1 00:00:03,880 --> 00:00:11,799 Speaker 1: It's that time time time, time, lucking load. The Michael 2 00:00:11,960 --> 00:00:22,239 Speaker 1: Arry Show is on the air, cooking into micro week. 3 00:00:22,720 --> 00:00:24,160 Speaker 1: Gotta feed a beard. 4 00:00:24,320 --> 00:00:27,840 Speaker 2: I don't plan to shave, and it's good the thing, 5 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:31,920 Speaker 2: but I just gotta see I'm doing. 6 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:32,199 Speaker 3: It all right? 7 00:00:33,320 --> 00:00:38,400 Speaker 2: Will we im make me support? It's I'm beating VERDICTU 8 00:00:38,720 --> 00:00:43,240 Speaker 2: and that's the true. It's neither drinking, no drug and 9 00:00:43,600 --> 00:00:46,440 Speaker 2: just snoop. I'm just doing all right. 10 00:00:47,600 --> 00:00:50,720 Speaker 3: It's a great dead be alive. 11 00:00:50,960 --> 00:00:54,560 Speaker 1: I know the sun's still shining in a close my eyes. 12 00:00:54,760 --> 00:00:59,120 Speaker 3: It's five times in the neighborhood. Good bye, can't. 13 00:00:59,320 --> 00:01:02,280 Speaker 4: April fourteen is a big day in our household because 14 00:01:02,280 --> 00:01:08,720 Speaker 4: it is my wife's birthday. She turns fifty seven today, 15 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:14,360 Speaker 4: which means I have enjoyed thirty six. This will be 16 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:17,720 Speaker 4: the thirty sixth birthday I've shared with her, because we 17 00:01:17,840 --> 00:01:21,039 Speaker 4: met in the fall of eighty nine. Of course, she 18 00:01:21,120 --> 00:01:25,640 Speaker 4: had her first birthday in the spring April fourteenth of 19 00:01:25,760 --> 00:01:29,280 Speaker 4: nineteen ninety, which would have been the first year, which. 20 00:01:29,080 --> 00:01:31,440 Speaker 1: Was the year ding and zero, so add one. 21 00:01:31,560 --> 00:01:34,600 Speaker 4: This is twenty twenty five, so this is the thirty 22 00:01:34,640 --> 00:01:39,280 Speaker 4: sixth of her birthdays I've been able to share with her. 23 00:01:39,760 --> 00:01:41,720 Speaker 4: If you are a friend of my bride and you 24 00:01:41,800 --> 00:01:44,680 Speaker 4: know how to reach her, feel free to send her 25 00:01:44,760 --> 00:01:47,880 Speaker 4: a very very happy birthday. 26 00:01:48,680 --> 00:01:51,919 Speaker 1: She was. I try to change it up every year. 27 00:01:51,800 --> 00:01:55,600 Speaker 4: So this year I did the I pretended I didn't 28 00:01:55,600 --> 00:01:57,560 Speaker 4: know it was her birthday coming up. She's not as 29 00:01:57,600 --> 00:01:59,920 Speaker 4: into birthdays as I am, because she's not as narcissis 30 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:04,680 Speaker 4: tic and self centered as I am. But she had 31 00:02:04,720 --> 00:02:10,240 Speaker 4: no idea. And as I was leaving this morning, and 32 00:02:10,280 --> 00:02:13,320 Speaker 4: I think she was probably pretty well convinced that I 33 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:19,040 Speaker 4: had just absolutely blown her birthday, I presented the present 34 00:02:19,560 --> 00:02:25,320 Speaker 4: sweetly wrapped from a Corey Diamonds, So she was She 35 00:02:25,480 --> 00:02:29,000 Speaker 4: was very happy with with her gift. The beauty of 36 00:02:29,080 --> 00:02:32,320 Speaker 4: Connie is Connie already knows what your wife wants anyway, 37 00:02:33,160 --> 00:02:35,959 Speaker 4: and so which it feels like insider trading or something, 38 00:02:36,639 --> 00:02:41,880 Speaker 4: but at least you know, at least you know that 39 00:02:41,919 --> 00:02:44,880 Speaker 4: what you got her she's going to love, because at 40 00:02:44,880 --> 00:02:46,799 Speaker 4: some point Connie has said, what do you think about this? 41 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:47,720 Speaker 1: What do you think about this? What do you think 42 00:02:47,720 --> 00:02:48,000 Speaker 1: about this? 43 00:02:48,320 --> 00:02:52,200 Speaker 4: And Connie has you know, Connie has has that mind 44 00:02:52,360 --> 00:02:56,600 Speaker 4: like a steel trap. So she has kept that away, 45 00:02:57,040 --> 00:02:59,160 Speaker 4: you know, locked away for later. 46 00:02:59,240 --> 00:03:00,480 Speaker 1: Use inst you. 47 00:03:01,200 --> 00:03:04,520 Speaker 4: So in any case, if you are acquainted with my bride, 48 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:07,440 Speaker 4: feel free to wish her happy birthday. It is also 49 00:03:07,639 --> 00:03:13,839 Speaker 4: my trainer, Michael Petru's birthday, and he is I'm fifty four, 50 00:03:14,440 --> 00:03:19,519 Speaker 4: so I think he's let's see, so he and I 51 00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:22,240 Speaker 4: are the same age as in we came out of 52 00:03:22,280 --> 00:03:23,760 Speaker 4: high school in eighty nine together. 53 00:03:24,320 --> 00:03:27,200 Speaker 1: I don't know if this would mean that he turns. 