1 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:11,399 Speaker 1: It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. So 2 00:00:11,600 --> 00:00:14,000 Speaker 1: Michael Varry Show is on the air. 3 00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:33,319 Speaker 2: Eddie Martini, who obsesses open markets, said markets aren't up, 4 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:36,880 Speaker 2: and I said, well, they were when they opened, which 5 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:39,880 Speaker 2: was what I was quoting from. So he sends me 6 00:00:39,920 --> 00:00:46,519 Speaker 2: a screenshot Dal Jones up, NASDAC down and s and 7 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:48,000 Speaker 2: P five hundred down. 8 00:00:49,120 --> 00:00:50,120 Speaker 3: He doesn't include the. 9 00:00:50,040 --> 00:00:53,560 Speaker 2: Rest of it. He said, you need better sources. No, 10 00:00:53,720 --> 00:00:57,240 Speaker 2: I probably need more up to date information. But the 11 00:00:57,320 --> 00:01:00,880 Speaker 2: point was the markets opened. The markets want to see 12 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:04,440 Speaker 2: the big beautiful bill done. The expectation is the big 13 00:01:04,480 --> 00:01:07,640 Speaker 2: beautiful bill will be done. It's bad for our long 14 00:01:07,800 --> 00:01:12,120 Speaker 2: term economics, it's bad for our long term financial stability, 15 00:01:12,560 --> 00:01:15,520 Speaker 2: but the markets don't care about that. The markets want 16 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:20,280 Speaker 2: more debt, bigger government overnight, and they want a deal done. 17 00:01:20,440 --> 00:01:25,479 Speaker 2: They don't want uncertainty. So that's what's going to happen. 18 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:28,400 Speaker 2: We're going to get the deal done today and the 19 00:01:28,400 --> 00:01:31,080 Speaker 2: markets will rebound and you'll see all of them up 20 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:35,720 Speaker 2: by the end of the day. If Trump folks are 21 00:01:35,720 --> 00:01:38,840 Speaker 2: saying that they have the deal, that they've got the votes. 22 00:01:38,880 --> 00:01:42,319 Speaker 3: We shall see shortly. In answer to. 23 00:01:43,840 --> 00:01:49,400 Speaker 2: The World's Shortest country song, Tex Crowley sent a song 24 00:01:49,560 --> 00:01:51,880 Speaker 2: by a fellow named Kenny Price, and he says, this 25 00:01:52,160 --> 00:01:53,480 Speaker 2: is the world's shortest song. 26 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:54,080 Speaker 3: Goes like, this. 27 00:02:02,800 --> 00:02:11,880 Speaker 2: Is the shortest song in board. And that might be true, 28 00:02:12,520 --> 00:02:15,480 Speaker 2: but I don't think you really get the storytelling that 29 00:02:15,520 --> 00:02:19,040 Speaker 2: you get with the Great Waller Lab meth lab explosion 30 00:02:19,080 --> 00:02:20,160 Speaker 2: of nineteen ninety six. 31 00:02:21,520 --> 00:02:24,160 Speaker 4: This here's a Great Waller County met Lab explosion of 32 00:02:24,280 --> 00:02:29,960 Speaker 4: nineteen ninety six. There was these two fellas of cooking 33 00:02:30,360 --> 00:02:33,880 Speaker 4: up drain home and a harvest a vedron they could 34 00:02:33,919 --> 00:02:39,799 Speaker 4: get their hands on. They had bottles of profanity, batteries 35 00:02:39,919 --> 00:02:43,560 Speaker 4: than one cigarette hands and boom they were gone. 36 00:02:45,840 --> 00:02:49,600 Speaker 2: Harris County Commissioner's Court trying to plug the whole of 37 00:02:49,720 --> 00:02:55,360 Speaker 2: a of a gaping budget shortfall, even despite having more 38 00:02:55,400 --> 00:02:57,000 Speaker 2: money than they've had ever. 39 00:02:59,480 --> 00:03:00,639 Speaker 3: In the mid still doing that. 40 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:07,200 Speaker 2: They voted Thursday to compensate former public health director Barbie 41 00:03:07,280 --> 00:03:10,360 Speaker 2: Robinson for more than two hundred thousand dollars in legal fees. 42 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:12,640 Speaker 3: Why did she have legal fees? 43 00:03:13,240 --> 00:03:17,680 Speaker 2: Oh, she was holding the job of public health director 44 00:03:17,960 --> 00:03:21,919 Speaker 2: in Harris County while she was holding the job of 45 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:25,079 Speaker 2: assistant public health director in Phoenix. 46 00:03:26,520 --> 00:03:30,440 Speaker 3: That's illegal. But that wasn't really the crime. That was 47 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:34,080 Speaker 3: just further to the criminal culture that she led. 48 00:03:35,720 --> 00:03:41,680 Speaker 2: She was being charged for steering a contract to a 49 00:03:41,800 --> 00:03:47,040 Speaker 2: company in Los Angeles to get Harris County money. This 50 00:03:47,160 --> 00:03:49,280 Speaker 2: is what Rodney and his crew do. You steer these 51 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:53,120 Speaker 2: these big chunks of contracts. Remember the Elevate Strategies contract 52 00:03:53,200 --> 00:03:55,920 Speaker 2: that Lena had. Allgo's top three people were indicted for 53 00:03:56,360 --> 00:04:00,880 Speaker 2: same deal. You steer these big contracts to outside people 54 00:04:00,880 --> 00:04:01,320 Speaker 2: and you get. 55 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:01,960 Speaker 3: The kickback from it. 56 00:04:03,080 --> 00:04:07,200 Speaker 2: Well, in this case, she had negotiated that she was 57 00:04:07,240 --> 00:04:10,960 Speaker 2: going to leave this job in Harris County and go 58 00:04:11,080 --> 00:04:13,920 Speaker 2: to work out there in LA where she's from, I believe, 59 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:18,800 Speaker 2: And they said, how much do you want to make 60 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:21,880 Speaker 2: when you come to work here? She's in the position 61 00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:24,599 Speaker 2: to pick them for a contract. Just tell us how 62 00:04:24,680 --> 00:04:27,760 Speaker 2: much you want and that's what we'll pay you. Sounds 63 00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:30,160 Speaker 2: like a real arms link deal, doesn't it. And the 64 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:33,560 Speaker 2: Harris County taxpairer just keeps on getting screwed and they 65 00:04:33,720 --> 00:04:37,800 Speaker 2: just keep preaching race. So Barbie Robinson was charged. The 66 00:04:37,880 --> 00:04:41,359 Speaker 2: new district attorney who Rodney Ellis put there, dropped the charges, 67 00:04:41,680 --> 00:04:43,599 Speaker 2: and then Harris County gave her the money. For her 68 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:48,600 Speaker 2: legal fees for being inconvenienced by being charged for committing 69 00:04:48,680 --> 00:04:51,880 Speaker 2: these crimes. Chris writes, how can you identify the most 70 00:04:51,920 --> 00:04:55,400 Speaker 2: dedicated secretary? She's the one that keeps her white rebox 71 00:04:55,480 --> 00:04:58,960 Speaker 2: in the filing cabinet behind her desk. While other secretaries 72 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:01,599 Speaker 2: gossip in the company chick in the company kitchen. 