1 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:11,680 Speaker 1: It's that time time time, time walking, Lord, So Michael 2 00:00:11,880 --> 00:00:13,760 Speaker 1: Arry Show is on the air. 3 00:00:19,480 --> 00:00:21,639 Speaker 2: You know, this morning I was thinking about this big 4 00:00:21,640 --> 00:00:25,599 Speaker 2: old girl, big woman. Used to be the assistant manager 5 00:00:25,640 --> 00:00:29,000 Speaker 2: over here to Derry Queen. You remember her name was Chiffon. 6 00:00:30,560 --> 00:00:34,639 Speaker 2: You remember on Big Chiffon. I remember working down there. 7 00:00:35,640 --> 00:00:38,440 Speaker 2: If I'm only at the crack of dawn, you still 8 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:41,640 Speaker 2: arrived by six foot six three forty five, big old 9 00:00:41,720 --> 00:00:45,640 Speaker 2: broad shoulders and big old hills. Everybody knows you ain't 10 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:50,800 Speaker 2: gave no lip to miss Chiffon, No Lord, not to hug. 11 00:00:52,440 --> 00:00:56,920 Speaker 2: She's not k t vows she was tough MISCHIEFU. 12 00:00:58,480 --> 00:00:59,640 Speaker 3: Yes, Lord. 13 00:01:02,040 --> 00:01:04,360 Speaker 2: Nobody seemed to know where she call home. 14 00:01:04,600 --> 00:01:07,920 Speaker 3: She just drift into town. She stay all alone, she. 15 00:01:08,160 --> 00:01:10,680 Speaker 2: Said, much kind of quiet and shy, and if you 16 00:01:10,840 --> 00:01:13,840 Speaker 2: spoke at all, you better just say how you during. 17 00:01:13,640 --> 00:01:16,920 Speaker 3: This shit falled chapall. 18 00:01:17,440 --> 00:01:21,000 Speaker 2: She didn't like no kind of conversation, not her, Lord, 19 00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:26,959 Speaker 2: big Chapon, big old hips on her, big old woman. 20 00:01:28,400 --> 00:01:31,520 Speaker 2: Somebody says she come from New Orleans and she got 21 00:01:31,520 --> 00:01:34,360 Speaker 2: in a big fight with a Cajun queen and a 22 00:01:34,480 --> 00:01:37,800 Speaker 2: crashing blow from a huge right hands and a Louisiana 23 00:01:38,160 --> 00:01:45,600 Speaker 2: to the promised land, that Shi falled, graminal convictions, aggravated 24 00:01:45,720 --> 00:01:48,720 Speaker 2: US Salt assistant manager, that ship on. 25 00:01:50,880 --> 00:01:54,560 Speaker 3: Der Queen. But that's just how I meant. But I 26 00:01:54,640 --> 00:01:56,680 Speaker 3: might be wrong. Tell your Mama and them. I asking, 27 00:01:56,760 --> 00:02:02,520 Speaker 3: has your nerve now, honey? For the last year we 28 00:02:02,680 --> 00:02:07,560 Speaker 3: were told by Lena and Rodney that Harris County was 29 00:02:07,640 --> 00:02:12,519 Speaker 3: so broke despite record revenues, your property taxes have increased. 30 00:02:14,440 --> 00:02:18,720 Speaker 3: In Republicans' own this, you'll hear from Republicans that they're 31 00:02:18,840 --> 00:02:24,320 Speaker 3: cutting property taxes. Look at the check you write for 32 00:02:24,480 --> 00:02:31,000 Speaker 3: property taxes your school district, your county. Compare it to 33 00:02:31,120 --> 00:02:35,440 Speaker 3: last year. Is that check higher or lower than it 34 00:02:35,639 --> 00:02:40,480 Speaker 3: was last year? If it's higher than it was last year, 35 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:46,600 Speaker 3: how are they claiming that they have cut your taxes. 36 00:02:48,440 --> 00:02:52,760 Speaker 3: But here's the best part. The most prominent Republican in 37 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:59,840 Speaker 3: the region, Paul Bettencourt, was the county tax assessor Collector's 38 00:03:00,040 --> 00:03:01,920 Speaker 3: stepped out of that job to which he was elected 39 00:03:03,320 --> 00:03:08,360 Speaker 3: to partner up with some company to protest taxes. I'm 40 00:03:08,520 --> 00:03:11,400 Speaker 3: the tax man, he said, so he was going to 41 00:03:11,440 --> 00:03:15,840 Speaker 3: help you save money on your taxes by protesting your 42 00:03:15,880 --> 00:03:21,200 Speaker 3: property taxes. And then he promptly runs for the state Senate. Well, 43 00:03:21,240 --> 00:03:24,440 Speaker 3: wait a second, you just got elected to the other 44 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:28,760 Speaker 3: job you leave to be the face of a company 45 00:03:28,840 --> 00:03:33,480 Speaker 3: that makes money protesting property taxes because our government won't 46 00:03:33,520 --> 00:03:35,480 Speaker 3: cut them and they're too high because our government is 47 00:03:35,480 --> 00:03:40,160 Speaker 3: spending too much money. And then wait a second, and 48 00:03:40,320 --> 00:03:45,520 Speaker 3: then you're going to become one of the legislators writing 49 00:03:45,560 --> 00:03:49,640 Speaker 3: the laws that are causing our taxes to rise, all 50 00:03:49,760 --> 00:03:54,800 Speaker 3: the while claiming you're cutting our property taxes. What are 51 00:03:54,880 --> 00:04:00,480 Speaker 3: we doing here? What is this? Oh, Michael, don't criticize Paul. 52 00:04:00,600 --> 00:04:05,200 Speaker 3: He's a okay, all right, I know I'm not the 53 00:04:05,240 --> 00:04:10,280 Speaker 3: only one who noticed. And then you find out that 54 00:04:10,400 --> 00:04:16,640 Speaker 3: his company makes money protesting your artificially high taxes and 55 00:04:16,960 --> 00:04:21,640 Speaker 3: keeping half of what you get back when you protest 56 00:04:22,120 --> 00:04:29,159 Speaker 3: for themselves. So if everybody protests and they get half 57 00:04:29,240 --> 00:04:35,320 Speaker 3: of what you save, my you're making as much money 58 00:04:35,360 --> 00:04:40,680 Speaker 3: as a governmental entity that beats honest work. That's a 59 00:04:40,800 --> 00:04:48,920 Speaker 3: lot of money. So if you're in the business when 60 00:04:49,200 --> 00:04:54,360 Speaker 3: tax when the tax bill is too high property tax 61 00:04:54,440 --> 00:05:00,560 Speaker 3: bill for a resident, and by protesting it you get 62 00:05:00,680 --> 00:05:05,400 Speaker 3: half of it back, do you have a financial incentive 63 00:05:06,120 --> 00:05:08,320 Speaker 3: during your day job, which is not where you make 64 00:05:08,360 --> 00:05:16,600 Speaker 3: your money for taxes to be higher are lower. If 65 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:22,160 Speaker 3: everyone's taxes dropped to less than they were last year, 66 00:05:23,320 --> 00:05:29,000 Speaker 3: you would have no basis for protesting your taxes and 67 00:05:29,120 --> 00:05:37,880 Speaker 3: they would make no money. Oh oh, well, let's make 68 00:05:37,960 --> 00:05:43,800 Speaker 3: sure we only criticize the Democrats and never the Republicans 69 00:05:44,839 --> 00:05:48,479 Speaker 3: who keep telling us at election time that we're about 70 00:05:48,560 --> 00:05:51,400 Speaker 3: to cut taxes. We've cut taxes, We're about to cut taxes. 71 00:05:51,480 --> 00:05:55,480 Speaker 3: We've cut taxes. But have we we look at my 72 00:05:55,600 --> 00:05:59,080 Speaker 3: bill here? Why am I paying more for my bill? 73 00:06:01,320 --> 00:06:03,919 Speaker 3: We have Republicans in charge of the House, the Senate, 74 00:06:04,120 --> 00:06:09,680 Speaker 3: in the governor's office, right, and we've got a Republican, 75 00:06:09,839 --> 00:06:12,840 Speaker 3: Dustin Burroughs as the Speaker of the House. But as 76 00:06:12,920 --> 00:06:15,839 Speaker 3: we have told you again and again and again, he's 77 00:06:15,920 --> 00:06:20,680 Speaker 3: actually elected by the Democrats. But nobody wants to hear 78 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:24,920 Speaker 3: that because he claims to be a Republican. So the Democrats. 79 00:06:24,960 --> 00:06:27,839 Speaker 3: You got one hundred and fifty House members. The Democrats, 80 00:06:27,880 --> 00:06:31,560 Speaker 3: however many of them there are fifty sixty. They say, 81 00:06:31,640 --> 00:06:34,120 Speaker 3: we get all these votes. All we got to get 82 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:36,200 Speaker 3: to is seventy six out of one hundred and fifty. 83 00:06:37,080 --> 00:06:38,680 Speaker 3: So let's say they have sixty. I don't know how 84 00:06:38,720 --> 00:06:40,839 Speaker 3: many they have right now, it doesn't matter. They have enough. 85 00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:47,120 Speaker 3: They take their sixty and they team up with sixteen Republicans, 86 00:06:48,200 --> 00:06:53,120 Speaker 3: So out of ninety Republicans they get one in six, 87 00:06:53,560 --> 00:06:57,040 Speaker 3: one in five, one five and a half. They get 88 00:06:57,560 --> 00:07:00,359 Speaker 3: less than twenty percent of the Republican is to come 89 00:07:00,400 --> 00:07:04,640 Speaker 3: over with them, and they get to seventy six. Once 90 00:07:04,720 --> 00:07:07,840 Speaker 3: they get to seventy six, a lot of Republicans who 91 00:07:07,839 --> 00:07:10,600 Speaker 3: don't want Burroughs because he's beholden to the Democrats already. 92 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:17,600 Speaker 3: Go man, whether we lose seventy six, seventy four or 93 00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:21,400 Speaker 3: one hundred and thirty to twenty, we're going to lose. 94 00:07:22,640 --> 00:07:25,280 Speaker 3: And if I fight this and call it out publicly 95 00:07:25,360 --> 00:07:29,360 Speaker 3: the way Brian Harrison has, the way Ken Paxton did 96 00:07:29,520 --> 00:07:33,160 Speaker 3: when he was a state rep. If I call this 97 00:07:33,280 --> 00:07:38,200 Speaker 3: out publicly, I'll never get a committee chairmanship. Because all 98 00:07:38,280 --> 00:07:40,480 Speaker 3: the power rests in the hands of the Speaker of 99 00:07:40,520 --> 00:07:45,280 Speaker 3: the House. The Speaker of the House made James Taller 100 00:07:45,320 --> 00:07:49,960 Speaker 3: Rico one of the most powerful members of the entire House. 101 00:07:51,720 --> 00:07:56,520 Speaker 3: Tallo Rico had built a power base in the capital 102 00:07:57,920 --> 00:08:04,400 Speaker 3: as a prominent Democrat. He couldn't do that unless Burrows 103 00:08:04,960 --> 00:08:08,720 Speaker 3: put him in charge of or the vice chairman of 104 00:08:08,960 --> 00:08:12,680 Speaker 3: powerful committees. It's only now that people are seeing what 105 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:16,520 Speaker 3: a demon Tallerico is. But Burrows thought he was just swell, 106 00:08:17,080 --> 00:08:19,680 Speaker 3: you know, the Burroughs that's supposed to be the leader 107 00:08:19,720 --> 00:08:21,080 Speaker 3: of the Republicans in the House. 