1 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:11,840 Speaker 1: It's that time time, time, luck and load. So Michael 2 00:00:11,920 --> 00:00:13,400 Speaker 1: Berry Show is. 3 00:00:13,280 --> 00:00:13,880 Speaker 2: On the air. 4 00:00:20,840 --> 00:00:24,079 Speaker 1: I'm all jaked up on Mountain dew. This is the 5 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:30,240 Speaker 1: Thornton Finch wishing you a good morning. Good morning, Michael Berry, You. 6 00:00:30,120 --> 00:00:32,440 Speaker 3: Good morning, Michael. 7 00:00:32,240 --> 00:00:35,720 Speaker 4: Baby, Good morning, Michael, Good morning, Michael, Good morning, Sir. 8 00:00:36,040 --> 00:00:38,760 Speaker 3: Good morning, Michael, Zay Sailor. 9 00:00:38,720 --> 00:00:40,240 Speaker 1: Good morning, El Casino. 10 00:00:39,960 --> 00:00:40,760 Speaker 3: Good morning, Michael. 11 00:00:41,080 --> 00:00:43,200 Speaker 1: Hello, Hello are you there? 12 00:00:43,280 --> 00:00:45,159 Speaker 5: Good morning you, Michael Bearry. 13 00:00:45,440 --> 00:00:46,640 Speaker 1: How you learned that? 14 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:47,400 Speaker 6: I read it? 15 00:00:47,479 --> 00:00:52,640 Speaker 1: Tomorrow money, Good morning, Exays, listen to this. 16 00:00:53,800 --> 00:01:01,040 Speaker 7: Good morning, EXAs, morning your car, Good morning, Examon is 17 00:01:01,040 --> 00:01:04,840 Speaker 7: on his deed and we're happy to be here to 18 00:01:04,920 --> 00:01:12,560 Speaker 7: talk about everything. Good morning, We're not wearing pants. Good 19 00:01:12,600 --> 00:01:24,000 Speaker 7: morning Texas. Good morning Texas. Good mooring, Texcess. Good morning, 20 00:01:24,640 --> 00:01:29,360 Speaker 7: wake up, it's all let's speak condamn. 21 00:01:36,080 --> 00:01:36,679 Speaker 1: Good morning. 22 00:01:36,959 --> 00:01:37,200 Speaker 3: You know. 23 00:01:37,440 --> 00:01:42,400 Speaker 1: I love ramon to find out interesting bits of wisdom 24 00:01:42,640 --> 00:01:45,920 Speaker 1: in our everyday life. How things came to be what 25 00:01:46,040 --> 00:01:49,080 Speaker 1: they are. I never thought about this. You know, the 26 00:01:49,160 --> 00:02:02,000 Speaker 1: average length of a sock about a foot only in America, 27 00:02:02,280 --> 00:02:09,680 Speaker 1: social mobility, only in America. You think about one day 28 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:13,239 Speaker 1: a guy is serving French fries out of the drive 29 00:02:13,320 --> 00:02:17,200 Speaker 1: thru at McDonald's in a few months later, he's negotiating 30 00:02:17,280 --> 00:02:19,959 Speaker 1: peace between Putin and Zelenski. As the president of the 31 00:02:20,080 --> 00:02:25,040 Speaker 1: United States. One day, a guy's riding in a trash 32 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:30,679 Speaker 1: truck with a reflective ad visor on, and a few 33 00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:33,520 Speaker 1: months later he's the leader of the free world, only 34 00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:37,440 Speaker 1: in America. When I come in every day, I walk 35 00:02:37,560 --> 00:02:42,960 Speaker 1: past Ramon's studio and it's a it's glass so you 36 00:02:43,040 --> 00:02:45,880 Speaker 1: can see in, but the door is closed, and he's 37 00:02:45,880 --> 00:02:50,240 Speaker 1: always got some funny little routine he does. But often 38 00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:54,560 Speaker 1: he will clench his fist and shake it and you 39 00:02:54,600 --> 00:02:57,920 Speaker 1: can't hear in there because everything is soundproofed here, but 40 00:02:58,080 --> 00:03:02,760 Speaker 1: he will mouth the words fire, fight, fight three times. 41 00:03:03,480 --> 00:03:07,880 Speaker 1: I think back to Donald Trump being shot in the head. 42 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:10,200 Speaker 1: I was sitting with a group of folks. We had 43 00:03:10,240 --> 00:03:13,680 Speaker 1: a listener trip going on, and we were sitting at 44 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:19,720 Speaker 1: a table in Aspen, and somebody at the table, maybe 45 00:03:19,720 --> 00:03:22,040 Speaker 1: it was Connie Stagner, but I can't remember. I think 46 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:26,480 Speaker 1: it was Connie Stagner. She said President Trump's been shot. 47 00:03:27,040 --> 00:03:27,280 Speaker 6: And. 48 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:35,080 Speaker 1: I just remember feeling stunned. But somehow, with the way 49 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:39,400 Speaker 1: the words she used, and I wish I could remember 50 00:03:39,440 --> 00:03:42,960 Speaker 1: exactly what they were somehow with the words she used, 51 00:03:43,520 --> 00:03:49,240 Speaker 1: it suggested that they had shot him, but not killed him. 52 00:03:49,280 --> 00:03:54,800 Speaker 1: It only wounded him. And my immediate thought was, he'll 53 00:03:54,840 --> 00:04:02,040 Speaker 1: be stronger because of it. They'll regret this. And I 54 00:04:02,160 --> 00:04:04,840 Speaker 1: have to think, if they had it all to do 55 00:04:04,920 --> 00:04:09,120 Speaker 1: over again, they would not have engaged in lawfare. They 56 00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:11,720 Speaker 1: had it all to do over again, they wouldn't have 57 00:04:11,760 --> 00:04:18,120 Speaker 1: shot him, they would have connected. I believe there are 58 00:04:18,200 --> 00:04:22,360 Speaker 1: people who appear on our television who were aware, if 59 00:04:22,400 --> 00:04:27,520 Speaker 1: not directing, the assassination attempt, who you wouldn't believe how 60 00:04:27,640 --> 00:04:34,960 Speaker 1: cold and callous calculating they are, who wished that had 61 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:40,640 Speaker 1: been successful, or if they hadn't stolen the election, they 62 00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:44,400 Speaker 1: hadn't stolen the election. President Trump serves a second term. 63 00:04:45,839 --> 00:04:48,400 Speaker 1: Trump two point zero would not have been what we're 64 00:04:48,440 --> 00:04:53,839 Speaker 1: getting now. He had to go through the fire to 65 00:04:53,960 --> 00:04:57,560 Speaker 1: get to this point, to get to the I don't 66 00:04:57,680 --> 00:05:06,719 Speaker 1: give up. He had to survive that awful, awful set 67 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:11,400 Speaker 1: of circumstances to get to the point where he said, 68 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:16,880 Speaker 1: I simply don't care. Imagine how much good you could 69 00:05:16,920 --> 00:05:20,480 Speaker 1: do in the world if you stop caring what people 70 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:25,839 Speaker 1: think about you. This president is the most popular president 71 00:05:25,920 --> 00:05:30,880 Speaker 1: in my lifetime in most living rooms. But he's the 72 00:05:30,920 --> 00:05:37,120 Speaker 