1 00:00:03,840 --> 00:00:09,319 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. 2 00:00:11,160 --> 00:00:13,800 Speaker 2: So Michael Vari show is on the air. 3 00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:16,239 Speaker 3: It's a genocide that's second place that you people don't 4 00:00:16,239 --> 00:00:18,800 Speaker 3: want to write about, but it's a terrible thing that's 5 00:00:18,800 --> 00:00:19,480 Speaker 3: taking place. 6 00:00:19,560 --> 00:00:23,599 Speaker 2: And farmers are being killed. They happen to be white. 7 00:00:24,440 --> 00:00:27,400 Speaker 3: But whether they're white or black makes no difference to me. 8 00:00:27,560 --> 00:00:31,840 Speaker 3: But white farmers are being brutally killed and their land 9 00:00:31,920 --> 00:00:37,760 Speaker 3: is being confiscated in South Africa. 10 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:41,080 Speaker 4: With the dramatic scene in the Oval Office today, the 11 00:00:41,159 --> 00:00:44,800 Speaker 4: tense confrontation President Trump ambushing the President of South Africa. 12 00:00:45,120 --> 00:00:48,960 Speaker 5: Next another Oval office meltdown, President Trump ambushing the President 13 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:49,960 Speaker 5: of South Africa. 14 00:00:50,360 --> 00:00:53,000 Speaker 1: President Trump is being accused of conducting something of a 15 00:00:53,120 --> 00:00:56,240 Speaker 1: diplomatic ambush a South Africa's president in the Oval Office. 16 00:00:56,280 --> 00:00:58,720 Speaker 6: To be with you, I'm Katie, sir, President Trump orchestrated 17 00:00:58,800 --> 00:01:00,720 Speaker 6: another Oval Office ambush. 18 00:01:00,840 --> 00:01:04,360 Speaker 1: Today is today Donald Trump meeting with the President of 19 00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:09,000 Speaker 1: South Africa and attempting to ambush and humiliate that leader. 20 00:01:09,360 --> 00:01:13,520 Speaker 5: Zelenski territory where essentially he was a bit ambushed inside 21 00:01:13,520 --> 00:01:14,640 Speaker 5: the Oval Office. 22 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:17,080 Speaker 1: Felt like an ambush in there, kind of like the 23 00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:19,520 Speaker 1: President's Lensky meeting in the Oval office. 24 00:01:19,680 --> 00:01:23,039 Speaker 2: This was an ambush. It was orchestrated. 25 00:01:23,959 --> 00:01:27,040 Speaker 7: Brought his best diplomatic self to this meeting, but nothing 26 00:01:27,080 --> 00:01:30,240 Speaker 7: could have prepared him for this multimedia ambush. 27 00:01:30,360 --> 00:01:34,080 Speaker 2: What started as to some degree in ambush, Well, Katie, 28 00:01:34,120 --> 00:01:38,080 Speaker 2: I mean it wasn't ambushed, ambush, ambushed, ambush and ambushed. 29 00:01:37,680 --> 00:01:52,120 Speaker 5: Ambushing, ambush and ambushed inside the Oval office. 30 00:01:52,880 --> 00:01:54,840 Speaker 2: They when fire. 31 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:02,640 Speaker 6: The Partei system ended and they reformed their constitution under 32 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:06,680 Speaker 6: the great leader of Nelson Mandela, and that allowed for 33 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:09,880 Speaker 6: a racial reconciliation, one that this country has yet to do. 34 00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:13,120 Speaker 6: If there was actually a genocide happening like there is 35 00:02:13,120 --> 00:02:16,639 Speaker 6: in other places in Sudan and the Congo, would I'm 36 00:02:16,639 --> 00:02:19,040 Speaker 6: not opposed for Congolese and for the Sunnese to come 37 00:02:19,080 --> 00:02:22,000 Speaker 6: to Africa, just like I'm not opposed to Venezuelans and 38 00:02:22,200 --> 00:02:25,040 Speaker 6: South America's coming to America if they are fleeing and 39 00:02:25,080 --> 00:02:28,639 Speaker 6: looking for asylum. I am what I am against. 40 00:02:28,760 --> 00:02:29,919 Speaker 2: It's not about being against them. 41 00:02:29,919 --> 00:02:32,360 Speaker 6: What I am against is that they are being given 42 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:34,480 Speaker 6: special statement when there is not a genocide happening in 43 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:36,320 Speaker 6: South Africa and they just don't. 44 00:02:36,200 --> 00:02:37,120 Speaker 2: Like the law of the land. 45 00:02:37,280 --> 00:02:39,359 Speaker 4: Whether you call it a genocide or not. The facts 46 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:42,520 Speaker 4: are white farmers in South Africa have been murdered. 47 00:02:43,040 --> 00:02:44,560 Speaker 2: A lot of people have tried to cover this up. 48 00:02:44,560 --> 00:02:45,919 Speaker 4: A lot of people in I think media in the 49 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:48,880 Speaker 4: United States have tried to cover it up. Obviously, the 50 00:02:48,919 --> 00:02:50,840 Speaker 4: South African government doesn't want to talk about it. So 51 00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:52,480 Speaker 4: it was kind of a boss move for Donald Trump 52 00:02:52,520 --> 00:02:54,320 Speaker 4: to roll that television in there today. And I think 53 00:02:54,360 --> 00:02:57,480 Speaker 4: even the agriculture minister in the Oval Office confirmed that 54 00:02:57,560 --> 00:03:00,840 Speaker 4: these people are in fact being murdered. So my question is, 55 00:03:00,840 --> 00:03:02,760 Speaker 4: if it's not a genocide today, how many do we 56 00:03:02,800 --> 00:03:05,200 Speaker 4: want to let get murdered so that people around here 57 00:03:05,200 --> 00:03:11,959 Speaker 4: can be satisfied. Okay, now it's a genocide. 58 00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:23,440 Speaker 1: Well, major news out of DC as President Trump's One Big, 59 00:03:23,560 --> 00:03:30,639 Speaker 1: Beautiful Bill has passed. It was an extension of the 60 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:34,760 Speaker 1: twenty seventeen Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which came to 61 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:41,920 Speaker 1: be known as the TCJA. This would permanently extend that Act, 62 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:47,320 Speaker 1: but would also work to eliminate taxes on tips and overtime. 63 00:03:47,720 --> 00:03:50,200 Speaker 1: We're gonna play some music. I'm having a little problem 64 00:03:49,720 --> 00:03:53,320 Speaker 1: with my computer system here. I need about thirty seconds, 65 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:55,880 Speaker 1: just one say, we're. 66 00:03:55,720 --> 00:03:57,960 Speaker 3: Going to be changing the name of the Gulf of 67 00:03:58,240 --> 00:04:01,760 Speaker 3: Mexico to the golf of with the Michael Berry, which 68 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:02,840 Speaker 3: is a beautiful. 