108 00:08:21,920 --> 00:08:24,640 Speaker 4: Chuck Norris is the only person who can slam a 109 00:08:24,720 --> 00:08:26,880 Speaker 4: revolving door, Michael Berry. 110 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:32,120 Speaker 3: Chuck Norris can eat just one Las potato chip. So 111 00:08:32,679 --> 00:08:37,760 Speaker 3: for the last year, we were told by Lena and 112 00:08:37,880 --> 00:08:44,840 Speaker 3: Rodney that Harris County was broke, really really broke, which 113 00:08:44,920 --> 00:08:50,400 Speaker 3: is amazing because, as I said, property tax revenues are 114 00:08:50,480 --> 00:08:53,760 Speaker 3: higher than they've ever been. The county has more money 115 00:08:53,760 --> 00:08:59,000 Speaker 3: than it's ever had, So why are they broke. They're 116 00:08:59,040 --> 00:09:02,520 Speaker 3: not broke. They spend on what they want to spend. 117 00:09:03,800 --> 00:09:06,920 Speaker 3: So they told the constables, Nope, you can go to 118 00:09:06,960 --> 00:09:11,479 Speaker 3: work for another department. We don't care. Remember the constables, 119 00:09:12,360 --> 00:09:16,800 Speaker 3: the constable's deputies work for the constables, and the constables 120 00:09:17,360 --> 00:09:23,559 Speaker 3: are elected. And what happens is those constables tend to 121 00:09:23,559 --> 00:09:32,400 Speaker 3: be Republicans, and Lena and Rodney don't want Republicans as 122 00:09:32,520 --> 00:09:35,760 Speaker 3: constables to be able to run their law enforcement agency. 123 00:09:37,600 --> 00:09:39,760 Speaker 3: So they don't want to pay the pay raises, and 124 00:09:39,880 --> 00:09:43,480 Speaker 3: they don't care. They just as soon collapse the constabulary 125 00:09:43,880 --> 00:09:49,240 Speaker 3: into Harris County Sheriff's Office, which they have more control over. 126 00:09:50,640 --> 00:09:53,559 Speaker 3: So there was no money for constables for constable's raises. Remember, 127 00:09:53,920 --> 00:09:59,599 Speaker 3: it got very, very heated. And yet the Democrat and 128 00:09:59,640 --> 00:10:05,720 Speaker 3: majority of Adrian Garcia, Leslie Brioni's, Lena Hidalgo and Rodney Ellis, 129 00:10:06,160 --> 00:10:10,040 Speaker 3: four out of the five have approved Rodney Ellis's plan 130 00:10:12,200 --> 00:10:17,240 Speaker 3: to basically unionize county employees, not officially unionized, but we're 131 00:10:17,280 --> 00:10:21,679 Speaker 3: headed there's where there are steps in that process. So 132 00:10:21,840 --> 00:10:24,840 Speaker 3: now they have allowed county employees to demand more pay 133 00:10:24,920 --> 00:10:30,760 Speaker 3: through labor organizations, which is basically a workaround. And give 134 00:10:30,880 --> 00:10:34,280 Speaker 3: Rodney credit, he's clever. I told you this. There's a 135 00:10:34,320 --> 00:10:38,640 Speaker 3: state law that prohibits public employees in Texas from collectively bargaining. 136 00:10:40,760 --> 00:10:45,840 Speaker 3: So they have created a workaround so that they can 137 00:10:45,920 --> 00:10:48,720 Speaker 3: get more pay, they can demand more pay, and then 138 00:10:48,760 --> 00:10:53,079 Speaker 3: they go, huh, sorry, we have to pay the county employees, 139 00:10:53,720 --> 00:10:57,880 Speaker 3: not the constable's deputies, the county employees. What are they 140 00:10:57,920 --> 00:11:02,040 Speaker 3: trying to do? Exactly the way Lee Brown won the 141 00:11:02,120 --> 00:11:07,760 Speaker 3: mayor's office for reelection. You get the civilian employees out 142 00:11:07,960 --> 00:11:12,439 Speaker 3: to vote, and you've got a captured vote. So this 143 00:11:12,600 --> 00:11:16,480 Speaker 3: would make Rodney Ellis and Lena Hidalgo the ultimate authority 144 00:11:16,559 --> 00:11:21,480 Speaker 3: on personnel policies and recommendations on bargaining matters. So that 145 00:11:21,520 --> 00:11:25,839 Speaker 3: would give him more power and more votes. And that's 146 00:11:25,920 --> 00:11:28,960 Speaker 3: the point. Rodney would like everybody to work for him, 147 00:11:30,120 --> 00:11:32,400 Speaker 3: and he'd get he'd pay him more money, because it's 148 00:11:32,440 --> 00:11:36,079 Speaker 3: your money, not his anyway, he'd pay the people more 149 00:11:36,160 --> 00:11:39,959 Speaker 3: money out of your pocket because everybody that works for 150 00:11:40,080 --> 00:11:43,760 Speaker 3: him and that he can pay more money votes for him. 151 00:11:45,120 --> 00:11:48,000 Speaker 3: And that's what he's created, his own little boss hog 152 00:11:48,080 --> 00:11:54,320 Speaker 3: over the county. And he's done it right before our 153 00:11:54,440 --> 00:11:59,679 Speaker 3: very eyes, starting in twenty eighteen with the defeat of 154 00:11:59,840 --> 00:12:06,199 Speaker 3: ed Emmitt by Lena Hidalgo and then the redistricting to 155 00:12:06,360 --> 00:12:10,960 Speaker 3: kick tactics Jack Cagle out of office. So you went 156 00:12:11,080 --> 00:12:13,280 Speaker 3: from the county being Republican for as long as I've 157 00:12:13,320 --> 00:12:17,520 Speaker 3: lived here to now the county being Democrat. You went 158 00:12:17,679 --> 00:12:22,800 Speaker 3: from the model of good, effective, efficient governance across the 159 00:12:22,880 --> 00:12:30,000 Speaker 3: country to now clowns art Story who was head of 160 00:12:30,280 --> 00:12:32,760 Speaker 3: Public Works or I forget what they called the title 161 00:12:32,840 --> 00:12:34,679 Speaker 3: at the county at the time art Story was there, 162 00:12:34,720 --> 00:12:40,720 Speaker 3: probably three decades. Art Story was renowned across the country. 