1: most hated in some places by powerful people, by rich people, 73 00:05:38,279 --> 00:05:42,920 Speaker 1: by vindictive people. Well, he's not the church at lay 74 00:05:42,960 --> 00:05:46,800 Speaker 1: out to Sea. He's not lukewarm, He's not getting spat 75 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:51,960 Speaker 1: out of God's mouth, that's for sure. He has decided 76 00:05:53,120 --> 00:05:57,000 Speaker 1: I am going to make bold choices and do bold 77 00:05:57,160 --> 00:06:02,880 Speaker 1: things and have no regret. It really is amazing, It 78 00:06:03,080 --> 00:06:09,799 Speaker 1: really is amazing. And I think back how differently things 79 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:13,159 Speaker 1: could have gone. How many people voted for Trump who 80 00:06:13,200 --> 00:06:17,760 Speaker 1: typically don't vote showed up and vote. How many people 81 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:21,640 Speaker 1: became politically active that typically don't. How many people got 82 00:06:22,040 --> 00:06:26,680 Speaker 1: their elderly parent to vote, you know. Spending a lot 83 00:06:26,720 --> 00:06:28,640 Speaker 1: of time at the old folks home, which I do now, 84 00:06:30,720 --> 00:06:35,480 Speaker 1: I see how many votes there are up for grabs 85 00:06:35,520 --> 00:06:40,080 Speaker 1: of people who have just as much right a need 86 00:06:40,720 --> 00:06:44,160 Speaker 1: for their voice to be heard as anyone else. We 87 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:48,680 Speaker 1: were touring old folks home, old folks homes, and I 88 00:06:48,760 --> 00:06:51,840 Speaker 1: remember there was a woman who came into the old 89 00:06:51,880 --> 00:06:56,800 Speaker 1: folks Home and she was registering people to vote and 90 00:06:56,880 --> 00:07:00,200 Speaker 1: explaining to them that they could have their proxy. They 91 00:07:00,240 --> 00:07:02,960 Speaker 1: have person who votes for them, and a person And 92 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:05,120 Speaker 1: it was clear to me that she was out of 93 00:07:05,160 --> 00:07:09,480 Speaker 1: line with the old folks she was talking to, and 94 00:07:09,520 --> 00:07:12,280 Speaker 1: they were just kind of sitting there nodding their heads. 95 00:07:13,480 --> 00:07:18,000 Speaker 1: And one little old lady announced that she was Jewish 96 00:07:18,440 --> 00:07:22,200 Speaker 1: and her people had been through the Holocaust, and nobody 97 00:07:22,520 --> 00:07:25,760 Speaker 1: she wasn't going to stand by for anybody. Nobody was 98 00:07:25,800 --> 00:07:28,720 Speaker 1: going to tell her how to vote. And she got 99 00:07:28,840 --> 00:07:33,200 Speaker 1: rather uh, she got rather sharp in her tone, and 100 00:07:33,280 --> 00:07:36,680 Speaker 1: I thought, that lady right there, she's you're not going 101 00:07:36,760 --> 00:07:42,560 Speaker 1: to push her around. But it struck me that Democrats 102 00:07:42,640 --> 00:07:47,000 Speaker 1: do every little thing like this possible to win power, 103 00:07:47,040 --> 00:07:49,480 Speaker 1: because power is to be all end all. It is 104 00:07:50,200 --> 00:07:54,120 Speaker 1: the religion. It's like it's like the Aztecs offering up 105 00:07:54,600 --> 00:07:59,080 Speaker 1: their sacrifice. They will do anything for this cauldron of corruption. 106 00:08:00,200 --> 00:08:06,800 Speaker 1: They will stop it, nothing, absolutely nothing, to control power 107 00:08:06,840 --> 00:08:11,360 Speaker 1: and then wield it against others. Stealing money is only 108 00:08:11,360 --> 00:08:16,920 Speaker 1: a byproduct, a spoil of the victory. I guess what 109 00:08:16,960 --> 00:08:20,560 Speaker 1: I'm saying is things worked out pretty well and we 110 00:08:20,640 --> 00:08:23,520 Speaker 1: should be delighted. These are the good old things. 111 00:08:23,880 --> 00:09:09,880 Speaker 4: Ramon, the King of Ding, and this other guy, Michael Barry. 112 00:08:50,320 --> 00:08:56,480 Speaker 5: Not jo Can you come the garbage man? Yield get 113 00:08:56,559 --> 00:09:03,320 Speaker 5: at Joe? Can you come the garbage man. He get out, Joe, 114 00:09:03,480 --> 00:09:07,920 Speaker 5: can you come the garbage man? Last garbage man? 115 00:09:08,160 --> 00:09:11,240 Speaker 2: And I have to begin by saying two hundred and 116 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:18,319 Speaker 2: fifty million Americans are not garbage. This week, Kamala has 117 00:09:18,400 --> 00:09:22,080 Speaker 2: been comparing her political opponents to the most evil mass 118 00:09:22,200 --> 00:09:26,079 Speaker 2: murderers in history, and now, speaking on a call for 119 00:09:26,360 --> 00:09:30,360 Speaker 2: her campaign last night, Crooked Joe Biden finally said what 120 00:09:30,559 --> 00:09:33,199 Speaker 2: he and Kamala really think of our supporters. 121 00:09:33,320 --> 00:09:34,720 Speaker 8: He called them garbage. 122 00:09:34,840 --> 00:09:40,440 Speaker 2: No way, My supporters are far higher quality than Crooked 123 00:09:40,559 --> 00:09:42,000 Speaker 2: Joe or lion Kamala. 124 00:09:42,880 --> 00:09:49,440 Speaker 5: H you got Joe? Can you come the garbage man? 125 00:09:51,160 --> 00:09:52,559 Speaker 1: You get out? 126 00:09:52,640 --> 00:09:58,640 Speaker 5: You can you come the garbage man? He get at 127 00:09:58,800 --> 00:10:01,800 Speaker 5: Joe Cane, he's your garbage man. 128 00:10:04,760 --> 00:10:10,599 Speaker 8: Common Joe call all of us and them, even them, garbage. 129 00:10:11,320 --> 00:10:14,640 Speaker 8: I call you the heart and soul of America. You 130 00:10:14,760 --> 00:10:18,640 Speaker 8: are the heart and soul. You built our country. You 131 00:10:18,760 --> 00:10:21,080 Speaker 8: built it far more than they built it. I can 132 00:10:21,160 --> 00:10:22,400 Speaker 8: tell you that you built it. 133 00:10:23,640 --> 00:10:29,839 Speaker 5: After you can here come the garbage man. Here you're out, 134 00:10:29,960 --> 00:10:36,199 Speaker 5: you can here come the garbage man. You're not you 135 00:10:36,559 --> 00:10:39,160 Speaker 5: can here come the garbage man. 136 00:10:48,280 --> 00:10:55,520 Speaker 1: Speaking on the choking story, yesterday, I received an email 137 00:10:55,760 --> 00:11:00,600 Speaker 1: from someone who worked very high up in the White 138 00:11:00,679 --> 00:11:05,559 Speaker 1: House and in the circles of power, who will occasionally 139 00:11:06,840 --> 00:11:09,960 Speaker 1: send me a random email, and I got one yesterday. 140 00:11:10,080 --> 00:11:13,640 Speaker 1: He said. My best choking story is second hand. I 141 00:11:13,760 --> 00:11:18,400 Speaker 1: have a friend, Elaine Hamilton, Pa, who was head nursed 142 00:11:18,440 --> 00:11:22,280 Speaker 1: back in the day at the hospital in Big Stone Gap, Virginia. 143 00:11:23,360 --> 00:11:26,520 Speaker 1: John Warner was senator back then, and he came to 144 00:11:26,559 --> 00:11:29,800 Speaker 1: Big Stone Gap one day or night for a political rally. 