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Speaker 1:
[00:00] 104.1 Krbe.

Speaker 2:
[00:02] Let's go. The Roula Show with Eric.

Speaker 1:
[00:06] It's about to get all stupid up in here.

Speaker 3:
[00:09] Hey, sleepyhead.

Speaker 2:
[00:10] Featuring Special K.

Speaker 1:
[00:13] And Sam.

Speaker 3:
[00:16] You've waited long enough.

Speaker 1:
[00:17] How the heck do you pronounce this woman's name?

Speaker 2:
[00:19] Roula.

Speaker 1:
[00:19] Macaron cheese hot dog.

Speaker 2:
[00:20] With Eric.

Speaker 3:
[00:21] You're the champions of the f***ing world.

Speaker 4:
[00:24] 104.1 Krbe.

Speaker 1:
[00:25] Yay, good morning Houston, Texas. This Thursday is April 23rd of 2026 at 6 o 2 a.m. on this Friday Eve with Roula, Eric and Special K. And Sam. Happy Thursday Houston, Texas.

Speaker 3:
[00:38] All I'm thinking about is Friday at 1030.

Speaker 2:
[00:41] That when you get your nose splints out?

Speaker 3:
[00:43] Yep. That's what I'm thinking about. Like, how could it just blink my eyes? You ever do that? Like you got something big going on. You're like, I wish it was over. Or then high school.

Speaker 1:
[00:52] You get to it.

Speaker 3:
[00:53] Yeah, I just want to get over with like in high school when you have to do like a speech and then you got to watch kids do it. I'm like, no, just let me go first.

Speaker 2:
[01:00] Get out of the way.

Speaker 3:
[01:01] I don't want to wait. You do it on Friday around time. Oh, Monday, we'll bring this back. No.

Speaker 4:
[01:06] Yeah. Any prep for it?

Speaker 2:
[01:07] I feel like this has gone really quickly for you because I had them in for two weeks.

Speaker 3:
[01:12] Yeah, I don't know how you.

Speaker 1:
[01:12] Yeah, you just went in like a flash.

Speaker 2:
[01:14] Plus the packing.

Speaker 3:
[01:15] Yeah, the packing is the worst. I didn't get that. Thank God.

Speaker 2:
[01:17] You got off pretty easy and I can't wait to see how you breathe. You probably already breathe better.

Speaker 3:
[01:23] I probably don't even notice it.

Speaker 1:
[01:25] Your wife probably notices it.

Speaker 2:
[01:26] Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1:
[01:26] Your wife, my wife. Your wife.

Speaker 2:
[01:29] Does it hurt?

Speaker 3:
[01:30] It's starting to a little bit today. I'm just sick of it because I know it's in there.

Speaker 2:
[01:35] Yeah.

Speaker 3:
[01:35] I took one of those pain pills last night just to-

Speaker 2:
[01:38] Nice. You deserve it.

Speaker 3:
[01:39] Because I kept thinking about it.

Speaker 4:
[01:40] Yeah.

Speaker 3:
[01:41] A long day. I deserve it.

Speaker 2:
[01:42] You didn't have to stay for the bourbon though.

Speaker 4:
[01:45] Probably weren't supposed to mix it, but we're listening.

Speaker 3:
[01:48] We're not judging. I should have brought my meat in here for you guys. I spent $176 yesterday on barbecue. What? I went to Pinkerton's on 59, where 59 Diner used to be.

Speaker 1:
[02:01] Sure. I haven't been there yet. Did you like it?

Speaker 3:
[02:03] Yeah. It was really good, but I just got stupid and got too much. I'm bad at that.

Speaker 2:
[02:07] You should have brought some cold sardines up in here for some breakfast.

Speaker 3:
[02:10] I got a beef rib. That was the size of a dinosaur. Then I got a pound and a half of brisket, I think, or pound. Then I got a half pound of spicy jalapeno cheese sausage. They're fries, man. It's like beef tallow fries. Sorry, it's hard to breathe. Beef tallow fries with the sauce to dip it in and-

Speaker 2:
[02:31] Tallow fries. Yeah.

Speaker 3:
[02:33] It's beef fat.

Speaker 2:
[02:34] Hello.

Speaker 1:
[02:36] It's beef fat.

Speaker 3:
[02:36] I don't know, but it-

Speaker 1:
[02:37] You can buy it to cook with it.

Speaker 3:
[02:38] Crispy. I'm like, damn, these fries, I'd just go for the fries.

Speaker 2:
[02:42] Yeah, but fries don't keep and travel especially day two.

Speaker 3:
[02:45] Unless you got an air fryer.

Speaker 1:
[02:47] Unless you got an air fryer.

Speaker 2:
[02:48] Yeah.

Speaker 3:
[02:48] There's none of those left to bring for you guys.

Speaker 2:
[02:50] Oh, okay.

Speaker 3:
[02:50] Mac and cheese and...

Speaker 1:
[02:51] Do you like the mac and cheese?

Speaker 3:
[02:54] It's hard to tell because with the stuffed doughs or with the...

Speaker 2:
[02:57] Yeah.

Speaker 3:
[02:57] They don't taste as well, so I feel like I...

Speaker 2:
[02:59] But you can taste a little bit?

Speaker 3:
[03:00] Yeah, yeah, I taste them in the...

Speaker 2:
[03:01] Okay, that's good.

Speaker 3:
[03:02] Beef ribs are... I'm such a loser. I never realized how great beef ribs were until like... You went to Killens. Because I was a pork rib guy because I grew up near Chicago.

Speaker 1:
[03:12] It's nice about Chicago, Eric. I think even as a Houstonian, always in my years of going like Demiris or Luther's or whatever was around when I was young.

Speaker 3:
[03:19] They're not always around.

Speaker 1:
[03:20] Yeah, I don't remember beef rib being so prominent on the menu. And we went to Killens, we were like, what the heck is this?

Speaker 3:
[03:27] It almost feels like a giant piece of roast beef. Oh my god.

Speaker 1:
[03:30] It's amazing.

Speaker 2:
[03:31] It falls apart.

Speaker 3:
[03:32] Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[03:32] I'm not going to go back to Killens. I haven't been in a while.

