♪ Saying a mattress Mack and
Saying a mattress Mack and
Houston and you instantly know
what the subject is. Furniture
right? But he does so much
more, including this recent
partnership. >> Imagine you’re driving down
>> Imagine you’re driving down
the road and you start hearing
gunshots and you don’t know
where they’re coming from.
Glass starts whirring yelling
through family. Get down. You realize that your daughter
You realize that your daughter
is gone. There is no happily
ever after for this family.
Don’t wait to be the next time
in front of TV. We need to take
back control. Get the timing of all of this very and in jail
all of this very and in jail
call Crime Stoppers report.
Any information that you have a
Crime Stoppers is working in
the community and in schools
every single day to keep you
and yours safe. >> Jim McIngvale joins me this
>> Jim McIngvale joins me this
morning. Matt, good to see you.
Fambro. Great to be here.
Why have you decided to get
involved with Crime Stoppers on this level?
on this level?
Because every neighborhood in
Houston, whether acres home,
East side, West Side River
Oaks, you name in every
neighborhood needs to be safe
enough. We walked the baby down this sidewalk 8. 39 o’clock at
this sidewalk 8. 39 o’clock at
night. And right now, that’s
not the case. You have also
gotten in addition to that
promotional spot, talking about the family about the summer
the family about the summer
safety program to get the kids
involved in doing something to
keep them safe. That is one
of the program’s general.
>> Yeah, we’re involved in many crimes after the radar is ation
crimes after the radar is ation
fighting to keep Houston safe
and my thing is why can’t
Houston be the safest city in
the country’s safest big city
in the country versus one of
the deadliest? And I think all of us can work together to in
of us can work together to in
Houston. We put a man on the
moon. We can stop the crime.
>> I think it’s interesting,
too, about anybody who’s ever
been to store knows they can find pretty easily right at the
find pretty easily right at the
front of working on a working
away. But you get a lot of
information from your customers
about some of the issues in
their lives and some of share with you instances where crime
with you instances where crime
is impacted them in a negative
way. Is that part of why it
motivated? Yeah, it’s just
every day. One of our great
employs a workforce last Friday night. His 17 year-old grandson
night. His 17 year-old grandson
was walking back to the house
from the Publix from Boy and
his 2 friends and 4 cars pull
around. There’s a shot them all
up, kill him. So, >> you know, it happens all the
>> you know, it happens all the
time happens. Everybody.
Road rage, etcetera. We have
got to stop all this rampant
crime in Harris County and make
Harris County a safe place to live work play and raise a
live work play and raise a
family. And I dedicated, you
know, lots of resources to it
and it’s time well spent.
But clearly you devoted time
for the normally be a
commercial spot. We had, you
know, save you money and with what you do to this project.
what you do to this project.
What do you hope?
>> Ultimately will be come of
the partnership we have with
Crime Stoppers. Well, I you more more awareness to crime
more more awareness to crime
you know, Crime Stoppers, a
pays rewards for violent
criminals saying put him in
jail where they belong and
hopefully the end result will
be crime goes down in Harris County and people feel good
County and people feel good
about moving to Houston and
living inside Harris County.
When I see a radio or watch the
TV or radio as saying come
again, the county, we have less
crime and less traffic. That’s not good for Harris County.
not good for Harris County.
We need to be the best county
in the country and we can be
I want to talk about the some
of the other things you’re
doing. I it was really
impressive when you decided you had space in your furniture
had space in your furniture
store to do something more for
the community. Talk about the
program you have on your
property, this helping people actually learn trades and do
actually learn trades and do
what they can do to be
effective citizen of this
community. I would to a micro
years dirty jobs. Guys, talk
about how plumbers,
electricians, cowboys, sewer
cleaners, were making hundreds
of $1000 without a college
education. And I thought to
myself, why can’t we start?
A trade school says it took to
manage so many trades goes out
of the high schools. So we
started a trade school where
he’s planning electrical
welding those type of skilled
trades, 2 men and women.
We have a high school for people 16 to 26 ahead and
people 16 to 26 ahead and
finish high school and we have
a preschool 6 months to 5 All
of which are free inside
Gallery turn to North Freeway.
And last night I’m proud to
say we graduated 60 people from
our trade school and was a life changing event. So how does
changing event. So how does
that happen? How to people
apply for something like that?
Especially if you said it’s free. I think like my delivery
free. I think like my delivery
for a very, while. Much shocked
that you would not have put
that in how does that work?
How do you make that happen?
So is that something that you totally fit foot the bill for
totally fit foot the bill for
all of that? But I pay for it
out of pocket. And, you know,
there’s some government aid
for some of the people there
that are becoming apprentices and a lot of it. We have
and a lot of it. We have
teachers from actual companies,
electoral companies,
construction companies that
teach the curriculum. So when
they hire these people in turn
from our program, they know exactly what to do. Getting on
exactly what to do. Getting on
job training specific to that
job. So we’re thrilled about
hiring more people in and
getting people great guys because you know, all these
because you know, all these
criminals, they just didn’t
get off an hour ago a TV some
big car dealership. Most of
these criminals are unemployed
and we think that work is
life’s greatest 3rd to get people to work will have less
people to work will have less
crime in Harris County and a
better place in which to live
work play and raise a family.
before I let you go, you get the big bets going on these
the big bets going on these
days on the Houston Astro’s,
right? You committed by Magic
3,000 better than it was.
When you get twice your money back. We spent 3,000 to get
back. We spent 3,000 to get
6,000 back in the Astros are
higher than the Texas Summer.
Campbell. Somehow I just kind
of figured that that was all naturally wasn’t any made up
naturally wasn’t any made up
stuff for commercials is us.
I am shows Ro-mac. It’s always
good to Samara. Great food that
Well, that’s right. I hope you
remember that to you always be older than me by about a year.
older than me by about a year.
Yeah. All right.
>> Thank Thank you for what you