new opportunity that has just come
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your way as well. I mean, how long have you
been in this veterinarian industry.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
It's been a little while.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
I have loved every moment of it. Actually, it's interesting, Dana.
I'm still mentally twenty six, but my body says I've
had that birthday a few times.
Speaker 6 (26:30):
Yeah, but you know, I graduated from.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Michigan State University Goes Spartans, Go Green and in seventy four,
and we had our fiftieth anniversary last year. Was great
to be back with many of my classmates. And they
still look pretty in good shape.
Speaker 6 (26:48):
Yeah, some of.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Them wrestle the big dogs and the big animals, but
it's just neat to have seen who they are and
what they're still doing. And many of us have semi retired.
I think oldarians they don't die, they just keep working.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Listen, I'm going to tell you, I'm a huge fan
of doctor Pohle, and I am always shocked as I
watch him wrestling some of those big animals to do
all the things that he I mean, he's not young, yeah,
and yet he gets in there and does all that
with those horses and cows, and I'm always shocked at
how I guess it keeps you in good shape whenever
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you keep your mind going and.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
Keep your body going.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
And so it's a testimony to the amazing talent that
you still have. So talk a little bit about the
opportunity that has come to you now.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Well, it's been interesting. I'm entrepreneurial and that's when I
had my practice. It was tough to decide to sell
the practice to teach full time, but I love teaching also.
And over the years, when I was teaching online for
a program that had many thousands of students, I had
a chance to meet a veterinarian named Jill Clark and
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her husband, doctor Bob Mrta. And it's interesting that they
were both national leaders in the veterinary profession working for
large corporate practices. They were both chief medical officers for
two large veterinary practices corporate practices, and so I got
to meet her when I was teaching online and we
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just connected really well, the three of us, and so
as I semi retired to be able to spend more
time with Teresa, Jill contacted me and said, Hey, would
you be interested in doing some consulting work with us?
And I already knew that she had a pro a
company called Ignite Veterinary Solutions and basically she had set
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up continuing education programs for doctors, technicians, assistants and receptionists,
oh and practice managers. So and she was always quality,
always first, last, quality. So she wanted me to kind
of come to work to get some of her veterinary
technician students to do a little more social media, which
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was my thing when I worked for the big company
that had lots of students online. And so one thing
led to another, and interestingly enough, we're building a Facebook
page that came from zero to now almost seven hundred members,
and they're starting to do exactly that. And that's to
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connect back and forth, which there's so much wisdom on
the animal healthcare teams, not just the veterinarians, but anybody
that's worked five, ten, fifteen years on one of those teams. Oh,
they've seen some amazing, amazing medical and surgical challenges sometimes
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and to have them be able to share with one
another so much wisdom. And so that was kind of
my thing that I did well at the online program
I was with, and Jill is just a lighted to
see it's growing that way.
Speaker 6 (30:02):
And she has.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Also set up a veterinary assistant program that she asked
me just recently to become program director for and I'm
so honored. I've been a program director at for vet
tech programs, better nursing programs, but this is the first
time the veterinary assistant.
Speaker 6 (30:18):
If you kind of look at the organizational chart, if
you will.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
There's the doctor, then we have the practice manager who
oversees all the business sides, and then there's the veterinary
technician who is kind of the right hand to the doctor.
And then there's the assistants who helped the doctors and technicians,
the receptionists who basically really run the business with their
wonderful skills up front with clients, emotional clients, with their
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pets who they love dearly. So it's interesting Jill's covered
all the bases for quality online training for them, and
it's just been interesting that it's I guess if you
think of a dental practice, you have the dentist the
hygienist that I'm assistant. So basically there's a difference between
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a veterinary technician or a veterinary nurse and a veterinary assistant,
and that is the assistant doesn't have quite as much
education or usually experience as the technician. So it's again
a lot of people think, oh, technician, assistant, they're all
the same.
Speaker 6 (31:24):
Well they're not.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
You know, they're very important on the team. But just
like at a dentist, the hygienist doesn't do assistant work,
the assistant doesn't do hygienist work. So basically, again, Jill
is helping to really define online in a quality way
all of the members of the animal healthcare team with
amazingly quality education they can get online. And it's interesting
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she just started something. She is the she's really developed
the only educational program for veterinary receptionists cs rs as
they call them uh in the country. And now she
has also organized through one of the national leaders that
teach veterinary practice management, they've they've organized an organization that's
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actually the first professional organization for veterinary receptionists. So it's
really cool to work with her, and she's she's so
much fun to work with, and she's a big picture person.
I'm a big picture person, but she has this awesome
technician who basically puts together but.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
It makes it happen. You got to have you've got
to have the big picture person. You got to have
the person who makes it happen. And what I love
about all of this is is the conversation about technology
and how connecting people together can help one another. You know,
it's it's in every single industry. The way that technology
has helped, the way that either a hurricane or the
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way that COVID made us rely far more on technology
than we did before, has expanded how we can all
do business. I mean it's expanded the way we do business.
I can do business with someone out of the country
we do we can do a zoom call to do
our listing presentations. I mean, there are so many options
available to us today that really increases our ability to
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give great customer service.
Speaker 6 (33:23):
So true. Yeah, you know it's interesting, Dana.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
I years ago I read a book called Mega Trends
by Donnasbit. I don't know if you remember that book
or not. I talked about the ten significant trends coming
to America and the world because of the computer revolution.
This was back in the eighties or nineties. Yeah, and
one of the ten trends was high tech high touch.
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We're literally technology was coming in, but unless we really
remembered the soft skills, the connections with people. We just
couldn't go digital or talking a lot about AI and
that's here. But the real key is that personal touch.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
That personal connection absolutely makes a difference in every single sector,
and it's what for us is critical because you just
telling me you need a three two two, you know,
when you're looking for a house. While that's all great,
what's better is for us to sit down and me
to hear.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
How you want to live in that home.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
What can we do, how can I connect with you
to help find what means the most to you? And
so you're exactly right. The technology is so important, but
that individual connection is what makes it grow, what makes
it better. But one of the things that I love
is that you and I have a connection, and that
I found a little sweet puppy which was a Morky.
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And then I had just sold you and Teresa your house,
and you had talked about the fact while we were
looking at houses. You Anita Yard want to get a dog,
and Teresa was always kind of hesitant about that. And
then here I found my Charlie. So I called and said, okay,
Charlie has a brother and we need to be related. Okay,
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so we need to set you up with Charlie's brother.
