Houston Firefighter Union Leader Marty Lancton is running for Harris County Judge

Kenny Webster interviews Houston Firefighter Union Leader Marty Lancton.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
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the year two thousand and three. Marty langdon do you
remember dial up Internet?

Speaker 2 (00:33):
I do. It's a it still exists.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
I did because when you tried to call somebody and
they were on the Internet, it either kick you off
or have a busy signal. And for those that don't
know what a busy signal is, it's when you only
had a rotary phone at your house and you were
on it and then you couldn't get through.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
Marty, I'm an elder millennial. I am forty. I am
forty three years old for the same age, I am
honorly right. We are about the same age. I can
remember being a teenager in the nineties and somebody in
my social circle was doing something on the Internet they
shouldn't have been doing, downloading pirated software a new Napster
Napster MP three's that came a little later, I think,

(01:14):
and then somebody's sister would pick up the phone lime wire. Yeah,
what an embarrassing reason to get a computer virus. I
was illegally downloading Metallica's Black album And what.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
A time to be alive. Marty Langdon in studio right now.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
If you're just turning on your radio, it's a weird
way to have a conversation with the I guess at
the time being the most popular Republican primary candidate for
Harris County Judge, which I'm talking about you at the
gym the other day with some I lift weights.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
I don't know if you know that I left you.
Thank you. People that left love to tell you that
they left.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
I left, And I fly a plane, and I'm vegan,
and I do CrossFit and none of that's true. Actually,
And one of my buddies who I lift weights with
is an older Republican.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
I'm not going to say he's an old guy, but
you know, he's older than I. He's older than you.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
He remembers the old Republican Party, where a union leader
for government employees would probably not be a Republican primary
candidate for anything. And yet right now for county judge
in Harris County, the biggest county in Texas, one of
the most important political positions in any municipal government in
the state. You're the guy that a lot of people

(02:23):
want to be, the candidate that blew his mind. But
it's hard for people to understand this is not your
Grandpa's Republican Party.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
It's changed quite a bit, hasn't it. Well.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
Listen, I mean I've grew up here Houston, born and
raised in family of five, and I can tell you this.
What people want is somebody that gets things done, stands
up for the people that they represent, doesn't stand for corruption,
and understands the role that you are in and that
you were elected for needs to be focused on the
issues that matter most to Harris County residents. Listen, we're

(02:53):
in a I've had very honest dialogues with you over
the years. We are in the state of Texas. It
is a at will state. Just like car dealers associations,
just like doctors associations, just like business associations. It's the
same thing for firefighters associations, and so all that means
is that you have a voice to stand up. And

(03:14):
I would argue in the city of Houston, what we
dealt with for nine years was a lot of things
that were not happening correctly. The firefighters weren't getting taken
care of. And oh, by the way, we had a
mayor at the time who was spending money on things
that the taxpayers do not expect to be spent on
when you're not taking care of public safety. So we

(03:35):
stand up and we fight for what's right, and I'm
going to continue to do that.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
I don't know what you're talking about.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
You don't think we should spend more money for musicians
at the airport Marvel?

Speaker 2 (03:45):
Have you?

Speaker 3 (03:45):
You know? Have you ever been there. I've never seen
an actual musicians. I've seen the stand But I remember
the time when they're telling us, the taxpayers that are
paying a lot of taxes, the number one priority of
government is public safety. And if you don't have somebody
that's taking care of the people, what are we spending
money music at the airport?