69 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:27,240 Speaker 2: W close your rise and drink me going on a 70 00:04:27,320 --> 00:04:31,760 Speaker 2: trip through history. I won't see society. 71 00:04:31,240 --> 00:04:35,640 Speaker 8: Day and we'll go back when time's young and you 72 00:04:35,839 --> 00:04:37,960 Speaker 8: learn the trigger of gun. 73 00:04:38,640 --> 00:04:42,680 Speaker 1: Maybe six feet on the way, when the. 74 00:04:42,760 --> 00:04:45,880 Speaker 8: Mountains closed about the side and the rivers killed. 75 00:04:46,040 --> 00:04:47,719 Speaker 6: Mine's cried to. 76 00:04:48,080 --> 00:04:52,760 Speaker 8: Was a year forty nine. Hey those days. I'm not 77 00:04:53,080 --> 00:04:57,320 Speaker 8: gone and didn't wish I could see the li find 78 00:04:57,560 --> 00:05:05,160 Speaker 8: from the cowboys. I I'm on good time trad I'm 79 00:05:06,279 --> 00:05:07,480 Speaker 8: very hard. 80 00:05:07,920 --> 00:05:11,839 Speaker 1: I had a glitch. I'm on the power to my 81 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:17,080 Speaker 1: box that broadcasts no nothing in dangerous. It's a little disconcerting. 82 00:05:17,120 --> 00:05:19,000 Speaker 1: It just decided to start happening while I was right 83 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:23,320 Speaker 1: in the middle of talking. But anyway, the bill has passed, 84 00:05:23,360 --> 00:05:27,719 Speaker 1: which is no small feat for President Trump, and this 85 00:05:27,800 --> 00:05:30,720 Speaker 1: is a big win for Mike Johnson as Speaker of 86 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:34,760 Speaker 1: the House. The bill passed two fifteen to two fourteen, 87 00:05:35,480 --> 00:05:41,560 Speaker 1: every Democrat voting against it. Thomas Massey, Republican from Kentucky 88 00:05:41,640 --> 00:05:44,440 Speaker 1: voting voting against it. And I believe it was Warren 89 00:05:44,520 --> 00:05:47,960 Speaker 1: Davidson from Ohio who ended up being the other holdout 90 00:05:48,520 --> 00:05:53,360 Speaker 1: and the head of the Freedom Caucus, whose last name 91 00:05:53,440 --> 00:05:58,400 Speaker 1: is Harris, I forget his first name, Andy Harris from Maryland, 92 00:05:59,040 --> 00:06:03,200 Speaker 1: voted present. But the margins it matter. The bill passed. 93 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:06,760 Speaker 1: That's a big win for Trump. Is it a perfect bill. No, 94 00:06:07,120 --> 00:06:09,640 Speaker 1: it's not anywhere near a perfect bill. Is it what 95 00:06:09,680 --> 00:06:12,120 Speaker 1: I would like? No, it's not anywhere near what I 96 00:06:12,160 --> 00:06:16,520 Speaker 1: would like. But if you're assessing what it means to 97 00:06:16,600 --> 00:06:21,400 Speaker 1: the Trump presidency, this was a domestic accomplishment at a 98 00:06:21,520 --> 00:06:26,960 Speaker 1: time when he did not want a need to see 99 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:32,400 Speaker 1: a break in his line of successes, both foreign and domestic. 100 00:06:32,560 --> 00:06:35,200 Speaker 1: So consider it you can. You can chalk this one 101 00:06:35,279 --> 00:06:40,000 Speaker 1: up as a win for Trump and delivering on no 102 00:06:40,120 --> 00:06:43,640 Speaker 1: tax on tips, no tax on overtime. If that makes 103 00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:46,960 Speaker 1: it through the final process of reconciliation, that's going to 104 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:50,520 Speaker 1: be That's going to be a huge feather in his cap. 105 00:06:50,640 --> 00:06:53,640 Speaker 1: It's going to be a promise made that I think 106 00:06:53,640 --> 00:06:57,040 Speaker 1: a lot of people believe he could not accomplish, and 107 00:06:57,160 --> 00:06:59,360 Speaker 1: darned if he didn't do it. 108 00:06:59,720 --> 00:07:03,120 Speaker 2: That is the big news in Washington, d C. At 109 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:04,679 Speaker 2: this very moment. 110 00:07:05,640 --> 00:07:09,440 Speaker 1: Congress will be in recess next week, so this needed 111 00:07:09,440 --> 00:07:13,760 Speaker 1: to get done and as of early this morning it did, 112 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:16,600 Speaker 1: so I can tell you they are popping the corks 113 00:07:16,640 --> 00:07:18,920 Speaker 1: of champagne at the White House as we speak. That 114 00:07:19,080 --> 00:07:22,720 Speaker 1: was a very, very difficult process, wrangling two hundred and 115 00:07:22,720 --> 00:07:27,160 Speaker 1: fifteen votes to two hundred fourteen. My understanding with the 116 00:07:27,160 --> 00:07:31,560 Speaker 1: Andy Harris deal is that he voted present because if 117 00:07:31,600 --> 00:07:35,400 Speaker 1: he voted against it, it would tie and up pass. 118 00:07:36,040 --> 00:07:40,200 Speaker 1: So by staying out, he affected the number of votes 119 00:07:40,240 --> 00:07:42,880 Speaker 1: needed to get a majority, and you weren't going to 120 00:07:42,880 --> 00:07:46,080 Speaker 1: get Davidson or Massey. They pulled in several votes the 121 00:07:46,200 --> 00:07:50,320 Speaker 1: last possible minute, but by voting present, he allowed them 122 00:07:50,320 --> 00:07:54,360 Speaker 1: to win with a two fifteen to two fourteen majority. 123 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:59,160 Speaker 1: And as you remember, there's actually four hundred thirty five congressman, 124 00:07:59,280 --> 00:08:02,400 Speaker 1: so you've got a few folks missing. We've had six 125 00:08:02,760 --> 00:08:06,400 Speaker 1: Democrat congressmen back die and just looking it up like 126 00:08:06,440 --> 00:08:09,200 Speaker 1: a last ten months, two of them being Turner and 127 00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:09,680 Speaker 1: she lived. 128 00:08:09,680 --> 00:08:42,600 Speaker 2: Actually not the Longhorn theme song or the Aggie wore him, 129 00:08:42,960 --> 00:08:45,840 Speaker 2: but I will tell you it's uh. It is the 130 00:08:45,880 --> 00:08:46,640 Speaker 2: school fight. 131 00:08:46,520 --> 00:08:51,160 Speaker 1: Song of the number one college basketball program in the 132 00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:54,720 Speaker 1: state of Texas and could end up being in the country. 133 00:08:55,840 --> 00:08:58,679 Speaker 2: And there is great news for fellow Cougar's. 134 00:09:00,040 --> 00:09:03,760 Speaker 1: Head basketball coach Kelvin Sampson has signed a new four 135 00:09:03,880 --> 00:09:06,520 Speaker 1: year contract that will run through the twenty eight to 136 00:09:06,600 --> 00:09:11,080 Speaker 1: twenty nine season, which is great news for UH because 137 00:09:11,160 --> 00:09:14,360 Speaker 1: it locks up what I would argue is the best 138 00:09:14,360 --> 00:09:16,400 Speaker 1: coach in college basketball today. 139 00:09:16,880 --> 00:09:17,840 Speaker 2: He has a two. 140 00:09:17,679 --> 00:09:21,800 Speaker 1: Hundred and ninety nine wins eighty four loss record during 141 00:09:21,840 --> 00:09:25,240 Speaker 1: his eleven seasons at Houston. Funny, it doesn't feel like 142 00:09:25,240 --> 00:09:29,000 Speaker 1: eleven seasons. It's hard to believe, isn't it interesting When 143 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:31,560 Speaker 1: a coach is winning, you don't realize how long they've 144 00:09:31,559 --> 00:09:35,000 Speaker 1: been there. When they're losing, it feels like it's been forever. 