And so after showing pictures and a little bit of time,
Teresa came along and said, you know, maybe that's not
so bad, and so talk a little bit about your baby.
Speaker 6 (35:22):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
Uh. You know, it was so cool because when we
did final inspection with you for the house before we
moved in, the first thing you did when we came
in was you were closing the deal with Teresa about
Charlie's brother, and she bought into it, and I thought,
this is awesome, Oh my goodness. And so we got
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little the little dude, and he immediately connected with me.
I mean I part of my I'm the dog whisperer.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
Huh yeah right, it's your job.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
I have that animal magnetism. I guess I loved getting
down on the ground when I was younger to talk
to the dogs. It wasn't to make the owners think, well,
he's a pretty cool guy. I just loved getting down
talking to the dogs. So that was always my thing.
And so it was just interesting when we first visited
this little boy at the breeder, he just jumped up
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and we connected and it's like and Teresa still wasn't sure,
but the interesting thing that's happened. I call him Storm
and Norman. I named him after Norm Cash, who was
one of the Detroit Tigers who hit massive home runs,
played left handed. First basement, which is my hero growing
up as a kid. Storm and Norman Cash. So we
have Storm and Norman and that's trus brother. And the
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amazing thing is, within about one or two weeks, Teresa
fell in love.
Speaker 6 (36:50):
With this little boy.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
She'd never had an indoor dog before. Previously in her
life with her sons growing up, they always had outdoor dogs,
him in the house, and here all of a sudden
she just fell in love with Storm and Norman and
so but he's he I'm his main man, and he
loves sitting on my lap. And it's interesting, I said, honey,
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you're kind of the goodie lady. She gives treats for
him to sit, stay down and so on. And I'm
the trainer. I throw the I throw the toys for him,
so you bring in the calories and I knock him
out with him running back and forth. So it's been
a it's been a fun thing. And it's you know again,
one of the things I have seen over the years,
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seniors should have pets. And they have done studies over
the years, even since I was a young veterinarian. I
saw the studies that they have. They have a better
quality of life, They have less depression and anxiety as
they get into their seasoned years because they have something
they can take care of who loves them back. And again,
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this this little boy just loves both of his peeps.
Speaker 5 (37:58):
Oh yeah, he throws.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
That's when we go out the door to read somewhere
and he gives those dirty guilty eyes to us again. Yeah,
but again, it's just it's just been cool to watch
and Teresa just loves this little boy.
Speaker 4 (38:15):
Well.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
And then here's the other challenge as a veterinarian, connecting
you with a veterinarian. And so you know, I connected
you with uh my doctor doctor Seymour at Beaumont West,
who I absolutely think is the best. He is truly,
he has brought so many of my dogs back from
death I mean, and giving them a great life when
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things have been hard. So when you said, okay, now
I need a really good veterinarian, I referred doctor Seymour
over to you, and you had nothing but great things
to say about him.
Speaker 2 (38:47):
He's a first class quality integrity veterinarian whose services. Again
he's about high tech and high touch. Yes, his receptionists
are awesome on the computer, but at the same time
they are so soon for front they are, so it's
that high tech, high touch combo that's just wonderful. And
it's been interesting to see that. You know, we've referred
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Teresa's son and daughter in law who got another got
a Yorkie and so you know, they just love him also. Yeah,
and you know, it's just kind of one of those
things where it's neat to see businesses that still understand
the need for that human relationship.
Speaker 3 (39:26):
Right, Yeah, so much.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
Well, it's been such a pleasure visiting with you, Jim.
We'll have to have you back.
Speaker 3 (39:31):
I know.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
One of the things that you said is you used
to have a radio show as well.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
I did in Sliddell, Louisiana, right close to Dollins, not.
Speaker 3 (39:40):
Too far from here. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
So what they think about your northern accent, you brought
it back down. You got a little southern with that, Huh.
Speaker 2 (39:47):
I have.
Speaker 6 (39:48):
I have a little bit of Southern.
Speaker 2 (39:50):
But again, it was such a cool, uh, it was
there was a partnership. I had a wonderful partner who
loved animals and knew the animal industry very very well,
and I was kind of the guy that it knew
the medicine side. So we had a call in show
on this little slide Dell, Louisiana radio station, and I
forget the name of it.
Speaker 6 (40:07):
It was like all about animals or something like that.
Speaker 2 (40:09):
Yeah, we just had a blast, yeah, doing it years ago.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
So in our conversation is as we were looking at
houses and all that and I was doing this radio
show we had we had this conversation. I said, I'm
going to have you on my show one day, and
so we we we made it happen. So it's been
a pleasure to connect with you for a little bit
on the show and let everyone get to know you
and get to well. And when we come back, we're
going to talk to Paula again and just remind you
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guys about some of the events that are coming up
for Babe Diedrichsen, Sa Harrius and her birthday bash. So
don't go away. This is the Dana Simmons Show. Welcome back.
This is Dana Simmons and we've been enjoying an incredible
conversation with Jim Hurl and he's been giving us some
information about his long tenure as a veterinarian and all
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that he's done. And we got to visit a little
bit about Charlie's brother Storm and Norman, and looking forward
to the day that we can get the two of
them together. Also, this afternoon, not even evening yet, seems longer,
I know, it really does. This afternoon we have Paula
Bothe with us, and she's been talking a little bit
about the Babe and all that she accomplished here in
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our area. So tell me exactly where did she grow up.
Speaker 4 (41:25):
She grew up in Beaumont in South Park. In fact,
I think the house where she lived is still there.
And my friend Madeleine Newman, that was her family name,
knew her, yeah, and she was a little kid, So
the Beaumont Babe thing is permanent. She was born in
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Port Arthur and our friend Tom Neil down at the
Museum of the Gulf Coast was nice enough to come
over and we loaned him, because we're very sweet with
real stipulations, a couple of her golf clubs and one
of her trophies to put in the Museum of the
Gulf Coast. In honor her being born down there, and
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also to show people this is what you can see
if you go see the big museum over.
Speaker 3 (42:12):
In Beaumont and so boring port. Author but grew up
in Beaumont.
Speaker 4 (42:16):
Yes, graduated from Beaumont High School, and was in sports
at Beaumont High and as you pointed out, earlier girls
didn't have all the sports opportunities that they have now.
But she did everything that she could. And that's why
a lot of people go, oh.
Speaker 5 (42:32):
Mubs, I mean it's gonna be long hauls.