Speaker 3:
[03:34] I should have brought this stuff in for you guys. It was really good, so I give it a thumbs up. And they have, like I said, I bought stuff to go.

Speaker 1:
[03:40] So you said it was $176 worth?

Speaker 3:
[03:42] Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[03:43] What do you feel like? Because the price of beef is really crazy right now. Do you feel like it was a lot of food for $176?

Speaker 3:
[03:48] Yeah. They weigh it there. They charge you by the way.

Speaker 1:
[03:51] All right. Sure, sure.

Speaker 3:
[03:52] And stuff. Yeah, no, it was good.

Speaker 1:
[03:54] I mean, I feel like with barbecue these days, y'all, it adds up really fast.

Speaker 3:
[03:57] I think for the big beef rib, it was like $30.

Speaker 1:
[03:59] Yeah, that's about how much they're on.

Speaker 3:
[04:00] I think I saw on the menu, in the brisket, I can't remember how much, like $28 a pound. Is that right?

Speaker 1:
[04:07] I don't know. I have no idea.

Speaker 3:
[04:07] I don't know my meat. Do you get this?

Speaker 1:
[04:10] I always make fried order.

Speaker 3:
[04:11] It's 80%. Ladies, if you're looking for a man, there's like 85% men and maybe 90% men. I was full. I went at 11.40 or 12. I can't remember.

Speaker 1:
[04:21] That's a great point. Ladies, go to a barbecue restaurant for lunch if you're looking to look at your, maybe catch a man's eye.

Speaker 3:
[04:29] Because you'll be the only one in there. I don't know if that's the type of guy she wants.

Speaker 1:
[04:32] Depending.

Speaker 3:
[04:33] Some look stepped on.

Speaker 1:
[04:34] Oh, really? Hello.

Speaker 3:
[04:36] Like they eat a lot? I was like, guys, you don't have to eat it every day.

Speaker 1:
[04:40] Listen, I learned about brisket and I can't go back now. When I order my brisket sandwiches or brisket on a plate. Now we're going to make our six-pack.

Speaker 3:
[04:48] Briscoe on the board.

Speaker 1:
[04:48] Briscoe on the board. I want loose-cut brisket.

Speaker 2:
[04:51] Oh, yeah, loose. Give me that loose cut.

Speaker 1:
[04:53] It's got a little fatty on it. It's not the lean-lean because here's the problem with the lean-lean. When you get lean-cut brisket, I feel like it's already dry before I hit your mouth. And then if I'm not going to eat it all and I want to put it in the fridge and reheat it the next day, oh, I've made jerky. So I always go loose-cut brisket because you got that fat in there to keep it moist.

Speaker 3:
[05:12] This had some good layers of fat, not too much, just enough, just like a smidgen.

Speaker 2:
[05:17] And Pinkerton's is where that 59 Diner was.

Speaker 3:
[05:20] Yeah, they tore that whole building down. Oh, they did?

Speaker 2:
[05:22] The split at Shepherd?

Speaker 3:
[05:24] Yep, right next to Holla Guys.

Speaker 2:
[05:25] Yeah, Holla Guys. I love them too.

Speaker 3:
[05:27] Yeah, that's good stuff over there.

Speaker 1:
[05:29] But that Shepherd Square is still empty, huh? Is it? The whole thing is still empty. What is going on with Shepherd Square?

Speaker 2:
[05:36] That's one of the first places I ever DJed my entire life is in Shepherd Square in like 1999. Oh, that was the 1900s.

Speaker 1:
[05:46] There was a KRBE event there that I had won tickets to before I ever worked here. And it was at the Rhino Room with Jewel. Jewel had come to the Rhino Room and I got tickets. And it was all in that. The Shepherd Square at that time was so hot for people who were old enough to go out. It was like you just walk from bar to bar to bar to club. There was Q Cafe, there was Edo, there was Rhino Room, there was an Italian restaurant named Chantani. There was all these places.

Speaker 2:
[06:14] Picasso, Guava, all the places.

Speaker 3:
[06:16] That just disappeared so fast.

Speaker 1:
[06:18] Yeah, and it was empty.

Speaker 3:
[06:19] Q Cafe was big. My wife talked about this. She hung out with Charles Barkley.

Speaker 1:
[06:22] Now I think it's like a dental office or something.

Speaker 3:
[06:26] My wife said she went up to Charles Barkley there, Q Cafe, because there's an article or something. He did and he was just talking with people. She went up to him and was like, you know what, I don't agree with a lot of things you say, but one thing. He's like, what's that? He said something like, you're the best looking man in basketball or something. She just said that to him. He's like, hey, come over here. Sit over here. She laughed.

Speaker 1:
[06:45] Yeah, he used to cheat on his wife a lot here. He cheated on his wife a lot here.

Speaker 3:
[06:50] He didn't play much here on the court.

Speaker 1:
[06:52] He sure had a lot of fun with the ladies here. I'm very aware that some mornings, somewhere, we've got the girl that used to be a Budweiser swimsuit girl, who made out with Ben Affleck when he was filming Armageddon here. She's probably married now with four kids in the carpool struggle bus.

Speaker 3:
[07:10] You think she tells her husband that?

Speaker 1:
[07:11] She's like, I made out with Ben Affleck.

Speaker 3:
[07:13] Because you know they can't watch movies, they can't watch Ben Affleck without...

Speaker 1:
[07:16] If she told her husband.

Speaker 3:
[07:18] I mean, it's a good flex.

Speaker 1:
[07:20] Is that something you say? Just keep you on your toes. Then you're maybe like, really? You want to watch that movie now? Look, look at the guy I made out with when an Oscar. You would, right?

Speaker 3:
[07:27] Like if you made out with Josh Duhamel, you were flirting with him.

Speaker 1:
[07:29] Yeah, I could have had that.

Speaker 3:
[07:30] Back during Ted Hamilton days.

Speaker 1:
[07:31] Talk about being a dummy. I'm so...

Speaker 3:
[07:34] And you know he cheats. You would have been good back then.

Speaker 1:
[07:36] Yeah, but I felt bad. I felt bad. And actually speaking of Ted Hamilton, Eric, that's funny. I brought that up to my girls yesterday. I told them about how, you know, in radio we've been invited to meet artists and even actors and we go to award shows. And I had gone to Los Angeles for this movie that you've... And I said, do you guys know who Josh Duhamel is? And they were like, no. And I was trying to like explain what, how would a 15 year old know Josh Duhamel?

