1 00:00:03,800 --> 00:00:09,240 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. 2 00:00:11,119 --> 00:00:13,760 Speaker 2: So Michael Very Show is on the air. 3 00:00:16,440 --> 00:00:17,280 Speaker 3: Thanks for joining us. 4 00:00:17,320 --> 00:00:20,400 Speaker 2: We begin tonight with Musk and big Balls, big balls, 5 00:00:20,440 --> 00:00:21,680 Speaker 2: big balls. 6 00:00:21,239 --> 00:00:23,639 Speaker 1: Big balls who work for Elon muss so called Department 7 00:00:23,640 --> 00:00:25,200 Speaker 1: of Government Efficiency. 8 00:00:24,720 --> 00:00:26,720 Speaker 3: Doze in the one case of the big balls kid, 9 00:00:26,760 --> 00:00:28,200 Speaker 3: a literal teenager. 10 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:31,800 Speaker 4: Big balls online big balls here that he's talking about 11 00:00:31,880 --> 00:00:35,200 Speaker 4: in nineteen year old that goes by the username big. 12 00:00:34,920 --> 00:00:36,720 Speaker 2: Ball, So that would be one way that we could 13 00:00:36,720 --> 00:00:37,199 Speaker 2: refer to him. 14 00:00:37,200 --> 00:00:39,760 Speaker 1: Poo among us doesn't feel better about big. 15 00:00:39,520 --> 00:00:46,839 Speaker 3: Balls, big balls, big balls. 16 00:00:47,720 --> 00:00:51,239 Speaker 5: Government has wasted the only three trillion dollars in taxpayer. 17 00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:54,880 Speaker 2: One and seventy billion dollars if improper payments. 18 00:00:54,560 --> 00:00:58,880 Speaker 4: Lift two hundred and forty seven billion billions blown on 19 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:02,840 Speaker 4: improper payments of people that should not have received. 20 00:01:02,360 --> 00:01:04,760 Speaker 2: The other payments payments to the wrongly. 21 00:01:04,640 --> 00:01:07,360 Speaker 4: Dead people received more than five hundred and thirty million 22 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:10,880 Speaker 4: dollars last year in pension payments. Medicare paying forty seven 23 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:12,039 Speaker 4: billion dollars. 24 00:01:11,920 --> 00:01:15,440 Speaker 6: Hundreds of billions of dollars. 25 00:01:15,680 --> 00:01:16,440 Speaker 2: That's the way it is. 26 00:01:16,520 --> 00:01:19,720 Speaker 4: Dedicaid and properly issuing eighty one billion dollars. 27 00:01:19,480 --> 00:01:23,840 Speaker 2: Sex one hundred and forty four million PERCI Way You 28 00:01:23,959 --> 00:01:29,880 Speaker 2: Do It money phone free, and seven hundred and sixty 29 00:01:29,920 --> 00:01:30,520 Speaker 2: four billion. 30 00:01:30,720 --> 00:01:33,959 Speaker 4: Under three years of the Biden administrations, improper. 31 00:01:33,560 --> 00:01:35,880 Speaker 5: Payments have piled up to a total of two point 32 00:01:35,920 --> 00:01:37,440 Speaker 5: eight trillion dollars. 33 00:01:37,200 --> 00:01:40,319 Speaker 4: Seen billion dollars per month, or enough to pay for 34 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:44,039 Speaker 4: five years of US four and aid to all countries. 35 00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:47,080 Speaker 2: And child across the country. It was eight hundred and 36 00:01:47,080 --> 00:01:47,720 Speaker 2: fifty dollars. 37 00:01:47,720 --> 00:01:53,240 Speaker 4: Who is receiving these payments both some instances dead people that. 38 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:59,840 Speaker 2: Money, phone up chicks for free, money for nothing. 39 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:09,640 Speaker 1: Well, fellas, it is the week of Valentine's Day is 40 00:02:09,880 --> 00:02:14,320 Speaker 1: this Friday? And I came across a video. If you're 41 00:02:14,360 --> 00:02:17,959 Speaker 1: on an extreme budget, that might keep you out of 42 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:22,079 Speaker 1: the doghouse. This lady explains what a Southern woman wants 43 00:02:22,080 --> 00:02:23,200 Speaker 1: for Valentine's Day. 44 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:26,720 Speaker 7: I don't need a dozen roses. I need a dozen tacos. 45 00:02:26,800 --> 00:02:28,600 Speaker 7: And I don't need no Teddy Bear either. I need 46 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:31,480 Speaker 7: a tax reform. I told him, I said, save your money, 47 00:02:31,480 --> 00:02:33,720 Speaker 7: bring me a Chick fil A combo. That's all I want. 48 00:02:33,760 --> 00:02:36,040 Speaker 7: And ain't no jewelry gonna impress me. Like a clean 49 00:02:36,080 --> 00:02:38,000 Speaker 7: house that I didn't have to clean. I don't need 50 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:40,120 Speaker 7: no roses. I need somebody to buy everything in my 51 00:02:40,200 --> 00:02:42,280 Speaker 7: Amazon car. And I un told him too. I said, 52 00:02:42,320 --> 00:02:44,320 Speaker 7: I don't want no heart shaped jewelry. I want a 53 00:02:44,320 --> 00:02:46,840 Speaker 7: heart shaped pizza. No, I want no flowers. 54 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:48,320 Speaker 2: I want to go to Target. 55 00:02:48,440 --> 00:02:50,480 Speaker 7: I don't want no fancy dinner either. I want somebody 56 00:02:50,480 --> 00:02:52,519 Speaker 7: to take these kids somewhere. So I'm taking now. I 57 00:02:52,520 --> 00:02:55,040 Speaker 7: ain't no Teddy bear in the world more romantic than 58 00:02:55,040 --> 00:02:57,320 Speaker 7: a full tank of gas. Look here, just skip the 59 00:02:57,360 --> 00:03:00,000 Speaker 7: chocolates and ben momy so I can handle my own happiness. 60 00:03:02,160 --> 00:03:06,160 Speaker 1: My wife has never done this before, thirty five years 61 00:03:06,200 --> 00:03:09,240 Speaker 1: in thirty six. Now we'll be thirty six in the fall. 62 00:03:10,160 --> 00:03:13,840 Speaker 1: She says to me, yesterday, have you thought about what 63 00:03:13,840 --> 00:03:15,960 Speaker 1: you're getting me for Valentine's Day? But we're not a 64 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:20,200 Speaker 1: big gift giving couple, right, And I said, well, well, 65 00:03:20,480 --> 00:03:23,600 Speaker 1: that's kind of a I shouldn't have to answer that 66 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:27,120 Speaker 1: question like I had some big, you know, surprise waiting, 67 00:03:27,160 --> 00:03:29,000 Speaker 1: and I honestly, I haven't given it any thought. 68 00:03:30,120 --> 00:03:34,400 Speaker 2: She said, have you thought about it? Uh, well, if you. 69 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:37,760 Speaker 1: Must ruin the surprise, Yes, I've thought about it. I've 70 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:41,080 Speaker 1: been thinking about it since November. Untrue but you know 71 00:03:42,280 --> 00:03:47,840 Speaker 1: you'd better say that. So she said, well, if you're 72 00:03:47,840 --> 00:03:50,160 Speaker 1: gonna buy me jeely in a way, do you mind 73 00:03:50,160 --> 00:03:51,640 Speaker 1: if I just go down and see Connie and pick 74 00:03:51,640 --> 00:03:56,080 Speaker 1: what I want? And my immediate reaction was presumptuous much 75 00:03:56,600 --> 00:04:00,000 Speaker 1: And then I thought, wait a second, wait a secon 76 00:04:01,320 --> 00:04:04,400 Speaker 1: you know there is a you know, it's like the meme, 77 00:04:04,520 --> 00:04:08,480 Speaker 1: you know, where the guy's his veins are bulging and 78 00:04:08,520 --> 00:04:10,480 Speaker 1: he's sweating, he's trying to make a decision. The kid 79 00:04:10,480 --> 00:04:13,040 Speaker 1: in the classroom like he's just been called on, or 80 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:16,240 Speaker 1: he's holding in a far I thought, well, not that 81 00:04:16,560 --> 00:04:17,119 Speaker 1: could be. 82 00:04:17,680 --> 00:04:19,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, I aren't just send her to Connie. 