Speaker 2 (04:02):
Harmony of the sea? What is it? Harmony? This harmony
of the city.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
People that aren't from Houston won't understand what we're talking.
We're live streaming, but in addition to being on the
radio right now, we're also live streaming online and we
have a pretty big reach around the Gulf Coast where
on our morning shows on a lot of Brock and
talk stations around the South.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
So some people that.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
Are not from Harris County are very familiar with Lena
Hidalgo and Sylvester Turner and Shila Jackson Lee and to
some extent, you and I I mean friends' allies. Whatever
you and I are, they're the reason why I know you.
For those that haven't listened to this, you know, don't
remember Marty being on the show. Several years ago, after
Hurricane Harvey, we had the strangest thing happened in our

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city where our Democrat mayor went after a lot of
the first responders, particularly firefighters, because he didn't want to
have to pay them. I remember famously, you guys we
had to vote, and you guys were more popular than him. Now,
they were two different votes. One was to decide if
we'd keep Sylvester Turner as the mayor.

Speaker 2 (04:56):
The other was to decide if firefighters.

Speaker 1 (04:59):
Would get a Anneal pay rays for the first time
and when I think was over a decade. Over a decade,
and so I Vester Turner said he would rather fire
the people that were the heroes of Hurricane Harvey and
continue to have a poet laureate for Houston City and
continue to pump money into musicians at the airport.

Speaker 2 (05:16):
What is it harmony of the sky or armony of
this guy? I still there's a piano there. Listen.

Speaker 3 (05:21):
That's all great and wonderful, but at the end of
the day, I don't there's no rational explanation. And that's
kind of the problem that has been going on here
in this region. People just don't have honest conversations. They
want to focus on issues that have nothing to do
with the core tenants of what government is supposed to be.
And listen, I tell everybody you talk about grassroots, nobody's

(05:41):
more grassroots than what I do. What we do as firefighters,
because what we want to do is get in the
community and educate them about what's really going on with
their tax money and if it's not being spent the
way that it should be, then you need to change that.
And we took on a mayor who decided that he
would much rather have harmony in the sky than to
take care of the brave men and women in the

(06:02):
Houston Fire Department. That is what motivates me every day.
It's to take care of the people that we're supposed
to do and do it well. Don't make excuses, but
the core tenet of government is to make sure you
have public safety, infrastructure, flood medication, disaster response, disaster recovery.
And when you don't focus on that, you spend your
money on things that have nothing to do with the

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role of.

Speaker 1 (06:24):
Government, nothing to do with the role of government. I'm
glad you brought all that up. For those that are
not actively following news in Harris County, what is the
biggest community in Texas.

Speaker 2 (06:33):
Obviously a lot has happened recently.

Speaker 1 (06:36):
Lena Dalgo is I'm gonna put her up on the
screen here, Lena Hidalgo literally clutching her pearls in the
screenshot here. Is just very unpopular right now with the
Democrat Party, to the point where even a Nice Parker,
our former Houston mayor, is now challenging or has said,
I think she is a legitimate candidate for Democrat Party.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
Judge County Judge next time.

Speaker 1 (06:58):
And Sodalgo, who got censured last week for disruptive behavior
during a meeting, including interrupting commissioners using children to push
a failed penny tax. She dragged a bunch of children
out in front of the penny tax. They call it
was a lot of money. I don't know why they
call it a penny tax. You know, it's like calling
it the Affordable Care Act or the Patriot Act. These
are all very the Inflation Reduction acart. Yeah, it's a

(07:22):
lie writing and anyway, So she gets censured by members
of her own party. She drags children out into the
middle of the commissioner's court, does her best impersonation of Sesame
Street's the count on one vote for raising taxes. Nobody
else wanted this, and I think part of the reason
why is I don't think she's going to be one
of your opponents next year if you get the nomination.
I don't think she wants to be County judge anymore.

(07:44):
The rumor is that she wants to run for Congress.
I don't know why. Even in her own party, she's unpopular.
I have been told by a very reliable source. Now
I don't know if this is true that Sylvia Garcia
is sick. The same person that told me this told
me Sheila Jackson Lee was sick and so Vester Turner
was sick, and now they claim I don't know. It's
not as if this person's a medical doctor at any

(08:05):
of these people. But somebody with inside information in the
Democrat Party thinks Sylvia got to see it doesn't run again.
Al Green probably will, I don't know why. And they
think Lena Hidalgo is going to run for Congress. It's
weird though, because here in our area, I kind of
think Gene wu is the more popular Democrat.

