Byblos Mediterranean Restaurant x Wenger Abstracts & The Main St Fort Worth Art Fest

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Appreciate this. Okay. So, so we're live and it's at this juncture that I usually
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say, howdy, welcome to the managing expectations podcast.
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I'm a guy, Jeff Winger. And with me as always is the aide to camp, Brian Grimm.
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Howdy, Brian. Howdy, Jeff. How are you today?
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Terrific thank you for asking and
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we have a special guest today and we're
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going to rearrange some of the things that have traditionally
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been the how we do things on the managing expectations podcast
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joining us live from
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the biblos restaurant is restaurateur
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marios hadari howdy marios
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hi everybody we're very
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happy to have mario's with us he he
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and i are working together on a special project and
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that's why for this special one
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episode only this special mothball edition
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of the managing expectations podcast the
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aide de camp has become the generalissimo
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he is the caudillo he is el jefe today
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and he's going to be handling the interviewing
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so so just just
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broad strokes no pun intended mario's has a great restaurant one of the best
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restaurants in fort worth and on a on an upcoming weekend the weekend of april
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10th through the 13th my artwork's going to be displayed.
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So Brian, with that throat clearing out of the way, we'll kick it to you, old buddy.
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Well, thank you. It's nice to be here with both of you today.
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Mario, it's a pleasure to meet you over Zoom.
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My pleasure. Thank you. Yeah, happy to have you with us.
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So tell us a little bit about your restaurant, where it's located, and how it got started.
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So Biblos is a continuance of Hidari's.
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You know, my parents started Hedaris back in 1976 in Fort Worth when we came
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from Lebanon and with my nine brothers and sisters.
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And we all grew up and it seems like everybody went on their own way. And this is Biblos here.
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It's my baby that we started back in 1992.
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We've been going strong since then for 32 years. So you've been in the restaurant business a long time?
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Long time. I actually have a picture in diapers.
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At the restaurant? My parents used to rub it in all the time.
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So how old were you when your parents immigrated then, started the restaurant? I was 11 years old.
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Okay. Yeah. So when I was, I mean, I don't want to start talking numbers here.
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I don't want to bore you Mario's at 61,
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I know that's what you're getting at Brian.
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So we're here in the heart of Fort Worth We're on North Main Street 1406 North
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Main We're two miles down from the stockyards And we're two miles from downtown
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Fort Worth That's great Go ahead Jeff,
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Actually you know what It occurs to me Brian you've actually been a guest When
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you came in to visit You and your wife We ate at Biblos And every once in a while You'll still,
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Reference The entertainment that evening I believe her name was Desdemona.
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Does that ring a bell Brian? The entertainment's a little bit Fuzzy in my memory
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But I remember that the food was excellent So that's what really stands out to me,
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But that's got to be something you really talked about because if you remember
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the belly dancer's name, then you wouldn't...
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Maybe it's just a weird Jeff thing. Yeah, just so we're all on the same page here.
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Jeff remembered the belly dancer's name. I did not. Okay.
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Jeff, I remember you helped me here at the restaurant back in the day.
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Did we have belly dancers when you were here?
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Yeah yeah on the weekend i mean
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i think i think you would have like maybe an amateur night on
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a thursday and then friday and saturday yeah yeah mario
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there's a great story when your folks came over they opened up wasn't it hidari's
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pizza or or hidari's lebanese pizza you need can you tell that story for us
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well yeah you know when when my first when my dad you know when we came to america
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you know, he had a restaurant in Lebanon already.
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He had a restaurant. It was called Antoine Hidari Matam al-Habajin which meant
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the Lebanese pizza restaurant.
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So when he came here, he just thought, you know, he would open the same restaurant
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and he had served other foods than just pizza but he named it, you know,
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Hidari's Lebanese pizza and people thought it was just a pizza place at the beginning.
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Then When we expanded on the, and explaining to people that it was Lebanese
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food, not just Lebanese pizza, that's when it really took off.
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And that was back in 1976. That was the first restaurant that we opened.