Speaker 3:
[08:01] He would have been like Jacob Elordi back then.

Speaker 1:
[08:05] Yeah, but what show was he on? He was on Las Vegas MBC.

Speaker 3:
[08:08] But Ted Hamilton, he was at The Body.

Speaker 1:
[08:09] Win a date with Ted Hamilton, he was like the hottest. Remember that one, Sam? Win a date with Ted Hamilton.

Speaker 4:
[08:13] No, that's not the one.

Speaker 3:
[08:14] Just look up Josh Duhamel and type in Ted Hamilton.

Speaker 1:
[08:17] It was a cute movie because it was literally a contest to win a date with like the hottest A-list cute guy in Hollywood. Win a date with Tad Hamilton.

Speaker 4:
[08:25] Oh, Tad.

Speaker 1:
[08:25] I put Ted. No, Tad.

Speaker 4:
[08:27] Tad Hamilton. And if you Google... There's my Google. That guy is not who I thought I was going. What?

Speaker 1:
[08:32] He was married to Fergie.

Speaker 4:
[08:33] What are you talking about? Yes, I know who he is. Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[08:36] So I didn't explain him to my girls yesterday. Like, what would he... Now he's like on some Apple Plus series or I don't know.

Speaker 3:
[08:43] He's got great hair and great...

Speaker 1:
[08:44] Yeah. But anyway, man, he was a good looking one. And he was like, haha, you're funny. You want to make out? I had that audio for the longest time and I'm looking at him like...

Speaker 3:
[08:54] Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[08:55] I mean, we had just talked about his fiance. We had just talked about his fiance and then he says, I'm funny.

Speaker 3:
[09:03] Is that what you did?

Speaker 1:
[09:04] Do you want to make out?

Speaker 3:
[09:05] That's your response?

Speaker 1:
[09:06] Yeah. I was like, oh, I'll pee my pants. Anyway, so that's the tangent of that. Somebody texted about what? The beef rib? What is this on text? You guys are... We're making them hungry, y'all.

Speaker 3:
[09:14] Lean cuts is the best if it's done properly.

Speaker 1:
[09:17] Oh, lean cut if it's done properly. Okay. It's not the driest part. Well, let me tell you something, honey. Not in my experience. If I say lean cut, I get a dry ass piece of...

Speaker 3:
[09:26] We should do that up here. We should have a Roula Show with Eric barbecue contest.

Speaker 1:
[09:30] We need Captain Firefighter Ross to bring that brisket back.

Speaker 2:
[09:33] He does make an amazing brisket, I must say.

Speaker 1:
[09:36] Ross, this is your call. We are requesting the brisket.

Speaker 3:
[09:40] Have you guys ever had brats?

Speaker 1:
[09:42] I'm not a big bratwurst person.

Speaker 3:
[09:44] Like up north, we have brats a lot.

Speaker 1:
[09:46] It's a Super Bowl food to me, but I still don't touch it.

Speaker 3:
[09:48] I always get sick after eating them, so I don't know why. But they still do it. It's like, God, maybe this time I won't. Nope, it did.

Speaker 2:
[09:53] No, but kielbasa was a big thing at parties. Yeah, kielbasa or however you say it.

Speaker 4:
[10:00] I say kielbasa.

Speaker 3:
[10:01] Yeah, kielbasa.

Speaker 2:
[10:02] I'm probably saying it wrong.

Speaker 4:
[10:03] I used to eat that late.

Speaker 2:
[10:04] I used to eat kielbasa. Yeah, once a week.

Speaker 4:
[10:08] Absolutely.

Speaker 3:
[10:09] It mustered. Wait, it's true.

Speaker 1:
[10:11] One of the bud girls is listening to us right now. She said, I was one of the bud girls. She's traveling the world, no children, married once. About the girl that made out with Ben Affleck? Wow, look at that.

Speaker 3:
[10:21] I love she did that.

Speaker 1:
[10:22] That's awesome. I'd love to see that.

Speaker 3:
[10:24] How do you even get that job to be a bud girl? You work for a client.

Speaker 1:
[10:29] You want to wear this swimsuit? Can you wear this swimsuit and walk around these clubs?

Speaker 3:
[10:31] You have confidence to go up to a bunch of slobs at barbecue places?

Speaker 2:
[10:35] I was a bud light seltzer girl for a really long time, all through the pandemic.

Speaker 1:
[10:39] He's had the hot pants to prove it.

Speaker 2:
[10:40] Oh, yeah. Many, many a video with just my little shorts on.

Speaker 3:
[10:44] But they sold a lot then. They did.

Speaker 2:
[10:46] They did go out of business.

Speaker 3:
[10:48] I haven't heard their seltzers in a while.

Speaker 2:
[10:51] I don't hear them talking about it. I don't see it anymore.

Speaker 4:
[10:52] It's because we sold them out.

Speaker 2:
[10:54] We did.

Speaker 1:
[10:55] We did.

Speaker 4:
[10:56] You and I.

Speaker 3:
[10:56] Because you're supposed to give away and you guys played to go to the beach.

Speaker 2:
[10:59] They took us up with the food.

Speaker 4:
[11:01] That was pretty fun.

Speaker 1:
[11:03] Well, it's currently 69 degrees right now. It's going to be a high of 84. And it was sprinkling as I was walking into our building. But is it showing the forecast we're supposed to get any rain? So, I don't know. Throw my hands up. I'm not immediately.

Speaker 3:
[11:15] I could have bedded somebody washing windows early in the morning.

Speaker 1:
[11:18] We'll be back. Oh, let me give you a keyword real quick for Harry Styles. You want to try and win a trip to see Harry Styles? The national key word is restaurant. You better spell it right. Rest-a-rant. R-E-S-T-A-U-R-A-N-T. Send it to 95819. Tender for a chance to win a trip to New York City or a trip to London to see Harry Styles on tour. Scoops next on The Roula Show with Eric in KRBE.

Speaker 2:
[11:46] Celebrity Scoop.