73 00:05:02,279 --> 00:05:04,280 Speaker 3: She uses part of her lunch hour to get some 74 00:05:04,440 --> 00:05:06,120 Speaker 3: steps in. Ain't that the truth? 75 00:05:06,800 --> 00:05:10,400 Speaker 2: Harry Wilkinson, the drummer for Michael Martin Murphy's band, said, 76 00:05:10,800 --> 00:05:15,960 Speaker 2: when I first got to Nashville'zar introducing myself around, Charlie 77 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:20,560 Speaker 2: Rich's manager told me date the secretaries. They control the Rolodex, 78 00:05:20,640 --> 00:05:21,880 Speaker 2: phone numbers and referrals. 79 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:23,960 Speaker 3: Something to be said for that. 80 00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:29,120 Speaker 2: Bridget writes, tzar just a little thank you. I'm a 81 00:05:29,160 --> 00:05:31,680 Speaker 2: school teacher, so naturally I'm not able to do many 82 00:05:31,720 --> 00:05:34,640 Speaker 2: things around the house during the school year, whether it's 83 00:05:34,720 --> 00:05:37,200 Speaker 2: just simply mowing the grass, weed eating the yard, or 84 00:05:37,240 --> 00:05:40,400 Speaker 2: cleaning out the flower beds. I made it an assignment 85 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:44,920 Speaker 2: a goal to do that this summer. I put my 86 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:47,920 Speaker 2: EarPods in and I go to work. I absolutely love 87 00:05:48,040 --> 00:05:50,080 Speaker 2: listening to you every day, whether it's a live show, 88 00:05:50,160 --> 00:05:52,480 Speaker 2: or a podcast. You have no idea how much I've 89 00:05:52,520 --> 00:05:55,040 Speaker 2: been able to get done. I feel like a superwoman. 90 00:05:55,920 --> 00:05:58,320 Speaker 2: Just a little side note. I'm also a pet sitter 91 00:05:58,440 --> 00:06:01,840 Speaker 2: on the side, and while cleaning, stone feeding and putting out. 92 00:06:01,920 --> 00:06:05,880 Speaker 3: Hey, I listen to your well organized podcast. Thank you, Ramon. 93 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:08,440 Speaker 2: Thank you for doing what you do, saying what you say, 94 00:06:08,560 --> 00:06:11,279 Speaker 2: and being true to yourself. Anyways, have a fabulous Fourth 95 00:06:11,279 --> 00:06:14,480 Speaker 2: of July weekend. I'm so proud to be an American. 96 00:06:14,560 --> 00:06:20,200 Speaker 2: That's from bridget in Belleville. How about that chance? Mclan says, 97 00:06:20,240 --> 00:06:23,760 Speaker 2: I have a short country parody is twenty one seconds long, 98 00:06:24,360 --> 00:06:25,719 Speaker 2: and that's with a long intro. 99 00:06:27,440 --> 00:06:30,000 Speaker 3: We should probably check that before you play it. 100 00:06:31,080 --> 00:06:33,840 Speaker 2: Travis writes, I was alignment for the county now for 101 00:06:34,080 --> 00:06:36,680 Speaker 2: HL and P for thirty five years. Some of us 102 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:39,920 Speaker 2: always had the little packets of mustard in our lunch 103 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:41,839 Speaker 2: boxes for heat cramps. 104 00:06:42,360 --> 00:06:45,000 Speaker 3: Oh well, there you go. Here's one of those things 105 00:06:45,600 --> 00:06:46,200 Speaker 3: you gotta do. 106 00:06:46,760 --> 00:06:50,160 Speaker 2: Matt writes, Poor Elon, he got bitten by the political 107 00:06:50,200 --> 00:06:52,680 Speaker 2: bug and now wants to start his own party. He's 108 00:06:52,720 --> 00:06:55,520 Speaker 2: too young to remember Ross Perrot. He needs to get 109 00:06:55,600 --> 00:06:59,120 Speaker 2: back to what he knows best. Politics is owned by 110 00:06:59,200 --> 00:07:03,240 Speaker 2: no one. I don't think he was saying I don't 111 00:07:03,240 --> 00:07:07,039 Speaker 2: think he's trying to own anything. I think he's scared 112 00:07:07,560 --> 00:07:10,640 Speaker 2: for what's happening in our country and it's hard for 113 00:07:10,760 --> 00:07:11,120 Speaker 2: him to. 114 00:07:12,680 --> 00:07:13,320 Speaker 3: Just let that go. 115 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:14,720 Speaker 5: Zar. 116 00:07:14,960 --> 00:07:17,400 Speaker 2: I know you love catfish like I do, so I'm 117 00:07:17,440 --> 00:07:21,120 Speaker 2: asking what's your favorite spot for whiskerfish in Houston? I 118 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:23,960 Speaker 2: know you don't respond often, even a one word response 119 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:28,840 Speaker 2: would be appreciated. Love the show, Thanks Mike Well. I'm 120 00:07:28,880 --> 00:07:31,920 Speaker 2: open to anybody sending me suggestions on what you like. 121 00:07:32,440 --> 00:07:32,640 Speaker 3: Romon. 122 00:07:33,360 --> 00:07:35,640 Speaker 2: Whatever happened to the place up north? I think it 123 00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:40,480 Speaker 2: was Willis or near Lake Conrod that had the flood. 124 00:07:40,560 --> 00:07:46,280 Speaker 2: You remember, I remember posting video of that woman. She's 125 00:07:46,320 --> 00:07:51,600 Speaker 2: out there in her flip flops, walking in thigh deep 126 00:07:51,760 --> 00:07:56,440 Speaker 2: water through her business. She got like a T shirt 127 00:07:56,520 --> 00:08:00,160 Speaker 2: on what do you call spaghetti straps or whatever she walked. Now, 128 00:08:00,360 --> 00:08:02,120 Speaker 2: she might have had a cigarette dangling that she didn't 129 00:08:02,160 --> 00:08:04,520 Speaker 2: she should have because it would keep with it. And 130 00:08:04,640 --> 00:08:06,800 Speaker 2: she's walking through there trying to figure out what she 131 00:08:06,920 --> 00:08:09,560 Speaker 2: can salvage. And I had people sitting in office to 132 00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:10,280 Speaker 2: send him emails. 133 00:08:10,680 --> 00:08:13,920 Speaker 3: She shouldn't be in that water. She might get something. 134 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:16,320 Speaker 2: Man, you don't know how tough that lady is. That's 135 00:08:16,360 --> 00:08:19,320 Speaker 2: the least of her worries some parasite. 136 00:08:19,800 --> 00:08:20,680 Speaker 3: They don't want to bother her. 137 00:08:21,440 --> 00:08:23,400 Speaker 4: Bberis shall. 138 00:08:28,520 --> 00:08:33,160 Speaker 2: I always thought this was the most strange imperative statement 139 00:08:33,280 --> 00:08:36,600 Speaker 2: in a song title of all time. Apparently it's Vernon's 140 00:08:36,679 --> 00:08:42,240 Speaker 2: Country Catfish. That's what it was, Vernon's Country Catfish. And 141 00:08:42,440 --> 00:08:46,240 Speaker 2: Chad writes, the best catfish in Greater Houston in the 142 00:08:46,280 --> 00:08:50,839 Speaker 2: flooded restaurant you were thinking of is Vernon's Conroe Cajun Catfish. 