83 00:04:19,960 --> 00:04:21,839 Speaker 1: So that was my to do list today is to 84 00:04:21,839 --> 00:04:24,240 Speaker 1: call Connie and say nothing's coming down. 85 00:04:24,680 --> 00:04:27,479 Speaker 2: And there's her gift, and we're all happy. 86 00:04:28,279 --> 00:04:32,200 Speaker 1: You know, I'm not a big surprise guy anyway. I 87 00:04:32,200 --> 00:04:36,400 Speaker 1: don't like to be surprised personally, and I don't mind 88 00:04:36,640 --> 00:04:37,800 Speaker 1: surprising someone else. 89 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:39,680 Speaker 2: But you end up putting a lot of work in 90 00:04:39,800 --> 00:04:40,400 Speaker 2: to carry. 91 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:44,520 Speaker 1: Out the surprise, right, So this just takes care of everything. 92 00:04:44,680 --> 00:04:49,240 Speaker 2: I will say that as you think about Valentine's Day 93 00:04:49,520 --> 00:04:51,760 Speaker 2: this Friday and you and your girl, I. 94 00:04:51,720 --> 00:04:55,320 Speaker 1: Don't view Valentine's Day as a Hallmark holiday, and though 95 00:04:55,360 --> 00:04:58,160 Speaker 1: some people you know will use that term for various things, 96 00:04:58,200 --> 00:05:01,359 Speaker 1: you gotta understand my grandmother worked or Hallmark for twenty 97 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:06,920 Speaker 1: five years, so I'm not down on Hallmark. But I 98 00:05:06,960 --> 00:05:10,800 Speaker 1: think there is an important role in our society that 99 00:05:10,880 --> 00:05:17,920 Speaker 1: gets insufficient attention, which celebrates the love between a man 100 00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:21,760 Speaker 1: and a woman who are in a committed relationship. We 101 00:05:21,839 --> 00:05:27,000 Speaker 1: have all the promotion in the world or isn't she hot, 102 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:31,200 Speaker 1: fellas and she's not your girl. We have all the 103 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:36,520 Speaker 1: promotion in the world for seemingly everything, but the bonds 104 00:05:37,040 --> 00:05:41,839 Speaker 1: between a husband and wife, a parent and child, and 105 00:05:41,920 --> 00:05:47,000 Speaker 1: an adult child of older parents. Those are your three 106 00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:51,640 Speaker 1: most sacred relationships. And I think anything we can do, 107 00:05:52,320 --> 00:05:54,360 Speaker 1: that's why we make such a big deal about Mother's Day. 108 00:05:54,520 --> 00:05:56,440 Speaker 1: That's why he makes such a big deal about Father's Day. 109 00:05:59,160 --> 00:06:03,400 Speaker 1: I don't think it's it's naturally the case that you're 110 00:06:03,480 --> 00:06:09,880 Speaker 1: going to have that same romantic flutter after ten years 111 00:06:09,920 --> 00:06:13,200 Speaker 1: or more that you had when you had the tingly 112 00:06:13,320 --> 00:06:17,120 Speaker 1: nervousness of asking her out and you didn't know if she'd. 113 00:06:16,880 --> 00:06:17,479 Speaker 2: Say yes or not. 114 00:06:18,640 --> 00:06:22,360 Speaker 1: And I think some people chase that emotion that feeling 115 00:06:22,440 --> 00:06:23,560 Speaker 1: that experience. 116 00:06:23,360 --> 00:06:26,719 Speaker 2: Their entire lives. The kids have a term for it. 117 00:06:26,720 --> 00:06:27,680 Speaker 2: It's called love bombing. 118 00:06:28,680 --> 00:06:31,200 Speaker 1: And that's the guy who is dating the girl and 119 00:06:31,240 --> 00:06:34,080 Speaker 1: they've just started, and you know, he's showing up with, 120 00:06:34,520 --> 00:06:36,680 Speaker 1: you know, a carful of roses, and he's having all 121 00:06:36,680 --> 00:06:39,880 Speaker 1: this stuff sent to her into her house or her school, 122 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:42,719 Speaker 1: or her home or I mean her her office or 123 00:06:42,760 --> 00:06:43,480 Speaker 1: whatever that is. 124 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:49,840 Speaker 2: There are people who love that emotion of the. 125 00:06:51,560 --> 00:06:55,719 Speaker 1: Of the early stages of a relationship, when everything is 126 00:06:55,760 --> 00:06:59,800 Speaker 1: new and fresh and exciting, and I think some people 127 00:07:00,400 --> 00:07:05,520 Speaker 1: struggle with settling into a long term relationship. That doesn't 128 00:07:05,560 --> 00:07:08,520 Speaker 1: mean it should. Why are you tuned in on me 129 00:07:08,600 --> 00:07:10,680 Speaker 1: so much that you don't normally are you trying to 130 00:07:10,760 --> 00:07:16,120 Speaker 1: learn something? You're creeping me out. Ramon is normally distracted 131 00:07:16,240 --> 00:07:18,960 Speaker 1: or taking a nap, or pulling up the next audio 132 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:22,240 Speaker 1: for the next bit, and he has put everything aside, 133 00:07:22,320 --> 00:07:26,920 Speaker 1: come around his computer screen and he is locked in 134 00:07:27,040 --> 00:07:30,680 Speaker 1: on me, like speak oracle. I don't know what to 135 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:32,880 Speaker 1: do with all this. I was just making the point 136 00:07:33,720 --> 00:07:40,400 Speaker 1: that I believe that part of the proper functioning of 137 00:07:40,440 --> 00:07:45,880 Speaker 1: a civilized society is the family in it. And I 138 00:07:45,960 --> 00:07:48,960 Speaker 1: think it's important for men and women to love each other. 139 00:07:49,760 --> 00:07:51,360 Speaker 2: That is not. 140 00:07:51,560 --> 00:07:55,160 Speaker 1: Necessarily that you have as much sex or more sex 141 00:07:55,480 --> 00:07:58,880 Speaker 1: than you once had. That is not to say that 142 00:07:58,920 --> 00:08:01,000 Speaker 1: you're wild and crazy, is he like you were when 143 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:03,360 Speaker 1: you were eighteen or twenty one or whatever that is, 144 00:08:04,480 --> 00:08:06,600 Speaker 1: or that either one of you looks as good on 145 00:08:06,680 --> 00:08:09,680 Speaker 1: the beach, But it is to say, I think it's 146 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:12,600 Speaker 1: important to remind a woman that you love her and women, 147 00:08:12,680 --> 00:08:14,960 Speaker 1: I think it's important to remind your man that he's your. 148 00:08:14,840 --> 00:08:18,800 Speaker 2: French charmy I do. I'm that serious on that. Asking 149 00:08:19,720 --> 00:08:23,280 Speaker 2: for Michael Berry show continues. 150 00:08:24,280 --> 00:08:24,640 Speaker 8: It all. 151 00:08:28,320 --> 00:08:29,280 Speaker 9: I don't tell me. 152 00:08:30,760 --> 00:08:35,199 Speaker 2: I had nothing to do last night. I dressed him 153 00:08:35,360 --> 00:08:36,080 Speaker 2: Tales for tend. 154 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:42,280 Speaker 1: A law school's classmate went through a divorce and we 155 00:08:42,320 --> 00:08:44,160 Speaker 1: had a friend in law school who was a female 156 00:08:45,120 --> 00:08:49,520 Speaker 1: but not his girlfriend. They were like brothers sister, and 157 00:08:49,720 --> 00:08:51,920 Speaker 1: we're all kind of worried about him because he went 158 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:55,079 Speaker 1: underground after the divorce and nobody had seen him for 159 00:08:55,120 --> 00:08:55,480 Speaker 1: a while. 