145 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:39,440 Speaker 1: Every year we hear the rumors that other schools are 146 00:09:39,440 --> 00:09:44,520 Speaker 1: trying to poach Kelvin, and he stays true every year. 147 00:09:45,880 --> 00:09:47,920 Speaker 1: I hope this is where he ends his career. I 148 00:09:48,040 --> 00:09:50,800 Speaker 1: really really do. He's in a great spot. He's seventy, 149 00:09:50,800 --> 00:09:55,520 Speaker 1: he'll be seventy in October. The university loves him. Tilman 150 00:09:55,720 --> 00:10:01,640 Speaker 1: is obviously off in Italy as he ambassador, but the 151 00:10:01,640 --> 00:10:08,400 Speaker 1: board loves him. The university loves him. The football program 152 00:10:08,480 --> 00:10:10,720 Speaker 1: is not where you'd like it to be, but the 153 00:10:10,760 --> 00:10:14,280 Speaker 1: basketball program is bringing great honor to the school and 154 00:10:14,320 --> 00:10:17,160 Speaker 1: he's a major part of that. And you know, obviously 155 00:10:17,920 --> 00:10:19,680 Speaker 1: UH wants to win a national championship. 156 00:10:19,720 --> 00:10:23,800 Speaker 2: That's the goal. You get that close, that's the goal. 157 00:10:24,360 --> 00:10:27,400 Speaker 1: And rankings have them at number one in recruiting for 158 00:10:27,480 --> 00:10:32,040 Speaker 1: next season again with not one five star recruit or commit, 159 00:10:32,280 --> 00:10:36,439 Speaker 1: not two five star commits, but three five star commits. 160 00:10:36,600 --> 00:10:39,120 Speaker 1: And whether you're a Cougar or not, whether you want 161 00:10:39,160 --> 00:10:42,080 Speaker 1: to see great basketball on the college level in Houston 162 00:10:42,200 --> 00:10:45,520 Speaker 1: or not, who wouldn't want to root for Kelvin Samsony's 163 00:10:45,559 --> 00:10:47,880 Speaker 1: like Mike Leech, just a great quote master. 164 00:10:49,840 --> 00:10:52,760 Speaker 7: Don't advice I would give people to people that follow 165 00:10:52,840 --> 00:10:57,079 Speaker 7: this team is and this is as honest and as 166 00:10:57,120 --> 00:10:59,960 Speaker 7: true as that you can possibly be. Your team's now 167 00:11:00,160 --> 00:11:02,080 Speaker 7: as good as you think it is, it's neighbor, as 168 00:11:02,120 --> 00:11:03,040 Speaker 7: bad as you think it is. 169 00:11:03,520 --> 00:11:05,240 Speaker 2: No one ever loses the daty thing. 170 00:11:05,240 --> 00:11:07,920 Speaker 7: As long as you don't quit, tell you you quit, 171 00:11:08,400 --> 00:11:09,640 Speaker 7: I don't care it you've lost. 172 00:11:09,720 --> 00:11:11,440 Speaker 2: No, it's the same thing. I mean, nerve. 173 00:11:11,840 --> 00:11:13,640 Speaker 5: I don't think they've made a three yet either, we 174 00:11:13,720 --> 00:11:14,560 Speaker 5: haven't made it three. 175 00:11:14,800 --> 00:11:18,439 Speaker 2: It's nerves. It's about his championship night. Is that in the. 176 00:11:18,400 --> 00:11:21,760 Speaker 7: Melody of Janguary against as what state it is not 177 00:11:21,840 --> 00:11:24,680 Speaker 7: as your championship never gonna be nerved. 178 00:11:26,080 --> 00:11:31,120 Speaker 1: So the founder of the Texas Renaissance Festival Festival Rest 179 00:11:31,800 --> 00:11:36,600 Speaker 1: has died at eighty seven. Weirdo George Coolum as he 180 00:11:36,679 --> 00:11:41,880 Speaker 1: has been described, or King George. Now let me say 181 00:11:42,160 --> 00:11:46,000 Speaker 1: before we begin this discussion, I never went to Renfest. 182 00:11:46,880 --> 00:11:50,160 Speaker 1: I didn't know George. I may be mispronouncing his name. 183 00:11:50,720 --> 00:11:52,920 Speaker 1: I know that there are people who love him and 184 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:56,720 Speaker 1: there are a lot of people who hate him. There's 185 00:11:56,720 --> 00:12:00,480 Speaker 1: a whole different group of people who don't really know him. 186 00:12:00,720 --> 00:12:03,760 Speaker 1: But there was the I think it was an HBO series. 187 00:12:03,800 --> 00:12:07,240 Speaker 1: It made him out to be a creepers jeepers, inappropriate 188 00:12:07,240 --> 00:12:09,520 Speaker 1: with the ladies, and just an all around bad guy. 189 00:12:09,800 --> 00:12:11,960 Speaker 1: I don't know if any of that is true or not. 190 00:12:12,120 --> 00:12:13,800 Speaker 1: I can tell you stories on Sheila Jackson, Lee and 191 00:12:13,840 --> 00:12:18,079 Speaker 1: Sylvester Turner. I don't know about the King George or 192 00:12:18,080 --> 00:12:20,839 Speaker 1: George Coolam. I don't know if it's Kulim or Kulam. 193 00:12:20,880 --> 00:12:24,240 Speaker 1: I'm gonna say Coolim until somebody corrects me. But so 194 00:12:24,320 --> 00:12:26,880 Speaker 1: when we start this conversation, just no, I don't speak 195 00:12:26,920 --> 00:12:29,760 Speaker 1: from any authority. I'm just telling you what I hear 196 00:12:29,800 --> 00:12:33,640 Speaker 1: about it. So Texas Renaissance Festival is a big deal. 197 00:12:33,960 --> 00:12:37,760 Speaker 1: It's a big regional deal. I think it got to be, 198 00:12:37,960 --> 00:12:40,079 Speaker 1: if not the biggest of its type in the country 199 00:12:40,360 --> 00:12:43,200 Speaker 1: when it started and when it grew, certainly one of, 200 00:12:43,440 --> 00:12:47,320 Speaker 1: if not, as I said, the biggest. I've seen reports 201 00:12:47,320 --> 00:12:50,679 Speaker 1: that it was the largest festival of this kind in 202 00:12:50,720 --> 00:12:54,760 Speaker 1: the country, and I know a lot of people who've 203 00:12:54,760 --> 00:12:57,280 Speaker 1: been there, including Ramon who was arrested there, and we'll 204 00:12:57,280 --> 00:13:00,760 Speaker 1: get to that in a moment. So there's been this 205 00:13:00,880 --> 00:13:06,840 Speaker 1: contentious back and forth between George and these buyers groups 206 00:13:07,080 --> 00:13:08,960 Speaker 1: that wanted to buy him out, and he would go 207 00:13:09,040 --> 00:13:11,040 Speaker 1: into the contract and then come out. Last week I 208 00:13:11,080 --> 00:13:14,160 Speaker 1: read that the deal was finally done and he's not 209 00:13:14,280 --> 00:13:16,120 Speaker 1: able to I think when he backed out, they took 210 00:13:16,160 --> 00:13:19,520 Speaker 1: him to court because at some point people were being 211 00:13:19,559 --> 00:13:21,719 Speaker 1: induced into a contract and then he would pull out 212 00:13:21,720 --> 00:13:24,040 Speaker 1: of it, and they were spending money on that. So, 213 00:13:24,720 --> 00:13:26,920 Speaker 1: in what was described by one person as the Willy 214 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:31,520 Speaker 1: Wonka of the Renaissance affairs, there's a lot of drama involved. 215 00:13:32,559 --> 00:13:39,120 Speaker 1: So he's found dead. Cause of death currently listed as unknown. 