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Speaker 1 (00:04):
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It's neither drink nor drug and noo, I'm just done,
all right. It's just watching this natural science National geographic.
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You love on what it was this weekend? Ramon and
you might know the answer to this. How do you
make an elephant float? One glass of root beer, one
group of elephant? That's quality. That's a good starter. Yeah, yeah,
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First you need to know that Bob has no arms. Knock, knock,
who's there? Not Bob? Definitely my Bob. How you think
I rang the doorbell? That's the whole school right there.
What's the difference between ignorance and indifference? I don't know
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and I don't care. But we got a story of
local heroism. Let's start with some good news, shall we.
Some parentland band dads. Somebody out there knows apparently and
band dad and I would like to talk to them.
Thirteen year Air Force veteran Abram Travino, fourteen year Army
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veteran Adam Kiro, four year Marine Corps veteran Efren Polo Castillo,
and longtime Houston Popo sergeant Joe Sanchez quickly jumped into
action when a shooting broke out at their kids banned
competition at Pasadena Memorial High School on Saturday night. Fella,
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you picked the wrong place to try to shoot up.
These guys are ready for you. I love this story.
I like somebody knows one of these guys, and I'd
like them to call the show. I'm gonna give you
the number to give to them. You ought to know
it already. Seven one three nine nine nine one thousand.
Seven one three nine nine nine one thousand. The story
a wonderful one from Khou.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Shut no, don't believe, Son't no. Cell phone video shows
the moments after the suspect in Saturday shooting at Pasadena
Memorial High School got tackled to the ground. Pasadena police
say the man, now identified as eighty three year old
Dennis Brandle Junior, shot a gun during a band competition,
hitting a man in his twenties. People were not screaming,
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say like to shoot after shooter Joe Sanchez and these
three other dads who volunteer with the Paarland High School
band were at the competition and immediately jumped into action.
I grabbed his arms well, Adam took the gun out.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Then was a gun was from his hand. We had
no handcuffs, so I took off my belt made a handcuff.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
As soon as I saw the gun out on his hand,
and Joe grabbed his wrist. I grabbed his wrist and
was tackling to get the handgun free.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Photo showed the group of dads surrounding the gunman with
the pistol behind Adam's back after he wrestled it away.
Police say. Brandal Junior told officers he feared he was
going to be killed, so he drove away from his
home in Spring and ended up in Pasadena, where he
went into the school.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
When the asspect was on the ground, he kept saying
that someone's trying to shoot.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Me, blocking out their own fears.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Everything just kind of went through my mind about you know,
was my son. Okay, we're all the kids, Okay.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
These dads each relied on their skill sets to handle
the situation. They all have military or police experience.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
I think anybody with our collective backgrounds will just do that,
you know, just out of nature. It's just kind of
a secondhand trait that we had.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
It all happened in about a minute, an act of bravery.
No one we'll forget.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
It was not unexpected to see them jump in like
that and just do what needs to be done, because
that's what they do in this community.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Our parents stepped in in a moment of crisis and
were heroes, selfishly acting to take the guy down, and
none of our kids were hurt.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Police say the man who was shot is expected to
be okay.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
I think I was like thirty twenty thirty feet from
the guy.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Ashley Yin with Kempner High School's percussion group, was also
at the competition. She says, after running for her life,
she helped the man who got hit.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
I'd jumped down next to him and then someone said
he was shot. So I started holding pressure where the
T shirt it was, and I was holding his hand
and I was talking to him make sure he was okay.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Witnesses say this could have been much worse if not
for the heroic actions of a few dads. We kind
of knew what we're doing, and we did it.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
I don't think they mentioned it in the story I
was reading, so I wasn't paying close attention. But the
shooter is an eighty three year old man. There's something
going on there. Eighty three year old men don't just
go into a crowd and start shooting. His name is
Dennis Irwin Brandle, Junior. He told the popo that he
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thought he was being chased by someone and feared that
he and his wife were going to be killed. He
left his home in Spring and ended up in Pasadena,
where he then went into the school and that's when
he shot a school staffer. Thank goodness, these four guys
were there. Somebody among you knows them. The Paarland Band dads.