54 00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:31,680 Speaker 4: Fifty four today or if he turns fifty five because 55 00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:34,119 Speaker 4: we were both fifty four yesterday, or we were both 56 00:03:34,200 --> 00:03:37,520 Speaker 4: same age, but this may mean that he's catching up 57 00:03:37,520 --> 00:03:39,360 Speaker 4: with me because I was an early birthday, because I 58 00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:43,440 Speaker 4: was a November birthday, and it is sam Elsadi's birthday, 59 00:03:43,800 --> 00:03:47,320 Speaker 4: who owns Big City Wings, So a lot of birthdays 60 00:03:47,360 --> 00:03:51,280 Speaker 4: in the family today. It is also a day that 61 00:03:51,320 --> 00:03:57,520 Speaker 4: we celebrate the life of Houston, a Houston legend, but 62 00:03:57,640 --> 00:04:05,520 Speaker 4: an American. He wrote an international story, an aspiring, inspiring story, 63 00:04:05,560 --> 00:04:08,200 Speaker 4: and that is the life of the chap George Foreman, 64 00:04:08,680 --> 00:04:11,640 Speaker 4: who will be remembered this morning at Wortham Theater. 65 00:04:12,400 --> 00:04:15,360 Speaker 5: From the Boxing Ring to the Bayou City, George Foreman's 66 00:04:15,440 --> 00:04:18,120 Speaker 5: legacy lives on in the lives that he touched and 67 00:04:18,160 --> 00:04:20,880 Speaker 5: today's memorial service is set to be a reminder that 68 00:04:20,920 --> 00:04:23,120 Speaker 5: he was more than a champion, he was also a 69 00:04:23,160 --> 00:04:26,240 Speaker 5: hero in our community. Now. The memorial service is set 70 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:28,560 Speaker 5: to begin at ten forty five this morning. The service 71 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:31,640 Speaker 5: will include remarks from Mayor John Whitmeyer, music from the 72 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:35,080 Speaker 5: University of Houston Choir and the Houston Symphony. Now, because 73 00:04:35,080 --> 00:04:37,520 Speaker 5: of limited space, tickets are needed to attend, and all 74 00:04:37,600 --> 00:04:40,280 Speaker 5: tickets have been distributed, but folks can watch online if 75 00:04:40,279 --> 00:04:42,120 Speaker 5: they were not able to get a ticket to attend 76 00:04:42,120 --> 00:04:44,680 Speaker 5: in person. Foreman was raised in the fifth Ward and 77 00:04:44,720 --> 00:04:47,560 Speaker 5: his commitment to Houston has been felt and seen by 78 00:04:47,640 --> 00:04:50,240 Speaker 5: so many for decades, Like the George Foreman Youth and 79 00:04:50,279 --> 00:04:52,920 Speaker 5: Community Center in Al Dean. For nearly four decades, it 80 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:56,040 Speaker 5: served as a space for local kids just like him. 81 00:04:56,680 --> 00:05:00,479 Speaker 6: It's keep kids off the streets in this I help 82 00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:02,120 Speaker 6: a lot of youth around this area. 83 00:05:02,240 --> 00:05:03,239 Speaker 1: Who's a good people person. 84 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:04,400 Speaker 6: He's not one of those. 85 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:06,360 Speaker 1: How can I say bad person? 86 00:05:06,400 --> 00:05:10,000 Speaker 6: I go, I'm richer than y'all, Like I've got my bodyguards, know, 87 00:05:10,120 --> 00:05:12,000 Speaker 6: like you would interact with people like he would. 88 00:05:12,360 --> 00:05:15,159 Speaker 5: Now that community center was a staple and all Dean. 89 00:05:15,240 --> 00:05:17,320 Speaker 5: Both of my parents grew up in the Aldan area. 90 00:05:17,440 --> 00:05:20,279 Speaker 5: My dad worked near that center. He brought it up 91 00:05:20,320 --> 00:05:22,599 Speaker 5: to me this weekend, and that really just shows how 92 00:05:22,680 --> 00:05:25,880 Speaker 5: rooted George Foreman was in the community. Now, for today, 93 00:05:25,920 --> 00:05:29,160 Speaker 5: the Foreman family is asking for donations instead of flowers, 94 00:05:29,279 --> 00:05:31,200 Speaker 5: and those donations can be made to the Church of 95 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:34,680 Speaker 5: the Lord Jesus Christ or the George Foreman Charitable Foundation. 96 00:05:37,640 --> 00:05:41,080 Speaker 4: Well maybe they crowned too many millionaires with those giant checks. 97 00:05:41,160 --> 00:05:46,120 Speaker 4: Publishers Clearing House has filed for Chapter eleven bankruptcy. You 98 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:47,240 Speaker 4: didn't know they were still around. 99 00:05:51,640 --> 00:05:54,520 Speaker 1: This is a day I will never forget. You think 100 00:05:54,520 --> 00:05:57,760 Speaker 1: about your days and let you do. 101 00:05:59,240 --> 00:06:22,800 Speaker 4: You know, we talked about this a few years ago. 102 00:06:23,120 --> 00:06:27,160 Speaker 1: Remember there was a story about they still made money. 103 00:06:27,279 --> 00:06:31,760 Speaker 4: You know that whole I mean, there's still scams going 104 00:06:31,800 --> 00:06:35,960 Speaker 4: on every day, but that whole setup of. 105 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:39,040 Speaker 1: Man, I'm slogging. My life's miserable. 