143 00:08:51,440 --> 00:08:54,240 Speaker 2: Gail is the awesome owner. They rebuilt and they're doing 144 00:08:54,320 --> 00:08:57,839 Speaker 2: it great. As Chad from Allied Siding and Windows, I 145 00:08:57,960 --> 00:09:02,120 Speaker 2: went to the website. Remember the story, Ramon, We had 146 00:09:02,160 --> 00:09:06,040 Speaker 2: her on, but remember the story. I think I think 147 00:09:06,160 --> 00:09:09,280 Speaker 2: one of the brothers died at a baseball game. 148 00:09:09,600 --> 00:09:10,160 Speaker 3: Do you remember this? 149 00:09:11,920 --> 00:09:15,360 Speaker 2: Listeners emailed us one of the brothers. So I think 150 00:09:15,480 --> 00:09:19,040 Speaker 2: the parents started the business, and I think they had 151 00:09:19,720 --> 00:09:21,640 Speaker 2: I'm gonna get this wrong. Maybe they had two sons 152 00:09:21,679 --> 00:09:24,680 Speaker 2: and a daughter, and the sons and daughters be about 153 00:09:24,720 --> 00:09:28,760 Speaker 2: my age. And I think one of the sons was 154 00:09:28,840 --> 00:09:32,680 Speaker 2: at his kid's baseball game and he had a heart 155 00:09:32,720 --> 00:09:37,600 Speaker 2: attack and died, and I believe it's his wife, who 156 00:09:37,760 --> 00:09:40,719 Speaker 2: wasn't part of the family originally, who kind of took 157 00:09:40,800 --> 00:09:45,480 Speaker 2: over and random place. I could be wrong. I will check, 158 00:09:47,360 --> 00:09:49,360 Speaker 2: but I'm looking here. Would you like to hear the menu? 159 00:09:51,920 --> 00:09:53,120 Speaker 3: There's just not enough. 160 00:09:53,080 --> 00:10:00,040 Speaker 2: Good catfish in my life. I I love catfish. It 161 00:10:00,160 --> 00:10:03,040 Speaker 2: is amazing to me. And see, check out our delicious menu. 162 00:10:04,360 --> 00:10:08,319 Speaker 2: It doesn't say I don't see where. They don't have 163 00:10:08,440 --> 00:10:12,160 Speaker 2: the menu on here? What in the sam Hill I 164 00:10:12,280 --> 00:10:13,920 Speaker 2: can't tell it doesn't have the menu on here. It 165 00:10:13,920 --> 00:10:17,360 Speaker 2: says menu, but then you can't get you can't get 166 00:10:17,360 --> 00:10:18,160 Speaker 2: the actual menu. 167 00:10:18,640 --> 00:10:19,880 Speaker 3: I need to see the menu. Oh, here we go. 168 00:10:19,880 --> 00:10:20,880 Speaker 3: All right, let's see if that work. 169 00:10:21,320 --> 00:10:23,920 Speaker 2: Maybe it's a multi page deal. No, they don't have 170 00:10:23,960 --> 00:10:26,600 Speaker 2: a menu on here. Mom, can you talk to them 171 00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:26,959 Speaker 2: about that? 172 00:10:27,880 --> 00:10:32,400 Speaker 3: How are you not going to have the menu on? Godly? 173 00:10:32,679 --> 00:10:33,400 Speaker 6: What in the world? 174 00:10:33,480 --> 00:10:34,040 Speaker 5: I was fired? 175 00:10:34,080 --> 00:10:38,840 Speaker 2: Okay, view the menu. That page can't be found. Huh, 176 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:41,920 Speaker 2: they're hiding the menu on us from mom. Hey play 177 00:10:41,960 --> 00:10:45,199 Speaker 2: that Sony Walkman commercial again. Apparently folks are saying it 178 00:10:45,280 --> 00:10:49,240 Speaker 2: sounded like Morgan Freeman. I didn't notice. 179 00:10:53,360 --> 00:10:55,720 Speaker 3: You read it to the music with the Sonny walk 180 00:10:55,840 --> 00:10:59,240 Speaker 3: Man the sony walk Man. It's that tiny stereo Casett 181 00:10:59,760 --> 00:11:06,120 Speaker 3: with truly and fredil Gura. I'll be done. 182 00:11:06,200 --> 00:11:08,559 Speaker 6: Put on a walk man and see the world and 183 00:11:08,720 --> 00:11:12,520 Speaker 6: a whole new lake, A walk man from Sunny, the 184 00:11:12,640 --> 00:11:13,280 Speaker 6: one and on there. 185 00:11:13,920 --> 00:11:17,199 Speaker 2: I didn't notice it because they didn't emphasize the rich base. 186 00:11:18,120 --> 00:11:20,880 Speaker 2: How about that clip number eight k h o U 187 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:24,160 Speaker 2: from Chad's prep. Pasadena City Council District B seat is 188 00:11:24,240 --> 00:11:27,960 Speaker 2: decided by a coin flip after the June seventh vote 189 00:11:28,120 --> 00:11:32,840 Speaker 2: ended with both incumbent Bianca Valerio and challenger Bruce Lehman 190 00:11:33,400 --> 00:11:35,760 Speaker 2: both had two dred seventy two votes. You know what 191 00:11:37,160 --> 00:11:40,240 Speaker 2: if you only had turduring seventy two votes in a 192 00:11:40,360 --> 00:11:44,000 Speaker 2: district city council seat in Pasadena, even if neither one 193 00:11:44,040 --> 00:11:46,160 Speaker 2: of you wins, guess what, We're just leaving that seat 194 00:11:46,240 --> 00:11:49,520 Speaker 2: open because you don't have a mandate two hundred and 195 00:11:49,600 --> 00:11:53,160 Speaker 2: seventy two votes to be a city councilman in Pasadena. 196 00:11:53,280 --> 00:11:56,480 Speaker 2: This isn't some little bitty town. So since there was 197 00:11:56,520 --> 00:11:59,040 Speaker 2: a tie, there was a coin toss, and at Monday's 198 00:11:59,040 --> 00:12:02,080 Speaker 2: Pasadena City County meeting, they flipped the coin. 199 00:12:02,280 --> 00:12:04,400 Speaker 3: Kho You with the story well, the. 200 00:12:04,480 --> 00:12:07,880 Speaker 7: Race for a seat on Pasadena's City Council has ended 201 00:12:07,960 --> 00:12:11,640 Speaker 7: in a toin coin toss. Bianco Valario and Bruce A. 202 00:12:11,720 --> 00:12:14,480 Speaker 7: Lehman were the top two candidates to represent District B, 203 00:12:15,120 --> 00:12:17,920 Speaker 7: and they ended the month's race with the exact same 204 00:12:18,240 --> 00:12:18,720 Speaker 7: number of. 205 00:12:18,800 --> 00:12:20,400 Speaker 3: Votes, that's two seventy two. 206 00:12:20,800 --> 00:12:23,000 Speaker 7: At a special council meeting that took place about an 207 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:27,280 Speaker 7: hour ago. The coin flip was the deciding factor that 208 00:12:27,400 --> 00:12:28,120 Speaker 7: Kingdom come. 209 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:32,800 Speaker 3: That will be done on earth as it isn't heavy heads, 210 00:12:32,840 --> 00:12:34,920 Speaker 3: it is clean winner and take Pigiaga. 211 00:12:35,520 --> 00:12:38,320 Speaker 7: You heard there bianco Valario calling heads as the coin 212 00:12:38,480 --> 00:12:41,199 Speaker 7: was tossed, and heads is how it landed. And she 213 00:12:41,880 --> 00:12:42,679 Speaker 7: was the incumbent. 214 00:12:44,320 --> 00:12:46,280 Speaker 3: How bout that got a message? 215 00:12:46,280 --> 00:12:49,120 Speaker 2: I was checking with I check in with our show 216 00:12:49,160 --> 00:12:51,920 Speaker 2: sponsors constantly to see how they're doing. How's jewelry sales, 217 00:12:51,960 --> 00:12:56,080 Speaker 2: How's furniture sales, How's how's a gold sales? How's bitcoin? 218 00:12:57,000 --> 00:12:59,679 Speaker 2: And I checked in with Mike Bachiss at Lone Star 219 00:12:59,720 --> 00:13:03,720 Speaker 2: Ship because they do a month by month and how 220 00:13:03,760 --> 00:13:06,360 Speaker 2: many vehicles they have to sell by month, and he's 221 00:13:06,400 --> 00:13:09,600 Speaker 2: one of the only dealers that actually met their sales goals. 