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I just need one and I just need to reach
out to one and again. The names are thirteen year
Air Force veterans Ibron Trevino, fourteen year Army veteran Adam
Curo or could be Coro Curow, four year Marine Corps
veteran Efren Castillo who goes by Polo, and longtime Houston
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Popo Sergeant Joe Sanchez. Those are the dads who jumped
into action. You know, one of them very humbly, modestly
said that everybody would have done what we did. But
we know that's just not true. It's just not true.
The band competition was at Pasadena Memorial High School on Saturday.
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But these dads are Paarland band band dads. You know.
I'll tell you my brother was in the band. He
was He played trumpet, And that's surprising when I tell
people that, because he's a man's man. And I got
to tell you, you know, there is the idea I
hear people talk about, you know, band being for sissy's
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and football being for tough guys. My brother could skin
a buck, run a trot line, do anything outdoorsy that
you could possibly imagine a man's man. He also could
play the trumpet well enough to get offers from the
army and universities to play there. I don't see that
as being contradictory. But we did everything. My parents never missed.
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And when I say never missed, I mean never missed
anything we did. And so I went to band competitions
that would go Beaumont and then Houston, which was a
long way. You know, we didn't travel, so that was
a big deal. And I used to love to go
to I looked forward to it you were in the band,
What did you play to drums? Why don't they always
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put the big oil on the drums? That is so
you never see a little skinny gall that you're like
big boy. All right, you can have the drums or
the tuba. And that tube was heavy. We had my
senior year. I don't know what happened, but we had
members of the band started fainting and it got to
the point where they had to have a meeting with
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the parents, like they got to stop fainting. We don't
believe that those band uniforms are like what is that? Like?
Cr what is that material?
Speaker 6 (08:25):
There are some.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Well something must be right. You were listening to Michael Berry.
She says, I'd ride through all of hell and half
of Texas to do what good answer, clost enough. I
mean you got the verbiage rome, but you got the
concept right, play it. Let's see who else for me?
The issue I'd ride through. I think it's all a
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hell and half of Texas to do? What if you
know it in extra credit fees, it's.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
I don't know, Calvo say just let me go excess.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
It was a big paddle sale at the boat store.
It was quite an ordeal. It's an or deal. You
didn't laugh sufficiently. I don't know if you got it.
I'll try to get it was a big paddle sale
at the boat store. It was quite an ordeal to
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do what just to him. William Nelson Man, when you
when you are the subject of other people's songs, you
have arrived. I mean, I'm thinking of people who do that.
Willie Nelson. Paink Senior me, what crazy bird put me
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in a song? I mean, it's not That's what did
Daryl k Royll say? It ain't bragging if it's true, right,
Buddy mine dated a girl with a lazy eye. To
ever tell you this story, Yeah, buddy mine dated a
girl with a lazy eye. He always thought she was
seeing somebody on the side. Protests yesterday in Los Angeles,
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that's what they call them. Those weren't protesters. They attacked
police officers. They were one hundred times more violent than
anything that happened on January sixth. And this is what
makes us angry. This is why you cannot cross Trump.
This is why you can't say a bad word about Trump.
And they wonder you people are in a cult. No,
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we just have the steely resolve. It's Trump or you,
and we're not going to let you win ever again,
ever again, because what you've done, you've lost any credibility media,
Democrat Party, You've lost any credibility with us. So you
got all these people. Now imagine the messaging on this.
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I don't want them to change it, but you know
they're dumbasses to do this. You're protesting, which you know
it's going to get violent because they're criminals to start with.
