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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time, time, time, Luck and load. The
Michael Very Show is on the air. How about this.
(00:31):
I'm not going to give his name because he didn't
auth the rest of it, but an HPD officer sent
me an email and he described where he works, which
is Sunnyside day shift, and which he's done for quite
some time. I don't want to give any identifying details
because I didn't get some officers are coming weird about that.
(00:53):
But he said he loves the spirit of Joyce to
save your Sunnyside and if I felt comfortable, if I
would connect him, he would be happy to drive by
and do occasional checks on her and give her his
cell phone number for when she needs anything. Now, how
nice is that? That's a pretty first class? Wouldn't you say?
Pretty first class? We're going to go back to Joe
(01:16):
the petticab driver. But you know that guy that called
in earlier, Mike something about that, My friend, the Aggie plumber,
Michael Robinson said, said, you know, regarding helo pilots, Vietnam
was almost the sole source of an entire generation of
(01:38):
helicopter pilots. Every city tour, beach flyover service logging skycrane service.
If it involved a helicopter, one of those guys was
in the pilot's seat. I wonder if they're aging out
has caused a shortage in the industry. You know, that's true.
I hadn't thought about that. Somebody was a helo pilot
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for a long time. They were a Vietnam veteran. That's
where they learned to do it. All right, So here's
Joe Joseph, Yes, Michael, all right, So Ramon and I
have put together a little program here. Okay, here's what
we got. We're gonna We're not gonna do it. Somebody's
gonna do this. We're gonna build a website and people
are going to take a photo with you at when
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when they when they're riding with you at events and
send them to you and the webmaster is going to
be able to post them so you'll be able to
see like people will want to take their photo with you.
We do a website, We're going to get a dedicated phone.
Somebody else is going to do this. We're just we're
just putting the program together here. Dedicated phone that will
be just for this, uh. A website which will just
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be a landing page, and we got to come up
with the name, which we'll talk about in a second.
And what did I do with my notes? Ramone? There
was something else I was going to do and now
I have forgotten. Okay, well, anyway we're gonna get so.
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First things first, we got to come up with a name. Joe, okay, Joseph.
Here's some of the first ones that came in. I
thought were pretty good. This first one. I shouldn't start
with this because it's pretty good one Ramon, the Houston Sprocket.
I like the Houston Sprocket. That's Brian Sower. Whoever gives
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the winning name is getting a free gift card to Gringos.
Do you know that? Russell says the reason I can't
own a restaurant is I would give all, give everything
away and gift cards. I love gift cards. I love them,
love them, love them. I buy gift cards. I just
bought a bunch of gift cards to Tea, one, ETAs
and Orange while we were there this weekend, five thousand
dollars worth. Because when people do nice things for my parents,
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I write them a note on my Tsar note card
and I put one hundred dollars gift card in there
and it makes me so happy. Let's see, Oh, this
is somebody donating a website. Somebody. We got to get
somebody to donate a phone. We need a dedicated phone
for just this, because it's going to blow up. It
needs to be an iPhone with a dedicated number that
is just for this. Joe's Marine one not bad, not bad? Okay,
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biker Joe. Where there's another one? I gotta find it.
I want to give the guy credit. I think it
was Petta Joe.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
What's that right?
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Let's see Astro rocket Cruiser not bad TC on Magnum P.
I was a Vietnam vet.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Where is this?
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Several people have offered to set up the website, and
I'm culling through that because I don't want you to
have to pay anything. We're going to make this a
little group project. Whoever does it is going to cover
setting up the domain and building just a basic landing
page with basic operability where you can send them a photo,
they can put it up, and it'll have a dedicate
(05:00):
email address. It could just be a Gmail address where
people can book you in advance, and a dedicated phone number.
Let's see what other kind of names we got coming
in here. Let's see here, Joseph and the Technicolor dream Bike.
All right, you know the the Andrew Lloyd Webber fanboy
and me. We can appreciate you that the astro.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
My mother would like that one.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Oh my goodness, poor poor Joseph. What you're gonna do?
Let's see that's the song in the musical? Sorry, Joe Ped,
here was one that I like. How about Joe Ped?
You like Moped? You don't like Joe Ped? Okay?
Speaker 5 (05:40):
I like the houston Sprocket. I'm gonna lie to you.
Houston'sprocket is sounding good. Right now, Let's throw it open
real quick. Tell Jeff on the black line hang up.
We'll call him back in a minute. We're gonna take
calls on a name. We got one segment here for
a name, and then we got to move on to
the other things we need out of this program.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Here, we're going to get you booked. Does your back
or your legs or anything like that hurt? And this
is a repeat injured, I mean a repeat muscle movement.
It seems like after a while a wear and tear
would get to you.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
I'm pretty resilient. I've again before I even petticabed, I
was a very avid bike rider.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Yeah, how old gabber.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
I'm forty seven right now.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Oh okay, so you're not a spring chicken. No, no,
but uh what's your night weight?
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Five ten? I'm not sure what my weight is. I
might be around like one to ninety right now.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Is that muscle? Because five ten one ninety you might
you could be a little chubby.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Well, because I'm forty seven, it's put a little weight.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
But overall I'm I'm in good shape.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Overall I can handle my own bud.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
I am fifty three years old, six feet tall. Shut
your mouth bone, I am sixth solid. Do not even
do it. You know that irritates me one hundred and
seventy eight pounds, and I will tell you it is
a daily struggle. It is. If I was, If I was,
if I ate the way I ate and worked out
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the way I work out now, when I was twenty five,
I wouldn't weigh one seventy at I weigh won sixty five,
I would be lean and muscle at fifty three. You are, man,
You're battling it in forty seven. Eight ain't far behind me.
All right, let's see what kind of names we got here.
We got to get our name first, and then we
got to put the whole program. And by the way,
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y'all be thinking about for the rest of the show today,
what kind of marketing we can do, and I mean
self marketing. We got to have some Do we have
any placards or anything on there on the on the petticab.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Not on mind other than just basic things with the
rates and okay, are you opposed.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
To us kind of taking this program over?
