You heard me say many times that the Houston Business Journal does extraordinarily good work.

If you are not a subscriber, I highly recommend it.

I read the Houston Business Journal every week. I don't always get to read every article in there.

I think they do a much better job than the Houston Chronicle at telling you what's going on in our community, particularly as it relates to business. and very long time. I was friends with John Beto back when he was the publisher of the

paper and then when it changed hands. I've talked to them over the years about a

partnership, I've talked to them about ways I can help them more and they can help me and how they can help me is more introductions to business leaders

because I like to have folks on our show.

We are very much in the throes of an election right now, which means we're talking election stuff,

government stuff all day every day.

But I've always said, I don't just want to be a political show, I to be a variety show and one of the things that I find very

interesting is business leaders now I have put the word out over the years that I would love to talk to more business leaders.

And I find that with the really big companies, particularly public companies, they want no part

of a conversation, even though I don't intend to talk politics,

they just kind of keep their head down, they don't want anything to do with that.

But when you get the really entrepreneurial type companies, they love to tell their story.

They're they're they're evangelical about telling their story.

So the Houston Business Journal does something every year called the Fast 50

and it's the 50 companies that have had the

greatest year-over-year growth over a two-year period in the region. So I used to

reach out to all the companies, not on this list but on the other list and they would never respond and I think they probably thought I was trying to sell them something which is, everybody else is trying to sell them something so fine.

But I just posted on Facebook and said, hey, here's this list.

If you know anybody on this list that would be interested in telling their story,

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