1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:07,280 Speaker 1: So Daid Failing was the Speaker of the House, very 2 00:00:07,320 --> 00:00:12,760 Speaker 1: powerful position in state of Texas. The Speaker of the 3 00:00:12,800 --> 00:00:21,640 Speaker 1: House has, among other perks, an entire house within the capitol. 4 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:27,080 Speaker 1: It's nice, it's really nice. They have a full staff 5 00:00:28,720 --> 00:00:33,519 Speaker 1: and a good speaker who has good lieutenants, who's not 6 00:00:33,680 --> 00:00:39,880 Speaker 1: overly petty. A good speaker can remain the speaker for 7 00:00:39,960 --> 00:00:45,680 Speaker 1: quite some time and they can get a lot done. 8 00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:48,400 Speaker 1: It's only one hundred and fifty days every other year, 9 00:00:50,760 --> 00:00:54,840 Speaker 1: so it's not like it's overly stressful. And you have 10 00:00:54,920 --> 00:00:58,760 Speaker 1: a whole team of lieutenants who are other state reps who, 11 00:00:58,800 --> 00:01:01,520 Speaker 1: if you can rely on them, can help you do 12 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:07,080 Speaker 1: what you do. You have an incredible influence over state government. 13 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:09,880 Speaker 1: You got the House over here, you have the Senate 14 00:01:09,880 --> 00:01:13,800 Speaker 1: over there. Those two have to sign, have to ratify 15 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:16,639 Speaker 1: a law that then goes to the governor to sign. 16 00:01:18,319 --> 00:01:21,320 Speaker 1: The Senate has more power, to be sure, but Speaker 17 00:01:21,319 --> 00:01:26,640 Speaker 1: of the House a big deal. Well. Dade Falan kind 18 00:01:26,640 --> 00:01:30,039 Speaker 1: of like Hunter Biden, was born into a prominent family, 19 00:01:31,160 --> 00:01:36,200 Speaker 1: the Falans in Beaumont. Faling investments pretty well to do family. 20 00:01:37,080 --> 00:01:40,360 Speaker 1: They own a fair amount of Beaumont and the Golden 21 00:01:40,360 --> 00:01:45,560 Speaker 1: triangle and develop and manage real estate. From what I 22 00:01:45,640 --> 00:01:51,720 Speaker 1: understand across the state, all Dayde had to do was 23 00:01:53,240 --> 00:01:56,880 Speaker 1: wear khaki slacks, you know, a good pair of boots, 24 00:01:57,840 --> 00:02:02,600 Speaker 1: polo shirt, put horns up and show up. It's it 25 00:02:03,880 --> 00:02:08,120 Speaker 1: and he was made for life. Then he decides going 26 00:02:08,160 --> 00:02:12,280 Speaker 1: to go into politics, as as many scions of wealthy 27 00:02:12,320 --> 00:02:19,480 Speaker 1: families will do. Not a particularly accomplished professional man, not 28 00:02:19,639 --> 00:02:26,120 Speaker 1: particularly striking in charisma, leadership, vision, intelligence. In fact, quite 29 00:02:26,160 --> 00:02:32,560 Speaker 1: the opposite. Decent enough looking to play the part, sawed 30 00:02:32,639 --> 00:02:37,400 Speaker 1: off little bitty. But there was no reason that drunk 31 00:02:37,440 --> 00:02:43,040 Speaker 1: Day that Dade failing had to be a failure. But 32 00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:47,200 Speaker 1: old Dade, he still kind of has a i'm partying 33 00:02:47,240 --> 00:02:52,760 Speaker 1: with my boys in college mindset, And the rumors kept 34 00:02:52,760 --> 00:02:59,040 Speaker 1: percolating that his nickname was drunk Dad among some members 35 00:02:59,040 --> 00:03:04,600 Speaker 1: of the house, and that he would during the session 36 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:10,400 Speaker 1: repair with his buddies to the apartment and they'd all 37 00:03:10,440 --> 00:03:12,280 Speaker 1: fix them up a nice drink and come back out. 38 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:15,960 Speaker 1: Because these meetings go late endo the night and they 39 00:03:15,960 --> 00:03:18,320 Speaker 1: put everything off until the end of the session. They're 40 00:03:18,360 --> 00:03:20,320 Speaker 1: doing it this year, although I don't think they'll ever 41 00:03:20,320 --> 00:03:23,200 Speaker 1: get anything done. And then at the end of the session. 42 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:26,600 Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, the House is racing to get through 43 00:03:26,639 --> 00:03:29,200 Speaker 1: their work, racing to get through. They've been on vacation 44 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:35,360 Speaker 1: most of the session. Problem is now you've got these reformers, 45 00:03:35,880 --> 00:03:41,320 Speaker 1: these Ted Cruz, Donald Trump type reformers, Ran Paul. You 46 00:03:41,440 --> 00:03:44,360 Speaker 1: got these kind of guys with this kind of mindset 47 00:03:44,440 --> 00:03:48,760 Speaker 1: in the House. Steve Toath from the Woodlands area. Brian Harrison, 48 00:03:49,360 --> 00:03:52,000 Speaker 1: who was accomplished in his own right before he came in. 49 00:03:52,480 --> 00:03:57,280 Speaker 1: Mitch Little, who gained fame as a lawyer when his 50 00:03:57,400 --> 00:04:01,360 Speaker 1: legal skills were on display in the Paxton impeachment trial. 51 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:04,400 Speaker 1: So you've got some guys the likes of which we 52 00:04:04,440 --> 00:04:08,360 Speaker 1: didn't see in the State House before. These guys are reformers. 