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Honestly, I was talking to your guy on when you're
off the air, I'd have about till ten thirty and
then I have to leave because there is as an
Astros game today that I need to head out to
the world.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
I'm just saying, if we come up with this whole program,
or you willing to implement it.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Possibly, but the baseball season is ending and the slow
season is about to start, so it's almost a little
a little too late right now in the year.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Joseph, I don't know how to say this. We kind
of have a lot of people that listen. Yeah, yeah,
it could, it could get big. We might have to
grow this thing, like we might have to bring you
might have to be the big dog leverage this thing. Okay,
multi level biking kind of deal. You know, we got
people under you copy Don's sort of deal. What's going
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on at ten thirty? Oh, ten thirty, I have to
go to work? Oh okay, all right, hold on, Maybe
somehow done. Michael Berry show. He's not good for my egoleicycle.
I want to ride myle.
Speaker 6 (09:09):
I want to ride my Bysica.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
I want to ride my bike. I want to ride
my by I want to ride it.
Speaker 6 (09:19):
Where right, I say, white and.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Seat. There's a crazy old man. He's probably seventy five,
but he terrorizes the neighborhood. He scared to death of
me because I had to yell at him one day.
But he rides around, terrorizing people and yelling at them
on his bicycle. And he rides on the cul de
Sac at this very high rate of speed, and we
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root for him to crash. Unfortunately he never does. But
as that started, he came riding through the and he's
a stoner. I didn't know this, but Emily told me.
Apparently there's this thing that stoner do Joe, are you
a pothead by any chance? Probably not, because no, I'm
not edibles.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
No, no, not no.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
No.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
A lot of veterans are. That's the only reason I asked.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
A lot are.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
I know quite a few that are.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Yeah, vape anything like that.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
No, don't smoke, don't drink, never have.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Are we scaring you with all this, you know, building
your business up stuff?
Speaker 2 (10:25):
No?
Speaker 4 (10:26):
No, I just like keep thinking simple.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
No, we're not trying to So I need somebody and
it needs to be somebody I know to reach out
to me that will run point on this thing. I
want to help your business, but I don't want to
like overstep my bounds here. But here's what I would propose.
We'll get a website donated, you don't have to do anything.
(10:48):
We'll get a phone and service donated will be dedicated
to the phone so people can text or call on
that so you can turn it off when you and
your girl are watching a movie. And we get an
Instagram account set up so when people are with you,
they take a photograph with you and then they put
it on Instagram and that becomes its own. I'm not
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a I mean I will post because our station will
make a video out of what we talk about, but
I'm not a big Instagram guy. I'm much more active
on Facebook and Twitter, but I'm just anyway. But I'm
told by the women especially that that would be that's
where your marketing would best be dedicated is on Instagram.
So somebody that can handle that and then if you're
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comfortable with it, a dedicated you know, shirt or something
that makes you very identifiable that like people will go there.
He is, all right, so that's all. We'll do you
good with that.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
I'll never say never.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Okay, all right, So here's the names with he's really
into this. Here's the names that have been submitted them on.
There's some good ones in here. Astro Glide, that's what okay,
I mean, it's funny though. Joe's game shuttle to and
fro Joe. I like that, And that's clever, right, everybody
likes to and fro Joe. It doesn't roll off the
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Houston sprocket. You know what I like about the Houston
Sprocket has the in front, so it makes him kind
of like, you know.
Speaker 6 (12:13):
Oh, that's the Housless Brocket. I rode with the Housless
brocket yesterday. Hey, is that the Housless brocket Since it's
manual powered. He could say, the only Manny petty you
ever need.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
But it's not bad. Sprocket Man like the Elton John
song Home Run Taxi Astro Joe Express. I like this one,
Joe Ryder. I'm not saying we go with that. I'm
just saying it was clever. It's clever. Joe's Stros Toe
and Go. I don't roll off the tone, but it's funny.
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Houston Sprocket by Brian Sower. That's still my favorite. Let's
see Joe's Marine one. There's some good ones that came
in in here. I can't keep up with all of them.
Do you have the permit?
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (12:59):
How much supermit?
Speaker 4 (13:02):
I think the permit costs. I want to see the
permit itself, sin, and where do.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
You go to fill it out? What just happened? He dropped?
I think we have scared them, but Jesus out of
Joseph Fuelant, the truth is that him back? All right, James,
what's your name? What's the name you got? Sprocket Rocket,
Sprocket Rocket, Hector, what's your name?
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Let's try the pedaler pedaling your ass to the event.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Okay, Susan, what you got?
Speaker 2 (13:43):
I have a Rodeo petticab story. Okay with Joseph No,
I just emailed it to You's you going to read it?
But it's hilarious.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Hold on, what's the name that came in under.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Susan D. A Walt at yahoo dot com And I
said petty cab Rodeo story in the subject.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
I'm scanning through about two hundred emails just in the
last couple of minutes.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
So you well like theme to say it real quick?
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Yeah? Go ahead.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Okay, so we all know if you've ever been to
the rodeo, how horrible parking is. Right. And I was
on a committee for years, so I always had a pass.
Last year I did not. I take my fourteen year
old daughter her two friends. I'm thinking I'm going to
be the cool mom, you know, we go see luc
Brian said this over. We're rushing to the parking lot
and this petty cab just like appears out of nowhere. Okay,
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we hop on. I look down, he has no shoes on.
My daughter looks down. He has no shoes on, and
I'm thinking he's on drugs. We're going to die. I
start praying he's goingly fast. A police officer yells at
him and says, I told you not to come back here.
And I'm thinking my life is over and I have
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these precious girls, you know, with me. So we finally
get to the parking lot safely. And now whenever we
see a petty cab after an Astros game or whatever,
I'm like, I tell my daughter, Oh, let's get on.
It'd be so much easier. He has shoes on. And
my daughter said, I am never getting on a petty
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cab the rest of my life.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
But the guy's problem wasn't that he wasn't wearing shoes, right,
He'd probably done something to piss the cops off.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Oh, I know what I'm saying. I knew that he
had a story. Once I see he doesn't have shoes
and the cops yelling at him to never come back,
I'm thinking, what have I Who is this guy? But
I would love to be a member of Joe's petticab
business where I pay in advance. It's a frequent fire
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thing or something.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
I hadn't even thought about that I think I would like. Well,
I don't want to probe too deep because you don't know,
you know this, This poor guy woke up this morning
to his brother, suggesting he'd be on the air as
a petty cabin. Now he's you know, in danger of
having a front page story and the chronicle written about him.