163 00:12:41,760 --> 00:12:46,679 Speaker 3: For a guy who runs a good infrastructure department, and 164 00:12:46,800 --> 00:12:49,199 Speaker 3: that's one of the most important things the county can do, 165 00:12:49,920 --> 00:12:54,360 Speaker 3: roads and bridges and drainage. We didn't have the problems 166 00:12:54,360 --> 00:12:57,600 Speaker 3: then because art Story wasn't there to play games. Art 167 00:12:57,600 --> 00:13:03,000 Speaker 3: Story was there to efficient wick the water out of 168 00:13:03,040 --> 00:13:07,440 Speaker 3: our communities when it hit the ground. You had Wesley Freeze, 169 00:13:08,440 --> 00:13:13,160 Speaker 3: one of the foremost transportation experts in the country, in 170 00:13:13,320 --> 00:13:17,520 Speaker 3: charge of the transportation department. And then eventually the toll roads. 171 00:13:18,160 --> 00:13:19,719 Speaker 3: And I understand a lot of people don't like the 172 00:13:19,760 --> 00:13:23,839 Speaker 3: toll roads or whatever your issue is, just focus on 173 00:13:23,920 --> 00:13:27,840 Speaker 3: this aspect of it. Are those roads in good working condition? 174 00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:34,120 Speaker 3: Are they cleared? Watch when a car is disabled on 175 00:13:34,240 --> 00:13:39,280 Speaker 3: the toll road, how quickly that or any debris is removed. 176 00:13:40,360 --> 00:13:43,000 Speaker 3: And then go over to the city and look look 177 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:47,000 Speaker 3: at a city road, Look at how well paved. You 178 00:13:47,120 --> 00:13:51,319 Speaker 3: don't have big potholes on the toll road. It's so 179 00:13:51,520 --> 00:13:55,719 Speaker 3: much more efficient. This was a county government that was 180 00:13:55,920 --> 00:14:00,560 Speaker 3: incredibly well run. Democrats got in charge. They put there, 181 00:14:00,600 --> 00:14:03,360 Speaker 3: but you think about the people. Sylvester Turner put in 182 00:14:03,520 --> 00:14:06,560 Speaker 3: at the city Waldo. These are not people who are leaders. 183 00:14:06,640 --> 00:14:11,120 Speaker 3: These are corrupt third world banana republics, dictators. To season 184 00:14:11,280 --> 00:14:18,600 Speaker 3: his meat checked one hundreds. What's he doing these days? 185 00:14:21,720 --> 00:14:27,000 Speaker 3: I mean, what drug? You know, what's he putting? You know, 186 00:14:28,800 --> 00:14:35,880 Speaker 3: the Houston Chronicle cannot help itself with their dying breath. 187 00:14:37,440 --> 00:14:46,000 Speaker 3: They crap on everything Houston. They cannot help themselves. Typical 188 00:14:47,080 --> 00:14:53,360 Speaker 3: fake left wing. It's not journalism from the Houston Chronicle. 189 00:14:53,600 --> 00:15:00,160 Speaker 3: So you've got the University of Houston basketball team. So 190 00:15:00,320 --> 00:15:02,520 Speaker 3: I was at University of Houston from eighty nine to 191 00:15:02,640 --> 00:15:08,400 Speaker 3: ninety three. That was the time when Andre Ware, when 192 00:15:08,840 --> 00:15:14,840 Speaker 3: the heisman, David Klingler came in. Then you had Jimmy 193 00:15:14,920 --> 00:15:18,640 Speaker 3: his younger brother. After that, the football team was very good, 194 00:15:20,680 --> 00:15:23,200 Speaker 3: but then it would it would fall into a slide 195 00:15:24,320 --> 00:15:26,440 Speaker 3: from which it would not recover for a few years. 196 00:15:29,200 --> 00:15:33,320 Speaker 3: You had University of Houston being talked about in football 197 00:15:34,160 --> 00:15:39,600 Speaker 3: on a national scale. And this was just five years 198 00:15:40,560 --> 00:15:45,520 Speaker 3: after the University of Houston eighty three eighty four. Those teams, 199 00:15:47,440 --> 00:15:49,040 Speaker 3: I mean, I guess it doesn't say anything that it's 200 00:15:49,320 --> 00:15:51,400 Speaker 3: my all time favorite, because of course it would be. 201 00:15:52,080 --> 00:15:55,640 Speaker 3: But there were a lot of people outside of Houston 202 00:15:56,880 --> 00:16:01,280 Speaker 3: who were just fans of college basketball. Look at those teams. 203 00:16:03,720 --> 00:16:11,800 Speaker 3: Bennie Anders, Clyde Drexler, a Keem Malajuwan Reid Gettis, Larry Mishow, 204 00:16:12,200 --> 00:16:18,840 Speaker 3: Michael Yong. I mean, you talk about talent on a 205 00:16:19,120 --> 00:16:26,160 Speaker 3: college team, it was incredible. They're starting five people. Forget 206 00:16:26,240 --> 00:16:31,720 Speaker 3: how good Reid Gettis was. This was pre three point line. 207 00:16:33,880 --> 00:16:37,600 Speaker 3: If Reid Gettis could have counted three pointers, but his 208 00:16:38,560 --> 00:16:45,280 Speaker 3: assists in that offense and defense and just talent. Guy 209 00:16:45,400 --> 00:16:48,360 Speaker 3: ve Lewis, I mean within a shot of winning a 210 00:16:48,440 --> 00:16:52,840 Speaker 3: national championship, within a few seconds winning a national championship. 