145 00:11:30,960 --> 00:11:35,719 Speaker 1: The political dinner featured you guessed it, rubber chicken and 146 00:11:35,920 --> 00:11:39,480 Speaker 1: Missus Warner choked on a chicken bone and had to 147 00:11:39,559 --> 00:11:43,800 Speaker 1: be rushed to the local hospital, which extracted the bone 148 00:11:44,760 --> 00:11:48,160 Speaker 1: and saved Missus Warner moon. Do you know who Missus 149 00:11:48,200 --> 00:11:53,160 Speaker 1: Warner was also known as Elizabeth Taylor to eat chicken 150 00:11:53,200 --> 00:11:57,760 Speaker 1: another day. Missus Warner was very nice, Elaine said. Elaine 151 00:11:57,760 --> 00:12:01,719 Speaker 1: and her husband Jimmy, now deceased, adopted four orphanages in 152 00:12:01,840 --> 00:12:05,079 Speaker 1: Moldova and visited them again and again as Christian missionaries 153 00:12:05,120 --> 00:12:07,920 Speaker 1: to bring much needed medicines and medical care to the 154 00:12:08,080 --> 00:12:13,959 Speaker 1: orphans and orphanage staff. She's a very nice lady. So 155 00:12:14,120 --> 00:12:17,640 Speaker 1: that is your Elizabeth Taylor story. With a little bit 156 00:12:17,720 --> 00:12:24,280 Speaker 1: of a Paul Harvey reveal to it. I like that 157 00:12:24,880 --> 00:12:30,360 Speaker 1: the Houston Chronicle and white liberals are obsessed with bicycles. 158 00:12:31,920 --> 00:12:37,840 Speaker 1: It's on the order of fetish. It's weird. They would 159 00:12:37,920 --> 00:12:42,520 Speaker 1: like to destroy the inner city and just make it 160 00:12:42,600 --> 00:12:46,720 Speaker 1: a bike path. Bikes everywhere, everyone riding bikes. And there 161 00:12:46,760 --> 00:12:49,320 Speaker 1: they would be. They would be it, you know, they 162 00:12:49,360 --> 00:12:53,400 Speaker 1: would be stopped along this mass bike riding experience, and 163 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:57,319 Speaker 1: and everybody would have this smug look or twigging berries 164 00:12:57,320 --> 00:13:02,240 Speaker 1: would be showing on their little black pants and they were, Oh, 165 00:13:02,280 --> 00:13:04,199 Speaker 1: it's a good day for right. Yes, we're all riding. 166 00:13:04,280 --> 00:13:05,360 Speaker 3: Look at us. We're all riding. 167 00:13:05,440 --> 00:13:07,679 Speaker 1: We're all on our bikes and we're riding. Look at us, 168 00:13:07,679 --> 00:13:09,920 Speaker 1: we're riding. It's a great city. You have to you 169 00:13:09,960 --> 00:13:11,760 Speaker 1: have to have bikes, have a great seal. Some they 170 00:13:11,760 --> 00:13:13,360 Speaker 1: don't have a great bike scene. We have a great 171 00:13:13,360 --> 00:13:19,640 Speaker 1: bike scene. Oh god, it's unbearreling, sufferable. They don't care 172 00:13:19,679 --> 00:13:23,640 Speaker 1: about crime. In fact, the great clash of the bikes 173 00:13:23,679 --> 00:13:26,280 Speaker 1: and the crime. Where when Rodney Ellis declared that he 174 00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:28,600 Speaker 1: was going to spend all his county money and did 175 00:13:29,440 --> 00:13:33,640 Speaker 1: on bike paths through his district, through a particularly crime 176 00:13:33,760 --> 00:13:37,120 Speaker 1: riddled area, and there went all the little white liberals 177 00:13:37,920 --> 00:13:39,720 Speaker 1: and there they were on their bikes and they had 178 00:13:39,760 --> 00:13:44,360 Speaker 1: their big smile like it was a rectile dysfunction ad. 179 00:13:44,480 --> 00:13:45,200 Speaker 1: You know, everyone is. 180 00:13:45,280 --> 00:13:49,000 Speaker 3: Smiling very bigly. Yes, we're all smiling because we're doing 181 00:13:49,040 --> 00:13:50,800 Speaker 3: their pills and riding our bikes. 182 00:13:51,240 --> 00:13:54,320 Speaker 1: And there they went on their bike to and they're 183 00:13:54,520 --> 00:13:57,560 Speaker 1: out of the bushes. Came the local hooligans and they 184 00:13:57,679 --> 00:14:00,880 Speaker 1: jumped out and jumped them and they old bikes has 185 00:14:00,880 --> 00:14:04,079 Speaker 1: stole their money and left them there. Huh, how's the 186 00:14:04,160 --> 00:14:09,160 Speaker 1: bike ride going, Wendy? How did that work out for you? 187 00:14:09,960 --> 00:14:13,000 Speaker 1: So this is the issue the Houston Chronicle is obsessed with. 188 00:14:13,160 --> 00:14:14,280 Speaker 1: Now I need to tell you, I need to give 189 00:14:14,280 --> 00:14:18,440 Speaker 1: you a little background. Rodney Ellis is obsessed with bike riding. 190 00:14:18,840 --> 00:14:20,920 Speaker 1: Rodney Ellis likes to pretend he's a white liberal. He 191 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:23,720 Speaker 1: lives in white liberal land. He lives across from Rice 192 00:14:23,880 --> 00:14:27,920 Speaker 1: University in a big, fancy, expensive house, which he was 193 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:29,920 Speaker 1: a state senator for thirty years. It makes you wonder 194 00:14:29,960 --> 00:14:32,440 Speaker 1: how he paid for that. But never the mind because 195 00:14:32,480 --> 00:14:34,560 Speaker 1: you have to have a black person involved in every 196 00:14:34,640 --> 00:14:38,200 Speaker 1: big bond deal, and why not Dney Rodney Ellis, who 197 00:14:38,280 --> 00:14:40,920 Speaker 1: cares that he's a state senator by day. Now that 198 00:14:41,040 --> 00:14:43,880 Speaker 1: had anything to do with it. So there's Rodney Ellis 199 00:14:44,280 --> 00:14:47,000 Speaker 1: and his bike riding. He loves to do white liberal things. 200 00:14:47,520 --> 00:14:50,600 Speaker 1: Ju juju, look at me. I've become a white, fancy 201 00:14:50,600 --> 00:14:53,000 Speaker 1: white liberal. I hang out with a fancy white liberal crowd. 202 00:14:53,600 --> 00:14:56,240 Speaker 1: And the fellow that he rides bikes with is Cohen, 203 00:14:56,880 --> 00:15:00,400 Speaker 1: the former publisher of the Houston Chronicle, who John Arnold 204 00:15:00,480 --> 00:15:03,840 Speaker 1: billionaire in run money brought over to Arnold Venture's But 205 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:09,720 Speaker 1: now apparently they have officially parted ways. Now who's paying 206 00:15:09,840 --> 00:15:14,000 Speaker 1: Cohen's bills is a subject of much discussion. So I 207 00:15:14,080 --> 00:15:16,200 Speaker 1: don't want to speculate ramon, you know me and my 208 00:15:17,280 --> 00:15:21,080 Speaker 1: love affair with the truth. So Cohen and Ellis go 209 00:15:21,240 --> 00:15:23,560 Speaker 1: for these bike rides at least once a week, I'm told, 210 00:15:24,080 --> 00:15:27,240 Speaker 1: and this is where they plot and plan all the 211 00:15:27,360 --> 00:15:30,440 Speaker 1: little things they're going to do. So his influence on 212 00:15:30,520 --> 00:15:34,960 Speaker 1: the Houston Chronicle remains. Remember it was his wife who 213 00:15:35,040 --> 00:15:38,160 Speaker 1: doesn't take his last name, always sketchy to me. It 214 00:15:38,280 --> 00:15:43,960 Speaker 1: was his wife who was Lena Hidalgo's lawyer. Yes, yes, 215 00:15:44,040 --> 00:15:47,000 Speaker 1: she was her lawyer on staff when they were going 216 00:15:47,080 --> 00:15:52,320 Speaker 1: through all of their criminal accusations as it were. Well, 217 00:15:52,440 --> 00:15:58,000 Speaker 1: as the Houston Chronicles audience continues to shrink, they continue 218 00:15:58,080 --> 00:16:01,040 Speaker 1: to obsess over bike lanes by ek lanes, bike lanes, 219 00:16:01,080 --> 00:16:05,000 Speaker 1: with the headline this past week, will Houston ever become 220 00:16:05,200 --> 00:16:10,440 Speaker 1: a bike friendly city? How Mayor Whitmer's approach has stalled efforts? 