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But, you know, I mean, we can, you know, fast forward 50 years later,
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now we're sitting here at Biblos. Yeah.
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So then the folks opened up a place on the west side of Fort Worth.
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That was in there for decades right
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and and it was yeah i mean uh you know we we opened the
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first restaurant on the white settlement road uh we
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were there for a year when we opened the restaurant it
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was very popular you know the the star telegram the local
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newspaper here took a got a hold of
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the story and they put us on the front pages of
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the sunday sunday newspaper so we had people line up out the door wanted to
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come and eat at the restaurant and I remember days when my dad would say okay
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people are lined up he's like okay we're gonna lock the doors we feed whoever's
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inside then once we feed everybody then we can reopen the door again,
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and then there was a point where it was like so busy you know he took us all out of school,
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and to help him at the restaurant and the school district called and he's like
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you have nine kids none of them are school and school where are they?
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He said, well, they're going to help me at the restaurant for a while.
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He's like, no, they're not. You have to send them to school or you go to jail.
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There are laws here in the United States. You can't do that.
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So anyway, a year later, my parents said they're not happy. They don't speak the language.
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They're doing well, but just no friends. They don't know anybody.
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So my dad sells the restaurant, and we all go back to Lebanon.
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We go back to Lebanon, and we found out things had gotten worse.
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And worse the war has deteriorated 20
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days later we're back here in Fort Worth and that's when we opened the restaurant
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all can't buoy it ours that was there from now 17 almost 78 or 79 to 2016 yeah
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and so I waited tables there and then in do course.
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I helped Mario's at B blows. I attended bar for a while, helped out there,
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but we, we've done some other work over the, over the years.
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And when I moved away, you know, I mean, I would, I would, I would think of Mario's in the family.
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I mean, I know several, I I've met a couple of his brothers,
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but I, I work closely with his sisters, Christine Dean and Lillian met a couple of the other sisters.
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So, I mean, for, for now, well, for an outsider, I mean, it feels like I know
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a lot of the family, or at least I've met them anyway.
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I was delivering a painting in December, and I stopped in because traffic was
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going to be tough at that time of day.
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Stopped in, and Mario's reconnected and had a nice conversation.
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Turns out Mario's had become a painter in the times.
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I wasn't the only guy who took up painting pretty seriously.
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Mario's, how about, well, let's see. You've always, I mean, you've got some
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artwork up from local painters, right?
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Some of the people that have worked for you before yeah i
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mean uh you know my brother took some classes at
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tcu he has some paintings in here
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i mean you know we got a big family everybody was
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into painting at one point you know high school or college so
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they didn't have any place to display their art so
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they we have it here at biblos okay and
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and you know when i was married and
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my my my my ex-wife
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was you know raising the baby at
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home you know she just you know she wanted something to
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do and we had talked about her painting some
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paintings and so we got the canvas we bought
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the paint and then just time went on and
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just just never got anything going and then
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I said you know I'm gonna do it you know I just you know
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I I remember back when I was in the seventh grade my teacher you know i took
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some art classes but anyway i just i said let me paint and i don't know i was
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i surprised myself what i have you know people liked it so that's my painting experiment.
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That's that's fantastic that's fantastic i i mean a lot of people would i don't
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know i i think a lot of people don't think to do it yeah,
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I mean, I, you know, I enjoyed it. I enjoyed it. And now that,
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you know, the art is displayed on the walls.
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And, you know, I feel like I'm in the same industry.
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You know, art, food, food, art, you know, you use your creativity. Well, yeah.
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And it's good if people like it. Like you said. Yeah.
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I mean, I have a painting that I did here, the first one that I ever did.
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I honestly, I took the canvas, took the paint, and I had a couple of hours to kill.
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And I went upstairs, and I started painting. I was like, this is taking too
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long. I need to get back into the restaurant.
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I mean, I'm not here to just, I can't take my time. So I got to finish this now. Wow.
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So I painted it and it just came out like some of this most beautiful painting that I have never seen.
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And people, until people started telling me what they saw into it, I did not see it.
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People were like, look, you see this, you see that, you see this.
