1 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:09,399 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, Luck and load. 2 00:00:11,240 --> 00:00:13,880 Speaker 2: The Michael Verie Show is on the air. 3 00:00:18,040 --> 00:00:21,320 Speaker 3: Earlier in this hearing, you said in your opening statement 4 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:24,760 Speaker 3: that there is nothing more urgent than impeachment right now, 5 00:00:24,760 --> 00:00:28,280 Speaker 3: this is the most urgent thing we could possibly do. Well, 6 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:30,200 Speaker 3: you know what, if you're a senior right now and 7 00:00:30,280 --> 00:00:33,839 Speaker 3: you can't afford your prescription drugs, that's more urgent than this. 8 00:00:34,520 --> 00:00:38,000 Speaker 3: If you're a manufacturer wanting to dominate the Western hemisphere 9 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:40,840 Speaker 3: with the passage of the USMCA, that is more urgent. 10 00:00:40,920 --> 00:00:43,519 Speaker 3: If you're a farmer who wants to open markets so 11 00:00:43,560 --> 00:00:46,120 Speaker 3: that your family can survive and thrive, that is a 12 00:00:46,120 --> 00:00:49,400 Speaker 3: lot more urgent than this partisan process. If you're a 13 00:00:49,440 --> 00:00:55,160 Speaker 3: desperate family member watching someone succumb to addiction, solving the 14 00:00:55,160 --> 00:01:00,360 Speaker 3: opioid problem probably more urgent. Why is it that women 15 00:01:00,480 --> 00:01:03,240 Speaker 3: with the least likelihood of getting pregnant are the ones 16 00:01:03,320 --> 00:01:08,480 Speaker 3: most worried about having abortions? Nobody wants to impregnate you 17 00:01:08,760 --> 00:01:10,160 Speaker 3: if you look like a thought? 18 00:01:29,560 --> 00:01:31,360 Speaker 2: Is it safe to say that based off of your comments, 19 00:01:31,400 --> 00:01:34,800 Speaker 2: you're suggesting that these women at these abortion rallies are 20 00:01:35,040 --> 00:01:35,840 Speaker 2: ugly and overweight. 21 00:01:36,040 --> 00:01:38,479 Speaker 4: Yes, what do you see to people who think. 22 00:01:38,360 --> 00:01:42,200 Speaker 3: That those comments are offensive. You all get all worked 23 00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:45,360 Speaker 3: up that there's going to be some uncomfortable, chaotic moment 24 00:01:45,440 --> 00:01:49,240 Speaker 3: that I'll feel pressure from conservatives or Democrats or whomever. 25 00:01:49,560 --> 00:01:52,120 Speaker 3: I feel the judgment of history. I feel the weight 26 00:01:52,240 --> 00:01:54,480 Speaker 3: of that. I worry that when the history books are 27 00:01:54,520 --> 00:01:57,320 Speaker 3: written about this country going down, that my name is 28 00:01:57,320 --> 00:01:58,960 Speaker 3: going to be on the board of directors here. 29 00:01:59,000 --> 00:01:59,440 Speaker 2: And if this. 30 00:01:59,360 --> 00:02:01,920 Speaker 3: Country's going down, and if we're losing the dollar, I 31 00:02:01,960 --> 00:02:04,040 Speaker 3: am going down fighting. And I don't care if that 32 00:02:04,080 --> 00:02:08,800 Speaker 3: means fighting Republicans, Democrats, the uniparty, the leadership, the packs, 33 00:02:09,040 --> 00:02:35,880 Speaker 3: the lobbyists. I've had it, and I take no lecture 34 00:02:36,120 --> 00:02:40,040 Speaker 3: on asking patriotic Americans to weigh in and contribute to 35 00:02:40,080 --> 00:02:40,480 Speaker 3: this fight. 36 00:02:40,680 --> 00:02:41,720 Speaker 1: From those who would. 37 00:02:41,520 --> 00:02:45,240 Speaker 3: Grovel and bend mee for the lobbyists and special interests 38 00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:48,600 Speaker 3: who own our leadership, who have followed foo all. 39 00:02:48,520 --> 00:02:51,040 Speaker 5: You want, who have followed out this town. 40 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:54,160 Speaker 3: And have borrowed against the future of our future generations. 41 00:02:54,360 --> 00:02:57,560 Speaker 3: I'll be happy to fund my political operation through the 42 00:02:57,600 --> 00:03:01,079 Speaker 3: work of hard working Americans ten and twenty and thirty 43 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:03,240 Speaker 3: dollars at a time. And you all keep showing up 44 00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:05,280 Speaker 3: at the lobbyist fundraisers and see how that goes. 45 00:03:05,320 --> 00:03:11,720 Speaker 4: For the love of the love. 46 00:03:34,320 --> 00:03:39,920 Speaker 2: Matt Gates resigned from Congress yesterday to prepare for his 47 00:03:41,640 --> 00:03:47,960 Speaker 2: nomination to be the Attorney General of the United States 48 00:03:47,960 --> 00:03:54,840 Speaker 2: of America. I feel like I'm pretty well tied in 49 00:03:55,760 --> 00:04:02,240 Speaker 2: to the Trump administration, and I did not hear from 50 00:04:02,480 --> 00:04:09,280 Speaker 2: one person that Gates was under consideration. I had no idea. 51 00:04:09,960 --> 00:04:14,120 Speaker 2: I didn't see that coming, and my sources did not 52 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:19,680 Speaker 2: see that coming. There was initially quite a bit of 53 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:22,200 Speaker 2: interest in Ken Paxton. There had been a lot of 54 00:04:22,279 --> 00:04:25,400 Speaker 2: talk about Kin Paxton, of course the attorney general in 55 00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:30,120 Speaker 2: the state of Texas as attorney general. Was my understanding 56 00:04:31,360 --> 00:04:35,000 Speaker 2: that it's not my understanding. No, for fact, Trump had 57 00:04:35,040 --> 00:04:40,600 Speaker 2: privately told some people that he would like Paxton in 58 00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:44,279 Speaker 2: that position. That doesn't mean necessarily he was going to 59 00:04:44,360 --> 00:04:51,040 Speaker 2: do it. Oftentimes folks will flow to trial balloon, and 60 00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:54,880 Speaker 2: I think Trump, I think this is the business side 61 00:04:54,880 --> 00:04:59,760 Speaker 2: of him. He will as he's as an idea is 62 00:05:00,040 --> 00:05:04,599 Speaker 2: terminating his head, He'll just kind of sprinkle it in 63 00:05:04,640 --> 00:05:09,880 Speaker 2: there and see what kind of reaction he gets. Now, 64 00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:18,200 Speaker 2: my understanding was that Cornyn Well, I can't say this 65 00:05:18,200 --> 00:05:22,799 Speaker 2: to my understanding, it had been said by several folks 66 00:05:25,440 --> 00:05:32,800 Speaker 2: that Cornyan was actually supporting Paxton for US Attorney General. 