160 00:08:56,440 --> 00:09:01,360 Speaker 2: So she went to check on him and she said. 161 00:09:01,120 --> 00:09:03,520 Speaker 1: How about I bring you dinner and you know, we'll 162 00:09:03,559 --> 00:09:05,840 Speaker 1: hang out and catch up shoot. 163 00:09:05,480 --> 00:09:08,640 Speaker 2: It in And he said, what does he do? How's 164 00:09:08,640 --> 00:09:08,960 Speaker 2: he doing? 165 00:09:09,040 --> 00:09:13,360 Speaker 1: Then she said, well, he has a recliner that looks 166 00:09:13,360 --> 00:09:15,520 Speaker 1: like he bought it at a garage sale. There's no 167 00:09:15,640 --> 00:09:21,079 Speaker 1: furniture in this old rented shack that he's this old 168 00:09:21,120 --> 00:09:21,559 Speaker 1: shack that. 169 00:09:21,520 --> 00:09:26,680 Speaker 2: He's rented in Boulevard Oaks near Rice. 170 00:09:26,920 --> 00:09:30,880 Speaker 1: It's somebody's old garage out in the back, falling down, 171 00:09:31,880 --> 00:09:36,000 Speaker 1: and he sits and watches movies and smokes cigarettes and 172 00:09:36,080 --> 00:09:39,640 Speaker 1: drinks that coke all day. I got the worst life, 173 00:09:39,800 --> 00:09:42,800 Speaker 1: you know. I mean, he seems kind of happy. He's 174 00:09:42,840 --> 00:09:45,120 Speaker 1: doing what he wants to do. Maybe he wanted to 175 00:09:45,120 --> 00:09:47,320 Speaker 1: do that before. She wouldn't let him. 176 00:09:47,600 --> 00:09:51,120 Speaker 2: But if if I have sparked. 177 00:09:50,880 --> 00:09:56,000 Speaker 1: In you fellas a little something that says, ah, do stay, 178 00:09:56,520 --> 00:09:58,679 Speaker 1: let me do something nice for her, whether it is 179 00:09:58,720 --> 00:10:04,240 Speaker 1: a gift or where to eat or anything else, feel 180 00:10:04,280 --> 00:10:06,880 Speaker 1: free to email me and where I can, I will 181 00:10:06,880 --> 00:10:13,319 Speaker 1: connect you directly with the owners of Big City Wings Gringos, 182 00:10:13,440 --> 00:10:17,400 Speaker 1: tex mex Federal American Grill and they will be happy 183 00:10:17,559 --> 00:10:18,360 Speaker 1: to take care of you. 184 00:10:19,040 --> 00:10:20,600 Speaker 2: For gifts. 185 00:10:20,840 --> 00:10:24,600 Speaker 1: Magpies has two locations. The ladies there would be will 186 00:10:24,640 --> 00:10:27,320 Speaker 1: make it very easy for you for jewelry, which I 187 00:10:27,400 --> 00:10:30,640 Speaker 1: will be doing this year. I've been advised it will 188 00:10:30,679 --> 00:10:33,160 Speaker 1: be Connie Stagner and her husband Billy. This is their 189 00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:36,280 Speaker 1: busiest week of the year, even busier than Christmas. And 190 00:10:36,320 --> 00:10:40,839 Speaker 1: they're wonderful, wonderful people. But wherever you go, whatever you do, 191 00:10:41,640 --> 00:10:44,720 Speaker 1: Houston owned and operated businesses are struggling. 192 00:10:45,400 --> 00:10:46,240 Speaker 2: And that is the truth. 193 00:10:46,280 --> 00:10:49,239 Speaker 1: After four years of the Obama of the Biden administration, 194 00:10:49,280 --> 00:10:53,440 Speaker 1: Obama two point zero KHO. You had a story about 195 00:10:53,520 --> 00:10:58,720 Speaker 1: Houston restaurant owners frustrated with repeat break ins, and wait 196 00:10:58,840 --> 00:11:01,680 Speaker 1: till you hear some of these numbers. But what you 197 00:11:01,800 --> 00:11:06,040 Speaker 1: realize is it's not there's eight hundred and forty six 198 00:11:06,280 --> 00:11:08,959 Speaker 1: restaurant burglaries that were reported. Not all of them will 199 00:11:08,960 --> 00:11:11,960 Speaker 1: be reported. You know that some people don't even bother. Well, 200 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:14,200 Speaker 1: the cops can't do anything for me now, so they 201 00:11:14,240 --> 00:11:17,719 Speaker 1: don't even call it in. That's not eight hundred and 202 00:11:17,720 --> 00:11:23,200 Speaker 1: forty six different criminals. That's a handful that are committing 203 00:11:23,360 --> 00:11:26,360 Speaker 1: all these crimes. That's the way this works. Atlanta did 204 00:11:26,360 --> 00:11:30,000 Speaker 1: a study and they found forty percent of crime in 205 00:11:30,040 --> 00:11:33,920 Speaker 1: Atlanta was attributable to I think fifty people. 206 00:11:34,840 --> 00:11:36,760 Speaker 2: You take those fifty people off the streets. 207 00:11:36,760 --> 00:11:39,120 Speaker 1: This is what they've done in El Salvadar when you 208 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:42,520 Speaker 1: catch a bad guy, you keep him locked up, and 209 00:11:42,720 --> 00:11:45,480 Speaker 1: all the crimes he was going to commit he now 210 00:11:45,600 --> 00:11:48,320 Speaker 1: doesn't commit. So all of a sudden, your year over 211 00:11:48,440 --> 00:11:51,200 Speaker 1: year crime rate goes way down. 212 00:11:51,679 --> 00:11:52,880 Speaker 2: You didn't catch. 213 00:11:52,640 --> 00:11:56,600 Speaker 1: All the bad guys, Well, you didn't catch the person 214 00:11:56,960 --> 00:12:00,640 Speaker 1: individually that committed each crime. You committed the guy who 215 00:12:00,720 --> 00:12:03,880 Speaker 1: commits all the crimes. You think about how many these 216 00:12:03,880 --> 00:12:07,640 Speaker 1: Harris County Democrat judges have repeatedly released these criminals on 217 00:12:07,720 --> 00:12:10,520 Speaker 1: PR bonds, which basically just means sign your name and 218 00:12:10,520 --> 00:12:12,640 Speaker 1: promise you'll come back and go out commit some more crimes. 219 00:12:13,840 --> 00:12:16,560 Speaker 1: The story is khou on Houston restaurant owners. 220 00:12:17,160 --> 00:12:19,439 Speaker 10: They just want to come and break in and steal 221 00:12:19,480 --> 00:12:21,080 Speaker 10: something that somebody else is working hard for. 222 00:12:21,360 --> 00:12:24,920 Speaker 9: For Paul Miller, CEO of Great Plate Hospitality, a restaurant 223 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:27,560 Speaker 9: group with ten locations, it's a constant headache. 224 00:12:27,600 --> 00:12:30,080 Speaker 10: So you have very little cash in the restaurant at all. 225 00:12:30,480 --> 00:12:32,160 Speaker 10: But now what we're seeing is a lot more of 226 00:12:32,200 --> 00:12:35,440 Speaker 10: the break ins are bottles of wine, bottles of liquor. 227 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:37,760 Speaker 10: You know they're breaking in to get to get other things. 228 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:40,480 Speaker 9: Just this morning, two men dressed in black hit up 229 00:12:40,480 --> 00:12:43,640 Speaker 9: his wine bar vine memorial along the Katie Freeway. They 230 00:12:43,679 --> 00:12:44,880 Speaker 9: started at the front. 231 00:12:44,600 --> 00:12:47,440 Speaker 2: Door, tried to break the door here, then moved. 232 00:12:47,240 --> 00:12:49,199 Speaker 9: To the side of the bar, where it appears they 233 00:12:49,280 --> 00:12:52,080 Speaker 9: used some sort of tool on the window to break it, 234 00:12:52,280 --> 00:12:55,240 Speaker 9: but then they struggle to get inside. Now, after these 235 00:12:55,240 --> 00:12:57,959 Speaker 9: guys break the glass, they don't even go inside. They 236 00:12:57,960 --> 00:13:00,840 Speaker 9: get scared off by the alarm, leaving shattered pieces of 237 00:13:00,880 --> 00:13:03,840 Speaker 9: glass just everywhere on the ground. A few minutes away 238 00:13:03,880 --> 00:13:07,400 Speaker 9: in Montrose, at Riel, co owner Michelle Trent dealt with 239 00:13:07,440 --> 00:13:09,760 Speaker 9: this break in on Monday at five am. 240 00:13:09,920 --> 00:13:10,880 Speaker 2: They crawled right. 