222 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:14,920 Speaker 2: It probably helped that he had that they were serving 223 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:18,480 Speaker 2: fajitas outside. So you know, Ramon, there were probably people 224 00:13:18,559 --> 00:13:20,959 Speaker 2: driving by lone star Chevy on two ninety at Eldridge 225 00:13:21,760 --> 00:13:25,000 Speaker 2: and they smelled the fajitas wafting. 226 00:13:25,559 --> 00:13:26,880 Speaker 3: They had their winded down and they. 227 00:13:26,840 --> 00:13:28,360 Speaker 2: Said, well, let's just go in and see what's going 228 00:13:28,360 --> 00:13:31,280 Speaker 2: on to car dealership. Maybe it's on fire, but the 229 00:13:31,440 --> 00:13:35,079 Speaker 2: fire is sizzling fajitas. And then they went in and 230 00:13:35,240 --> 00:13:37,440 Speaker 2: they ate some fijitas, which put them in a good mood, 231 00:13:37,440 --> 00:13:39,800 Speaker 2: and they said, you know what, I'll take a silverado 232 00:13:39,920 --> 00:13:41,800 Speaker 2: for me and a tahoe for my wife. 233 00:13:41,920 --> 00:13:44,480 Speaker 3: It could happen. It absolutely could happen. 234 00:13:45,440 --> 00:13:49,160 Speaker 2: A registered sex offender with twenty five convictions for indecent 235 00:13:49,200 --> 00:13:55,360 Speaker 2: exposure twenty five convictions for indecent exposure. That doesn't mean 236 00:13:55,440 --> 00:13:58,040 Speaker 2: he's done it twenty five times. That's how many times 237 00:13:58,120 --> 00:14:03,040 Speaker 2: he's been charged and con has been granted a PR bond. 238 00:14:03,520 --> 00:14:06,720 Speaker 2: That means here, show you, Bippy, you're just just signed 239 00:14:06,760 --> 00:14:08,520 Speaker 2: with you, Bippy. Just put it in the ink and 240 00:14:08,640 --> 00:14:11,120 Speaker 2: boot touch the tip of it there right there on 241 00:14:11,200 --> 00:14:13,440 Speaker 2: the paper, and then you can go on about your 242 00:14:13,480 --> 00:14:14,839 Speaker 2: way because we trust you. 243 00:14:15,640 --> 00:14:16,920 Speaker 3: We trust that you'll come back. 244 00:14:16,920 --> 00:14:19,400 Speaker 2: Because you seem like a real honest guy other than 245 00:14:19,440 --> 00:14:23,600 Speaker 2: showing your bippy to everybody. Democrat Judge tv A Bell, 246 00:14:23,840 --> 00:14:25,680 Speaker 2: another one of those at Rodney Elli's controls. 247 00:14:25,880 --> 00:14:27,880 Speaker 3: This is what they want. This is what Rodney Ellis wants. 248 00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:31,560 Speaker 2: He wants a guy who drops trou in front of everybody, 249 00:14:31,720 --> 00:14:34,440 Speaker 2: who will eventually rape somebody and eventually kill somebody. He 250 00:14:34,560 --> 00:14:38,120 Speaker 2: wants those people released because this poor sap he's a victim. 251 00:14:38,400 --> 00:14:41,640 Speaker 3: He just keeps doing this again and again and again 252 00:14:41,880 --> 00:14:42,360 Speaker 3: and again. 253 00:14:43,360 --> 00:14:48,000 Speaker 2: Houston Police Officers Union's Doug Griffith saying, lock this dude up. 254 00:14:48,120 --> 00:14:50,400 Speaker 2: He's done it before, he'll keep doing it again. Fox 255 00:14:50,480 --> 00:14:52,080 Speaker 2: twenty six with the story, I've. 256 00:14:51,960 --> 00:14:53,880 Speaker 8: Been doing this a long time, but I've never seen 257 00:14:53,920 --> 00:14:55,479 Speaker 8: a situation where someone. 258 00:14:55,720 --> 00:14:58,800 Speaker 3: Takes a plea to go to prison and walks out 259 00:14:58,840 --> 00:15:00,440 Speaker 3: the door. Period. 260 00:15:00,600 --> 00:15:03,920 Speaker 9: Now we've discovered another registered sex offender was grunted out 261 00:15:04,160 --> 00:15:07,080 Speaker 9: get out of Jail free card shortly after being found 262 00:15:07,240 --> 00:15:09,040 Speaker 9: competence is unbelievable. 263 00:15:09,440 --> 00:15:12,640 Speaker 10: I mean, you got twenty five convisions for in decent exposure. 264 00:15:12,880 --> 00:15:15,360 Speaker 9: When we first told you about Gregory Waite Brooks in 265 00:15:15,520 --> 00:15:16,680 Speaker 9: March of last year. 266 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:20,760 Speaker 11: He's been exposing himself and gratifying himself for his own 267 00:15:20,800 --> 00:15:24,240 Speaker 11: personal gratification in front of anybody he can, anybody that 268 00:15:24,360 --> 00:15:24,880 Speaker 11: drives by. 269 00:15:25,280 --> 00:15:30,640 Speaker 8: He's on the sex Offender Registry. It says risk level high. 270 00:15:31,040 --> 00:15:33,400 Speaker 10: The fact that he's done it twenty five times and 271 00:15:33,480 --> 00:15:36,560 Speaker 10: has been arrested twenty five times. Who knows how many 272 00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:38,080 Speaker 10: times he's done it and not been arrested. 273 00:15:38,440 --> 00:15:41,600 Speaker 9: Shortly after being released from jail, police say Brooks was 274 00:15:41,880 --> 00:15:42,560 Speaker 9: added again. 275 00:15:42,920 --> 00:15:46,920 Speaker 8: He was given a PR bond in April, and he 276 00:15:47,120 --> 00:15:50,120 Speaker 8: never showed up to court. What on earth makes you 277 00:15:50,280 --> 00:15:53,920 Speaker 8: think giving him a PR bond is in the best 278 00:15:54,040 --> 00:15:55,360 Speaker 8: interest of society. 279 00:15:55,440 --> 00:15:57,040 Speaker 3: It's beyond my comprehension. 280 00:15:57,320 --> 00:15:59,880 Speaker 10: The guy's been to prison for this, It's been in 281 00:16:00,040 --> 00:16:04,200 Speaker 10: dance multiple times. He's already proven he's not going to stop. 282 00:16:04,640 --> 00:16:05,560 Speaker 10: Lock him up. 283 00:16:06,120 --> 00:16:08,520 Speaker 9: God of course it's back in jail with this box. 284 00:16:08,640 --> 00:16:10,600 Speaker 3: I'd had thirty thousand dollars. 285 00:16:10,720 --> 00:16:13,000 Speaker 2: How many other different phone lines to the people for 286 00:16:13,120 --> 00:16:14,880 Speaker 2: whatever they want to talk about for just a second 287 00:16:14,960 --> 00:16:17,160 Speaker 2: or two seven one three nine nine nine one thousand, 288 00:16:17,280 --> 00:16:18,560 Speaker 2: seven one three nine nine. 289 00:16:18,520 --> 00:16:21,480 Speaker 3: Nine one thousand, but not drunk mark. Don't put trunk mark. 290 00:16:23,920 --> 00:16:28,440 Speaker 2: I have so many memories of this song. If you 291 00:16:28,480 --> 00:16:32,160 Speaker 2: ever came to the RCC. You know that the ritual, 292 00:16:32,680 --> 00:16:38,320 Speaker 2: the tradition. Every night if I was there was I 293 00:16:38,360 --> 00:16:41,280 Speaker 2: would bring the band on. But before I brought the 294 00:16:41,360 --> 00:16:44,600 Speaker 2: band on, I would go up and make announcements, and 295 00:16:44,640 --> 00:16:47,920 Speaker 2: then I would say, we have three rules. Number one, 296 00:16:48,840 --> 00:16:51,200 Speaker 2: we're not here to argue. You're here to make a friend, 297 00:16:51,520 --> 00:16:54,640 Speaker 2: So separate from the person you are with, tring and 298 00:16:54,720 --> 00:16:59,120 Speaker 2: make a friend. Number two, this is not a pickup bar. 299 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:01,920 Speaker 2: This is where people go for date night. This is 300 00:17:01,960 --> 00:17:04,520 Speaker 2: where married couples come. There are plenty of singles clubs. 