67 00:05:33,960 --> 00:05:39,600 Speaker 2: Because Paxton is it is it is expected that Paxton's 68 00:05:39,640 --> 00:05:43,600 Speaker 2: going to challenge Cornyn for reelection. Cornyan, of course, as 69 00:05:43,640 --> 00:05:53,479 Speaker 2: you know, was defeated yesterday in the Wednesday morning back 70 00:05:53,560 --> 00:05:58,800 Speaker 2: room deal that put John Thune in as Senate Majority leader. 71 00:06:00,160 --> 00:06:03,760 Speaker 2: They made a show of pretending that Rick Scott had 72 00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:06,360 Speaker 2: a shot so that the grassroots would feel like something 73 00:06:06,640 --> 00:06:10,320 Speaker 2: had been done and they'd been listened to, But they weren't. 74 00:06:09,279 --> 00:06:13,719 Speaker 2: That was all a show and that was never going 75 00:06:13,800 --> 00:06:16,440 Speaker 2: to happen. That was never real. And in fact, I 76 00:06:16,480 --> 00:06:18,599 Speaker 2: think many of the people who claimed they were supporting 77 00:06:18,680 --> 00:06:22,280 Speaker 2: Rick Scott, in fact some of them who were switching 78 00:06:22,320 --> 00:06:24,440 Speaker 2: over the last minute to support Rick Scott when they 79 00:06:24,440 --> 00:06:27,520 Speaker 2: weren't already and all of a sudden, I'm supporting Rick Scott. 80 00:06:27,760 --> 00:06:30,479 Speaker 2: So you weren't supporting Scott when it was open, and 81 00:06:30,560 --> 00:06:33,680 Speaker 2: now you're supporting Scott when it's clear he can't win. 82 00:06:35,240 --> 00:06:37,800 Speaker 2: So they supported Scott on the first ballot and then 83 00:06:38,040 --> 00:06:40,480 Speaker 2: oh he's out. All right, we're down to the final two. 84 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:43,000 Speaker 2: I guess I'll go back to the guy I told 85 00:06:43,080 --> 00:06:46,640 Speaker 2: you two days ago, I was going to endorse that 86 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:52,719 Speaker 2: whole thing is a charade, a sham. So you've got 87 00:06:53,760 --> 00:06:58,040 Speaker 2: Thune as majority leader and Cornyn without a leadership position. 88 00:06:58,880 --> 00:07:03,960 Speaker 2: Cornyan was immediate in his public statement that he would 89 00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:11,800 Speaker 2: be running for reelection in twenty twenty six. That is 90 00:07:11,920 --> 00:07:15,400 Speaker 2: I mean, we're talking about a primary that is three 91 00:07:15,520 --> 00:07:19,480 Speaker 2: four months, sixteen months away. That's not so long away. 92 00:07:20,120 --> 00:07:25,560 Speaker 2: The the spring primary in Texas, which will be March 93 00:07:26,480 --> 00:07:29,920 Speaker 2: of twenty twenty six. Ramon side for that math for 94 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:31,440 Speaker 2: me real quick. So what are we in right now? 95 00:07:31,440 --> 00:07:35,400 Speaker 2: We're almost in December. So November, December, January, February, March 96 00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:44,160 Speaker 2: four plus sixteen months away. That's not right, December January, February, Yeah, 97 00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:54,960 Speaker 2: it is. M So he will he will. That means 98 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:57,960 Speaker 2: John Wayne mccornyan. I will wait on that will be 99 00:07:58,200 --> 00:08:03,440 Speaker 2: uh all of a sudden, mister d C is going 100 00:08:03,520 --> 00:08:07,200 Speaker 2: to be showing up in Lufkin. There You'll be just 101 00:08:07,320 --> 00:08:12,000 Speaker 2: minding your own business in Lubbock, and there he'll be more. 102 00:08:12,120 --> 00:08:14,080 Speaker 2: How many cities can you name it start with an 103 00:08:14,240 --> 00:08:19,200 Speaker 2: L in Texas. I got Lubbock, I got Lufkin, I 104 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:23,280 Speaker 2: got Laredo. Well you got League City. I see, that's 105 00:08:23,480 --> 00:08:25,320 Speaker 2: that's we're very different. I wouldn't have thought of League 106 00:08:25,360 --> 00:08:32,600 Speaker 2: City right off League City, Lafayette. That's East Texas. That's 107 00:08:32,640 --> 00:08:37,280 Speaker 2: East Texas right there. Yeah. So so I said to 108 00:08:37,320 --> 00:08:38,840 Speaker 2: my wife last night, she said, well, what do you think. 109 00:08:38,880 --> 00:08:40,400 Speaker 2: We don't normally talk politics, but she said, what do 110 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:42,719 Speaker 2: you think about Matt Gates? I said, I love the 111 00:08:42,760 --> 00:08:46,400 Speaker 2: wrecking ball approach. I just worry. I don't you know, 112 00:08:46,480 --> 00:08:48,800 Speaker 2: Gates is kind of a wild card. I don't want 113 00:08:48,840 --> 00:08:51,160 Speaker 2: him to do something embarrassed administration and cause problems. And 114 00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:53,320 Speaker 2: what I said, he can fire him if he's okay, 115 00:08:53,360 --> 00:08:56,160 Speaker 2: that's a good point. Lampass is good call. 116 00:08:56,880 --> 00:09:29,360 Speaker 1: Wow, Michael Barry, look at you. 117 00:09:20,960 --> 00:09:25,559 Speaker 2: Oh man, we forgot Lamark. Jim said, Livings. 118 00:09:54,240 --> 00:09:57,040 Speaker 4: Extreme plays a back again extreme plays. 119 00:09:57,160 --> 00:10:01,360 Speaker 2: I didn't know that's the best you got. I have 120 00:10:01,480 --> 00:10:08,480 Speaker 2: a thing that the Windows came an extreamways out in 121 00:10:08,520 --> 00:10:13,080 Speaker 2: the pantheon of great English literature, Herman Melville's Moby Dick 122 00:10:13,280 --> 00:10:21,319 Speaker 2: now ranks as perhaps the great American novel. It was 123 00:10:21,360 --> 00:10:26,520 Speaker 2: written on this day in eighteen fifty one, little known today, 124 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:30,080 Speaker 2: kind of in that kind of kind in that bag 125 00:10:30,120 --> 00:10:36,240 Speaker 2: of facts like George Washington died not knowing about dinosaurs, 126 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:39,600 Speaker 2: because it was two or three years after he died 127 00:10:40,520 --> 00:10:46,679 Speaker 2: that the existence of dinosaurs, the entire concept of dinosaurs 128 00:10:47,120 --> 00:10:52,120 Speaker 2: was unknown, And then dinosaurs are discovered, and little boys 129 00:10:52,160 --> 00:10:55,680 Speaker 2: ever since I had happy childhoods to think that there's 130 00:10:55,720 --> 00:10:57,880 Speaker 2: George Washington laying on his death better and you walk in, 131 00:10:57,960 --> 00:11:08,280 Speaker 2: you go so Cornosaurus rex or velociraptor, and he would say, 132 00:11:08,640 --> 00:11:11,920 Speaker 2: what are you talking about? And then you have to go. 133 00:11:12,320 --> 00:11:15,679 Speaker 2: You don't have enough time to explain it. You're not 134 00:11:15,720 --> 00:11:18,839 Speaker 2: going to know who Steven Spielberg was, none of it. 135 00:11:19,679 --> 00:11:26,240 Speaker 2: H Rest your weary eyes, soldier. Your race is run. Well, 136 00:11:27,559 --> 00:11:30,480 Speaker 2: it wasn't until I'm going to say nineteen ten. It 137 00:11:30,559 --> 00:11:31,760 Speaker 2: might have been nineteen o eight. It might have been 138 00:11:31,800 --> 00:11:35,720 Speaker 2: nineteen twelve. I tend to think of dates some distance 139 00:11:35,720 --> 00:11:37,760 Speaker 2: from a round number. It's a weird way I do things. 