241 00:13:10,760 --> 00:13:12,960 Speaker 5: In, right, They crawled right in one at two guys, 242 00:13:12,960 --> 00:13:17,079 Speaker 5: one after another, fully covered face, covered hoodie. You know 243 00:13:17,320 --> 00:13:18,280 Speaker 5: they're professionals. 244 00:13:18,400 --> 00:13:20,920 Speaker 9: For Trent, and it happens every couple of months, and 245 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:24,160 Speaker 9: she says customers take note on social media when. 246 00:13:24,040 --> 00:13:26,560 Speaker 5: I post a picture of the window broken in, the 247 00:13:26,600 --> 00:13:30,280 Speaker 5: comments are again, oh no, sorry, this happened to you again. 248 00:13:30,320 --> 00:13:33,120 Speaker 9: According to data from the Houston Police Department, there were 249 00:13:33,160 --> 00:13:37,000 Speaker 9: nearly eight hundred and fifty restaurant burglary incidents reported in 250 00:13:37,080 --> 00:13:40,319 Speaker 9: twenty twenty four. It's a problem that restaurant owners feel 251 00:13:40,400 --> 00:13:43,920 Speaker 9: is only getting worse without different penalties for those caught 252 00:13:43,920 --> 00:13:44,280 Speaker 9: doing it. 253 00:13:44,320 --> 00:13:45,400 Speaker 2: No, they're not gonna get prosecuted. 254 00:13:45,400 --> 00:13:46,280 Speaker 10: They're not going to jail. 255 00:13:46,440 --> 00:13:50,360 Speaker 5: If the DA doesn't prosecute. That's where the deterrence is failing. 256 00:13:52,520 --> 00:13:58,760 Speaker 1: That's exactly right, that's exactly right. These people live on 257 00:13:58,880 --> 00:14:03,480 Speaker 1: a life of crime and being arrested. It's just like 258 00:14:03,520 --> 00:14:07,440 Speaker 1: a tax to them. We know the process. They don't 259 00:14:07,440 --> 00:14:08,720 Speaker 1: even hire a criminal defense attorney. 260 00:14:08,760 --> 00:14:11,760 Speaker 2: They don't need to. The cases get pushed off for 261 00:14:11,800 --> 00:14:12,280 Speaker 2: so long. 262 00:14:13,120 --> 00:14:18,560 Speaker 1: President Trump made history yesterday as the first president to 263 00:14:18,720 --> 00:14:23,200 Speaker 1: attend a Super Bowl while serving as president. 264 00:14:24,120 --> 00:14:26,440 Speaker 8: That would be history history already in the building tonight 265 00:14:26,720 --> 00:14:28,520 Speaker 8: as President Donald Trump becomes. 266 00:14:28,280 --> 00:14:31,840 Speaker 2: The first sitting US president ever to attend a Super 267 00:14:31,840 --> 00:14:32,520 Speaker 2: Bowl game. 268 00:14:32,440 --> 00:14:36,360 Speaker 1: Ride and in fact, as you know, he did to 269 00:14:36,520 --> 00:14:42,680 Speaker 1: a roaring applause, which was which was pretty cool. Things 270 00:14:42,680 --> 00:14:46,720 Speaker 1: are changing in this country in so many ways. Things 271 00:14:46,800 --> 00:14:48,480 Speaker 1: are changing in this country. 272 00:14:49,480 --> 00:14:52,800 Speaker 2: There is a I'll get to that in the moment. 273 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:58,600 Speaker 1: So we're told that Harris County desperately needed money and 274 00:14:58,600 --> 00:15:03,840 Speaker 1: that's why they raised our taxes so high without voter approval. 275 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:08,720 Speaker 2: See the state legislature. The state legislature. 276 00:15:08,200 --> 00:15:13,720 Speaker 1: Gets punked by Harris County and before Wittmeyer by Turner 277 00:15:14,320 --> 00:15:17,720 Speaker 1: constantly they go, oh, we're going to give you the 278 00:15:17,760 --> 00:15:20,440 Speaker 1: ability to raise as much morney as you need and 279 00:15:20,480 --> 00:15:23,360 Speaker 1: not have to bother those pesky voters after a storm, 280 00:15:23,360 --> 00:15:26,520 Speaker 1: because we're sure that the voters would want you to 281 00:15:26,520 --> 00:15:27,440 Speaker 1: have a lot more money. 282 00:15:28,520 --> 00:15:29,720 Speaker 2: And so what does rightdneyls do? 283 00:15:30,120 --> 00:15:34,080 Speaker 1: Oh, we are going to raise taxes and the voters 284 00:15:34,120 --> 00:15:36,880 Speaker 1: can't do anything about it, and the state legislator lead it. 285 00:15:37,320 --> 00:15:41,200 Speaker 1: Let us, and then all your Republican state legislators go, oh, dad, 286 00:15:41,280 --> 00:15:46,000 Speaker 1: burn it. We could have defeated them, if it defeated them, 287 00:15:46,040 --> 00:15:48,520 Speaker 1: if it hadn't been for those pesky kids, they got 288 00:15:48,560 --> 00:15:49,240 Speaker 1: away again. 289 00:15:50,880 --> 00:15:52,400 Speaker 2: And it's like a TV sitcom. 290 00:15:55,080 --> 00:15:58,080 Speaker 1: How did you Why did you give them the opportunity 291 00:15:58,080 --> 00:16:00,160 Speaker 1: to do that? Well, I'll tell you another way is 292 00:16:00,200 --> 00:16:02,320 Speaker 1: ful Harris County expenditure story coming up. 293 00:16:03,440 --> 00:16:06,760 Speaker 2: You need to escape from the every day escape of 294 00:16:06,840 --> 00:16:18,480 Speaker 2: the Michael Barry Show. Put your hands together for with yours? 295 00:16:18,600 --> 00:16:23,440 Speaker 2: Get what's your hands? 296 00:16:23,680 --> 00:16:24,760 Speaker 6: Get a jew And. 297 00:16:27,200 --> 00:16:27,960 Speaker 2: There's never. 298 00:16:29,640 --> 00:16:30,440 Speaker 6: Like Bob. 299 00:16:37,280 --> 00:16:39,920 Speaker 7: Have you never seen the purple problems the publics of 300 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:41,840 Speaker 7: the PLI you Have you ever seen the boy in 301 00:16:41,920 --> 00:16:42,240 Speaker 7: the way? 302 00:16:42,400 --> 00:16:44,400 Speaker 4: Has it ever been a moment that you didn't because 303 00:16:44,440 --> 00:16:45,520 Speaker 4: you were you were a membook. 304 00:16:45,560 --> 00:16:47,040 Speaker 2: You're a purple, but you're not gonna. 305 00:16:46,800 --> 00:16:51,160 Speaker 6: Be with Mete. Give that puma energy to the bower, 306 00:16:51,240 --> 00:16:53,040 Speaker 6: over power everything the Poma. 307 00:16:53,120 --> 00:16:55,440 Speaker 4: The Linus can't antsicipate of samle thing he does. 308 00:16:55,520 --> 00:16:56,880 Speaker 2: He doesn't think. 309 00:16:59,000 --> 00:16:59,400 Speaker 6: He had a. 310 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:08,960 Speaker 2: Went to me. 311 00:17:09,800 --> 00:17:15,640 Speaker 1: Maby forty ninth birthday, too big Puma. William Lance Berkman 312 00:17:16,640 --> 00:17:21,240 Speaker 1: played fifteen years of Major League Baseball, six times MLB 313 00:17:21,600 --> 00:17:26,800 Speaker 1: All Star, World Series Champion, National League Comeback Player of 314 00:17:26,800 --> 00:17:28,360 Speaker 1: the Year Award with the Cardinals. 315 00:17:28,359 --> 00:17:33,320 Speaker 2: Boy that made the Astros look bad. Well, he went away. 316 00:17:33,359 --> 00:17:38,320 Speaker 1: He went he went to the Yankees, and he left 317 00:17:38,320 --> 00:17:43,040 Speaker 1: the Astros. And when the Cardinals picked him up, I 318 00:17:43,080 --> 00:17:44,760 Speaker 1: think a lot of people didn't know he had any 319 00:17:44,800 --> 00:17:47,840 Speaker 1: gas in the tank. But boy did he ever played 320 00:17:47,840 --> 00:17:50,600 Speaker 1: at Rice University and he was part of the Killer 321 00:17:50,640 --> 00:17:54,720 Speaker 1: Bees team that included Jeff Bagwell and Craig Bigio. 