Speaker 3 (08:21):
Right well, you know, I mean that's a lot to
digest at once, but I mean, listen, what people are
going to do or what they are not going to do.
That just means that somebody's not focused on the issues
of Harris County. And what I can tell you is
everybody I've spoken to they're ready to have a county
that works for them, to be Cammon crisis, and to
have a leader. We don't use children as props, we

(08:44):
don't politicize public safety. What we need to do is
focus on the issue in the core tenant of what
Harris County in the Commission's Court is supposed to be about.
And you can't fix problems if you don't have collaboration
and cooperation. And that's where maintaining and developing relationship matters,
because at the end of the day, in order to
make somebody's life better, you actually have to work with

(09:04):
people and you don't spend your time trying to prove
a point. That's no place for somebody that's trying to
lead this county. Obviously, what we saw last week, I
mean I always shocked. That is not something that I
think I've ever seen, and I've been in politics for
quite a while. But when you're using kids and you're
doing these things, it means that you're not focused on
the issues that Harris County residents expect. And that is

(09:27):
what we have to get back to, and that's what
we will get back to. And I don't know that
anybody has a rational explanation for that.

Speaker 1 (09:34):
Okay, State Senator Mayson Middleton tells me because of a
policy he helped pass, it'll be a lot easier to
remove Lena Handalgo from office. I have friends like Alex Mieler,
for example, who think that for political strategy purposes, it
might be better to just leave her there. You know,
we're halfway through the year already. Primary season is going
to be right after that. I don't know, what do

(09:55):
you think? Is it worth the effort to remove her
from office? Or should we just let the Democrats sit
and marinate in the pre they created?

Speaker 3 (10:00):
Well, I think you saw what Commissioner Ramsey has put out,
and I think it kind of captures you know. I
think if you even read the opinion of the Houston Chronicle,
I mean the you know, you just needed one word
from Commissioner Ramsey. Wow, I think that it's true. Yeah,
what what they've done is send a clear message. And
I think what you're seeing from all sides is that
that is not what we are supposed to be doing

(10:22):
as leaders, and that's not how we're supposed to be acting.
And I think that's pretty historic and it sends a message.
But you know, the focus for what we're dealing with
is to address the people that we're supposed to be
taken care of, is to protect the protect the taxpayer,
focus on the issues that Harris County Commissioner's Court is
supposed to be dealing with, and the more distractions that

(10:42):
we continue to have, the less focus we are on
leading this county and fixing those problems we have.

Speaker 1 (10:49):
Obviously, we're live on the radio right now, but we
have a few hundred people watching us streaming on social
media right now. If you are listening to us on
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Speaker 2 (11:03):
Give us seconds while where you start the new segments.
Stand around like.

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Speaker 2 (11:22):
Nobody gives a fun Oh this is interesting.

Speaker 1 (11:26):
An Indiana man like a man in Indiana just set
a Guinness record by growing a thirty foot sunflower. The
record was world sadist farmer. I gotta think bless is hard. Hi, everybody,
I'm Kenny Webster. We are back from break that must suck.
You know, living in Indiana, you know what I mean.
Marty Langdon in studio, you know it's not all serious.
You know this is we do have fun. This isn't ktrh.

(11:48):
We tell jokes, were trying it.

Speaker 2 (11:51):
I don't even know where you pull these things from.
This is pretty I write every morning.

Speaker 1 (11:54):
I get up and I write one liners for us
to tell on the radio, and then Steve tells me
which ones I can't and can't use during the show,
and then and the ones that I can't use, I
either use at a stand up comedy show or here
with you, the very serious Firefighter Union President Marty Langton.

Speaker 2 (12:11):
Marty, I just look at it.

Speaker 1 (12:13):
Some of the problems we're dealing with in Houston and
Harris County right now.