140 00:11:37,960 --> 00:11:46,679 Speaker 2: But a professor rediscovered, or a professor sort of reintroduced 141 00:11:46,880 --> 00:11:53,280 Speaker 2: this novel and made the case that this is the 142 00:11:53,320 --> 00:12:02,040 Speaker 2: great epic American novel. And suddenly that idea began to 143 00:12:02,080 --> 00:12:07,560 Speaker 2: spread and across campuses, and then it became the case 144 00:12:07,600 --> 00:12:10,319 Speaker 2: within a decade that you were not a learned American 145 00:12:11,120 --> 00:12:14,920 Speaker 2: if you had not read this distinctly American piece of literature, 146 00:12:15,559 --> 00:12:18,680 Speaker 2: what you take for granted now right, call me Ishmael, 147 00:12:18,760 --> 00:12:22,760 Speaker 2: Gregory Peck. I mean, it's so much a part of 148 00:12:22,760 --> 00:12:26,160 Speaker 2: the culture. But that was all manufactured sixty years after 149 00:12:26,200 --> 00:12:28,640 Speaker 2: it was written. Melville didn't make any money on that. 150 00:12:28,840 --> 00:12:31,640 Speaker 2: If you met Herman Melville in eighteen eighty one, eighteen 151 00:12:31,720 --> 00:12:35,840 Speaker 2: ninety one, probably nineteen oh one, he hadn't seen the 152 00:12:35,880 --> 00:12:38,800 Speaker 2: money that book would make. He was not revered, at 153 00:12:38,880 --> 00:12:41,760 Speaker 2: least not for that piece the way he later would be. 154 00:12:42,600 --> 00:12:44,440 Speaker 2: And I say all that to say that, to say 155 00:12:44,440 --> 00:12:51,160 Speaker 2: this dumbass Ramon, I asked to find to come out 156 00:12:51,160 --> 00:12:54,719 Speaker 2: of the break with something directly or indirectly, because even 157 00:12:54,720 --> 00:12:56,960 Speaker 2: if it's indirect some of you will figure it out. 158 00:12:57,280 --> 00:13:06,240 Speaker 2: Something that would reflect the monumental statuesque epic play that 159 00:13:06,400 --> 00:13:12,480 Speaker 2: Moby Dick Hole No No Wrong holds in in in 160 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:18,560 Speaker 2: the pantheon of American literature culture. Okay, Ramond is, okay, 161 00:13:18,600 --> 00:13:23,720 Speaker 2: you you're gonna redeem yourself. Oh Lord Rameela says he 162 00:13:23,760 --> 00:13:25,920 Speaker 2: has a reading from Moby Dick. Okay, you want to 163 00:13:25,920 --> 00:13:28,120 Speaker 2: put some music, Oh, you have music okay, all right, 164 00:13:28,160 --> 00:13:29,440 Speaker 2: go ahead, do you do you? 165 00:13:32,960 --> 00:13:38,559 Speaker 4: And now? Ramon Roeblist Jr. Reads famous works of literature 166 00:13:39,559 --> 00:13:44,160 Speaker 4: this episode, Moby Dick. She quietly crept into his room. 167 00:13:44,840 --> 00:13:47,920 Speaker 4: What are you doing? Moby said, I'm gonna make a 168 00:13:47,960 --> 00:13:49,080 Speaker 4: man out of you, sailor. 169 00:13:50,040 --> 00:13:54,600 Speaker 6: But lady Starbuck, you're my fiance's best friend. Hush now, 170 00:13:55,240 --> 00:14:01,199 Speaker 6: lay back and let this white wall. Oh wait a minute, 171 00:14:01,200 --> 00:14:03,400 Speaker 6: Moby's Oh, I grabbed the wrong book. 172 00:14:06,200 --> 00:14:10,920 Speaker 4: This has been Ramon Junior reading famous works of literature. 173 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:28,680 Speaker 4: Stream again Extreme Place. 174 00:14:31,680 --> 00:14:34,000 Speaker 2: Somebody tuned into the show for the first time ever today, 175 00:14:35,160 --> 00:14:39,560 Speaker 2: Maybe by accident. Maybe the astros were on last night. 176 00:14:43,040 --> 00:14:45,680 Speaker 2: Maybe they were trying to get to the Vietnamese channel 177 00:14:47,360 --> 00:14:52,360 Speaker 2: help me, Extreme Places. Maybe they were looking for something 178 00:14:52,360 --> 00:14:56,320 Speaker 2: else and they ended up and that's what they heard. 179 00:14:59,080 --> 00:15:01,760 Speaker 2: You was like, ID, you're that guy on the radio 180 00:15:01,800 --> 00:15:06,800 Speaker 2: Michael Berry and Michael Berry Show. Uh wait a second. 181 00:15:09,240 --> 00:15:12,560 Speaker 2: They do blue stuff, weren't they. No, not that I 182 00:15:12,680 --> 00:15:15,440 Speaker 2: know of them. Yeah, I think that's when I turned 183 00:15:15,480 --> 00:15:20,840 Speaker 2: in one day and they had a whole Yeah it 184 00:15:20,920 --> 00:15:25,280 Speaker 2: was I had to change the dial. All right, Well, 185 00:15:25,320 --> 00:15:30,920 Speaker 2: we have to talk about the astrodome. We have to 186 00:15:30,960 --> 00:15:35,640 Speaker 2: talk about the astrodome because they're at it again. And 187 00:15:36,800 --> 00:15:40,560 Speaker 2: wouldn't you know at the local news stations are cheerleading 188 00:15:40,560 --> 00:15:44,520 Speaker 2: for it. They only have to raise a billion and 189 00:15:44,560 --> 00:15:49,040 Speaker 2: a half dollars and we'll have something nice. The astronome 190 00:15:49,080 --> 00:15:54,800 Speaker 2: will be nice. It really is sad. It's embarrassing to watch. 191 00:15:55,400 --> 00:16:00,480 Speaker 2: It really is embarrassing to watch. It is the last 192 00:16:00,880 --> 00:16:07,080 Speaker 2: gasp of people who still view the city of Houston 193 00:16:08,040 --> 00:16:12,080 Speaker 2: in the image they dreamed of in the nineteen eighties. 194 00:16:14,160 --> 00:16:19,240 Speaker 2: See Houston crept up on America. It wasn't like the 195 00:16:19,280 --> 00:16:22,760 Speaker 2: other major cities. You had New York, which was the 196 00:16:22,800 --> 00:16:27,360 Speaker 2: great American city and emerged into the great World city, 197 00:16:28,640 --> 00:16:32,280 Speaker 2: and they're all New York. It comes out of the 198 00:16:32,320 --> 00:16:39,040 Speaker 2: coaching tree of London and Paris and Rome. And then 199 00:16:39,080 --> 00:16:43,080 Speaker 2: you had Chicago, which is this sort of manufactured city 200 00:16:44,920 --> 00:16:49,120 Speaker 2: that is the capital of the Midwest. And then you 201 00:16:49,160 --> 00:16:54,160 Speaker 2: have the westward expansion and the very late development of 202 00:16:54,200 --> 00:16:58,560 Speaker 2: Los Angeles that's built on the pretty city in a 203 00:16:58,560 --> 00:17:02,400 Speaker 2: pretty place with pretty people, and it was the city 204 00:17:02,400 --> 00:17:06,760 Speaker 2: of the arts and of course film. And then you 205 00:17:06,840 --> 00:17:09,560 Speaker 2: have this place that during all of that, including the 206 00:17:09,680 --> 00:17:15,680 Speaker 2: rise of Los Angeles, you have this literal swamp down 207 00:17:15,720 --> 00:17:20,919 Speaker 2: in Texas, the Great America, the Great Texas City was 208 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:25,359 Speaker 2: not Houston. It was Galveston. But you have the fire 209 00:17:25,440 --> 00:17:29,920 Speaker 2: and the flood. And it wasn't until about nineteen ten 210 00:17:31,640 --> 00:17:35,560 Speaker 2: that Rice and Kirby go to d C and get 211 00:17:35,560 --> 00:17:37,439 Speaker 2: a matching grant. I think it was a million dollars. 