216 00:13:40,440 --> 00:13:42,920 Speaker 1: This is two weeks after a Grimes County judge ruled 217 00:13:42,960 --> 00:13:47,200 Speaker 1: against him, forcing the sale of the festival to new owners, 218 00:13:48,120 --> 00:13:52,559 Speaker 1: and it was expected that he would not be appealing 219 00:13:52,800 --> 00:13:53,440 Speaker 1: this judgment. 220 00:13:53,960 --> 00:13:56,600 Speaker 2: He owed twenty two million dollars. 221 00:13:56,160 --> 00:14:00,280 Speaker 1: In damages to those folks and another million dollars in 222 00:14:00,360 --> 00:14:03,240 Speaker 1: lawyers fees, which was going to come off the top 223 00:14:03,400 --> 00:14:05,000 Speaker 1: of the value of the sale. 224 00:14:06,559 --> 00:14:07,040 Speaker 2: As I said. 225 00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:10,880 Speaker 1: The HBO document series, which I've not seen, followed what 226 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:13,960 Speaker 1: was described as the very toxic and often creepy life 227 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:18,359 Speaker 1: of Kulham, who was sued multiple times for sexually assaulting employees. 228 00:14:19,040 --> 00:14:19,880 Speaker 2: Where does one part? 229 00:14:19,960 --> 00:14:25,080 Speaker 1: I Steed write, Ramone, is it time for. 230 00:14:25,040 --> 00:14:27,560 Speaker 2: Another old rock and roll segment? 231 00:14:28,920 --> 00:14:33,880 Speaker 1: Folks are fascinated by the Middle Ages and a festival. 232 00:14:34,160 --> 00:14:37,480 Speaker 1: I'm not a festival person. My problem with festivals is 233 00:14:38,160 --> 00:14:43,800 Speaker 1: there's people there and they're never normal. They're never normal. 234 00:14:45,560 --> 00:14:48,960 Speaker 1: So that brings us to Ramone's story of being arrested. 235 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:51,360 Speaker 1: It's one of my favorite stories. 236 00:14:51,800 --> 00:14:57,360 Speaker 2: The year was about. Let's see two eight or nine. 237 00:14:58,360 --> 00:14:59,440 Speaker 2: Ramone was. 238 00:15:01,320 --> 00:15:04,720 Speaker 1: Assistant program director of KPRC, which just turned one hundred 239 00:15:04,760 --> 00:15:06,560 Speaker 1: years old. That's nine to fifty, just down the dow 240 00:15:07,640 --> 00:15:10,760 Speaker 1: and I was the operations manager over the three AM stations. 241 00:15:10,800 --> 00:15:13,320 Speaker 1: Seven ninety the sports station seven forty what you're listening 242 00:15:13,320 --> 00:15:16,200 Speaker 1: to now? In nine to fifty, so, Ramon worked on 243 00:15:16,240 --> 00:15:18,040 Speaker 1: my show, but I also wanted to promote him to 244 00:15:18,080 --> 00:15:22,280 Speaker 1: program director of this station nine fifty. 245 00:15:22,640 --> 00:15:27,680 Speaker 2: So I I. 246 00:15:26,560 --> 00:15:28,960 Speaker 1: Say, I'd like to move him. I'd like to promote 247 00:15:29,040 --> 00:15:32,720 Speaker 1: him to this position. And our HR director, who was 248 00:15:32,760 --> 00:15:36,280 Speaker 1: also the controller at the time, was very controlling and 249 00:15:36,360 --> 00:15:39,760 Speaker 1: she said, no, we can't do that. He's he's got 250 00:15:39,760 --> 00:15:43,000 Speaker 1: a record. I said, what, he's got a record? He 251 00:15:43,040 --> 00:15:47,680 Speaker 1: was arrested for what a DW I mean, what pott? 252 00:15:47,760 --> 00:15:49,040 Speaker 2: What was he arrested for? 253 00:15:49,680 --> 00:15:53,120 Speaker 1: And she said it was a company infringement. It's in 254 00:15:53,160 --> 00:15:57,040 Speaker 1: his HR file. You have got to be kidding me, 255 00:15:57,600 --> 00:16:02,000 Speaker 1: m So she went back to his HR file, which 256 00:16:02,040 --> 00:16:05,320 Speaker 1: had one document in it, which was that in two thousand, 257 00:16:06,160 --> 00:16:09,120 Speaker 1: Ramon had taken the free tickets that any iHeart than 258 00:16:09,160 --> 00:16:12,320 Speaker 1: cleartail employee did and was selling them for five dollars 259 00:16:12,360 --> 00:16:14,160 Speaker 1: at the gate and got arrested for it. 260 00:16:14,720 --> 00:16:17,360 Speaker 2: And she said, no, he can't have the job because 261 00:16:17,360 --> 00:16:20,400 Speaker 2: of that. Well he got the job, dude. The Michael 262 00:16:20,440 --> 00:16:21,160 Speaker 2: Berry Show. 263 00:16:22,680 --> 00:16:26,440 Speaker 1: President Trump hosted the President of South Africa yesterday in 264 00:16:26,480 --> 00:16:33,080 Speaker 1: the White House and he said, hey, your people are 265 00:16:34,240 --> 00:16:37,680 Speaker 1: committing genocide against white farmers. 266 00:16:39,320 --> 00:16:40,120 Speaker 2: Let me show you. 267 00:16:40,960 --> 00:16:43,600 Speaker 1: And he has them rolling the TV and turned the 268 00:16:43,720 --> 00:16:46,520 Speaker 1: lights down, and it was like when you were in 269 00:16:46,600 --> 00:16:49,920 Speaker 1: second grade and you had a substitute teacher and the 270 00:16:50,040 --> 00:16:54,520 Speaker 1: lights go down and Uncle Smiley comes on and you're 271 00:16:54,560 --> 00:16:57,000 Speaker 1: looking and they're in the White House sitting in half dark, 272 00:16:57,680 --> 00:17:03,400 Speaker 1: watching the viciousness. And that guy, he didn't know what 273 00:17:03,520 --> 00:17:06,399 Speaker 1: to think. I just came here for some cash and 274 00:17:06,440 --> 00:17:10,440 Speaker 1: now I gotta So you want to know how corrupt 275 00:17:11,119 --> 00:17:15,719 Speaker 1: the media is. Jim Mudd put together our opener today. 276 00:17:15,760 --> 00:17:19,520 Speaker 1: You heard all the references to ambush People Magazine. I'll 277 00:17:19,520 --> 00:17:23,160 Speaker 1: give you the headlines. People Trump ambush's South African president 278 00:17:23,200 --> 00:17:26,160 Speaker 1: on live TV with videos of debunked white persecution. 279 00:17:26,240 --> 00:17:29,160 Speaker 2: They're not debunked. Let's see The Telegraph. 280 00:17:29,160 --> 00:17:32,560 Speaker 1: Trump ambushes South African president with footage of white persecution. 281 00:17:33,640 --> 00:17:37,879 Speaker 1: Axios Trump ambush's South African's president with video footage in 282 00:17:37,960 --> 00:17:42,399 Speaker 1: oval office. Yahoo Trump ambush's South African president with video 283 00:17:42,440 --> 00:17:46,680 Speaker 1: claiming to show white genocide. Daily News Trump ambush's South 284 00:17:46,720 --> 00:17:50,959 Speaker 1: African president with video of attacks on white people. The Times, 285 00:17:52,160 --> 00:17:57,160 Speaker 1: Trump ambushes Ramafosa with video of racial violence as it happened. 286 00:17:58,320 --> 00:18:01,960 Speaker 1: Let's see NPR Trump ambush's South Africa's president with false 287 00:18:01,960 --> 00:18:05,360 Speaker 1: claims of white genocide. 288 00:18:05,560 --> 00:18:06,479 Speaker 2: The New York Times. 289 00:18:06,680 --> 00:18:12,760 Speaker 1: Trump lectures South African president in televised oval office ambush. 290 00:18:13,160 --> 00:18:13,960 Speaker 2: You don't. 291 00:18:16,400 --> 00:18:24,639 Speaker 1: Accidentally coincidentally use the same word that often. 