Speaker 1:
[11:48] On the Roula Show with Eric. 104.1 Krbe. It's brought to you by Taqueria Sarandas. And okay, I really just feel like Hollywood's running out of things to do. I mean, there's a lot out there on streaming services that you could find, and you know, ever since the creation of the Samsung television with its whole own platform of channels I never knew. Do you have a Samsung, who in here has a Samsung TV? Kevin, do you have one?

Speaker 2:
[12:14] Yes, I have a frame.

Speaker 1:
[12:16] Okay, I have the frame as well. Do you have one?

Speaker 3:
[12:18] Yep, I have the frame.

Speaker 1:
[12:21] When it goes to sleep, if I have it on, there's actually a thing when I first got the TV, I didn't know I was even doing it. Now I can't turn it off, that I somehow set something where it goes to sleep and defaults to like a Samsung channel. So I'll walk into the house at a random time if nobody's been home, and some random show is on because that whole channel is that show.

Speaker 3:
[12:42] It might be a, is it Roku or is it a direct TV type thing?

Speaker 1:
[12:46] I feel like it's a Samsung thing.

Speaker 2:
[12:48] Samsung, they have this thing called Samsung Live TV that is its own app that it does, it will default to it if the TV is just left on, but when I turn, see when we turn ours off, ours defaults to an art piece. Like we have a ship.

Speaker 1:
[13:06] Mine should default to the art piece, but sometimes mine just goes black screen, or if I left the house of the TV on, I get some random Samsung channel, it's like the facts of life from 1981.

Speaker 3:
[13:15] They have like the Price is Right channel, they have the new one, old one, they have...

Speaker 4:
[13:19] There's like a thousand channels on the Samsung thing plus music.

Speaker 1:
[13:23] And they have one called like Seascapes or Musicscapes or something, and so if you want like a winter scene with music or if you want like a beach scene with music, it's all these default channels. Okay, so my point is everything has a channel now. I mean, I'm sure we can find the Dukes of Hazzard channel, we can find the 80s soap opera channel. I wish I want to see the Young and the Restless from like 1991.

Speaker 3:
[13:43] I want to see the Days of Our Lives.

Speaker 1:
[13:44] Days of Our Lives channel. Okay, so Melrose Place, the ladies of Melrose Place were featured on people.com and People's Instagram. And I swear they haven't aged a day. They haven't aged a day.

Speaker 3:
[13:55] I mean, unbelievable.

Speaker 1:
[13:56] Zuniga, Spaceballs 2.

Speaker 3:
[14:00] It looks great.

Speaker 1:
[14:01] Yeah, they look like they haven't aged at all. And so, you know, for those 90s adults who remember the hysteria of Melrose Place, it was a spinoff from Beverly Hills, 90210. And the way they introduced Melrose Place into Beverly Hills, 90210, Kelly's mom had this handyman come over. He was Jake. Yeah, Grant Show played Jake. And then he's like the hot handyman that came over to Kelly Taylor's house. And then they followed his story line on his motorcycle to where he lives.

Speaker 3:
[14:39] Melrose Place.

Speaker 1:
[14:40] At Melrose Place. And then they crossed it over. So Courtney Thorn Smith was in it. Andrew Hsu, which was Elizabeth Hsu's brother.

Speaker 3:
[14:49] Crowdy Kid.

Speaker 1:
[14:50] Yes. And so anyway, it just became this phenomenon. And it kind of was like fizzling out until they added Heather Locklear, who played this character named Amanda Woodward. And she was like super power witch boss, power witch boss.

Speaker 3:
[15:06] That's when the short skirt really came out.

Speaker 1:
[15:08] Ally McBeal and Melrose Place, that generation of television, they had like the micro mini skirts in the professional setting.

Speaker 3:
[15:13] Those women are all now what in their 40s?

Speaker 1:
[15:17] You mean the setting on the show or now?

Speaker 3:
[15:19] People that were fans of the show, like in their 40s probably.

Speaker 1:
[15:22] Probably, yeah, you're probably in your 40s now if you were a fan of that show. Because it was on Thursday nights and it was so popular guys, there was a bar on Richmond that opened called Shooters.

Speaker 3:
[15:33] Oh, that was the name of the bar.

Speaker 1:
[15:34] That was the name of the bar on the show. And there was a bar on Richmond Avenue called Shooters. Well, anyway, Heather Locklear in this article with People Magazine, they reunited said she was brought in to basically save the show because the show was not, it was fizzling out and Aaron Spelling, who was the creator of the show, just knew if they just got the right chemistry on there, that show would be monstrous. And he was right when they put Heather Locklear in there and Marcia Cross from Desert Housewives. She was bananas.

Speaker 3:
[16:01] Yeah, that's what got people.

Speaker 1:
[16:02] Yeah, she played a doctor who started having an affair.

Speaker 3:
[16:05] She was boring at first and then all of a sudden they just realized, let's make her crazy.

Speaker 1:
[16:09] Yeah, because they had a married couple at Melrose Place and they were kind of like, oh, you know, Michael Mancini and Jane, they're just like the boring married couple of Melrose Place. And then he became the craziest because he started having an affair with that Dr. Kimberly. And it was just crazy from there on out. So anyway, she said, I think once we did a Rolling Stone cover, I knew this is awesome. That issue came out May 19, 1994, and the headline read Melrose Place's Bod Squad.

Speaker 3:
[16:39] Is it 1994 that came out?

Speaker 1:
[16:40] 1994, it says. It was when it hit Rolling Stone. She said they were working 14-hour days. They didn't really know when it had become such a huge hit. Daphne's, by the way, is 63 years old now. Josie Bissett is 55. There was no social media to tell them how the fans were responding. They didn't get the hysteria unless they went somewhere.

Speaker 3:
[17:00] Seinfeld did a whole episode about it, Melrose Place.

Speaker 1:
[17:02] Oh my god, yes, that's right.

Speaker 3:
[17:04] You know what's big when another show in the country.

Speaker 1:
[17:08] Sam, you ever watch Seinfeld repeats on Netflix?

Speaker 4:
[17:10] No, that is not my wheelhouse.

Speaker 1:
[17:12] Like not even interested to even try it. Have you ever seen one episode of that show?

Speaker 4:
[17:15] No.

Speaker 3:
[17:16] Oh, I guess Kevin was right earlier.

Speaker 4:
[17:18] Yeah, for sure, Kev.

