Episode 95
Episode 95: Red Tacos & Revitalization: Spicing Up Wichita Falls 🌮✨ with Michael Mitchell
Join Mike Hendren, Terry McAdams, and Trey Sralla on another sizzling episode of Get It Right Texoma!
- 🌮 Red Taco Alert! We're dishing on Wichita Falls’ oldest Mexican restaurant—Casa Mañana! The crew can't stop raving about those legendary red tacos, homemade chips, and queso. Owned by Larry and Vicky Carr, it's a must-stop on 8th Street downtown. Pro tip: Bring your appetite (and your military ID for a discount)!
- 🏘️ Special Guest Spotlight: Mike Mitchell from Victory Home Loans joins the conversation to dive into the exciting "Heart of the Falls" revitalization project. Discover how simple solutions like porch lights could drastically cut crime and make the neighborhood safer and brighter!
- 🎄 Local Holiday Cheer: Don't miss the Fantasy of Lights at Midwestern State University—Mike Hendren shares why this Texoma tradition matters and how your donations make it possible.
- 🗣️ Hot Takes & Hilarity: The guys get into lively debates about Johnny Carson's private life, Robin Williams’ comedy antics, and Joe Biden's controversial decision to pardon Hunter Biden. Expect plenty of laughs and a few eye-rolls!
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Companies mentioned in this episode:
- Victory Home Loans
- Wichita Falls
- Midwestern State University
- Eddie Hills Fun Cycles
- MacTech Solutions
- Lollie and Pops Sweet Shop
- Casa Manana
- Sheppard Air Force Base
- Habitat for Humanity
Transcript
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Speaker A: y heavy thinking to do before: Speaker B:Hey, welcome to Get It Right Tech Soma with the trio, Mike Hendren, Terry McAdams, Trey Sorala, back with you once again.
Speaker B:Thank you for joining us.
Speaker B:We do appreciate it.
Speaker B:We get together here to entertain and inform you.
Speaker B:Hopefully we managed to do that and hopefully enlighten you as well.
Speaker B:So thank you for being with us.
Speaker C:And even though we don't have an empty seat here, stay tuned because we will have a special guest.
Speaker B:We do.
Speaker B:Mike Mitchell is going to join us.
Speaker B:Mike is a local mortgage lender but he's also involved in a project about revitalization in the city.
Speaker C:There's a particular area to be here talk about.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:So we're going to talk about that here and city revitalization.
Speaker C:I have a feeling it's going to be a very informative conversation.
Speaker B:I think you're probably right.
Speaker B:Knowing Mike as I do, he's a very informative guy.
Speaker D:The Magnificent the Days of Johnny Carson.
Speaker B:Oh, yeah.
Speaker B:Oh yeah.
Speaker B:Oh, I love that.
Speaker B:I love that.
Speaker B:One of my, my all time favorite one, Ed.
Speaker B:Ed hands Johnny the envelope.
Speaker B:Sis boom ba.
Speaker B:Name the sound a sheep makes before it explodes.
Speaker B:And they broke up.
Speaker B:Ed and Johnny got to laughing and couldn't stop for some reason.
Speaker B:That cracked them up and they just totally broke character and just, and then the audience is roaring because they're laughing, you know, but, you know, it's crazy.
Speaker C:Though, but by all accounts Johnny Carson was a miserable bastard and it's amazing that a guy could be so funny and engaging on tv.
Speaker B:Very, very private life.
Speaker B:Well, the story, the story I've read about him was in particular, he had a, he only had a one.
Speaker B:His home was massive, but it was one bedroom because he didn't want family and friends wanting to come over and stay over and hang out.
Speaker D:No place for him.
Speaker B:So they had like a guest house for family when they would visit.
Speaker B:But his main house had one bedroom.
Speaker C:I just always heard people talk about that he was a pretty miserable dude in a lot of ways.
Speaker B:A curmudgeon, very quiet, very private guy.
Speaker B:And I think when you're in the entertainment industry like that and people are constantly clamoring for your attention and then you become what he became, you know, the king of late night.
Speaker B:You know, you're the, your show is the show.
Speaker B:Everybody, if they, if they make it on your show, they've made it.
Speaker B:And, and Carson was big.
Speaker C:It was every comedian in the world that Was their dream is Carson.
Speaker B:If you.
Speaker B:If you got an appearance on.
Speaker B:On the stage on the Tonight show with Johnny Carson and Johnny looked at.
Speaker C:You and went, yeah, you got the.
Speaker C:You got the nod, the wave to come over.
Speaker B:You'd made it.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:When you were on the couch, you.
Speaker D:Were in Steve Martin, Robin Williams, a lot of.
Speaker D:I saw some old ones.
Speaker C:Jerry Seinfeld, I mean, all.
Speaker C:All the big ones that made massive careers.
Speaker B:Robin Williams was.
Speaker C:God, incredible.
Speaker C:I would not be able to.
Speaker C:Been around that guy very long.
Speaker C:He.
Speaker C:That guy.
Speaker C:I've seen him on.
Speaker C:On stuff, interviewed.
Speaker C:He just.
Speaker C:He's so over the top and outrageous and he won't shut up a little bit.
Speaker C:Yeah, that.
Speaker C:I have no respect for that guy.
Speaker C:No, not at all.
Speaker C:He made people around him miserable.
Speaker C:You couldn't.
Speaker C:Can see how uncomfortable he makes everybody around.
Speaker C:It's like, look, jackass, we're all here making a living, and just because you're the star, you're screwing up everybody's deal.
Speaker C:I just think it's wrong.
Speaker C:And because he was the star and he had the power and authority, I think it's.
Speaker C:I don't like people who do that that way.
Speaker D:Well, good news was that I was in love with Mindy on market.
Speaker C:And by the way, I didn't think Robin W.
Speaker C:Was that funny by the way, either.
Speaker C:I think most of his comedy was stupid because it went.
Speaker C:It was beyond weird.
Speaker C:Now he did.
Speaker C:He was a good actor.
Speaker C:Like, good.
Speaker C:Not goodwill hunting.
Speaker C:What was the.
Speaker C:The Dead Poet Society.
Speaker C:The guy had acting chops.
Speaker C:He really did.
Speaker C:And he was a good actor.
Speaker C:But.
Speaker C:But I've just seen enough and heard enough where he was so outrageous and so over the top and just.
Speaker C:Just made life miserable for people around him.
Speaker B:I think some people.
Speaker B:I think the guy had a lot of insecurities, and I think some people, the way they deal with those insecurities is they are over the top.
Speaker B:They feel like they have to really exude and their personality has to be bigger than life.
Speaker B:And that's how they overcome their shyness or their insecurities or whatever.
Speaker C:But when it starts affecting everybody around you, I think that's a problem.
Speaker B:There are probably some chemical enhancements that.
Speaker C:Didn'T help much easier.
Speaker B:So anyway, hey, be sure to check out our website.
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Speaker B:The show is through you.
Speaker B:Let's talk about a couple things happening here before we get to our guest here.
Speaker B:Coming up, City Lights parade is coming up on December 21, 7pm, starts at 8th in Austin.
Speaker B:Winds through downtown.
Speaker B:Should be a fairly large parade this year by all, Betty.
Speaker C:Unless the weather just turns out really crappy.
Speaker B:Yeah, I think as long as the weather breaks good.
Speaker B:And it usually does.
Speaker B:And I think they're a little.
Speaker B:It seems like they're later this year having the parade than they have been in the past.
Speaker B:It feels like it was earlier.
Speaker C:I think you're right.
Speaker C:I mean, you think about that.
Speaker C:We're talking about.
Speaker C:That's basically the Saturday before Christmas.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:And I feel like in years past, we've even had it closer to Thanksgiving than Christmas.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:It seemed like it's been a week or so after Thanksgiving.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:So anyway, that's gonna be on the 21st.
Speaker B:Downtown Wichita Falls.
Speaker B:Do not miss out on that.
Speaker B:Fantasy of Lights is underway at Midwestern State University.
Speaker B:I happen to serve on their.
Speaker B:On their executive committee.
Speaker B:Guys, I tell you what.
Speaker B:If you're new to the community especially, and you've never been to the Fantasy of Lights at Midwestern State University, you need to go see this.
Speaker B:You need to go park, get out of your car, walk through it, see it all.
Speaker B:You can see all the exhibits and really take them in in an hour.
Speaker B:Roughly the whole thing.
Speaker B:And it's just fascinating.
Speaker B:And the story behind it.
Speaker B:And I won't bore you with the whole story, but the story behind it.
Speaker C:Just watch shows.
Speaker C:We talked about it several times.
Speaker B:The story behind it is truly fascinating.
Speaker B:But some of these exhibits have been around for 80 plus, and it's fun for all ages.
Speaker C:Just get out.
Speaker C:Walk the thing.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker C:You'll get to see.
Speaker C:And just walk with your family.
Speaker C:Take a nice stroll out there.
Speaker C:It's beautiful.
Speaker C:It's well lit out there.
Speaker C:There's great parking.
Speaker C:It's a great place to go.
Speaker B:Yep.
Speaker C:And.
Speaker B:And make a donation.
Speaker B:Because all of this Midwestern State University pays for none of this.
Speaker B:All of this is the.
Speaker B:The.
Speaker B:The maintenance, the upkeep, the storage, the.
Speaker B:The actual function of it.
Speaker B:The electricity is metered.
Speaker B:The committee that I serve on, we raise money and we pay for 100% of this.
Speaker B:MSU pays nothing.