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I mean, it's amazing what you can do.
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But I mean, it's fun.
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So the menu that Brian finds so memorable, you've got like Lebanese classics,
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right? But then you do new stuff.
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Now, didn't you have a new recipe that you shot by me last night? Was that new?
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No, that's actually a traditional dish, but it's seasonal because,
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you know, depending on what you can find at the market and it's eggplant season.
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So this is a dish that we make it's called makdus it was actually on the menu
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at Hidari's it's the baby eggplant stuffed with.
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You can do walnuts or pecan, fresh peppers and fresh garlic,
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and then you pickle it in olive oil, extra virgin olive oil.
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I mean, it's like a delicacy. You know, we made it here at Biblos,
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and it's available as long as we have it.
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But we're always doing stuff like that here. We have a buffet at lunchtime at
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Biblos, but we're always doing seasonal stuff.
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The Mediterranean Lebanese cuisine is
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huge it's not just one page my
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parents are both from Lebanon and they both were terrific cooks and they taught
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us everything we knew so they used to cook for us all the time so there's so
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much that nobody's ever seen I try to bring that out because it reminds me of home and my parents,
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growing up and then it's seasonal.
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You know, it's seasonal. When you see something in the market,
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it brings you back to, hey, you know, my mom used to make this.
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You know, and we do it.
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My wife has an eggplant on the counter. I told her it's quickly turning into compost.
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She insists she can do something with it, but kind of started to look like a giant grape.
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You know, I got a story to tell you about eggplant.
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You know, you go into... Yeah.
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I love a good eggplants story. No, the thing is, there's a market locally here
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that I go to. It's an Indian market.
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It's what they call it, Asian, but it's actually Indian.
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You go in there, they have white eggplant, purple eggplant, Italian eggplant, large eggplant.
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I mean, they have like seven or eight different kinds of eggplant, right?
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So I was like, wow. You know, you go into the American, the Arabic market,
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there's usually like one kind of eggplant.
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So I stopped one of the, you know, I was like in the store and I was like,
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I want to know what do they cook with eggplant? What do Asian and Indian people cook with eggplant?
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And I started talking to one of the ladies. I said, what recipes do you have? What do you do?
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So I stopped like two, three different ladies talking to them.
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I wanted to know what do they cook with eggplant?
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And most of them said just saute, saute, saute.
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And I was amazed that they have all these different kinds of eggplants and they
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don't have any other recipes than just saute.
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You know, in the Lebanese cuisine, you can do a stuffed eggplant. You can do moussaka.
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You can do the makdus. You can do sheikh al-mahshay, which is the eggplant with
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the ground sirloin, ground lamb.
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There's so many different recipes that you can use eggplant with.
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So if you need any help with your eggplant.
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You're my guy you're my eggplant guy brian i should have told you maybe you
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should have had lunch before before the call yeah yeah yeah because because
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i because i'm thinking i only got like maybe three or four minutes left before i start to get hangry.
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So, I mean, is that the sort of thing that you would, like, get some of these
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unfamiliar eggplants and experiment with? Would you cook?
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Would you try stuff on your own?
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Well, no, these are real recipes.
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This is not something that I'm coming out of my head.
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These are proven recipes that they've been cooking for thousands of years.
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This is not, you know, TikTok.
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I didn't. I would never suggest that it was.
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I meant like whatever, the white Indian eggplant.
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Would you experiment with that? I mean, you know, white eggplant,
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they pickle it. You know, they pickle it.
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What they do is they blanch it with vinegar and water and salt.
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Then they split it down the middle. They put like garlic and peppers and you
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pickle it in a vinegar brine.
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Well, I guess when the ladies just tell you that they sauté it,
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you can tell them or pickle it.
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But I'm just saying, you know, there's so many recipes out there.
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Yeah, yeah. What do you do with that plant other than just sauté? Okay.
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So anyway, I'm really excited about you doing your art show here.
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Well, it's very nice of you to say. I'm very happy to...
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I'm always so busy. You guys are always trying to communicate with me I'm always
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so busy But I'm really excited about it Well that's okay Your sister Lillian.