You're protesting that you don't want to get kicked out
of this country, even though you came here illegally. All right,
So presumably the point of the protest, the scheme, right
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at least when you drew this thing up, the point
of the protest was that you want to live here
and you don't want to live back where you came from. Well,
it's Los Angeles, which is just northern Mexico. So these
are all Mexicans. These are not of the Malls and
Hondurans and all. I mean, they're in there, but this
is a lot of This is Mexico. This is Mexicans.
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So you're trying to show people that you won't get
that it might be one of our bandads. You're trying
to show people that you want to stay here, and
presumably you're doing this to Garner's support, right, But in
so doing you carry the Mexican flag. So you've got
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this imagery that is Los Angeles PD in uniform standing
in the middle of the highway and five times as
many people on the other side who've taken over the highway,
and it's a busy highway, by the way, you can imagine.
And they've got Mexican flags, big Mexican flags. Now, who
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is thinking to you, to themselves, don't in the back
to Mexico, the country of the flag that they're carrying.
Who's thinking that, I suppose the only group you're trying
to rally And this must be the strategic messaging, because
there's a strategy behind this. This ain't a bunch of
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guys at home depot cooking this thing up. Right. They've
got a David axelrod the equivalent of a Rodney ls
in Los Angeles. They've got strategists that are coordinating this thing.
Tell them where to be in what time. You think
this was just a natural outbreak, it's not. They coordinate
this stuff. So they got these big old flags, and
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these flags are too big to fly at your apartment,
so this is all being coordinating. They're all brand new flags.
These things hadn't been, you know, out there for a while.
They're not raggedy, and the imagery looks like it appears
to be a war between American police and a foreign invader.
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They couldn't be doing themselves more harm if they tried,
and I don't think they're trying. I think they're trying.
I think they think they're doing themselves some good. So
you've got these guys, these massive Mexican flags, and then
of course it gets violent, and then there's projectiles being
shot and they're saying f Trump, f America and all that. Uh,
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you're not winning any friends, Fella. I don't know what
you're thinking. I really don't. So they took over the highway.
Now it feels almost cliche to say this, but it
needs to be said yet again, whether it's quanti Elacts
on two eighty eight or the highway out in Los Angeles,
the roads are for people to move to and fro. Now,
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what people are gonna say is because it makes it
more sympathetic. What if a baby's being born or somebody's
having a heart attack, and then it shouldn't rise to
that level. The roads are for driving. If you want
to protest, go protest out of the road. What you
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are doing is maximum disruption. That's not a protest anymore.
And what LAPD should have done was march in there
and start spinning them around and hand comfortable. But of
course they didn't do that. It was the right thing
to do, but it's not what they did. Well, when
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you don't stop them, they become emboldened, and that is
exactly what they did. You had that situation in Dallas. Also.
I had an officer yesterday tell me that there were
some protests at city Hall yesterday, and while I'm not
happy about that, at least they weren't out in the street.
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It shocks me how we have allowed as a society
the roads to be taken over. I don't care if
it's a damn fun run. The landscaping crew the song
get out a Roundell said, if you're hearing David Allen
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Cole saying I didn't know God made honky tonk angels.
That was a tribute to this song. The basis of
the song is Jeremiah twelve nine mine. Heritage is unto
me as a speckled bird. The birds roundabout are against her.
Come yet assemble, all the beasts of the field come
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to devout.
Speaker 6 (16:38):
To be one.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Never hear me. I love David Allen Coast's tribute the
lines I'm thinking tonight of my blue eyes concerning a
great speckled bird. I didn't know God made honky tonk
angels and went back to the wild side of life.
Of course, the wild side of life was hanged Thompson
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to this tune, and then the answer by of course
Kitty Wells, who said it wasn't God who made monkey
tonk angels. All right, y'all disappointed me. For the first
time in a very long time, I have not yet
tracked down our four banddad heroes. That's Air Force veteran
Abram Trevino, fourteen year Army veteran Adam kuro cu Row,
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four year Marine Corps veteran Efren Castillo who goes by Polo,
and longtime Houston Popo Sergeant Joe Sanchez. Ramon, I'm going
to ask you. I'm going to give you ten seconds
to think about it, okay, and then I want you
to give me the first five names that come to mind.