292 00:18:25,960 --> 00:18:27,600 Speaker 2: Across multiple. 293 00:18:28,920 --> 00:18:36,480 Speaker 1: Journalists and headline writers unless it is coordinated. If there's 294 00:18:36,480 --> 00:18:38,480 Speaker 1: one thing that comes out of the book original sinate 295 00:18:38,560 --> 00:18:42,040 Speaker 1: should be that there is evil that is done, that 296 00:18:42,240 --> 00:18:48,720 Speaker 1: is well understood what they're doing, and they do it anyway, 297 00:18:50,200 --> 00:18:54,480 Speaker 1: They do it anyway, and nobody cares. So I got 298 00:18:54,480 --> 00:18:57,560 Speaker 1: a bunch of emails during the break about Ramon being arrested, 299 00:18:58,040 --> 00:19:01,159 Speaker 1: and so I was up against a break and I 300 00:19:01,200 --> 00:19:07,840 Speaker 1: had a couple of I had a couple of glitches 301 00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:13,199 Speaker 1: in the matrix. So I was off my game. But 302 00:19:13,640 --> 00:19:17,879 Speaker 1: here's what happened. So when you work at a radio station, 303 00:19:18,320 --> 00:19:20,680 Speaker 1: and we don't do this anymore because it's not done 304 00:19:21,040 --> 00:19:23,840 Speaker 1: like that anymore. But back in the day, Ramone's been 305 00:19:23,880 --> 00:19:25,879 Speaker 1: in radio for a long time. He didn't get his watch. 306 00:19:25,960 --> 00:19:28,159 Speaker 1: At twenty or twenty five years, he still saw over it. 307 00:19:28,200 --> 00:19:32,920 Speaker 1: But this was about a year two thousand and part 308 00:19:32,960 --> 00:19:36,919 Speaker 1: of working in a radio, everybody would get fat because 309 00:19:36,920 --> 00:19:40,720 Speaker 1: food would be delivered every day. Shipley Donuts would send 310 00:19:40,800 --> 00:19:46,119 Speaker 1: donuts every morning, and on the programming floor there was 311 00:19:46,880 --> 00:19:49,000 Speaker 1: not a full kitchen, but there was a pass through 312 00:19:49,040 --> 00:19:52,359 Speaker 1: kitchen to two sides of the hallways, and there was 313 00:19:52,400 --> 00:19:57,480 Speaker 1: a vending machine, a refrigerator and a long counter, and 314 00:19:57,520 --> 00:20:01,359 Speaker 1: there was always somebody bringing food. And the hope being 315 00:20:01,840 --> 00:20:03,639 Speaker 1: if we put our food in there, they'll eat it. 316 00:20:03,680 --> 00:20:05,560 Speaker 1: They'll go right back on the air and say, wow, 317 00:20:05,640 --> 00:20:09,400 Speaker 1: we just had Shipley Donuts and it was great. So 318 00:20:09,480 --> 00:20:12,199 Speaker 1: there was always food in there. I made it a 319 00:20:12,240 --> 00:20:15,399 Speaker 1: practice that I never ate it, because I knew that 320 00:20:15,600 --> 00:20:17,360 Speaker 1: if I gave in one time. 321 00:20:17,480 --> 00:20:18,880 Speaker 2: That would be the end to me. I would eat 322 00:20:18,880 --> 00:20:19,520 Speaker 2: it every time. 323 00:20:20,840 --> 00:20:24,880 Speaker 1: But anyway, one of the perks was that there would 324 00:20:24,920 --> 00:20:28,760 Speaker 1: sometimes be gift cards to restaurants, so the sales reps 325 00:20:28,760 --> 00:20:30,840 Speaker 1: would have gift cards. If you did a solid for 326 00:20:31,280 --> 00:20:33,480 Speaker 1: a sales rep, Robert Reese would hand you a gift 327 00:20:33,520 --> 00:20:35,560 Speaker 1: card and you could go and eat. Because you didn't 328 00:20:35,600 --> 00:20:40,320 Speaker 1: make any money, especially on the programming floor. The promotions department, 329 00:20:40,520 --> 00:20:42,840 Speaker 1: led by a woman named Melissa Presner, who was there 330 00:20:43,080 --> 00:20:45,960 Speaker 1: how long was Breas there almost thirty years. Bres had 331 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:49,880 Speaker 1: all the power because all the events went through Breas. 332 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:53,240 Speaker 1: Everybody loved Breas. Brez always looked tired because everybody was 333 00:20:53,280 --> 00:20:54,680 Speaker 1: always pestering her for tickets. 334 00:20:55,280 --> 00:20:59,440 Speaker 2: So Brez's job was to. 335 00:20:59,280 --> 00:21:04,280 Speaker 1: Coordinate all the events through our stations and the AM event. 336 00:21:04,440 --> 00:21:07,159 Speaker 1: The AM stations didn't do hardly any events a sports 337 00:21:07,200 --> 00:21:10,080 Speaker 1: station did. But really the big events back in those 338 00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:14,480 Speaker 1: days and probably still are were buzz ninety four point 339 00:21:14,480 --> 00:21:18,720 Speaker 1: five rod Ryan Station and so like Buzzfest, which either 340 00:21:18,800 --> 00:21:21,520 Speaker 1: just happened or is about to happen, huge event, And 341 00:21:22,119 --> 00:21:24,280 Speaker 1: I had to hide during that time because people would 342 00:21:24,320 --> 00:21:26,720 Speaker 1: ask you for Busfest tickets. Everybody wanted to go to 343 00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:28,600 Speaker 1: Busfest because it would be all these bands that I 344 00:21:28,640 --> 00:21:31,119 Speaker 1: don't know, but you would know that, you know, just 345 00:21:31,160 --> 00:21:33,520 Speaker 1: one after the other. And why wouldn't they You're on 346 00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:36,840 Speaker 1: the biggest alternative rock station in the fourth largest city. 347 00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:40,080 Speaker 1: Yeah you're gonna play that festival. So one of the 348 00:21:40,080 --> 00:21:43,320 Speaker 1: big perks was tickets to stuff. And when you first 349 00:21:43,359 --> 00:21:46,159 Speaker 1: started in radio, you would brag to people that you 350 00:21:46,160 --> 00:21:48,560 Speaker 1: could get tickets to stuff, and you would figure out 351 00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:50,800 Speaker 1: within a month that was the dumbest thing I ever did. 352 00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:53,560 Speaker 2: Because now people don't even really care. 353 00:21:53,440 --> 00:21:55,160 Speaker 1: To go to a concert, but they got a buddy 354 00:21:55,160 --> 00:21:58,239 Speaker 1: who's got tickets, and they're gonna ask for tickets, not 355 00:21:58,320 --> 00:22:01,400 Speaker 1: just for themselves but for the because now when they're 356 00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:03,840 Speaker 1: at a party like well, i'd trure like to go 357 00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:06,400 Speaker 1: to Busfest, I can get you tickets. You can't give 358 00:22:06,400 --> 00:22:08,920 Speaker 1: me tickets, impossible. They go on sale and they're gone 359 00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:11,440 Speaker 1: within three minutes. I got a hook up over there. 360 00:22:11,680 --> 00:22:14,760 Speaker 1: So now you have this chain of people who are 361 00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:17,480 Speaker 1: promising down the chain that they'll get you Busfest tickets. 