322 00:17:55,440 --> 00:17:58,919 Speaker 2: Those were some good teams, some good teams and some 323 00:17:59,080 --> 00:18:01,240 Speaker 2: good years. And he is. 324 00:18:03,320 --> 00:18:06,840 Speaker 1: He was recognized in twenty twelve by Forums magazine as 325 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:09,880 Speaker 1: one of the thirty most generous celebrities. 326 00:18:11,440 --> 00:18:17,880 Speaker 2: He's it also is a good dude. He's a genuinely 327 00:18:18,440 --> 00:18:19,200 Speaker 2: good dude. 328 00:18:19,520 --> 00:18:21,440 Speaker 1: When I was a baby lawyer, I did some deals 329 00:18:21,480 --> 00:18:24,600 Speaker 1: with a lawyer out of San Antone who was at 330 00:18:24,600 --> 00:18:27,520 Speaker 1: our ten and tone office named Larry Bertman, who happened 331 00:18:27,520 --> 00:18:28,200 Speaker 1: to be his father. 332 00:18:28,840 --> 00:18:31,920 Speaker 2: And he was also a first class dude. I told 333 00:18:31,960 --> 00:18:32,520 Speaker 2: you the story. 334 00:18:32,359 --> 00:18:35,080 Speaker 1: Earlier about the penny not being produced as clip number 335 00:18:35,080 --> 00:18:38,600 Speaker 1: five from Chad. This is a story President Trump has said, 336 00:18:39,280 --> 00:18:40,640 Speaker 1: why are we still printing pennies? 337 00:18:40,920 --> 00:18:41,719 Speaker 2: I was using them. 338 00:18:41,760 --> 00:18:44,400 Speaker 1: It costs more to print them than we assign them 339 00:18:44,600 --> 00:18:45,480 Speaker 1: in value. 340 00:18:45,520 --> 00:18:46,680 Speaker 2: We're not going to do it anymore. 341 00:18:46,880 --> 00:18:48,800 Speaker 1: This is a sixty minute story from all the way 342 00:18:48,800 --> 00:18:50,160 Speaker 1: back fifteen years ago. 343 00:18:53,040 --> 00:18:53,879 Speaker 2: That's still warm. 344 00:18:54,400 --> 00:18:55,000 Speaker 10: Can you feel that? 345 00:18:56,520 --> 00:19:00,400 Speaker 8: Every year the US Mint turns out eight billion new 346 00:19:00,480 --> 00:19:04,280 Speaker 8: pennies using high tech presses that operate faster than the 347 00:19:04,400 --> 00:19:08,479 Speaker 8: I can see stamping out eight lincoln on blank pieces 348 00:19:08,560 --> 00:19:09,040 Speaker 8: of metal. 349 00:19:10,040 --> 00:19:13,080 Speaker 3: We're making full pennies per second. We're making a couple 350 00:19:13,160 --> 00:19:14,360 Speaker 3: million pennies a day. 351 00:19:14,640 --> 00:19:19,120 Speaker 8: And says US Mint director Edmund moy despite inflation, despite 352 00:19:19,119 --> 00:19:23,440 Speaker 8: their lowly status, eight billion pennies still that up to. 353 00:19:23,960 --> 00:19:26,119 Speaker 3: Eighty million dollars. That's real money. 354 00:19:26,320 --> 00:19:30,000 Speaker 8: Trouble is to get eighty million in pennies. The government 355 00:19:30,040 --> 00:19:33,399 Speaker 8: spends one hundred and thirty four million dollars, and to 356 00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:36,960 Speaker 8: produce one point three billion nickels, as the men did 357 00:19:37,040 --> 00:19:40,800 Speaker 8: last year, costs one hundred and twenty four million, even 358 00:19:40,840 --> 00:19:44,040 Speaker 8: though the coins are worth only about half that much. 359 00:19:44,400 --> 00:19:45,800 Speaker 8: It's weird economics. 360 00:19:45,840 --> 00:19:47,919 Speaker 2: So when it really comes down to it, isn't it. 361 00:19:48,200 --> 00:19:52,680 Speaker 3: Well from our perspective at the United States, meant it's unsustainable. 362 00:19:53,040 --> 00:19:55,919 Speaker 3: You can't sustain losses on pennies and nickels and expect 363 00:19:55,960 --> 00:19:59,439 Speaker 3: to be a viable organization that benefits the American people. 364 00:19:59,560 --> 00:20:01,000 Speaker 8: How do we get this fix? 365 00:20:01,440 --> 00:20:02,439 Speaker 2: You know, coins are. 366 00:20:02,280 --> 00:20:06,520 Speaker 3: Made out of metal, and worldwide demand for copper, nickel, 367 00:20:06,560 --> 00:20:09,560 Speaker 3: and zinc have dramatically increased over the last three years. 368 00:20:09,920 --> 00:20:12,199 Speaker 3: That's what's primarily driving up the cost of making the 369 00:20:12,240 --> 00:20:12,919 Speaker 3: penny and nickel. 370 00:20:14,880 --> 00:20:18,320 Speaker 8: Nickels are made mainly of copper. Pennies are ninety eight 371 00:20:18,359 --> 00:20:22,840 Speaker 8: percent zinc. On the Frenzied Commodity exchange, the price of 372 00:20:22,920 --> 00:20:26,840 Speaker 8: coppers tripled in the last five years, zinc has doubled. 373 00:20:27,280 --> 00:20:30,800 Speaker 8: Both are in heavy demand used in everything from electrical 374 00:20:30,880 --> 00:20:35,280 Speaker 8: wiring to suntan lotions, so both coins are worth less 375 00:20:35,440 --> 00:20:38,680 Speaker 8: than the metals they contain, but if you're thinking you're 376 00:20:38,720 --> 00:20:42,280 Speaker 8: putting in a backyard smelter and melting down your spare 377 00:20:42,400 --> 00:20:46,280 Speaker 8: change to make a profit, forget it. The Treasury Department 378 00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:48,159 Speaker 8: has declared that illegal. 379 00:20:48,680 --> 00:20:49,080 Speaker 2: Was there a. 380 00:20:49,080 --> 00:20:51,240 Speaker 8: Genuine fear that we thineople were going to melt their 381 00:20:51,280 --> 00:20:52,960 Speaker 8: pennies and sell them by the pound. 382 00:20:53,119 --> 00:20:55,160 Speaker 3: Well, you know, other countries who've been in the same 383 00:20:55,200 --> 00:20:59,240 Speaker 3: situation have ended up having shortages because people melt them. 384 00:21:00,680 --> 00:21:03,840 Speaker 3: My colleagues in India at the Indian meant I have 385 00:21:03,960 --> 00:21:07,440 Speaker 3: noted that once the rupee became more valuable, melted down 386 00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:11,840 Speaker 3: as razor blades, they disappeared overnight and there was a 387 00:21:11,880 --> 00:21:14,680 Speaker 3: shortage of rupees that India is still recovering from. 388 00:21:15,160 --> 00:21:18,240 Speaker 8: In the five o'clock shadow of the rupees close shave. 389 00:21:18,840 --> 00:21:22,439 Speaker 8: Washington is considering ways to reduce the cost of making 390 00:21:22,520 --> 00:21:26,679 Speaker 8: pennies and nickels, among them giving the mint authority to 391 00:21:26,800 --> 00:21:30,440 Speaker 8: use cheaper metals like steel, and no. Efforts in Congress 392 00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:33,879 Speaker 8: to retire the penny altogether have failed in past years. 393 00:21:34,320 --> 00:21:37,399 Speaker 8: It's the tractor say the time has come. 394 00:21:38,160 --> 00:21:40,680 Speaker 1: It's kind of the Houston astronom of coins, isn't it. 395 00:21:41,520 --> 00:21:45,200 Speaker 1: We can't let it go, even though the proper decision 396 00:21:45,200 --> 00:21:49,359 Speaker 1: would be to let it go, because then people would 397 00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:52,600 Speaker 1: blame us for letting it go. We're not here to 398 00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:56,199 Speaker 1: be leaders, are we? Two things to note on that, 399 00:21:57,680 --> 00:22:00,439 Speaker 1: Let's take the penny. We'll leave the nickel side for 400 00:22:00,440 --> 00:22:03,120 Speaker 1: a moment. Even though copper, this is even more true 401 00:22:03,119 --> 00:22:09,200 Speaker 1: of copper. The production of pennies is the largest use 402 00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:14,920 Speaker 1: of zinc. So by buying so much zinc, an already 403 00:22:14,960 --> 00:22:24,000 Speaker 1: precious commodity, you're increasing the scarcity of zinc for industry. 