301 00:17:04,920 --> 00:17:05,800 Speaker 3: That's not what this is. 302 00:17:06,880 --> 00:17:09,359 Speaker 2: If a woman is by herself, assume she is married, 303 00:17:09,560 --> 00:17:11,440 Speaker 2: this is a place she can go and feel comfortable 304 00:17:11,440 --> 00:17:13,200 Speaker 2: and not have to worry she's going to get hit on. 305 00:17:13,480 --> 00:17:14,439 Speaker 3: That's not what we are. 306 00:17:15,359 --> 00:17:18,720 Speaker 2: And number three, and at that point, Kevin Bull would 307 00:17:18,760 --> 00:17:21,480 Speaker 2: start in right there with that dun dun, dun. 308 00:17:23,800 --> 00:17:24,240 Speaker 3: Every time. 309 00:17:24,320 --> 00:17:26,800 Speaker 2: It would get me every time, and I'd have to 310 00:17:26,880 --> 00:17:29,159 Speaker 2: turn and look at him, like, man, I knew it 311 00:17:29,240 --> 00:17:33,520 Speaker 2: was coming, but it was always so much richer than 312 00:17:33,560 --> 00:17:35,800 Speaker 2: I expected it to be, and like it would kind 313 00:17:35,840 --> 00:17:38,359 Speaker 2: of it was startled me for a second. And then 314 00:17:38,359 --> 00:17:40,239 Speaker 2: we would bring our veterans forward and we would call 315 00:17:40,280 --> 00:17:41,800 Speaker 2: out each conflict and we would thank them. 316 00:17:42,840 --> 00:17:43,520 Speaker 3: It was amazing. 317 00:17:44,680 --> 00:17:49,280 Speaker 2: The ones that would get the most emotional were Vietnam veterans. 318 00:17:49,920 --> 00:17:53,600 Speaker 2: And I would have people tell me, you know, when 319 00:17:53,640 --> 00:17:57,600 Speaker 2: we opened in twenty thirteen, that was for many of 320 00:17:57,720 --> 00:18:01,920 Speaker 2: those guys forty years since they had forty to fifty 321 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:04,359 Speaker 2: years since they had come home, depending on when they served, 322 00:18:05,320 --> 00:18:08,639 Speaker 2: and so you add the ages, and so you had guys, 323 00:18:08,840 --> 00:18:10,000 Speaker 2: you know, sixty five. 324 00:18:09,920 --> 00:18:11,280 Speaker 3: To eighty years old. 325 00:18:11,920 --> 00:18:14,000 Speaker 2: And there were folks that said, my dad has never 326 00:18:14,160 --> 00:18:17,680 Speaker 2: mentioned Vietnam, not once. We've never never discussed it. He 327 00:18:17,720 --> 00:18:20,040 Speaker 2: doesn't wear the cap that says Vietnam veteran, he doesn't 328 00:18:20,080 --> 00:18:23,360 Speaker 2: talk about it. He doesn't watch the movies, we don't 329 00:18:23,400 --> 00:18:28,040 Speaker 2: ask questions, and something would move them and that would 330 00:18:28,080 --> 00:18:32,600 Speaker 2: start and they would come walking down and sometimes they 331 00:18:33,359 --> 00:18:37,879 Speaker 2: would have tears, and certainly their family would because you know, 332 00:18:38,080 --> 00:18:43,320 Speaker 2: dad or Grandpa has never talked about this once, and 333 00:18:43,480 --> 00:18:49,680 Speaker 2: it was a very very powerful moment. I do continue 334 00:18:49,960 --> 00:18:55,359 Speaker 2: to see out a location for the RCC two. The 335 00:18:55,480 --> 00:18:58,160 Speaker 2: two I go back to every time is the original 336 00:18:58,320 --> 00:19:02,560 Speaker 2: RCC location, which is not ideal because our people. 337 00:19:02,440 --> 00:19:03,440 Speaker 3: Don't live near there. 338 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:07,440 Speaker 2: And one of the great frustrations was that people had 339 00:19:07,520 --> 00:19:10,199 Speaker 2: to drive, in many cases forty five minutes to an 340 00:19:10,240 --> 00:19:13,480 Speaker 2: hour and a half to get there and get back. Well, 341 00:19:13,520 --> 00:19:17,040 Speaker 2: if you have a couple of pops, you know that's 342 00:19:17,119 --> 00:19:20,760 Speaker 2: a concern. It affected you know, the hardcore would come, 343 00:19:20,800 --> 00:19:22,080 Speaker 2: but there were a lot of people who said, man, 344 00:19:22,119 --> 00:19:25,000 Speaker 2: i'd like to and that's not a cheap uber rite, 345 00:19:25,160 --> 00:19:31,600 Speaker 2: so that was a challenge. It became the Sportsman's Club afterwards, 346 00:19:31,800 --> 00:19:34,480 Speaker 2: which was an urban bar. Is the term for that 347 00:19:34,720 --> 00:19:37,560 Speaker 2: in the business. And other than just needing a good 348 00:19:37,600 --> 00:19:41,360 Speaker 2: white down because it's dusty in there, it's actually set 349 00:19:41,440 --> 00:19:44,439 Speaker 2: up better than when we were there because it has 350 00:19:44,560 --> 00:19:47,760 Speaker 2: looks like the inside of Happy Days. It's set up 351 00:19:47,800 --> 00:19:50,720 Speaker 2: with booths that I think would be you could sell 352 00:19:50,760 --> 00:19:54,000 Speaker 2: them like football suites, where a company would buy the 353 00:19:54,080 --> 00:19:56,960 Speaker 2: booth for the year, and then you'd have your programming 354 00:19:57,000 --> 00:19:58,600 Speaker 2: budget for the year, and then you could go out 355 00:19:58,640 --> 00:20:00,480 Speaker 2: and book your bands, which is what I always wanted 356 00:20:00,520 --> 00:20:03,000 Speaker 2: to do in the first place. You'd have that certainty 357 00:20:03,160 --> 00:20:06,280 Speaker 2: to begin with. The other place that I keep looking 358 00:20:06,359 --> 00:20:09,680 Speaker 2: at is twenty nine to twenty Roadhouse because I really 359 00:20:09,840 --> 00:20:13,840 Speaker 2: like the owner, Kelly. He's done an amazing job. He 360 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:17,080 Speaker 2: just keeps making it better and better and better. He 361 00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:21,119 Speaker 2: would love to have a partner. The base is built 362 00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:26,000 Speaker 2: out like a brick well. It's built out nice, it's 363 00:20:26,040 --> 00:20:30,359 Speaker 2: got plenty of parking, and it's closer to where the 364 00:20:30,560 --> 00:20:34,280 Speaker 2: largest component of our audience is, whether they're coming from 365 00:20:34,320 --> 00:20:38,240 Speaker 2: the Woodlands and Willis West or two ninety or even 366 00:20:38,240 --> 00:20:41,400 Speaker 2: all the way up College Station down southeast from there. 367 00:20:41,920 --> 00:20:44,480 Speaker 2: And it would and even Katie could just come up 368 00:20:44,560 --> 00:20:49,720 Speaker 2: ninety nine, so that would probably be the most convenient location. 369 00:20:50,760 --> 00:20:55,280 Speaker 2: The downside to that is it's not entirely enclosed. And 370 00:20:55,400 --> 00:20:59,760 Speaker 2: I know people say, well, that doesn't matter because we 371 00:21:00,320 --> 00:21:04,280 Speaker 2: the RCC best. When we were outside, man, I remember 372 00:21:04,400 --> 00:21:10,159 Speaker 2: wearing a light blue shirt and we were outside and 373 00:21:10,280 --> 00:21:12,720 Speaker 2: it was early maybe it was Gene Watson, it was 374 00:21:12,720 --> 00:21:15,120 Speaker 2: one of those early concerts, and I remember my light 375 00:21:15,240 --> 00:21:21,120 Speaker 2: blue shirt being increasingly dark blue from the sweat. And man, 376 00:21:21,119 --> 00:21:24,240 Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell you, I'm twelve years older than I 377 00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:27,280 Speaker 2: was back then, and everybody in our audience is twelve 378 00:21:27,359 --> 00:21:30,840 Speaker 2: years older. That is rough to be outside, and then 379 00:21:30,880 --> 00:21:33,399 Speaker 2: you've got to worry about rain and all that. If 380 00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:37,000 Speaker 2: that was a completely enclosed structure, that's where we'd be, 381 00:21:38,119 --> 00:21:40,760 Speaker 2: and that may be where we end up after all. 382 00:21:40,840 --> 00:21:43,040 Speaker 2: But that's kind of some of the things that I'm thinking. 