1 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:11,119 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So 2 00:00:11,320 --> 00:00:13,720 Speaker 1: Michael Berry Show is on the air. 3 00:00:19,280 --> 00:00:23,439 Speaker 2: Good morning Michael Berry, but no, you cannot use my bathroom. 4 00:00:23,760 --> 00:00:25,000 Speaker 1: Hello, good bunny. 5 00:00:25,079 --> 00:00:29,840 Speaker 2: This is mile Old Hamilton Astros win again and a 6 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:34,199 Speaker 2: good morning to the Tzar. Good morning, Michael Berry. It's 7 00:00:34,240 --> 00:00:37,720 Speaker 2: Sean Connery. But you had a little radio show, pitty, 8 00:00:37,720 --> 00:00:38,760 Speaker 2: I wash it and find it. 9 00:00:38,880 --> 00:00:42,320 Speaker 1: Good morning, Michael Berry. I'm all jaked up on Mountain Dew. 10 00:00:42,720 --> 00:00:46,880 Speaker 1: This is the Thornton Finch wishing you a good morning. 11 00:00:47,159 --> 00:00:53,360 Speaker 1: Good morning, Michael Berry. You the morning, Michael Berry. Good morning, Michael. 12 00:00:53,520 --> 00:00:57,920 Speaker 1: Good morning, Michael, Good morning, Czar. Good morning, Michael, zay Sailing, 13 00:00:58,320 --> 00:01:02,760 Speaker 1: Good morning, Eltsina, Good morning. Hello, Hello, are you there? 14 00:01:02,840 --> 00:01:06,440 Speaker 1: Good morn you Michael Beery. How you learned that? I 15 00:01:06,640 --> 00:01:07,760 Speaker 1: read it tomorrow month? 16 00:01:08,959 --> 00:01:15,720 Speaker 3: Good morning, Texas, listen to this. Good morning Texas, the 17 00:01:15,920 --> 00:01:20,800 Speaker 3: morning your car, Good morning, Texas. 18 00:01:20,520 --> 00:01:21,280 Speaker 2: Is on his day. 19 00:01:21,959 --> 00:01:27,399 Speaker 3: We're happy to be here to talk about everything. 20 00:01:26,760 --> 00:01:31,040 Speaker 1: Hey, good morning, We're not wearing pants. 21 00:01:31,840 --> 00:01:43,600 Speaker 4: Good morning Texas. Good morning, Texas. Good bring Texas, good morning. 22 00:01:44,240 --> 00:01:44,800 Speaker 1: Wake up. 23 00:01:45,160 --> 00:01:47,840 Speaker 3: It's BET's break. 24 00:01:47,920 --> 00:02:02,240 Speaker 1: Goddamn good morning. A feature film based on the life 25 00:02:02,280 --> 00:02:08,280 Speaker 1: of Mattress Mack as The cast named, with production set 26 00:02:08,320 --> 00:02:12,799 Speaker 1: to begin later this month here in Texas. Deadline reports 27 00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:16,200 Speaker 1: the movie will star Billy Magnuson of Lilo and Stitch 28 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:19,280 Speaker 1: Is it Leelo and Stitch Leelo and Stitch as Mack, 29 00:02:20,880 --> 00:02:25,000 Speaker 1: Diana Agron of The Chosen One. I don't know her 30 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:27,000 Speaker 1: nor the movie, but that doesn't mean she's not the 31 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:31,600 Speaker 1: biggest star ever Darby Lee Stack from The Holdovers and 32 00:02:31,720 --> 00:02:36,200 Speaker 1: Rob Cordrey from The Audacity. Man, I'm really out of it. 33 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:38,280 Speaker 1: Not only do I not know actors, I don't even 34 00:02:38,320 --> 00:02:43,640 Speaker 1: know movies entire movies. I don't know. Shane Andrews will 35 00:02:43,680 --> 00:02:48,919 Speaker 1: direct from a screenplay. He also wrote, I was contacted 36 00:02:48,960 --> 00:02:55,959 Speaker 1: about this movie about eight months ago and to see 37 00:02:55,960 --> 00:02:57,960 Speaker 1: if I wanted to be in it and invest in it. 38 00:02:58,680 --> 00:03:01,320 Speaker 1: And the truth is I just didn't have the bandwidth 39 00:03:01,360 --> 00:03:04,840 Speaker 1: to consider it at the time. But before I did anything, 40 00:03:05,200 --> 00:03:07,480 Speaker 1: I reached out to Mac said hey, I just want 41 00:03:07,520 --> 00:03:10,320 Speaker 1: to make sure you know this is out there and 42 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:12,320 Speaker 1: that you are comfortable with it, because I didn't want 43 00:03:12,320 --> 00:03:16,120 Speaker 1: to wake up as this thing's go into production and 44 00:03:16,520 --> 00:03:19,280 Speaker 1: Max mad as hell that they're doing something about him. 45 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:22,200 Speaker 1: That's not nice. What you do but I'm it wasn't nice, 46 00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:27,520 Speaker 1: but you just never know. And he said, yeah, I'm aware. 47 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:30,480 Speaker 1: They seem like they you know, it seems like a 48 00:03:30,560 --> 00:03:34,760 Speaker 1: nice enough project, Deadline reports. Set in the early eighties 49 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:39,120 Speaker 1: and two thousands in Houston, the film is based on 50 00:03:39,160 --> 00:03:42,320 Speaker 1: a true story about Jim Mattress Mac Mackingvell, a beloved 51 00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:46,560 Speaker 1: Texas tycoon. Ramon, do you say beloved or beloved? I 52 00:03:46,680 --> 00:03:50,200 Speaker 1: like beloved too, feels very Jerry Lelewis and retail pioneer 53 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:53,480 Speaker 1: who is best known for his generosity and community service, 54 00:03:54,800 --> 00:03:58,480 Speaker 1: hence the term Mac gives back. If they don't use 55 00:03:58,480 --> 00:04:00,360 Speaker 1: my term in my movie, I'm gonna curse the movie. 