53 00:04:09,440 --> 00:04:11,720 Speaker 1: They're not trying to come up through the ranks of 54 00:04:11,760 --> 00:04:14,760 Speaker 1: your game the way. We've got some state reps around 55 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:16,880 Speaker 1: the Houston area that just they're just so happy to 56 00:04:16,920 --> 00:04:20,880 Speaker 1: be there. They're just boy, they are men. Being a 57 00:04:20,880 --> 00:04:24,120 Speaker 1: state Rep is a highlight of their life. Makes them 58 00:04:24,120 --> 00:04:26,840 Speaker 1: feel important. They give some speeches, maybe you know Rotory 59 00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:31,000 Speaker 1: club here and there. State Rep. You hang around long enough, 60 00:04:31,880 --> 00:04:34,920 Speaker 1: state Senate seat might open. But even if it doesn't 61 00:04:35,320 --> 00:04:37,120 Speaker 1: make a little money on the side. Especially if you're 62 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:39,039 Speaker 1: a lawyer, you'll notice a lot of them have a 63 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:42,320 Speaker 1: law practice. If you're a lawyer, you can pick up 64 00:04:42,360 --> 00:04:46,800 Speaker 1: some clients in a sketchy, questionable sort of way. You 65 00:04:46,839 --> 00:04:49,679 Speaker 1: hang around along on us, pretty good life, pretty good life, 66 00:04:49,960 --> 00:04:53,920 Speaker 1: end up at some good football games, get to take 67 00:04:53,960 --> 00:04:57,719 Speaker 1: some good trips. It turns out to be a pretty 68 00:04:57,760 --> 00:05:05,120 Speaker 1: good life. Well drunk Day that somebody's filming and they 69 00:05:05,160 --> 00:05:12,120 Speaker 1: catch drunk DAIDs slurring and it is bad. But that's 70 00:05:12,120 --> 00:05:14,880 Speaker 1: not what got drunk dat in trouble. What got drunk 71 00:05:14,920 --> 00:05:17,960 Speaker 1: Day in trouble was he got into a battle with 72 00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:21,520 Speaker 1: Dan Patrick, and it was inevitable that it would happen, 73 00:05:22,480 --> 00:05:25,120 Speaker 1: because drunk Dade was elected, just like his number two, 74 00:05:25,120 --> 00:05:29,200 Speaker 1: who's now the Speaker of the House, Dustin Burroughs. They 75 00:05:29,240 --> 00:05:31,919 Speaker 1: have fewer than the seventy six votes they need to 76 00:05:31,960 --> 00:05:36,160 Speaker 1: get to seventy six to be the majority leader. They 77 00:05:36,160 --> 00:05:39,000 Speaker 1: have fewer than that, but they have enough to couple 78 00:05:39,080 --> 00:05:42,200 Speaker 1: with the at this point sixty two Democrats. They only 79 00:05:42,240 --> 00:05:45,159 Speaker 1: need fourteen Republicans. Well, you can get fourteen Republicans to 80 00:05:45,200 --> 00:05:48,440 Speaker 1: sell out and now they'll be in charge. The Democrats 81 00:05:48,720 --> 00:05:51,280 Speaker 1: will negotiate that deal, because now the Democrats have an 82 00:05:51,279 --> 00:05:54,800 Speaker 1: incredible influence over the office when they really should be 83 00:05:54,839 --> 00:05:57,600 Speaker 1: squashed as a minority, which is what they would do 84 00:05:57,640 --> 00:06:01,000 Speaker 1: if they were in charge. But here we are so 85 00:06:01,160 --> 00:06:05,719 Speaker 1: drunk day because of his many failures. Then he let 86 00:06:05,760 --> 00:06:09,240 Speaker 1: the rich boys tell him what to do, and they 87 00:06:09,320 --> 00:06:13,120 Speaker 1: told him they would they would have his back, and 88 00:06:14,360 --> 00:06:18,640 Speaker 1: he would he could. He was going to knock Paxton out. 89 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:22,479 Speaker 1: The reason they wanted to knock Paxton out is because 90 00:06:22,520 --> 00:06:27,600 Speaker 1: Paxton is the obvious challenger to John Cornyn. Everybody knows it. 91 00:06:28,480 --> 00:06:30,520 Speaker 1: At the end of the day, the big money boys, 92 00:06:30,560 --> 00:06:34,200 Speaker 1: there's not that many of them, and Paxton talks to 93 00:06:34,240 --> 00:06:40,520 Speaker 1: those guys, and word gets around that Paxton is considering 94 00:06:41,120 --> 00:06:44,279 Speaker 1: a run against Cornyn. Well they know good and well 95 00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:47,640 Speaker 1: this is a real challenge. And cornn is their boy, 96 00:06:48,360 --> 00:06:53,160 Speaker 1: not Ted Cruz, Corns their boy. The rich Houston folks 97 00:06:53,480 --> 00:06:58,160 Speaker 1: that were for Nicki Haley, you can read the list 98 00:06:58,200 --> 00:07:02,760 Speaker 1: of who it was. They love John Corny, You despise 99 00:07:02,839 --> 00:07:05,279 Speaker 1: John Corny, and they love John Corny. And they find 100 00:07:05,320 --> 00:07:10,280 Speaker 1: you to be pesky, grassroots folks. They find you to 101 00:07:10,360 --> 00:07:16,800 Speaker 1: be extraordinarily pesky. So the word gets out that Paxton 102 00:07:17,040 --> 00:07:21,200 Speaker 1: is contemplating a run, and Paxton has proven to be very, 103 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:26,000 Speaker 1: very popular. They tried to take Paxton out in multiple elections. 104 00:07:26,360 --> 00:07:29,240 Speaker 1: Paxton came up in about I think he was fourteen. 