221 00:16:10,600 --> 00:16:10,800 Speaker 6: Oh? 222 00:16:11,520 --> 00:16:16,960 Speaker 1: No, you mean like taking lanes that were meant for 223 00:16:17,160 --> 00:16:20,080 Speaker 1: cars and making them bike lanes. I will never forget 224 00:16:21,760 --> 00:16:27,440 Speaker 1: the day that Anise Porker rode into downtown and she's 225 00:16:27,600 --> 00:16:31,360 Speaker 1: riding in off of Allen Parkway and there is a 226 00:16:31,480 --> 00:16:36,920 Speaker 1: major expressway for people that live all the way into 227 00:16:37,440 --> 00:16:41,000 Speaker 1: West University in Braves Heights and beyond, and they come 228 00:16:41,120 --> 00:16:45,240 Speaker 1: down Kirby and they come down Allen Parkway and they 229 00:16:45,360 --> 00:16:47,920 Speaker 1: come in and there was a heritage museum right there 230 00:16:47,960 --> 00:16:50,520 Speaker 1: on the right, and this is a major thoroughfare, and 231 00:16:50,600 --> 00:16:52,800 Speaker 1: there was an East porker and she had her helmet on, 232 00:16:52,960 --> 00:16:55,400 Speaker 1: her fat ass hanging out over it. Did you ever 233 00:16:55,440 --> 00:16:57,720 Speaker 1: see the picture of Sheila Jackson Lene when she rode 234 00:16:57,720 --> 00:16:59,920 Speaker 1: her bike over the overpass of fifty nine and Michael, 235 00:17:00,440 --> 00:17:01,400 Speaker 1: that one looked like. 236 00:17:05,480 --> 00:17:11,879 Speaker 6: Licked me up the place at the little table let. 237 00:17:11,920 --> 00:17:12,960 Speaker 1: That you left us. 238 00:17:16,680 --> 00:17:17,080 Speaker 9: Pull me. 239 00:17:17,280 --> 00:17:25,200 Speaker 6: I'm a big old uncle floor, I pull my head off. 240 00:17:25,520 --> 00:17:29,800 Speaker 6: Elvis had spread up to his pelvis. 241 00:17:30,320 --> 00:17:33,240 Speaker 4: Yeah, the king is gone. 242 00:17:34,040 --> 00:17:39,800 Speaker 1: So I was having dinner a few nights ago, and 243 00:17:41,560 --> 00:17:46,320 Speaker 1: I had had cigars with the King of Dean, Ramon 244 00:17:46,520 --> 00:17:50,600 Speaker 1: Douglas and my best friend the whole wide world, Gerald 245 00:17:50,680 --> 00:17:58,000 Speaker 1: Davis McGill, Uncle Jerry. And it was first day back 246 00:17:58,240 --> 00:18:02,879 Speaker 1: for Uncle Jerry with his shoes, whose foot was in 247 00:18:02,960 --> 00:18:06,239 Speaker 1: a shoe. My wife came and met us. We met 248 00:18:06,240 --> 00:18:10,200 Speaker 1: at Garabas on Voss and she said, Jerry's, first time 249 00:18:10,240 --> 00:18:12,119 Speaker 1: in five years i've seen you. You weren't in a boot, 250 00:18:12,480 --> 00:18:15,280 Speaker 1: and not a cowboy boot, the boot boots, you know, 251 00:18:15,359 --> 00:18:18,080 Speaker 1: the boot like when you break your ankle kind of deal. 252 00:18:18,680 --> 00:18:24,720 Speaker 1: And it just felt so good. And we're sitting there 253 00:18:24,760 --> 00:18:29,760 Speaker 1: and chatting and having a nice time, and around the 254 00:18:29,840 --> 00:18:33,720 Speaker 1: corner comes Wade Phillips and his wife Laurie. They met 255 00:18:33,760 --> 00:18:39,399 Speaker 1: in nineteen sixty four at Fortunate Portinatus Grows, and they 256 00:18:39,480 --> 00:18:42,639 Speaker 1: came over to say hello. And then right at that moment, 257 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:44,920 Speaker 1: I don't know if y'all remember, two nights ago it 258 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:47,680 Speaker 1: started raining about eight thirty nine o'clock. It started raining 259 00:18:47,720 --> 00:18:50,679 Speaker 1: real hard, and then it came down a little bit 260 00:18:50,760 --> 00:18:53,200 Speaker 1: of sleep and I don't know if y'all got that 261 00:18:53,240 --> 00:18:56,520 Speaker 1: where y'all are, but this was Voss and west of 262 00:18:56,840 --> 00:19:01,040 Speaker 1: the Galleria, about a mile or two, and it started 263 00:19:01,080 --> 00:19:04,240 Speaker 1: coming down hard and they would have had to walk 264 00:19:04,280 --> 00:19:04,639 Speaker 1: out in it. 265 00:19:05,680 --> 00:19:06,840 Speaker 3: So he said, won't you sit down? 266 00:19:07,440 --> 00:19:09,119 Speaker 1: So they sat down for a little while and my 267 00:19:09,200 --> 00:19:14,200 Speaker 1: wife Adores Laurie, and we were talking various stories. 268 00:19:14,760 --> 00:19:14,840 Speaker 8: And. 269 00:19:17,040 --> 00:19:19,960 Speaker 1: Then they left, and Ramon, who has met a lot 270 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:22,320 Speaker 1: of famous people, he said, Man, I don't mean that 271 00:19:22,600 --> 00:19:25,880 Speaker 1: goofy starts struck or anything, but of all the people 272 00:19:25,960 --> 00:19:28,080 Speaker 1: we meet, I couldn't help but thinking, I'm sitting across 273 00:19:28,119 --> 00:19:31,280 Speaker 1: the table from the former coach of the Dallas Cowboys, 274 00:19:31,320 --> 00:19:33,960 Speaker 1: and I used to watch those teams and love those teams. 275 00:19:34,119 --> 00:19:38,320 Speaker 1: Just amazing. You know, it's Wade Phillips, by the way, 276 00:19:38,320 --> 00:19:42,800 Speaker 1: he's seventy eight years old. He looks great, as does 277 00:19:42,880 --> 00:19:46,840 Speaker 1: his wife. And you know, it got me to thinking, 278 00:19:46,920 --> 00:19:50,680 Speaker 1: as often do, everybody has their heroes in life, and 279 00:19:50,800 --> 00:19:53,440 Speaker 1: we've had the opportunity to get to know a lot 280 00:19:53,480 --> 00:19:57,560 Speaker 1: of our heroes, and almost without exception, they've not been disappointing. 281 00:19:57,680 --> 00:20:00,840 Speaker 1: It's been a treat to get to know them. I 282 00:20:00,960 --> 00:20:05,800 Speaker 1: rode into the rodeo Wait with Bomb Phillips one year, 283 00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:08,399 Speaker 1: and man, that was a treat. I mean, he's a 284 00:20:08,480 --> 00:20:12,280 Speaker 1: real cowboy and I'm not. And there we were riding. 285 00:20:12,040 --> 00:20:16,320 Speaker 3: In and mine was getting a little sketchy. 286 00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:19,440 Speaker 1: And he would talk it down and to hear wait, 287 00:20:19,680 --> 00:20:24,960 Speaker 1: hear bum Phillips, go and talk to your beast and 288 00:20:25,119 --> 00:20:30,600 Speaker 1: get it to stay calm. And you're sitting astride and going, wow, 289 00:20:30,880 --> 00:20:34,840 Speaker 1: this is this is a moment. This is a moment. 