56 00:04:01,680 --> 00:04:04,840 Speaker 1: Often opening his gallery furniture stores to shelter and feed 57 00:04:04,880 --> 00:04:10,960 Speaker 1: people during natural disasters, macinvel has helped thousands affected by 58 00:04:11,040 --> 00:04:15,520 Speaker 1: multiple major hurricanes in Texas, earning recognition as a Houston hero. 59 00:04:16,080 --> 00:04:20,200 Speaker 1: This thing's more than a Houston hero. This past summer, 60 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:24,880 Speaker 1: Macnewveell made headlines after donating five hundred mattresses to survivors 61 00:04:24,920 --> 00:04:27,640 Speaker 1: of the July fourth Texas Hill Country floods, along with 62 00:04:27,680 --> 00:04:30,880 Speaker 1: first responders and volunteers who helped out during the historic 63 00:04:30,920 --> 00:04:35,080 Speaker 1: flood event. Mattress Mac will follow Mackingwell's journey as he 64 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:38,159 Speaker 1: risks everything to open Gallery Furniture alongside his wife and 65 00:04:38,200 --> 00:04:41,920 Speaker 1: business partner, Linda, and the challenges the family faces years 66 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:44,919 Speaker 1: later when their youngest daughter battles a debilitating case of 67 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:50,520 Speaker 1: obsessive family of obsessive I'm sorry compulsive disorder. Mattress Mac 68 00:04:50,680 --> 00:04:56,120 Speaker 1: is produced by Andrew's John Robleski, Christian Sosa, Molly Connors, 69 00:04:56,279 --> 00:05:02,320 Speaker 1: Magnuson and Holliser Hollister, Amanda Bowers, Alex Spat and Lance Kramer. 70 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:09,720 Speaker 1: Executive producers are Carl Effinson, Curtis knob Sergei Nakadzi, and 71 00:05:09,839 --> 00:05:14,279 Speaker 1: Meg Jenkins Locke Jim Mcinbel. Story is one of resilience, 72 00:05:14,279 --> 00:05:17,119 Speaker 1: harding community. Magdison said in a statement, I am honored 73 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:19,640 Speaker 1: to help bring his incredible journey to the screen and 74 00:05:19,680 --> 00:05:23,280 Speaker 1: to collaborate with such passionate storytellers in capturing the spirit 75 00:05:23,520 --> 00:05:27,200 Speaker 1: of Mattress Mac and the city of Houston. Andrew's added, 76 00:05:27,480 --> 00:05:30,680 Speaker 1: everyone in Houston knows Mac, but few know the quiet moments, 77 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:35,240 Speaker 1: the private battles, the human being behind the slogans, and 78 00:05:35,279 --> 00:05:37,960 Speaker 1: the Texas grit. We are thrilled to have partnered with 79 00:05:38,080 --> 00:05:44,880 Speaker 1: Roosevelt Film Lab and fifthen to bring this project to life. Well, 80 00:05:44,920 --> 00:05:50,719 Speaker 1: that's fantastic. No news on when we will be able 81 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:54,920 Speaker 1: to see this, but I look forward to that. It's 82 00:05:54,960 --> 00:05:59,240 Speaker 1: a great story. I hope they capture it properly, and 83 00:05:59,279 --> 00:06:02,120 Speaker 1: I hope they get into the depth of the man, 84 00:06:02,240 --> 00:06:05,880 Speaker 1: because I think he's far more interesting than people realize. 85 00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:08,760 Speaker 1: I mean, it's sort of a caricature, as you know, 86 00:06:09,279 --> 00:06:12,600 Speaker 1: save you money, but there's a very deep person underneath 87 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:22,719 Speaker 1: all of that. Very intellectually curious and intellectually accomplished man 88 00:06:22,960 --> 00:06:26,560 Speaker 1: he is. He is very, very thoughtful. I also think 89 00:06:26,560 --> 00:06:34,200 Speaker 1: it's noteworthy that he is so willing to take on 90 00:06:34,520 --> 00:06:39,240 Speaker 1: public causes that are not one hundred percent you know, 91 00:06:39,320 --> 00:06:44,039 Speaker 1: it's one thing to support storm victims. Everybody's for that. 92 00:06:44,240 --> 00:06:47,720 Speaker 1: Everybody loves you across the board. He got very involved 93 00:06:47,839 --> 00:06:52,080 Speaker 1: in Alex Mieler's victory over Lena Hidalgo when the Democrats 94 00:06:52,200 --> 00:06:56,480 Speaker 1: cheated in the county judge race, for which obviously county 95 00:06:56,520 --> 00:06:58,600 Speaker 1: Judge out to get him and saying so as often 96 00:06:58,600 --> 00:07:01,799 Speaker 1: as she possibly could. He's very involved in her congressional 97 00:07:01,920 --> 00:07:09,200 Speaker 1: race the ninth congressional district. He's been very involved about 98 00:07:09,240 --> 00:07:13,880 Speaker 1: government corruption under Sylvester Turner. You want to know how 99 00:07:13,880 --> 00:07:18,240 Speaker 1: hard that is to do? How many other business people 100 00:07:18,760 --> 00:07:21,400 Speaker 1: have been willing to speak out publicly and do that? 101 00:07:21,640 --> 00:07:23,360 Speaker 1: How many can you think of off the top of 102 00:07:23,440 --> 00:07:27,440 Speaker 1: your head publicly their name behind it, public and pay 103 00:07:27,840 --> 00:07:32,640 Speaker 1: to do it. And only that he's a retailer. If 104 00:07:32,680 --> 00:07:36,559 Speaker 1: your firm is selling valves or pipeline or whatever else, 105 00:07:37,160 --> 00:07:40,120 Speaker 1: you pretty much it's not going to affect you because 106 00:07:40,160 --> 00:07:44,000 Speaker 1: your industry is you know, a narrow set of people 107 00:07:44,120 --> 00:07:46,640 Speaker 1: and not the retail public. When you sell to the 108 00:07:46,640 --> 00:07:51,320 Speaker 1: retail public, having an opinion can potentially cost you a customer. 109 00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:54,800 Speaker 1: And that's why so many people are woosies who are retailers. Well, 110 00:07:54,880 --> 00:07:56,280 Speaker 1: you know, I don't I don't want to hurt my 111 00:07:56,320 --> 00:08:00,840 Speaker 1: business for every person that you don't get because you 112 00:08:00,960 --> 00:08:02,880 Speaker 1: stood up and did the right thing. Which don't you 113 00:08:02,880 --> 00:08:04,560 Speaker 1: tell your kids to do that no matter what anyway? 