383 00:21:43,520 --> 00:21:45,880 Speaker 2: I looked, I was looking last night. I can't find 384 00:21:45,960 --> 00:21:50,120 Speaker 2: something else that seems to work for us. James, you're 385 00:21:50,119 --> 00:21:50,920 Speaker 2: on the Michael Berry Show. 386 00:21:50,920 --> 00:21:51,399 Speaker 5: Go ahead, sir. 387 00:21:55,400 --> 00:21:58,639 Speaker 11: I appreciate it. You got me thinking about catfish. Am 388 00:21:58,680 --> 00:22:01,080 Speaker 11: I right to San Antona? So it's me and the 389 00:22:01,119 --> 00:22:05,080 Speaker 11: truckers out here, and I just ask your question, what 390 00:22:05,160 --> 00:22:08,960 Speaker 11: are you dipping yours in? I'm going a trucker. I'm 391 00:22:09,480 --> 00:22:11,160 Speaker 11: going going to sant anton for work. 392 00:22:11,240 --> 00:22:12,560 Speaker 3: But what's work? 393 00:22:12,640 --> 00:22:13,119 Speaker 5: What do you do. 394 00:22:16,480 --> 00:22:19,960 Speaker 11: Director of capital project for a multi family ownership and 395 00:22:20,040 --> 00:22:20,760 Speaker 11: management group? 396 00:22:21,880 --> 00:22:24,080 Speaker 3: And so what is the meeting for what or what 397 00:22:24,280 --> 00:22:25,680 Speaker 3: is the visit for? What are you going to do 398 00:22:25,760 --> 00:22:26,280 Speaker 3: while you're there? 399 00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:32,000 Speaker 11: Going to do some walks and sign offs on into 400 00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:34,879 Speaker 11: your nextterior renovations at one of our communities. 401 00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:39,919 Speaker 2: Are you involved prior to the land purchase or are 402 00:22:40,040 --> 00:22:43,080 Speaker 2: you land purchased and then you begin this chematics and 403 00:22:43,119 --> 00:22:43,879 Speaker 2: all that and all. 404 00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:47,520 Speaker 3: Those guys report to you. Are you purely construction. 405 00:22:49,920 --> 00:22:54,320 Speaker 11: Well mostly capital. We buy Class A properties usually after 406 00:22:55,880 --> 00:22:59,720 Speaker 11: the lease up, so we're not actually doing ground up construction. 407 00:23:00,520 --> 00:23:05,119 Speaker 3: Okay, you buy them and then you know down the 408 00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:08,240 Speaker 3: road work. So what are you contributing? 409 00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:13,880 Speaker 11: We're long term hole okay, we're long term hole guys. 410 00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:17,760 Speaker 11: So you know, when the loan's up for a refie 411 00:23:18,119 --> 00:23:21,160 Speaker 11: five or seven years and we'll take that capital, put 412 00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:25,000 Speaker 11: it back into the property and renovate it. So that's 413 00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:29,399 Speaker 11: my process, is the big process, the and of the 414 00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:31,119 Speaker 11: work of the general contractors. 415 00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:35,640 Speaker 3: And are y'all based in Houston. 416 00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:42,360 Speaker 11: Our home office is in Houston. We've got properties throughout Texas, 417 00:23:43,280 --> 00:23:48,080 Speaker 11: some in Georgia, and one in lowly Fayetteville, Arkansas. 418 00:23:49,359 --> 00:23:50,600 Speaker 3: And is that student housing? 419 00:23:53,560 --> 00:23:55,520 Speaker 11: There are quite a few students there, but it's not 420 00:23:55,840 --> 00:23:57,719 Speaker 11: classified as student housing, No, sir. 421 00:23:58,359 --> 00:23:59,960 Speaker 3: And what's your background? Where'd you go to school? 422 00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:07,840 Speaker 11: That's a long story. Holy graduated high school. 423 00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:12,159 Speaker 3: Don't be ashamed of that. You should be proud of that. 424 00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:15,400 Speaker 3: Look how well you've done. I think that's awesome. Let's 425 00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:17,080 Speaker 3: all Charmay. 426 00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:25,200 Speaker 6: I'm embarrassed to tell you all this, but I actually 427 00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:27,840 Speaker 6: hang out with some very haggardly Hold. 428 00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:29,240 Speaker 3: I am not kidding you. 429 00:24:29,720 --> 00:24:32,359 Speaker 6: These women that goes to my church and get in 430 00:24:32,520 --> 00:24:36,160 Speaker 6: my car and we rides around. Okay, for the last 431 00:24:36,240 --> 00:24:38,920 Speaker 6: these weeks, we've been going every Friday night to get 432 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:42,600 Speaker 6: some free catfish at the Catholic church. And you say free, 433 00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:45,840 Speaker 6: I thought they charged, yes. But these women that go 434 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:49,040 Speaker 6: down there with they act like, oh we so poverty, 435 00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:51,840 Speaker 6: but we love the Lord and make the sign and cross. 436 00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:55,000 Speaker 6: They fall down on one knee and the pole freeze. 437 00:24:55,040 --> 00:24:57,080 Speaker 6: Ain't got no choice but to give them that and 438 00:24:57,200 --> 00:25:00,600 Speaker 6: a double helping of Cole slow goods. I ain't trying 439 00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:03,359 Speaker 6: to put nobody on blasts or spotlight, they asked, But 440 00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:05,359 Speaker 6: I about know what I'm talking about. Care Nigas and 441 00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:10,080 Speaker 6: doria El, Doris Finney and Beverly. But why yes, that's 442 00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:13,040 Speaker 6: them women's that can do all this ignorance. I had 443 00:25:13,119 --> 00:25:15,480 Speaker 6: confessed all this to the new preacher down in my 444 00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:18,119 Speaker 6: hold lot of second Baptist design turn recording for I 445 00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:20,680 Speaker 6: sawn on the third joining streaking rage, and I said, 446 00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:24,200 Speaker 6: what should I do? He said, get your nose out 447 00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:28,240 Speaker 6: of other people's business. It don't affect you. Your reputations 448 00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:31,720 Speaker 6: already run. Why do you even give a care? And 449 00:25:32,960 --> 00:25:35,840 Speaker 6: I said, well that's a good parent, isn't it? 450 00:25:36,080 --> 00:25:36,280 Speaker 8: Tell you? 451 00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:39,320 Speaker 6: Mama nam I asked, has she during Okay, now back 452 00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:40,760 Speaker 6: to the Michael bed program. 