290 00:20:37,400 --> 00:20:41,240 Speaker 1: And I think of the damn Pastorinis and the Terry 291 00:20:41,320 --> 00:20:44,360 Speaker 1: Pools and Phil Garner and just the neat people we've 292 00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:48,439 Speaker 1: had the opportunity to get to know, and how lucky. 293 00:20:48,520 --> 00:20:51,280 Speaker 1: It's not lost on me, how lucky. But I really 294 00:20:51,400 --> 00:20:54,720 Speaker 1: feel this way. It's not just that they are people 295 00:20:54,800 --> 00:20:57,520 Speaker 1: who were famous in our world when we were young, 296 00:20:58,280 --> 00:21:01,879 Speaker 1: and we got lucky to know those famous people. You know, 297 00:21:02,040 --> 00:21:04,480 Speaker 1: this isn't the lead singer of Blink one eighty two 298 00:21:04,640 --> 00:21:08,200 Speaker 1: or something. I mean, these are legends larger than life 299 00:21:08,880 --> 00:21:12,000 Speaker 1: that we just happened in our own forest, come little 300 00:21:12,040 --> 00:21:15,920 Speaker 1: way to stumble upon. John Smoltz is one of the 301 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:21,159 Speaker 1: greatest pitchers of all time. That Braves staff. You had 302 00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:24,679 Speaker 1: the professor with Mike Mannox, you had Smolts, you had 303 00:21:24,760 --> 00:21:30,440 Speaker 1: Tom Glavin. You talk about a pitching staff in my lifetime, 304 00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:33,680 Speaker 1: I don't know anybody was better. I really don't. He 305 00:21:33,840 --> 00:21:36,400 Speaker 1: had a twenty one year Major League Baseball career from 306 00:21:36,480 --> 00:21:38,520 Speaker 1: eighty eight to two thousand and nine. That in and 307 00:21:38,600 --> 00:21:41,960 Speaker 1: of itself, right, So here's a guy known for longevity 308 00:21:42,960 --> 00:21:45,280 Speaker 1: and other than the fella I'm about to talk about 309 00:21:45,359 --> 00:21:49,360 Speaker 1: John Smoltz talk about longevity. I mean, this guy had 310 00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:53,800 Speaker 1: a career to end all careers. He spent all but 311 00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:56,399 Speaker 1: his last season with the Braves. You always hate that 312 00:21:56,520 --> 00:22:01,879 Speaker 1: when they are in a different uniform All Star and 313 00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:05,639 Speaker 1: you think of the dominant force of the nineties in 314 00:22:05,760 --> 00:22:11,440 Speaker 1: pitching of a staff, you've got Glavin, Maddox, Smaltz. World 315 00:22:11,520 --> 00:22:14,760 Speaker 1: Series Championship in ninety Five's wonder they didn't win more 316 00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:18,880 Speaker 1: ninety six. He wins the Cy Young Award twenty four 317 00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:22,920 Speaker 1: and eight. What a season. It was the most wins 318 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:27,200 Speaker 1: by an NL pitcher since nineteen seventy two. He finishes 319 00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:31,520 Speaker 1: his career with brief stints in Boston and Saint Louis, 320 00:22:31,600 --> 00:22:36,840 Speaker 1: but he's an Atlanta Brave through and through. He transitions 321 00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:40,959 Speaker 1: to the bullpen in one after he has Tommy John surgery. 322 00:22:42,040 --> 00:22:45,160 Speaker 1: He ends up being the Braves closer for four seasons. 323 00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:48,320 Speaker 1: Then it comes back to the rotation. Other than maybe 324 00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:51,119 Speaker 1: Dave Righetti, you just don't see a guy do this. 325 00:22:52,040 --> 00:22:54,879 Speaker 1: Two thousand and two, he sets a National League record 326 00:22:54,960 --> 00:22:57,760 Speaker 1: with fifty five saves. So not only is it go 327 00:22:57,880 --> 00:23:00,600 Speaker 1: to the bullpen, but oh, by the way, I'm gonna 328 00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:02,560 Speaker 1: do it, I'm gonna be good at it. He becomes 329 00:23:02,640 --> 00:23:06,280 Speaker 1: only the second pitcher ever alongs to O Eckersley Dennis Eckersley. 330 00:23:06,480 --> 00:23:09,200 Speaker 1: That's another one to record both a twenty win season 331 00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:12,760 Speaker 1: and a fifty save season. He is to this day 332 00:23:13,680 --> 00:23:15,919 Speaker 1: the only picture in Major League Baseball history with at 333 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:18,159 Speaker 1: least two hundred wins and one hundred and fifty saves. 334 00:23:19,119 --> 00:23:22,960 Speaker 1: These are pretty amazing stats, right, one of the greatest 335 00:23:23,080 --> 00:23:25,920 Speaker 1: postseason pictures of all time fifteen to four with a 336 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:29,639 Speaker 1: two point six to seven ERA forty one playoff appearances, 337 00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:34,960 Speaker 1: Major League MVP honors in the ninety two NLCS fifteen 338 00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:39,080 Speaker 1: postseason victories, which was a record until our own Andy 339 00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:43,280 Speaker 1: Pettitt surpassed it. The guy has so many records. It's 340 00:23:43,359 --> 00:23:47,399 Speaker 1: just unbelievable. And that's why what he says here, the 341 00:23:47,520 --> 00:23:51,880 Speaker 1: fact that he says it is so incredible. John Smoltz 342 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:56,000 Speaker 1: one of the greatest pictures of all time, you could 343 00:23:56,080 --> 00:23:59,080 Speaker 1: argue with one of the ten greatest pictures of all time, 344 00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:04,560 Speaker 1: and he's talking about Nolan Ryan. For John Smoltz to 345 00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:06,320 Speaker 1: say this, sit up and take notice. 346 00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:08,919 Speaker 9: Let's just say that guys can never pitch over five 347 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:11,680 Speaker 9: innings ever. Again, they still can't stay healthy. It's not 348 00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:14,879 Speaker 9: an inning problem. What's impossible to do is train for 349 00:24:15,080 --> 00:24:19,320 Speaker 9: max velocity and max spin and longevity. It's just impossible. 