114 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:06,320 Speaker 1: Or do you say oh, only if it's you know, 115 00:08:06,440 --> 00:08:09,640 Speaker 1: doesn't cost you anything. If doing the right thing was easy, 116 00:08:09,680 --> 00:08:12,760 Speaker 1: everybody would do it all the time. But he does that, 117 00:08:13,280 --> 00:08:15,360 Speaker 1: and he does not fear the fact that he may 118 00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:17,560 Speaker 1: lose some customers. But he picks up a whole hell 119 00:08:17,600 --> 00:08:19,680 Speaker 1: of a lot more. And I tell companies that all 120 00:08:19,720 --> 00:08:22,480 Speaker 1: the time. If you're scared to sponsor our show because 121 00:08:22,760 --> 00:08:26,040 Speaker 1: somebody might not like it, then you're really not somebody 122 00:08:26,080 --> 00:08:35,000 Speaker 1: I want as our partner in the first place. Part 123 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:38,439 Speaker 1: of the charm of John Prime to me is that 124 00:08:38,480 --> 00:08:43,480 Speaker 1: he's not a particularly good singer. So much of what 125 00:08:43,559 --> 00:08:50,600 Speaker 1: he sings he's written himself. There's the storytelling which the 126 00:08:52,400 --> 00:09:01,079 Speaker 1: lake Marie there is the I guess vulnerability to him 127 00:09:01,080 --> 00:09:03,320 Speaker 1: that he's not a handsome It was not a he 128 00:09:03,400 --> 00:09:05,640 Speaker 1: passed right, He's not. It was not a handsome man. 129 00:09:07,440 --> 00:09:10,240 Speaker 1: And the sicker he got from cancer, and the more 130 00:09:10,920 --> 00:09:14,760 Speaker 1: his face was was cut away as they removed parts 131 00:09:14,760 --> 00:09:17,720 Speaker 1: of it, and his voice began to fail him not 132 00:09:17,760 --> 00:09:20,960 Speaker 1: a particularly pretty voice to start with. It's like it 133 00:09:21,040 --> 00:09:23,560 Speaker 1: was more and more charming is it? As it went along? 134 00:09:23,679 --> 00:09:28,480 Speaker 1: It just had just kept laying it out there. And 135 00:09:29,760 --> 00:09:31,720 Speaker 1: I don't know, it feels like the older I've gotten, 136 00:09:31,760 --> 00:09:38,760 Speaker 1: the more I've come to appreciate voices and personalities that 137 00:09:38,840 --> 00:09:44,480 Speaker 1: are imperfect. You know, if you want to what is 138 00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:49,760 Speaker 1: the guy's name, Josh bro No, but Josh Grobin or 139 00:09:49,840 --> 00:09:52,640 Speaker 1: a Michael Bluebla or you know, if you want a 140 00:09:52,679 --> 00:09:56,040 Speaker 1: perfect voice that you know, your vocal coaches would tell 141 00:09:56,080 --> 00:10:01,040 Speaker 1: you that's perfect. Fine, but that's all they not a 142 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:05,120 Speaker 1: deep personality. And then you get a Willie or a 143 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:08,640 Speaker 1: John Prime or Tom Waits or one of these guys 144 00:10:09,120 --> 00:10:13,040 Speaker 1: with a very odd voice, and you think it's a 145 00:10:13,080 --> 00:10:17,520 Speaker 1: wonder they ever made it. Because people that judge those 146 00:10:17,559 --> 00:10:20,520 Speaker 1: sorts of things and can control those sorts of things 147 00:10:20,840 --> 00:10:23,960 Speaker 1: would say, no, no, no, you don't do it exactly 148 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:28,040 Speaker 1: the way it's supposed to be done, like having a 149 00:10:28,080 --> 00:10:31,880 Speaker 1: herky jerky pitching motion, or having a business plan to 150 00:10:31,880 --> 00:10:34,800 Speaker 1: do something in an industry where you're a disruptor, and 151 00:10:34,800 --> 00:10:39,360 Speaker 1: they say, but but who's already doing that. That's the point, nobody. 152 00:10:39,679 --> 00:10:47,560 Speaker 1: I'm going to do it. I'm going to tell this 153 00:10:47,679 --> 00:10:50,960 Speaker 1: story and I'm going to try not to lose my 154 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:54,640 Speaker 1: stuff because i want to, because I'm tempted to A 155 00:10:54,640 --> 00:10:59,320 Speaker 1: federal judicial panel in an Opasso overturned the Republican redistricting map. 156 00:11:00,920 --> 00:11:04,520 Speaker 1: It will now head to the Supreme Court. The good 157 00:11:04,559 --> 00:11:10,120 Speaker 1: news is we've got Judge Alito in the administrative hearing 158 00:11:10,160 --> 00:11:13,959 Speaker 1: for a stay on the ruling. Stay means the ruling 159 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:16,600 Speaker 1: does not go into effect right now. You just sort 160 00:11:16,600 --> 00:11:21,280 Speaker 1: of put the brakes on it. And Alito is more 161 00:11:21,480 --> 00:11:26,040 Speaker 1: likely receptive to our appeal State of Texas appeal as 162 00:11:26,080 --> 00:11:31,520 Speaker 1: brought by Ken Paxton than some of the other justices 163 00:11:31,559 --> 00:11:34,319 Speaker 1: would be. But it should have never come to this, 164 00:11:35,640 --> 00:11:40,920 Speaker 1: and it pains me terribly. In fact, it infuriates me 165 00:11:41,880 --> 00:11:46,240 Speaker 1: terribly that the judge who has ruled thusly is Jeff Brown, 166 00:11:47,400 --> 00:11:49,240 Speaker 1: someone I haven't seen in a long time, but I 167 00:11:49,320 --> 00:11:52,360 Speaker 1: considered a friend for many, many years. We were in 168 00:11:52,400 --> 00:11:56,520 Speaker 1: the our club together, a group of young guys thirty 169 00:11:56,600 --> 00:12:01,760 Speaker 1: years old, twenty five years ago, Ted Crue, who's Grant Dorfmann, 170 00:12:03,200 --> 00:12:05,720 Speaker 1: Ken Wise, a number of us. There were thirty of 171 00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:11,880 Speaker 1: us in this group, little precocious punks, thinking that we 172 00:12:11,880 --> 00:12:16,880 Speaker 1: were changed the world. And that's how I knew. Jeff 173 00:12:17,040 --> 00:12:22,040 Speaker 1: was always very ambitious, always portrayed himself as very conservative. 