453 00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:44,679 Speaker 3: Let's go to John. 454 00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:49,080 Speaker 2: You're on the Michael Berry Show seven one three, one thousand. 455 00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:56,000 Speaker 2: Welcome to the program, sir. I'm not hearing him ramon. 456 00:25:56,440 --> 00:25:59,440 Speaker 2: Oh there we go, John, Yep, you're up, sir. 457 00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:00,800 Speaker 5: What are you doing today? 458 00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:02,160 Speaker 3: Michael Good. 459 00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:08,800 Speaker 5: Called about this weed issue that's going on between our 460 00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:13,640 Speaker 5: governor and Patrick and just I was worried it's gonna 461 00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:16,600 Speaker 5: turn into a political football that might end up costing 462 00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:20,399 Speaker 5: us here in twenty twenty six. And I don't know 463 00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:22,720 Speaker 5: why they can't figure out get your hands off their 464 00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:26,040 Speaker 5: lead and tell I'll let them be and pass the 465 00:26:26,119 --> 00:26:28,760 Speaker 5: laws that we want to see. They're they're doing a 466 00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:31,480 Speaker 5: bunch of other stuff and they're just being like democrats 467 00:26:31,520 --> 00:26:33,720 Speaker 5: are promising what we say we want them to do, 468 00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:35,720 Speaker 5: but then they go up and they seem to do 469 00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:36,639 Speaker 5: their own agendas. 470 00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:40,240 Speaker 3: John, did you intend your opening line to Ryn? 471 00:26:42,359 --> 00:26:42,639 Speaker 5: Nope? 472 00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:46,680 Speaker 3: Okay, there was a certain pattern to it in the 473 00:26:46,760 --> 00:26:50,840 Speaker 3: pacing that I found pleasing to the ear. Let me 474 00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:54,800 Speaker 3: answer to you what is happening? And this is as 475 00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:57,760 Speaker 3: clear and as honest and as true as I can 476 00:26:57,920 --> 00:27:06,920 Speaker 3: possibly make. This absolutely nobody was calling for this Senate 477 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:12,320 Speaker 3: bill IREI that Dan Patrick pushed through and pushed onto 478 00:27:12,359 --> 00:27:19,760 Speaker 3: Greg Avis desk, except the liquor industry. Good people, friends 479 00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:21,240 Speaker 3: of mine. I like them. 480 00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:28,960 Speaker 2: But here's the problem. Liquor sales are way down in 481 00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:36,080 Speaker 2: the under forty crowd. Sophisticated business owners don't wait on 482 00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:37,000 Speaker 2: people to come in the door. 483 00:27:38,359 --> 00:27:39,240 Speaker 3: They don't check the. 484 00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:44,040 Speaker 2: Numbers at the end of the day. They're looking five, ten, 485 00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:51,680 Speaker 2: fifteen years out. The trend line would tell you that 486 00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:58,880 Speaker 2: profits are going to continue to drop precipitously because more 487 00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:04,440 Speaker 2: people are grabbedating over to weed based products, hemp Delta eight. 488 00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:05,480 Speaker 3: And here's the reason. 489 00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:10,520 Speaker 2: First of all, if you've got liver problems, which if 490 00:28:10,560 --> 00:28:17,080 Speaker 2: you drink long enough everybody will. Secondly, the calories. People 491 00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:22,320 Speaker 2: don't want all the calories of alcohol. Third, you don't 492 00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:26,280 Speaker 2: have a hangover the next day. There are a number 493 00:28:26,359 --> 00:28:29,960 Speaker 2: of people who find pain relief in hemp based products 494 00:28:30,080 --> 00:28:34,840 Speaker 2: and the Delta eight products, and they don't get that 495 00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:35,600 Speaker 2: out of alcohol. 496 00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:38,720 Speaker 3: I wish I got it. I mean, I wish it 497 00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:41,560 Speaker 3: did something for me. It doesn't. But I will tell 498 00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:44,920 Speaker 3: you that I enjoy alcohol, I. 499 00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:48,280 Speaker 2: Enjoy wine, I enjoy beer, and I enjoy bourbon depending 500 00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:50,640 Speaker 2: on the mood, depending on the feel and the vibe 501 00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:53,160 Speaker 2: and all that sort of stuff. But a lot of people, 502 00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:58,920 Speaker 2: including older people who have joint pain, a lot of veterans, 503 00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:00,959 Speaker 2: and this, this is what bit them. 504 00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:02,600 Speaker 3: The veterans is what bit them. 505 00:29:03,560 --> 00:29:10,960 Speaker 2: A lot of veterans find relief from psychiatric problems and 506 00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:16,760 Speaker 2: some health problems, some physical problems in these products. So 507 00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:19,680 Speaker 2: what happened is You've got Greg Abbott's chief of staff 508 