All Right, you ready, you'll have ten seconds. I'll time you.
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I want you to give me the five most common
nicknames for Hispanic Chicano men in the United States today,
ten seconds starting now. He got ten seconds. Think about it.
You just wasted five asking me a question, so I'll
give you ten. Go ahead. I'll come back and tell
you when we're ready. You could use Polo, which they
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just gave. I'd make it easy on you. Okay, what
else you got? Chili? All right? Huh chew, oh chew.
He's gotta be up in the top five for sure.
How may he's not a nickname? You goober. You're supposed
to carry the Hispanic load here and you're not doing
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your part. What else you got? Chewie was good? I
give you Chewy and Polo was good. I'll opened it
up to the phone lines real quick. Seven one three
nine nine nine one thousand seven one three nine nine
nine one thousand, Uncle, ponche Are you just calling out
members of your family? Gordita, that's that's a man, but yeah,
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or gorditha gardito? Okay, I'll do that. Yeah, Chili was
not your fine, You just that's our buddy down there
on the buzz. I never met another Chili other than him.
Polo is definite, Chewie is definite. Oh Flocco, you gotta
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have Flocco. Yeah, yeah, that Juapo is good. El Trocino,
that's just my name, though, I don't want a bunch
of other people having it My pens running out of
the seven one three, nine, nine, nine, one thousand. We'll
just work them in through the course. Extra credit if
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you're the guy who goes by that nickname. But if
you got an uncle or something else like that, then
then we'll we'll do that as well. The story from
Fox twenty six, Ramot put those on hold. Let me
tell this story. A man charged with capital murder after
he shot and killed his own fifty year old sister,
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Democrat Judge Josh Hill. This guy's a third man. This
is Josh Hill. He is a bad, bad, bad dude.
I genuinely wish one of these people had accidentally not targeted,
harmed a member of Josh Hill's family, just to see
how he would react. Josh Hill reduced this guy's bond,
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and then he reduced this guy's bond. I'm at two
if you're counting and then he reduced this guy's bond
as three. And then he reduced this guy's bond that's four.
And then he reduced this guy's bond that's five. I
know I'm getting on your nurse. He's on my nurse.
And then he reduced this guy's bond. That's six. And
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then he reduced this guy's bond at seven. There's sixty eight.
Y'all better locked, No. Seven times he reduced this guy's bond. Remember,
you only pay ten percent of the amount out of
the bond. It started at five hundred thousand, and then
to two fifty, then to one fifty, then to one
twenty five, then to eighty, then to sixty, then to
thirty five thousand. He only had to pay thirty five
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hundred dollars from the cartels to get out of jail
after murdering his fifteen year old sister. You'd think they
can't toss him thirty five hundred bucks. They'll just go
steal a few catalytic converters, and that thing's done. Credit
for the story for Fox twenty six and for Andy Kahn,
who stays on this stuff.
Speaker 6 (21:29):
I've not seen this many bond reductions on her murder case.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
Ever, in January of twenty twenty one, Jalen George was
out of jail on a personal recognitance bud after being
charged with felony theft.
Speaker 6 (21:43):
He basically reached over a counter and started grabbing cash
from the cash register.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
In June of twenty twenty one, police say George Shutting
killed his fifteen year old sister at twelve thousand and
six oh one South Koreen Drive to prevent her from
running away.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
The brother and his girlfriend.
Speaker 6 (22:03):
Somehow got a holt of the fifteen hour girl and founder.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
After his arrest, George's bond for capital murder is said
at five hundred thousand dollars in the two thirty second
Judge Josh Shills Court. Three months later, it's reduced to
two hundred and fifty thousand. Three months after that, it's
lowered to one hundred and fifty thousand.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
The capitol murder charges reduced to murder.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
George's half a million dollar bond is eventually reduced to
thirty five thousand dollars.