174 00:12:23,240 --> 00:12:25,880 Speaker 1: This is a guy that Trump appoints to the federal bench, 175 00:12:26,920 --> 00:12:32,400 Speaker 1: and he has ruled against the congressional map, throwing everything 176 00:12:33,240 --> 00:12:38,719 Speaker 1: into disarray. That's what the Democrats won't do. The Democrats 177 00:12:38,960 --> 00:12:42,880 Speaker 1: won't do something to destroy their party in what they 178 00:12:42,920 --> 00:12:46,480 Speaker 1: truly believe in. But we've always got a Republican who 179 00:12:46,480 --> 00:12:50,160 Speaker 1: feels the need that he's holier than now, and unfortunately 180 00:12:50,200 --> 00:12:57,400 Speaker 1: that's Jeff Brown. It's disappointing, very very disappointing. I can't 181 00:12:57,440 --> 00:13:02,239 Speaker 1: imagine Trump's response when he finds out found out overnight 182 00:13:02,360 --> 00:13:05,880 Speaker 1: that his appointee, who he was promised was going to 183 00:13:05,920 --> 00:13:11,040 Speaker 1: be such a great conservative, goes and does this. So 184 00:13:11,160 --> 00:13:17,360 Speaker 1: now now you've got a primary coming up in March. 185 00:13:18,760 --> 00:13:25,080 Speaker 1: Let's just take one case. Al Green resigned from or 186 00:13:25,320 --> 00:13:32,520 Speaker 1: announced his retirement from his congressional seat and then announces 187 00:13:32,559 --> 00:13:34,840 Speaker 1: that he's running for the eighteenth congressional seat, which was 188 00:13:34,840 --> 00:13:39,040 Speaker 1: Sheila Jackson Lee's seat forever before that, Craig Washington, and 189 00:13:39,440 --> 00:13:42,199 Speaker 1: before that, of course Barbara Jordan, for whom that district 190 00:13:42,240 --> 00:13:45,440 Speaker 1: was originally jerrymandered, and it was jerry mandered. It was 191 00:13:45,920 --> 00:13:49,199 Speaker 1: part of the Voting Rights Act. That was their application, 192 00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:51,800 Speaker 1: because you Southerners are such racists that they went in 193 00:13:51,840 --> 00:13:55,120 Speaker 1: and carved out districts that would span a long distance 194 00:13:55,160 --> 00:13:57,960 Speaker 1: and they'd run through a they'd run through a creek 195 00:13:58,280 --> 00:14:00,480 Speaker 1: where there were no people, just to keep it tiguous, 196 00:14:00,480 --> 00:14:04,440 Speaker 1: because you can't have two separated islands. You would have 197 00:14:04,480 --> 00:14:06,920 Speaker 1: to is that a tolls? Is that what those so 198 00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:09,360 Speaker 1: called Roman look up the definition of a toll, the 199 00:14:09,400 --> 00:14:14,040 Speaker 1: exact definition of a toll anyway, So they would create 200 00:14:14,080 --> 00:14:17,400 Speaker 1: these districts only in the South because Southerners are such racists, 201 00:14:17,440 --> 00:14:19,720 Speaker 1: you see, And we have to fix that, because that's 202 00:14:19,760 --> 00:14:21,640 Speaker 1: going to solve the problem. We're going to create districts. 203 00:14:21,680 --> 00:14:23,600 Speaker 1: It's only going to have black people in it, and 204 00:14:23,640 --> 00:14:26,680 Speaker 1: then we'll have black congressional districts and that will somehow 205 00:14:26,720 --> 00:14:33,880 Speaker 1: solve every problem. Well, a chain of islands forming formed 206 00:14:33,880 --> 00:14:41,440 Speaker 1: of Coral most of non Coral Atoll. That's island, okay anyway, 207 00:14:41,960 --> 00:14:47,520 Speaker 1: So h al Green he announces his retirement from his 208 00:14:47,560 --> 00:14:51,600 Speaker 1: congressional seat that he's in now, which I guess is 209 00:14:51,760 --> 00:14:54,760 Speaker 1: nine and I'm not positive on that, and then he 210 00:14:54,800 --> 00:14:58,840 Speaker 1: announces that he's going to run in District eighteen because 211 00:14:58,880 --> 00:15:01,360 Speaker 1: he's got the name idea, presumably he could win that 212 00:15:01,480 --> 00:15:05,200 Speaker 1: seat no matter who wins it in the UH in 213 00:15:05,240 --> 00:15:07,960 Speaker 1: the in the primary, in the in the race to 214 00:15:08,400 --> 00:15:12,120 Speaker 1: fill the unexpired term that has gone to a runoff 215 00:15:12,560 --> 00:15:19,200 Speaker 1: between Amanda Edwards and Christian Menefee. Christian Menefee is uh 216 00:15:20,400 --> 00:15:27,120 Speaker 1: lads right up under or Is is supported from behind 217 00:15:27,160 --> 00:15:32,040 Speaker 1: by Rodney Ellis. That's his candidate, and Amanda Ellis is 218 00:15:32,200 --> 00:15:35,880 Speaker 1: Amanda Edwards is the candidate. Well, anyway, whoever wins there 219 00:15:35,920 --> 00:15:38,760 Speaker 1: is gonna was gonna be. This throws it all into 220 00:15:38,840 --> 00:15:42,440 Speaker 1: absolute disarray, including our opportunity to pick up five congressional seats. 221 00:15:42,440 --> 00:15:44,600 Speaker 1: I cannot believe Jeff Brown has done this. I cannot 222 00:15:44,640 --> 00:15:49,800 Speaker 1: believe he has done this. If Judge Jeff Brown's decision 223 00:15:50,040 --> 00:15:58,320 Speaker 1: is upheld by the Circuit judge, which will be Alito, 224 00:15:58,440 --> 00:16:04,480 Speaker 1: that's who is assigned for our area, that will mean 225 00:16:05,640 --> 00:16:10,160 Speaker 1: that we will lose five extra seats in Texas, which 226 00:16:10,160 --> 00:16:16,640 Speaker 1: we were projected, and we will lose five seats in California. Still, 227 00:16:22,680 --> 00:16:27,720 Speaker 1: everything you need to know about his opinion you can 228 00:16:27,760 --> 00:16:35,280 Speaker 1: see in the introduction to his opinion where he quotes 229 00:16:35,320 --> 00:16:41,680 Speaker 1: none other than Chief Justice John Roberts. When you quote 230 00:16:41,760 --> 00:16:49,560 Speaker 1: John Roberts to start anything, we're in trouble. This is demand. 