Speaker B:All they're doing is providing the space for it to happen.
Speaker B:That's it.
Speaker B:They provide the lawn.
Speaker B:That's all.
Speaker B:But we pay for the rest of it.
Speaker C:So your donations, which the committee is very thankful for.
Speaker B:Oh, very much.
Speaker C:But, Mike, the point behind that is it's not minimizing what Midwestern State does.
Speaker C:It's simply saying that when they're out there collecting money, they're not making the university rich or whatever else.
Speaker C:All they're doing is trying to maintain public university.
Speaker B:I say that because there's a misconception that MSU pays for all of this and they don't.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker B:It's not private money we pay for.
Speaker B:It's not.
Speaker B:Pays private dollars paying for it.
Speaker B:Sponsorships and private donations that pay for it.
Speaker C:So cut a fat check or go stick some cash in the boot.
Speaker B:Yeah, please do.
Speaker B:And again, and we do, we really appreciate Midwestern State University.
Speaker B:They've been a part of this now.
Speaker B:This is for 51 years.
Speaker B:They've been involved.
Speaker C:By the way, do you take cards at the donation thing or is it just.
Speaker B:There's QR codes that you can scan with your phone as you're walking around?
Speaker C:Okay.
Speaker B:You can donate on a card that way or you can go to the website.
Speaker B:It's.
Speaker B:I think it's F O W L msw.
Speaker B:But anyway, look it up.
Speaker B:Fantasy of Lights.
Speaker B:Google it.
Speaker B:You'll find it.
Speaker B:Because I'm going to tell you wrong and you're going to end up on some site where someone's head is shaved or something.
Speaker B:I don't know.
Speaker B:Anyway, but you can make donations by card online.
Speaker C:Good.
Speaker C:I was just making sure that, that Mike wasn't out there swiping because I didn't know where he's going to keep that card reader.
Speaker B:Nowhere we want to talk about.
Speaker B:All right.
Speaker B:But anyway, it's a.
Speaker B:It's a great exhibit.
Speaker B:You'll love it.
Speaker C:Shove the card in Mike's mouth and pull it out fast.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker D:Yep.
Speaker D:Fantasy a lot.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker D:Sol dot.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker D:That first link, you do it and then you can go right here, make a donation.
Speaker D:Boom.
Speaker D:It's exactly cool.
Speaker B:Awesome.
Speaker B:Do we want to move on here with our local restaurant Focus?
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:So each show we focus on a locally owned family, usually, usually family owned restaurant.
Speaker B:This week we're going to be talking about, I think probably the oldest existing restaurant in the city.
Speaker B:I'm.
Speaker B:I'm 99 prines, maybe real close.
Speaker C:It's the oldest Mexican restaurant existing.
Speaker C:Mexican restaurant.
Speaker D:And all you have to say around here is, I want to go get some red tacos.
Speaker B:Red tacos.
Speaker D:And then, you know, everybody knows.
Speaker C:Yep.
Speaker B:Costa Mignon, Larry and Vicky Carr own it.
Speaker B:The Car family has owned Casa Manana, the original Costa Manana, is it.
Speaker B:Most people refer to it.
Speaker B:They've owned it since, I think it was founded in 46 or 47, something like that.
Speaker B:So primes might be A little bit old.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:Prime.
Speaker C:Primes is from the 20s.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:So primes is older, but as far as Mexican restaurants, this is the oldest one in town.
Speaker B:1947, it was founded.
Speaker B:Larry Carr's dad founded the restaurant.
Speaker B:And I don't think the recipes have changed.
Speaker C:I'm not sure.
Speaker C:I'm sure they're not.
Speaker C:The food's great.
Speaker C:They're chips in queso.
Speaker C:They make their own chips.
Speaker C:You go buy a bag of chips and whatever.
Speaker C:Queso, yeah.
Speaker C:Their chips and queso are legendary.
Speaker B:They are legendary.
Speaker C:Tacos are absolutely.
Speaker B:I think they make their salsa in house.
Speaker B:And the red tacos, everything's done fresh right there.
Speaker D:And hot comes out, man.
Speaker D:It's hot.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:Oh, yeah.
Speaker B:Well, I mean, that's what you want.
Speaker B:Have you ever gone into a Mexican restaurant and not been warned about how hot the damn plate is?
Speaker B:Yeah, everywhere you go, careful.
Speaker B:This plate's very hot.
Speaker C:They put.
Speaker B:No kidding.
Speaker C:They put so much stuff in the Salamander because it's a lot of it.
Speaker C:They melt that cheese at the very end.
Speaker C:And that's why the plates are generally hot, because they've been in the Salamander.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:So anyway, cosmetic downtown on 8th Street.
Speaker B:And there.
Speaker B:I can't tell you the cross from the Holt.
Speaker D:Right.
Speaker C:Well, it's.
Speaker C:It's between.
Speaker C:Between.
Speaker C:It's between Iron Horse, India, Indiana, and.
Speaker C:And Scott.
Speaker B:Iron Horse Pub.
Speaker B:I can't talk.
Speaker C:Yeah, Iron Horse Pubs on one side.
Speaker C:The old Zales Building or the D.
Speaker C:Forge is on the other.
Speaker C:They're right next door.
Speaker D:Well, what's the.
Speaker D:But what's the.
Speaker D:The apartment that's the whole hotel to be.
Speaker B:The whole hotel?
Speaker C:Yeah, There's a whole.
Speaker C:Departments.
Speaker C:Yeah, it's right across the street from the whole department.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Which, by the way, we're going to talk with Mike Mitchell about revitalization.
Speaker B:One of the first downtown revitalization projects that was really done in earnest, I think, was the Holt people living down there.
Speaker B:I took a tour in that building.
Speaker B:I was taking on a tour with a group of people, a committee I was on at the time and before they ever started working on it.
Speaker B:And, I mean, you walked in that place and you felt like you needed a tetanus shop when you left.
Speaker C:It was bad.
Speaker A:It was bad.
Speaker B:It was really bad.
Speaker B:And to see the transformation of that building from an old abandoned hotel that sat there decaying for decades turned into a completely renovated, completely converted apartment complex.
Speaker C:And I think they're kind of like luxury.
Speaker C:Luxury apartments.
Speaker D:Is there still a waiting list?
Speaker C:Yeah, there's always because you have that one.
Speaker C:And then right down the street is the Baron's Crossing or whatever.
Speaker C:Barron's Landing.
Speaker C:Barron's Landing, yeah, it's, it's, it's a luxury apartment as well.
Speaker B:Well, the old mascot shrine building downtown has now been turned into a park.
Speaker C:And then also the Austin elementary and Alamo elementary apartments as well.
Speaker B:So, you know, so great.
Speaker B:But, but hold happening.
Speaker B:The Holt, they did it first and I'm telling you that you had to see it before to really, truly appreciate the depth of the after.
Speaker B:Oh my gosh.
Speaker C:Well, anyhow, Casa Mignana downtown.
Speaker C:Casa Mignana Red tacos.
Speaker C:If you've never had a red taco, they're, they're mind blowingly good, the food's great.
Speaker C:And also try their chips and chips in queso.
Speaker C:Like I said, they make their own chips.
Speaker C:They're real thick and they hold queso real well and all that.
Speaker B:Tell them we sent you.
Speaker B:They're not going to give you a discount on anything.
Speaker D:No, just tell them that.
Speaker B:They're going to look at you go, who?
Speaker C:Who?
Speaker D:Yeah, anyway, although they do give a military discount, just FYI.
Speaker B:Tip your waitress.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker D:Yes, absolutely.
Speaker B:So Mike Mitchell's coming up.
Speaker B:We're going to interview him here in a moment.
Speaker B:I want to jump into something here real quick.
Speaker B:Joe Biden, back in June, I believe it was, had said he was not going to pardon his son.
Speaker C:Did Joe Biden pardon his son?
Speaker C:Shocking.
Speaker C:He.
Speaker B:He pardoned his son.
Speaker C:Oh shit.
Speaker B:Federal judge has already dismissed, I believe the gun, the gun case that was pending against him for the illegal possession of a handgun.
Speaker B:That's already been dismissed now.
Speaker B:He did.
Speaker B:And even liberals, even leftists, even people in the most leftist reaches of the media out there in the evil empire even, they're going, whoa, hold on, Joe.
Speaker C:I called this, I knew that this was going to happen.
Speaker C:Oh yeah.
Speaker C:But not only because it's his son and quite frankly, I'll be honest with you, I'm not going to say I wouldn't have done the same thing.
Speaker C:Number one.
Speaker C:Number two, Joe Biden's also pardoned himself with this.
Speaker C:Yes.
Speaker C:Oh, oh, you don't think if that, all that barisma stuff started going through, that's why he part if he pardoned Hunter Biden 10 a decade back then.
Speaker D:The information won't come out.
Speaker C:That's right, it can't come out.
Speaker C:So that's going to be there.
Speaker C:And then also somebody finally picked up on this, if you remember, I told you guys because we had a whole talk about this.
Speaker C:And I said his words were, I will abide by the jury's word or whatever decision.
Speaker C:Abide by the jury's decision.
Speaker C:There never was a jury.
Speaker D:Oh, it's a judge.
Speaker C:So, so therefore he was, he was hedging his bet on that.
Speaker D:But if you read it, he did.
Speaker C:Say he was right.
Speaker D:If you read the press release, though, it was very, it was, hey, I was going to stay out of this, but you know, it was unfair.