106 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:42,360 Speaker 4: But maybe I'll win the lottery here, maybe I'll win 107 00:06:42,440 --> 00:06:49,000 Speaker 4: the Publisher's clearing House. It's it's all in the category 108 00:06:49,360 --> 00:06:50,280 Speaker 4: of the Uh. 109 00:06:51,360 --> 00:06:52,400 Speaker 1: What was the deal we did? 110 00:06:52,440 --> 00:06:52,640 Speaker 5: You know? 111 00:06:52,680 --> 00:06:56,520 Speaker 4: You get ten CDs for a penny each? What was 112 00:06:56,560 --> 00:07:01,080 Speaker 4: that called Columbia House? I am imagine they were all 113 00:07:01,200 --> 00:07:06,039 Speaker 4: run out of you know, adjoining warehouses. That was you know, 114 00:07:06,120 --> 00:07:10,480 Speaker 4: that was before the internet, scalability and everything else, and somehow, 115 00:07:10,560 --> 00:07:13,560 Speaker 4: some way they figured out how to run a scam 116 00:07:13,640 --> 00:07:15,400 Speaker 4: on a scalable. 117 00:07:16,760 --> 00:07:17,080 Speaker 1: Level. 118 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:22,040 Speaker 4: A Houston woman missing in Mexico has been found dead. 119 00:07:22,120 --> 00:07:26,480 Speaker 4: Houston attorney and businesswoman Jessica Rossman, who had been reporting 120 00:07:26,600 --> 00:07:30,800 Speaker 4: miss reported missing in Mexico for several days, was found 121 00:07:30,840 --> 00:07:33,240 Speaker 4: dead there, according to loved ones and media reports, Rossman 122 00:07:33,320 --> 00:07:38,320 Speaker 4: died April first, after experiencing an undisclosed health issue while 123 00:07:38,400 --> 00:07:42,640 Speaker 4: visiting her home in Perto Bayarta, Mexico. Her friend Edward 124 00:07:42,720 --> 00:07:46,400 Speaker 4: Sanchez wrote on Instagram, Jessica was loved by so many 125 00:07:46,440 --> 00:07:47,840 Speaker 4: and we know everyone will want. 126 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:48,160 Speaker 1: To reach out. 127 00:07:48,280 --> 00:07:50,360 Speaker 4: We ask everyone to be patient while plans are made 128 00:07:50,360 --> 00:07:54,240 Speaker 4: to celebrate her life in a proper way. Rossman's partner 129 00:07:54,280 --> 00:07:57,080 Speaker 4: reported her missing this month when she didn't return home 130 00:07:57,120 --> 00:08:00,880 Speaker 4: from a scheduled appointment at the doctor Carlos Das Health 131 00:08:00,920 --> 00:08:04,520 Speaker 4: and Beauty Clinic. Rossmun's family had struggled to get answers 132 00:08:04,560 --> 00:08:07,440 Speaker 4: as her body remained inside a morgue at a forensic 133 00:08:07,520 --> 00:08:11,480 Speaker 4: science institute. Rossbin's a graduate university of Texas at Austin 134 00:08:11,520 --> 00:08:13,160 Speaker 4: and California. 135 00:08:13,240 --> 00:08:14,920 Speaker 1: Bolt Hall School of Law. 136 00:08:16,240 --> 00:08:20,000 Speaker 4: Co chaired the bearing Omega Gala and started as Honerat 137 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:24,080 Speaker 4: chair of the Planned Parenthood Young Leaders. 138 00:08:25,480 --> 00:08:25,800 Speaker 1: Out that. 139 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:42,360 Speaker 7: Long long forty five years ago today April fourteenth, nineteen 140 00:08:42,559 --> 00:08:50,199 Speaker 7: eighty Jus priests these British steel metal landmark in the 141 00:08:50,320 --> 00:08:54,200 Speaker 7: tracks Living after Midnight and of course breaking the law. 142 00:08:56,120 --> 00:08:56,280 Speaker 8: M On. 143 00:08:56,320 --> 00:09:00,920 Speaker 4: Would you describe that as Judas Priest really, as in 144 00:09:01,040 --> 00:09:03,560 Speaker 4: it's a group and made up of a number of people, 145 00:09:03,640 --> 00:09:07,200 Speaker 4: so that number of people release it, or would you 146 00:09:07,280 --> 00:09:12,520 Speaker 4: say Judas Priest releases as in one person, one band. 147 00:09:13,679 --> 00:09:17,640 Speaker 4: I do one person one band. Now it is accepted 148 00:09:17,880 --> 00:09:24,160 Speaker 4: in music journalism that you would refer to that as 149 00:09:24,200 --> 00:09:27,480 Speaker 4: a group of people, So you would say. 150 00:09:29,480 --> 00:09:31,120 Speaker 1: Judas Priest are. 151 00:09:32,760 --> 00:09:35,400 Speaker 4: This or that, whereas I would say Judas Priest is 152 00:09:35,920 --> 00:09:42,040 Speaker 4: because I think of the group as one. I've noticed 153 00:09:42,080 --> 00:09:45,360 Speaker 4: the convention that has been established, and that is that 154 00:09:45,440 --> 00:09:48,000 Speaker 4: you use that silly term or you use it in 155 00:09:48,040 --> 00:09:50,240 Speaker 4: that way and I don't really care for it. 156 00:09:50,800 --> 00:09:52,880 Speaker 1: And then there will be somebody. It will always be 157 00:09:52,920 --> 00:09:57,800 Speaker 1: a woman who will email me and she'll say no, Michael. 158 00:09:57,800 --> 00:10:02,200 Speaker 4: The proper way is this lady, the proper way is 159 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:05,320 Speaker 4: established by a person. I know that you need that 160 00:10:05,520 --> 00:10:08,440 Speaker 4: rule to hang on to because someone else said it 161 00:10:08,480 --> 00:10:09,360 Speaker 4: before you did. 162 00:10:09,840 --> 00:10:13,800 Speaker 1: But the proper way is simply. 