00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:24,400 Speaker 2: hired by the alcohol industry, Dan Patrick's chief of staff 509 00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:28,920 Speaker 2: hired by the alcohol industry, and Dan Patrick's consultant, Alan Blakemore, 510 00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:35,520 Speaker 2: hired by the beer Alliance. Well, the funny thing about 511 00:29:35,560 --> 00:29:41,160 Speaker 2: Blakemore is Blakemore is both the consultant and the lobbyist 512 00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:45,240 Speaker 2: at the same time. Well, here's what nobody in Texas 513 00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:46,400 Speaker 2: wants to say, and I'll say. 514 00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:46,560 Speaker 10: It for you. 515 00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:51,400 Speaker 2: Remember when you wanted to give money to Joe Biden 516 00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:55,840 Speaker 2: and you gave it to his son, you bought his art. 517 00:29:56,120 --> 00:29:58,840 Speaker 2: Remember that he was the highest priced artist in the 518 00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:02,320 Speaker 2: world for a peer time. You think anybody was buying 519 00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:09,880 Speaker 2: Hunter Biden's fingerpaint. They were paying Hunter to benefit Joe Biden, Right, 520 00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:17,800 Speaker 2: why do you hire Alan Blakemore. Think about this, So 521 00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:25,040 Speaker 2: you've got you've got Alan Blakemore running this operation politically. 522 00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:28,000 Speaker 3: And getting paid as a lobbyist. 523 00:30:29,040 --> 00:30:31,240 Speaker 2: Just pay dan Patrick just put it in his own 524 00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:34,960 Speaker 2: Just why are the money into his account? Let's stop pretending. 525 00:30:35,080 --> 00:30:37,520 Speaker 2: Let's not go through all the charade of all this 526 00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:41,120 Speaker 2: just buying cars and do Let's just make it as 527 00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:44,920 Speaker 2: a just disgusting as we can, because that's what's happening. 528 00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:47,840 Speaker 3: That is what is happening. 529 00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:52,200 Speaker 2: So dan Patrick went to the legislative, went to the 530 00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:56,640 Speaker 2: House of Representatives in the Senate, said, nothing gets through 531 00:30:56,720 --> 00:31:01,120 Speaker 2: here this year, nothing unless I get my bill. We've 532 00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:03,480 Speaker 2: had state reps have come out and said that that's 533 00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:06,800 Speaker 2: why they got them to support it. Nobody at the 534 00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:09,640 Speaker 2: grassroots level was asking for this. It wasn't in the 535 00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:12,760 Speaker 2: Republican agenda that the grassroots voted for at the state 536 00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:16,320 Speaker 2: party convention. No state parties were asking for it. Nobody 537 00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:19,360 Speaker 2: was asking for it except for this small special interest. 538 00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:22,320 Speaker 2: So this thing comes out of nowhere and then all 539 00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:24,920 Speaker 2: of a sudden it gets passed and the veterans rose up, 540 00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:29,400 Speaker 2: and that's what happened. So they have pissed off the veterans. 541 00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:33,600 Speaker 2: The polling shows that a majority of Texans did not 542 00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:37,800 Speaker 2: want this, the vast majority. You can't get that many 543 00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:43,400 Speaker 2: Texans to agree on anything in both parties, and you 544 00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:45,320 Speaker 2: would like to have some of those Democrats to win 545 00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:48,880 Speaker 2: state right offices. That's why Soros is ready to pour 546 00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:51,720 Speaker 2: this money in. That's why Colin all Read just announced 547 00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:54,400 Speaker 2: that he's running. That's why Beto's getting ready to run. 548 00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:58,520 Speaker 2: They have weakened the Republican Party out of all this nonsense. 549 00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:03,360 Speaker 2: That's what's happened. Abbot is not in a deep disagreement 550 00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:06,000 Speaker 2: with Dan Patrick. Abbott has no core values. Let me 551 00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:09,880 Speaker 2: explain this to you. Abbot is a vessel through which 552 00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:15,120 Speaker 2: his own ambition runs. He is the best fundraiser there's 553 00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:17,520 Speaker 2: ever been in the state of Texas, because all he 554 00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:20,560 Speaker 2: does is raise money, because money allows him to scare 555 00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:23,080 Speaker 2: off opponents in a primary and in a runoff, and 556 00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:25,600 Speaker 2: it allows him to run ads. So he can have 557 00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:29,520 Speaker 2: himself sitting in a wheelchair and a rock thrown near him, 558 00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:31,360 Speaker 2: and then he's in the wheelchair and he says, I 559 00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:33,000 Speaker 2: guess you could throw rocks at me because I'm in 560 00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:35,120 Speaker 2: a wheelchair. But I just want to be the governor, 561 00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:38,080 Speaker 2: and that's what he does. He just raises money. He's 562 00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:40,560 Speaker 2: not viscerally opposed to this bill. 563 00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:43,280 Speaker 3: He didn't want it to be over. 564 00:32:43,320 --> 00:32:46,600 Speaker 2: It's gonna pass and he's gonna sign it, and Republicans 565 00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:47,400 Speaker 2: are gonna pay for it,