Some people like to stay off the grid and keep
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it that way, and I do actually understand that. I
just think it's fun to lock down on something and
you know, and everybody donate their resources and come together
and it's like a cause and it's fun and we're
all in on it. But he may not want it.
He may not have accidentally dropped. He may be is
that him, He may be out. It's okay too. If
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josephs out, we'll find somebody else. Huh what he's back? Okay, Yeah,
maybe he wants to stay off the grid, and that's
perfectly fine. Those guys, a lot of those guys have
a backstory, you know. They just whether it's a social
anxiety or you know, just don't want to be bothered
or crazy ex wife, you just you know, or maybe
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just they're just not guy that wants to make money,
make money. I'm gonna eat you. Got Joe back? Joe,
I'm back. Let's talk about your headspace right now? Are
you like be honest with me. Are you just kind
of freaked out by all this, or are you like
I just woke up, I haven't had my coffee, or
you thinking I just got to get to the game.
(17:22):
What's going on?
Speaker 4 (17:24):
Oh No, I'm not freaked out. I'm just well, I
do I would like to get to the game at
some point. It's the last game of the season. You
loved Astros.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Yeah, another thing, I think.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
I just.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
I've been doing it since twenty twelve. I found my niche,
I found it works for me. I'm not opposed to help,
but I do pretty well.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Oh we don't. We're not saying you don't. We just
like all kind of secretly excited. Oh okay, does that
make sense? Most of us had boring day jobs and
we're just thinking, man, any kind of we want to
give ideas and like people would love our listeners would
love to be heading to the game and say, hey,
(18:06):
uh I got you know, remember the Houston sprocket. It
was on the Michael Berry Show. I got him set
up to pick us up at Federal American Grill at
six thirty and we got to be there at six thirty.
Or let's see if we let's go see if.
Speaker 5 (18:19):
We can find him and ride with him, like that's
all we do, thinking, I know, you got to get
to the game.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
My man, we're gonna be in touch.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Okay, all right, all right, you're talking to Michael.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
He's kind of come around. I think maybe he woke
a couple of No, don't give me Steve. He's coming around.
He did Michael Sperry Show. Thought I was selling him
a time share.
Speaker 7 (18:39):
So all right, stop what you're doing because I'm about
to ruin the image and the style that you're used to.
I looked funny, but yo, I'm making money. See so yo, Well,
I hope you're ready for.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
Me, and I got the run.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
We've got some folks who have offered to kind of
take over the program for Joe, but I need to
talk to him off eric, make sure that he is
comfortable with that. He may just kind of be.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
You know.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
One day I was talking to my buddy Michael Robinson,
the Aggie plumber, and I was pastoring everybody in the
that I knew in the college station area. Commercial accounts
to use him, and I realized at some point he
was like, hey, look I've got a good life. I
worked the right amount of hours to get to be
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home and have dinner with my family every night, not
have to add any more employees than I already have.
I have good fundamentals in my business. I make a
good living. I'm not trying to. I don't know any
debts and never have, and I don't buy anything I
don't need. So I appreciate it, but don't spend your
time on somebody else. I'm in a good spot. And
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I realized, you know, some people are desperately trying to grow, grow, grow,
or a lot of businesses are failing, and it's more
businesses than you realize. It's probably most businesses. You just
don't notice it because somebody else is bailing them out.
So if a woman has a dress shop that's like
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Sassy Styles or Sweet and Sassy, or you know what
I'm talking about, and you go in and it smells
a pumpkin spice, and you know there's women in there
wearing moo moos, and how can we help you, and
there that that business is losing money. That is a
passion project for a woman whose kids have reached their
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teenage years and they don't need mom that much anymore,
and she's always wanted to do this, and she likes
to go to those stores, so she's going to open
her own. And this is there's nothing wrong with it.
Don't get your feelings hurt if that's you, because it's
a lot of you. Every drunk one wants to own
a bar, every food he wants to own a restaurant.
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It's just it's what you do. And that business is
losing money before it ever starts because there's a build
out and occasionally there will be a sale here and there,
but those sales will be her best friend, or she'll
ask her best friend and the girls from church to
come work for her, and while they're working there, they'll
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buy some stuff and that will be the revenues that
the business will have, and it will lose money every month.
It will always lose money. But her husband loves her
to death. She's a sweet wife and he's committed to her,
and by golly, he doesn't want the dream to die
for her. So they take money out of their four
oh one k every year until finally they've drained their
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three hundred thousand dollars four oh one K down to
one hundred thousand, and he says, honey, look and we
talk about it onwine in this thing. That business been
losing money for three years. You wouldn't believe how often
somebody that runs a restaurant that that restaurant, even though
it's busy when you go in there, their dad funded
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it to start them, and every eighth month gives them
a little extra cash, give the down payment on their house,
and covers their car insurance and their cell phone. If
you back all that money out, that business is losing money.
And that is most businesses. It's over fifty percent of
businesses are losing money. When I say businesses, I don't
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mean Exxon and VP. I mean retail shops that you
can see. Most of them are losing money. And when
they make money, the money's going to repaying repaying bills
that have been run up when they're in their tough time.
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FBI raids more than a dozen gaming rooms across southeast
Houston and into Gallaston County. KHOU reports that the raids
are connected to a broader investigation involving the corruption of
public officials. The story clip number nineteen ramon from KHOU.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
At about four o'clock this afternoon, outside of this blue
warehouse on the thirteen thousand block of Market Street. We
watched as federal agents walked in and out of the building.
A short time later, gaming machines were wheeled out of
the warehouse then loaded onto eighteen wheelers. At almost the
exact same time, the same type of raid was happening
across other parts of South and southeast Houston, and also
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in parts of Galveston County at sixteen other businesses with
gaming machines. Here at the Star Video on Broadway near
the Golf Freeway, a customer tells us what happened when
the Feds showed up. Beatrice Lopez says she was playing
when the FBI agents walked in the door. She says
they told her to put her hands on top of
the machine, asked for her name, and questioned her. She
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told us she comes here to play the machines for
entertainment and to relax. If you win, she says, the
woman in charge pays you cash on the spot. Fay
Lopez says she's one close to one thousand dollars total
in the year she's played the machines here, but she
says it's rare and she went back to back. At
the same time as the raid on Broadway, Federal agents.
(24:22):
We're confiscating gambling machines at businesses in Galveston County. This
is the Big Easy Game room on Oak Street in Lamark,
and this is the jungled in on Highway six and Hitchcock.