163 00:10:13,600 --> 00:10:17,520 Speaker 4: What someone says that this will be how we will 164 00:10:17,520 --> 00:10:20,839 Speaker 4: do it, and then you're so eagerly holding onto it. 165 00:10:21,640 --> 00:10:25,080 Speaker 4: A brother and sister have an issue with a Southwest 166 00:10:25,120 --> 00:10:28,320 Speaker 4: Houston funeral home that is handling the body of their mother. 167 00:10:29,240 --> 00:10:31,840 Speaker 4: They show up there on Friday and find her body 168 00:10:31,840 --> 00:10:35,640 Speaker 4: and a number of others kept in horrific conditions. They 169 00:10:35,679 --> 00:10:38,560 Speaker 4: post videos to social media, which leads to a confrontation 170 00:10:38,679 --> 00:10:43,400 Speaker 4: with staffers at the home, who then end up stabbing 171 00:10:43,480 --> 00:10:47,720 Speaker 4: the brother. They sounded like a high end mortuary. The 172 00:10:47,840 --> 00:10:50,280 Speaker 4: sister said her mother's body was in an advanced state 173 00:10:50,360 --> 00:10:56,400 Speaker 4: of decomposition with gnats on it. Oh my, the story 174 00:10:56,480 --> 00:10:57,880 Speaker 4: from KHOU. 175 00:10:58,920 --> 00:11:00,400 Speaker 3: A disturbing discovery. 176 00:11:00,640 --> 00:11:04,599 Speaker 9: It's hurtfuls I knew something wasn't right. Houston Police investigating 177 00:11:04,600 --> 00:11:05,520 Speaker 9: two scenes. 178 00:11:06,920 --> 00:11:11,560 Speaker 3: Getting stabbed A disturbing discovery. It's hurtful. I knew something 179 00:11:11,640 --> 00:11:12,079 Speaker 3: wasn't right. 180 00:11:12,320 --> 00:11:15,920 Speaker 9: Houston Police investigating two scenes at the South Houston mortuary. 181 00:11:16,080 --> 00:11:18,680 Speaker 4: There were bodies laid out uh on the ground and 182 00:11:18,720 --> 00:11:20,040 Speaker 4: on not cardboard. 183 00:11:19,800 --> 00:11:22,920 Speaker 9: Bodies of people who were already deceased to be cremated 184 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:24,280 Speaker 9: or prepared for funerals. 185 00:11:24,400 --> 00:11:26,640 Speaker 3: I feel hard because I have not one, but they 186 00:11:26,640 --> 00:11:29,360 Speaker 3: have two of our family members, my mother and my uncle. 187 00:11:29,480 --> 00:11:31,840 Speaker 9: Tamara Magruder Crooks had a bad feeling ahead of her 188 00:11:31,880 --> 00:11:34,840 Speaker 9: mother's funerals set for tomorrow. She says, after repeated issues 189 00:11:34,840 --> 00:11:37,319 Speaker 9: with the owner of Richardson Mortuary, she and her brother 190 00:11:37,480 --> 00:11:40,280 Speaker 9: went to see for themselves. That's when they discovered their 191 00:11:40,280 --> 00:11:44,320 Speaker 9: mother's body, along with others in unacceptable conditions. And I said, 192 00:11:44,320 --> 00:11:48,400 Speaker 9: I'm not gonna leave without my mom's body, and he said, 193 00:11:48,400 --> 00:11:52,280 Speaker 9: you're gonna leave. She described conditions as deplorable, recording this 194 00:11:52,440 --> 00:11:54,160 Speaker 9: video and posting it to social media. 195 00:11:54,320 --> 00:11:58,880 Speaker 4: They on stretchers, they have nets, They're in boxes. 196 00:12:00,480 --> 00:12:06,480 Speaker 3: It smells horrible. They inside of caskets. They uncovered their naked. 197 00:12:06,840 --> 00:12:10,280 Speaker 9: A confrontation broke out with a mortuary worker. Tamara's brother 198 00:12:10,400 --> 00:12:13,160 Speaker 9: was stabbed and rushed to the hospital. Video showing the 199 00:12:13,160 --> 00:12:17,040 Speaker 9: bodies quickly spread online, and soon more families began showing 200 00:12:17,120 --> 00:12:18,160 Speaker 9: up in shock. 201 00:12:18,440 --> 00:12:21,520 Speaker 3: I saw on video that there was a lot of 202 00:12:21,520 --> 00:12:22,360 Speaker 3: bodies over here. 203 00:12:22,480 --> 00:12:25,840 Speaker 9: Dimitri Sylvester says her brother passed away in February and 204 00:12:25,880 --> 00:12:27,640 Speaker 9: she's been waiting on his ashes since. 205 00:12:27,840 --> 00:12:30,280 Speaker 3: No respect for the dead and no respect for the family. 206 00:12:30,520 --> 00:12:33,160 Speaker 9: She's not the only one. Marita Brown says she recognized 207 00:12:33,160 --> 00:12:36,160 Speaker 9: her late grandmother in the videos circulating on social media. 208 00:12:36,320 --> 00:12:38,440 Speaker 9: It's a shock because he took care of my grandfather 209 00:12:38,480 --> 00:12:40,679 Speaker 9: in twenty thirteen, and he did an awesome job, but 210 00:12:40,720 --> 00:12:43,040 Speaker 9: to fail us now. The bodies were moved to other 211 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:45,719 Speaker 9: locations due to the conditions at the request of the 212 00:12:45,760 --> 00:12:48,880 Speaker 9: mortuary owner, according to the Texas Funeral Service Commission. The 213 00:12:48,960 --> 00:12:52,280 Speaker 9: agency says the building suffered damages from Hurricane Beryl, this 214 00:12:52,760 --> 00:12:56,320 Speaker 9: leaving grieving families to relive their loss all over again. 