231 00:16:50,560 --> 00:16:54,000 Speaker 1: I will remind you that when Obamacare went to the 232 00:16:54,000 --> 00:17:02,000 Speaker 1: Supreme Court, everyone knew Obamacare was unconstitutional. You cannot compel 233 00:17:02,080 --> 00:17:07,159 Speaker 1: people to engage in commerce, and that's exactly what Obamacare did. 234 00:17:09,119 --> 00:17:12,679 Speaker 1: And so when it went before the Supreme Court. The 235 00:17:12,720 --> 00:17:17,760 Speaker 1: expectation was that it would be overruled, and John Roberts 236 00:17:17,800 --> 00:17:22,280 Speaker 1: didn't want to overrule it because John Roberts decided that 237 00:17:22,400 --> 00:17:27,159 Speaker 1: his place in history was to right the wrongs and 238 00:17:28,119 --> 00:17:31,440 Speaker 1: not to disrupt things, and Republicans had really gone too far, 239 00:17:31,640 --> 00:17:37,840 Speaker 1: and Republicans have it good anyway, let me be this 240 00:17:38,320 --> 00:17:43,359 Speaker 1: kind of reminds me of Earl Warren, another Republican appointee 241 00:17:43,400 --> 00:17:47,840 Speaker 1: who decided that he would solve America's problems from the bench. 242 00:17:48,119 --> 00:17:51,479 Speaker 1: It's called judicial activism. It's a terrible thing because you're 243 00:17:51,560 --> 00:17:55,320 Speaker 1: unelected and it's not how our constitution was designed to function. 244 00:17:56,400 --> 00:17:59,560 Speaker 1: What these folks are trying to do is legislative in nature, 245 00:18:00,080 --> 00:18:10,440 Speaker 1: not judicial in nature. But so John Roberts, sorry, I'm 246 00:18:10,480 --> 00:18:12,800 Speaker 1: just so pissed. I'm wanting to say things that I 247 00:18:13,119 --> 00:18:17,680 Speaker 1: probably better not say. So John Roberts decides he comes 248 00:18:17,720 --> 00:18:19,360 Speaker 1: down to be the deciding vote. It's four to four, 249 00:18:20,280 --> 00:18:26,080 Speaker 1: majority's going to be five four. He decides that he 250 00:18:26,119 --> 00:18:29,680 Speaker 1: will call Obamacare. He will. He's looking for what He's 251 00:18:29,760 --> 00:18:33,640 Speaker 1: just looking for a way to shoehorn Obamacare into constitutionality. 252 00:18:34,080 --> 00:18:37,480 Speaker 1: And the way he decides to do that is to say, well, 253 00:18:37,480 --> 00:18:39,880 Speaker 1: you're right, Congress does not have the power to compel 254 00:18:40,600 --> 00:18:46,320 Speaker 1: commerce in that manner. You know what, this is a tax. 255 00:18:47,200 --> 00:18:49,320 Speaker 1: That's what we will call it attacks because Congress does 256 00:18:49,440 --> 00:18:53,600 Speaker 1: very clearly have the power to tax. So when the 257 00:18:53,680 --> 00:18:58,800 Speaker 1: opinion comes out, they're waiting outside the Supreme Court building 258 00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:07,560 Speaker 1: when I can't remember her name, that little evil Susan Rice, 259 00:19:07,680 --> 00:19:12,040 Speaker 1: I think it was Susan Rice gets the opinion and 260 00:19:12,119 --> 00:19:22,120 Speaker 1: she says to Obama. Roberts declares it attacks, and Obama says, no, Remember, 261 00:19:22,160 --> 00:19:24,399 Speaker 1: he's supposed to be mister constitutional lawyer. I'm here to 262 00:19:24,400 --> 00:19:28,920 Speaker 1: tell you he's not a great constitutional mind. He never 263 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:34,439 Speaker 1: practiced in any meaningful way, and his teaching was not 264 00:19:34,600 --> 00:19:38,320 Speaker 1: in any way substantive. But that have you think that 265 00:19:38,440 --> 00:19:41,280 Speaker 1: he's Charles Allen Wright, that you know, he's just this 266 00:19:41,600 --> 00:19:46,480 Speaker 1: great professor. That have you think he's Lewis brandeis this 267 00:19:46,640 --> 00:19:49,679 Speaker 1: great legal mind, or Oliver Wendell Holmes. But he's not. 268 00:19:50,440 --> 00:19:54,840 Speaker 1: But even he knew. His immediate reaction was it's not 269 00:19:54,920 --> 00:19:59,720 Speaker 1: a tax. So his thought was, if they're ruling it 270 00:19:59,720 --> 00:20:03,359 Speaker 1: at they're finding some way to strike it down. Because 271 00:20:03,359 --> 00:20:07,320 Speaker 1: he feared that they would strike it down even Obama 272 00:20:07,840 --> 00:20:16,800 Speaker 1: found John roberts tortured opinion to be goofy. But little 273 00:20:16,840 --> 00:20:21,200 Speaker 1: did he realize until a few moments later, that Roberts 274 00:20:21,240 --> 00:20:24,719 Speaker 1: had actually upheld Obamacare because he started by wanting to 275 00:20:24,960 --> 00:20:29,040 Speaker 1: uphold Obamacare. He didn't start seeking the truth and end 276 00:20:29,119 --> 00:20:34,840 Speaker 1: up upholding Obamacare. He started wanting to uphold Obamacare and 277 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:37,680 Speaker 1: ended up finding a way to get there by hook 278 00:20:37,720 --> 00:20:41,600 Speaker 1: or by crook. And that is not the mind of 279 00:20:41,640 --> 00:20:45,680 Speaker 1: a great jurist. So they did. He called it attacks, 280 00:20:46,160 --> 00:20:50,240 Speaker 1: and Congress has the power to attacks. Even the justices 281 00:20:50,560 --> 00:20:56,160 Speaker 1: concurring with him were looking at his opinion and later 282 00:20:56,240 --> 00:21:02,359 Speaker 1: shook their hands heads. Well, we all agreed to uphold Obamacare, 283 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:06,680 Speaker 1: but for very different reasons and coming to very different conclusions. 