Speaker 4 (42:35):
No, it's a circle. It's very intimate, and you can
get so close. You can really read the riding on
the trophies and there are many, many of them, and
especially nice for all the high tech kids, there are
chiev screens that show her performances at the Olympics and
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as a golfer, and in all of her experiences that
they had a there was always a camera nearby. And
so the only thing that nobody ever believes in and
I have to tell them this. Once, when there was
sort of a slack period in her athletic career, she
decided that she still had to be doing something, so
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she learned to play the harmonica and she was actually
on the Vaudeville Circle circuit with my harmonica playing Wow.
And they're all talent museum something. If you moms want
something to give to your little girl forever and error,
there is a wonderful doll, the Babes Harris doll.
Speaker 5 (43:38):
It's a collector's item. We have all left.
Speaker 4 (43:41):
There are left, and when they're gone, they're gone. But
along with the doll dressed as a golfer, you get
a tiny little golf club and a harmonica and they're.
Speaker 5 (43:53):
In a gift box.
Speaker 4 (43:55):
And my goodness is twenty bucks. Yeah, a very nice
thing to hide for Chris us. But in the museum,
it's not one of those things where you walk yourself
to death. Everything's very close and up close you can
see them. I'm particularly interested after the twenty eighth and
people bringing their kids to see the Medal of Freedom
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because it is so rare and it's so gorgeous.
Speaker 5 (44:20):
You just can imagine.
Speaker 4 (44:20):
And we have pictures of the presentation where Colonel Pate
was there and received the awards. So if you want
to see real trophies, silver trophies and big plaques and
other things, plus views of what she did it's all
right there. Yeah, it's free. There's a docents there who
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will tell you everything you need to know and answer
your questions. There are books that you can buy to
read about her, very economically priced. And then there's also
a screen where you can press and look at the
names of all of the ladies who have won the
Zarias skull ships and what and what sport they won
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them in. Not too long ago, we had a lady
bring her grandchildren to see that she was on the
list home. So come to thea Zarius Museum anytime, but
especially on our birthday.
Speaker 1 (45:16):
So is there any place is there a place that
people could go to get the information about the dates?
Is there a website's.
Speaker 5 (45:21):
Online where you can look up me.
Speaker 4 (45:24):
I'm on the line at Paula both the botch and
of course the Babe Zaharias Museum website and also the
Babe Zaharias Foundation website.
Speaker 3 (45:38):
Right.
Speaker 1 (45:38):
Well, it has been such a joy to have both
of you here with us today. Thank you so much
for the information. And again that's on the twenty sixth,
twenty seventh and twenty eighth of June. You don't want
to miss it. Thank you so much. For joining us
on this beautiful Saturday. Be back with us next week.
We're going to talk about hurricane preparedness at the Danis
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Simmons Show. Have a great afternoon.
Speaker 5 (46:01):
Thank you, Dan, Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (46:03):
Dan
Well, hello Southeast Texas. So glad you're joining us on
this Saturday, the last Saturday of May, the last day
in May. Man that month has flown by. We're about
to skip into June, and you know what that brings,
hurricane season. Next week, we're going to be talking more
about hurricane preparedness and what you need to be doing
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to be ready for the potential. Now, we are always
hoping it doesn't come here. We're always praying it doesn't
come here, but if for any reason, it does, we
want to all be prepared for that. Today's show, we
have a lot more fun that's going to be happening
than hurricane preparedness. We're going to be talking to Jim
(00:41):
Hurl and Paula botha both who have so many amazing
stories to tell, and we have had so much fun
in the studio just having conversation here before we even
got started, So I know you're in for a treat today.
But before we begin to visit with them, I wanted
to give you a little bit of a update on
what's going on in the real estate world. Well, we're
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seeing that interest rates ticked up just a tad, not
a lot, but they are still in a very good position.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
You know.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
I heard Al and Jim talking yesterday about that as
they were on the Morning Show, and Jim was exactly right.
The average interest rate is about seven point seven percent
over the last thirty years, and we are absolutely lower
than that.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
We are under.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Seven in most situations, where you are in the sixes
and in a great position to purchase a house. The
other benefit to us right now is our inventory. We
have a really great inventory in most price ranges. Now,
in some of our price points the inventory is a
little bit lower, but in the majority of our price
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points we are seeing at least a six and a
half month inventory, which is a pretty even market. You know,
we've talked about any thing less than about five months,
you're in a seller's market. When you get over seven months,
you're really in a buyer's market. So this five to
six month price point, I mean months of inventory, gives
us a pretty good even market for both buyers and seller.
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So if you're thinking, you know, Dana, I don't know
if it's the right time for me, I think it
would be a great idea for you to call my
office and let's sit down and visit with you about
what it will take for you to know and have
the information you need to make a decision that you
feel confident about. You can give my office a call
at four zero nine eight six six eight three two
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six and one of my team members will gladly visit
with you. Set an appointment for us to just sit
down and visit. It doesn't cost you a thing to
get a market analysis. There is no cost at all
for you to see is it the right time for
me to sell or is it the right time for
me to buy. We are absolutely happy to be able
to give you their information at no cost at all.
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So today's show, can you expect Well, Paula Bothay is
going to talk a little bit about the Babe and
what's coming up for Babe Diedrichson Zaharias and what is
the excitement around what she has done and how are
we going to honor her. She's going to give us
that information. And then Jim Hurle is actually a past client.
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I met him as we were looking at houses, and
he has an interesting story and would love for you
to hear a little bit about what brought him to
Southeast Texas and all that got him to that point.
So we're going to go ahead and give it a
start with Paula and Paula, I'd love for you, although
probably everyone listening knows exactly who you are, and if
they don't, they should because.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
You've been here for a little while.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
And you've been involved in so many things in Southeast Texas.
But tell everyone just a little bit about you.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Well, all I can tell you about me is I'm
lucky to be in Southeast Texas.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
It's my home.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
I love it here, love the people, love all the
things they are to do, and I've worked around town
in numerous projects.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
Right now, I'm working.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
For the Babe Zaharia's Museum because she was the single
most famous woman whoever was here and this was her hometown.