Speaker 6 (22:32):
It's unbelievable that you can go from half a million
dollars bond.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
To ammeasly thirty five thousand.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
George postpond in September of last year. According to court doguments,
it doesn't take him long to violate his bond conditions.
Speaker 6 (22:48):
There were four time for motion to revoke his bonds
repeated bond violations.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
Earlier this month, George was charged with two counts of robbery,
bodily injury, and tampering with his electronic monitor.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
You know, they're determined to put murderers back out on
the streets, determined without regard to victims. Mercy to the
guilty is cruelty to the victim, and it is imagine
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the rest of his family. He murdered this little girl.
All right, Ramon, what did we uh decide? Oh? You
got calls? Okay. So we're trying to create the list
of the five, maybe ten most common Hispanic male nicknames
in the US. It's mostly gonna be Chicano dues. I
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think Chew is the best one so far, but we'll
get your cost to Michael Mayer. On Friday, I went
out northwest in the afternoon to visit lone Star Chevy.
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Mike patchis out there. I visited Rigzone, who we had
on the show Friday morning. Rigg Zone dot com. The
Boiling Gas folks I visited, I visited another show sponsor,
and I visited fix autohuston dot com. While I was
out there, I was driving down nineteen sixty. I don't
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recommend that nineteen sixties like the Auto Bonn, except it's crowded.
You know the autobon you got some space, you can
move around a little. Nineteen sixty is absolute mayhem. And
I'm driving along on my way to fix Auto Houston,
which is a collision repair show sponsor of ours Kevin
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Taylor and his group. And I'm cruising along and I see,
what do I spy? I had to call Ramon and
tell him. But a place it's all two hands corn dogs. Well,
when you've got corn dogs as the thing you do,
not corn dogs and burgers not corn dogs. And like
corn dogs, it better be a good corn dog. And
I am a corn dog connoisseur. And let me just
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say I was disappointed. First of all, I was the
only person in there. It's a to go shop walk
in a little bit, so while I'm sitting there, there's
one lady behind the counter and presumably somebody in the kitchen,
although I'm not sure. I order my corn dog and
she takes my order and after about ten minutes she
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goes to the back. I thought, well, that's a bad sign.
But what are they doing right, I'm assuming Yeah, anyway,
it took fifteen minutes. I timed it. It took fifteen minutes,
and it was soggy. I don't like soggy. And it
was double breaded. So I'm blowing dirt for four hours,
hating myself because, and here is what's wrong with me.
I have to finish it. I knew two bites in
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it wasn't any good. Why did I have to finish it?
But I did. I did. I'll tell you why. Because
the best part of the corn dog, anybody who's a
corn dog fan knows it's when you get down to
the bottom and the part that's fried against the stick
and you crunch that off. You wish you could just
do a whole stick full of that breading. That would
make it worthwhile. But it was a little bit old
weening inside there, and it was literally double breaded. You
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could see a breading inside of a breading. I don't
know what that was about, but two hands does not
get two thumbs up from me for sure. Okay, we've
tracked down Adam Kiro. We're gonna hold him for just
a moment. But first we need to know the most
common Hispanic nicknames for men in the United States. Everybody
has every everybody that has a Chicano Latino uncle has
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an uncle Polo or Chewie or Flocko or a wappo
or something. All right, Craig, you're up. We're gonna go
Craig skip Adam and go down from there and we'll
come back to Adam. Crag you're up. Yes, I got
block O, Golda, the mba, the obe ho, yeah, yep,
or bihito. Okay, all right, let's go to don Yeah,
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we got Paco Pao. Yeah, you gotta have paco, sure,
and what else you want to put on there? Actually,
Beto is it's not it's not every Beto's fault that
there's a dumb ass Beto in Opaso. There is a restaurant.