Speaker 2:
[17:20] I don't remember what I was right about.

Speaker 4:
[17:22] He wasn't paying attention.

Speaker 3:
[17:23] He said he doesn't like to laugh or doesn't like funny stuff.

Speaker 2:
[17:25] Sam doesn't like to, Sam doesn't like funny stuff.

Speaker 1:
[17:29] Too bad you're on our show.

Speaker 3:
[17:31] Well, then she's perfect.

Speaker 2:
[17:32] That's why she leaves during the prank call. Every time during the prank call, you'll never hear her because she's like, this is stupid and this is stupid.

Speaker 1:
[17:39] I'm like, no, that's a great point. You leave the room during the prank calls.

Speaker 3:
[17:43] Are you too embarrassed?

Speaker 4:
[17:44] That is my time to go pee, OK? Let me have that moment.

Speaker 2:
[17:47] That is true.

Speaker 4:
[17:48] Sometimes I also like to have my own space.

Speaker 3:
[17:51] So what's the day of Fridays? Everyone knows now. It's 7 o'clock.

Speaker 2:
[17:53] You don't hear her.

Speaker 1:
[17:54] It's his bathroom break. It's his makeup break.

Speaker 4:
[17:56] That's where I'm going pee. Like, maybe I'll get my steps in, walk the hall, get a cup of coffee. Maybe I'll go in the other room. What do I have going on at 10?

Speaker 3:
[18:04] Well, I'm here for it, Kev.

Speaker 1:
[18:06] Thank you.

Speaker 3:
[18:06] I'll be here tomorrow to listen. Same.

Speaker 1:
[18:08] Same.

Speaker 4:
[18:09] I laugh when I edit them, Kevin, internally.

Speaker 3:
[18:13] For Best of?

Speaker 2:
[18:14] You don't even laugh when me and your son get to fart wars.

Speaker 4:
[18:18] Oh, my gosh, because you're teaching him.

Speaker 2:
[18:20] What?

Speaker 1:
[18:20] You have fart wars with a three-year-old?

Speaker 4:
[18:22] You're teaching him bad things, but you're so disgusting, because my kid will pick up his leg and go like, I'm like, don't do that.

Speaker 3:
[18:30] I'll do it. I'll go, Kev taught him that.

Speaker 4:
[18:32] Yeah, I'm sure Kev did teach him that.

Speaker 3:
[18:33] Did you pull a finger trick? Oh, my God.

Speaker 2:
[18:35] I don't think he's there yet.

Speaker 3:
[18:36] You're going to save that for Sam's dad. That's a grandpa thing.

Speaker 4:
[18:39] Don't do that one.

Speaker 2:
[18:40] Oh, my goodness.

Speaker 4:
[18:41] Or the high fives, and then you're like, too slow.

Speaker 3:
[18:43] Oh, yeah.

Speaker 4:
[18:44] Yeah.

Speaker 3:
[18:45] Up high, down low, too slow.

Speaker 4:
[18:47] In the middle, too slow.

Speaker 1:
[18:49] This is the episode of Friends Playing Out where Rachel teaches Ross' son Ben all the bad tricks to trick his dad.

Speaker 3:
[18:55] He played on his dad?

Speaker 4:
[18:56] That's my life.

Speaker 1:
[18:57] And you're going to do all these things to your dad, and they did it to himself.

Speaker 3:
[19:00] Sam had the bad, well, we could all relate to his parents, where the kids fall asleep early, like at 5, 30, or 6.

Speaker 4:
[19:07] He was passed out. He didn't even eat dinner last night. That's the worst.

Speaker 3:
[19:11] Because you know they're going to get up.

Speaker 1:
[19:12] What time do you wake up?

Speaker 4:
[19:12] Oh, my gosh. That's why I'm so tired. I don't even know what time. I feel like Mark and I didn't go to bed until super late, which is crazy because the kids were in bed. And then I just, yeah, he just woke up. He goes, can you see me? Twinkle, twinkle, little stars. I'm like, bro, I am sleeping. No, I don't want to. Yes. And then he comes back out again. He's like, I have to pee. I'm like, okay, go pee. You have your little nightlight on, bro. Like, go, get away.

Speaker 2:
[19:39] But don't do it on the walls.

Speaker 4:
[19:41] Oh, my God.

Speaker 1:
[19:42] Yeah, you know that thing's going to go rogue all over the place.

Speaker 2:
[19:45] It did.

Speaker 4:
[19:46] And then he just stood there. He's like, mom, I peed.

Speaker 2:
[19:48] I was like, everywhere.

Speaker 4:
[19:49] Everywhere. But the toilet.

Speaker 3:
[19:51] But the toilet.

Speaker 1:
[19:52] That's what you get for not getting out of bed, woman.

Speaker 4:
[19:54] I'm like, I know, but I'm so tired. I'm like, wake up, Mark.

Speaker 3:
[19:56] You're like, just go to the shower.

Speaker 4:
[19:57] Wake up, dad.

Speaker 1:
[19:59] Girl.

Speaker 4:
[19:59] He's on the other side.

Speaker 1:
[20:01] Default to the mama.

Speaker 4:
[20:02] Of the bed. And then Misty's over here like, that is a great perk, being a dad. I'm like, what do you need, Misty?

Speaker 3:
[20:08] Dad perks are the best.

Speaker 4:
[20:10] Yeah, you guys, I swear, sleep through everything. He's like, oh, he woke up? I'm like, yes, for me to sing him Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Stars, and then I had to...

Speaker 2:
[20:18] And then he fall back to sleep?

Speaker 4:
[20:20] He did, after he asked for his blanket, and it was great. I mean, I love this, but...

Speaker 1:
[20:23] Well, at least he went back to sleep. I mean, look, it's...

Speaker 2:
[20:25] And puppy.

Speaker 1:
[20:26] You're better off than a lot of parents. I mean, most parents, I thought it was a bad thing. I would have just said, just get in next to me and just go to sleep.

Speaker 4:
[20:31] No, he won't. I asked him to, I'm like, can you just come into bed with mom and then he... total meltdown.

Speaker 1:
[20:36] Really?

Speaker 4:
[20:37] Total meltdown.

Speaker 1:
[20:37] You think I'm like a snuggle in a cuddle? What?