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She's keeping everybody on her toes Because we want people to know about it
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Right So I'm very excited I'm thrilled to have the venue This is,
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you know, by having it at Biblos, it's easily the grandest venue that I've been able to show works in.
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You know, I've been in a couple galleries and been in some shows.
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And that was nice. I was a finalist in a show here a month or two ago.
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And while I didn't win place or show, I was able to present my work,
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and that was really cool.
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But the architecture in Biblosi's got these great big walls.
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We're going to have framed information next to all of the art,
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which is going to tell a little story, kind of like you get at the museum.
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I was counted up and while.
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I'm going to have close to 20 works to present the weekend of April 10th through 13th.
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So that's a Thursday through Sunday. Now that coincides with the Main Street
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Fort Worth Art Festival.
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Yeah.
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Also, what's the other one? the Fort Worth, our main street,
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Fort Worth arts festival, the Dallas art fair.
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And I was like looking at it online. Uh, you can see it on Instagram.
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There are just a half dozen or more smaller art fairs that weekend.
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It is a huge weekend for art in, in North Dallas.
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And I am so happy that, that, you know, you're making your large dining room,
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you know, available as a gallery space, really.
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I mean, I'm excited about it. I'm glad that we're doing this.
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I think it's a good timing.
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I feel like it's an art festival. It's going to be all over town, all over the DFW.
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Fort Worth used to also do another one. I think it was called some kind of art
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trot where they go from one gallery to the other.
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It used to be in the newspaper. It's been a while since I've seen it Because
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it used to be in the Papers Fort Worth has a thing in like late summer Too down
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like on the I think on the south side South of I.
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South South Magnolia Area Yeah yeah yeah exactly I can't remember what that's
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called cobblestones or something These are But I mean like the,
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Main Street Fort Worth Arts Fest Is a big deal It's a juried So I'm not going
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to be there. We're going to be on the periphery, right?
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But the artists in that are going to be competing. There's a jury prize.
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So for want of a better word, big shot artists, knowledgeable,
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credentialed, experienced art people are going to come in and judge this competition.
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So there's going to be a lot of, a lot of people I'm hoping,
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I'm hoping to get, you know, I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm sending out personal
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invitations to some people.
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There's, there's an Instagram influencer named Pauline in Paris.
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So I was hoping to get her.
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I think, I think the fact that Beirut used to be the Paris of the Middle East,
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you know, is definitely in our favor.
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Well, you know, we're excited about it, you know, and I mean,
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I'm here to help and we want to make this successful. Yeah.
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So let's see. So I'm going to be there. I'm going to be there Thursday and Friday
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night. I'm going to be there Sunday.
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Sunday? Hmm? Sunday? Saturday. Are you going to be there Sunday? No.
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We're closed on Sunday? Yes.
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I thought it was Thursday, Friday and Saturday. it well
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it's thursday through sunday okay well
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this could be breaking news so let's let's
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let's for sure let's for sure go ahead and use pen
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on thursday and friday offline i
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i i the thing is as big of
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a deal as this is and as excited as i am
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i had another i have another thing on sunday saturday i
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was oh but not we're not
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doing the day off yeah i got it i was
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thinking monday was your day off are you close sunday and
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monday no we're close sunday you're close sunday
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okay all right well we'll
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okay well anyway i'm going to be there so it's going to be the weekend the weekend
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is coincides with all these other art festivals there's going to be real artists
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in town my wife said that I should be put on the flyer kind of too late to mess
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with the flyer too much though.
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Suddenly I think maybe it will have to, but what Sunday?
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Oh, yeah, because I had it. I had it till through the 13th.
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So we'll, so anyway, my wife says, come for the art, stay for dinner, but I don't know.
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Is that, is that really better than come for dinner? Stay for the art.
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Either way yeah yeah i
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mean yeah it's like come for
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dinner stay for the show the and
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and i'll be in full art show i understand i understand i understand i everything
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is art so one time we were there it was me and some friends it wasn't exactly a bachelor party,
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but it wasn't exactly not one either.