Theyb's been gone a while, but a lot of people
remember her. Unfortunately, some of her relatives, nephew's, nieces and
all are around. I'm going to be talking about what's
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coming up to honor her birthday, which is the twenty
sixth of June, so lots of things surrounding that. I'm
on a mission here to try to get people to
know her and love her and go to her museum
and see what a remarkable woman she was. The primary
motivation for me is that this is a critical time
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in women's sports, and we have wonderful athletes at Lamar
who are getting Babe Zaharia's scholarships and who deserve the
support of the public. It's a critical time, So saluting
the greatest lady who ever was is my mission right now.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
And I don't think I'm all that big a deal,
but she was and he is.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Well, I think you're a pretty big of a deal.
And a couple of things that people should know about you.
You have a small business here and you've been working
in South East sexis a very long time.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
Yes, I have. I've had my advertising agencies public relations
and advertising firm since nineteen seventy seven. I am over
there on McFadden, just around the corner from Rayo's and
easy to find. So I work for a lot of
different companies and individuals and have had a really wonderful
time doing that and not.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
Ready to fall off my perch yet.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
So going business, You've also had lots of activities in
the community, one of which has been the Community Players Active.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
I used to direct for the community theater. My specialty
was musical comedies. The last thing I did was music man,
and it was wonderful and fun and I enjoyed every minute.
I've met a lot of great people along the way.
Even Al Caldwell was in a show I did not direct,
but that I did the check on. And he was
interesting because he was in a show where it was
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called Played against Sam and he was the ghost of
Humphrey Bogart. So I met a lot of interesting people
and had a lot of fun with the theater. Well.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Another activity that you are involved in is the Chamber
of Commerce. As a small business person, you see the
value of the Chamber of Commerce. And I know you've
been so active on the board and then on committees
and I'm always leading the charge in many of the events.
But you're also now the chairman elect elect.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
They call it the vice chair. I always wanted to
be in charge of vice and now I can be.
My main thrust right now is working on getting to
a thousand members in the Chamber because we have a
new president and.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
She is doing wonders for the Chamber.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
It's going to be a great year and it will
culminate in October on the seventh when we have our
annual meeting, when she will be introducing us to you.
Our new chairman of the board, and Amy Levevoy is
doing a fantastic job. She's very experienced and we are
working hard to make sure that the Chamber is valuable
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to every business in town. And we encourage people to join.
A lot of small businesses don't think they can afford it,
but they can. There are many packages, many ways to
get involved, and we also have free events that they
can attend. So if you want to get in business
or stay in business, come join us at the Chamber.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Yeah, and you and I are examples of that. We
are both small business owners and we have both seen
the benefit of being involved in the Chamber and not
only how it helps our business, but how it impacts
all businesses in South East Sexes in such a way
that it's growing our community.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
And Amy Lavoy is.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Homegrown, yes, and she comes from a small business background.
Her parents owned Lavoy and Soigns, and so she was
raised in that, worked in that participated in. So she
brings a unique perspective as our president and CEO.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
She does not only with her experience with her family's
pharmacy here in town. Even after she graduated from college,
she came back and got a med Tech certificate so
she could help out with the family business while she
got a master's degree. She's worked in Africa, she's worked
in Pakistan, and she's always been at the top of
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the chain. She is a person who can get the
job done.
Speaker 6 (08:31):
She does.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
We already see it, already see the impact that she's
making and the positive impact she's making at the Chamber.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
So her emphasis on the locals, her ability to relate
to the people who are here locally and who've been
in business for a short time or a long time.
I think her ability to relate to their experience in
Southeast Texas is very helpful. But her worldwide experience makes
her just the person to make those really tough decisions,
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and she's making them. She is making us stronger and better,
and we're going to have a great run. I think
at least three years here, we're going to have a
great run.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Super excited for what the Chamber has coming in the
next several years. So stay tuned, you're going to get
to watch it. If you're not a member, we would
love for you to join us. You can go on
to the Belmont Chamber website and ask questions there or
reach out to paul or I We're happy to talk
to you about the Chamber and the ways that you
can get involved.
Speaker 6 (09:29):
For sure.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
And every Friday morning except on holiday weekends, the Chamber
has a mix and Mingle where you can come and
meet other Chamber members. It's a great networking experience. And
just go online it gives you all the details, or
look on our Facebook page.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Absolutely, we'd love to see a Friday. You don't have
to be a chamber member to come. Just come and
join us and it's from eight to nine and you
can get more detail on the website or, like Paula said,
the Facebook page. Also joining us today, Jim Hurl and
Jim tell everyone a little bit about you.
Speaker 6 (10:03):
Hi, Dana.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
It's a it's a blast to be here with you,
and I'm honored to be here with both Paula and
yourself today. Here I'm kind of the new kid in town.
So it's just wonderful to here's the cool things you
all are doing with the Chamber of Commerce. And again
it's it's neat to see the two of the business
people in the area that are making a difference for
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this great city.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
So yeah, a wonderful thing and we're so happy that
you've joined us. So you actually just relocated here less
than a year ago. And but in your past before
you came here, and we're going to talk a lot
about all the things in your past and the things
you're doing now. But you were a Northerner first, but
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you got to Texas as quick as you could, right.
Speaker 6 (10:51):
I'm a Yankee living in the South.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
I grew up in Michigan, spent many of my years there,
and I'm a veterinarian, a retired veterinarian now semi retire.
And I had my own practice in Michigan many years ago.
Over forty years ago, I started teaching veterinary nurses or
veterinary technicians, and I've been the director and professor in
four different programs over the last forty years. I've seen
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over three thousand of my students graduate in that time.
I'm a low tech man in a high tech world.
On a scale of one to one hundred, I'm probably
thirty seven.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
I don't believe that, nor.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Does my wife Tury. Yes, maybe i'm moderate tech now.
But basically I've taught in a face to face, two
face to face programs, a hybrid program and a totally
online program and during that time, and it's been a blast.
I loved my students throughout the years. I still have
some great connections through social media, especially Facebook, with some
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of my graduates from many years ago, so it's kind
of cool to stay in touch and see the awesome
things they're doing with their career. I came to Texas well.
Actually I came to the South in New Orleans, Louisiana
about two thousand and four to start a program at
Delgado Community College. And our first day of class was
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four days before Hurricane Katrina. And needless to say, that
pushed me into online technology that I had to do
if I wanted to keep this program going and graduate
the first class on time, which we did, so it's
been kind of an interesting journey there. I moved to
Texas about a little over ten years ago, and I
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have taught online for a program totally online. And also
I had an opportunity to start teaching at Blynn College
in Brian, Texas, associated with Texas A and M's Vet School.