350 00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:22,280 Speaker 9: Nolan Ryan and our generation was a freak. They're supposed 351 00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:25,000 Speaker 9: to be freaks. They're not supposed to be twenty of them. 352 00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:28,680 Speaker 9: There's not supposed to be genetically thirty Nolan Ryan's. Would 353 00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:32,000 Speaker 9: you argue that there's at least thirty potential Nolan Ryans 354 00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:34,680 Speaker 9: are more in the game today that have been manufactured 355 00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:37,440 Speaker 9: that are not necessarily freaks. And I think that in 356 00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:40,160 Speaker 9: and of itself, when I look at the whole history 357 00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:42,480 Speaker 9: of the game, at some point we got to level 358 00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:45,680 Speaker 9: off and move towards the act of what you're supposed 359 00:24:45,680 --> 00:24:47,760 Speaker 9: to be doing as a starting pitcher. That's all I'm saying. 360 00:24:47,840 --> 00:24:50,280 Speaker 9: So that if we can train guys to stay healthier, 361 00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:52,880 Speaker 9: this would be great, even if it was only five fear. 362 00:24:56,400 --> 00:24:56,920 Speaker 8: I mean. 363 00:24:58,480 --> 00:25:04,320 Speaker 1: To think what we witnessed, love you, Blue, Nolan Ryan, 364 00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:14,600 Speaker 1: the first million dollar contract, two NBA championships. I mean, 365 00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:17,920 Speaker 1: I'm I'm sure Boston fans are l ephant. I think 366 00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:22,280 Speaker 1: what we had, what we had, the opportunity to witness 367 00:25:22,359 --> 00:25:26,040 Speaker 1: he just got sometimes stopping really think how lucky we've 368 00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:28,240 Speaker 1: built that seem to get from other places of Michael 369 00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:33,199 Speaker 1: Berry Show, Lewie came here. I told you the Houston 370 00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:35,680 Speaker 1: Chronicle is really upset. Their wet dream is not coming 371 00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:39,439 Speaker 1: to pass. They want bike lanes everywhere, and that might 372 00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:42,200 Speaker 1: seem harmless saving except for the fact that that means 373 00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:44,520 Speaker 1: they want to take away your automobile. These are the 374 00:25:44,600 --> 00:25:48,520 Speaker 1: same people that desperately wanted light rail everywhere. 375 00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:52,360 Speaker 3: Remember, light rail was going to solve all our problems. 376 00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:55,520 Speaker 3: If we could just spend another billion dollars on light rail, 377 00:25:56,560 --> 00:25:59,800 Speaker 3: that was going to be the panacea. Well, they ended 378 00:25:59,880 --> 00:26:02,520 Speaker 3: up getting seven miles of light rail costs four hundred 379 00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:06,280 Speaker 3: million dollars money that did not go to roads. It 380 00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:09,239 Speaker 3: ended up being known as the danger train because an 381 00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:14,760 Speaker 3: at grade rail is a danger trap. It ended up 382 00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:20,600 Speaker 3: confusing traffic, It ended up overriding the traffic rules, which 383 00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:22,760 Speaker 3: meant people were left waiting longer if you were in 384 00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:26,720 Speaker 3: your car. But remember, the left hates the independence you 385 00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:30,639 Speaker 3: have of your own automobile because then you control the 386 00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:33,320 Speaker 3: air conditioning, you control what you listen to on the radio, 387 00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:35,359 Speaker 3: you control where you go and when you go it, 388 00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:38,639 Speaker 3: and you're not beholden to them. And if they cannot 389 00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:40,320 Speaker 3: giveth the bus. 390 00:26:40,359 --> 00:26:42,720 Speaker 1: Or light rail, oh that's world class, will be a 391 00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:45,680 Speaker 1: world class city. If they cannot giveth the light rail, 392 00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:48,800 Speaker 1: they cannot taketh away. And that's really the goal, you see, 393 00:26:49,359 --> 00:26:53,280 Speaker 1: that's the point is having everyone beholden to them, the 394 00:26:53,359 --> 00:26:54,720 Speaker 1: big behemoth. 395 00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:55,520 Speaker 3: Of big government. 396 00:26:55,960 --> 00:26:58,480 Speaker 1: So they've given way for the light rail, and now 397 00:26:58,640 --> 00:27:01,359 Speaker 1: it is bike lane's bike lane, bike lanes, Yes, you 398 00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:04,760 Speaker 1: dumb bastards, that's what everybody wants to do. Ride their 399 00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:07,840 Speaker 1: bikes around in one hundred degree heat, sop and wet, 400 00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:14,520 Speaker 1: and then they'll do profiles. Brian Smith rides his bicycle 401 00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:18,800 Speaker 1: from Bray's Heights into downtown and has for nineteen years. Well, 402 00:27:18,920 --> 00:27:21,600 Speaker 1: I just I really enjoy it. You know, I see 403 00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:23,840 Speaker 1: people in their cars and I think, what are you 404 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:26,240 Speaker 1: doing to the planet that my grand children won't be 405 00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:29,520 Speaker 1: around to see. Brian has been riding his bicycle for 406 00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:33,080 Speaker 1: nineteen years and says he feels quote really good end 407 00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:36,480 Speaker 1: quote about it. Yeah, I feel like I'm doing something 408 00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:39,440 Speaker 1: for the environment. And shoot, tell you the truth, I 409 00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:42,800 Speaker 1: actually really enjoy it. My wife says, I'm a happier 410 00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:46,760 Speaker 1: person when I'm riding my bicycle. Brian Smith has joined 411 00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:53,720 Speaker 1: a growing, a growing cadre of Houstonians who are ditching 412 00:27:54,119 --> 00:27:57,600 Speaker 1: the automobile and riding their bicycle. That's all the article 413 00:27:57,640 --> 00:27:59,119 Speaker 1: I got, but you get the point. Ro'm on off 414 00:27:59,160 --> 00:28:05,439 Speaker 1: the flop. Reporter Julianna Lightze says, quote, like many Houston streets, 415 00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:08,919 Speaker 1: the road to a bicycle friendly city has been bumpy. 