215 00:12:56,640 --> 00:13:01,439 Speaker 3: Portray lied to scam Angry Upset Heart. 216 00:13:02,679 --> 00:13:02,880 Speaker 4: HB. 217 00:13:03,080 --> 00:13:05,520 Speaker 9: Tell is a worker here who was accused of the 218 00:13:05,640 --> 00:13:06,640 Speaker 9: stabbing clean. 219 00:13:06,960 --> 00:13:10,160 Speaker 4: I don't think we needed to do synonyms there, because 220 00:13:10,160 --> 00:13:12,040 Speaker 4: we're kind of doing the same ones. 221 00:13:12,880 --> 00:13:14,800 Speaker 1: I think we could have. I think one or two 222 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:15,719 Speaker 1: would have done. 223 00:13:15,800 --> 00:13:18,160 Speaker 4: It felt like we were just there's almost an academic 224 00:13:18,160 --> 00:13:18,960 Speaker 4: exercise play that. 225 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:22,040 Speaker 3: In Damned Angry Upset Heart. 226 00:13:23,280 --> 00:13:26,000 Speaker 9: Hbd Tell is a worker here who was accused of 227 00:13:26,080 --> 00:13:29,160 Speaker 9: the stabbing clean self defense and that the owner is 228 00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:31,280 Speaker 9: at the hospital dealing with medical issues. 229 00:13:31,640 --> 00:13:33,400 Speaker 3: No charges at this time. Now. 230 00:13:33,400 --> 00:13:35,720 Speaker 9: The victim of the stabbing I heard from his sister 231 00:13:35,840 --> 00:13:37,640 Speaker 9: not that long ago, and he has been in surgery 232 00:13:37,920 --> 00:13:40,679 Speaker 9: for hours now. As for the families, they are now 233 00:13:40,800 --> 00:13:43,240 Speaker 9: left trying to figure out what to do next. 234 00:13:46,080 --> 00:13:49,960 Speaker 4: You know, it's one of those things that white people 235 00:13:50,040 --> 00:14:02,040 Speaker 4: don't know about, but black mortuaries is. It's big business, 236 00:14:03,320 --> 00:14:07,320 Speaker 4: and it's a very political business. I can remember I 237 00:14:07,360 --> 00:14:10,680 Speaker 4: would be at political events and she La Jackson Lee 238 00:14:10,880 --> 00:14:14,080 Speaker 4: would be there when someone died. I think she was 239 00:14:14,080 --> 00:14:16,560 Speaker 4: getting a cut from the mortuary. I do, and I 240 00:14:16,559 --> 00:14:18,600 Speaker 4: have reason to believe that. I cannot say why, but 241 00:14:18,679 --> 00:14:22,600 Speaker 4: I believe she was getting a cut and she first 242 00:14:22,760 --> 00:14:25,520 Speaker 4: first question she would ask is who's got the body. 243 00:14:26,400 --> 00:14:29,720 Speaker 4: I'd never heard that before, and I came to learn 244 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:34,960 Speaker 4: that on the east side of Maine, so third ward, 245 00:14:35,360 --> 00:14:41,160 Speaker 4: fifth ward, those acres homes there was it was a 246 00:14:41,200 --> 00:14:45,080 Speaker 4: big deal who would have the body? And it was 247 00:14:45,600 --> 00:14:48,760 Speaker 4: kind of like joining a country club. It was very 248 00:14:48,800 --> 00:14:53,440 Speaker 4: connection oriented, so you would find people that were involved 249 00:14:53,480 --> 00:14:58,760 Speaker 4: in politics and socially involved locally would be affiliated with 250 00:14:58,800 --> 00:15:03,600 Speaker 4: a funeral home. And my guess is there was a 251 00:15:03,960 --> 00:15:09,160 Speaker 4: more than a guess. My suspicion is, my belief is 252 00:15:09,240 --> 00:15:12,480 Speaker 4: that there was there was some money changed in hands 253 00:15:12,520 --> 00:15:19,080 Speaker 4: as to who got the body. It's an interesting thing. 254 00:15:19,840 --> 00:15:22,840 Speaker 4: I'm just trying to figure out how it works. So 255 00:15:22,920 --> 00:15:26,240 Speaker 4: you go in there and you start raising hell if 256 00:15:26,280 --> 00:15:30,240 Speaker 4: they are not taking care of your mother's body in 257 00:15:30,360 --> 00:15:35,760 Speaker 4: preparing her for the funeral. Where is the point where 258 00:15:35,800 --> 00:15:39,240 Speaker 4: someone pulls out a knife? It is twenty twenty five. 259 00:15:40,640 --> 00:15:43,840 Speaker 4: Where was the knife? Did he go in the back 260 00:15:43,880 --> 00:15:46,360 Speaker 4: and get the knife? Oh? 261 00:15:46,400 --> 00:15:48,360 Speaker 1: Yeah, you want to fight me or I'm gonna stab you? 262 00:15:48,400 --> 00:15:52,560 Speaker 4: And guess what when you die, your family's punishment is, we're. 263 00:15:52,400 --> 00:15:53,400 Speaker 1: Going to do the funeral. 264 00:15:53,840 --> 00:15:55,080 Speaker 4: No, not that too. 265 00:15:56,440 --> 00:15:59,600 Speaker 1: The Michael Barry Show. 266 00:16:02,640 --> 00:16:09,960 Speaker 4: The breakout star of the kN Paxton impeachment debacle was 267 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:14,120 Speaker 4: a lawyer who was representing Ken Paxton, who was making 268 00:16:14,160 --> 00:16:19,760 Speaker 4: a very methodical and persuasive case that this case was ridiculous. 269 00:16:20,320 --> 00:16:23,640 Speaker 1: Drunk Dade was out of control. This would set a 270 00:16:23,640 --> 00:16:24,440 Speaker 1: horrible precedent. 