Speaker D:And what, what, as I'm reading this, I'm going, Trump, Trump, Trump.
Speaker D:Everything that Trump has gone through is exactly what he's claiming happened.
Speaker C:The Trump Justice Department is going to come after his baby boy.
Speaker C:Is what, what he kept saying.
Speaker D:Yeah, but what I'm saying is, is that Trump has been run through the gauntlet and the ringer and everything.
Speaker B:Well, guys, let me tell you something, okay?
Speaker B: nothing from Joe Biden in the: Speaker B: In the: Speaker C:Not only that, it was not only, if you guys remember, it was a joke.
Speaker C:Like every comedian in America was talking about Joe Biden and then, oh, he pulled a Joe Biden.
Speaker C:I mean, they were talking about plagiarism.
Speaker C:It was that well known and rampant.
Speaker B:Yeah, you fast forward and look what they did to Gary Hart.
Speaker B:Gary Hart got caught having an affair.
Speaker B:His own party threw him under the bus and then they backed the bus up and ran over him again to make sure he was really gone.
Speaker B:And so you look at what they've done now, you fast forward 30 odd years later and Joe Biden gets elected President of the United States.
Speaker B:And we're shocked.
Speaker B:People are shocked that he lied.
Speaker B:Come on, the guy's got a lengthy history of being not only not an intelligent man, but being a damn liar too.
Speaker C:And also just checking the wind.
Speaker B:Exactly.
Speaker D:But now, to be fair though, we're kind of in a different world.
Speaker D:Look, as time has gone on, we went from Joe Biden and Gary Hart and I mean, just any little thing could just derail your campaign or whatever.
Speaker D:And then Bill Clinton gets, was in for eight years and he got away with.
Speaker D:And it's like they impeached him and he didn't get it.
Speaker C:Bill Clinton got away with.
Speaker C:If you, if you boil this down to its essence, and if you were corporate America, this would be, this would, you would be terminated.
Speaker C:Bill Clinton got away with taking an underling, somebody who, somebody was an underling when it Comes to.
Speaker C:I don't mean she was below him, but she was below him on the power structure.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker B:Someone he had a lot of power over and.
Speaker C:And at work on the clock.
Speaker B:Yep.
Speaker C:Committed adultery.
Speaker D:Yep.
Speaker C:That you.
Speaker C:I don't know if that a board, that a CEO of a company would.
Speaker D:Survive that even today.
Speaker C:No.
Speaker C:Well, especially today.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker C:But I think that's where they jumped the shark.
Speaker C:That's where the Democrats jumped the shark with Bill Clinton, because like you said, they got rid of Gary Hart, they got rid of Joe Biden, and that was the Democrats that did that, wasn't Republicans.
Speaker C:This was all during the Democrat nomination process.
Speaker C:But once Clinton came in, it seemed like all of a sudden that's when the Democrat Party started to change and they started accepting a lot more of this crap.
Speaker C:And it was like, yeah, because he's good.
Speaker C:He's good for us.
Speaker C:He's good for us to win.
Speaker C:So therefore, we'll.
Speaker C:We'll put up with it.
Speaker D:But then what I'm saying, where I'm getting at to being, to being fair is, is that, guess what?
Speaker D:Trump is not a clean, squeaky clean dude.
Speaker D:And so.
Speaker D:But at the same time, I think what's happened is, is that we're now at unconventional thinking.
Speaker D:And I think on our side is that for the most part, none of us, I don't think the three of us, right.
Speaker D:None of us were initially a Trump fan at all.
Speaker C:I've been very clear, especially this time, I didn't want Trump to run again.
Speaker D:Right.
Speaker C:Very clear.
Speaker D:But he is, and I think he has resonated well enough with enough people that obviously that are voters.
Speaker D:And it's like, hey, we gotta have that unconventional thinking.
Speaker B: Well, when he ran in: Speaker B:I thought when he said he was gonna run, I didn't know whether to take him seriously or not, to be honest with you, because of his history as not just a businessman, but also as an entertainment mogul.
Speaker C:Exactly.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:A promoter.
Speaker C:He was a huge promoter.
Speaker B:Is this just Donald Trump being Donald Trump and just Donald Trump trying to promote Donald Trump?
Speaker C:He tried to go promote his next WrestleMania, but do you think it might.
Speaker D:Have started that way?
Speaker C:Maybe.
Speaker D:But then he realized, oh, my gosh.
Speaker C:No, no, I think he was serious from the very beginning.
Speaker C:I think when you look back, he has some interviews, he's talked about it before, but a lot of people say, and Trump is, I think, has alluded to this or said it outright, that that White House was it the press pool, the press thing that they had where, where Barack Obama basically sat there and trashed Trump.
Speaker C:Oh, yeah, the press dinner, what it's called the National Press center or whatever.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker C:And Trump was there just as a guest and Barack Obama stood up there and talked about, you know, you wanted to be president.
Speaker C:And, and a lot of it was Barack Obama did have some sour grapes.
Speaker C:And I don't blame Barack Obama for having sour grapes because Trump was the one who was pushing hard for the, the birth, birth certificate thing and all that for Barack Obama.
Speaker C:So I don't believe, I don't, I don't blame Barack Obama for throwing some bombs at him and going, hey, you know, f you, you know, you, you made my life uncomfortable.
Speaker C:Now I'm gonna make your life uncomfortable.
Speaker C:But there's a lot of people that say that was the turning point for Trump when he goes, you know what?
Speaker C:Screw this guy, screw everybody.
Speaker C:I'm gonna do this.
Speaker D:Well, anyway, that's just interesting.
Speaker C:Turned out to be a really good first president, first term president.
Speaker C:I believe he was a really good first term president, policy wise and everything.
Speaker C:I just didn't like all the antics and all the other bs.
Speaker C:Therefore, I didn't want him to run again once he, once he decided to run.
Speaker B:Hey, he's, I think, I think a lot of lessons hopefully have been learned from the first term.
Speaker C:I.
Speaker C:You're already seeing it.
Speaker C:We're already seeing it.
Speaker B:And I think the second term is going to be a different story.
Speaker B:Well, he, in those respects, he knew.
Speaker C:In the first term, this guy didn't know.
Speaker C:He knew a lot of players, but he didn't know Washington.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker C:I didn't know what it was about in the machine that Washington is.
Speaker C:And then he hired these people that he's like going, okay, well, you've been around, you know this.
Speaker C:But they turned out a lot of them started up be part of the machine.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:Whereas now you have, you have the Trump people who have been around him.
Speaker C:They've seen the Washington machine.
Speaker C:They go, we don't like this, this and this.
Speaker C:Now we're going to get people in from all over and we're going to create this pirate ship here.
Speaker B:And well, the two, the two people that are a part of this that I'm really going to want to keep a close eye on.
Speaker B:One is Tulsi Gabbard.
Speaker B:We'll see how she, how she performs.
Speaker B:And Christy Noem, currently the governor of South Dakota, I want to see how she does because I think one of those two could be elevated to a vice presidential role.
Speaker B:Totally agree in the future, I think.
Speaker C:One and eventually president.
Speaker B:And eventually president.
Speaker B:I just, I got a feeling that one of the, one of the two is going to, is going to end up being in that position of all the people that are out, depending on how this goes.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:All the people that are out there in the, in the, in the pool on either side of the aisle.
Speaker C:You know, Gretchen Whitmer, I would say is probably about, in that, about that same level with, with them where looks like for there's a possibility that she could become a president or could become a presidential nominee as well.
Speaker C:But I totally agree with you.
Speaker B:Yeah, we'll see.
Speaker B:All right, we're going to take a quick break here.
Speaker B:When we come back, Mike Mitchell is going to join us.
Speaker B:We got a lot of things to talk about concerning Wichita Falls revitalization.
Speaker B:We'll talk with Mike coming up here next on Get It Right Texoma.
Speaker B:Stay tuned.
Speaker B:Hey, guys.
Speaker B:Welcome back to Get It Right Tech Selma.
Speaker B:As promised, we have a special guest in the studio with us.
Speaker B:Mike Mitchell is with us here.
Speaker B:Mike, how you doing, man?
Speaker A:I'm fantastic.
Speaker A:Just happy to be here.
Speaker B:Glad to have you.
Speaker B:So, Mike, just full disclosure here.
Speaker B:Victory Home Loans is a company you work for.
Speaker A:Yes, sir.
Speaker B:That's kind of our association in a way, me being in real estate and you being in the lending business and.
Speaker A:Absolutely.
Speaker B:We do talk frequently in that vein.
Speaker B:But the reason you're here today with us is to talk about city revitalization.
Speaker A:Absolutely.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:I'm City of Wichita Falls City.
Speaker A:Wichita Falls.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Yeah, specifically.
Speaker A:So I am the chair for the Wichita City View or.
Speaker A:Yeah, well, I mean, whatever.
Speaker A:We'll help them all out, I'm sure.
Speaker A:But yeah.
Speaker A:Now this is specifically City of Wichita Falls City Revitalization Committee.
Speaker A:The area is called the Heart of the Falls.
Speaker B:Heart of the Falls.
Speaker B:I like that.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Well, we, we talk a lot on this podcast about, you know, the city and some of the things that are that are coming back and trying to come back.
Speaker B:We've talked a lot about downtown and all the stuff that's happening.
Speaker B:And I'm sure that's big focus of your group is kind of, you know, what's happening downtown.
Speaker B:I'm sure that comes up at least, does it not?
Speaker A:So so actually, no.
Speaker A:So we're very specific to an area.