416 00:28:09,080 --> 00:28:13,640 Speaker 1: Oh clever wordplay. Clever wordplay. Cars are the dominant force 417 00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:17,200 Speaker 1: shaping the city's design. Oh what a crappy old city. 418 00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:20,600 Speaker 1: We got cars and car lanes. Why can't we just 419 00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:25,320 Speaker 1: be like Austin or California? Whereas people continue to come, 420 00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:28,000 Speaker 1: we don't build more roads because we're arrogant and then 421 00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:30,000 Speaker 1: we jam up the traffic and can't figure out what 422 00:28:30,119 --> 00:28:31,280 Speaker 1: the hell to do, and it's. 423 00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:32,160 Speaker 3: Too little, too late. 424 00:28:33,119 --> 00:28:37,320 Speaker 1: Cars are the dominant force shaping the city's design. Thousands 425 00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:41,720 Speaker 1: of commuters stream into the city daily, prompting crowded streets 426 00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:46,120 Speaker 1: and ever expanding highways. Oh we hate those ever expanding highways. 427 00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:50,000 Speaker 1: We hated you cattle, you sheep out there in your 428 00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:53,640 Speaker 1: cars and your trucks and your SUV's on the ever 429 00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:58,320 Speaker 1: expanding highways, out to your three bedroom, two bath homes 430 00:28:58,360 --> 00:29:01,760 Speaker 1: with two car garages and schools that don't have shootouts. 431 00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:05,360 Speaker 1: Look at you, just out there breeding and being in 432 00:29:05,440 --> 00:29:10,960 Speaker 1: the suburbs and boring amid the traffic. Some brave the 433 00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:14,480 Speaker 1: sidewalks or busy shoulders on two wheels instead of four. 434 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:17,560 Speaker 1: Oh so brave, so stunning. How do you do it? 435 00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:22,200 Speaker 1: It is a dangerous task to compete for space with cars, 436 00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:27,400 Speaker 1: as the crash injury and fatality data reflects, you dumb asses. 437 00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:30,480 Speaker 1: You're gonna get killed on your bicycle. There's nothing brave 438 00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:34,200 Speaker 1: about it. It's stupid. Those are roads for cars. Advocates 439 00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:38,560 Speaker 1: have pushed for protected bike lanes, more pedestrian, mixed youth 440 00:29:38,760 --> 00:29:43,320 Speaker 1: pat use, paths, paths, and a city commitment to supporting 441 00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:49,640 Speaker 1: bicycle transportation for decades. Please commit to more bicycles, please, 442 00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:54,440 Speaker 1: good Lord. In nineteen ninety three, the city adopted a 443 00:29:54,520 --> 00:29:58,120 Speaker 1: comprehensive bikeways plan. Oh that's what we needed. That's what 444 00:29:58,240 --> 00:30:01,520 Speaker 1: Sylvester Turner was good at. He'd have a comprehensive plan. 445 00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:04,080 Speaker 1: Here's our comprehensive plan. We're going to be safe. And 446 00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:06,479 Speaker 1: our comprehensive plan, we're going to save money. And our 447 00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:10,480 Speaker 1: comprehensive plan, we're all going to ride bicycles. All the while, 448 00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:15,440 Speaker 1: the streets were getting more dangerous, the money was being stolen, 449 00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:18,120 Speaker 1: everything was falling apart. The roads weren't paid. But we 450 00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:20,920 Speaker 1: had a comprehensive plan. We did, and they would roll 451 00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:23,240 Speaker 1: it out. And when they rolled it out, they would 452 00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:26,120 Speaker 1: have a fair and exhibition and they would have hot 453 00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:29,280 Speaker 1: dogs and ice cream and people on bicycles. And it 454 00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:32,720 Speaker 1: was the liberals wet dream. This is what liberals love 455 00:30:33,280 --> 00:30:36,320 Speaker 1: because it's their dream delive in San Francisco. It's their 456 00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:39,200 Speaker 1: dream to live in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It's their dream to 457 00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:41,520 Speaker 1: live in DC. And by God, they're going to make 458 00:30:41,560 --> 00:30:44,760 Speaker 1: Houston into their dream if it kills them. In twenty seventeen, 459 00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:47,680 Speaker 1: the city adopted an updated Houston Bike Plan odds what 460 00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:50,600 Speaker 1: we needed had to update that plan. Yep, I bet 461 00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:53,240 Speaker 1: you didn't know we had a comprehensive bikeways plan, did you? 462 00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:57,040 Speaker 1: That set the goal of becoming a gold level bicycle 463 00:30:57,120 --> 00:30:59,320 Speaker 1: city within a decade. You gotta have a goal. 464 00:30:59,480 --> 00:30:59,920 Speaker 6: Ramone. 