404 00:22:24,080 --> 00:22:24,840 Speaker 2: And you know. 405 00:22:26,359 --> 00:22:30,240 Speaker 1: Supply and demand when you reduce the supply, because you 406 00:22:30,280 --> 00:22:32,600 Speaker 1: buy up all the zinc, the mint buys up all 407 00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:35,760 Speaker 1: the zinc for pennies, and you leave very little zinc 408 00:22:36,320 --> 00:22:40,280 Speaker 1: left to for industry. 409 00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:44,440 Speaker 2: The demand is high, the supply is low. 410 00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:48,879 Speaker 1: That scarcity drives the cost of and what does that 411 00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:53,080 Speaker 1: do to you the consumer? If I use zinc to 412 00:22:53,119 --> 00:22:56,720 Speaker 1: make products that you buy, I necessarily have to pay 413 00:22:56,760 --> 00:22:58,960 Speaker 1: more for zinc and I have to pass that on 414 00:22:59,040 --> 00:23:03,760 Speaker 1: to you. So the actual production of the penny is 415 00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:07,000 Speaker 1: leading to inflation of zinc, which is an item that's 416 00:23:07,080 --> 00:23:09,679 Speaker 1: used in a lot of things. It's also true of 417 00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:13,879 Speaker 1: copper even more so. You remember the copper theft in 418 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:16,520 Speaker 1: air conditioning units before everybody had to cage up their 419 00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:19,679 Speaker 1: air conditioning units and some iod strip out the copper 420 00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:20,760 Speaker 1: out of your AC unit. 421 00:23:21,520 --> 00:23:23,080 Speaker 2: For one hundred dollars worth of copper. 422 00:23:23,280 --> 00:23:28,040 Speaker 1: That cost you ten thousand dollars in AC repairs because 423 00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:33,240 Speaker 1: the scarcity and copper, the low supply with a consistent 424 00:23:33,320 --> 00:23:39,720 Speaker 1: demand created uninflated price. So making these pennies alone, and 425 00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:43,840 Speaker 1: nickels for that matter, is causing us to pay more 426 00:23:43,880 --> 00:23:47,600 Speaker 1: for other goods. Let's start there. It's causing us to 427 00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:52,800 Speaker 1: pay for something that most of us never use. And finally, 428 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:57,639 Speaker 1: there's an important element of economics that I have to say, 429 00:23:57,920 --> 00:24:00,440 Speaker 1: and I know you know this, but I'm not sure 430 00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:05,520 Speaker 1: everyone does. When Morley say first says that the penny 431 00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:08,520 Speaker 1: is worth less than it costs to make, and I 432 00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:12,919 Speaker 1: use that term earlier, the penny itself has no value 433 00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:19,000 Speaker 1: if you can't smelt it to use it as zinc itself. 434 00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:22,960 Speaker 1: If it must be used as a penny, but let's 435 00:24:22,960 --> 00:24:25,840 Speaker 1: say nobody will accept it, no stores will accept it. 436 00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:31,000 Speaker 1: But you can't smelt it down to use it as 437 00:24:31,040 --> 00:24:35,720 Speaker 1: an element. That means the penny is worthless. Remember, the 438 00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:39,000 Speaker 1: penny is not worth a penny because of the zinc 439 00:24:39,040 --> 00:24:42,000 Speaker 1: that's inside of it. It only has that value if 440 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:44,679 Speaker 1: the zinc is used as zinc. If the penny is 441 00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:46,600 Speaker 1: only something that you put in your pocket and lay 442 00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:50,560 Speaker 1: out on the table, and in no country for old men, 443 00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:51,680 Speaker 1: you flip turn it over. 444 00:24:52,359 --> 00:24:58,440 Speaker 2: Was that a penny or nickel the quarter? Are you sure? Okay? 445 00:24:58,480 --> 00:25:02,760 Speaker 1: The value of a penny is not because it was produced, 446 00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:05,040 Speaker 1: It is the value we assign it. 447 00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:08,159 Speaker 2: Dollars have no money. This is the whole. This is 448 00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:09,760 Speaker 2: a whole. Move to gold and crypto. 449 00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:12,480 Speaker 1: A piece of paper that says a five or ten 450 00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:15,280 Speaker 1: dollars bill has no value as a piece of paper 451 00:25:15,359 --> 00:25:17,960 Speaker 1: unless we assign it to that and we all agree 452 00:25:18,040 --> 00:25:27,840 Speaker 1: to it. Okay, Remember are you related to a dunnahe robless? 453 00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:29,160 Speaker 2: That ring a bell? 454 00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:34,040 Speaker 1: She writes, Hubby took me in the Federal American Grill 455 00:25:34,119 --> 00:25:37,399 Speaker 1: on Friday at your recommendation to celebrate my birthday. It 456 00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:41,320 Speaker 1: was delicious and the service was great. Today is my 457 00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:45,560 Speaker 1: actual birthday. I just thought it being robless shark might 458 00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:49,919 Speaker 1: be related. Crosby writes, Tzara, my sister also has a 459 00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:53,200 Speaker 1: five gallon carboy full of quarters sitting on the edge 460 00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:54,000 Speaker 1: of her bathtub. 461 00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:55,760 Speaker 2: I'm afraid to touch it. 462 00:25:56,359 --> 00:25:58,600 Speaker 1: I have my own spare change game that I play 463 00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:01,960 Speaker 1: while pumping gas are walking cross parking lots. I scan 464 00:26:02,119 --> 00:26:05,840 Speaker 1: the area for spare change and if found, put it 465 00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:08,880 Speaker 1: in my left pocket. When I get home, the spoils 466 00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:12,359 Speaker 1: go into a yogurt container. Since COVID, this is my 467 00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:15,399 Speaker 1: current tally. I decided to count it today so I 468 00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:17,360 Speaker 1: can tell you about it. This is the first time 469 00:26:17,359 --> 00:26:22,760 Speaker 1: I've counted it since COVID. One US one dollar bill, 470 00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:30,160 Speaker 1: thirty nine quarters, forty three dimes, thirteen nickels, one hundred 471 00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:35,800 Speaker 1: and seventy three pennies, one Canadian quarter, one PGA pro 472 00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:39,879 Speaker 1: Am series token dated twenty seventeen, and two that I 473 00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:43,080 Speaker 1: can't tell what They are not enough yet to invest 474 00:26:43,080 --> 00:26:45,360 Speaker 1: in the stock market, except. 