105 00:07:29,440 --> 00:07:31,960 Speaker 1: He was a state rep. And he was a state rep. 106 00:07:31,960 --> 00:07:33,800 Speaker 1: Who was causing a lot of problems for the for 107 00:07:33,880 --> 00:07:37,840 Speaker 1: the establishment Republicans. There's more to this, we'll get to 108 00:07:37,880 --> 00:07:41,360 Speaker 1: in a moment. Drunk Dade has written a bill to 109 00:07:41,400 --> 00:07:47,840 Speaker 1: make it illegal to criticize him. I'm not going One 110 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:54,160 Speaker 1: insider told me every day was a Fiji party at 111 00:07:54,200 --> 00:07:58,920 Speaker 1: the Capitol under drunk Day. He wasn't involved in the details. 112 00:07:58,960 --> 00:08:03,320 Speaker 1: His quote unquote team ran the ship. Scary thing about 113 00:08:03,400 --> 00:08:08,720 Speaker 1: Dustin Burroughs is that he's very smart and maniacal and 114 00:08:08,880 --> 00:08:15,520 Speaker 1: he's running the show. So back to drunk David. He 115 00:08:15,600 --> 00:08:20,920 Speaker 1: became the face of the split in the Republican Party. 116 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:26,400 Speaker 1: The problem is the Republican Party has basically dominated State 117 00:08:26,440 --> 00:08:31,560 Speaker 1: of Texas statewide politics going back to nineteen ninety four. 118 00:08:33,520 --> 00:08:43,520 Speaker 1: Quick rewind nineteen ninety Ann Richards gets elected Governor. Clayton 119 00:08:43,559 --> 00:08:51,920 Speaker 1: Williams rich Oilman never been a candidate himself, outsider so 120 00:08:52,120 --> 00:08:58,920 Speaker 1: to speak, Big Aggie and likable guy. Everybody likes Clayton. 121 00:09:00,640 --> 00:09:03,920 Speaker 1: He had donated to A and M, he'd donated the causes, 122 00:09:03,960 --> 00:09:06,360 Speaker 1: He'd run an old company. He was a good old boy. 123 00:09:07,040 --> 00:09:09,160 Speaker 1: Everybody liked Clayton Williams. It was the kind of guy 124 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:14,160 Speaker 1: that ought to be governor. Well, Texas had changed, and 125 00:09:14,280 --> 00:09:18,760 Speaker 1: even though he was winning, he was leading in the polls, 126 00:09:19,440 --> 00:09:22,800 Speaker 1: the media was out to get him. And there was 127 00:09:22,840 --> 00:09:25,679 Speaker 1: the statement, you know, they're out at his ranch and 128 00:09:25,720 --> 00:09:28,319 Speaker 1: the media loved hanging out with him, and it's raining 129 00:09:28,360 --> 00:09:31,200 Speaker 1: and he's going out to give him a tour. And 130 00:09:31,240 --> 00:09:33,440 Speaker 1: he said, well, that's kind of like rap. I can't 131 00:09:33,440 --> 00:09:35,320 Speaker 1: do anything about it. Might as well laid back and 132 00:09:35,400 --> 00:09:41,240 Speaker 1: enjoy it. Oh did they run with that? And that began. 133 00:09:41,559 --> 00:09:43,760 Speaker 1: I think it was a thirty six point swing. If 134 00:09:43,800 --> 00:09:46,040 Speaker 1: I remembers by a thirty five point swing a thirty 135 00:09:46,160 --> 00:09:48,480 Speaker 1: let me say, I remember it being over a thirty 136 00:09:48,520 --> 00:09:52,839 Speaker 1: point swing, and Richards had no chance and there was 137 00:09:52,880 --> 00:09:57,760 Speaker 1: no way Clayton could lose. But it went downhill from there, 138 00:09:58,760 --> 00:10:02,400 Speaker 1: and now all of a sudd this outsider who had 139 00:10:02,400 --> 00:10:04,720 Speaker 1: never been a candidate before and everybody always loved him, 140 00:10:06,559 --> 00:10:11,439 Speaker 1: he sort of recoiled and that change. He wasn't charming anymore, 141 00:10:11,920 --> 00:10:14,199 Speaker 1: wouldn't shake her hand at the debate. There were a 142 00:10:14,240 --> 00:10:18,200 Speaker 1: lot of things that happened in ninety and so here 143 00:10:18,240 --> 00:10:23,040 Speaker 1: comes this crass and Richard's and she was exactly what 144 00:10:23,080 --> 00:10:28,240 Speaker 1: white liberals wanted at that moment. She was quick witted, 145 00:10:29,400 --> 00:10:37,280 Speaker 1: she was foul mouth, and she was extremely progressive for 146 00:10:37,440 --> 00:10:44,400 Speaker 1: nineteen ninety she was extremely progressive. And yet she could 147 00:10:44,400 --> 00:10:47,160 Speaker 1: convince you know, rural school teachers, and she's one of 148 00:10:47,240 --> 00:10:49,480 Speaker 1: them because you taught like ed. That was the basis 149 00:10:49,520 --> 00:10:52,920 Speaker 1: of the whole Harley photoshoot on the cover Texas Monthly. 150 00:10:52,920 --> 00:10:58,440 Speaker 1: You needed to make her more likable. So in nineteen 151 00:10:58,480 --> 00:11:04,760 Speaker 1: ninety four, George W. Bush runs for governor, wins vanquishes 152 00:11:05,360 --> 00:11:09,400 Speaker 1: and Richard's and we've pretty much had Republican domination across 153 00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:13,880 Speaker 1: the state since then. Every statewide elected official ended up 154 00:11:13,920 --> 00:11:17,280 Speaker 1: being Republican. So that means your Supreme Court, your Court 155 00:11:17,280 --> 00:11:23,040 Speaker 1: of Criminal Appeals, your railroad commissioners, your land commissioner, all 156 00:11:23,120 --> 00:11:28,000 Speaker 1: of that, your governor, everybody, attorney general. Well, what happens 157 00:11:28,040 --> 00:11:33,200 Speaker 1: when you get this level of a hegemony is this 158 00:11:33,400 --> 00:11:40,199 Speaker 1: complete domination means that the battles start happening in the primary, 159 00:11:40,760 --> 00:11:45,959 Speaker 1: not in November. But the establishment doesn't want to have 160 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:49,400 Speaker 1: to fight in the primary because you get to vote. 161 00:11:49,600 --> 00:11:53,680 Speaker 1: The establishment wants to fight behind the scenes. They've got 162 00:11:53,920 --> 00:12:00,720 Speaker 1: very clever lawyers, the lobbyists in Austin. These are very 163 00:12:00,880 --> 00:12:05,000 Speaker 1: sharp guys. They've got good relations with the media, particularly 164 00:12:05,280 --> 00:12:10,000 Speaker 1: the Austin Press, Texas Monthly and the Light. And these 165 00:12:10,080 --> 00:12:12,720 Speaker 1: folks are the reason our party in the state of 166 00:12:12,760 --> 00:12:16,240 Speaker 1: Texas is not as conservative as say Florida, which you 167 00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:20,160 Speaker 1: would have expected it would be. It does not represent 168 00:12:20,720 --> 00:12:24,440 Speaker 1: the Texas voter. Greg Abbott does not represent the Texas voter. 