362 00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:23,160 Speaker 1: So Texas Renaissance Festival probably would have advertised right ramon. 363 00:22:24,119 --> 00:22:26,520 Speaker 1: They probably they probably would have had some sort of 364 00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:31,480 Speaker 1: partnership with our stations, and that would have gone onto 365 00:22:31,480 --> 00:22:34,600 Speaker 1: the ams as well as the fms, And because it's 366 00:22:34,680 --> 00:22:36,119 Speaker 1: kind of one of those things that everybody goes to 367 00:22:36,280 --> 00:22:39,280 Speaker 1: just despite the regardless of age, and so part of 368 00:22:39,280 --> 00:22:42,160 Speaker 1: that is they would have sent over a packet of 369 00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:46,000 Speaker 1: these are tickets that your people can use, and probably 370 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:49,679 Speaker 1: some tickets for some giveaways. So for whatever reason, at 371 00:22:49,680 --> 00:22:52,560 Speaker 1: the last minute, there were tickets there. And Tim Collins, 372 00:22:52,600 --> 00:22:54,919 Speaker 1: who ran seven ninety the sports station at the time, 373 00:22:55,359 --> 00:22:58,040 Speaker 1: says to Ramone, he's technically Ramone's boss at that point, 374 00:22:58,080 --> 00:22:59,000 Speaker 1: and Ramone's a board up. 375 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:01,959 Speaker 2: You're board up at that time, right, Okay, So Ramone's 376 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:02,440 Speaker 2: a board. 377 00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:05,200 Speaker 1: Oup, which I mean, I would say there's a lower 378 00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:10,280 Speaker 1: position on the totem pole in the business, and that 379 00:23:10,320 --> 00:23:12,600 Speaker 1: would be the janitor, except technically the janitor work for 380 00:23:12,640 --> 00:23:15,200 Speaker 1: the building and she brought to Molly's, so it's pretty 381 00:23:15,280 --> 00:23:17,880 Speaker 1: much the lowest position on there. You're not making any money. 382 00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:20,840 Speaker 1: But Ramone is a lifer for radio. All he's ever 383 00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:26,080 Speaker 1: wanted to do was make radio. So Tim Collins says, hey, uh, 384 00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:29,320 Speaker 1: we got these tickets. It's busfest tomorrow. We're not going 385 00:23:29,359 --> 00:23:32,119 Speaker 1: to give them away. Why don't you take them. You 386 00:23:32,119 --> 00:23:34,399 Speaker 1: can halk them at the front. They have no value 387 00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:36,640 Speaker 1: printed on them. You can halk them their general admission, 388 00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:39,240 Speaker 1: get five bucks apiece for some beer money. 389 00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:44,000 Speaker 2: Moon's like, I could do that, So he takes his tickets. Good, 390 00:23:44,040 --> 00:23:47,120 Speaker 2: don't go, don't go. Don't give me some baby elephants run. 391 00:23:47,600 --> 00:23:51,919 Speaker 1: He goes rolling up outside Texas Renaissance Festival. He's got 392 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:54,159 Speaker 1: his free tickets. He doesn't think he's doing anything wrong. 393 00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:58,560 Speaker 1: So there he goes, Hey, ticket. He's not like those 394 00:23:58,560 --> 00:24:02,760 Speaker 1: black guys standing outside the Toileta Center that are real aggressive, 395 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:06,640 Speaker 1: but like their scalping tickets. You're like, is he gonna 396 00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:09,760 Speaker 1: mug me or sell me tickets? And there's Ramon, He's 397 00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:13,120 Speaker 1: just harmless. Ramon, don't go, don't he's got his tickets 398 00:24:13,119 --> 00:24:13,560 Speaker 1: for sale. 399 00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:15,120 Speaker 2: Cop comes up. 400 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:21,480 Speaker 1: Cop comes up and says, I'm arresting. It is illegal 401 00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:27,040 Speaker 1: what you're doing your scalping tickets. Technically, I think the 402 00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:27,920 Speaker 1: scalp tickets you. 403 00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:30,119 Speaker 2: Have to sell them. Well, anyway, we'll get to that moment. 404 00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:33,080 Speaker 2: So Ramon says, I didn't even know I wasn't allowed 405 00:24:33,080 --> 00:24:33,359 Speaker 2: to do that. 406 00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:36,560 Speaker 1: And guy says, one thing I hate worse than a thief, 407 00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:37,000 Speaker 1: it's a. 408 00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:40,919 Speaker 8: Liar yellow putting fops prosen putting on a stake. 409 00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:43,919 Speaker 3: The Michael Berry Show Jello brand pudding pops made with 410 00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:45,399 Speaker 3: the goodness of real Jello pudding. 411 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:58,520 Speaker 1: As relates to the founder of Texas Renaissance Fair. If 412 00:24:58,520 --> 00:25:00,679 Speaker 1: I'm mispronouncing his name some how, do you email me 413 00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:04,480 Speaker 1: and tell me George culam co o U l A 414 00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:09,399 Speaker 1: M unless it was Koulamb, but I'm assuming it's Kulim 415 00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:10,879 Speaker 1: And that's what I'm saying till somebody corrects. 416 00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:14,200 Speaker 2: Men. I did not know the guy, but I'm getting 417 00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:14,800 Speaker 2: reports at. 418 00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:18,720 Speaker 1: Channel two is saying that the death is being investigated 419 00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:22,960 Speaker 1: as a suicide. If it's being investigated as a suicide, 420 00:25:23,359 --> 00:25:27,879 Speaker 1: then there's a good chance it is a suicide because 421 00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:33,040 Speaker 1: that means there was something amiss when they showed up. 422 00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:37,160 Speaker 1: You know, if there is a pistol in the person's 423 00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:39,960 Speaker 1: hand and you know they're laying there and there's blood 424 00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:43,439 Speaker 1: splatter on the wall, this is probably not a natural 425 00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:47,560 Speaker 1: death sort of thing. If there are pills around, It's 426 00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:51,840 Speaker 1: almost always the case when you hear it being reported 427 00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:54,160 Speaker 1: that it is being investigated as a suicide. 