Speaker 2 (12:16):
And you're Catholic.

Speaker 1 (12:17):
I'm Catholic, and I don't claim to be a boy scout,
and I don't think you do either. But I was
kind of surprised to hear Lena Hidalgo. Let me say,
if I could find the SoundBite here, This I did
not expect from Lena Hidalgo.

Speaker 2 (12:28):
This is from back when.

Speaker 1 (12:31):
Pope Francis died and we got Pope Leo, and Lena
Hidalgo said, and.

Speaker 5 (12:35):
As I said, I'm emotional because of the Pope, so apologize,
thank you.

Speaker 1 (12:39):
She's emotional because of the Pope. Every time I hear
that SoundBite, I laugh out loud. Marty, I I've never
seen her at Catholic church before.

Speaker 2 (12:46):
Have you seen her?

Speaker 3 (12:47):
I have not seen her at my church, but I
will tell you this. I mean, listen, my whole family
is Catholic. My my younger brother is a priest. And
I think one of the things that is most telling
is there there's a time for us to be focused
on you know, our lives, are are issues going on,
and there's times to be focused on doing the job

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of what you're elected to do. And when you are
sitting at the seat of a Harris County judge, your
focus has got to be on what you are doing
in front of you, solving problems, creating coalition's collaboration, and
fixing the problems owned by the way. Hey about lower taxes,
I mean, I know that that's probably something that seems
very odd to some people. But instead of raising them,

(13:30):
let's focus on what we need to public safety being first, infrastructure, flooding.
But you know, if you're talking about other things, you're
not focused on the issues that are what you're supposed
to be doing as Harris County judge.

Speaker 2 (13:41):
But even the Democrats agree with that.

Speaker 1 (13:42):
Even they none of them would support her on this
last week when they had a vote to raise taxes
so she could spend it on I don't know Sesame
Street in Iraq or whatever it was, but Miena had dalgo.
Her problem is she gets too involved in national politics.

Speaker 2 (13:56):
Do you know what I mean?

Speaker 1 (13:57):
She actually blamed Donald Trump for job use and Nungary.
I don't know how many people remember when this happened.

Speaker 5 (14:02):
It hurts even more that they're being used as pawns
in this fight over immigration that doesn't even exist because
Biden and McConnell agree. It's just that Trump won't let
him move it forward.

Speaker 6 (14:15):
All due respect, judge, you said this issue shouldn't be politicized,
But by pointing the finger at former President Trump and
Republicans in Congress, aren't you politicizing it?

Speaker 2 (14:28):
I think I've answered that.

Speaker 5 (14:29):
I think I answered the questions.

Speaker 2 (14:31):
So, BOYD does she hate Greg Krugo and she does?

Speaker 5 (14:34):
Know?

Speaker 3 (14:35):
You know, listen, simple questions that people ask I think
are legitimate. And I think one thing I've told people
all the time is, you know, just have an honest dialogue.
But one of the biggest issues is that when you're
talking about here in this region. What I hear and
see local leaders some do that that are not being
effective in doing what they're elected to do is always
project about issues that have nothing to do with your job.

(14:58):
The job of Harris County judge is to effectively manage
the county disaster recovery, emergency management, flooding mitigation, infrastructure, and Hey,
by the way, something that I will talk a whole
lot about is jobs. You got to have good skilled jobs.
You've got port expansion, You've got a lot of things

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going on that is and should be the number one focus.
You have to have a leader that is common crisis,
that's not projecting every time something comes up that is
an issue that nobody in the Commissioner's Court has power over.
We've got to get people together, work towards solutions, and
actually fix problems. But the more we talk about things

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that we don't have control over, all that does is
try to virtue signal to whatever side you're trying to
curry favor from. I don't really know, but if safety
is important in Harris County, then you need to focus
on that in Harris County and get the resources necessary.
Stop talking about other things that don't matter in Harris County,

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that don't affect your job, and do your job well.