211 00:16:53,920 --> 00:16:55,720 Speaker 3: I think it's the only program to go to the 212 00:16:56,400 --> 00:16:58,320 Speaker 3: Let me see if he is the only program to 213 00:16:58,360 --> 00:17:00,280 Speaker 3: go to the finals. What did I read three time? 214 00:17:00,360 --> 00:17:05,480 Speaker 3: Now four times and not have won a championship. It's 215 00:17:05,480 --> 00:17:09,720 Speaker 3: an incredible program. And Kelvin Sampson, I've told you the 216 00:17:09,760 --> 00:17:12,040 Speaker 3: story before, so forgive me for repeating my story. Has 217 00:17:12,040 --> 00:17:15,159 Speaker 3: I only got so many My wife was on the 218 00:17:15,240 --> 00:17:20,800 Speaker 3: board thirteen thirteen years ago. She comes home one day. 219 00:17:20,920 --> 00:17:24,720 Speaker 3: Remember we met at uh and eighty nine because she 220 00:17:24,880 --> 00:17:26,800 Speaker 3: was ahead of me in school. She started law school 221 00:17:26,800 --> 00:17:28,159 Speaker 3: there because we didn't know where I was going to go. 222 00:17:28,200 --> 00:17:31,280 Speaker 3: I was a year behind her. She finished law school 223 00:17:31,280 --> 00:17:33,080 Speaker 3: there and spent one year in between up at ut 224 00:17:33,280 --> 00:17:38,080 Speaker 3: with me as a busying student. We had met there. 225 00:17:39,200 --> 00:17:42,920 Speaker 3: We both graduated from there. She started a PhD in 226 00:17:43,080 --> 00:17:45,920 Speaker 3: economics there, then went to law school. Did not finish 227 00:17:45,960 --> 00:17:48,600 Speaker 3: her PhD, by the way, because I was very keen. 228 00:17:48,720 --> 00:17:54,400 Speaker 3: She switched to law school and she did advisory board 229 00:17:55,200 --> 00:17:59,560 Speaker 3: alumni activities supporting that school. We had a real connection 230 00:17:59,680 --> 00:18:03,640 Speaker 3: to you at so she was serving as the vice 231 00:18:03,760 --> 00:18:05,960 Speaker 3: chair on the Border Regions. Tilmann had just come on 232 00:18:06,080 --> 00:18:08,160 Speaker 3: the board as the secretary. He was getting very excited 233 00:18:08,200 --> 00:18:11,680 Speaker 3: about you. Agent. Would end up really really doing a 234 00:18:11,760 --> 00:18:14,520 Speaker 3: lot for the school. Would go on to be the chairman. 235 00:18:15,760 --> 00:18:18,160 Speaker 3: We had a new president at the time. She's still there, 236 00:18:18,240 --> 00:18:19,560 Speaker 3: which we didn't think we'd be able to keep her 237 00:18:19,560 --> 00:18:23,200 Speaker 3: this long. And good things were happening at the University 238 00:18:23,200 --> 00:18:26,600 Speaker 3: of Houston, and my wife comes home one day, being 239 00:18:26,680 --> 00:18:29,000 Speaker 3: from India, not the biggest sports fan, but she sat 240 00:18:29,040 --> 00:18:30,800 Speaker 3: on the couch and watch sports with me. So she's 241 00:18:30,840 --> 00:18:34,000 Speaker 3: picked up enough and she said, we got a new coach, 242 00:18:35,040 --> 00:18:37,800 Speaker 3: and I think we got a chance to be a 243 00:18:37,920 --> 00:18:43,679 Speaker 3: national powerhouse in basketball. This was twenty thirteen, twenty fourteen, 244 00:18:43,760 --> 00:18:48,920 Speaker 3: twenty thirteen. I said, sweetheart, the University of Houston will 245 00:18:48,960 --> 00:18:53,680 Speaker 3: never compete on a national level ever again. That day 246 00:18:53,720 --> 00:18:58,320 Speaker 3: has passed the gap. You know, the old Southwest Conference 247 00:18:59,320 --> 00:19:02,440 Speaker 3: where you A. You know, in the late seventies, UH 248 00:19:02,520 --> 00:19:06,720 Speaker 3: would beat UT in A and M. And then in 249 00:19:07,280 --> 00:19:11,600 Speaker 3: the late eighties early nineties with Andre and Manny Hazard 250 00:19:11,680 --> 00:19:15,040 Speaker 3: and Chuck Weatherspoon and those teams. UH would win some 251 00:19:15,160 --> 00:19:18,200 Speaker 3: games then too, and was probably better than those teams 252 00:19:18,480 --> 00:19:21,840 Speaker 3: for a few years there. But I said, it's twenty thirteen, 253 00:19:21,920 --> 00:19:26,560 Speaker 3: We'll never compete again. And she said, no, this guy, 254 00:19:26,640 --> 00:19:30,120 Speaker 3: Kelvin Samson, I'm telling you, And I said, please leave 255 00:19:30,200 --> 00:19:32,520 Speaker 3: the sports to me. You can have a lot of things, 256 00:19:32,560 --> 00:19:35,240 Speaker 3: would leave the sports to me. Well, here we are, 257 00:19:36,240 --> 00:19:38,359 Speaker 3: and UH is as strong a program as there is 258 00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:40,560 Speaker 3: out there, and Sampson is as good a coach as 259 00:19:40,600 --> 00:19:46,000 Speaker 3: there is out there. He's a winner, and I mean, 260 00:19:46,080 --> 00:19:48,560 Speaker 3: that's the best basketball program in the nation right now 261 00:19:49,320 --> 00:19:53,080 Speaker 3: when you look at a five year run. So the 262 00:19:53,240 --> 00:19:55,600 Speaker 3: University of Houston, the University of Houston has never been 263 00:19:55,680 --> 00:19:57,880 Speaker 3: like A and M or UT or for that matter 264 00:19:57,880 --> 00:20:01,959 Speaker 3: of Tech. But the huge, powerful alumni University Houston belongs 265 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:06,760 Speaker 3: to the city. So what's the Houston Chronicle doing claiming 266 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:09,359 Speaker 3: that the basketball team is under fire? 267 00:20:10,440 --> 00:20:11,920 Speaker 4: You want to know why I ways to hear this 268 00:20:12,359 --> 00:20:16,080 Speaker 4: nightmares they would come to his bedroosh with Michael Berry. 