In an email statement, the FBI's Houston Field office states
the raids were part of a quote sweeping court authorized
operation and that quote due to the ongoing nature of
the federal investigation, we are unable to provide additional details
(24:46):
at this time. KHOU eleven sources are telling us tonight
the raids are connected to a broader investigation involving the
corruption of public officials.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Please Lord, let it all come to life. Please let
it all come to light. Let it be some of
the people that we have presumed based on things we know,
or engaged in all sorts of other criminal activities. Please
(25:22):
let it be them. Please, Dear God, let this be
the thing that finally put them over the edge that
they are. You know, it's funny. I mean, look, crime
is crime, But I'm a lot less worried with somebody
running If there's a public official running a gaming room,
I'm a lot less worried about that than the fact
(25:43):
that they're letting contracts to buddies of theirs to get
overpaid by the taxpayers and never deliver the service because
that hurts everybody. But little morality stuff. Some dude can't
keep his zipper his pants zipped. Our people will kick
them out of office in a second. Somebody steals money
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from the from the treasury. Muh, maybe he did it,
Maybe he didn't. Better not be over having, better not
have his pants unzipped. It's the craziest thing. I understand
that you have to have things that you as a
as a public, that you that you say, we don't
want you doing that. But some guy getting a d
(26:27):
w I or unzipping his pants does not harm the
public nearly like what they're doing at Harris County or
what they've been doing at the city used to there.
It affects You're not going anywhere even if Trump does,
You're not.
Speaker 7 (26:40):
He war starts to Love and said, sign here's a cony,
keep her at a trot and I'd ride in a
circle while lad. Then I flopped down inside him, and
he he's ninety years old, little sixty three dollar tim
(27:08):
Love Lord. I cried day died because.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
I thought.
Speaker 7 (27:18):
That he walked to call the water.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
After story, Alan Chamblain wrote that song had Alan Chamblain
Chamblain in the studio back when we were off of
six ten loop and Guy's Darn was the name of
(27:45):
the other guy. He wrote a bunch of songs for
George Strait wrote a bunch of songs you'd know, a
bunch of them, probably forty songs you would know. And
I had the two of them at my house that night.
It's kind of a living room picking party, and it
was an invitation deal. I don't do invitation. I text people, Hey,
you want to come to the house and listen. And
(28:08):
it always irritates me because, oh, as if that's going
to affect whether coming. Oh who's playing well, Alan Shamblin,
you don't know him, but you know every song is ever.
So we're all sitting around and I kind of do
a question and answer like we've done on the air,
but where we go a little deeper. I can't remember
(28:30):
the other guy's name. Do you remember. I can't stand
when I forget things. He's the one that did all
the Bluebell commercials. He did a bunch of songs. Alan Shamblin,
and somebody out there will know it anyway. It was
(28:52):
just incredible to hear a guy sing the songs that
he wrote and you think to yourself, oh, you're doing
Randy Travis. No, Randy Travis is doing Alan Shamblin. It's
a whole different. There was a world where I thought
(29:13):
he walked on water, or he walked on water, I
think the name of the song. There was a world
where that song didn't exist, and it would have been
the case that that song would never have existed except
that Alan Shamblin sat down and wrote it, and because
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he had an established reputation with the labels, they picked
it up. And then I forget what the title of
the term for the guys are that sing that song
for the label when they would send out the cassette
to the artists and go, hey, you know, we're trying
out this song. What do you think? And that guy
would be the guy that would sing it the way
(29:55):
he interpreted it, and sometimes the singer would end up
singing it that way. Sometimes they would personalize it to themselves,
but that would give them a sense of how the
song was going to sound. And I just imagine what
a glorious thing that is, and just listen to a
podcast on Shakespeare, and in the year sixteen hundred, Shakespeare
(30:17):
was the biggest thing in the world, a globe theater,
and people would come from far and he was, you know,
honored for his greatness with the pen that here we are,
you know, over four hundred years later, we're still quoting
the words he introduced into our day to day some
(30:38):
of these songwriters, their turn of phrase, their storytelling. It
just it moves me so deeply because these are universal experiences.
I thought he walked on water is I mean, who
didn't have an old man in your life who you know,
(31:01):
with an old mop made it into it. You know,
he took an old mop and made it a pony
and said, you know, keep her at a trot and
don't go too fast on her. And you're a little key.
You think, what a what a wonderful, wondrous moment that is.
And then to go back one time and say hello
to that person, you know, you think how cool that
(31:22):
would be. And that he reduced that to two words,
that he was able to to do that. I'm thinking
of a Shirley cu lickor that I was seen about
right in the middle of that and it was a
story that Shirley cue Licker had told that seemed like
(31:44):
it could have been you know what, I'm thinking of.
Something in that story sparked me to think about Shirley
cue Licker. And I can't remember. I was sitting on
the back porch last night contemplating and listening to Randy
Travis songs, and I had three bourbons. Now hold on,
(32:10):
mister Judgy Joe, three bourbons. I do a two fingered bourbon.
It's not a heavy, poor do I drink my bourbons
and neat chance McLain was over. We're sitting out on
the porch. I have a TV out on the porch,
but the TV wasn't working for whatever reason. Because that's
the reason technology exists. Is so just about the time
(32:31):
you like it, it breaks. It's just the way it works.
And so we sat outside and looked through the glass
into the living room and watched the game the Astros
and had a couple of bourbons and talked about our
moms and talked about business, and talked about life, and
talked about the seventies Astros and you know, went through
(32:53):
each player and then went through you know how much
we love Dan Pastuni and boring stuff, but it's our
little thing. I wake up this morning, I come downstairs
and my wife has a glass of water that looks
like you pulled it out of a tap in India.
And she said that has two bec powders in it.
(33:16):
You need to drink. That you partied pretty hard last night.
And I thought, I'm too young to be this damn old.
I'm fifty three years old. I have three little bourbons
sitting on the back porch and two cigars and my
wife refers to me as partying hard. It wasn't four
years ago. That was me by seven point thirty at
(33:40):
the RCC, And now she thinks. I mean, I kind
of resent that I'm more Hank Williams Junior than she
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It's that time time, time, time, Luck and load. The
Michael Very Show is on the air. How about this.