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And Sadia was dancing. And she did this trick where she rolled a quarter and,
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On her stomach? On her stomach, yeah. So when you say come for the show, I think of that.
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And I think if I tried to do that, I would end up shooting the quarter straight
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into the ceiling and probably break the overhead lights.
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Yeah. We don't want that, do we, buddy? We don't want any damage.
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No. No, we do not. Physical or emotional.
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Yeah the emotional one probably gets you more yeah yeah so i'm probably gonna
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need ten thousand dollar worth of psychiatrist to help okay i wore a halter
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one time to be blows and it's still a big problem.
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Yeah yeah so yeah i mean just just
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the i i think i think it's gonna
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be an extraordinary weekend i think we're gonna have some people come
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in they're gonna be able to get a glass of
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wine or anything they want from your fully stocked
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but nevertheless unpretentious bar and you
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know enjoy the art And it's going
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to be An unusual evening for all of us But I think that we're going to be able
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to get Some art people I know that You and the rest of the Hadari family are
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very proud Of your North Texas roots, your Fort Worth Roots,
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You know It should be a great weekend I'm really looking forward to it Yeah, same here Same here.
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Tell us where Beblos is again. We are on North Main in Fort Worth.
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Main Street goes through town, and then it goes south, and it goes north.
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So we're on the north end, 1406 North Main Street.
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We're about two miles south of the stockyards, the Fort Worth stockyards,
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and we're about two miles north of downtown Fort Worth. So we're like in the
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middle between downtown Fort Worth and the Star Charts.
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That's a great location.
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We are smacked right in front of the Vaquero, what do you call it, statue.
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Do you know the statue that's right across the street?
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It's the $5 million Vaquero statue that the Fort Worth has. It's to represent
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all the Mexican cowboys in Fort Worth.
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That was delayed for five years.
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It was five years delayed because when it was created.
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The artist on his own went and put a gun on the statue.
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When he made it, put a gun. and the original plan was no gun.
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So there was a big feud in the courts that this artist, that the city,
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you know, wanted them to build it and he put a gun and then he won in court.
00:27:02.647 --> 00:27:07.087
He said, you know, vaqueros back in the day, they did have guns on them.
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So he made it the original like it was supposed to be.
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Okay. Anyway, it took five years in the courts to settle that out.
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And now five years, a lawsuit, $5 million.
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But that's where we're located, right across here from the horse's ass.
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And also, which reminds me, I'll be appearing that week on Thursday and Friday.
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As long as we're talking about horse's asses, Marios, I will be there.
00:27:44.849 --> 00:27:49.949
Okay. Well, I mean, maybe you can get a picture next to the horse's ass.
00:27:50.729 --> 00:27:52.609
That's actually been a running joke.
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Every time we see a statue, my wife and I, when we're traveling,
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I always take a picture of the other side of the statue of the man on horseback.
00:28:04.209 --> 00:28:06.809
Oh, the back. Yeah.
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Game knows game. If we want more information about you, what's the website?
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Well, what's your Instagram handle?
00:28:17.149 --> 00:28:29.309
So we're at the bblostx.com. That's our website. So it's www.bblostx.com.
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Okay.
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And that's the best way because all the social media stuff can take you,
00:28:36.089 --> 00:28:42.589
the websites can take you to all the social media stuff. Good thinking. Yeah.
00:28:43.509 --> 00:28:49.769
And, of course, I could be found at wingerabstracts.com, where the main thing
00:28:49.769 --> 00:28:54.029
right now is that I'll be appearing at Beeblows on.
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April 10 and 11, mumble, mumble, grumble, mumble.
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So bring your money and be ready to buy some of this great art that we're going to have.
00:29:06.624 --> 00:29:16.404
Yeah. I'm willing to deal in, I accept lots of fancy Gen Z fintech payment methods.
00:29:17.284 --> 00:29:22.384
Venmo, Cash App, Apple Pay, and Coldheart Cash.
00:29:22.964 --> 00:29:27.524
And Zelle. Zelle. and Zumu and Bumu and Jum.