169 00:12:24,760 --> 00:12:29,640 Speaker 1: Neither did drunk Day. So drunk Dad got o riskys 170 00:12:30,200 --> 00:12:34,719 Speaker 1: he gets defeated or he gets he's trailing going into 171 00:12:34,760 --> 00:12:38,760 Speaker 1: the runoff. A woman from Jasper, a man from Orange, 172 00:12:39,320 --> 00:12:43,000 Speaker 1: both of them first time candidates, and they take him. 173 00:12:43,080 --> 00:12:46,679 Speaker 1: David Covey from Orange takes him to the runoff. Well, 174 00:12:46,720 --> 00:12:49,640 Speaker 1: this had never been seen before. The sitting speaker of 175 00:12:49,679 --> 00:12:55,840 Speaker 1: the House, and they kept telling people, oh, Golden triangles 176 00:12:55,840 --> 00:13:00,160 Speaker 1: never have speaker. Drunk Day's got all the power. It's 177 00:13:00,160 --> 00:13:04,120 Speaker 1: good for Golden Triangle, Orange, Jasper, Jefferson County. Beaumont's and 178 00:13:04,160 --> 00:13:07,320 Speaker 1: Jefferson County. Well, people say they ain't doing me any good. 179 00:13:07,520 --> 00:13:09,760 Speaker 1: Must be doing his family some good. Might be doing 180 00:13:09,760 --> 00:13:13,800 Speaker 1: beaumonts some good. Ain't doing me any good? Besides, why 181 00:13:13,800 --> 00:13:17,320 Speaker 1: did he try to take out the attorney general? So 182 00:13:17,480 --> 00:13:22,640 Speaker 1: drunk Dad barely manages to win his seats barely. In fact, 183 00:13:22,679 --> 00:13:24,720 Speaker 1: they had to have a thousand Democrats vote in the 184 00:13:24,720 --> 00:13:28,079 Speaker 1: Republican primary runoff. That's never happened before, will never happen 185 00:13:28,120 --> 00:13:31,800 Speaker 1: again unless Drunk Days in another runoff. So they poured 186 00:13:32,120 --> 00:13:36,240 Speaker 1: millions of dollars. There were big fundraisers in Austin. They 187 00:13:36,320 --> 00:13:39,360 Speaker 1: managed to hold onto his state rep seat, a pyrrhic 188 00:13:39,480 --> 00:13:41,880 Speaker 1: victory for them. So they knew, we got to get 189 00:13:41,920 --> 00:13:43,840 Speaker 1: Drunk Date out of the way or more of us 190 00:13:43,840 --> 00:13:45,319 Speaker 1: are going to lose our seats because the number of 191 00:13:45,320 --> 00:13:48,400 Speaker 1: state reps did lose their seats. So he goes back. 192 00:13:48,640 --> 00:13:53,800 Speaker 1: He's got no power, he's got nothing, poor old drunk Day. 193 00:13:54,720 --> 00:13:58,840 Speaker 1: So what does he do. He authors a bill that 194 00:13:58,880 --> 00:14:05,200 Speaker 1: would make it a to make a meme, you'd have 195 00:14:05,240 --> 00:14:09,520 Speaker 1: to have a government approved disclaimer. This is Soviet level. 196 00:14:10,160 --> 00:14:15,200 Speaker 1: It's sad, really, it's embarrassing, and a lot of folks 197 00:14:15,200 --> 00:14:18,560 Speaker 1: from making the point that this is the Michael Berrybill, 198 00:14:19,280 --> 00:14:22,400 Speaker 1: which it just kind of brandishes my outlaw credentials. If 199 00:14:22,440 --> 00:14:26,400 Speaker 1: I'm the bad guy here, you wrote a law that 200 00:14:26,520 --> 00:14:29,160 Speaker 1: you're trying to get through the House so that we'll 201 00:14:29,200 --> 00:14:32,800 Speaker 1: stop making fun of you. Okay. So the thing that 202 00:14:32,880 --> 00:14:35,040 Speaker 1: gets him, apparently is the memes that we make that 203 00:14:35,080 --> 00:14:37,840 Speaker 1: show how little he is. And then we do things 204 00:14:37,920 --> 00:14:41,800 Speaker 1: like this, We do the drunk Day phone calls. Everybody 205 00:14:41,800 --> 00:14:44,400 Speaker 1: knows their parody. He wants us to have to announce 206 00:14:44,400 --> 00:14:47,680 Speaker 1: it multiple times or else serve a year in prison. 207 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:50,960 Speaker 1: Like remember when President Trump slapped down the President of 208 00:14:51,080 --> 00:14:53,840 Speaker 1: Columbia when he smacked off at Trump. Right after you 209 00:14:53,840 --> 00:14:56,720 Speaker 1: got elected, We did a phone call drunk day to 210 00:14:56,760 --> 00:15:04,360 Speaker 1: the President of Columbia. Oh I got less miles level 211 00:15:04,560 --> 00:15:11,240 Speaker 1: of clock management. You know. Well, well, well, lucky you. 212 00:15:11,520 --> 00:15:14,920 Speaker 2: The Michael Berry Show continues your lucky day. 213 00:15:19,400 --> 00:15:27,400 Speaker 1: To be surprised how the world of media and politics 214 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:34,000 Speaker 1: work hand in glove in ways you wouldn't expect. There 215 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:40,240 Speaker 1: are people the State House is the State House is amazing. 