What a wonderful, exciting opportunity, and we were actually housed,
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our students were housed in the Vet School at A
and m so it's kind of a cool thing. And
so I met this wonderful, wonderful woman, you know, Teresa,
a sweet, spirited, wonderful, beautiful Christian woman, and we just
got together. She was a widow and I had come
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through kind of an ugly divorce and we were just
getting together for dinner occasionally three years ago, and one
thing led to another, and we got married last summer,
and literally she wanted to live closer to her son,
daughter in law, and granddaughter who's in Sour Lake. So
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we up and moved. After we got married in June,
we up and moved to Beaumont area, and so here
we are. And the neat thing is because I'm doing
things online. I retired to spend more time with her,
but I'm teaching online part time. And I had a
consultant job that came up with a wonderful private company
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that's created heading wonderful quality continuing education for veterinary technicians, veterinarians,
veninary assistants, and receptionists. So I've had a blast with that.
And it's just it's been cool to be here. I
loved living my time in New Orleans. I used to
tease people in New Orleans that I live in the swamp,
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but I came from the swamp. There's a temperate swamp
up in Michigan called Wetlands, and the swamp the subtropical swamp.
In New Orleans they call Bayou. So moved to North
Texas to be close to Teresa. Then we got married
and we moved here, and I teased her and I said, well,
I live in the swamp. Again.
Speaker 6 (14:42):
I'm pretty excited about that. I love My undergraduate.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Degree was biology, and I was pursuing a master's in entomology,
believe it or not when I went to bed school,
and so I love all the critters, especially butterflies and moths,
and so I'm so excited again. I mean, North Texas
was okay, it had some some of my favorite things.
Speaker 6 (15:03):
But here in.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
This area it's it's not a rainforest, but it's a
lot of cool things to see. God's nature is so
dramatically beautiful and and so it's been fun to be here.
We're just kind of getting started and putting our roots down. Dana,
thank you, because originally Teresa was going to build on
her son's property, but there was just not enough room
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for the house. She wanted to build, and you helped
us to find a wonderful home. And Teresa loves interior design,
and she literally has taken a home that was beautiful
to start with and has renovated it.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
We'd like to invite you back to come see it.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Love to come see Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Yeah, you know, I could live anywhere. I could live
in a tent with this beautiful world. Yeah, but when
I see what she has done on the inside of
this house, it's like, wow, Yeah, we haven't even touched
a lot of the outside yet that she wants to fix.
I'm gonna have a butterfly garden, lots of flowers and
cool times of butterfly bushes and lantana and some of
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the things that really attract the butterflies, including the monarchs.
And I want to be able to grow those caterpillars
again like I did actually in Lubbock, Texas a few
years ago. So it's just been kind of a fun
journey and we're delighted to be here. We find a
wonderful church thanks to you, Dana, and we're just we're
loving being here.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
And so one of the things that I try to
tell people is when I'm helping guide someone to find
a home. It's not just finding a home, it's finding
a life, finding a lifestyle, getting connected and for you guys,
getting connected into a local church was super important, and
so gave you the names of several really good churches
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we have here and you ended up joining the one
I go to And so I get to see you
occasionally on a Sunday morning and say hello and be
able to with you and Teresa. But I'm super excited
to talk further about all that that you've just kind
of given us a little teaser on. So we are
going to come back, and when we come back, we
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are going to talk to Paula Bothe about uh, this
wonderful event coming up with the Babe.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Don't go away, We'll be right back. Welcome back.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
This is Dana Simmons, and I'm so excited to have
both Jim Hurl and Paula Bothe with me today. And Paula,
you have all kinds of exciting news to talk to
us about. The Babe Diedrichson Zaharia's birthday bash.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
That's coming up so last three days.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Yes, and so for those who don't know who is she,
talk to us a little bit about why she's so
important and should be honored here in Southeast Texas.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Babe diedricks and Zazaharias was the most unique female athlete
who ever lived. She won sixty two golf curtains by herself.
But the most important thing that she did was she
grew up as a little girl who was determined to
be the best at everything she did. She started running
track when she was very young, and she convinced the
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neighbors to cut their hedges at the proper height so
she could use them for her track run. So she'd
be jumping hurdles and she would run the neighborhood and
jump those hedges. Babe went to a championship event in
field and track as the only representative of Texas, and
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she won all the gold medals. This was in the thirties.
She managed to get herself to the Olympics in San
Francisco where she won three gold and I think four
or five silvers and once again was the member of
the team. She paid her own way, She had no sponsors.
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She works her whole life in sports. She did everything
from striking, out stand musial and you have to be
really old to know who stand musial was, we're a
big baseball fan.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
Like I am.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
She was the premiere female athlete athlete. She played professional basketball,
she played professional softball. She was the most unique and
accomplished female athlete who ever lived. Nobody has touched any
of her records. And it wasn't just that she could
swim or jump or run, she did it all. In fact,
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there is a lady here in town whose father was
her sparring partner when she boxed a little bit, and
I believe she's going to be at our event on Saturday,
the twenty eighth, so three days of birthday bash.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
On the twenty sixth.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
The city of Beaumont is declaring the twenty sixth of June,
which is actually Babe's birthday, her a official day in Beaumont.
And it's a great day if you're a family to
bring your kids out and show them what one person
can do when they set their mind to it, who
never took no for an answer all day long. The museum,
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which is very easy to find. It's on Interstate Access Road.
If you just go north on MLK and turn under
the freeway, it'll be on your.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
Right about half a block.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
It's beautiful it's shaped like a circle because it's one
of the five Olympic rings. The main building and then
four garden areas around it, which from the air look
like the rings of the Olympics. You can go online
to Babe Ditrichson Zaharias Museum or Foundation and see the pictures.
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It's really wonderful And a neat thing happened the other day.
Some guy who was here for a motorcycle event has
a motorcycle named Babe, so he came and posed in
front of the Babe with his Babe to put online
as his tribute to Babe Zaharias. And we're trying to
get the kids to come out and have their picture
made in front of the Babe when they're there to
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visit a lot of neat things. They're marvelous things there.
The Thursday, the twenty sixth of June is a great
day to go. On Friday, the twenty seventh, the city
of Beaumont is going to be showing the movie Babe.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
Now it's not about the pig.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
It's about Babe Zaharias and her life in sports. And
mister Zaharias was a professional wrestler. Her name was Dietrichson,
and they called her Babe because she hit as many
home runs in her little league as Babe Ruth hit
in the Big Times, and she was playing against some boys,
so she was the Babe. On Friday night, we will
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have a showing of the movie. We'll be recognizing the
Lamar University ladies who have won the Babez Haarias Scholarships,
and some of Babe's retives are going to be in
the house to talk a little bit about her, and
it's just going to be a great time, a great evening.