475 00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:48,440 Speaker 2: Maybe the penny stocks that's crossby. 476 00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:53,080 Speaker 1: So I get all these emails from people who say 477 00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:55,879 Speaker 1: I can't afford to do this, I can't afford to 478 00:26:55,920 --> 00:27:00,440 Speaker 1: do that. And when I say, hey, go out Rolls 479 00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:02,480 Speaker 1: Royce if that's the car you want to buy, you 480 00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:03,960 Speaker 1: don't need to send me an email and go I 481 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:07,480 Speaker 1: can't afford a Rolls Royce. That's okay, It's all right. 482 00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:11,119 Speaker 1: Growing up, my parents couldn't spend on anything. Didn't mean 483 00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:13,480 Speaker 1: they loved each other or us any less or frankly, 484 00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:15,080 Speaker 1: that we were any less happy. 485 00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:16,919 Speaker 2: It didn't. 486 00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:18,880 Speaker 1: But if you have a little more money, some people 487 00:27:18,920 --> 00:27:22,640 Speaker 1: do want to spend on some things. Melissa writes Zar, 488 00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:26,080 Speaker 1: I heard you talking about Valentine's Day gifts. My husband 489 00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:29,240 Speaker 1: makes me a heart shaped cake every year. He did 490 00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:32,240 Speaker 1: this when we started dating, and nineteen years later he 491 00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:35,760 Speaker 1: still makes a heart shaped cake for me. He gets 492 00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:38,640 Speaker 1: very creative each year with the design. Thanks for what 493 00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:42,920 Speaker 1: you do. See that's nice right there, Charlie writes Zar. 494 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:47,200 Speaker 1: Valentine's Day for us is handled. We'll have an early 495 00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:50,680 Speaker 1: cocktail dinner at Rainbow Lodge and follow with a candlelight 496 00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:53,680 Speaker 1: concert at the Bell Tower on thirty fourth. We've been 497 00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:56,400 Speaker 1: married for forty five years and have never really put 498 00:27:56,440 --> 00:27:59,040 Speaker 1: a lot of effort into Valentine's Day. But the older 499 00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:01,439 Speaker 1: we get, the more I regret not honoring her with 500 00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:03,240 Speaker 1: more knights like the one we planned to have. 501 00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:06,760 Speaker 2: I'm trying to make up for lost time. My advice 502 00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:12,240 Speaker 2: to anyone don't let it happen to you. Well, that's 503 00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:12,920 Speaker 2: a nice thing. 504 00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:16,920 Speaker 1: This is a very good email from a fellow named 505 00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:22,000 Speaker 1: William Porr talking about the fact that the cartels have 506 00:28:22,040 --> 00:28:25,120 Speaker 1: started firing on the Mexican troops on the Mexican side, 507 00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:28,560 Speaker 1: and that's only going to escalate. And here's your answer, 508 00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:31,960 Speaker 1: if members of the US Border Patrol or the US 509 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:35,880 Speaker 1: military are fired upon my members of international criminal organizations, 510 00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:40,840 Speaker 1: Mexican cartels, who arguably have captured the Mexican government. President 511 00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:44,640 Speaker 1: Trump should follow the example of President Woodrow Wilson. On 512 00:28:44,720 --> 00:28:50,280 Speaker 1: March eighth, nineteen sixteen, Poncho Villa, while rating for much 513 00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:54,080 Speaker 1: needed supplies, made the mistake of engaging in a full 514 00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:58,240 Speaker 1: scale battle with the thirteenth Cavalry Regiment in Columbus, New Mexico. 515 00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:02,800 Speaker 1: In reaction to the attack, President Woodrow Wilson appointed General 516 00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:06,360 Speaker 1: black Jack Pershing as commander of a US Army expeditionary 517 00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:10,320 Speaker 1: force that was to capture Via and police the US 518 00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:13,720 Speaker 1: Mexico border. This was the beginning of a lengthy search 519 00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:17,440 Speaker 1: for Via, known as the Mexican Expedition, that took place 520 00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:23,680 Speaker 1: from March fourteenth, nineteen sixteen, to February seventh, nineteen seventeen. 521 00:29:24,480 --> 00:29:26,800 Speaker 1: They only let him, well, you know, with regard to 522 00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:30,080 Speaker 1: the above, President Trump should avoid making the mistake that 523 00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:35,200 Speaker 1: President Wilson made in ending the Mexican Expedition prematurely. While 524 00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:38,560 Speaker 1: Mexican cartels are free to start the war by firing 525 00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:41,280 Speaker 1: on members of the US Border patrol or military, the 526 00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:45,480 Speaker 1: US military should only end it after said cartels are 527 00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:48,360 Speaker 1: no longer in control of Mexico and no longer pose 528 00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:54,600 Speaker 1: any threat to the citizens of this country. I agree 529 00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:57,320 Speaker 1: with all of that, and I will add to that 530 00:29:57,320 --> 00:30:00,000 Speaker 1: that I am told by law enforcement at every life 531 00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:04,000 Speaker 1: level that the cartels are very active on American soil, 532 00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:09,760 Speaker 1: extremely active on American soil, brazenly so. 533 00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:13,600 Speaker 2: The firepower, the expertise. 