Hold on, it's the it's the airport symbol for Barcelona
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b c N. There is a restaurant at Montrose and Richmond.
Go to Montrose and Richmond, drive one hundred and eighty
three feet east or so, and on your left. You
won't even notice it. Because it's actually set back. The
front of its parking is an old house. Every store.
It's a very very wealthy spaniard who wanted pig suckling
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suckling pig in in the in Houston, and he couldn't
find it, couldn't source it anywhere. So what does he do.
He buys a wrench and he imports this pig that
he wanted. And I'm going to tell you this, you
will have to sell your kidney to eat there. I'm
warning you in advance. Is a very expensive restaurant. It's
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a special occasion restaurant. But if you go there, b
c N prepared to put some money down, more than
you've probably ever put down in a restaurant. For most
people asked to speak to Paco. He's the general manager.
This guy is your straight out of Central Casting from
a nineteen early nineteen seventies movie of the sophisticated international
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manager of the fancy place. You remember at the nice
restaurant when Julia Roberts went in. You remember the guy
that in Beverly Hills who seats her, And that guy
he Paco, is the ultimate highly sophisticated guy who, like Jeeves,
just shimmers through the dyning room because the old house,
if you just go from room to room, you can
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save some money on the wine because you can get
in real trouble on the wine. But there's a group
of about five very wealthy, very influential, and wonderful Spanish
guys in this town who all happen to be very conservative.
Bob Unanaway at Goya unan Away, by the way, announcing
last week that Goya will now participate in finding migrant
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children in this country. The Trump administration has apparently already
located one hundred of the three hundred thousand children in
this country who are quote unquote missing. Missing is a
euphemism for they've been sex traffick. They're being sold and
raped and used as slaves. They've already located one hundred
thousand of them. But Goya has gotten involved. You remember,
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Goya came out after a meeting with Trump, and the
AOC called for him to be boycotted. For Goya to
be boycotted, all it did was open up their product
base to a bunch of white people had never tried
Goya before and realized, oh, I can get good black
beans out of a can. Who knew Bart give me
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your Latino Chicano nickname for your uncle. Okay, you got
Wero way? Oh bleo? Yeah is good? Yeah, okay, okay,
hold on, I gotta slow you down. Can I rap
you again? Start with weddo that means blondie? All right,
go ahead? Next? Or whitey way? I don't know that one. Yeah.
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Rah Poppy, Oh well poppy. And the most important of
most important of all this little puppet. I like this
guy bart Oh, that was bart Roger.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
You're up, Bancho, Bancho, it is uh James, go ahead, James.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Yeah, what you got.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
Wattle?
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Uh, let's see, we'll come back to Adam. Don you're up.
Let's get this other one and then we'll talk to
ad him. Don go ahead, you already got me? Michael?
Oh all right, sorry, Mark, go ahead? Uh pee Pee?
Do you hear me? Yeah? I heard you. I hadn't
had I hadn't heard of Pepe in a while. Let's
just pick those up real quick, and we'll hold at
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himcause I want to give him a full segment. Just
pick them up in the order. I don't need their names.
Call her. You're up, go ahead. If you hear me,
I hear you, ye, Okay, Uh name is jose One
and his SEUs. Yeah, but those are names. We're talking
about nicknames. Uh, where do it is?
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Jack?
Speaker 2 (31:45):
You're up? Go, I don't need their names. Hey listen,
I don't understand, but you know, during World War Two,
this country engaged from top to know what just happened.
We're in the middle of Chicano nicknames. All right, get
Rodney on Rodney? Yeah, what you got cho Oh, yes, Nacho.
(32:13):
I've known a few nachos in my day. Oh, that's
a good one. Yeah, Gunzo, what you got? All right?
Whole time, we're going to talk to one of the
band dads who probably saved a lot of lives this weekend.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
H