(00:31):
I'm not going to give his name because he didn't
auth the rest of it, but an HPD officer sent
me an email and he described where he works, which
is Sunnyside day shift, and which he's done for quite
some time. I don't want to give any identifying details
because I didn't get some officers are coming weird about that.
(00:53):
But he said he loves the spirit of Joyce to
save your Sunnyside and if I felt comfortable, if I
would connect him, he would be happy to drive by
and do occasional checks on her and give her his
cell phone number for when she needs anything. Now, how
nice is that? That's a pretty first class? Wouldn't you say?
Pretty first class? We're going to go back to Joe
(01:16):
the petticab driver. But you know that guy that called
in earlier, Mike something about that, My friend, the Aggie plumber,
Michael Robinson said, said, you know, regarding helo pilots, Vietnam
was almost the sole source of an entire generation of
(01:38):
helicopter pilots. Every city tour, beach flyover service logging skycrane service.
If it involved a helicopter, one of those guys was
in the pilot's seat. I wonder if they're aging out
has caused a shortage in the industry. You know, that's true.
I hadn't thought about that. Somebody was a helo pilot
(02:00):
for a long time. They were a Vietnam veteran. That's
where they learned to do it. All right, So here's
Joe Joseph, Yes, Michael, all right, So Ramon and I
have put together a little program here. Okay, here's what
we got. We're gonna We're not gonna do it. Somebody's
gonna do this. We're gonna build a website and people
are going to take a photo with you at when
(02:23):
when they when they're riding with you at events and
send them to you and the webmaster is going to
be able to post them so you'll be able to
see like people will want to take their photo with you.
We do a website, We're going to get a dedicated phone.
Somebody else is going to do this. We're just we're
just putting the program together here. Dedicated phone that will
be just for this, uh. A website which will just
(02:45):
be a landing page, and we got to come up
with the name, which we'll talk about in a second.
And what did I do with my notes? Ramone? There
was something else I was going to do and now
I have forgotten. Okay, well, anyway we're gonna get so.
(03:08):
First things first, we got to come up with a name. Joe, okay, Joseph.
Here's some of the first ones that came in. I
thought were pretty good. This first one. I shouldn't start
with this because it's pretty good one Ramon, the Houston Sprocket.
I like the Houston Sprocket. That's Brian Sower. Whoever gives
(03:29):
the winning name is getting a free gift card to Gringos.
Do you know that? Russell says the reason I can't
own a restaurant is I would give all, give everything
away and gift cards. I love gift cards. I love them,
love them, love them. I buy gift cards. I just
bought a bunch of gift cards to Tea, one, ETAs
and Orange while we were there this weekend, five thousand
dollars worth. Because when people do nice things for my parents,
(03:49):
I write them a note on my Tsar note card
and I put one hundred dollars gift card in there
and it makes me so happy. Let's see, Oh, this
is somebody donating a website. Somebody. We got to get
somebody to donate a phone. We need a dedicated phone
for just this, because it's going to blow up. It
needs to be an iPhone with a dedicated number that
is just for this. Joe's Marine one not bad, not bad? Okay,
(04:15):
biker Joe. Where there's another one? I gotta find it.
I want to give the guy credit. I think it
was Petta Joe.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
What's that right?
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Let's see Astro rocket Cruiser not bad TC on Magnum P.
I was a Vietnam vet.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Where is this?
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Several people have offered to set up the website, and
I'm culling through that because I don't want you to
have to pay anything. We're going to make this a
little group project. Whoever does it is going to cover
setting up the domain and building just a basic landing
page with basic operability where you can send them a photo,
they can put it up, and it'll have a dedicate
(05:00):
email address. It could just be a Gmail address where
people can book you in advance, and a dedicated phone number.
Let's see what other kind of names we got coming
in here. Let's see here, Joseph and the Technicolor dream Bike.
All right, you know the the Andrew Lloyd Webber fanboy
and me. We can appreciate you that the astro.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
My mother would like that one.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Oh my goodness, poor poor Joseph. What you're gonna do?
Let's see that's the song in the musical? Sorry, Joe Ped,
here was one that I like. How about Joe Ped?
You like Moped? You don't like Joe Ped? Okay?
Speaker 5 (05:40):
I like the houston Sprocket. I'm gonna lie to you.
Houston'sprocket is sounding good. Right now, Let's throw it open
real quick. Tell Jeff on the black line hang up.
We'll call him back in a minute. We're gonna take
calls on a name. We got one segment here for
a name, and then we got to move on to
the other things we need out of this program.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Here, we're going to get you booked. Does your back
or your legs or anything like that hurt? And this
is a repeat injured, I mean a repeat muscle movement.
It seems like after a while a wear and tear
would get to you.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
I'm pretty resilient. I've again before I even petticabed, I
was a very avid bike rider.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Yeah, how old gabber.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
I'm forty seven right now.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Oh okay, so you're not a spring chicken. No, no,
but uh what's your night weight?
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Five ten? I'm not sure what my weight is. I
might be around like one to ninety right now.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Is that muscle? Because five ten one ninety you might
you could be a little chubby.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Well, because I'm forty seven, it's put a little weight.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
But overall I'm I'm in good shape.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Overall I can handle my own bud.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
I am fifty three years old, six feet tall. Shut
your mouth bone, I am sixth solid. Do not even
do it. You know that irritates me one hundred and
seventy eight pounds, and I will tell you it is
a daily struggle. It is. If I was, If I was,
if I ate the way I ate and worked out
(07:10):
the way I work out now, when I was twenty five,
I wouldn't weigh one seventy at I weigh won sixty five,
I would be lean and muscle at fifty three. You are, man,
You're battling it in forty seven. Eight ain't far behind me.
All right, let's see what kind of names we got here.
We got to get our name first, and then we
got to put the whole program. And by the way,
(07:30):
y'all be thinking about for the rest of the show today,
what kind of marketing we can do, and I mean
self marketing. We got to have some Do we have
any placards or anything on there on the on the petticab.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Not on mind other than just basic things with the
rates and okay, are you opposed.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
To us kind of taking this program over?