Speaker 1 (16:03):
I always liked John Whitmeyer as our mayor in Houston.
From the guy. It was him and Sheila Jackson Lee.
We didn't have a choice and I ran into him
recently at a baseball game.

Speaker 2 (16:13):
Did you see that picture of us? I did he? Dude,
John Whitmeyer.

Speaker 1 (16:16):
I didn't agree with anything he did when he was
a state senator. The guy is at a baseball game,
just walking around, no security, watching the astros. It's like
Mayor Whitmeyer. He's like, Kenny, what's up? We start talking.
I take a photo with him. I posted online. I
forgot about it by the end of the weekend. That
photo appears on some like Progressive Socialists for Texas group.

(16:37):
They're like, Mayor Whitmeyer takes photo with local Nazi. Do
you know how weird that is?

Speaker 5 (16:41):
For me?

Speaker 2 (16:42):
Marty.

Speaker 1 (16:42):
I was recently at a Wu Tang clan concert. I
don't I mean, if I'm going to be involved in
any clan, it's going to be the Wu Tang. I
didn't know what to think of that, and just like that,
suddenly I became one of whit Meyer's biggest supporters. There's
now a recall effort to get rid of him because
all he did was what Democrat mayors normally except actually
go out and enforce the law and arrest criminals.

Speaker 2 (17:03):
How is that controversial?

Speaker 3 (17:05):
You know that's the problem. And I've said it clearly
over the years. Really nothing to do with this race.
I've said it in general. People are so focused on
making every single thing an issue instead of focused on
working with him. I can tell you the relationships I've
formed are from all walks of life everywhere. If the
focus and mission is to solve a problem, you have

(17:26):
to be accessible to the people. And if you're accessible
to the people, like Mayor John Whitmyer is. In fact,
I always tell he probably won't like what I'm telling
this story. But you know, unlike the Kurt Harris County
judge that I think has a pretty high bill for security.

Speaker 2 (17:40):
Oh yeah, we have to talk about that.

Speaker 3 (17:42):
Mayor Whitmyer tries to duck his security because he has
always been a person of the people and he likes
to be out there. He likes to talk to him,
He likes to talk to you directly, and he's probably
I would argue one of the most accessible mayors we
have had in history, because that's just who he is,
even if you disagree with him, and you're free to
have policy disagreements. I don't agree with a whole lot

(18:04):
of policy decisions people make, But at the end of
the day, you have to find a way to work together.
You have to solve problems. And I mean with Meyer
is not exactly the person that tries to be polished.
He's moretagted in substance than he is about trying to
convince you that he's right. If you can't fix a
problem for the people you represent, you're not doing your job.
And that's the only focus that I have. That's the

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focus that he has. And imagine what you can do
when you're working together and you're not actually fighting with
the city all the time, you're not fighting with a county.
You can pick up the phone and you can work
together and collaborate.

Speaker 1 (18:36):
All right, Well, with Meyer and Hidalgo have not gotten
along well. Unfortunately, a lot of public disputes about their relationship.
They have friction, some mental health comments with Meyer, speculated
the Houston Chronicle in December of twenty twenty four, Hidalgo
might not run for reelection in twenty twenty six due
to or a mental health struggles lack of formal meeting.

(18:56):
I believe he said that her fiance looked like a
dork or a nerd or a g or something. He's
I think I heard He's not wrong about I actually
thought that was hilarious. But whatever, who cares.

Speaker 2 (19:05):
He's real.

Speaker 1 (19:07):
The woman spent nine hundred thousand dollars on personal security
in twenty twenty four. What did she need's let's just
say it's a million bucks. There's a we need to
spend a million dollars to keep Lena safe from who
Who's going to hurt her?