269 00:20:16,240 --> 00:20:20,080 Speaker 4: Time waits for no man unless that man is Chuck Norris. 270 00:20:22,040 --> 00:20:28,040 Speaker 4: Today is March twenty third, twenty twenty six. March twenty third, 271 00:20:28,680 --> 00:20:35,439 Speaker 4: nineteen eighty five. Connie and Billy Stagner were married forty 272 00:20:35,600 --> 00:20:38,160 Speaker 4: one years ago today. 273 00:20:39,160 --> 00:20:45,600 Speaker 3: About that. That's impressive, forty one years of marital bliss. 274 00:20:46,160 --> 00:20:48,760 Speaker 3: What did I read? I gotta find it. I think 275 00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:53,640 Speaker 3: that our Let's see if I can find it here. 276 00:20:54,920 --> 00:20:59,520 Speaker 3: I think that Laboucherie. Yeah, I think Laboucherie is celebrating 277 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:04,320 Speaker 3: twenty one years. Just don't see exactly what day it was. 278 00:21:04,440 --> 00:21:07,760 Speaker 3: We were emailing back and forth about that. Thirty one 279 00:21:07,840 --> 00:21:13,880 Speaker 3: years pretty darned impressed. Not forty one, but it's thirty one, 280 00:21:14,560 --> 00:21:18,800 Speaker 3: Pretty darned impressive. So the Houston Chronicle has declared that 281 00:21:18,920 --> 00:21:24,720 Speaker 3: the University of Houston basketball team is under fire. If 282 00:21:24,800 --> 00:21:31,200 Speaker 3: you watch the CBS coverage of March Madness, you will 283 00:21:31,320 --> 00:21:37,240 Speaker 3: see the reverence and awe that Clark Kellogg, Seth Chuck. 284 00:21:37,760 --> 00:21:43,439 Speaker 3: The whole crew has for Kelvin Samson, and everybody wants 285 00:21:43,640 --> 00:21:48,159 Speaker 3: to see uh win a title for Kelvin because who 286 00:21:48,320 --> 00:21:50,879 Speaker 3: knows when it will be the end. He's into his 287 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:55,520 Speaker 3: seventies now and he's come so close. Oh my goodness. 288 00:21:56,680 --> 00:22:00,600 Speaker 3: Emmanuel Sharp goes up for a shot last year, potentially 289 00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:03,480 Speaker 3: win it. He's got to make the shot. Granted, he 290 00:22:03,640 --> 00:22:08,080 Speaker 3: goes up, guy comes out, extends his arm. He realizes 291 00:22:08,119 --> 00:22:10,800 Speaker 3: he's not going to get the shot off, so he 292 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:14,359 Speaker 3: brings it down, but he's already left his feet, so 293 00:22:14,480 --> 00:22:17,359 Speaker 3: he's a smart player. When he comes back down, he 294 00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:20,480 Speaker 3: knows he has to drop the ball, but he can't 295 00:22:20,520 --> 00:22:23,800 Speaker 3: touch the ball again, so he's trying to call his 296 00:22:23,920 --> 00:22:26,080 Speaker 3: players over to grab the ball, give it back to 297 00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:28,560 Speaker 3: him to get a shot off. There's not enough time left. 298 00:22:30,840 --> 00:22:33,800 Speaker 3: If he gets that shot off or makes it, that's 299 00:22:33,840 --> 00:22:37,080 Speaker 3: a national championship. It is so hard to win a 300 00:22:37,160 --> 00:22:42,440 Speaker 3: national championship. You think of the greats who coach thirty 301 00:22:42,480 --> 00:22:47,000 Speaker 3: years or more who managed to win one and win. 302 00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:50,359 Speaker 3: Somebody wins two. You know, you think of a Denny 303 00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:54,840 Speaker 3: Crumb who had all those great championships, I mean all 304 00:22:54,840 --> 00:22:58,520 Speaker 3: those great years. So here is the University of Houston 305 00:22:59,480 --> 00:23:02,680 Speaker 3: at the pek of the program, and what does the 306 00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:09,680 Speaker 3: local paper do declares they're under fire. Why well you 307 00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:13,440 Speaker 3: have to fly now they're coming back. Sweit sixteen starts here. Wait, 308 00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:19,200 Speaker 3: busy week in Houston. You got the first round just 309 00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:22,399 Speaker 3: this Thursday in Houston, you got the first round of 310 00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:26,920 Speaker 3: the PGA Tour Texas Children's Houston Open at Memorial Park. 311 00:23:26,960 --> 00:23:29,000 Speaker 3: I guess Texas Children took that over that member Shell 312 00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:32,280 Speaker 3: had it for a few years. I think Crane runs that. 313 00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:34,440 Speaker 3: I think Crane's when it brought that to Memorial Park. 314 00:23:34,960 --> 00:23:36,800 Speaker 3: So you got the first round of the PGA Tour 315 00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:42,160 Speaker 3: open at Memorial Park on Thursday. Then at three ten 316 00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:47,919 Speaker 3: pm you've got the Angels versus the Astros at Dykin Park, Ramon. 