Speaker A:So I mean, for those of y'all out there that are from Wichita Falls, it's basically Seymour highway to Kell Brook to Kemp.
Speaker A:So basically all that area around Old High.
Speaker B:I see.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:And so that's, it's the most densely populated area of Wichita Falls.
Speaker B:It is.
Speaker C:And the avenues, basically a lot of it's in the.
Speaker C:The avenue.
Speaker A:A lot of it's the avenue, stuff like that.
Speaker A:It's about 60% rental property, lots of derelict or delinquent homes.
Speaker A:But it's a great place.
Speaker A:And to be clear, we want to do revitalization, not gentrification.
Speaker A:Gentrification is basically where they come in.
Speaker A:They fix it up so much that that's where all the people with lots of money want to come in and they push everybody out.
Speaker A:We want this to be a great area for first time home buyers.
Speaker A:You know, maybe people that are on the lower income that can't afford the bigger, nicer houses, but they also can't afford a project.
Speaker B:Well, and I will, I will say this, I think a lot of people would make the argument that that's wonderful.
Speaker B:But how do you fix some of the more egregious issues in that area that have developed over the years?
Speaker B:Obviously, you know, you've got, you know, crime issues to deal with.
Speaker B:You've got, you said, you know, derelict structures.
Speaker B:You've got, unfortunately, like I said, 60% rentals.
Speaker B:And a lot of those properties have fallen into some serious disrepair over the years.
Speaker B:You can drive by them and see if they have.
Speaker B:How do you fix all of this?
Speaker B:Obviously you got to throw some money at it, but where does the money come from if not investors, where does it come from?
Speaker A:Absolutely.
Speaker A:So my, I mean, and that is a great question.
Speaker A:So first and foremost, we did a lot of property, not property, people surveying.
Speaker A:Surveying the neighborhood.
Speaker A:Safety is the biggest issue.
Speaker A:Yes, obviously.
Speaker A:I mean, there is a misconception that this is the extremely high crime area.
Speaker A:And it's not.
Speaker B:No, it's not.
Speaker A:Realistically, everywhere around town, I mean, the crime is really pretty close.
Speaker A:Statistically.
Speaker B:You know, that perception exists.
Speaker B:That perception.
Speaker C:At one time there, there were some gang activity there, which, which that's, you know, that is going.
Speaker C:A lot of it basically is working poor.
Speaker C:Yeah, a lot of those people that do do work, that have jobs, but they're, but they're lower income workers.
Speaker A:So first and foremost was a safety.
Speaker A:When you look at the crime statistics for the area, a lot of it's theft or burglary and it's all small stuff.
Speaker A:You know, somebody breaks into your car, which sucks, don't get me wrong.
Speaker A:But it's, it's nothing like they're coming in stealing, you know, gold bars and stuff.
Speaker A:You know, it's not million dollar thefts.
Speaker A:It's.
Speaker A:It's all small stuff, petty crime.
Speaker A:So a lot of it has to do with homelessness in the area.
Speaker A:But they found and research shows that you can cut down crime.
Speaker A:Most of the crime happens at night under the COVID of darkness right in this area.
Speaker A:A lot of people don't have front porch lights.
Speaker A:Front porch lights can cut like burglary, you know, home burglary or burglary of a car by like 70% by just having porch lights.
Speaker A:Because lit up, they don't want to be lit up.
Speaker A:And so that's one of the programs we're looking at is to help people, you know, either repair, fix their electrical, whatever, to come in and put porch lights in.
Speaker A:It's it.
Speaker A:And it's a simple fix.
Speaker D:I got a question on that.
Speaker D:A ring has a program now aside from privacy and some other things that.
Speaker D:That are going on with Amazon, but I know you're a ring fan.
Speaker A:Yep, I am a ring fan.
Speaker D:They had a.
Speaker D:There's.
Speaker D:There was a program and I don't know if Wichita Falls.
Speaker D:I think it was subsidized by a local police department.
Speaker D:And basically they subsidized like doorbell cameras and things like that in order to reduce crime in a particular neighborhood.
Speaker D:Because if you've got a number of people have the ring doorbells in a particular neighborhood, then there's kind of some continuity along of what you saw the person here and here and here and all that.
Speaker D:I don't know how that works that up.
Speaker A:I remember seeing that night.
Speaker A:We ought to look into that.
Speaker B:Well, you think about.
Speaker B:It creates a little bit of a dragnet.
Speaker B:You know, you've got all these cameras from different angles that are.
Speaker B:That are photographing, you know, whatever happened or taking video of whatever happened.
Speaker B:And through compiling that information, perhaps the police can track down who did it.
Speaker C:You know, part of it is you want to prevent it in the first place.
Speaker C:Cameras are great, but.
Speaker C:But it's somebody.
Speaker C:If somebody steals from you and you caught them.
Speaker D:But it's a deterrent effect as well.
Speaker C:It is if you get it lit up.
Speaker D:Right.
Speaker C:I think the lighting it up is a part.
Speaker D:Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker C:Because.
Speaker C:Because it's not the stealth mode.
Speaker C:The other thing that is available out there that solar powered lights have become.
Speaker C:Yes, very good.
Speaker C:There are some good solar power.
Speaker C:I.
Speaker C:My mother has a couple in her backyard that are solar powered just because it didn't have power out to where she.
Speaker A:Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker A:Yeah, we've got some out at my.
Speaker C:Folks place and they work great.
Speaker C:So that.
Speaker C:That's another option.
Speaker C:Lower cost option because I Imagine that some of those houses, the electoral system is probably suspect aged.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker A:Well, another big thing that we're working on is what we're calling a neighborhood empowerment zone, a nez.
Speaker A:And so the NEZ focuses a lot around code and code enforcement.
Speaker A:Now, Texas, obviously is a big property.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:State, and rightly so, pretty much, for the most part, you can kind of do just about whatever you want to on your property, you know, within reason.
Speaker C:But you can have a tiger, by the way.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker A:But you can't have a wallaby that's actually in Wichita College.
Speaker A:Can't have a wallaby.
Speaker A:That was part of the city council discussion not too long ago.
Speaker A:But so code.
Speaker A:And y'all may not know this, we didn't actually have set, like, property code up until the mid-80s and when stuff.
Speaker A:It was just kind of the wild, wild west.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:They'd kind of tried to do that, and then the city just kind of boomed and it went.
Speaker A:And then by the time it was there, it was like.
Speaker A:And we kind of missed our opportunity.
Speaker B:No zoning.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:So there wasn't a whole lot of zoning.
Speaker A:And so what the NEZ does now that we do have zoning, one good, for instance is setbacks.
Speaker A:So in Wichita Falls, you got to be set back from the property line 25ft.
Speaker A:And then if you're on a corner.
Speaker C:When you lost your job or something, you had to sit back.
Speaker C:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker A:Well, that's a short, you know, small setback, too.
Speaker A:But.
Speaker A:But a lot of these lots in this area are not your typical 10,000 square foot lots.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker A:Most of them are 7,500 or even 5,000 square foot lots.
Speaker A:Well, the problem is, you start implementing these setbacks.
Speaker A:I mean, if a house burns down or something like that, you.
Speaker A:You literally cannot rebuild.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker A:And so we're looking at some of that to be able to say, okay, you know, basically we're going to exclude.
Speaker A:Not exclude.
Speaker A:That's a terrible word.
Speaker A:But basically have some exceptions in this area because of how things were built.
Speaker C:Well, grandfathered in.
Speaker C:I mean, if your lot is grandfathered in or something.
Speaker A:Yeah, kind of.
Speaker A:But I mean, you got to remember if.
Speaker A:If a house is, you know, burns down, that burning down is really probably the biggest issue.
Speaker A:And so if a house burns down, it's hard to come back in and rebuild something of similar size because of current code.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker A:And so especially on corner lots, I mean, if you're on a corner lot, you're kind of stuck.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:So.
Speaker A:And then the other big issue is what we call ADUs or accessory units.
Speaker A:So the mother in law suites or the.
Speaker A:The rear garage with garage apartments.
Speaker A:And so that's actually the process we're working through right now is code and zoning to kind of redefine some of those for.
Speaker A:For our area to make it worthwhile.
Speaker A:Obviously, we don't want a.
Speaker A:A barndominium coming in there.
Speaker A:Not that we're against barndominiums, but it doesn't fit with the neighborhood.
Speaker A:Right, right.
Speaker A: mean, we've got a lot of the: Speaker A:Most of them are gingerbread houses.
Speaker C: What about: Speaker C:Thousand square foot?
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A: to: Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:They're pretty decent size.
Speaker B:1500 square foot home in that era was a large home.
Speaker A:Yeah, it was a lot of house.
Speaker B:That was a lot of house.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:You mentioned the lighting, and I thought of something, so I think it's still this way.
Speaker B:In Texas, there are only two cities that manage their own street lighting systems.
Speaker B:Wichita Falls and Victoria.
Speaker A:I did not know that.
Speaker B:I believe that's still the case.
Speaker B:Everyone else, like I live in Burt Burnett.
Speaker B:Well, Burt Burnett doesn't manage its own street lights.
Speaker B:Encore does.
Speaker B:If we have a streetlight issue, we call Encore.
Speaker B:We don't call the city of Burt Burnett.
Speaker B:And then I think it's still that way across the state.
Speaker B:So Wichita Falls and Victoria, Texas, you know, two top totally opposite ends.
Speaker C:What about the street lights at your house?
Speaker D:I pay for that.