465 00:31:00,440 --> 00:31:03,760 Speaker 1: They set a goal, We're gonna have a goal. Let's 466 00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:07,840 Speaker 1: have a niecee Porker and Sylvester Turner and Rodney Ellis 467 00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:11,520 Speaker 1: and Lena Hidalgo, and let's have a press conference and 468 00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:15,760 Speaker 1: let's announce a lofty goal. We will go to the 469 00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:20,240 Speaker 1: moon within the decade. Not because it's easy, but because 470 00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:24,400 Speaker 1: it's tough. Why does Rice play the University of Texas 471 00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:27,480 Speaker 1: Because it's tough. Why do we want to become a 472 00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:33,280 Speaker 1: gold level bicycle city? Because it's tough. By God, we 473 00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:37,280 Speaker 1: will get the people out of their automobiles and we 474 00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:40,200 Speaker 1: will put them on bicycles in the one hundred and 475 00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:41,680 Speaker 1: five degree heat. 476 00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:43,040 Speaker 3: Because it's tough. 477 00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:47,640 Speaker 1: There will be on our bicycles like Pee Wee Herman. 478 00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:51,200 Speaker 1: I hearken to the days of Sheila Jackson Lee on 479 00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:58,240 Speaker 1: her bicycle riding the overpass into a Rice University area, 480 00:31:58,360 --> 00:32:01,680 Speaker 1: and there she looked just as upid as she possibly could. 481 00:32:01,760 --> 00:32:05,000 Speaker 1: And there was Jerome in behind it, huffing and puffing. 482 00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:08,960 Speaker 1: In there she was Sheila jacksonally on her bicycle with 483 00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:13,960 Speaker 1: that slug smile, Go Sheila, go ride that thing. 484 00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:15,840 Speaker 3: Ride at Sheila. 485 00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:19,400 Speaker 1: And there was a nice parker coming into downtown and 486 00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:22,960 Speaker 1: she was sitting up real straight, her back rim road 487 00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:26,080 Speaker 1: straight it was, and she had that helmet on, and 488 00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:29,120 Speaker 1: she was wearing the jeans that aren't really jeans, but 489 00:32:29,240 --> 00:32:32,640 Speaker 1: they're that stretchy material but they're meant to look like jeans. 490 00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:36,240 Speaker 1: And she had some very sensible shoes or thief wouldn't hurt. 491 00:32:36,560 --> 00:32:38,560 Speaker 1: And she had a blousy shirt because she's not a 492 00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:39,080 Speaker 1: fin girl. 493 00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:39,480 Speaker 6: She's not. 494 00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:42,600 Speaker 1: And there she went and she rode that bicycle in 495 00:32:42,760 --> 00:32:46,400 Speaker 1: and she was sitting up real straight, and she was smiling, 496 00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:49,560 Speaker 1: and they took her photo and she was in the 497 00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:51,560 Speaker 1: paper and she was in the news, and she was 498 00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:54,880 Speaker 1: being a leader, by God, because this is what leaders do. 499 00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:58,520 Speaker 1: They take away lanes for cars to drive on so 500 00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:02,239 Speaker 1: we can have one bicycle lane, as if people are 501 00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:04,960 Speaker 1: going to ride their bicycle to work in the Houston 502 00:33:05,040 --> 00:33:08,040 Speaker 1: heat every day. Look at us. We're just like the 503 00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:11,120 Speaker 1: big cities. Can we bring Pete butter Gig in here, 504 00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:13,640 Speaker 1: Maybe he can ride with her, and we'll do what 505 00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:16,440 Speaker 1: he always does and have him dropped off a block away, 506 00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:18,400 Speaker 1: because lord knows, doing a sweat when you get there, 507 00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:20,760 Speaker 1: and we'll have Pete butter Gig right in with her. 508 00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:24,120 Speaker 3: And they'll have so much in common and riding he's ride. 509 00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:26,880 Speaker 3: We didn't know she could ride like that. Look at 510 00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:30,640 Speaker 3: her go riding into town. All the people will ride. 511 00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:34,400 Speaker 1: This is like the old West, but instead of steal cowboy, 512 00:33:34,480 --> 00:33:37,920 Speaker 1: she's on that bicycle. Look at it. Go Oh my goodness, 513 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:41,120 Speaker 1: maybe that's a cannondale, Go gro go. And then we'll 514 00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:43,880 Speaker 1: put bicycles on every corner where you can check them 515 00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:47,800 Speaker 1: out off the shared ownership of the bicycle, because once 516 00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:50,040 Speaker 1: you get everybody on the bicycle, you gotta take away 517 00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:52,160 Speaker 1: the bicycles. First we take away your car and put 518 00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:54,200 Speaker 1: you on the bicycle. Now we've got you on the bicycle, 519 00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:56,680 Speaker 1: we're gonna take away your bicycle. You have a shared bicycle. 520 00:33:56,720 --> 00:33:58,520 Speaker 1: Oh you know those blue bicycles. They put them in 521 00:33:58,880 --> 00:34:00,760 Speaker 1: every street corner. They put them at the library. And 522 00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:03,840 Speaker 1: the dream is that you will just walk outside and 523 00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:06,560 Speaker 1: walk over with a smug smile. You will check out 524 00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:08,560 Speaker 1: your bicycle and you will ride it down to the 525 00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:11,200 Speaker 1: grocery store. You'll have a little basket in the pantry 526 00:34:11,239 --> 00:34:12,839 Speaker 1: and you'll put it on the front of your thing, 527 00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:14,840 Speaker 1: and you will ride back, and you will smile.