271 00:16:24,920 --> 00:16:27,600 Speaker 4: This was a petty It was big donors who wanted 272 00:16:27,680 --> 00:16:30,240 Speaker 4: Ken Paxton out of the way for the very reason 273 00:16:30,560 --> 00:16:33,000 Speaker 4: we now see playing out. kN Paxton is running against 274 00:16:33,080 --> 00:16:35,840 Speaker 4: John Cornyn and he's leading in the polls. But the 275 00:16:35,840 --> 00:16:39,640 Speaker 4: breakout star was a fellow named Mitch Little, who was 276 00:16:39,680 --> 00:16:43,440 Speaker 4: a lawyer living in a small town, smart as he 277 00:16:43,480 --> 00:16:46,720 Speaker 4: could be, who was now exposed to a statewide audience 278 00:16:46,800 --> 00:16:51,600 Speaker 4: that we're paying attention, and he ends up running for 279 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:55,840 Speaker 4: state rep himself and joins this new breed of reformers 280 00:16:55,920 --> 00:17:00,760 Speaker 4: in Austin trying to take back the state House, not 281 00:17:00,840 --> 00:17:05,760 Speaker 4: from Democrats, but from the Republican swamp that has run 282 00:17:05,840 --> 00:17:10,320 Speaker 4: us off a cliff. He is not one for hyperbole, 283 00:17:10,600 --> 00:17:13,640 Speaker 4: so when I read something this morning that he posted 284 00:17:13,720 --> 00:17:17,240 Speaker 4: last night, God is my witness. Before this session is over, 285 00:17:17,280 --> 00:17:20,040 Speaker 4: I'm going to make certain every grassroots Republican in this 286 00:17:20,119 --> 00:17:23,800 Speaker 4: state understands how House leadership made a deal with the 287 00:17:23,840 --> 00:17:28,880 Speaker 4: Democrats to sell us down the river Thursday night. Well, 288 00:17:28,960 --> 00:17:32,480 Speaker 4: State Representative Mitch Little, let's get started on that effort. 289 00:17:32,560 --> 00:17:35,800 Speaker 4: Let's tell quite a few of them right now. Yeah, 290 00:17:35,840 --> 00:17:38,879 Speaker 4: good mornings are Yeah. I wouldn't have believed if I 291 00:17:38,880 --> 00:17:41,880 Speaker 4: hadn't seen it with my own eyes. So the conservatives 292 00:17:41,920 --> 00:17:44,480 Speaker 4: in the Texas House that I'll you know, the true conservatives, 293 00:17:44,520 --> 00:17:48,640 Speaker 4: I'll probably number about twenty four. We spent weeks preparing 294 00:17:48,680 --> 00:17:52,120 Speaker 4: different amendments to the budget trying to deliver property tax 295 00:17:52,160 --> 00:17:56,120 Speaker 4: relief back to the voters. And one of the sources, well, 296 00:17:57,520 --> 00:17:59,040 Speaker 4: we had several tactics. 297 00:17:58,640 --> 00:18:00,359 Speaker 8: To do that. One we were going to take money 298 00:18:00,359 --> 00:18:02,600 Speaker 8: out of the Lottery Commission. We're going to take money 299 00:18:02,640 --> 00:18:04,440 Speaker 8: out of the Enterprise Fund. We were going to take 300 00:18:04,440 --> 00:18:09,840 Speaker 8: money in the budget out of out of several different sources, 301 00:18:09,880 --> 00:18:13,960 Speaker 8: including unbalances that a number of agencies had. So for 302 00:18:14,040 --> 00:18:16,280 Speaker 8: your listeners who may not be aware of this, we 303 00:18:16,359 --> 00:18:19,480 Speaker 8: appropriate money and these state agencies don't spend it all 304 00:18:19,520 --> 00:18:22,920 Speaker 8: and it just accruise over time, and it's literally billions 305 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:25,560 Speaker 8: of dollars that's just sitting there and accounts waiting to 306 00:18:25,560 --> 00:18:27,879 Speaker 8: be spent. Some of them are fund balances, but a 307 00:18:27,920 --> 00:18:30,280 Speaker 8: lot of them are not. So we were putting amendments 308 00:18:30,320 --> 00:18:33,159 Speaker 8: together to the budget as it was going to come 309 00:18:33,200 --> 00:18:35,320 Speaker 8: to the House floor, got them all ready to go, 310 00:18:35,440 --> 00:18:37,560 Speaker 8: and then we find out from the leadership team that 311 00:18:37,600 --> 00:18:40,560 Speaker 8: they're going to sweep. They're going to ask for a 312 00:18:40,680 --> 00:18:44,080 Speaker 8: vote to suspend the rules to sweep most of our 313 00:18:44,119 --> 00:18:47,960 Speaker 8: amendments to article eleven. Article eleven is like the graveyard 314 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:51,359 Speaker 8: in the budget. So if amendments end up in Article eleven. 315 00:18:51,400 --> 00:18:57,240 Speaker 8: It's basically like the circular file. So the House Republican leadership, 316 00:18:57,359 --> 00:19:00,439 Speaker 8: combined with the Democrats, obtained over one hundred votes sweep 317 00:19:00,480 --> 00:19:02,680 Speaker 8: most of our amendments to Article levin. We still had 318 00:19:02,720 --> 00:19:06,000 Speaker 8: several good ones left, including for property tax relief. I 319 00:19:06,080 --> 00:19:08,800 Speaker 8: was carrying one to give an increase to salaries for 320 00:19:08,840 --> 00:19:11,399 Speaker 8: the office of the Attorney General and to restore the 321 00:19:11,480 --> 00:19:15,160 Speaker 8: Attorney general's back pay from the impeachment. Well, right out 322 00:19:15,160 --> 00:19:18,679 Speaker 8: of the gate, in about thirty seconds, Mary Gonzalez, a 323 00:19:18,760 --> 00:19:23,040 Speaker 8: Democrat who is the You remember we don't have Democrat 324 00:19:23,080 --> 00:19:25,840 Speaker 8: committee chairs anymore. Well, she's in charge of the subcommittee 325 00:19:25,840 --> 00:19:28,680 Speaker 8: of the budget. On Article one she makes, she makes 326 00:19:28,760 --> 00:19:32,400 Speaker 8: she offers an amendment to her own amendment that strips 327 00:19:32,440 --> 00:19:35,359 Speaker 8: out from the budget all of the governor's enterprise fund, 328 00:19:35,520 --> 00:19:40,000 Speaker 8: all of his movie fund, movie subsidies, and defunds the lottery. 