284 00:21:07,280 --> 00:21:10,080 Speaker 1: But all that mattered was that we had the governmental 285 00:21:10,080 --> 00:21:15,880 Speaker 1: control of healthcare or health care finances, because it's really 286 00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:19,159 Speaker 1: not about healthcare, never has been. It was all about 287 00:21:19,200 --> 00:21:23,800 Speaker 1: creating a massive insurance industry. And here we are later, 288 00:21:24,840 --> 00:21:27,959 Speaker 1: you know, well over a decade later, we've seen what 289 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:31,840 Speaker 1: Obamacare did. And you can't make this stuff up. It's 290 00:21:33,800 --> 00:21:37,439 Speaker 1: almost perfect. The Democrats are now claiming that Trump doesn't 291 00:21:37,480 --> 00:21:40,720 Speaker 1: want to help us fix the health care problem. How 292 00:21:40,760 --> 00:21:44,359 Speaker 1: can there be a health care problem when you fixed 293 00:21:44,359 --> 00:21:50,520 Speaker 1: it with Obamacare? But actually the problem is Obamacare. But 294 00:21:50,560 --> 00:21:52,600 Speaker 1: you know who benefited from Obamacare. And this is the 295 00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:56,480 Speaker 1: secret nobody ever talks about. It's been talked about of 296 00:21:56,560 --> 00:22:02,920 Speaker 1: late a little insurance companies. There's been an explosion in 297 00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:08,920 Speaker 1: insurance company wealth. Look at the stocks of insurance companies 298 00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:11,840 Speaker 1: over the last fifteen years. Look what they've done. Look 299 00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:16,080 Speaker 1: at the pay packages, Look at the overall revenues. You 300 00:22:16,080 --> 00:22:20,320 Speaker 1: know how you do that. You compel everybody to get 301 00:22:20,320 --> 00:22:25,439 Speaker 1: health insurance. You compel everybody to make a payment to 302 00:22:25,480 --> 00:22:30,400 Speaker 1: these people, exactly the way you compel people to take 303 00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:36,880 Speaker 1: a stupid shot. The compulsion to engage in behaviors that 304 00:22:37,080 --> 00:22:42,320 Speaker 1: the people in the Ivory Tower declare are required is 305 00:22:42,359 --> 00:22:48,520 Speaker 1: pure socialism in its purest, most academic form, undiluted, uncut. 306 00:22:49,280 --> 00:22:55,560 Speaker 1: There it is so Jeff Brown has seen fit to 307 00:22:55,600 --> 00:23:00,960 Speaker 1: strike this down, to strike down all the potential gains 308 00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:03,400 Speaker 1: we would have in the House for the last two 309 00:23:03,480 --> 00:23:12,879 Speaker 1: years of President Trump's term, the most powerful act he 310 00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:24,280 Speaker 1: will ever commit in his life. And he is a 311 00:23:24,320 --> 00:23:31,119 Speaker 1: Trump appointed to a guy who campaigned as a judge 312 00:23:31,280 --> 00:23:51,240 Speaker 1: for the State Supreme court as mister Law and Order. 313 00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:57,000 Speaker 1: The Queen Sea brings you bias, Michael Berry brings your bias. 314 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:01,679 Speaker 1: Do you ever think about the fact that when you fart, 315 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:06,320 Speaker 1: I can either be silent or loud, and then there's 316 00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:12,160 Speaker 1: a third option. In Vidia set to release financials today. 317 00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:18,600 Speaker 1: The Nvidia earnings report has the market a twitter. This 318 00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:21,359 Speaker 1: one's going to be big. In Vidia is, as you know, 319 00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:27,560 Speaker 1: the world's first five trillion dollar company. If you look 320 00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:34,400 Speaker 1: at your stock portfolio online, you can you can look 321 00:24:34,520 --> 00:24:40,080 Speaker 1: at whether your your account is up or down in 322 00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:44,919 Speaker 1: any particular day. You can first go to Nvidia, and 323 00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:47,760 Speaker 1: that's going to have a greater determinant than anything else 324 00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:54,640 Speaker 1: on what your portfolio is doing. It's amazing. It's amazing 325 00:24:54,720 --> 00:25:00,640 Speaker 1: how important to the overall market a handful of stocks 326 00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:05,240 Speaker 1: are in, particularly in video. You know what, Uncle Jerry, 327 00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:09,639 Speaker 1: Uncle Uncle Jerry, and I very rarely taught finances. But 328 00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:14,080 Speaker 1: he tells me the other day that he and his 329 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:23,840 Speaker 1: financial advisor compete. He split his portfolio in half, and 330 00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:27,400 Speaker 1: his financial advisor takes half and he takes half and 331 00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:30,080 Speaker 1: then he can track. It's a little competition they have. 332 00:25:32,119 --> 00:25:35,960 Speaker 1: And he showed me that he had bought in video. 