Speaker 5 (22:06):
The organ is going to.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
Mystically rise out of the floor of the Jefferson for
the first time in a really long time, and good
old Tom is going to play the organ for a
concert before the movie, and I think that's going to
be a really neat thing, an even neater thing as
far as I'm concerned. Saturday morning, at ten o'clock, we
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are going to unveil the Presidential Medal of Freedom that
was avoided posthumously to the Babe by President Trump, and
our friend W. L. Bubba Pate, who is a longtime
fixture in this area, received it. On behalf of the museum.
We have the actual medal, the certificate that's signed by
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mister Trump. We're going to unveil that at the museum
on the twenty eighth at about ten oh two. We
like to be prompt and there will be cake. Jake t.
Taurus promised me there will be cake from REOs.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
So if you don't know anything about.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
Medals of Freedom, you don't know anything about the President's Award,
you don't know anything about the Olympics or Athletics or
babes areas, you do know about cake. So come join
us and get to know the wonders of this great lady.
Who is ours ours, I tell you, And I'm always
surprised when people say, well, I've been here my whole
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life and I've never been shame on you go.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
It's really great. And it's open five.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Days a week, Monday through Saturday, nine to five, and
it is fr e Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
And this summer while the kids are out and you
have no idea what to do with them, what a
great inspiration to be able to take them over to
that museum, even if you can't get there, while we
would love for you to get there. The twenty sixth,
twenty seventh, and twenty eight for the events. I'll tell you,
you have the whole summer to head out there, especially
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for moms of girls.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Oh yeah, I think.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
It's just such a testimony that in the thirties, when
it wasn't a thing for women to do all that
she did, she overcame all of that. Yes, and if
she was alive today and it had won all of that,
her face would be on every magazine, she would be
on every TV. You know, the things that she would have,
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what did accomplish, would be just crazy today. And so
for us, I think it is such an honor that
we have her information here, and the challenge is that
we don't take it seriously enough. So I'm super excited.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
I am.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
I am going to be there on the twenty six
I would love to see that movie on the twenty seventh,
and that's going to be at the Jefferson Theater. And
it's a pretty inexpensive ticket to be able to do that.
I think it's six dollars for a ticket. So you
can bring the family. They have popcorn, they have all
the things you need to sit and enjoy a show. Uh,
And so we would like to invite you to do
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that when we come back. We will talk to Jim
Hurl and maybe follow up with a few more points
from Paula BOTHI but don't go away. This is the
Dana Simmons Show, Na Simmons and we have been visiting
with Paula Bothe about the Babe Didrichs and Zaharias birthday
bash that's going to be going on in Southeast Texas,
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and that's going to be on June twenty sixth, twenty seventh,
and twenty eighth. And we will get back to Paula
in just a little bit for her to talk a
little bit more about that. But for right now, I'd
love for you to hear more from Jim Hurl. And
Jim gave you a little bit of an intro into
who he is and what he has done. He was
up in Michigan, but then headed down south and he
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and his beautiful wife Teresa found their way into Sour
Lake and are a part of our community now. And
so Jim talk a little bit about I know that
you started out in Michigan as a veterinarian, but then
you've you've moved on to so many different things and
now you have a new opportunity that has just come
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your way as well. I mean, how long have you
been in this veterinarian industry.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
It's been a little while.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
I have loved every moment of it. Actually, it's interesting, Dana.
I'm still mentally twenty six, but my body says I've
had that birthday a few times.
Speaker 6 (26:30):
Yeah, but you know, I graduated from.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Michigan State University Goes Spartans, Go Green and in seventy four,
and we had our fiftieth anniversary last year. Was great
to be back with many of my classmates. And they
still look pretty in good shape.
Speaker 6 (26:48):
Yeah, some of.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Them wrestle the big dogs and the big animals, but
it's just neat to have seen who they are and
what they're still doing. And many of us have semi retired.
I think oldarians they don't die, they just keep working.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Listen, I'm going to tell you, I'm a huge fan
of doctor Pohle, and I am always shocked as I
watch him wrestling some of those big animals to do
all the things that he I mean, he's not young, yeah,
and yet he gets in there and does all that
with those horses and cows, and I'm always shocked at
how I guess it keeps you in good shape whenever
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you keep your mind going and.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
Keep your body going.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
And so it's a testimony to the amazing talent that
you still have. So talk a little bit about the
opportunity that has come to you now.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Well, it's been interesting. I'm entrepreneurial and that's when I
had my practice. It was tough to decide to sell
the practice to teach full time, but I love teaching also.
And over the years, when I was teaching online for
a program that had many thousands of students, I had
a chance to meet a veterinarian named Jill Clark and
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her husband, doctor Bob Mrta. And it's interesting that they
were both national leaders in the veterinary profession working for
large corporate practices. They were both chief medical officers for
two large veterinary practices corporate practices, and so I got
to meet her when I was teaching online and we
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just connected really well, the three of us, and so
as I semi retired to be able to spend more
time with Teresa, Jill contacted me and said, Hey, would
you be interested in doing some consulting work with us?
And I already knew that she had a pro a
company called Ignite Veterinary Solutions and basically she had set
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up continuing education programs for doctors, technicians, assistants and receptionists,
oh and practice managers. So and she was always quality,
always first, last, quality. So she wanted me to kind
of come to work to get some of her veterinary
technician students to do a little more social media, which
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was my thing when I worked for the big company
that had lots of students online. And so one thing
led to another, and interestingly enough, we're building a Facebook
page that came from zero to now almost seven hundred members,
and they're starting to do exactly that. And that's to
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connect back and forth, which there's so much wisdom on
the animal healthcare teams, not just the veterinarians, but anybody
that's worked five, ten, fifteen years on one of those teams. Oh,
they've seen some amazing, amazing medical and surgical challenges sometimes
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and to have them be able to share with one
another so much wisdom. And so that was kind of
my thing that I did well at the online program
I was with, and Jill is just a lighted to
see it's growing that way.
Speaker 6 (30:02):
And she has.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Also set up a veterinary assistant program that she asked
me just recently to become program director for and I'm
so honored. I've been a program director at for vet
tech programs, better nursing programs, but this is the first
time the veterinary assistant.