329 00:19:40,080 --> 00:19:42,959 Speaker 8: And you're like, why would a Democrat do that? Because 330 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:46,159 Speaker 8: Mary Gonzalez, a Democrat, got together with Greg Vaughn and 331 00:19:46,240 --> 00:19:49,919 Speaker 8: a Republican out of Galveston who runs the budget to 332 00:19:50,080 --> 00:19:54,320 Speaker 8: remove all the sources for our amendments. So just a 333 00:19:54,320 --> 00:19:57,760 Speaker 8: little bit of inside baseball. The under the House rules 334 00:19:57,800 --> 00:19:59,760 Speaker 8: when you put when you want to move money to 335 00:19:59,800 --> 00:20:02,160 Speaker 8: some else like property tax relief, you have to take 336 00:20:02,200 --> 00:20:06,159 Speaker 8: it from a source. So what Mary Gonzalez did in 337 00:20:06,240 --> 00:20:09,040 Speaker 8: working with Craig Bonn is she removed all the sources 338 00:20:10,280 --> 00:20:12,880 Speaker 8: for our put intakes under the budget, so we didn't 339 00:20:12,920 --> 00:20:15,200 Speaker 8: have money to grab to move over to property tax 340 00:20:15,240 --> 00:20:17,639 Speaker 8: relief anymore. She just completely took it out of the budget. 341 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:19,959 Speaker 8: She and Greg Bonnon did that together, and they had 342 00:20:19,960 --> 00:20:22,159 Speaker 8: one hundred votes in the Texas House, including from a 343 00:20:22,160 --> 00:20:24,840 Speaker 8: lot of Republicans who represent your listeners. 344 00:20:24,480 --> 00:20:25,479 Speaker 1: Who weren't paying attention. 345 00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:29,440 Speaker 4: So I do this silly little thing on Facebook, called 346 00:20:29,480 --> 00:20:32,480 Speaker 4: and asked me anything, and it's people have the opportunity 347 00:20:32,480 --> 00:20:34,760 Speaker 4: to ask you a question and you give an immediate 348 00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:38,600 Speaker 4: answer to that and at least one person may be more. 349 00:20:38,760 --> 00:20:42,120 Speaker 4: Asked if we'll see property tax relief in the state 350 00:20:42,160 --> 00:20:45,080 Speaker 4: of Texas or will we ever eliminate and I said 351 00:20:45,119 --> 00:20:48,480 Speaker 4: absolutely not. And the reason is it's not the Democrats 352 00:20:48,880 --> 00:20:52,240 Speaker 4: they don't want it, but the Republican leadership doesn't want 353 00:20:52,320 --> 00:20:56,480 Speaker 4: to do away with this honey hole, this huge pit 354 00:20:56,520 --> 00:20:58,840 Speaker 4: of money which they give out to the people who 355 00:20:58,920 --> 00:21:02,679 Speaker 4: then keep them in all very frustrated. I can't imagine 356 00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:05,840 Speaker 4: I served on Houston City Council and I would be 357 00:21:05,920 --> 00:21:08,760 Speaker 4: frustrated going in every day knowing that I was in 358 00:21:08,800 --> 00:21:11,960 Speaker 4: the minority and that I couldn't stop anything from happening. 359 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:14,280 Speaker 4: All I could do was raise us think about it, 360 00:21:14,600 --> 00:21:16,800 Speaker 4: and that kind of pressure would help me in some 361 00:21:16,840 --> 00:21:19,480 Speaker 4: cases to mold an issue here or there, but I 362 00:21:19,480 --> 00:21:23,000 Speaker 4: could never actually win. I didn't have the Trump executive authority. 363 00:21:23,640 --> 00:21:25,360 Speaker 4: I can't imagine what it's like to go in there 364 00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:29,439 Speaker 4: every day knowing that your real problem is not the Democrats, 365 00:21:29,560 --> 00:21:34,399 Speaker 4: it's the Republican leadership they control, and the consultants, lobbyists, 366 00:21:34,520 --> 00:21:38,399 Speaker 4: operatives who are churning out material to tell you what 367 00:21:38,400 --> 00:21:40,440 Speaker 4: a great job they're doing and what a good Republican 368 00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:42,280 Speaker 4: and they love Jesus and they love America and they 369 00:21:42,320 --> 00:21:44,480 Speaker 4: wear a flag pin and July fourth is a sacred 370 00:21:44,520 --> 00:21:46,560 Speaker 4: holiday to them, and all the while they're selling us 371 00:21:46,560 --> 00:21:50,680 Speaker 4: down the river. I can't imagine how awful that is 372 00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:52,600 