Speaker C:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker D:And I go through Jacob.
Speaker B:So in a situation like in this neighborhood, street lighting obviously could go a long way toward helping as a crime deterrent itself.
Speaker B:What's the feedback or has there been any feedback from the city on improving or increasing the amount of street lighting in those areas?
Speaker B:Because I know some of those streets get pretty dark at night.
Speaker A:They can.
Speaker B:There's no lighting.
Speaker A:So that's kind of a little bit addressed by money, obviously.
Speaker A:Sure.
Speaker A:Of course.
Speaker A:City revitalization is not a magic wand.
Speaker A:Oh, no, it's not the silver bullet that's going to, you know, take care of everything overnight.
Speaker B:But there's nothing happens overnight.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker A:Especially with government.
Speaker A:But I mean, there's lots of things that we're trying to address and make a plan.
Speaker A:I mean.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:You know, lighting is obviously one of them.
Speaker A:Road conditions.
Speaker A:Sure.
Speaker A:There hasn't been a whole lot of improvement, especially in that area for a long time.
Speaker A: Interestingly enough, in the: Speaker A:They had a plan.
Speaker A:It was a great plan.
Speaker A:They never Implemented.
Speaker A:Well, we're growing so damn fast, we gotta, you know, we gotta do something.
Speaker A:So we're just gonna do surface level and let the streets handle it.
Speaker A:Well, obviously, I mean, things have changed, you know, climate change or whatever else.
Speaker A:I mean, seems like the rains we get here are a whole lot more intense, you know, right now.
Speaker A:And we're not getting the soft rains, you know, over longer periods time.
Speaker A:So our streets are flooding a whole lot more.
Speaker A:You get that street flooding that's causing problems with the streets.
Speaker A:And so.
Speaker A:But I will tell you about as far as money.
Speaker A:It that's something that we're going to be working on is getting that stuff built into the city budget, which is tough.
Speaker A:I mean, you know, everybody wants a piece.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Even on your own small personal budget, it's tough to get stuff worked in there.
Speaker A:And so.
Speaker A:But that's something that we're working on.
Speaker A:The city.
Speaker A:You know, when I say the city, I'm talking about the folks we're working with, which is mostly Fabian and Terry, planning and zoning.
Speaker A:Crystal.
Speaker A:But we've heard from all departments, you know, code enforcement.
Speaker A:I, I had kind of a love hate relationship with code enforcement.
Speaker A:You know, I thought they were pretty much out there to ruin our lives.
Speaker A:But after hearing, you know, and speaking to these guys and really hearing their purpose, you know, man, what a thankless job.
Speaker A:It's kind of like being on the school board.
Speaker A:We know anybody like that.
Speaker A:But, you know, it's, it's a very thankful job.
Speaker C:That's a glorious.
Speaker C:You didn't realize that school board yet brings you fame and fortune.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker A:That's how you retired, right?
Speaker C:Yeah, exactly.
Speaker A:But, yeah, it's a very thankless job.
Speaker A:But they're really there to, to keep us safe, to make sure things are right.
Speaker A:And also, you know, they don't want to go out and find people.
Speaker A:They really do a good job.
Speaker A:You know, legally, by the bylaws, they're able to just come in and find you.
Speaker A:But they do work very hard to give notices on violations and they want to work with the people.
Speaker A:And if it's a money issue, they, they help point them in the right direction, you know, like tree trimming or something, you know.
Speaker A:But one of the coolest things that we've got going on is we just did a, of all things, an EPA grant.
Speaker A:I say we, we weren't really that involved with it because, man, a federal grant is just a whole animal in and of itself.
Speaker A:But Fabian and Crystal and the whole team down there just really stepped up.
Speaker A:It's about a $23 million grant that we applied to through the EPA.
Speaker A:And so I would say the biggest portion of it that I'm excited about is we're supposed to turn those off.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:Well, I guess you're on the.
Speaker A:You're on the show.
Speaker C:Don't, don't.
Speaker C:Don't have any.
Speaker C:Don't have your rules on that.
Speaker A:Do we need to answer it?
Speaker C:No.
Speaker C:Okay.
Speaker A:All right.
Speaker A:I don't mind.
Speaker C:No, we're good.
Speaker A:But the biggest chunk of the grant is rehabbing homes.
Speaker A:And so the intent is there are so many derelict and delinquent homes over there.
Speaker A:It obviously causes a problem with the homeless.
Speaker A:That's why there's lots of fire there.
Speaker A:Because they get in, they're cold, they don't have a lot of places to go here in Wichita Falls.
Speaker A:So they.
Speaker C:We literally tore just real quickly.
Speaker C:When I was on the school board, we had a church that was a church that used to be across.
Speaker C:We actually took that down because of that reason.
Speaker A:Yep.
Speaker C:It was a.
Speaker C:Say it was a safety issue.
Speaker C:A lot of homeless people.
Speaker C:And then you had a church with homeless people in it.
Speaker C:Literally our building, because it was no longer a church with homeless people.
Speaker C:Right there where your students are.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker C:And that's why we demolished that.
Speaker A:It's a problem.
Speaker A:But so we want to be able to go in.
Speaker A:There's lots of people that are out of state that own houses there that, I mean, they don't do fixing up.
Speaker A:They're vacant.
Speaker A:And so we, you know, we, as the city, because I am an official member, you know, of this committee and the chair.
Speaker A:And so we want to go in and identify 25 to 40 of these properties and do full rehabs on them.
Speaker A:And of course, a lot of folks have said, well, what does that have to do with epa?
Speaker A:Well, we're gonna make them efficient, you know, so, I mean, things like insulation and lighting, you know, electrical and all this stuff, really make them good, efficient homes and fix them up to make them nice again.
Speaker A:But the other issue is lots of first time homebuyers.
Speaker A:Again, they don't have money for fixer uppers.
Speaker A:They don't have money for a lot of repairs.
Speaker A:They need a good home to live in.
Speaker A:And so really, if you buy a new home, really, you shouldn't have to do a whole lot of repairs in the first 10 to 15.
Speaker B:Well, and you can attest to this being on the lending side of that issue.
Speaker B:A lot of times, you know, a first time home buyer, it's going to be an fha situation.
Speaker A:Absolutely.
Speaker B:It might be a VA situation.
Speaker B:And there are rules as to safety conditions and things.
Speaker B:And a lot of these houses wouldn't qualify.
Speaker A:Yeah, not right now, currently, for an.
Speaker B:FHA loan or so you're going to.
Speaker C:Get them up to spec where they would qualify for FHA or VA loan.
Speaker A:And here's the caveat.
Speaker A:Because the city doesn't want to be.
Speaker A:They don't want to be landlords.
Speaker A:Part of the deal, like with the lake lots and stuff, you know, they don't want to be renting stuff out anymore.
Speaker A:They don't want to be owners.
Speaker A:And we get it.
Speaker A:We shouldn't want the city to be owners.
Speaker A:And so the idea is, and we're not looking to make money off of this, that's not the purpose of the grant.
Speaker A:Right, right.
Speaker A:And so these homes, if we get the grant, the intent is that the homes would be turned over to Habitat for Humanity, which is a community partner on the grant, because they have more qualified people for homes.
Speaker D:Like they know how to do stuff.
Speaker C:Like that, plus they have the infrastructure of doing it.
Speaker C:They've already got the process.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:Well, they've got the experience.
Speaker B:I mean, they've done this.
Speaker B:They've built homes from literally from the ground up for so long.
Speaker C:And quite a few in Wichita Falls.
Speaker C:There's a lot of habitat and they.
Speaker A:Do a great job.
Speaker A:I mean, I'm telling you, Habitat for Humanity and I've been a big fan of what they do for a long time.
Speaker A:Just wonderful organization.
Speaker A:But in this case, they've got the whole process.
Speaker A:They've got all that.
Speaker A:It's not the big bad city.
Speaker A:They're approving or denying people.
Speaker A:If we had 40 houses done today, they'd have people to fill them.
Speaker B:I volunteered on a couple of their builds years ago.
Speaker B:They already have great working partnerships with contractors and people that specialize in exactly what you want to do.
Speaker A:Absolutely.
Speaker B:Their specialty is rehabs, rebuilds, new construction, all of it.
Speaker B:And so that's a, that's a great partnership to have.
Speaker B:It's going to be a very strong partnership.
Speaker A:I'm super excited.
Speaker C:So when do you find out about this grant?
Speaker A:So we're supposed to find out in like a 30 day time frame.
Speaker A:And so November, I think they said they turned it in right before Thanksgiving.
Speaker A:And so, and remember, I mean, it's a federal grant, so it was like 800 pages of stuff.
Speaker A:It was a lot.
Speaker A:Hundreds of man hours went into this.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Eyeballs deep in paperwork.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:And I can't, I mean, I can't Dote on the city staff enough.
Speaker A:I mean, there are lots of people.
Speaker A:Part of the reason that I got involved with this was because I was tired of being.
Speaker A:There's a lot of people that complain about, you know, the big bad city or the county or whatever, but they never get involved.
Speaker D:Nope.
Speaker A:And so I, you know, Teddy Roosevelt was one of the ones.
Speaker A:He said something along the lines of, you know, complaining without a story or without griping or complaining without a solution is just griping or something along those lines.
Speaker A:I love Teddy Roosevelt, but, you know, and so I wanted to be part of the solution and so love him so much.
Speaker C:You could quote him exactly.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker C:Verbatim.
Speaker A:Something along those lines.