333 00:25:36,119 --> 00:25:40,359 Speaker 1: I believe at nine dollars, it's crazy. I mean, if 334 00:25:40,359 --> 00:25:43,120 Speaker 1: he could have bought, if he could have bought, well, 335 00:25:43,119 --> 00:25:46,119 Speaker 1: it's crazy. But a million shares of in video, he 336 00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:51,680 Speaker 1: would be he would be a very he would be 337 00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:54,480 Speaker 1: Uncle Jerry, Daddy Jerry. Good point. Yeah, no, that's a 338 00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:59,480 Speaker 1: good point. In vidio earnings today, one of those things 339 00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:03,960 Speaker 1: that makes it into Donald Trump's briefing book. They will 340 00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:11,000 Speaker 1: be watching that very very carefully. There is a delayed 341 00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:14,399 Speaker 1: September jobs report which will not come out today. It 342 00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:21,440 Speaker 1: will come out tomorrow. And in other big news, President 343 00:26:21,440 --> 00:26:25,080 Speaker 1: Trump has dispatched a high level Pentagon delegation to Kiev 344 00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:30,560 Speaker 1: in Ukraine for talks trying to bring an end to 345 00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:36,320 Speaker 1: the war. Interesting, isn't it. The war continues, but we 346 00:26:36,359 --> 00:26:39,360 Speaker 1: don't hear about it. It's amazing to me and kind 347 00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:44,640 Speaker 1: of sad, really tragic almost that there are people who 348 00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:48,520 Speaker 1: live or die by what news directors put on TV. 349 00:26:49,880 --> 00:26:54,520 Speaker 1: There are people who put the Ukrainian flag on as 350 00:26:54,560 --> 00:26:58,440 Speaker 1: their profile picture on their Facebook account because we've got 351 00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:01,640 Speaker 1: to stop that war. That war is the most important 352 00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:05,440 Speaker 1: thing in the world. Michael, you're making jokes, but it is. 353 00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:10,360 Speaker 1: Was it a year ago because you never talked about 354 00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:12,560 Speaker 1: it in your life. How did it all of a 355 00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:16,359 Speaker 1: sudden become the most important thing in the world and 356 00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:17,960 Speaker 1: we have to give every bit of money we have 357 00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:21,960 Speaker 1: to them because that's going to stop it. How did 358 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:26,080 Speaker 1: this happen? What caused it to be so important overnight 359 00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:30,040 Speaker 1: that the bidens get a kickback for every dollar we 360 00:27:30,119 --> 00:27:33,919 Speaker 1: sent there. I just saw that Zelenski, who has been 361 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:38,080 Speaker 1: living off our largess, talk about a welfare queen, been 362 00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:41,840 Speaker 1: living off our largess, is the largest investor in a 363 00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:47,600 Speaker 1: Ukrainian ski resort. And I can't remember how much he 364 00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:49,560 Speaker 1: put in, but it was a significant amount of money. 365 00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:54,360 Speaker 1: Significant amount of money and this isn't a governmental investment. 366 00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:57,640 Speaker 1: I'm sure he'll match that or put even more because 367 00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:02,040 Speaker 1: he's going to back his investment with plenty of money 368 00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:04,600 Speaker 1: from the government. But he also put some of his 369 00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:08,920 Speaker 1: personal money in. How does he have all this money? 370 00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:12,720 Speaker 1: I thought his country was on the brink. Elon Musk's 371 00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:15,560 Speaker 1: new artificial intelligence company. If you want something to read 372 00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:17,600 Speaker 1: about today, go read about some of the stuff they're doing. 373 00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:21,159 Speaker 1: It's very interesting. Now he's a master promoter. He'll have 374 00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:23,600 Speaker 1: you believing that it is where he hopes it'll be 375 00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:26,919 Speaker 1: in five years today, which it's not. That was always 376 00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:28,840 Speaker 1: the case with full self driving, but he got there, 377 00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:31,919 Speaker 1: and he got there before anybody else, and there is 378 00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:36,360 Speaker 1: something to be said for that. But he's been promising 379 00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:40,520 Speaker 1: it for thirteen years and it finally came around, and 380 00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:43,720 Speaker 1: there's plenty of criticisms about it, and I know there's 381 00:28:43,720 --> 00:28:45,959 Speaker 1: a lot of self doubt about it, but I have 382 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:50,240 Speaker 1: to give a man credit when he does what he 383 00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:52,920 Speaker 1: said he would do and no one else had done it. 384 00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:57,600 Speaker 1: The man friend of mine, Michael Holthous. I consider Michael 385 00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:02,040 Speaker 1: to be a very very very smart man, very smart man, 386 00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:05,720 