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Honestly, I was talking to your guy on when you're
off the air, I'd have about till ten thirty and
then I have to leave because there is as an
Astros game today that I need to head out to
the world.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
I'm just saying, if we come up with this whole program,
or you willing to implement it.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Possibly, but the baseball season is ending and the slow
season is about to start, so it's almost a little
a little too late right now in the year.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Joseph, I don't know how to say this. We kind
of have a lot of people that listen. Yeah, yeah,
it could, it could get big. We might have to
grow this thing, like we might have to bring you
might have to be the big dog leverage this thing. Okay,
multi level biking kind of deal. You know, we got
people under you copy Don's sort of deal. What's going
(08:45):
on at ten thirty? Oh, ten thirty, I have to
go to work? Oh okay, all right, hold on, Maybe
somehow done. Michael Berry show. He's not good for my egoleicycle.
I want to ride myle.
Speaker 6 (09:09):
I want to ride my Bysica.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
I want to ride my bike. I want to ride
my by I want to ride it.
Speaker 6 (09:19):
Where right, I say, white and.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Seat. There's a crazy old man. He's probably seventy five,
but he terrorizes the neighborhood. He scared to death of
me because I had to yell at him one day.
But he rides around, terrorizing people and yelling at them
on his bicycle. And he rides on the cul de
Sac at this very high rate of speed, and we
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root for him to crash. Unfortunately he never does. But
as that started, he came riding through the and he's
a stoner. I didn't know this, but Emily told me.
Apparently there's this thing that stoner do Joe, are you
a pothead by any chance? Probably not, because no, I'm
not edibles.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
No, no, not no.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
No.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
A lot of veterans are. That's the only reason I asked.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
A lot are.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
I know quite a few that are.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Yeah, vape anything like that.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
No, don't smoke, don't drink, never have.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Are we scaring you with all this, you know, building
your business up stuff?
Speaker 2 (10:25):
No?
Speaker 4 (10:26):
No, I just like keep thinking simple.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
No, we're not trying to So I need somebody and
it needs to be somebody I know to reach out
to me that will run point on this thing. I
want to help your business, but I don't want to
like overstep my bounds here. But here's what I would propose.
We'll get a website donated, you don't have to do anything.
(10:48):
We'll get a phone and service donated will be dedicated
to the phone so people can text or call on
that so you can turn it off when you and
your girl are watching a movie. And we get an
Instagram account set up so when people are with you,
they take a photograph with you and then they put
it on Instagram and that becomes its own. I'm not
(11:10):
a I mean I will post because our station will
make a video out of what we talk about, but
I'm not a big Instagram guy. I'm much more active
on Facebook and Twitter, but I'm just anyway. But I'm
told by the women especially that that would be that's
where your marketing would best be dedicated is on Instagram.
So somebody that can handle that and then if you're
(11:31):
comfortable with it, a dedicated you know, shirt or something
that makes you very identifiable that like people will go there.
He is, all right, so that's all. We'll do you
good with that.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
I'll never say never.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Okay, all right, So here's the names with he's really
into this. Here's the names that have been submitted them on.
There's some good ones in here. Astro Glide, that's what okay,
I mean, it's funny though. Joe's game shuttle to and
fro Joe. I like that, And that's clever, right, everybody
likes to and fro Joe. It doesn't roll off the
(12:08):
Houston sprocket. You know what I like about the Houston
Sprocket has the in front, so it makes him kind
of like, you know.
Speaker 6 (12:13):
Oh, that's the Housless Brocket. I rode with the Housless
brocket yesterday. Hey, is that the Housless brocket Since it's
manual powered. He could say, the only Manny petty you
ever need.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
But it's not bad. Sprocket Man like the Elton John
song Home Run Taxi Astro Joe Express. I like this one,
Joe Ryder. I'm not saying we go with that. I'm
just saying it was clever. It's clever. Joe's Stros Toe
and Go. I don't roll off the tone, but it's funny.
(12:44):
Houston Sprocket by Brian Sower. That's still my favorite. Let's
see Joe's Marine one. There's some good ones that came
in in here. I can't keep up with all of them.
Do you have the permit?
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (12:59):
How much supermit?
Speaker 4 (13:02):
I think the permit costs. I want to see the
permit itself, sin, and where do.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
You go to fill it out? What just happened? He dropped?
I think we have scared them, but Jesus out of
Joseph Fuelant, the truth is that him back? All right, James,
what's your name? What's the name you got? Sprocket Rocket,
Sprocket Rocket, Hector, what's your name?
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Let's try the pedaler pedaling your ass to the event.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Okay, Susan, what you got?
Speaker 2 (13:43):
I have a Rodeo petticab story. Okay with Joseph No,
I just emailed it to You's you going to read it?
But it's hilarious.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Hold on, what's the name that came in under.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Susan D. A Walt at yahoo dot com And I
said petty cab Rodeo story in the subject.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
I'm scanning through about two hundred emails just in the
last couple of minutes.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
So you well like theme to say it real quick?
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Yeah? Go ahead.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Okay, so we all know if you've ever been to
the rodeo, how horrible parking is. Right. And I was
on a committee for years, so I always had a pass.
Last year I did not. I take my fourteen year
old daughter her two friends. I'm thinking I'm going to
be the cool mom, you know, we go see luc
Brian said this over. We're rushing to the parking lot
and this petty cab just like appears out of nowhere. Okay,
(14:36):
we hop on. I look down, he has no shoes on.
My daughter looks down. He has no shoes on, and
I'm thinking he's on drugs. We're going to die. I
start praying he's goingly fast. A police officer yells at
him and says, I told you not to come back here.
And I'm thinking my life is over and I have
(14:57):
these precious girls, you know, with me. So we finally
get to the parking lot safely. And now whenever we
see a petty cab after an Astros game or whatever,
I'm like, I tell my daughter, Oh, let's get on.
It'd be so much easier. He has shoes on. And
my daughter said, I am never getting on a petty
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cab the rest of my life.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
But the guy's problem wasn't that he wasn't wearing shoes, right,
He'd probably done something to piss the cops off.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Oh, I know what I'm saying. I knew that he
had a story. Once I see he doesn't have shoes
and the cops yelling at him to never come back,
I'm thinking, what have I Who is this guy? But
I would love to be a member of Joe's petticab
business where I pay in advance. It's a frequent fire
(15:49):
thing or something.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
I hadn't even thought about that I think I would like. Well,
I don't want to probe too deep because you don't know,
you know this, This poor guy woke up this morning
to his brother, suggesting he'd be on the air as
a petty cabin. Now he's you know, in danger of
having a front page story and the chronicle written about him.