216 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:44,560 Speaker 1: The number of people who will share with you things 217 00:15:45,520 --> 00:15:50,320 Speaker 1: going on there that never make the news, and some 218 00:15:50,400 --> 00:15:52,840 Speaker 1: of them is not worth me repeating, you know who's 219 00:15:52,880 --> 00:15:56,920 Speaker 1: screwing who? Who's mad at who? Because she was screwing 220 00:15:56,960 --> 00:15:59,560 Speaker 1: him and now she's screwing the new chair of the 221 00:15:59,600 --> 00:16:05,080 Speaker 1: committe whose son is a lobbyist and he's he's screwing 222 00:16:05,160 --> 00:16:07,640 Speaker 1: the guy that his dad used to be married. Oh, 223 00:16:07,680 --> 00:16:14,480 Speaker 1: it's it's it's ancestuous. It is uh, it's something else. 224 00:16:15,320 --> 00:16:20,600 Speaker 1: It's a big party for five months every other year, 225 00:16:21,760 --> 00:16:24,800 Speaker 1: and the lobbyists are paying for this. It's it's steakhouse, 226 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:32,960 Speaker 1: booze sex. It's a it's an interesting it's an interesting dynamic. 227 00:16:34,080 --> 00:16:39,520 Speaker 1: And there's also a lot of gossip in the state 228 00:16:39,800 --> 00:16:45,400 Speaker 1: capitol in Austin, Texas. And the gossip we had heard 229 00:16:46,400 --> 00:16:49,360 Speaker 1: was that what we were doing with the drunk Dade 230 00:16:49,720 --> 00:16:55,880 Speaker 1: material was being talked about constantly, and that Dade feeling 231 00:16:55,920 --> 00:16:58,160 Speaker 1: the Speaker of the House was you know, banging his 232 00:16:58,280 --> 00:17:01,560 Speaker 1: gavel and saying, my daddy's rich and I'm the Speaker 233 00:17:01,600 --> 00:17:04,199 Speaker 1: of the House. And how does Michael Berry get to 234 00:17:04,240 --> 00:17:10,400 Speaker 1: get away with this? Well, he loses the first round 235 00:17:10,400 --> 00:17:12,879 Speaker 1: of a state rep seat, which means he's not going 236 00:17:12,920 --> 00:17:16,600 Speaker 1: to get to be speaker anymore. And it's embarrassing because 237 00:17:16,600 --> 00:17:18,520 Speaker 1: he's going to lunch and dinner every night, and they're 238 00:17:18,520 --> 00:17:21,440 Speaker 1: having big fund raisers for him every night, and all 239 00:17:21,440 --> 00:17:24,400 Speaker 1: these rich guys are coming in, and all these lobbyists 240 00:17:24,480 --> 00:17:29,600 Speaker 1: especially are coming in, and they're telling date, he's real pretty, 241 00:17:29,680 --> 00:17:33,920 Speaker 1: but the people hate him. And it's not a secret 242 00:17:33,960 --> 00:17:36,639 Speaker 1: that you're walking down the hall past the State Reps 243 00:17:36,680 --> 00:17:40,200 Speaker 1: office and one of their staffers is listening to one 244 00:17:40,200 --> 00:17:43,160 Speaker 1: of our parodies of him. That gets to you after 245 00:17:43,160 --> 00:17:47,600 Speaker 1: a while, So the story from Texas Scorecard. Dade Feeling's 246 00:17:47,600 --> 00:17:52,280 Speaker 1: bill would criminalize political means. Courts have routinely struck down 247 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:55,760 Speaker 1: laws that regulate political discourse based on content, citing the 248 00:17:55,760 --> 00:18:02,199 Speaker 1: First Amendments strong protections for satire and parodyd Walton's posting 249 00:18:02,240 --> 00:18:07,240 Speaker 1: a political meme could soon land you in jail. If 250 00:18:07,280 --> 00:18:11,000 Speaker 1: State Rep. Dade Feeling gets his way, House Bill three 251 00:18:11,119 --> 00:18:14,679 Speaker 1: sixty six would make it a crime to distribute altered media, 252 00:18:15,320 --> 00:18:21,640 Speaker 1: including political memes, without a government approved disclaimer. Violators could 253 00:18:21,680 --> 00:18:24,840 Speaker 1: get up to a year in jail. What are you 254 00:18:24,880 --> 00:18:30,920 Speaker 1: here for? Murder? No? I made a meme? The State 255 00:18:30,920 --> 00:18:33,040 Speaker 1: Affairs Committee will take up the bill by the former 256 00:18:33,080 --> 00:18:36,879 Speaker 1: Speaker of the House on Wedness Day, alongside a slate 257 00:18:36,960 --> 00:18:42,480 Speaker 1: of energy transmission legislation, so in the middle of laws 258 00:18:42,720 --> 00:18:47,080 Speaker 1: affecting the state utility grid. Dade would also like, hey, 259 00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:52,359 Speaker 1: also they're picking on me, if you could consider my 260 00:18:52,800 --> 00:18:55,720 Speaker 1: bill as well. It is the first hearing of the 261 00:18:55,760 --> 00:19:01,320 Speaker 1: Committee on Legislation this session. So here we are. It 262 00:19:01,440 --> 00:19:05,639 Speaker 1: is March eleventh. We're finally getting down to the bills, 263 00:19:07,280 --> 00:19:09,920 Speaker 1: and this is what drunk Data has brought to the table. 264 00:19:11,520 --> 00:19:15,480 Speaker 1: The bill specifically targets political advertising that features an image, 265 00:19:15,520 --> 00:19:18,600 Speaker 1: audio recording, or video recording of an office holders or 266 00:19:18,680 --> 00:19:23,440 Speaker 1: candidate's appearance, speech, or conduct that did not occur in reality. 267 00:19:24,560 --> 00:19:31,600 Speaker 1: This broad language includes media altered using generative artificial intelligence technology. 