Speaker 4:
[20:39] No, total meltdown. He's like, no, my bed, my bed.

Speaker 1:
[20:44] Well, that's good.

Speaker 3:
[20:45] You're lucky for that.

Speaker 1:
[20:46] Yeah, but that makes her have to get out of the bed.

Speaker 4:
[20:47] Yes.

Speaker 1:
[20:48] To go take you to his bed.

Speaker 4:
[20:49] Just to see you're just so tired.

Speaker 3:
[20:51] Do you wear pajamas now? That you're a mom?

Speaker 4:
[20:55] Do I wear pajamas? Oh, I thought you meant him. I was like, what? Yeah, I definitely have worn... You changed from the old days? I'm wearing more clothes now, sadly.

Speaker 1:
[21:02] Can't be naked anymore. Yeah, kids were in the house.

Speaker 4:
[21:04] Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 1:
[21:05] Terrify your kids like Eric's dad terrified him.

Speaker 3:
[21:07] I told my wife that, she said, your dad slept naked. Yeah, that was the worst. I still remember that. I was screaming, oh my God, I had a nightmare and he came in naked. I'm like, oh, that's worse. Never mind.

Speaker 1:
[21:17] That is so awkward.

Speaker 3:
[21:19] Especially knowing my dad slept naked on a water bed. Gross. Oh my God. That could be dangerous.

Speaker 1:
[21:23] That's very dangerous.

Speaker 3:
[21:24] Things get stuck on the side.

Speaker 1:
[21:25] Oh God, let's move along. That is true.

Speaker 2:
[21:27] You have to peel things off.

Speaker 3:
[21:28] Because the weight goes down on those water beds. Oh yeah, that could be dangerous.

Speaker 1:
[21:31] There are a lot of things. Why am I picturing this? I'm going to switch gears. Oh my gosh, close my eyeballs. I'm moving the ship this way, away from the iceberg.

Speaker 3:
[21:40] Did you what? Oh, eyeballs.

Speaker 1:
[21:41] Okay, there are a lot of things that we have purchased over the decades that for some reason somebody told us that this is going to make a lot of money if you collect this. Case in point, Beanie Babies. In the 90s, the Beanie Babies were sold to people. This is going to be a lot worth a lot of money. It's the special edition. Nobody else has this.

Speaker 3:
[21:57] Our first clue should have been we're going to McDonald's to get something that we think is going to be worth something down the road.

Speaker 1:
[22:01] Well, to be fair though, Eric, McDonald's Happy Meal Toys have become collectibles over the years.

Speaker 3:
[22:05] Yeah, but not that. That was big.

Speaker 1:
[22:07] That was big. Now, this is from the 2000s. What is in your house right now that you have that's now considered a collectible from the 2000s?

Speaker 3:
[22:16] Already. 25 years.

Speaker 1:
[22:18] You're going to be really looking in your cabinets and your cupboards for these things. Because you're like, really? I actually think I have that. Wait, what's that on eBay right now? We'll go over the list next on The Roula Show with Eric. K-R-B-E-E-U. The Roula Show with Eric. Okay, so for decades, I don't care what decade you were born in, there was something in that decade that became a quote collectible. Oh my God, if you hold on to this, you're gonna make a lot of money. For whatever reason, when I was in high school, my sister thought hot wheels were gonna be it. And she had bought all these hot wheels.

Speaker 3:
[22:58] They could be.

Speaker 1:
[22:59] Well, we'll never know, because my son opened every single one of them.

Speaker 3:
[23:02] Oh yeah, for us, he ruined it.

Speaker 1:
[23:03] When we were, my son was like, my son's been obsessed with hot wheels since I think like two years old. He loves hot wheels. And every time we go to the grocery store, we're like, I know the pricing of hot wheels. Like it would be like anywhere from a dollar to a dollar 20. Now they're like a dollar 50 or something ridiculous.

Speaker 4:
[23:16] Kroger, a dollar 33.

Speaker 1:
[23:18] See, they were 99 cents for the longest time at Randall's.

Speaker 4:
[23:21] I can't not buy one.

Speaker 1:
[23:22] Yes, every time, Sam. I've been there, I've been there. My sister Maria brought over 25 different hot wheels that she'd been saving since she was in high school. And she was like, oh, I'm gonna show you all these hot wheels I've been saving for such a long time. So I did a bit about it on the show because I went upstairs and it was like a hot wheel massacre. My son had opened every single package of her quote, collectible ones.

Speaker 3:
[23:41] Does he ever feel bad still?

Speaker 1:
[23:43] He doesn't get it. He didn't understand what he was doing. He wanted to play with the cars.

Speaker 3:
[23:45] He's a kid.

Speaker 1:
[23:46] He still doesn't get it that he was like, oh, those were like special. Were they really special?

Speaker 3:
[23:50] No.

Speaker 1:
[23:51] Would the beanie babies ever make you money?

Speaker 3:
[23:53] What your sister needs to do is tell them, little MJ, I was gonna save those for you for 50 years from now. That'd be his story. I had all these, they would have been more than something, I ruined it.

Speaker 1:
[24:04] We just found all the packages in the bathroom upstairs. We're like, what? Oh my God. It's all the Hot Wheels from her collection. Anyway. So here are some things in the 2000s that have made the list, they're now quote unquote collectible, that pretty much everybody has in their closet. So what do you have? Which one of these? You have an iPod somewhere? Old iPods are super hip and people will pay money for them, especially teenagers.

Speaker 2:
[24:27] But the problem is they're hard to fill up.

Speaker 1:
[24:30] Yeah, to get the battery power for it, because the cords...

Speaker 2:
[24:32] No, you need a special cord, yeah, they don't make a battery for it anymore. And I don't even think that iTunes will recognize it anymore. Like, I have to use my old computer to load music onto this iPad that I will use for certain events.

Speaker 3:
[24:46] I have one called the Shuffle. It's like a little... looks like a USB.

Speaker 2:
[24:50] Oh, yes.

Speaker 3:
[24:51] One of those... I'd go to Dallas to see Ethan and I... Those, like, David Buster's... I got lucky with the blocks. It adds up. And I got it. I think he was excited. I'm like, no, I'm keeping this.