Some people like to stay off the grid and keep
(16:13):
it that way, and I do actually understand that. I
just think it's fun to lock down on something and
you know, and everybody donate their resources and come together
and it's like a cause and it's fun and we're
all in on it. But he may not want it.
He may not have accidentally dropped. He may be is
that him, He may be out. It's okay too. If
(16:37):
josephs out, we'll find somebody else. Huh what he's back? Okay, Yeah,
maybe he wants to stay off the grid, and that's
perfectly fine. Those guys, a lot of those guys have
a backstory, you know. They just whether it's a social
anxiety or you know, just don't want to be bothered
or crazy ex wife, you just you know, or maybe
(16:59):
just they're just not guy that wants to make money,
make money. I'm gonna eat you. Got Joe back? Joe,
I'm back. Let's talk about your headspace right now? Are
you like be honest with me. Are you just kind
of freaked out by all this, or are you like
I just woke up, I haven't had my coffee, or
you thinking I just got to get to the game.
(17:22):
What's going on?
Speaker 4 (17:24):
Oh No, I'm not freaked out. I'm just well, I
do I would like to get to the game at
some point. It's the last game of the season. You
loved Astros.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Yeah, another thing, I think.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
I just.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
I've been doing it since twenty twelve. I found my niche,
I found it works for me. I'm not opposed to help,
but I do pretty well.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Oh we don't. We're not saying you don't. We just
like all kind of secretly excited. Oh okay, does that
make sense? Most of us had boring day jobs and
we're just thinking, man, any kind of we want to
give ideas and like people would love our listeners would
love to be heading to the game and say, hey,
(18:06):
uh I got you know, remember the Houston sprocket. It
was on the Michael Berry Show. I got him set
up to pick us up at Federal American Grill at
six thirty and we got to be there at six thirty.
Or let's see if we let's go see if.
Speaker 5 (18:19):
We can find him and ride with him, like that's
all we do, thinking, I know, you got to get
to the game.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
My man, we're gonna be in touch.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Okay, all right, all right, you're talking to Michael.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
He's kind of come around. I think maybe he woke
a couple of No, don't give me Steve. He's coming around.
He did Michael Sperry Show. Thought I was selling him
a time share.
Speaker 7 (18:39):
So all right, stop what you're doing because I'm about
to ruin the image and the style that you're used to.
I looked funny, but yo, I'm making money. See so yo, Well,
I hope you're ready for.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
Me, and I got the run.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
We've got some folks who have offered to kind of
take over the program for Joe, but I need to
talk to him off eric, make sure that he is
comfortable with that. He may just kind of be.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
You know.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
One day I was talking to my buddy Michael Robinson,
the Aggie plumber, and I was pastoring everybody in the
that I knew in the college station area. Commercial accounts
to use him, and I realized at some point he
was like, hey, look I've got a good life. I
worked the right amount of hours to get to be
(19:35):
home and have dinner with my family every night, not
have to add any more employees than I already have.
I have good fundamentals in my business. I make a
good living. I'm not trying to. I don't know any
debts and never have, and I don't buy anything I
don't need. So I appreciate it, but don't spend your
time on somebody else. I'm in a good spot. And
(19:57):
I realized, you know, some people are desperately trying to grow, grow, grow,
or a lot of businesses are failing, and it's more
businesses than you realize. It's probably most businesses. You just
don't notice it because somebody else is bailing them out.
So if a woman has a dress shop that's like
(20:20):
Sassy Styles or Sweet and Sassy, or you know what
I'm talking about, and you go in and it smells
a pumpkin spice, and you know there's women in there
wearing moo moos, and how can we help you, and
there that that business is losing money. That is a
passion project for a woman whose kids have reached their
(20:42):
teenage years and they don't need mom that much anymore,
and she's always wanted to do this, and she likes
to go to those stores, so she's going to open
her own. And this is there's nothing wrong with it.
Don't get your feelings hurt if that's you, because it's
a lot of you. Every drunk one wants to own
a bar, every food he wants to own a restaurant.
(21:04):
It's just it's what you do. And that business is
losing money before it ever starts because there's a build
out and occasionally there will be a sale here and there,
but those sales will be her best friend, or she'll
ask her best friend and the girls from church to
come work for her, and while they're working there, they'll
(21:24):
buy some stuff and that will be the revenues that
the business will have, and it will lose money every month.
It will always lose money. But her husband loves her
to death. She's a sweet wife and he's committed to her,
and by golly, he doesn't want the dream to die
for her. So they take money out of their four
oh one k every year until finally they've drained their
(21:47):
three hundred thousand dollars four oh one K down to
one hundred thousand, and he says, honey, look and we
talk about it onwine in this thing. That business been
losing money for three years. You wouldn't believe how often
somebody that runs a restaurant that that restaurant, even though
it's busy when you go in there, their dad funded
(22:10):
it to start them, and every eighth month gives them
a little extra cash, give the down payment on their house,
and covers their car insurance and their cell phone. If
you back all that money out, that business is losing money.
And that is most businesses. It's over fifty percent of
businesses are losing money. When I say businesses, I don't
(22:31):
mean Exxon and VP. I mean retail shops that you
can see. Most of them are losing money. And when
they make money, the money's going to repaying repaying bills
that have been run up when they're in their tough time.
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FBI raids more than a dozen gaming rooms across southeast
Houston and into Gallaston County. KHOU reports that the raids
are connected to a broader investigation involving the corruption of
public officials. The story clip number nineteen ramon from KHOU.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
At about four o'clock this afternoon, outside of this blue
warehouse on the thirteen thousand block of Market Street. We
watched as federal agents walked in and out of the building.
A short time later, gaming machines were wheeled out of
the warehouse then loaded onto eighteen wheelers. At almost the
exact same time, the same type of raid was happening
across other parts of South and southeast Houston, and also
(23:39):
in parts of Galveston County at sixteen other businesses with
gaming machines. Here at the Star Video on Broadway near
the Golf Freeway, a customer tells us what happened when
the Feds showed up. Beatrice Lopez says she was playing
when the FBI agents walked in the door. She says
they told her to put her hands on top of
the machine, asked for her name, and questioned her. She
(24:01):
told us she comes here to play the machines for
entertainment and to relax. If you win, she says, the
woman in charge pays you cash on the spot. Fay
Lopez says she's one close to one thousand dollars total
in the year she's played the machines here, but she
says it's rare and she went back to back. At
the same time as the raid on Broadway, Federal agents.