268 00:19:31,840 --> 00:19:36,720 Speaker 1: Shame on you, I'm insulted. We didn't use AI. Let's 269 00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:39,040 Speaker 1: just chance mclein doing a hell of a good drunk date. 270 00:19:39,880 --> 00:19:42,080 Speaker 1: The Texas at this commission would have the authority to 271 00:19:42,119 --> 00:19:46,040 Speaker 1: determine the specific format, font size, and color of the 272 00:19:46,119 --> 00:19:54,920 Speaker 1: required disclaimer. Critics say the legislation raises serious First Amendment concerns. Notably, 273 00:19:54,960 --> 00:20:00,240 Speaker 1: the legislation would have sweeping implications beyond political advertising. For examp, 274 00:20:00,840 --> 00:20:04,080 Speaker 1: the Drunk Dade parody call ins on Michael Berry's radio 275 00:20:04,119 --> 00:20:07,880 Speaker 1: program would seemingly be criminalized under the proposed law, as 276 00:20:07,920 --> 00:20:11,840 Speaker 1: they involved audio recordings that portray an officeholder's speech in 277 00:20:11,880 --> 00:20:16,359 Speaker 1: a way that quote did not occur in reality. Well, 278 00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:20,879 Speaker 1: of course it didn't. We don't expect you to believe 279 00:20:22,119 --> 00:20:26,520 Speaker 1: that after President Trump slapped down the president of Columbia 280 00:20:26,520 --> 00:20:28,720 Speaker 1: who talked big and then had to send his plane 281 00:20:28,760 --> 00:20:32,040 Speaker 1: up to pick up these illegals. We don't think you're 282 00:20:32,119 --> 00:20:36,639 Speaker 1: dumb enough to think we actually got a recording of 283 00:20:36,800 --> 00:20:43,600 Speaker 1: drunk dad calling the President of Columbia. Record your message 284 00:20:43,600 --> 00:20:46,320 Speaker 1: after the tone. 285 00:20:45,440 --> 00:20:50,680 Speaker 3: Heistavo Fedro, Presidents Columbia. This is a good old boy, 286 00:20:51,040 --> 00:20:54,560 Speaker 3: Dave Falen in Texas. I used to be speaker on 287 00:20:54,640 --> 00:20:56,280 Speaker 3: top of the house and I just want to tell 288 00:20:56,280 --> 00:20:58,800 Speaker 3: you I thought this is cool of you to do 289 00:20:58,880 --> 00:21:01,760 Speaker 3: that thing where you you use your airplane pick up 290 00:21:01,800 --> 00:21:05,400 Speaker 3: Colombian drug cartel. Because Trump said they were gonna come 291 00:21:05,760 --> 00:21:08,240 Speaker 3: home Columbia and you said plane couldn't come, then he 292 00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:12,160 Speaker 3: was gonna tear a few man. I got it gets 293 00:21:12,280 --> 00:21:13,760 Speaker 3: too deep in the weeds. 294 00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:15,640 Speaker 4: Of politics politics. 295 00:21:16,359 --> 00:21:22,680 Speaker 3: Listen, Gustavo Pedro, Gustavo, my friend, you think we get 296 00:21:22,680 --> 00:21:26,680 Speaker 3: together and play pickleball? Maybe hasle cocktails but gets a. 297 00:21:26,720 --> 00:21:29,359 Speaker 4: Good Colombian wine. 298 00:21:31,119 --> 00:21:34,280 Speaker 3: Or I don't know what else y'all have about whatever 299 00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:38,320 Speaker 3: it is. But when I went to Greece, I drank uzu, 300 00:21:39,200 --> 00:21:45,480 Speaker 3: so I'll drink Colombian version of uzo. Sen that airplane 301 00:21:45,560 --> 00:21:48,959 Speaker 3: gets your drug cartel people, get them back to Colombia, 302 00:21:49,320 --> 00:21:52,400 Speaker 3: so everything be cool. A little more tariffs this, We'll 303 00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:56,520 Speaker 3: do my part, do my part as we work on 304 00:21:56,640 --> 00:22:04,280 Speaker 3: the negotiate nations between Texas and Colombian drug cartel. All right, 305 00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:06,879 Speaker 3: give a call Gustavo Pedro. 306 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:14,600 Speaker 1: Can you end of your message? Press one as required 307 00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:18,480 Speaker 1: by House Bill three sixty six. I would like to 308 00:22:18,520 --> 00:22:23,320 Speaker 1: inform you that, to our knowledge, drunk Dad did not 309 00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:28,600 Speaker 1: actually call the President of Columbia, and to our knowledge, 310 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:32,639 Speaker 1: drunk Dad did not leave him a message, And to 311 00:22:32,720 --> 00:22:39,720 Speaker 1: our knowledge, the aforementioned message was not actually a part 312 00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:44,239 Speaker 1: of the Colombian president's voicemail messages for the day, And 313 00:22:44,280 --> 00:22:48,760 Speaker 1: to our knowledge, the Colombian voicemail that you heard, the 314 00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:54,400 Speaker 1: president may not actually even have such a voicemail system. 