317 00:23:48,080 --> 00:23:52,920 Speaker 3: Do you know Dyken's the air conditioning company. You know 318 00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:56,000 Speaker 3: dyke In has that goofy mascot thing they have. Have 319 00:23:56,119 --> 00:23:58,320 Speaker 3: you seen that? It was like a robot, like a 320 00:23:58,800 --> 00:24:03,600 Speaker 3: cross between a robot and the Staypuff marshmallow man or 321 00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:06,920 Speaker 3: the Pillsbury dope. I forget what that thing's called. It's 322 00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:09,960 Speaker 3: some kind of pikachuu or something. It's a Japanese something, 323 00:24:11,280 --> 00:24:14,800 Speaker 3: and they have that creature at the park. Do you 324 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:18,399 Speaker 3: know who is responsible for that creature? Where that creature 325 00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:21,120 Speaker 3: is to be makes I think it's completely robotic. I'm 326 00:24:21,119 --> 00:24:24,119 Speaker 3: not positive on this. I gotta check making sure it's 327 00:24:24,119 --> 00:24:26,440 Speaker 3: where it needs to be for its appearances throughout the game. 328 00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:27,760 Speaker 3: You have to have a human bit, you have to 329 00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:30,639 Speaker 3: have a handler. Do you know who is responsible for that? 330 00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:38,399 Speaker 3: Lance Bergman? That's a very good guess. Actually, no quig vision. 331 00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:42,520 Speaker 3: I'm just kidding. How did you pick Lance Berkman? You 332 00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:45,400 Speaker 3: think the pumat is gonna be fooling with the mascot. 333 00:24:47,080 --> 00:24:50,320 Speaker 3: You think his fortunes have following. He's rescuing some possum 334 00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:54,399 Speaker 3: somewhere right now, you know he is. I saw a 335 00:24:54,520 --> 00:24:58,440 Speaker 3: dude jogging a Memorial one day, and I was sure 336 00:24:58,480 --> 00:25:00,720 Speaker 3: it was him, but it was about four pounds lighter 337 00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:03,440 Speaker 3: than him, but he looked just like him. So I 338 00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:08,320 Speaker 3: texted said, hey, are you jogging right at the intersection 339 00:25:08,760 --> 00:25:13,840 Speaker 3: of Memorial and sam Phillippi where it comes to a point. 340 00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:17,879 Speaker 3: He sends back, if you ever catch yourself asking me, 341 00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:21,600 Speaker 3: are you jogging at that point in the sentence. Just 342 00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:24,560 Speaker 3: say to yourself, no, there's no chance that he is. 343 00:25:25,040 --> 00:25:27,840 Speaker 3: You don't need to add anything else to it. My niece, 344 00:25:29,080 --> 00:25:33,280 Speaker 3: my niece is the minder, the custodian, the keeper, the 345 00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:37,240 Speaker 3: director of that little creature thing. So if you see 346 00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:41,159 Speaker 3: this adorable little blonde girl, that is my niece Bailey. 347 00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:45,240 Speaker 3: That is Chris's oldest child. So his son is Braden, 348 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:48,639 Speaker 3: his daughter is Bailey. She went to the University of Houston. 349 00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:51,159 Speaker 3: She went to Orangevield High School. She was cheerleader. She 350 00:25:51,320 --> 00:25:54,320 Speaker 3: went to University of Houston, just like me, very proud, 351 00:25:55,080 --> 00:26:00,600 Speaker 3: and she went to work for she much to work, 352 00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:05,359 Speaker 3: like for a German engineering company. Out of college and 353 00:26:05,560 --> 00:26:09,560 Speaker 3: doing technical writing. She gets hired on by this big 354 00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:12,320 Speaker 3: Japanese company and they figured out she's got a lot 355 00:26:12,359 --> 00:26:14,520 Speaker 3: of personality. She's good with people. She'd been a cheerleader. 