Speaker A:But yeah, but I wanted to get involved.
Speaker A:Got elected as chair for this.
Speaker A:I've started going to city council meetings.
Speaker A:So I try to.
Speaker A:I've made everyone just about for the last three months, and I just can't.
Speaker A:You know, even code enforcement.
Speaker A:Code enforcement or planning and zoning.
Speaker A:If you have questions or thoughts or whatever, go talk to these people.
Speaker A:That's their job.
Speaker A:They are the professionals locally and they're.
Speaker A:They're great people.
Speaker A:They're really not here to ruin your life.
Speaker A:They want.
Speaker A:I mean, Fabian has been wonderful to work with, and he's one of those guys that, you know, if a new business or somebody's wanting to.
Speaker A:I mean, what have we all heard about new businesses coming to town?
Speaker B:Oh, yeah, they complain.
Speaker B:The city is not.
Speaker B:It's not business friendly.
Speaker A:They're not business friendly.
Speaker A:They're so hard to work with.
Speaker C:Yeah, there's.
Speaker C:There's something I was gonna say.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker C:The communication needs to.
Speaker C:Needs to agree.
Speaker A:100.
Speaker A:But I will tell you, Fabian is one of those, you know, part of the issue is like, in this particular neighborhood, zoning is a problem.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker A:Business.
Speaker A:It's tough for them to come in because of parking.
Speaker A:Zoning rules.
Speaker A:Well, there's no possible, like, I own a building over there that, that I'm about to sell.
Speaker A:So if y'all know anybody.
Speaker A:But it literally only has two parking spots.
Speaker A:Well, based on current zoning, it should have like nine parking spots.
Speaker A:There's nowhere for me to put nine parking spots.
Speaker D:But there's also a variance.
Speaker D:That's why there's a variance too, that, that you work city and hopefully apply and justify variance because.
Speaker D:And that's where I think a committee like yourself, the one you're on is that.
Speaker D:That you can.
Speaker D:If.
Speaker D:If you've got some communication going on among all the players, then maybe there can be a creative solution that involves a variance.
Speaker D:Of certain things and then maybe there's another, there's other things you can do.
Speaker A:Absolutely.
Speaker B:Well, what it comes down to, I think common sense has got to take hold.
Speaker B:You've got to have some common sense approaches and some common sense solutions to issues like this.
Speaker B:And I think where Wichita Falls benefits is, I think we now are, it's starting to congeal.
Speaker B:We're putting together a city council and leadership in city government that's truly interested in seeing things like this move forward and seeing the city move forward in seeing us do things that will help us grow our population.
Speaker B:Because the more of those homes you can rehab and the more of those homes that can be fixed up and turned into livable, financeable structures, then you can start to bring new people into the community, hopefully.
Speaker C:And when you're bringing first time homebuyers in a lot of times you're bringing younger people who are going to take, have roots here, have families, kids are.
Speaker A:Going to school, property values, which taxes go up and all that, you know, so it just, it's a great thing.
Speaker A:And you're right on city council.
Speaker A:So I was actually highly encouraged and I, I really explored it this year.
Speaker A:I think I even talked to Trey about it a little bit.
Speaker A:I seriously considered running for city council.
Speaker A:Place two looked into it, talked to a lot of folks about it.
Speaker A:Everybody really encouraged me.
Speaker A:Mike, you're the right guy.
Speaker A:I mean, you be great to be on city council.
Speaker A:I, I ended up deciding not to do it just because of timing really for me and my life personally.
Speaker A:I mean, trying to build up the business with, you know, victory home loans.
Speaker A:I've still got lots of things.
Speaker A:I'm doing the city revitalization committee.
Speaker A:I've got two daughters in high school, a son in junior high.
Speaker A:And so it just, things weren't right for me.
Speaker A:However, another guy was kind of recruited to run and there was another lady that ran too.
Speaker A:Both of them would have been excellent.
Speaker A:But Robert Brooks ended up getting the vote.
Speaker A:He is the father of Talia Brooks.
Speaker C:Yeah, we talked about that.
Speaker A:Super nice guy.
Speaker A:I think he's going to do great things.
Speaker A:But we also got Whitney Flack in who replaced Michael Smith in District 1.
Speaker A:And now we have the runoff going between Austin Cobb and Sam Pack, who are both.
Speaker A:I mean, I'm sure you, you guys all.
Speaker D:And then they did a Rock, Paper, Scissors and.
Speaker A:Oh, did they.
Speaker C:Check it out.
Speaker C:Check it out on our YouTube page.
Speaker A:I'll do that.
Speaker C:Yeah, they sit here.
Speaker C:Right here.
Speaker C:Harry officiated Rock, Paper, Scissors and I thought.
Speaker C:And I'VE told those guys those.
Speaker C:Either one of those guys will be great city council.
Speaker C:And I've made a prediction.
Speaker C:My prediction is both of those men will serve on city council at some point.
Speaker A:Oh, eventually, yeah.
Speaker C:Whether.
Speaker C:Whether one of them is going to be on now.
Speaker C:One of them may be on the next cycle.
Speaker C:It may be five years from now or 10 years from whatever it is.
Speaker C:I predict that.
Speaker C:That Austin Cobb and sampac will both be city councilors in Wichita Falls.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:And it's crazy, too.
Speaker A:The.
Speaker A:The rumors and stuff that fly around the.
Speaker A:You know, Austin's not from here and all that.
Speaker A:That's not true.
Speaker A:He grew up here.
Speaker A:I mean, you talk to the guy.
Speaker A:He's an amazing guy.
Speaker A:And then there's.
Speaker A:I've actually had people tell me, you know, well, Sam Pack, like, he's not really involved in the community.
Speaker A:Oh, my God.
Speaker A:Have you followed Facebook?
Speaker C:Show up at anything?
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Show up at any sort of fundraising, any nonprofit, anything.
Speaker A:Sam and his wife Pam are there.
Speaker A:Like, I don't know how they do it.
Speaker A:I guess they must sleep for about 30 minutes during the day and the rest time there.
Speaker C:But you don't have kids at home.
Speaker A:It does.
Speaker A:That's true.
Speaker A:But really, I mean, and you're right.
Speaker A:Austin and Sam, I mean, no matter who wins, are going to be absolutely amazing.
Speaker C:They're gonna be good.
Speaker A:And then Michael Battle, you know, on the council, like, I just, you know, we have good people.
Speaker B:I think the formula is coming together to have to have working relationships within city government that can work with people outside of city government like yourself, serving on a committee here to get these things done.
Speaker C:That's the best communication.
Speaker B:The communication.
Speaker A:I just recruited some friends to.
Speaker A:There's an aviation.
Speaker A:Gosh, I forget the name of the board, but it's aviation something something board.
Speaker A:This board hasn't met.
Speaker A:And don't quote me on the numbers.
Speaker A: It was either, like,: Speaker A:They haven't met.
Speaker A:Yeah, write this down.
Speaker A:They haven't.
Speaker A:But anyway, regardless, they haven't met in a long time.
Speaker A:And so I was talking to one of my buddies about it, and he was like, we really need to protect Kickapoo a little more.
Speaker A:And.
Speaker A:And of course, city revitalization.
Speaker A:I'm not over Kickapoo.
Speaker A:That's.
Speaker A:Nothing has to do with what I'm doing, but obviously it's a vital part of the community.
Speaker A:Well, this board has met and done a lot of stuff for Shepherd Municipal, which we all agree.
Speaker A:I mean, if shepherd leaves were, you know, is Wichita Falls sunk?
Speaker C:You know, it's debatable, but it'll still exist.
Speaker A:We love Shepherd.
Speaker C:We need, you know, but, but it would be really bad.
Speaker A:Yeah, it bad.
Speaker A:Yeah, it's.
Speaker A:We want to do everything we can do to protect it.
Speaker A:And what they've done is they did a lot of zoning and code and everything else around Shepherd Municipal.
Speaker A:And then they kind of said, well, and we're going to add this height restriction on Kickapoo and that.
Speaker A:That's about it.
Speaker A:And so I guess, you know, there's just, there's been some developments and stuff around Kickapoo that, you know, could.
Speaker A:The federal grants and stuff that we get, could get kicked out.
Speaker A:And so it appeared, I don't want to say there was nobody watching that, but it appeared that nobody was kind of keeping a pulse on that.
Speaker A:And another friend of mine saw that and said, hey, we need to be watching this.
Speaker A:And so then they said, well, we don't even know who's on the board.
Speaker A:Oh, we can look that up.
Speaker A:We don't know when they roll off.
Speaker A:We can look that up.
Speaker A:And it turned out like that day.
Speaker A:I was like, well, if you're interested, you need to put your application in today.
Speaker A:And so, you know, there's just.
Speaker A:You're right.
Speaker A:There's some forward thinking people.
Speaker A:It's not just the old guard.
Speaker A:There's nothing bad with the old guard.
Speaker A:But if we want to see Wichita Falls grow, I mean, we are one of the cities in Texas as a whole that really didn't grow in the last census.
Speaker C:Yeah, exactly.
Speaker C:Well, one of the.
Speaker D:And compared to abilene since the 90s, they have grown a significant amount.
Speaker D:We have been flat.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker C: And why flat since: Speaker B:Well, and again, we've talked about this with some other on the show.
Speaker B:Is that problem.
Speaker B:And part of that problem comes down to also a marketing issue.
Speaker A:Absolutely.
Speaker B:We've done a horrible job as a community marketing ourselves, our city.