212 00:17:37,800 --> 00:17:39,560 Speaker 2: If they raised a million in the government give a 213 00:17:39,560 --> 00:17:42,800 Speaker 2: mill and they had already done it, and the timber 214 00:17:42,880 --> 00:17:49,000 Speaker 2: and land interests and Clayton, who would do the I 215 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:52,239 Speaker 2: think that's where Will Clayton comes from. Who would Who 216 00:17:52,320 --> 00:17:57,840 Speaker 2: was the cotton exchange? And this little plucky city, little 217 00:17:57,880 --> 00:18:03,359 Speaker 2: plucky town at that time says, Look, Galveston is at 218 00:18:03,359 --> 00:18:05,240 Speaker 2: the tip of the spirit and it's gonna get wiped out. 219 00:18:05,280 --> 00:18:08,720 Speaker 2: You can't keep building a city on sand. You've got 220 00:18:08,720 --> 00:18:14,280 Speaker 2: to build a city on a rock. And so we're 221 00:18:14,280 --> 00:18:16,960 Speaker 2: gonna have to. We're gonna dredge a deep water port 222 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:20,560 Speaker 2: fifty miles inland. Never been done before, never been done since. 223 00:18:21,640 --> 00:18:27,399 Speaker 2: I mean we're talking Panama Canal level crazy. There's no 224 00:18:27,480 --> 00:18:30,680 Speaker 2: way you're gonna do this. Damned if they didn't. So 225 00:18:30,720 --> 00:18:32,840 Speaker 2: the city used to just keeps creeping up somewhere in 226 00:18:32,880 --> 00:18:34,920 Speaker 2: the seventies, the rest of America wakes up and says, 227 00:18:35,280 --> 00:18:37,639 Speaker 2: you've got a bunch of rich cowboys down there in 228 00:18:37,680 --> 00:18:40,680 Speaker 2: a real city and then urban cowboy in the now 229 00:18:40,680 --> 00:18:44,880 Speaker 2: they want w to and you get it all fiberglass 230 00:18:44,880 --> 00:18:48,320 Speaker 2: hood with air grabbing scoop mid the Michael Berry fucking 231 00:18:48,359 --> 00:18:56,880 Speaker 2: hood bensosmobile escaped from the ordinary. Come on side, come. 232 00:18:56,640 --> 00:18:57,679 Speaker 1: On, come on, here we go? 233 00:18:57,880 --> 00:18:57,920 Speaker 3: On? 234 00:18:59,000 --> 00:18:59,880 Speaker 2: What else? What else? 235 00:19:01,200 --> 00:19:01,440 Speaker 6: Yeah? 236 00:19:01,600 --> 00:19:04,119 Speaker 2: Here we go, shine, come on, come on, here me 237 00:19:04,160 --> 00:19:10,159 Speaker 2: go paint sun shine, Yes, and b get me to 238 00:19:10,440 --> 00:19:11,240 Speaker 2: rob fas well. 239 00:19:11,240 --> 00:19:12,040 Speaker 4: I'm a new kid. 240 00:19:12,119 --> 00:19:14,520 Speaker 1: I'm just coming up. A lot of Baptis think that I. 241 00:19:14,480 --> 00:19:15,239 Speaker 2: Can't tear it up. 242 00:19:15,359 --> 00:19:16,280 Speaker 4: Will I'm gonna show. 243 00:19:16,119 --> 00:19:17,360 Speaker 1: Them and ignore them. 244 00:19:17,560 --> 00:19:19,920 Speaker 4: And when they think I ain't looking at form, I. 245 00:19:19,880 --> 00:19:23,080 Speaker 1: Mean take them out. I keep grooving a snack basedlinekeep 246 00:19:23,119 --> 00:19:23,840 Speaker 1: the beat moving. 247 00:19:24,119 --> 00:19:25,040 Speaker 4: They can't take it. 248 00:19:25,200 --> 00:19:26,040 Speaker 1: They just baked. 249 00:19:26,280 --> 00:19:29,240 Speaker 2: They want to how the raw backs naked I get killed? 250 00:19:29,600 --> 00:19:31,560 Speaker 1: You know to tell, because this is how. 251 00:19:31,480 --> 00:19:33,000 Speaker 2: The raw backs fill shut. 252 00:19:33,520 --> 00:19:36,199 Speaker 4: Come on, come on, bump it up, pay, bump it up, 253 00:19:36,240 --> 00:19:36,800 Speaker 4: bumb it up? 254 00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:38,080 Speaker 1: Now, sun shine? 255 00:19:38,320 --> 00:19:39,239 Speaker 2: What else? Come on? 256 00:19:39,320 --> 00:19:39,560 Speaker 1: Pain? 257 00:19:40,080 --> 00:19:42,320 Speaker 2: Here we go, Here we go. I saw a picture. 258 00:19:42,600 --> 00:19:50,080 Speaker 2: If you haven't seen Kamala Harris Shine walking in and 259 00:19:50,119 --> 00:19:55,240 Speaker 2: sitting down next to Joe Biden the time, and Kamala 260 00:19:55,320 --> 00:20:00,400 Speaker 2: Harris has her lips pursed and Joe Biden pro move. 261 00:20:01,080 --> 00:20:06,200 Speaker 2: She's wearing thick sunglasses, wrap around sunglasses, so she could do, 262 00:20:06,359 --> 00:20:10,040 Speaker 2: you know, do a little side glance at Kamala without 263 00:20:10,040 --> 00:20:13,800 Speaker 2: having to move her head. And she never acknowledges that 264 00:20:13,880 --> 00:20:18,000 Speaker 2: Kamala is there. Oh, there is no joy left in 265 00:20:18,040 --> 00:20:23,560 Speaker 2: that campaign. And then compare that to President Trump visiting 266 00:20:23,560 --> 00:20:28,800 Speaker 2: the White House yesterday and there's Jill and Joe and 267 00:20:28,880 --> 00:20:30,879 Speaker 2: they got a big smile, and Trump's got a big smile, 268 00:20:30,920 --> 00:20:32,600 Speaker 2: and we're all having a heck of a good time. 269 00:20:33,520 --> 00:20:36,440 Speaker 2: It is the perfect joy and pain. And that song 270 00:20:36,560 --> 00:20:42,080 Speaker 2: is the great accompaniment. I think that song must have 271 00:20:42,119 --> 00:20:45,720 Speaker 2: come out around eighty nine or just before, because when 272 00:20:45,760 --> 00:20:48,080 Speaker 2: I first came to Houston, we didn't have clubs in Orange. 273 00:20:48,119 --> 00:20:51,720 Speaker 2: And I'm growing up Southern Baptist. I wasn't allowed to 274 00:20:51,760 --> 00:20:59,239 Speaker 2: go to clubs in Beaumont. So my buddy and I 275 00:20:59,680 --> 00:21:02,760 Speaker 2: when we got to Houston, we'd hop in the car 276 00:21:04,040 --> 00:21:07,560 Speaker 2: and we'd drive over to Richmond at six' ten and 277 00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:11,320 Speaker 2: in that center where there's an area club. Left, today 278 00:21:11,960 --> 00:21:16,399 Speaker 2: there's a mailbox, store there's a golf, galaxy there's A, 279 00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:24,080 Speaker 2: demosses there's A, ulta there's an office, depot but there 280 00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:28,280 Speaker 2: is no club any. Longer back in those, days there 281 00:21:28,359 --> 00:21:30,840 Speaker 2: was a club anchoring each, end and maybe a different. 