Speaker 6 (30:18):
If you kind of look at the organizational chart, if
you will.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
There's the doctor, then we have the practice manager who
oversees all the business sides, and then there's the veterinary
technician who is kind of the right hand to the doctor.
And then there's the assistants who helped the doctors and technicians,
the receptionists who basically really run the business with their
wonderful skills up front with clients, emotional clients, with their
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pets who they love dearly. So it's interesting Jill's covered
all the bases for quality online training for them, and
it's just been interesting that it's I guess if you
think of a dental practice, you have the dentist the
hygienist that I'm assistant. So basically there's a difference between
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a veterinary technician or a veterinary nurse and a veterinary assistant,
and that is the assistant doesn't have quite as much
education or usually experience as the technician. So it's again
a lot of people think, oh, technician, assistant, they're all
the same.
Speaker 6 (31:24):
Well they're not.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
You know, they're very important on the team. But just
like at a dentist, the hygienist doesn't do assistant work,
the assistant doesn't do hygienist work. So basically, again, Jill
is helping to really define online in a quality way
all of the members of the animal healthcare team with
amazingly quality education they can get online. And it's interesting
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she just started something. She is the she's really developed
the only educational program for veterinary receptionists cs rs as
they call them uh in the country. And now she
has also organized through one of the national leaders that
teach veterinary practice management, they've they've organized an organization that's
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actually the first professional organization for veterinary receptionists. So it's
really cool to work with her, and she's she's so
much fun to work with, and she's a big picture person.
I'm a big picture person, but she has this awesome
technician who basically puts together but.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
It makes it happen. You got to have you've got
to have the big picture person. You got to have
the person who makes it happen. And what I love
about all of this is is the conversation about technology
and how connecting people together can help one another. You know,
it's it's in every single industry. The way that technology
has helped, the way that either a hurricane or the
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way that COVID made us rely far more on technology
than we did before, has expanded how we can all
do business. I mean it's expanded the way we do business.
I can do business with someone out of the country
we do we can do a zoom call to do
our listing presentations. I mean, there are so many options
available to us today that really increases our ability to
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give great customer service.
Speaker 6 (33:23):
So true. Yeah, you know it's interesting, Dana.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
I years ago I read a book called Mega Trends
by Donnasbit. I don't know if you remember that book
or not. I talked about the ten significant trends coming
to America and the world because of the computer revolution.
This was back in the eighties or nineties. Yeah, and
one of the ten trends was high tech high touch.
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We're literally technology was coming in, but unless we really
remembered the soft skills, the connections with people. We just
couldn't go digital or talking a lot about AI and
that's here. But the real key is that personal touch.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
That personal connection absolutely makes a difference in every single sector,
and it's what for us is critical because you just
telling me you need a three two two, you know,
when you're looking for a house. While that's all great,
what's better is for us to sit down and me
to hear.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
How you want to live in that home.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
What can we do, how can I connect with you
to help find what means the most to you? And
so you're exactly right. The technology is so important, but
that individual connection is what makes it grow, what makes
it better. But one of the things that I love
is that you and I have a connection, and that
I found a little sweet puppy which was a Morky.
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And then I had just sold you and Teresa your house,
and you had talked about the fact while we were
looking at houses. You Anita Yard want to get a dog,
and Teresa was always kind of hesitant about that. And
then here I found my Charlie. So I called and said, okay,
Charlie has a brother and we need to be related. Okay,
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so we need to set you up with Charlie's brother.
And so after showing pictures and a little bit of time,
Teresa came along and said, you know, maybe that's not
so bad, and so talk a little bit about your baby.
Speaker 6 (35:22):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
Uh. You know, it was so cool because when we
did final inspection with you for the house before we
moved in, the first thing you did when we came
in was you were closing the deal with Teresa about
Charlie's brother, and she bought into it, and I thought,
this is awesome, Oh my goodness. And so we got
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little the little dude, and he immediately connected with me.
I mean I part of my I'm the dog whisperer.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
Huh yeah right, it's your job.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
I have that animal magnetism. I guess I loved getting
down on the ground when I was younger to talk
to the dogs. It wasn't to make the owners think, well,
he's a pretty cool guy. I just loved getting down
talking to the dogs. So that was always my thing.
And so it was just interesting when we first visited
this little boy at the breeder, he just jumped up
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and we connected and it's like and Teresa still wasn't sure,
but the interesting thing that's happened. I call him Storm
and Norman. I named him after Norm Cash, who was
one of the Detroit Tigers who hit massive home runs,
played left handed. First basement, which is my hero growing
up as a kid. Storm and Norman Cash. So we
have Storm and Norman and that's trus brother. And the
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amazing thing is, within about one or two weeks, Teresa
fell in love.
Speaker 6 (36:50):
With this little boy.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
She'd never had an indoor dog before. Previously in her
life with her sons growing up, they always had outdoor dogs,
him in the house, and here all of a sudden
she just fell in love with Storm and Norman and
so but he's he I'm his main man, and he
loves sitting on my lap. And it's interesting, I said, honey,
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you're kind of the goodie lady. She gives treats for
him to sit, stay down and so on. And I'm
the trainer. I throw the I throw the toys for him,
so you bring in the calories and I knock him
out with him running back and forth. So it's been
a it's been a fun thing. And it's you know again,
one of the things I have seen over the years,
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seniors should have pets. And they have done studies over
the years, even since I was a young veterinarian. I
saw the studies that they have. They have a better
quality of life, They have less depression and anxiety as
they get into their seasoned years because they have something
they can take care of who loves them back. And again,
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this this little boy just loves both of his peeps.
Speaker 5 (37:58):
Oh yeah, he throws.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
That's when we go out the door to read somewhere
and he gives those dirty guilty eyes to us again. Yeah,
but again, it's just it's just been cool to watch
and Teresa just loves this little boy.
Speaker 4 (38:15):
Well.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
And then here's the other challenge as a veterinarian, connecting
you with a veterinarian. And so you know, I connected
you with uh my doctor doctor Seymour at Beaumont West,
who I absolutely think is the best. He is truly,
he has brought so many of my dogs back from
death I mean, and giving them a great life when
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things have been hard. So when you said, okay, now
I need a really good veterinarian, I referred doctor Seymour
over to you, and you had nothing but great things
to say about him.