00:29:28.284 --> 00:29:31.384
You're just making stuff up now. Yeah, I mean...
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But no TikTok recipes. We talked about that earlier. Only the good ones. Yeah.
00:29:39.284 --> 00:29:44.904
Hey, these are thousand years old. This is not some TikTok...
00:29:44.904 --> 00:29:51.244
Yeah, this is not, you know, open a can of soup and put it in a coffee maker
00:29:51.244 --> 00:29:53.144
and then you got yourself...
00:29:54.044 --> 00:29:56.964
Have you ever you know what would be hilarious and you
00:29:56.964 --> 00:30:00.144
should think about this for yours have you ever seen these i've seen
00:30:00.144 --> 00:30:03.544
the i've seen instagram reels where they
00:30:03.544 --> 00:30:07.564
will they'll take somebody from like the old country right so like an old italian
00:30:07.564 --> 00:30:15.304
or an old mexican and like they'll there'll be somebody just making this god-awful
00:30:15.304 --> 00:30:20.764
iowa version of spaghetti or something and like They're using ketchup.
00:30:21.324 --> 00:30:26.444
And just to see the reaction of the person from the old world is pretty hilarious.
00:30:27.584 --> 00:30:31.664
And some of those guys on TikTok, they're just there to waste your time.
00:30:31.784 --> 00:30:36.464
Just one video, this guy, he went on and on and on.
00:30:36.564 --> 00:30:40.364
He goes, well, the home purpose is just to waste your time. There's nothing at the end.
00:30:41.659 --> 00:30:45.679
And that's why you're living in the real world, right?
00:30:46.539 --> 00:30:50.419
The real experience, the real human contact. Actually, you know what?
00:30:50.579 --> 00:30:57.339
I mean, I kid around, but I mean, Mario is an incredibly professional restaurateur.
00:30:57.879 --> 00:31:02.119
I mean, he's hospitable in a really cool way.
00:31:02.899 --> 00:31:07.379
I mean, obviously, some customers can be a pain in the neck,
00:31:07.499 --> 00:31:11.499
but I mean, I've seen the guy in action. I mean, he tries really hard to make
00:31:11.499 --> 00:31:14.239
people happy and he's happy when they like the food.
00:31:14.479 --> 00:31:21.679
So I, I, I hope to be half as successful as an artist as you are, a restaurateur.
00:31:22.399 --> 00:31:25.839
Well, thank you. You know, this is all the hard work that, you know,
00:31:25.939 --> 00:31:30.919
my parents, you know, installed in us, you know, to, to do the right thing.
00:31:31.099 --> 00:31:36.059
And, and, and that's why we're successful because, you know, we, we do it right.
00:31:36.059 --> 00:31:45.659
You know no shortcuts and doing it right no matter what the Texas Board of Education
00:31:45.659 --> 00:31:50.279
says you probably learn more from your parents oh yeah absolutely.
00:31:52.159 --> 00:31:58.299
All right well that sounds really good as Jeff said April,
00:31:59.339 --> 00:32:07.219
9th no or I'm sorry 10th and 11th perhaps longer than that biblos restaurant
00:32:07.219 --> 00:32:13.339
in coordination with the dallas fort worth art fair so anything else.
00:32:16.059 --> 00:32:21.319
Mario's if you see desdemona let her know brian says hi do you know that's so
00:32:21.319 --> 00:32:28.159
funny i i remember the name i just can't put the name to the face right now she was a lice and blonde,
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all right if okay so that's it for now Brian Thanks pal,
00:32:38.619 --> 00:32:45.859
Marios Thanks It's going to be a great weekend everybody Brian thank you See you at Beblos On,
00:32:46.899 --> 00:32:52.319
In April Upcoming Yes Coming soon Well thank you Thank you for having me,
00:32:53.399 --> 00:32:59.539
I'm really excited about the event And look forward to it And I think it's going
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to be great Yeah Thank you Marios Thank you Brian Alright Thank you Jeff Good
00:33:04.599 --> 00:33:08.259
to see you So long, everybody. Here's my itclash.