282 00:21:30,840 --> 00:21:33,879 Speaker 2: One there are all different, Concepts SO i mean not 283 00:21:34,040 --> 00:21:36,440 Speaker 2: that you, would but you, could you, know for those 284 00:21:36,480 --> 00:21:38,360 Speaker 2: of you who had parents who went out to. Clubs 285 00:21:38,359 --> 00:21:41,960 Speaker 2: my parents didn't, drink but you could, Have like you 286 00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:44,600 Speaker 2: could have had your eighteen year eighteen year old club 287 00:21:44,880 --> 00:21:49,760 Speaker 2: one end where everything was what is that called not, 288 00:21:49,840 --> 00:21:54,560 Speaker 2: fluorescent where everything white, Glows and that was the time 289 00:21:54,600 --> 00:21:57,119 Speaker 2: it had to be hard on epileptics because you had 290 00:21:57,119 --> 00:22:00,280 Speaker 2: a lot of blinking, stuff and then you had the 291 00:22:00,320 --> 00:22:03,800 Speaker 2: globe stuff that would make even the lint on your. 292 00:22:03,840 --> 00:22:07,639 Speaker 2: Shirt AND i never. FORGET i must have been In 293 00:22:07,680 --> 00:22:10,359 Speaker 2: houston for about four hours by the time it was, 294 00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:12,280 Speaker 2: midnight and we were at that, club And i've never 295 00:22:12,280 --> 00:22:17,320 Speaker 2: been out so late in my. Life and you couldn't 296 00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:21,320 Speaker 2: drink because it was an under twenty one. Club and 297 00:22:21,320 --> 00:22:24,159 Speaker 2: we walked in and the music was so damn. Loud 298 00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:30,919 Speaker 2: it was network BUT i can't remember exactly And, lagrange thank. You, 299 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:36,439 Speaker 2: okay we're not On El cities. Anymore AND i Remember 300 00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:43,879 Speaker 2: Madonna's vogue was playing and there was some gay. Dude 301 00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:47,280 Speaker 2: nobody acted gay and. Orange this, was oh my, god 302 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:49,919 Speaker 2: there's a big gay. Dude and he was out in 303 00:22:49,960 --> 00:22:52,960 Speaker 2: the middle or you, knew you didn't, Doubt and he 304 00:22:53,040 --> 00:22:56,440 Speaker 2: was out in the middle and he's doing that Goofy vogue. 305 00:22:56,520 --> 00:22:59,560 Speaker 2: Dance AND i guess what was good about that dance 306 00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:02,480 Speaker 2: is you didn't have to have somebody with. You you 307 00:23:02,520 --> 00:23:04,520 Speaker 2: could just get out there in the middle of the. 308 00:23:04,560 --> 00:23:08,840 Speaker 2: Stage but little did we, know naive as we, were 309 00:23:10,600 --> 00:23:14,200 Speaker 2: that the reason he was dancing so weird is because 310 00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:17,920 Speaker 2: he was. Exit so we're in this place for about 311 00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:21,919 Speaker 2: a minute when some cute girl strolls up to me 312 00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:29,880 Speaker 2: and she, says you, Will smacks go on some. Sex what? What? What? 313 00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:32,520 Speaker 2: What what are you offer? ME i know you're not 314 00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:35,440 Speaker 2: gonna trick me into one of Them Sherlock, holmes opiate. 315 00:23:35,520 --> 00:23:36,600 Speaker 2: Dens what are you talking? 316 00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:36,879 Speaker 5: About? 317 00:23:37,080 --> 00:23:39,000 Speaker 4: Girl on some? 318 00:23:39,080 --> 00:23:41,680 Speaker 2: Acts seven? BUCKS i think it was seven. BUCKS i 319 00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:45,520 Speaker 2: remember thinking seven. Bucks that's my rent seven bucks for. 320 00:23:45,760 --> 00:23:50,399 Speaker 2: One it wasn't even a. Pill oh, yeah my, buddy did? 321 00:23:50,440 --> 00:23:54,360 Speaker 2: It he would try. Anything he would try, Anything AND 322 00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:57,800 Speaker 2: i asked him about, it and apparently they just gave 323 00:23:57,800 --> 00:23:59,359 Speaker 2: you a piece of paper and you stuck it to 324 00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:02,399 Speaker 2: Your do you know? That so that's a CRAZY i 325 00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:03,840 Speaker 2: don't know if that's still around he or, not but 326 00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:06,119 Speaker 2: apparently that was the. Deal, oh you wouldn't get me 327 00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:07,920 Speaker 2: to try a. THING i Thought i'd just die on the. 328 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:11,479 Speaker 2: Spot no, idea AND i wasn't about. To all, Right 329 00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:14,880 Speaker 2: so back to the. Astrodome they're going to raise over 330 00:24:14,920 --> 00:24:19,199 Speaker 2: a billion. Dollars, now let me start with. This this 331 00:24:19,280 --> 00:24:22,920 Speaker 2: is what nobody wants to talk. About before you begin 332 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:27,360 Speaker 2: a conversation of The, astrodome you have to realize you're 333 00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:31,280 Speaker 2: not going to remake the area around. There so for 334 00:24:31,359 --> 00:24:32,840 Speaker 2: those of you who think it would be a great 335 00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:36,480 Speaker 2: idea to spend whoever's money it, is, taxpayers state, government 336 00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:40,240 Speaker 2: federal government. Investors before you get too deep into, THIS 337 00:24:41,359 --> 00:24:48,040 Speaker 2: i want you to drive. Today go or don't do? It, yeah, 338 00:24:48,119 --> 00:24:50,760 Speaker 2: no do do. It you can go to The texans. 339 00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:55,240 Speaker 2: Game you ever notice that before and after The texans, 340 00:24:55,240 --> 00:24:57,560 Speaker 2: game you don't ever, think, well let me just check 341 00:24:57,600 --> 00:25:01,800 Speaker 2: the area. Out, huh buddy Of mine's opening a restaurant 342 00:25:01,840 --> 00:25:03,600 Speaker 2: in what used to be The shonees and The Timmy. 