Speaker 1:
[25:01] Was that the one that was the size of a watch? I had one that was like a tile. It was USB. And they made a watch for it.

Speaker 3:
[25:05] I put a rope around it and it had... It undid the bottom and you could put it in the computer. I still have the same music. I could never change it. So look at that. There's a lot of Blink 182 and Cobra Star's ship on it from 2005. All right.

Speaker 1:
[25:17] Pokemon Cards. Your old collection may have a few unexpected rare gems. I'm very confused about this vending machine at the front of the grocery store, where I always see adults standing there, almost like a slot machine. And I think it's some kind of Pokemon card slot machine. It's in the front of Randall's right over here. And when I've gone into Randall's after the show, there's always like two or three adults that are talking in front of that machine and they're like trying to get something Pokemon out of it.

Speaker 3:
[25:46] That's a big, I know like 25 to like 40-year-old man.

Speaker 1:
[25:50] Remember Pokemon Go was crazy. Everybody running around looking for gyms around the city.

Speaker 4:
[25:54] I think people still do that.

Speaker 1:
[25:55] If you still have DVDs, physical media is booming once again. Interest in CDs, vinyl LPs, Blu-rays, DVDs.

Speaker 3:
[26:05] I think about how many people got rid of those because you want to make room for them.

Speaker 2:
[26:09] Or you don't have a DVD player anymore. You accidentally threw it away or it just died.

Speaker 1:
[26:16] When I went to Colorado Springs over the weekend, our hotel room had a DVD player with a remote. I thought it was remote for the TV and I told my husband, I go, I don't think our TV works. This remote is not doing it. It's not turning it on. Then I realized it was the DVD player. I was turning, I go, there's a DVD player in here.

Speaker 3:
[26:32] Think about all the hotels that have those clocks with the old iPhone charger.

Speaker 2:
[26:36] Oh, that you could drop your iPhone into the big wide one?

Speaker 3:
[26:40] You'd have like a iPhone 7 or something, or 6.

Speaker 2:
[26:43] Yeah, there's a lot of gyms that have treadmills with those little connectors on them. It's like, ah, it doesn't work anymore.

Speaker 1:
[26:50] Other 2000s items that are now collectibles, Tamagotchis, the virtual pets that were all the rage 20 to 30 years ago. I think there's an entire Skits Creek skit, like a scene between Alexis and David, Kev, where she's like, what, David? He's like, my Tamagotchi!

Speaker 2:
[27:11] It was adult Tamagotchis!

Speaker 1:
[27:12] I think it was like a fight over it.

Speaker 2:
[27:13] She was supposed to feed it or something like that?

Speaker 1:
[27:14] Yeah, something, and it was like six of them. I know there was a whole thing that came up on my Instagram.

Speaker 3:
[27:18] We made a comeback about six years ago. I remember my daughter had two of them.

Speaker 1:
[27:22] Yeah?

Speaker 3:
[27:22] Like 2018, 19.

Speaker 1:
[27:24] Oh, they died. Isn't it like basically a little digital keychain, a little face in it?

Speaker 3:
[27:28] Especially when you go to school, you gotta try to feed them before you go to school.

Speaker 4:
[27:30] In other words, it's like, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing.

Speaker 1:
[27:32] Tour merchandise of the 2000s, tour jackets, t-shirts, other stuff from bands and artists are collectibles now. What's interesting is Kevin Quinn, who does The Afternoons here with Audrey Rose, he was at a thrift shop and he found a Power 104 denim jacket. Isn't that crazy?

Speaker 2:
[27:48] From this radio station before they dropped the moniker.

Speaker 1:
[27:52] Yeah, that was like from the 80s. It was Power 104. This station has been a rock station. It's always been a pop station, but within pop format, it's been alternative because pop was alternative.

Speaker 3:
[28:04] I heard a funny story about Elvis Duran. He's a radio personality in New York.

Speaker 1:
[28:08] But he used to work here.

Speaker 3:
[28:09] And he was on KRB. And I think he was here because my friend was telling me the story. You worked with him, Sean Dion. He was a producer. Not much of one, but what you said. But he said that when he came here, I guess, he was talking about Katie Texas back in the day. He bought 10 t-shirts. It said Elvis Duran. That's all he could afford. He passed them out and he was open to see people wear them. And he never saw anybody until one day he was watching TV in the news and this guy got arrested for something, be it a pedophile or something. Oh no. And he's wearing an Elvis Duran shirt.

Speaker 2:
[28:42] Oh no.

Speaker 3:
[28:43] Coming out of the house, being arrested. I'm like, oh.

Speaker 1:
[28:46] Oh my God.

Speaker 3:
[28:46] What are the chances? That's the worst.

Speaker 1:
[28:48] Wow. Well.

Speaker 3:
[28:50] Do you have the old Krbe shirts and stuff?

Speaker 1:
[28:53] Oh, I have. I can't let them go. I have my first Krbe staff denim button down. I used to wear it to gigs. I had to do this thing at the Rockets game.

Speaker 4:
[29:00] A denim button down?

Speaker 1:
[29:01] It's a denim button down. It has the Krbe logos as Krbe staff.

Speaker 4:
[29:04] Shut up. That's funny.

Speaker 1:
[29:05] I have a gray zip up hoodie. I have a lot of stuff. I even wear bra for a cause. I have all those t-shirts. I have a lot of Krbe stuff.

Speaker 2:
[29:13] You know they're old if it just says 104 on it.

Speaker 1:
[29:16] Yeah.

Speaker 2:
[29:16] If it just says 104.

Speaker 3:
[29:18] Without the.1.

Speaker 1:
[29:20] Oh, yeah. If it has the square box, especially if it was like the white t-shirt with just the square box, black and white t-shirt that said 104 Krbe, that's like 1990 vintage.

Speaker 2:
[29:29] Right, because then we added on the.1. I still have shirts, and I started in 06. I have shirts that say 104 on them.

Speaker 3:
[29:38] That's because you went back in the closet there.

Speaker 1:
[29:40] I do.

Speaker 2:
[29:40] You know I do. I'm like, don't throw these away. No one has taken this in 10 years. I'll take this. This will look cute on me. Cut it up.