428 00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:56,480 Speaker 2: That means law enforcement didn't want. 429 00:25:56,359 --> 00:26:00,840 Speaker 1: To say it was a suicide because they wanted to 430 00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:05,160 Speaker 1: do an investigation first. But if they've begun an investigation, 431 00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:09,639 Speaker 1: then it is one hundred percent it is most likely 432 00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:10,680 Speaker 1: a suicide. 433 00:26:10,760 --> 00:26:13,600 Speaker 2: That's that is going to be the case, not right. 434 00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:15,600 Speaker 1: Now, but in a few minutes, because we have an 435 00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:18,919 Speaker 1: interview coming up at nine o'clock. I want you to 436 00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:25,480 Speaker 1: think about your best ticket scalping story. So either you 437 00:26:26,119 --> 00:26:29,439 Speaker 1: bought a ticket from a scalper and it was fake, 438 00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:32,200 Speaker 1: and you showed you boobies and still got in, or 439 00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:34,720 Speaker 1: because women can do that. Dudes, you know, we don't 440 00:26:34,760 --> 00:26:37,640 Speaker 1: have tickets, we're out. We're just like, that's just it. 441 00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:40,080 Speaker 1: But girls, and I've seen it. I've seen it in 442 00:26:40,119 --> 00:26:43,120 Speaker 1: my own eyes. Girls can flutter there. We can't get 443 00:26:43,119 --> 00:26:45,880 Speaker 1: out of tickets either. Yeah, y'all got some things going 444 00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:50,439 Speaker 1: for you. Of course we don't have dudes pastornis if 445 00:26:50,440 --> 00:26:53,520 Speaker 1: we're sitting at the bar, whereas y'all can't really enjoy yourself. 446 00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:55,439 Speaker 2: So I guess it all balances out. I guess it 447 00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:56,320 Speaker 2: all balances out. 448 00:26:57,119 --> 00:26:59,159 Speaker 1: In any case, I want you to think about your 449 00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:03,480 Speaker 1: best ticket scalp story, or it can be how you 450 00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:06,439 Speaker 1: went backstage, but I want to first focus on ticket 451 00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:09,800 Speaker 1: scalping stories. Be thinking about your story, but don't call 452 00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:12,600 Speaker 1: in yet. I'll open the lines for that probably at 453 00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:16,480 Speaker 1: about nine point fifteen ish. So just be kind of 454 00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:19,600 Speaker 1: working through your story and massaging it in your head 455 00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:26,080 Speaker 1: and practicing your presentation so that it is amazing, amazing, 456 00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:30,480 Speaker 1: Joe writes Renfest. That would explain the goings on after 457 00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:32,720 Speaker 1: hours at the campground, which I've been told by a 458 00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:34,800 Speaker 1: couple who used to go that it was a modern 459 00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:39,040 Speaker 1: day sodom and gomora all night long. I guess I'm 460 00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:45,600 Speaker 1: a little bit surprised how many people are shocked that 461 00:27:46,640 --> 00:27:49,720 Speaker 1: this HBO docu series. I didn't watch it about the 462 00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:54,879 Speaker 1: Texas Renaissance Festival. I have heard that it shows a 463 00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:58,880 Speaker 1: Texas Renaissance Festival when people aren't there to be one 464 00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:05,160 Speaker 1: big drug fest, one big orgy, filth and vile, and 465 00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:08,320 Speaker 1: I don't mean just im morality. I mean filth and 466 00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:12,919 Speaker 1: vile and nastiness. I'll be completely honest and maybe make 467 00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:17,280 Speaker 1: some of you angry. I've never been around anyone who 468 00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:22,320 Speaker 1: likes to dress like Obelix in the cartoons That wasn't 469 00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:27,560 Speaker 1: stinky and dirty and filthy and probably four felonies. 470 00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:29,920 Speaker 2: I mean, I'm just being honest. I've never met anyone 471 00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:33,879 Speaker 2: like that. What was that cartoon ramon? 472 00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:36,560 Speaker 1: My wife got me. It was a Belgian cartoon. Obelix 473 00:28:36,720 --> 00:28:38,760 Speaker 1: was in it. He but I don't think that was 474 00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:41,600 Speaker 1: the name of the cartoon. But you know those people 475 00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:45,600 Speaker 1: that wear like the Viking hats and all that sort, Well, 476 00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:48,520 Speaker 1: I guess that's not true because Rico Rico's kind of 477 00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:52,080 Speaker 1: in that cap Rico's about the cleanest version of a 478 00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:55,440 Speaker 1: Renfest person you can meet, right because he's got like 479 00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:59,200 Speaker 1: wild hair that could have you know, insects or bugs 480 00:28:59,280 --> 00:29:01,320 Speaker 1: or snakes or stuff in it, and he might have 481 00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:03,600 Speaker 1: a snake in his pocket at any time. And then 482 00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:06,600 Speaker 1: he's got brass knuckles that are not brass, they're stirling silver. 