Speaker 2 (38:47):
He's a first class quality integrity veterinarian whose services. Again
he's about high tech and high touch. Yes, his receptionists
are awesome on the computer, but at the same time
they are so soon for front they are, so it's
that high tech, high touch combo that's just wonderful. And
it's been interesting to see that. You know, we've referred
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Teresa's son and daughter in law who got another got
a Yorkie and so you know, they just love him also. Yeah,
and you know, it's just kind of one of those
things where it's neat to see businesses that still understand
the need for that human relationship.
Speaker 3 (39:26):
Right, Yeah, so much.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
Well, it's been such a pleasure visiting with you, Jim.
We'll have to have you back.
Speaker 3 (39:31):
I know.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
One of the things that you said is you used
to have a radio show as well.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
I did in Sliddell, Louisiana, right close to Dollins, not.
Speaker 3 (39:40):
Too far from here. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
So what they think about your northern accent, you brought
it back down. You got a little southern with that, Huh.
Speaker 2 (39:47):
I have.
Speaker 6 (39:48):
I have a little bit of Southern.
Speaker 2 (39:50):
But again, it was such a cool, uh, it was
there was a partnership. I had a wonderful partner who
loved animals and knew the animal industry very very well,
and I was kind of the guy that it knew
the medicine side. So we had a call in show
on this little slide Dell, Louisiana radio station, and I
forget the name of it.
Speaker 6 (40:07):
It was like all about animals or something like that.
Speaker 2 (40:09):
Yeah, we just had a blast, yeah, doing it years ago.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
So in our conversation is as we were looking at
houses and all that and I was doing this radio
show we had we had this conversation. I said, I'm
going to have you on my show one day, and
so we we we made it happen. So it's been
a pleasure to connect with you for a little bit
on the show and let everyone get to know you
and get to well. And when we come back, we're
going to talk to Paula again and just remind you
(40:36):
guys about some of the events that are coming up
for Babe Diedrichsen, Sa Harrius and her birthday bash. So
don't go away. This is the Dana Simmons Show. Welcome back.
This is Dana Simmons and we've been enjoying an incredible
conversation with Jim Hurl and he's been giving us some
information about his long tenure as a veterinarian and all
(40:59):
that he's done. And we got to visit a little
bit about Charlie's brother Storm and Norman, and looking forward
to the day that we can get the two of
them together. Also, this afternoon, not even evening yet, seems longer,
I know, it really does. This afternoon we have Paula
Bothe with us, and she's been talking a little bit
about the Babe and all that she accomplished here in
(41:21):
our area. So tell me exactly where did she grow up.
Speaker 4 (41:25):
She grew up in Beaumont in South Park. In fact,
I think the house where she lived is still there.
And my friend Madeleine Newman, that was her family name,
knew her, yeah, and she was a little kid, So
the Beaumont Babe thing is permanent. She was born in
(41:45):
Port Arthur and our friend Tom Neil down at the
Museum of the Gulf Coast was nice enough to come
over and we loaned him, because we're very sweet with
real stipulations, a couple of her golf clubs and one
of her trophies to put in the Museum of the
Gulf Coast. In honor her being born down there, and
(42:07):
also to show people this is what you can see
if you go see the big museum over.
Speaker 3 (42:12):
In Beaumont and so boring port. Author but grew up
in Beaumont.
Speaker 4 (42:16):
Yes, graduated from Beaumont High School, and was in sports
at Beaumont High and as you pointed out, earlier girls
didn't have all the sports opportunities that they have now.
But she did everything that she could. And that's why
a lot of people go, oh.
Speaker 5 (42:32):
Mubs, I mean it's gonna be long hauls.
Speaker 4 (42:35):
No, it's a circle. It's very intimate, and you can
get so close. You can really read the riding on
the trophies and there are many, many of them, and
especially nice for all the high tech kids, there are
chiev screens that show her performances at the Olympics and
(42:55):
as a golfer, and in all of her experiences that
they had a there was always a camera nearby. And
so the only thing that nobody ever believes in and
I have to tell them this. Once, when there was
sort of a slack period in her athletic career, she
decided that she still had to be doing something, so
(43:15):
she learned to play the harmonica and she was actually
on the Vaudeville Circle circuit with my harmonica playing Wow.
And they're all talent museum something. If you moms want
something to give to your little girl forever and error,
there is a wonderful doll, the Babes Harris doll.
Speaker 5 (43:38):
It's a collector's item. We have all left.
Speaker 4 (43:41):
There are left, and when they're gone, they're gone. But
along with the doll dressed as a golfer, you get
a tiny little golf club and a harmonica and they're.
Speaker 5 (43:53):
In a gift box.
Speaker 4 (43:55):
And my goodness is twenty bucks. Yeah, a very nice
thing to hide for Chris us. But in the museum,
it's not one of those things where you walk yourself
to death. Everything's very close and up close you can
see them. I'm particularly interested after the twenty eighth and
people bringing their kids to see the Medal of Freedom
(44:16):
because it is so rare and it's so gorgeous.
Speaker 5 (44:20):
You just can imagine.
Speaker 4 (44:20):
And we have pictures of the presentation where Colonel Pate
was there and received the awards. So if you want
to see real trophies, silver trophies and big plaques and
other things, plus views of what she did it's all
right there. Yeah, it's free. There's a docents there who
(44:42):
will tell you everything you need to know and answer
your questions. There are books that you can buy to
read about her, very economically priced. And then there's also
a screen where you can press and look at the
names of all of the ladies who have won the
Zarias skull ships and what and what sport they won
(45:02):
them in. Not too long ago, we had a lady
bring her grandchildren to see that she was on the
list home. So come to thea Zarius Museum anytime, but
especially on our birthday.
Speaker 1 (45:16):
So is there any place is there a place that
people could go to get the information about the dates?
Is there a website's.
Speaker 5 (45:21):
Online where you can look up me.
Speaker 4 (45:24):
I'm on the line at Paula both the botch and
of course the Babe Zaharias Museum website and also the
Babe Zaharias Foundation website.
Speaker 3 (45:38):
Right.
Speaker 1 (45:38):
Well, it has been such a joy to have both
of you here with us today. Thank you so much
for the information. And again that's on the twenty sixth,
twenty seventh and twenty eighth of June. You don't want
to miss it. Thank you so much. For joining us
on this beautiful Saturday. Be back with us next week.
We're going to talk about hurricane preparedness at the Danis
(45:59):
Simmons Show. Have a great afternoon.
Speaker 5 (46:01):
Thank you, Dan, Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (46:03):
Dan
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