315 00:22:54,880 --> 00:22:58,679 Speaker 1: And to our knowledge, drunk Day doesn't even have the 316 00:22:58,800 --> 00:23:03,920 Speaker 1: phone number to the President of Columbia. Why would he 317 00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:07,440 Speaker 1: He's not even the Speaker of the House of the 318 00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:11,400 Speaker 1: State House of Representatives in Texas. He's just a lowly 319 00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:17,000 Speaker 1: state rep elected by Democrats in a Republican seniors smart 320 00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:21,919 Speaker 1: devices from Michael's brain, every single one of them to 321 00:23:22,119 --> 00:23:30,000 Speaker 1: your ears. This is the Michael Berry Show. When Anthony 322 00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:37,560 Speaker 1: Wiener first had his problems, he was sending Wiener pics, 323 00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:42,639 Speaker 1: which are picks of himself but also his Wiener which 324 00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:47,879 Speaker 1: makes it Wiener's Winner, and he was sending pictures of 325 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:57,880 Speaker 1: himself to an underage girl. Bad enough problem became. It's 326 00:23:58,520 --> 00:24:05,080 Speaker 1: October before the November election in twenty sixteen. His wife 327 00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:12,000 Speaker 1: is chief of staff and maybe more to Hillary Clinton, 328 00:24:13,480 --> 00:24:20,000 Speaker 1: and Hillary allegedly people have died for Hillary to be 329 00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:26,880 Speaker 1: here at this moment. You cannot screw up Hillary's moment. Well, 330 00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:32,119 Speaker 1: Wiener's Wier pick ends up in I think it was 331 00:24:32,160 --> 00:24:38,119 Speaker 1: Baltimore where this minor girl, underage girl child was that 332 00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:45,560 Speaker 1: he's sending his Wiener picks and the mother of the 333 00:24:45,560 --> 00:24:50,200 Speaker 1: little girl gets wind of it. That's Wiener's Wiener. It's 334 00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:54,120 Speaker 1: clear what the account is. It's not even a Burner account. 335 00:24:54,119 --> 00:24:59,480 Speaker 1: It's in his name. So the mother goes to local authorities, 336 00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:08,480 Speaker 1: local authorities begin an investigation. That investigation, they say, uh, 337 00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:15,600 Speaker 1: Wiener's a congressman, a big deal. They go in and 338 00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:18,840 Speaker 1: raid his house to get his computer to get the 339 00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:29,600 Speaker 1: images which are evidence. When they raid his computer, Uh oh, 340 00:25:30,080 --> 00:25:35,200 Speaker 1: turns out that Huma Abadine, who ended up going on 341 00:25:35,320 --> 00:25:43,439 Speaker 1: to greener pastures with a billionaire afterwards, Huma and he 342 00:25:44,359 --> 00:25:50,760 Speaker 1: were sharing information on the same computer. So there's Hillary 343 00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:59,280 Speaker 1: Clinton's campaign on that computer that becomes evidence. And that 344 00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:02,879 Speaker 1: was when Jim Komy had to tempt this thing down 345 00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:06,240 Speaker 1: because he didn't want Trump to be elected. And now 346 00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:09,960 Speaker 1: you kind of see why, because Trump wanted a cash 347 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:15,440 Speaker 1: ptel type FBI director, not Jim Comy. His first term, 348 00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:19,880 Speaker 1: he tolerated Komy. He learned his lesson from that Boo 349 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:23,360 Speaker 1: me once. Remember Comy was hiding behind the curtain. Big 350 00:26:23,359 --> 00:26:26,040 Speaker 1: fellow to be hiding behind the curtain, kind of like 351 00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:28,760 Speaker 1: those memes you see of the really fat guy with 352 00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:31,960 Speaker 1: the big belly trying to hide behind the little skinny 353 00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:38,560 Speaker 1: sapling and like, uh, we can still see you. Well then, 354 00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:42,479 Speaker 1: way Wayiner got him into more trouble, do you remember, 355 00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:46,879 Speaker 1: And it just seemed like the more things he tried 356 00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:53,000 Speaker 1: to do the worse it got. So I'm imagining there's 357 00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:59,359 Speaker 1: old drunk Dade sitting in his office. Nobody's coming around 358 00:26:59,359 --> 00:27:03,120 Speaker 1: to have a drink with him, nobody's telling him how pretty, 359 00:27:03,359 --> 00:27:07,919 Speaker 1: how smart, how powerful he is. He's having to sell 360 00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:10,880 Speaker 1: a little real estate on the side for his family's business. 