Speaker B:When you're in city government, salesmanship sometimes is not in your wheelhouse.
Speaker B:So you need to couple yourself with people who it is in their wheelhouse who do know how to market, who do know how to sell, who do know how to promote.
Speaker B:And I think that they've got to do that.
Speaker B:But we've done a lousy job of promoting our community.
Speaker B:We've done a lousy job of promoting the relationship between the city and for example, Midwestern State University.
Speaker B:Oh yeah.
Speaker B: time ever know that there's a: Speaker A:And an amazing university too.
Speaker A:Part of the Texas Tech system now.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker A:I mean what an amazing place.
Speaker B:And you can drive completely through this town and never realize it's there.
Speaker C:We could also not know that Shepherd Air Force is based here.
Speaker B:Exactly.
Speaker B:So.
Speaker B:So we don't.
Speaker B:We don't do.
Speaker B:We don't do a good job of promoting ourselves.
Speaker B:And we've got to do a better job of doing that.
Speaker B:And I say we.
Speaker B:No, I don't live here anymore.
Speaker B:I don't.
Speaker B:I don't pay taxes in the city of Wichita Falls anymore.
Speaker B:I do work here.
Speaker A:Wichita Falls adjacent.
Speaker B:Yeah, well, I'm from here.
Speaker B:Well, but.
Speaker B:But this brings me to Burke.
Speaker A:I mean Burke.
Speaker A:I mean it's in the Wichita Falls metro.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker B:And it.
Speaker B:But it brings me to this point.
Speaker B:All of us.
Speaker B:Burke, Burnett, Iowa Park, Electra Holiday, Archer City, Henrietta.
Speaker B:Every.
Speaker B:All the surrounding, some people might call bedroom communities.
Speaker B:Gody boat.
Speaker B:Yeah, don't forget about that damn gody boat, man.
Speaker B:Go, go.
Speaker C:Debauch pumpkin center.
Speaker B:You know, like nine people.
Speaker B:But it's to the benefit of all of those bedroom communities for Wichita Falls to do.
Speaker B:Well, we all should want to see Wichita fall because if Wichita Falls is succeeding everyone else.
Speaker C:There's a reason.
Speaker C:There's a reason.
Speaker A:And you're so right.
Speaker A:I mean people that live here, the majority of people, not everybody, but the majority of people that live here love it here.
Speaker A:And they are so proud of our town.
Speaker A:They really come back.
Speaker C:There's a lot of people who grow up here.
Speaker A:You are absolutely correct.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:We love it and we tell each.
Speaker C:Other all the time who's not from here but came here because the air.
Speaker D:Force has stayed and stayed.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker C:So.
Speaker C:So real quickly as we kind of need to wrap up a little bit.
Speaker C:So let everybody know.
Speaker C:How do they get a hold of you or if they want to be involved in this committee or have ideas or thoughts or any.
Speaker C:That sort of thing.
Speaker A:So that's great.
Speaker A:Look up Wichita Falls city revitalization.
Speaker A:We do have a Facebook group page.
Speaker A:We do post on there.
Speaker A:We do have official meetings, you know, minutes, the whole shooting match.
Speaker A:I mean just like city council does.
Speaker A:We are an official board or committee under the city council.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:Father Goddling.
Speaker C:You probably have to have to post the agenda.
Speaker C:It has to be on the agenda to be spoken.
Speaker A:We do.
Speaker A:And I have to sign minutes and I had to swear in the whole bit.
Speaker A:And so we meet every other Tuesday.
Speaker A:So we actually just met this Tuesday.
Speaker A:We're gonna meet again on the 17th.
Speaker A:We're meeting right now.
Speaker A:We're meeting at 4:00 on Tuesday down at the Wichita Falls Travel center, which I know you've seen it.
Speaker A:If y'all haven't been by there again, that's another great facility.
Speaker A:Hardly anybody knows about the bus station.
Speaker A:The bus station, yeah.
Speaker C:Downtown.
Speaker C:Yeah, it's beautiful.
Speaker C:And there's a huge, nice meeting conference room in there and all kinds of stuff.
Speaker A:And the public.
Speaker A:And I'll kind of end.
Speaker A:I'll wrap up my part with this.
Speaker A:You know, the public.
Speaker A:We want the public to be involved, especially the folks that live in the heart of the Falls area.
Speaker A:However, all the groundwork and the foundation that we're laying, I think they've got.
Speaker A:It's either seven or nine areas of town that they intend to take this to over the next, you know, whatever decade or so.
Speaker A:So we're laying all the groundwork on how to create this.
Speaker A:I mean, neighborhood empowerment zone.
Speaker A:We haven't done that here ever.
Speaker A:But Fort Worth and Abilene and other towns have.
Speaker A:And so we're creating that structure.
Speaker A:The next neighborhood that's, you know, in the pike is Eastside.
Speaker A:And they have some.
Speaker A:Some unique, obviously flooding issues and things like that.
Speaker A:They've got some very unique issues of their own.
Speaker C:There's a street called Flood.
Speaker C:So.
Speaker D:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker A:So that's the next area that we're going to go.
Speaker A:And our whole committee isn't going to go.
Speaker A:It's probably going to be me or whoever the chair is at the time, along with planning and zoning.
Speaker A:Go help them form a community or a committee of their community, folks that live there and say, here's our blueprint.
Speaker A:This is what we did.
Speaker A:This has already been implemented.
Speaker A:That's already been passed by city council.
Speaker A:You guys can do the same thing here.
Speaker A:And so we're doing a lot of the hard work.
Speaker A:So, you know, 70% of the work will be done for the next committee.
Speaker D:All right, just to be clear, on the Facebook, is it a group or is it a page, or is it both in it?
Speaker D:What is it?
Speaker D:Because I found.
Speaker D:I googled just Wichita Falls.
Speaker D:Is it neighborhood revitalization or is that different now?
Speaker A:Neighborhood revitalization is.
Speaker A:Let me see.
Speaker A:What is it?
Speaker D:Yeah, well.
Speaker D:Well, here.
Speaker D:Here's.
Speaker D:I just.
Speaker D:I did revitalization.
Speaker C:Pull that thing up so you can look.
Speaker D:Yeah, but I'll.
Speaker D:Yeah, but this page.
Speaker D:Just want to.
Speaker C:There.
Speaker D:Yeah, yeah, that's a group.
Speaker C:That's it.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Because, like, if you scroll down a little bit, that's Right, That's.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:I thought that was Tim Short and Michael Battolino, but that's Michael Battolino and his son.
Speaker A:It's one of my favorite pictures.
Speaker A:His son's crying and this is actually.
Speaker A:Oh, my gosh.
Speaker A:James.
Speaker A:Shoot.
Speaker A:I forget James's last name, but he's the interim city manager right now.
Speaker D:McKickney.
Speaker A:Super.
Speaker D:Yes.
Speaker D:J A McKechnie.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Super.
Speaker A:Nice guy.
Speaker D:Okay.
Speaker D:Bottom line is that neighborhood revitalization, look it up.
Speaker A:Great group.
Speaker D:Okay.
Speaker A:Lots of information goes out there.
Speaker A:But then also, I mean, just like any other city committee meeting, they're posted on the city website.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker A:You got to dig around and find it.
Speaker A:But yeah, please come.
Speaker A:We want people to know what we're doing.
Speaker A:We're putting a lot of time and effort into this.
Speaker A:And not that I need pats on the backs or thank you.
Speaker A:I don't need that.
Speaker A:I just want to make Wichita Falls continue to be a great place to live.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker D:And one of the things is just kind of back on what we first talked about.
Speaker D:Money, you know.
Speaker D:Well, not everything needs to have money thrown at needs.
Speaker D:It just needs somebody to pay attention.
Speaker C:To it and also plan the way you do.
Speaker C:Throw the money if you have money.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:Get to that point.
Speaker C:Have a plan for it to be as efficient.
Speaker A:Well, it is Stu stuff.
Speaker A:Like a prime example, like, because we're going to continue going once it's been handed over to us by the city, but like code enforcement, we want, if.
Speaker A:If there's some sort of violation, whatever that may be, and there's.
Speaker A:There's tons of them available.
Speaker A:These guys are just doing their job.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:They're.
Speaker A:They're trying to do good things.
Speaker A:But I've asked, I said, well, hey, we as a committee, is there any way that we could get copies of those violations to go out and talk somebody?
Speaker A:Maybe it's that 85 year old lady who can't trim her trees or.
Speaker A:And doesn't have the money.
Speaker A:So neighbors helping neighbors.
Speaker A:We can go out and trim trees.
Speaker A:I mean, it doesn't take long.
Speaker A:Go get it done.
Speaker B:It's the same principle with me.
Speaker B:When I sell someone a house, you know, when I've got.
Speaker B:I'm working with a buyer, one of the first things we do is we have a professional inspection of the property done.
Speaker A:Absolutely.
Speaker B:And that report that comes back to us helps us create a punch list of items that need to be addressed either by the seller or by the buyers when they take over the property.
Speaker A:Absolutely.
Speaker B:But that's how you.
Speaker B:That's how you formulate that plan is you get that inspection done.
Speaker B:That's how you come up.
Speaker C:And that's why you want a professional.
Speaker C:If you get the non professional one, they go, then, dude, this is a dump.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Yeah, exactly.
Speaker A:I'm sure I've known you long enough.
Speaker A:I'm sure you're the kind of guy that, you know, as soon as you sell somebody a house, you just don't say, hey, thanks for the commission, and walk away like, no, I'm the same way.