(24:22):
We're confiscating gambling machines at businesses in Galveston County. This
is the Big Easy Game room on Oak Street in Lamark,
and this is the jungled in on Highway six and Hitchcock.
In an email statement, the FBI's Houston Field office states
the raids were part of a quote sweeping court authorized
operation and that quote due to the ongoing nature of
the federal investigation, we are unable to provide additional details
(24:46):
at this time. KHOU eleven sources are telling us tonight
the raids are connected to a broader investigation involving the
corruption of public officials.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Please Lord, let it all come to life. Please let
it all come to light. Let it be some of
the people that we have presumed based on things we know,
or engaged in all sorts of other criminal activities. Please
(25:22):
let it be them. Please, Dear God, let this be
the thing that finally put them over the edge that
they are. You know, it's funny. I mean, look, crime
is crime, But I'm a lot less worried with somebody
running If there's a public official running a gaming room,
I'm a lot less worried about that than the fact
(25:43):
that they're letting contracts to buddies of theirs to get
overpaid by the taxpayers and never deliver the service because
that hurts everybody. But little morality stuff. Some dude can't
keep his zipper his pants zipped. Our people will kick
them out of office in a second. Somebody steals money
(26:04):
from the from the treasury. Muh, maybe he did it,
Maybe he didn't. Better not be over having, better not
have his pants unzipped. It's the craziest thing. I understand
that you have to have things that you as a
as a public, that you that you say, we don't
want you doing that. But some guy getting a d
(26:27):
w I or unzipping his pants does not harm the
public nearly like what they're doing at Harris County or
what they've been doing at the city used to there.
It affects You're not going anywhere even if Trump does,
You're not.
Speaker 7 (26:40):
He war starts to Love and said, sign here's a cony,
keep her at a trot and I'd ride in a
circle while lad. Then I flopped down inside him, and
he he's ninety years old, little sixty three dollar tim
(27:08):
Love Lord. I cried day died because.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
I thought.
Speaker 7 (27:18):
That he walked to call the water.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
After story, Alan Chamblain wrote that song had Alan Chamblain
Chamblain in the studio back when we were off of
six ten loop and Guy's Darn was the name of
(27:45):
the other guy. He wrote a bunch of songs for
George Strait wrote a bunch of songs you'd know, a
bunch of them, probably forty songs you would know. And
I had the two of them at my house that night.
It's kind of a living room picking party, and it
was an invitation deal. I don't do invitation. I text people, Hey,
you want to come to the house and listen. And
(28:08):
it always irritates me because, oh, as if that's going
to affect whether coming. Oh who's playing well, Alan Shamblin,
you don't know him, but you know every song is ever.
So we're all sitting around and I kind of do
a question and answer like we've done on the air,
but where we go a little deeper. I can't remember
(28:30):
the other guy's name. Do you remember. I can't stand
when I forget things. He's the one that did all
the Bluebell commercials. He did a bunch of songs. Alan Shamblin,
and somebody out there will know it anyway. It was
(28:52):
just incredible to hear a guy sing the songs that
he wrote and you think to yourself, oh, you're doing
Randy Travis. No, Randy Travis is doing Alan Shamblin. It's
a whole different. There was a world where I thought
(29:13):
he walked on water, or he walked on water, I
think the name of the song. There was a world
where that song didn't exist, and it would have been
the case that that song would never have existed except
that Alan Shamblin sat down and wrote it, and because
(29:34):
he had an established reputation with the labels, they picked
it up. And then I forget what the title of
the term for the guys are that sing that song
for the label when they would send out the cassette
to the artists and go, hey, you know, we're trying
out this song. What do you think? And that guy
would be the guy that would sing it the way
(29:55):
he interpreted it, and sometimes the singer would end up
singing it that way. Sometimes they would personalize it to themselves,
but that would give them a sense of how the
song was going to sound. And I just imagine what
a glorious thing that is, and just listen to a
podcast on Shakespeare, and in the year sixteen hundred, Shakespeare
(30:17):
was the biggest thing in the world, a globe theater,
and people would come from far and he was, you know,
honored for his greatness with the pen that here we are,
you know, over four hundred years later, we're still quoting
the words he introduced into our day to day some
(30:38):
of these songwriters, their turn of phrase, their storytelling. It
just it moves me so deeply because these are universal experiences.
I thought he walked on water is I mean, who
didn't have an old man in your life who you know,
(31:01):
with an old mop made it into it. You know,
he took an old mop and made it a pony
and said, you know, keep her at a trot and
don't go too fast on her. And you're a little key.
You think, what a what a wonderful, wondrous moment that is.
And then to go back one time and say hello
to that person, you know, you think how cool that
(31:22):
would be. And that he reduced that to two words,
that he was able to to do that. I'm thinking
of a Shirley cu lickor that I was seen about
right in the middle of that and it was a
story that Shirley cue Licker had told that seemed like
(31:44):
it could have been you know what, I'm thinking of.
Something in that story sparked me to think about Shirley
cue Licker. And I can't remember. I was sitting on
the back porch last night contemplating and listening to Randy
Travis songs, and I had three bourbons. Now hold on,
(32:10):
mister Judgy Joe, three bourbons. I do a two fingered bourbon.
It's not a heavy, poor do I drink my bourbons
and neat chance McLain was over. We're sitting out on
the porch. I have a TV out on the porch,
but the TV wasn't working for whatever reason. Because that's
the reason technology exists. Is so just about the time
(32:31):
you like it, it breaks. It's just the way it works.
And so we sat outside and looked through the glass
into the living room and watched the game the Astros
and had a couple of bourbons and talked about our
moms and talked about business, and talked about life, and
talked about the seventies Astros and you know, went through
(32:53):
each player and then went through you know how much
we love Dan Pastuni and boring stuff, but it's our
little thing. I wake up this morning, I come downstairs
and my wife has a glass of water that looks
like you pulled it out of a tap in India.
And she said that has two bec powders in it.
(33:16):
You need to drink. That you partied pretty hard last night.
And I thought, I'm too young to be this damn old.
I'm fifty three years old. I have three little bourbons
sitting on the back porch and two cigars and my
wife refers to me as partying hard. It wasn't four
years ago. That was me by seven point thirty at
(33:40):
the RCC, And now she thinks. I mean, I kind
of resent that I'm more Hank Williams Junior than she
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