483 00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:08,760 Speaker 2: And he's got tattoos everywhere. 484 00:29:10,520 --> 00:29:12,480 Speaker 1: And you know, he's wearing a duster in the summer, 485 00:29:12,520 --> 00:29:14,920 Speaker 1: so you don't know what all is is. You know, 486 00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:17,600 Speaker 1: up up in there, he might have lunch for a week, 487 00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:18,400 Speaker 1: you don't know. 488 00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:20,240 Speaker 2: But Rico is adorable. 489 00:29:20,320 --> 00:29:23,160 Speaker 1: So he's probably the cleanest of those people I've ever met, 490 00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:24,960 Speaker 1: but a lot of them, I mean, what. 491 00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:28,000 Speaker 2: Would you expect. I'm not in any way. 492 00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:30,480 Speaker 1: Surprised, knowing what I know and having seen pictures that 493 00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:34,240 Speaker 1: those people are all screwing each other and using crazy drugs. 494 00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:37,520 Speaker 1: It's next you're gonna tell me burning Man is crazy 495 00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:41,320 Speaker 1: or that Woodstock was crazy. That is a certain lifestyle. 496 00:29:41,480 --> 00:29:41,680 Speaker 2: I think. 497 00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:43,840 Speaker 1: It's why I don't. I don't care for it. Did 498 00:29:43,920 --> 00:29:46,240 Speaker 1: you Oh, I guess you got arrested had you ever 499 00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:52,640 Speaker 1: gone inside Renaissance Festival. We'm all you know the amount 500 00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:56,040 Speaker 1: of gas you burned to get up there. When I 501 00:29:56,080 --> 00:29:58,560 Speaker 1: was growing up, gas was more expensive, obviously, But when 502 00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:01,120 Speaker 1: I was growing up, it was a big deal. If 503 00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:04,360 Speaker 1: we had to drive, you'd say I had to burn 504 00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:06,480 Speaker 1: my gas to go. If a woman and a man 505 00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:08,719 Speaker 1: broke up, she'd say, I burned my gas to go 506 00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:11,840 Speaker 1: pick up his kids. You don't ever hear people maybe 507 00:30:12,080 --> 00:30:14,720 Speaker 1: just maybe I'm not around people that say that anymore. 508 00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:16,800 Speaker 1: But that used to be a thing. You I had 509 00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:19,400 Speaker 1: to burn my gas because you were paying hard cash 510 00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:23,160 Speaker 1: to drive somewhere. It was a really, really big deal. Well, 511 00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:25,440 Speaker 1: you got any more ticket stories that you want to 512 00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:31,800 Speaker 1: share with us? Okay, kids will never know what it's 513 00:30:31,840 --> 00:30:37,520 Speaker 1: like to camp outside folies. Did you camp outside polies? Okay? 514 00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:40,520 Speaker 1: Is this the story I'm gonna want to hear? Is 515 00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:45,360 Speaker 1: this a Renfest story? Oh it's for you two tickets? 516 00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:52,600 Speaker 1: Oh by the way, real quick, please listen carefully so 517 00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:56,120 Speaker 1: you don't mess up on this. Don't email me yet. 518 00:30:56,480 --> 00:30:59,480 Speaker 1: But we got final approval from mar a Lago. We 519 00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:02,520 Speaker 1: got final approval on our hotel rooms, which are not 520 00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:07,320 Speaker 1: at mar Lago. They cannot accommodate a group decide. We 521 00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:10,680 Speaker 1: got final approval on the private planes, so we have 522 00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:14,120 Speaker 1: enough things in place that our event, which will be 523 00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:17,120 Speaker 1: the last weekend of October, is now going to happen. 524 00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:18,040 Speaker 2: We are committed to. 525 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:22,200 Speaker 1: It, so if you are interested in the email with 526 00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:26,320 Speaker 1: the details, send me an email through the website. And please, 527 00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:28,760 Speaker 1: if you are that person, which is usually a woman 528 00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:31,000 Speaker 1: who gets hysterical, I gotta know, I gotta know, em, 529 00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:34,200 Speaker 1: I gotta please, don't because we will block you and 530 00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:38,360 Speaker 1: kick We don't need one hundred different people spiraling out 531 00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:38,920 Speaker 1: of control. 532 00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:41,240 Speaker 2: Why haven't I heard my? Why haven't I heard back? 533 00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:46,000 Speaker 1: It's a relaxed, good time and everybody that goes has 534 00:31:46,040 --> 00:31:48,640 Speaker 1: a great time. But you might need a couple of 535 00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:52,360 Speaker 1: zan access because we don't do well with highly strung 536 00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:55,920 Speaker 1: people that need a bunch of answers to money. But anyway, 537 00:31:56,280 --> 00:31:58,440 Speaker 1: if you are interested, we are finally able to say 538 00:31:58,480 --> 00:32:01,000 Speaker 1: the trip is a go. It's the it's the Thursday 539 00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:04,600 Speaker 1: through Sunday, the last weekend of October. Just send us 540 00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:06,680 Speaker 1: an email that you want more information and you'll be 541 00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:08,600 Speaker 1: on the list and those will go out by Tuesday, 542 00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:09,240 Speaker 1: maybe before