Speaker 1: particularly when it comes to innovation. Michael Holdaus was telling 387 00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:10,480 Speaker 1: me ten years ago about AI and why I should 388 00:29:10,520 --> 00:29:13,040 Speaker 1: be interested in AI, and I would say, you know what, Michael, 389 00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:16,720 Speaker 1: why don't you be interested in AI? And I'll not 390 00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:21,040 Speaker 1: and that'll be good, And he would just every time 391 00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:24,360 Speaker 1: we'd see each other, which is a lot, he'd start 392 00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:27,880 Speaker 1: into AI, what do you think about AI? Well, after 393 00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:32,600 Speaker 1: a while, my AI antipathy started cracking because I started 394 00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:36,760 Speaker 1: realizing he's right. This is going to invade every aspect 395 00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:39,880 Speaker 1: of our lives, and whether I learn about it or 396 00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:44,160 Speaker 1: just don't remain at luddite, doesn't matter. It's that train 397 00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:48,240 Speaker 1: has left the station and it is it is hurtling forward, 398 00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:51,960 Speaker 1: and I better or I should Why not? I like 399 00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:54,600 Speaker 1: to learn things, and so I've kind of I kind 400 00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:57,440 Speaker 1: of as my Grandmo's, I dive off in there, and 401 00:29:57,480 --> 00:29:59,920 Speaker 1: I've tried to catch up to speed on these oc 402 00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:02,960 Speaker 1: what it's doing and how it is affecting life already. 403 00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:07,280 Speaker 1: And he said to me. We watched the ut Game together, 404 00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:10,800 Speaker 1: and he said to me that Elon Musk is the 405 00:30:10,840 --> 00:30:15,080 Speaker 1: smartest man on the planet, and the smartest man in 406 00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:18,840 Speaker 1: multiple different fields, and that may never have happened in 407 00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:25,840 Speaker 1: history before. Everything he does is cutting edge and successful. Obviously, 408 00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:31,040 Speaker 1: his car company, his robotics company, his AI company, his 409 00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:35,920 Speaker 1: boring company, which he's so cleverly named the Boring Company, 410 00:30:36,680 --> 00:30:39,440 Speaker 1: is cutting edge in a way that no one else 411 00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:44,040 Speaker 1: had ever done. Boring underground tunnels. I don't know if 412 00:30:44,040 --> 00:30:46,120 Speaker 1: anybody's been to it. Send me an email through the 413 00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:51,720 Speaker 1: website at Michael Berryshow dot com. They've bored tunnels underground 414 00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:55,480 Speaker 1: in Las Vegas so that you drive around. I guess 415 00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:57,120 Speaker 1: when you pick up your tesla or whatever, you come 416 00:30:57,160 --> 00:31:00,000 Speaker 1: out from the tunnel up to the street. It's been 417 00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:03,200 Speaker 1: ascribed to me as something you've never seen before. You're 418 00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:06,200 Speaker 1: driving through this tunnel. But I don't know why it's 419 00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:09,240 Speaker 1: so different, but supposedly it is. Then there is Space X, 420 00:31:10,080 --> 00:31:12,280 Speaker 1: where he did things that NASA could never do or 421 00:31:12,320 --> 00:31:15,840 Speaker 1: would never do. How about redocking a ship so that 422 00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:20,760 Speaker 1: you don't waste the entirety of the structure every single time? 423 00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:26,200 Speaker 1: It's incredible, It really is incredible. How about taking over 424 00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:29,640 Speaker 1: Twitter and fixing it. Everyone loves to say all the 425 00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:32,440 Speaker 1: things that are still wrong with it, true, but it's 426 00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:34,600 Speaker 1: one hundred times better. And Twitter has turned out to 427 00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:38,920 Speaker 1: be very important to people. And Twitter being a free 428 00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:43,680 Speaker 1: speech platform has made Facebook now Meta change a lot 429 00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:46,760 Speaker 1: of their practices. Meta has had to improve with regard 430 00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:52,720 Speaker 1: to canceling major players. They've had to because of the 431 00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:57,360 Speaker 1: Twitter competition. I think those things are worthy of note anyway. 432 00:31:57,520 --> 00:31:59,800 Speaker 1: They're trying to raise fifteen million in new equity at 433 00:31:59,840 --> 00:32:03,640 Speaker 1: a two hundred and thirty billion dollar valuation, Not for nothing.