Speaker A:When I do a loan for somebody, I'm like, hey, just because we closed on the house and we're done with the loan, you know, and like.
Speaker A:And I'm ready yet, right?
Speaker A:Yeah, Like, I'm still your guy.
Speaker A:I've lived here a long time.
Speaker A:I'm the guy that knows people, you know, if you need anything on your house or what, if you have questions, holler at me.
Speaker A:And so I still have a very good relationship with, you know, all of my clients.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:And, you know, it's important.
Speaker A:And so it's the same thing through city revitalization.
Speaker A:It's not, hey, we're just going to come, you know, trim your trees, you know, nice little lady.
Speaker A:And then we just go away.
Speaker A:You know, she'll go on a list and we'll go buy and check and honor and stuff like that again, neighbors helping neighbors and doing what we're supposed to do.
Speaker C:All right, real quick one before you leave.
Speaker C:Now, you already talked about your professional victory homeowners.
Speaker C:But then also there's another group that you're involved in.
Speaker C:Improv.
Speaker A:Improv.
Speaker A:Well, I was wondering which one.
Speaker A:Improv Boy Scouts.
Speaker B:Congratulations on that.
Speaker A:Moved her project out to Field and Stream, so.
Speaker C:But we've been keeping up with.
Speaker C:We've been keeping up with and promoting the.
Speaker C:The shows as they come up.
Speaker C:Oh, thank you.
Speaker A:That's great.
Speaker C:So this.
Speaker C:This season's over?
Speaker A:It is.
Speaker C:When will the calendar come out for next season, Dina?
Speaker A:It's already out.
Speaker A:You can buy season tickets for it.
Speaker A:It's most fun you can have for 12 bucks on a Friday or Saturday night.
Speaker A:Trey may not seem very entertaining, but when he's up on stage, he's hilarious.
Speaker A:You know, it's.
Speaker A:It's a lot of fun.
Speaker A:I will say it's.
Speaker A:It's adult ish.
Speaker C:It's not adult ish.
Speaker C:It is adult.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker C:You're gonna hear some words around.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker A:It can get raunchy, and there's a lot of folks that say, you know, geez, Mike, you know, that just came out of your mouth.
Speaker A:Hey, I like to be just as surprised as everybody else.
Speaker C:It's this.
Speaker C:It's.
Speaker C:It's.
Speaker C:Yeah, it.
Speaker C:It is what it is.
Speaker C:You put everything in the context.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:You're not at church doing this.
Speaker C:I mean, this is.
Speaker C:This is a nighttime event with adults, and it's an adult only event.
Speaker A:Yep.
Speaker C:So put it in context.
Speaker C:So, yeah, check it out.
Speaker A:Realistically.
Speaker A:That's great.
Speaker C:Backdoor theater.
Speaker C:Check it out.
Speaker D:And his podcast.
Speaker C:Real quick.
Speaker D:Mention your podcast.
Speaker A:Oh, yeah, my podcast.
Speaker A:Once upon a time in Texas, I wanted to do a podcast years ago.
Speaker A:Didn't know what I was going to do it on.
Speaker A:And I thought, well, by God, I'll do it on mortgages.
Speaker A:I'm getting into the business.
Speaker A:Listen to four or five other podcasts about mortgages.
Speaker A:And it was terrible.
Speaker A:Like, who wants to listen to that.
Speaker B:Crap you were talking about?
Speaker B:You wonder how Sam and Pamela pack, how they get any sleep.
Speaker B:What about you, man?
Speaker B:You got all this stuff going on, and you've got kids in school and high schoolers at that, which, you know, that's a full time and a half job in itself.
Speaker B:Just one, let alone two.
Speaker A:Well, you know, it just, it's a.
Speaker A:It's prioritizing your time, having a good calendar.
Speaker A:I mean, you prioritize time for things that are important to me, too.
Speaker B:Sure.
Speaker A:You know, I will say one thing recently that was a little bit of a downer, but it's turned into a good thing.
Speaker A:My oldest daughter backed into a guy's truck the other day at the library.
Speaker A:And I said, see, that's what books get you.
Speaker A:I always call her a nerd because she's like, I'm going to the library.
Speaker A:I'm like, nerd.
Speaker A:But I said, see, if you hadn't been at the library nerding out that day, you would have never backed into this guy's truck.
Speaker A:And it turns out he's the owner of GNS Suzuki.
Speaker A:Toby Grace.
Speaker A:Super nice guy.
Speaker A:Like, I mean, we spent 30 minutes in the library and, you know, the 50 plus zone, trying to find who it was because I was going to make my daughter, you know, talk to the guy.
Speaker A:She backed in and it didn't do a lot of damage.
Speaker A:You know, it dented his bumper and kind of a tough deal.
Speaker A:But, you know, I told her one of her friends had said, you know, a couple of days later, we could have just driven off.
Speaker A:And it's so true.
Speaker A:She could have just driven off.
Speaker A:Nobody would have ever known but her.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:And, you know, but she would have Known.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:And she would have known.
Speaker A:And, you know, she's about to be an Eagle Scout, and she's, you know.
Speaker A:But, Dad, I felt like that wasn't integrity.
Speaker A:Anyway, we did the right thing.
Speaker A:We left a note on his window.
Speaker A:We couldn't find him.
Speaker A:And he called about an hour later.
Speaker A:And, you know, he's been super cool to work with.
Speaker A:You know, we're just going to try to handle it between ourselves.
Speaker A:And, you know, but I'm also kind of greasing the skids.
Speaker A:Like, hey, once we get all this worked out, I'm going to have my daughter call you, and you guys are going to have the conversation because she doesn't know we've got this worked out yet.
Speaker A:I want her to handle it, and so she does.
Speaker A:You know, Daddy's greasing the skids.
Speaker A:Daddy's taking care of business.
Speaker A:But I want her to make, you know.
Speaker D:Well, don't.
Speaker D:Don't let her watch this.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker C:Exactly.
Speaker C:But, you know, you're wrong.
Speaker A:You make priorities for, you know, you make time for the priorities you have in your life.
Speaker A:And, you know, one of these days, I may slow down, but I do love Wichita Falls.
Speaker A:I love Boy Scouts, city revitalization, backdoor theater.
Speaker A:Everything we're doing, you guys, it's amazing.
Speaker A:Love the podcast.
Speaker A:Thank you.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:And thank you for promoting mine.
Speaker A:The Once Upon a Time in Texas.
Speaker A:It's just random Texas history.
Speaker A:Just, you know, and it just comes to me.
Speaker A:My grandfather was a preacher, and I'd say, man, how far out do you plan your sermons and stuff?
Speaker A:He goes, I know.
Speaker A:I just let God inspire me throughout the week.
Speaker A:And that's kind of how most of the time, I don't know what I'm doing until I sit down to do it.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:And that's kind of how we've done this one.
Speaker C:You know, that's how it goes.
Speaker C:Real quickly.
Speaker C:The one thing.
Speaker C:And I've told all my kids this, and I try to give this advice to any, especially younger people.
Speaker C:The only thing you can control in this world is your integrity.
Speaker A:Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker C:You have 100 control over your integrity.
Speaker C:You don't have 100 control over your body.
Speaker C:Your.
Speaker C:What happens around you.
Speaker C:Other people, those.
Speaker C:Those are so many things that you have no control over, but you have 100% control over your integrity.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker C:So always protect it.
Speaker B:Mike Mitchell, thank you very much for being with us to talk about neighborhood revitalization.
Speaker B:Revitalization.
Speaker B:I'll get that out in the.
Speaker B:Yes, very much in the Hardwich stall falls.
Speaker B:And we look forward to having you back.
Speaker B:We'd like to get an update from you somewhere here in the near future.
Speaker A:Absolutely.
Speaker A:Yeah, I'd love to do that.
Speaker A:Thank you all for having me, guys.
Speaker A:Thank you enough for doing what you do.
Speaker B:Thank you.
Speaker B:Stay tuned.
Speaker B:We're going to take a quick break.
Speaker B:We'll come back.
Speaker B:Wrap it up.
Speaker B:It's Get It Right Texoma.
Speaker B:Back in a moment.
Speaker B:All right, guys, welcome back to Get It Right Tech Soma.
Speaker B:I want to thank Mike Mitchell for joining us.
Speaker B:Great interview, great information.
Speaker B:Looking forward to having him back.
Speaker C:I really enjoyed doing.
Speaker C:I did improv with Mike for a couple years and he's, he's a lot of fun.
Speaker C:And yeah, improv is one of those things I miss.
Speaker C:I got to get back into it.
Speaker C:It's just I'm stretched with my time.
Speaker C:I had to let something go and unfortunately I had to.
Speaker C:But Mike's.
Speaker C:He's really smart.
Speaker C:He's a good person.
Speaker C:He's good to be around and good people.
Speaker B:So I hope more people will get involved with their group and get involved.
Speaker C:Absolutely.
Speaker B:Revitalization.
Speaker B:I think it's like I said in our interview, Wichita Falls is successful.
Speaker B:Everybody around us is successful.
Speaker C:Absolutely.
Speaker B:It all.
Speaker B:It all.
Speaker B:It helps everybody if Wichita Falls is successful.
Speaker B:So anything we can do to improve the city, it's great for all of us, I think.
Speaker B:Anyway, guys, we're going to wrap it up here.
Speaker B:We're running way long today.
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Speaker C:So you have some little one minute clips or less than one minute clips of kind of the highlights of a lot of stuff.
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