Speaker 1:
[29:47] Can we get behind the scenes? We had to add the.1 because if you've been a born and raised Houstonian, it's just 104. It's been 104 forever. We had to add the.1 because at some point in the 2000s, a station that tried but failed, it was 104.9.

Speaker 2:
[30:04] Party.

Speaker 1:
[30:04] Was a party station. And when they did the.9 and it had the 104, we had to add the.1 for the frequency on the dial. And that's where the 104.1 came from.

Speaker 2:
[30:15] And also, you know, things got more digital. Whereas, you know, a knob, it looks like it's on 104. But with the digital, you can literally see.1 on there.

Speaker 3:
[30:25] You push a button, like a real button.

Speaker 2:
[30:28] Ka-chunk.

Speaker 3:
[30:29] Yeah. Remember that? You push that thing in there inside the radio, so it pushed to the next thing.

Speaker 2:
[30:33] It moved the dial, like literally moved that little needle over.

Speaker 3:
[30:38] So weird.

Speaker 1:
[30:39] Man, we're aging ourselves, but it wasn't that long ago.

Speaker 3:
[30:41] I said iPhones are worth something.

Speaker 1:
[30:43] iPhones are on the list as well. They can be really valuable if they're still sealed, which would be strange, because you've never used it.

Speaker 3:
[30:48] Just by accident, you bought one for a gift and you lost it.

Speaker 1:
[30:51] Maybe. Or if you really have one that you just held on to, it could be worth something. But again, if it's sticky, that means the battery is leaking out. That's what I learned.

Speaker 3:
[31:01] I should bring my 3 in, my iPhone 3. Just to see. You have to look at it, like what the hell? How do we use this? Because the screen is so small. It's got a weird back. It's because that's flat.

Speaker 1:
[31:11] Yeah.

Speaker 3:
[31:12] Remember, it was kind of like a...

Speaker 2:
[31:14] Yeah, it was kind of...

Speaker 3:
[31:15] How would you do that?

Speaker 2:
[31:16] Yeah, it's...

Speaker 3:
[31:17] Like a ship, you know how a ship has the curve?

Speaker 1:
[31:18] Well, what's frozen in time about the iPhone, Eric, is in the movie Sex and the City, when Carrie Bradshaw is getting married in the library and Big has not shown up. She's trying to call him. Does anybody call him? And Samantha hands her an iPhone and she looks at it, she goes, I don't know how to do this.

Speaker 2:
[31:34] I need a real phone.

Speaker 1:
[31:36] Because the iPhone was so new, she was like, I don't even know how to dial on this thing. Give me a phone. And somebody gave her a flip phone. So crazy.

Speaker 2:
[31:48] 104.1 K-R-B-E.

Speaker 1:
[31:51] It is brought to you by Easy Fiber and it's a story I'm so intrigued by because I think it's so crazy. It sounds like a fake story, but it's real. Galveston has, quote, genetically fancy coyotes.

Speaker 3:
[32:02] What the hell is that?

Speaker 1:
[32:03] They're called ghost wolves that could restore a national wolf population. But there is an uptick of these ghost wolves in Galveston that cars are hitting left and right all the time.

Speaker 3:
[32:17] Are they dying or are they bouncing back up because they're like ghosts?

Speaker 1:
[32:21] No. Supervisor for Galveston Animal Services said, when he's not trapping and rescuing and other animals on the island, he is studying what is called the ghost wolf. It is named for its ghostly legacy. Galveston has to be a little fancy in everything we do, he says. I've been filling Animal Byte Report since 2006 and everyone thinks it's a coyote, but it's not a coyote. It's a ghost wolf. They say they carry DNA from ancient red wolves, which the federal government declared extinct in the wild more than 45 years ago. And the Galveston genes that they're finding now in these coyotes that are the ghost wolves that have restored the national wolf population of that species.

Speaker 3:
[33:00] Are they bigger?

Speaker 1:
[33:01] They look pretty big, has a big bushy tail. It's taller than a regular coyote and it's large. There's a picture of it here on the ABC's website. And this guy said, this girl said, I mean, I saw one. I'm glad I wasn't walking home that night. They're pretty big. They have big ears and they're all over Galveston Island. They're all over Galveston Island.

Speaker 3:
[33:23] He thinks it's a dog.

Speaker 1:
[33:25] Yeah, researchers estimate there are between 75 and 100 ghost wolves on Galveston Island right now. All over, all over. They track that a lot of them have been killed in car crashes in the past five years, many along the seawall. Now he's asking the residents and the visitors of Galveston Island to look out for them because... They could do what? They could... Just don't hit them.

Speaker 2:
[33:51] Or feed them.

Speaker 3:
[33:52] I'm kind of sicko to do that.

Speaker 2:
[33:54] Or have your little children around them or little dogs. Like a little dog, he gets snatched up really easy.

Speaker 1:
[33:59] Yeah, they're advising, do not feed them, do not pet them, and do not get distracted by taking photos of them while driving. I promise a coyote does not care about his social media presence. So the TextDot has installed 10 wildlife crossing signs along the seawall, hoping to educate residents and visitors. So when you see the wildlife crossing signs, that's for the ghost wolves.

Speaker 3:
[34:20] But could you attack it if it attacks your dog?

Speaker 1:
[34:24] I mean, it's like with anything else, right? If something's attacking your animal or person.

Speaker 3:
[34:30] I don't know anymore. I saw on TikTok a lady, she had the video of this 16-year-old kid put his hand, trying to break into her house, put his hand through the mail slot. She had a baseball bat. Nailed it.

Speaker 2:
[34:41] Yeah.

Speaker 3:
[34:42] His family sued for $2 million. And he won $800,000. What? Because they said she used too much force.

Speaker 2:
[34:50] Oh, no.

Speaker 3:
[34:51] Because she didn't really technically break in. He was attempting to break in. So basically, you have to be attacked now before you can beat somebody up in your own home. This world sucks.

Speaker 1:
[35:03] Look out for those ghost wolves.

Speaker 3:
[35:04] Stupid judges.

Speaker 1:
[35:05] Coming up next, it's Rose's time because it's Thursday. If you have questions in your relationship, bring it to us. We'll get your mate on the line while you listen in. I'll ask a lot of questions. Offer some red roses and see if they go to you or someone else. It's called Roses and it's next on The Roula Show with Eric and Krbe.