Speaker 3 (19:20):
You know, I think it's for some that seems to be,
you know, a hide behind kind of security. Our previous
mayor always used to have a pretty heavy security detail.
And I think you juxtaposed that with with Whitmeyer being
at a at a baseball game and him walking up saying, hey,
you know, let's talk or take a photo. All all

(19:40):
I know is that when you are an official that
is in a position of power that's supposed to be
taking care of the issues of the city of the county.
Number one, you need to be accessible. But number two,
if there's an active threat, nobody wants anybody to get hurt.
But I don't see a world where John Whitmyer's walking

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around looking over his shoulder and he's worried. So I
don't understand why somebody would spend that much money on
a security detail.

Speaker 2 (20:09):
It doesn't make any sense. But again we go.

Speaker 3 (20:11):
Back to rational leadership and having a calm voice in
the room that understands, you know, does the average taxpayer
think if that's okay?

Speaker 2 (20:18):
Yeah? And they don't.

Speaker 1 (20:19):
I always in politics, I always think when I'm trying
to weigh somebody, when I'm trying to, you know, size
somebody up and figure out what I think about them,
who are their enemies. Whit Meyer's enemies are not conservative Republicans.
His enemies appear to be like far left Marxist by
open border, empty the jail, taxpayer funded a gender affirming

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care for kids. This is the stuff they're advocating for.
If that's your enemy, then whit Meyer's probably my friend.
I mean, that's how I felt.

Speaker 3 (20:49):
But all the issues, whether it's you know, it doesn't
matter what side of the islet is on my question,
And that I always put out is that the role
of the Houston may to do any of the things
that we're talking about, and it could be on you know,
the other side too. His job is to run the
city and to fix the problems public safety and the infrastructure.

(21:09):
There's a reason why you keep hearing this stuff over
and over again because if it was fixed and it
was done appropriately, we wouldn't need to talk about it.
But when Whitmyer came in and I told him beforehand,
I said, you know, it's a it's a mess, and
I've studied it. I dealt with the corruption. I tackled
it head on. I wasn't afraid. I got attacked for it.
I mean even tried to fire me. And I told him,

(21:30):
I said, if you're doing the right thing, people come
out of the woodworks to try to make sure that
the wrong thing or the bad thing always stays the same.
And I'm not about that. I'm about actually addressing problems
and fixing them.

Speaker 1 (21:43):
All Right, we have I feel like we've just spent
two segments doing the warm up interview here. But you
answered a lot of questions I would ask you already.
Let's ask the most there's three most important questions. First
of all, let's address this. You haven't officially announced your
candidacy for Harris County Republican primary candidate yet, but I
think most people know you're going to run.

Speaker 2 (22:01):
So where are you on that.

Speaker 3 (22:04):
Well, you know, as with everything, some people like to
get out ahead of things, and you know, I think
at my camp, we've confirmed that we're running, but our
campaign hasn't officially launched. It will be launched next week
and we'll have information we're going to be sending out
to everybody, and and the support that we have and
the encouragement has been truly amazing. But that's built upon
a long time of developing relationships and finding solutions to problems.

Speaker 2 (22:28):
And if if I can take on.

Speaker 3 (22:31):
You know, an administration in the City of Houston that
treated the firefighters the way they did and they tried
every trick in the book, my focus is on doing
the same thing for Harris Kunny residents.

Speaker 1 (22:40):
I think the thing that some people will be concerned about,
and I don't see this as an issue.

Speaker 2 (22:44):
I just want to bring it up because I want
to hear how you respond to it.

Speaker 1 (22:46):
Several years ago, you famously had a public feud with
Turner and the police Union. Just to be clear, your
pro cop I mean your pro keep the criminals in
jail or one hundred percent.

Speaker 3 (22:55):
And I can tell you this, having this goes back
to what we talked about. Having Apolo see difference in
a discussion is way different than having an issue with anybody.
The Harris County Sheriff's organization I'm very close with, always
support support Houston police officers in the HPOU. There is

(23:15):
not a time that has gone by over the course
of nine years where we have ever and would never
stand with our brothers and sisters in blue. We absolutely
know what they deal with because we're on the streets
with them every single day. We have a great relationship,
and you know, I'm excited to get the things done.
But you know, Harris County Sheriffs have been neglected much
like the Houston firefighters were neglected, and their leadership are

(23:39):
people that I am very close with, and we're going
to make sure that the police and Harris County are
taken care of and to make sure that it's not
just lip service.