534 00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:18,600 Speaker 1: The man power that they have, should they declare, you know, 535 00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:21,640 Speaker 1: on one particular day they're going to attack, they could 536 00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:28,240 Speaker 1: extract some really, really terrible damage. I told you earlier 537 00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:30,840 Speaker 1: that Harris County just raised our taxes, and the idiot 538 00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:33,200 Speaker 1: Republicans in Austin allowed them to do it by giving 539 00:30:33,240 --> 00:30:36,920 Speaker 1: them the power to do it. Well, Harris County spent 540 00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:44,400 Speaker 1: millions on four new murals, yes, murals, painting on a 541 00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:48,920 Speaker 1: wall quote aimed at social and environmental justice. 542 00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:50,400 Speaker 2: Rodney is just laughing. 543 00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:54,920 Speaker 1: He's laughing at the taxpayer he's laughing at Republicans in Austin. 544 00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:56,760 Speaker 2: Oh, you're going to stop me from doing things. 545 00:30:57,440 --> 00:31:00,800 Speaker 1: You just gave me the power, the emergency power after 546 00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:03,440 Speaker 1: a storm to raise taxes, and I'm gonna do it. 547 00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:04,840 Speaker 2: And what are the Republicans. 548 00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:08,000 Speaker 6: Well, we're gonna close that Dad burned loophole this time. 549 00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:12,760 Speaker 6: We're not gonna let them get away. Okay, Beuford, we 550 00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:14,360 Speaker 6: we ah, they did it. 551 00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:16,400 Speaker 2: They did it. They tricked us. 552 00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:20,080 Speaker 1: We gave them the power to raise taxes without having 553 00:31:20,120 --> 00:31:21,640 Speaker 1: voter approval, and. 554 00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:23,800 Speaker 2: They did it. Dad burn it. 555 00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:28,480 Speaker 1: Well, this session, it's always well, this session. 556 00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:33,080 Speaker 6: We're gonna close that dad burned loophole. Of fit said, 557 00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:35,640 Speaker 6: death of me, send me back. 558 00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:40,400 Speaker 1: One more time. And the Houston Chronicle is a pr outlet. 559 00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:44,720 Speaker 1: They don't ask anything about the waste. Kyle Scott, who 560 00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:47,840 Speaker 1: sits on the h kdboard, says, thirty six million dollars 561 00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:53,200 Speaker 1: will spend on the murals. Thirty six million dollars. And 562 00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:59,240 Speaker 1: of course who's spearheaded the project, Rodney Ellis. The Chronicle says, quote, 563 00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:02,480 Speaker 1: downtown own Houston may have just gotten a new look, 564 00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:08,320 Speaker 1: as Harris County Precinct one Commissioner Rodney Ellis unveiled new 565 00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:13,600 Speaker 1: murals this week. Oh that's what we needed. That way, 566 00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:16,240 Speaker 1: maybe some of the murders will happen right in front 567 00:32:16,240 --> 00:32:19,800 Speaker 1: of particular murals, and that's how the cops can identify 568 00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:25,120 Speaker 1: where they're located. Harris County, Downtown Houston, and street Art 569 00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:30,840 Speaker 1: for Mankin unveiled new artwork as part of its Big Art, 570 00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:33,120 Speaker 1: Bigger Change mural series. 571 00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:36,440 Speaker 2: Because nothing brings change. 572 00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:38,240 Speaker 1: Like paying nine ten million dollars for an artist to 573 00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:39,040 Speaker 1: paint on a wall. 574 00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:40,840 Speaker 2: Nothing brings change like that. 575 00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:43,640 Speaker 1: In fact, I'm concerned because yesterday was the first Super 576 00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:46,840 Speaker 1: Bowl in forever that they didn't have end racism on 577 00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:49,040 Speaker 1: their helmets. So now we're just gonna have a rash 578 00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:53,200 Speaker 1: of racism because nobody told us not to quote. These 579 00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:59,400 Speaker 1: murals carry powerful messages that inspire and uplift our communities, 580 00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:03,080 Speaker 1: said La in a YouTube stream. I also want to 581 00:33:03,120 --> 00:33:07,160 Speaker 1: celebrate the artists who are here today. And then he 582 00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:10,080 Speaker 1: called out the names of the artists who've been handed 583 00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:13,440 Speaker 1: thirty six million dollars. 584 00:33:13,520 --> 00:33:19,160 Speaker 2: One of them is from Berlin by way of Turkey. 585 00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:21,240 Speaker 2: Oh that's even better. 586 00:33:21,760 --> 00:33:23,720 Speaker 1: I mean, as long as you don't have any white 587 00:33:23,760 --> 00:33:28,160 Speaker 1: guys who we're already on the track. Huh, just please, Lord, 588 00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:30,640 Speaker 1: don't let any white people in on the mural business. 589 00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:35,000 Speaker 1: Good grief. And there's the Chronicle all the while. 590 00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:40,120 Speaker 2: Yay uplifting murls. We're going to be like a big city, 591 00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:41,320 Speaker 2: like New York or LA. 592 00:33:41,840 --> 00:33:44,520 Speaker 1: If only we could get more light rail, we'll be 593 00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:49,080 Speaker 1: like a big city. Maybe we could redo the astronom 594 00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:51,360 Speaker 1: for two and a half billion dollars, we'll be like 595 00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:52,320 Speaker 1: a real big city.