343 00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:09,600 Speaker 2: CHANS i am an eternal optimist for. Entrepreneurism my, response 344 00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:13,000 Speaker 2: that's a horrible location and it ain't getting any. Better 345 00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:18,080 Speaker 2: When elvis gave up That hilton on the corner and 346 00:25:18,119 --> 00:25:22,119 Speaker 2: the penthouse. Suite it's gone downhill from. There just FOR 347 00:25:22,359 --> 00:25:23,720 Speaker 2: i used to live over, There trust, ME i know. 348 00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:29,879 Speaker 2: It just for. Kicks drive Up kirby and turn on 349 00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:32,840 Speaker 2: what is That murdworth or whatever it. Is just drive 350 00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:35,399 Speaker 2: down and nobody wants to talk about, this SO i 351 00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:39,200 Speaker 2: will speak in coded. Language drive over there today at, 352 00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:45,600 Speaker 2: Noon drive around and check out the people you see 353 00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:49,680 Speaker 2: Is Racy? Smichael no that's Not, yes they're all, black 354 00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:53,520 Speaker 2: but that's not the. Point the point is check and 355 00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:56,760 Speaker 2: see who these people are that at noon on a, 356 00:25:56,800 --> 00:26:01,320 Speaker 2: weekday or walking around with what they're Too you think 357 00:26:01,359 --> 00:26:04,560 Speaker 2: that's gonna. Change they're talking about making a shopping district 358 00:26:04,560 --> 00:26:07,400 Speaker 2: out of. This you think anybody's driving to the astronome. 359 00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:11,800 Speaker 2: AREA i worked at That papasito's restaurant For Chris. Pappas 360 00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:16,359 Speaker 2: Terry mitchell was my, manager and the only REASON i 361 00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:20,399 Speaker 2: stayed there because the people that, came didn't. Tip the 362 00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:23,200 Speaker 2: only REASON i stayed there was Because Art howe came 363 00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:27,000 Speaker 2: every day before The astros. Game he sat by himself 364 00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:29,880 Speaker 2: AND i got to wait On Art howe and talk 365 00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:31,560 Speaker 2: to him about who was in the lineup that. Day 366 00:26:32,359 --> 00:26:34,720 Speaker 2: that is the crappiest neighborhood and it ain't getting any. 367 00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:38,600 Speaker 2: Better and you're gonna build. Him you're gonna spend half 368 00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:43,000 Speaker 2: as much as they spent on the sphere there Musing 369 00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:45,160 Speaker 2: mike ob. 370 00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:48,399 Speaker 1: M h. 371 00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:08,320 Speaker 2: That guy side a game you're not not talking. About 372 00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:15,280 Speaker 2: just letting me know you long, ago too, old my. 373 00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:18,360 Speaker 6: RAIN i got a lot of nice. 374 00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:25,160 Speaker 2: Scales oh, Leaky, Yeah Morgan, WEBBER i. Forgot, Yeah i'm. 375 00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:35,680 Speaker 2: READY i made A bolima joke, yesterday and just LIKE i, 376 00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:41,760 Speaker 2: Expected marry emails. Tonight, wednesday you made many uninformed and 377 00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:46,320 Speaker 2: offensive comments About. Bolima our son is twenty six and 378 00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:50,000 Speaker 2: deals with his eating disorder many times a, day especially. 379 00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:53,520 Speaker 2: Meals sometimes he hides his food so he can eat it. 380 00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:57,520 Speaker 2: Later it's a daily. Struggle there is no cure for eating. 381 00:27:57,560 --> 00:28:00,359 Speaker 2: Disorders if you met, him you would never know all 382 00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:03,359 Speaker 2: the demons in his. Head he graduated from college in 383 00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:06,280 Speaker 2: three and a half years with a double. MAJOR a 384 00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:09,719 Speaker 2: major banking institution hired him before he graduated from. College 385 00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:14,000 Speaker 2: bolimia was commonly known for, girls but men is current 386 00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:17,600 Speaker 2: is slowly. Growing that's because men are asking for. 387 00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:20,200 Speaker 4: Help she is not. 388 00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:25,160 Speaker 2: Happy that whole bitchy email makes me want a. Pute 389 00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:33,560 Speaker 2: no too. SOON i just you're not gonna change. PEOPLE 390 00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:40,440 Speaker 2: i sent a probably ill advised response that, SAID i 391 00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:46,680 Speaker 2: make jokes about cancer and heart attack and. Diabetes damned 392 00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:50,960 Speaker 2: if you're gonna Take bolimia off the. Table can you 393 00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:54,760 Speaker 2: imagine if every TIME i made a, joke somebody who 394 00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:58,080 Speaker 2: was in some way affected by whatever the subject of 395 00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:00,800 Speaker 2: that joke was was to send me an. Email now 396 00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:03,520 Speaker 2: you'd understand WHY i go through days WHERE i, say 397 00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:07,680 Speaker 2: maybe don't read your emails. Anymore all, right so here we. 398 00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:10,400 Speaker 2: Go we're gonna make another run at. This if y'all 399 00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:13,720 Speaker 2: will just give us a few hundred million, dollars we'll 400 00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:17,720 Speaker 2: give you that one thing you all. Wanted what is? 401 00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:22,520 Speaker 2: That Michael an indoor skating. Park uh, yeah you get 402 00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:25,280 Speaker 2: that over. There uh well you vote for. It, yeah, 403 00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:27,400 Speaker 2: okay all, right you go get all your. Friends uh 404 