Speaker 2 (23:48):
I love it. I think that's a perfect answer.

Speaker 1 (23:50):
All right, let's get a little controversial before you walk
out of here. This is probably gonna upset some people.
Where's your favorite barbecue place? About to get you canceled?
About to give me? You just pull one out of
nowhere inside, Let's do this in the loop. Out of
the loop, outside of the city.

Speaker 2 (24:08):
What do you like?

Speaker 1 (24:09):
I mean, in no specific order. Where are you getting barbecue?
You're you're in You're in uptown right now, someone says,
let's get brisket.

Speaker 2 (24:14):
Where do you go in uptown?

Speaker 3 (24:18):
If I'm in the Rice Village area, Good Company Barbecue
has been there forever.

Speaker 2 (24:22):
Leave I good guy.

Speaker 3 (24:23):
Yeah, Papa's Barbecue. I always go there downtown.

Speaker 1 (24:26):
Oh Papa's Barbecue, Yes, I got nothing against him.

Speaker 3 (24:31):
But that's like the Bill Miller Barbecue. If oh no, no,
you go, we we've gone there. There's one right downtown
that we always go to. You've got Truth Barbecue that's
over off Washington that I love. I mean Revee Barbecue.
Actually one of our firefighters, Houston firefighters, uh actually started
I think Revely And if I've gotten the name wrong,
I'm sorry, I'm gonna tell you in advance. But but

(24:52):
there's a number of places, I mean, they're popping up.

Speaker 2 (24:54):
That's what makes Houston Harris County. Great.

Speaker 3 (24:56):
We have a lot of people that have roots here
that believe and this this county, in the city that
we live in. And listen, I'll eat anything except phennis
and mustard.

Speaker 1 (25:06):
Except for mayonnaise, except for a ketchup on a hot dog,
I hope. All right, Roguels, it's technically pronounced Raygules Barbecue.
You've been there over on? Oh oh, it's outstanding. All right,
tex mex Where are you going? O? Good company, Tucky,
really very loyal to LEVI Listen. I grew up my
son and I we call it Tobasco Breakfast. We every weekend.

(25:29):
Since I was a kid, I would go there and
everybody there just I remember flicking the pennies in the
fountains when I was a kid, and that's what my
son did as he was growing up. But I mean,
there's listen, I'll take anything in Houston. We Harris County, Houston.
We got the best text mes ever. But now you're
really gonna get me canceled. It is one of the
top five food cities in America, and it's certainly the

(25:50):
best one in Texas.

Speaker 2 (25:52):
Marty.

Speaker 1 (25:52):
When you announced, I can't imagine Steve and I are
not going to endorse you. It seems like you're the guy,
and a lot of first responders in the city learn
for you. I know a lot of the Republicans in
the city are cheering for you. The Republican Party's changed
a lot in five to ten years. I don't think
I could have been a Republican ten years ago, or
before Trump, or before this current era that we're in.
So you running as a GOP candidate, you have our support.

(26:15):
If people want to learn more about the campaign that
hasn't been announced yet, where do they go.

Speaker 3 (26:19):
Well, we'll be announcing it, but we'll send out that
information but lankedinfharriscunting dot com and we'll be pushing out
a whole bunch of informational list of endorsements. And we
really look forward to working with the community and finding
the voices. So we look forward to hearing from you,
and let's get this done.

Speaker 2 (26:34):
I love it.

Speaker 1 (26:35):
Hey to the rest of you. We'll be back bright
and early tomorrow morning for more of what you bought.

Speaker 2 (26:38):
A radio for. I have a great day, dude.

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