356 00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:17,639 Speaker 3: She was like an ambassador at University of Houston. And 357 00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:21,800 Speaker 3: that is her job, and that's like a full time job. 358 00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:24,480 Speaker 3: That's what she does. She's married to the sweetest fellow, 359 00:26:24,760 --> 00:26:29,600 Speaker 3: a guy named Andrew Herbst. He's from Iowa. I think 360 00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:32,560 Speaker 3: the fami's a reason from Chicago, and he is a 361 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:36,400 Speaker 3: recruiter for it people, and they're just the cutest little couple. 362 00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:39,840 Speaker 3: But anyway, so Thursday, you got the PGA Tour, You've 363 00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:45,040 Speaker 3: got three ten pm Angels Astros Opening Day, You've got 364 00:26:45,359 --> 00:26:48,399 Speaker 3: the Sweet sixteen at Toyota Center. So you've got Iowa 365 00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:53,400 Speaker 3: versus Nebraska, and you've got I don't know what time 366 00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:56,960 Speaker 3: that game, Oh six point thirty will be Iowa versus Nebraska. 367 00:26:57,960 --> 00:27:00,520 Speaker 3: And then at nine oh five we got late game 368 00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:03,760 Speaker 3: on a weeknight Illinois versus Houston. And that's a good 369 00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:08,120 Speaker 3: Illinois team. They're all good at this point. But man, 370 00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:11,480 Speaker 3: how exciting to get to play basically a home game. 371 00:27:12,760 --> 00:27:15,160 Speaker 3: So A and M was asked the question, you know, hey, 372 00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:19,480 Speaker 3: UH is really excited if UH beats you? Because obviously 373 00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:22,400 Speaker 3: A and M and UH were playing this weekend. UH 374 00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:24,920 Speaker 3: is playing for the right to have a home game 375 00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:30,560 Speaker 3: in Houston. And Bucky said, how much do you know 376 00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:31,520 Speaker 3: about Houston? 377 00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:32,119 Speaker 4: And A and M? 378 00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:36,840 Speaker 3: Houston's a home game for us too, He's right, he's right. 379 00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:39,639 Speaker 3: I was happy that. I will always root for the Ags, 380 00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:44,280 Speaker 3: except if they're playing the University of Houston. So I 381 00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:47,119 Speaker 3: was happy for that. I wanted TCU to win. They didn't. 382 00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:49,639 Speaker 3: So here's what the Houston Chronicle is beating up on 383 00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:53,440 Speaker 3: it rather than letting them enjoy their moment. The charter 384 00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:59,080 Speaker 3: company they use to fly back and forth quote has 385 00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:03,880 Speaker 3: also offer rated deportation flights for US Immigration and Customs enforcement. 386 00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:08,720 Speaker 3: So you know this company that owns charters. When the 387 00:28:08,760 --> 00:28:11,800 Speaker 3: government said, hey, we need to rent a charter, who 388 00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:14,359 Speaker 3: has planes available? They go, well, you can rent ours, 389 00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:16,800 Speaker 3: pay us. That's what we do. We rent out our 390 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:20,240 Speaker 3: we'll charter it to uh, we'll charter it to the government. 391 00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:25,480 Speaker 3: The Houston Chronicle is trashing is claiming the basketball team 392 00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:28,719 Speaker 3: is under fire, not for ethics violations, not for cheating, 393 00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:35,119 Speaker 3: not for flagrant fouls, because somebody booked a plane and 394 00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:38,000 Speaker 3: that plane booking company is also booked for our United 395 00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:41,880 Speaker 3: States government. Way to go, Houston Chronicles crap all over 396 00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:44,920 Speaker 3: the home team when they're finally having a moment. You 397 00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:46,560 Speaker 3: should be real proud of yourself.