361 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:21,639 Speaker 1: Everybody's making jokes about him, and he says, I'll teach them. 362 00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:26,720 Speaker 1: I'll make it illegal to make fun of me. So 363 00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:31,760 Speaker 1: drunk Day, Ever, the little frat boy has to get 364 00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:36,560 Speaker 1: somebody to write up a statute for him, and he 365 00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:41,920 Speaker 1: submits it as house built three sixty six. God bless him, 366 00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:49,600 Speaker 1: and he doesn't have friends good enough as friends to say, 367 00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:56,000 Speaker 1: drunk Day. Sure, we can get this through committee. We 368 00:27:56,119 --> 00:27:59,639 Speaker 1: might even get it through the House, but we're not 369 00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:02,800 Speaker 1: going to get it through the Senate, and the governor's 370 00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:06,280 Speaker 1: not going to sign it. And the Attorney General, remember 371 00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:10,040 Speaker 1: who you impeached, He's going to get this thing struck down. 372 00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:15,480 Speaker 1: Drunk Day, take your lumps. You've had a good run. 373 00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:22,520 Speaker 1: You're not smart. You've managed to be the Speaker of 374 00:28:22,520 --> 00:28:31,400 Speaker 1: the House. You went way further than anybody ever expected you. 375 00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:33,280 Speaker 1: You got to sit on the lawn bus this time 376 00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:39,520 Speaker 1: be happy. Nope, I got this bilt. We're gonna make 377 00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:45,120 Speaker 1: it illegal. They'll have to have a disclaimer on everything 378 00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:48,760 Speaker 1: they do, and I'll right the disclaimer. What are you 379 00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:55,560 Speaker 1: going to say? We're about to play drunk Day calling 380 00:28:55,600 --> 00:29:04,160 Speaker 1: Dolly Parton. Now, to our knowledge, never called Dolly Parton. 381 00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:10,640 Speaker 1: To our knowledge, drunk Day doesn't even have Dolly Parton's 382 00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:16,160 Speaker 1: phone number. But this is certainly not an accurate portrayal 383 00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:22,000 Speaker 1: of that phone call that may never have happened. Record 384 00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:23,400 Speaker 1: your message after the tone. 385 00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:30,960 Speaker 4: Hello, Dolly, this is Texas Speaker of the house, Dad failing. Listen. 386 00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:34,440 Speaker 4: I watched you at super Bowl halftime shows weekend. I 387 00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:38,000 Speaker 4: gotta tell you you put on a hell of a 388 00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:41,840 Speaker 4: heck of a show. I asked my buddy, I said, he, 389 00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:46,600 Speaker 4: are you watching the super Bowl halftime because Dolly Parton's 390 00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:51,760 Speaker 4: got a whole lot of swing going on. Remember er 391 00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:55,320 Speaker 4: swing from Austin Powers. 392 00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:59,840 Speaker 1: That was hilarious. Hold on, hold on, d. 393 00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:07,240 Speaker 4: Give me ice cream, ice cream, ice huge trade yellow shots. 394 00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:12,160 Speaker 3: Okay, green green, yellow. 395 00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:19,960 Speaker 4: Dolly visiting our call? 396 00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:20,800 Speaker 1: Is my name? 397 00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:27,400 Speaker 2: Day has two d's. In high school, they call me 398 00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:31,000 Speaker 2: double d failing because two d's. I thought you could 399 00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:35,880 Speaker 2: relate because Dolly. Because Dolly Parton has. 400 00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:38,080 Speaker 4: Two l's, double l's. 401 00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:40,520 Speaker 2: We both have doubles. 402 00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:42,720 Speaker 4: Double Hey call me back? 403 00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:44,440 Speaker 1: Did you just call it? 404 00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:46,040 Speaker 4: Id? Be like they was? 405 00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:46,160 Speaker 2: What? 406 00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:48,200 Speaker 1: Man, it's the day. 407 00:30:48,320 --> 00:30:52,480 Speaker 3: Let's go sing song together? Man, you and me and 408 00:30:52,560 --> 00:30:54,640 Speaker 3: Kay Rogers? Gont play football? 409 00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:56,880 Speaker 2: You mean Kenny All? 410 00:30:57,280 --> 00:30:57,520 Speaker 3: What? 411 00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:03,720 Speaker 4: Finally, I'm so sorry for your loss. I didn't know 412 00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:06,400 Speaker 4: he Rogers passed away recently. 413 00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:12,200 Speaker 3: Islands in the Stream of my favorite song of the seventies.