00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:31,360 Speaker 2: a mega church THAT i and ONLY i can preach 405 00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:33,800 Speaker 2: to my parishioners at because we need a new. 406 00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:36,440 Speaker 5: Build yeah, yeah you go get yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 407 00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:42,920 Speaker 5: okay yeah, Okay uh an indoor snowstorm so we can 408 00:29:43,080 --> 00:29:46,240 Speaker 5: ski In. Houston is that what you? Want, yeah, okay 409 00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:48,320 Speaker 5: you go tell your group. That, okay, yeah, yeah, okay 410 00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:51,880 Speaker 5: that'd be. Good uh and you tell this is how 411 00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:53,680 Speaker 5: they get one hundred million dollars at the local high. 412 00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:57,280 Speaker 5: School they don't just do a football. Stadium you got 413 00:29:57,400 --> 00:29:57,680 Speaker 5: to get the. 414 00:29:57,760 --> 00:30:00,640 Speaker 2: Other, oh we'll. Go we'll throw a couple tennis courts. 415 00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:02,840 Speaker 2: In that doesn't cost that. Much, yeah we'll do an 416 00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:06,200 Speaker 2: indoor swim team. Thing, yeah you do that, too indoor shooting. 417 00:30:06,280 --> 00:30:09,200 Speaker 2: Range hell, yeah whatever you. Want we, look we need 418 00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:12,880 Speaker 2: eighty for the. Stadium just pile on however much incremental 419 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:15,640 Speaker 2: marginal you need to add to go get the. Votes 420 00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:19,040 Speaker 2: we'll hold the vote on a day that IS i 421 00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:22,200 Speaker 2: forget what they call that term the, Unscheduled and they 422 00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:25,240 Speaker 2: got a term for this is where you see the 423 00:30:25,360 --> 00:30:29,400 Speaker 2: real dirty. Tricks they schedule the vote for something Like 424 00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:34,280 Speaker 2: april Or, may and it's when nothing else it's interesting 425 00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:37,320 Speaker 2: is going. On and so one percent of the district 426 00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:40,240 Speaker 2: votes and that one percent is all the engineers and 427 00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:42,200 Speaker 2: contractors that are going to do the, work and architects 428 00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:44,720 Speaker 2: that are going to design, it and school staff and 429 00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:48,080 Speaker 2: the high school seniors that are. Eighteen and that's how 430 00:30:48,120 --> 00:30:50,400 Speaker 2: you raise the money for the damn. Thing so here 431 00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:53,960 Speaker 2: we are. Again we're gonna raise over a billion. Dollars 432 00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:56,240 Speaker 2: ramote's been to The. Sphere he AND i are going 433 00:30:56,280 --> 00:30:58,920 Speaker 2: In february With Russell lebar to see the last show 434 00:30:59,040 --> 00:31:01,960 Speaker 2: of The. Eagles although they're playing this little game, now 435 00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:06,080 Speaker 2: the last it's like The Rolling stones reunion. Tour so 436 00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:09,040 Speaker 2: they they're gonna do Or Brett forrest. Retirement they're gonna 437 00:31:09,080 --> 00:31:11,320 Speaker 2: do the Last eagle. Show you better buy it. Out 438 00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:14,040 Speaker 2: and then once the whole show sells, out then they, go, 439 00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:17,120 Speaker 2: ah so much pent up. Demand we're gonna add a 440 00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:19,520 Speaker 2: month to. It oh So i'm not gonna see the last, 441 00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:21,040 Speaker 2: show BUT i rushed to buy it WHEN i wouldn't have. 442 00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:23,840 Speaker 2: Otherwise what's the last month? Up we're almost out of 443 00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:26,560 Speaker 2: that last. Month you better buy these. Up they're gonna 444 00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:27,240 Speaker 2: add another month to. 445 00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:28,000 Speaker 3: It so. 446 00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:35,400 Speaker 2: The sphere is a glorious. Thing it's also on prime real. 447 00:31:35,520 --> 00:31:40,120 Speaker 2: Estate it's also in a Convention center. Market you, see 448 00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:42,080 Speaker 2: you got all these people that Want houston to be 449 00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:46,000 Speaker 2: everything it's, not but some other city. Is that's the. 450 00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:51,320 Speaker 2: Problem go on vacation in those. Places DO i need 451 00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:54,360 Speaker 2: to remind y'all how many million dollars were wasted on 452 00:31:54,560 --> 00:31:58,160 Speaker 2: the damn? Rail DO i need to remind y'all how 453 00:31:58,240 --> 00:32:02,800 Speaker 2: many million? DOLLARS I keepabler's quote here Because lanier was 454 00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:06,680 Speaker 2: so genius on this. Point lanier staked his whole claim 455 00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:09,880 Speaker 2: on y'all are wasting money On, metro and damned if 456 00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:12,000 Speaker 2: when he was, gone they didn't go back and waste 457 00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:13,360 Speaker 2: a bunch of money. Again let me see IF i 458 00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:15,440 Speaker 2: can pop this thing. Open i've got it on my 459 00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:19,080 Speaker 2: homepage under, quotes and it's the only QUOTE i have on. 460 00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:22,920 Speaker 2: There it's an article that was written about him In 461 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:27,280 Speaker 2: Houston metropolitan magazine In november of Ninety and by the, 462 00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:30,400 Speaker 2: way he was The metro. Chairman he Was Kathy Whitmyer's metro, 463 00:32:30,520 --> 00:32:33,560 Speaker 2: chairman and she showed up at a party where he 464 00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:36,440 Speaker 2: was and fired him because he was arguing against. Rail 465 00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:41,080 Speaker 2: he'd been on The department Of transportation state. Board the 466 00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:44,600 Speaker 2: guy had forgotten more about transportation Than Kathy whitmyer would 467 00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:48,560 Speaker 2: have ever known she was over here with The El 468 00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:53,080 Speaker 2: mercado blow and, money another one of these big. Boondoggles 469 00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:57,400 Speaker 2: you Remember El mercaldo just east of what is Now 470 00:32:58,080 --> 00:33:01,680 Speaker 2: Minute Made you remember that. Boondoggle there was a lot 471 00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:04,800 Speaker 2: of money back. Then oh we were, gonna we were 472 00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:07,560 Speaker 2: gonna Be san In, tone but here In. Houston you, 473 00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:09,360 Speaker 2: know you go to the market In san In tone 474 00:33:10,040 --> 00:33:13,280 Speaker 2: and you, go, wow this is really. Cool it's like 475 00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:19,360 Speaker 2: it's like all these awesome elements Of mexican. Culture the beautiful, 476 00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:23,840 Speaker 2: color vibrant, colors and the. DANCE i don't, Know, ramon 477 00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:26,400 Speaker 2: what you call that dance where the girl takes this 478 00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:30,160 Speaker 2: big old floppy thing she does and she and she 479 00:33:30,320 --> 00:33:33,000 Speaker 2: makes it like a. Wave but sign me up for 480 00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:35,400 Speaker 2: more of. THAT i can watch that all day every. 481 00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:38,440 Speaker 2: Day that is beautiful and. Glorious one of my favorite. 482 00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:42,080 Speaker 2: Things you got, that and then you got The mexican 483 00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:45,800 Speaker 2: men and they're doing the constant little. STOMPING i even 484 00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:49,560 Speaker 2: like the roach. Killing uh you know those those boots 485 00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:50,880 Speaker 2: that curl all the way up and you pick your 486 00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:53,160 Speaker 2: nose with. IT i like that. Too and you got l. 487 00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:56,680 Speaker 2: TEMPO i mean me tempo and all. That so we 488 00:33:56,760 --> 00:33:59,480 Speaker 2: were gonna do that In. Houston what. Happened she blew 489 00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:01,800 Speaker 2: through a bunch of, cash and my Buddy Alan atkinson 490 00:34:02,320 --> 00:34:04,160 Speaker 2: bought it later and had to move into it and 491 00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:05,880 Speaker 2: live In and he lived in Bel air because he 492 00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:07,400 Speaker 2: got it for pennies on the dollar and ended up 493 00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:09,600 Speaker 2: getting rich off the. Deal all, Right so here Was 494 00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:13,160 Speaker 2: Bob lanier's quote About, reil if anybody had listened to. Him, 495 00:34:14,520 --> 00:34:17,160 Speaker 2: lanier a developer elected mayor Of houston for his anti 496 00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:22,040 Speaker 2: urban rail, stance said, Quote, First reil's supporters say it's 497 00:34:22,120 --> 00:34:26,080 Speaker 2: cheaper when you show it costs. More they say it's 498 00:34:26,200 --> 00:34:30,440 Speaker 2: faster when you show it. Slower they say it serves more, 499 00:34:30,520 --> 00:34:33,960 Speaker 2: writers when you show there are fewer. Writers they say 500 00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:39,280 Speaker 2: it brings economic, development when you show no economic. Development 501 00:34:39,360 --> 00:34:42,920 Speaker 2: they say it helps the. Image when you say you 502 00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:44,960 Speaker 2: don't want to spend that much money on. Image they 503 00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:49,040 Speaker 2: say it'll solve the pollution. Problem when you show it 504 00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:53,000 Speaker 2: won't help. Pollution they, say, finally it'll take. Time you'll. 505 00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:56,640 Speaker 2: See and that's where we. Are and let me tell 506 00:34:56,640 --> 00:34:58,520 Speaker 2: you what's going to. Happen so very they're gonna hate 507 00:34:58,560 --> 00:34:58,719 Speaker 2: me for. 508 00:34:58,800 --> 00:34:59,080 Speaker 3: This this is. 509 00:34:59,160 --> 00:35:02,640 Speaker 2: Why that's WHY i. CAN'T i don't accept invitations to 510 00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:06,320 Speaker 2: River oaks BECAUSE i can't go to nice things, anymore 511 00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:09,880 Speaker 2: Because i've trashed every one of these boondoggle. Projects and 512 00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:13,560 Speaker 2: there's always some billionaire's wife that chairs the, thing and 513 00:35:13,680 --> 00:35:15,480 Speaker 2: she's the nicest lady in the, world AND i have 514 00:35:15,640 --> 00:35:18,200 Speaker 2: nothing against, her BUT i can't be for dumb. Stuff 515 00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:21,719 Speaker 2: it's the same reason he's told her ten, times you 516 00:35:21,880 --> 00:35:25,480 Speaker 2: cannot open another boutique Called sweet And sassy or whatever 517 00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:29,839 Speaker 2: else and waste all my. Money every multimillionaire's wife wants 518 00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:32,560 Speaker 2: to open a boutique and waste all their. Money, well 519 00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:33,759 Speaker 2: this is just a bigger version of. 520 00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:33,880 Speaker 3: That