Speaker 4: every day to have to do that and realize you 373 00:21:53,240 --> 00:21:54,960 Speaker 4: can't convince people how bad they are. 374 00:21:56,640 --> 00:21:58,840 Speaker 8: So if there are one hundred and fifty members Michael 375 00:21:58,880 --> 00:22:02,040 Speaker 8: in the Texas House one hundred. If you just sorted 376 00:22:02,040 --> 00:22:05,000 Speaker 8: them along the ideological spectrum, the one hundred people in 377 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:08,520 Speaker 8: the middle are indistinguishable from one another. They are tax 378 00:22:08,560 --> 00:22:11,919 Speaker 8: and spend Republicans, they are tax and spent Democrats. And 379 00:22:11,960 --> 00:22:14,760 Speaker 8: so you said, oh, we'll never eliminate property tax, Well 380 00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:19,040 Speaker 8: you're partially right. We're trying. There are prior House priority 381 00:22:19,080 --> 00:22:21,960 Speaker 8: bills brought by the leadership team to eliminate forms of 382 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:25,800 Speaker 8: property tax for certain of their special interests and vendors. 383 00:22:26,440 --> 00:22:30,800 Speaker 8: So over the last three weeks, we had a vote 384 00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:33,000 Speaker 8: on a bill and actually passed a bill out of 385 00:22:33,040 --> 00:22:37,800 Speaker 8: the House to exempt exotic game animals from sales tax. 386 00:22:38,840 --> 00:22:41,800 Speaker 8: We had a vote in the House to we're going 387 00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:43,920 Speaker 8: to have a vote in the House today to exempt 388 00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:48,800 Speaker 8: animal feed inventory from business personal property tax. So there 389 00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:53,199 Speaker 8: are special interests that are getting their needs serviced. There 390 00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:56,400 Speaker 8: are special interests that are getting their need service while 391 00:22:56,440 --> 00:23:00,919 Speaker 8: regular Texans are essentially getting no meaningful, properit pretty tax relief. 392 00:23:01,320 --> 00:23:07,240 Speaker 8: And you're right that Republicans and Democrats are both drunk 393 00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:09,760 Speaker 8: on your money. There's no way they're ever going to 394 00:23:09,840 --> 00:23:12,720 Speaker 8: push away from the bar. The only thing that you 395 00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:15,480 Speaker 8: can do is on electum and try to start over. 396 00:23:16,080 --> 00:23:19,080 Speaker 8: But they're not going to push away from the bar. 397 00:23:20,720 --> 00:23:25,440 Speaker 4: And that means defeating them in Republican primaries because by 398 00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:28,879 Speaker 4: November you don't want a Democrat in the time to 399 00:23:28,960 --> 00:23:33,160 Speaker 4: do that is a year from now. In that primary. 400 00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:37,880 Speaker 4: The question on the eliminating the sales tax on the 401 00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:42,960 Speaker 4: sale of exotic animals, I have to think I can't 402 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:44,879 Speaker 4: imagine that affects very many people. 403 00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:46,120 Speaker 1: We could probably run. 404 00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:49,400 Speaker 4: To ground who was behind that basic and then who 405 00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:53,119 Speaker 4: carried it and what kind of internal relationship is there? 406 00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:55,840 Speaker 1: And I like exotic animals much as the next. 407 00:23:57,800 --> 00:23:59,800 Speaker 4: Okay, if they don't pay sales taxes on it, but 408 00:23:59,840 --> 00:24:02,760 Speaker 4: that that's the kind of pay for play government. 409 00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:04,840 Speaker 1: Mitch Little, state representative is our guests more common? 410 00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:08,480 Speaker 3: Michael Berry's not your. 411 00:24:13,040 --> 00:24:13,919 Speaker 1: State representative. 412 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:18,760 Speaker 4: Mitch Little making waves in Austin in only his. 413 00:24:18,640 --> 00:24:19,840 Speaker 1: First term there. 414 00:24:21,760 --> 00:24:25,320 Speaker 4: Mitch, you post, you reposted something that Michael quinn Sullivan 415 00:24:25,359 --> 00:24:28,159 Speaker 4: put up, said. New Wall Street Journal article reveals that 416 00:24:28,280 --> 00:24:30,880 Speaker 4: children in Texas were used as part of a Texas 417 00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:35,080 Speaker 4: Lottery Commission approved scheme in twenty twenty three to steal 418 00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:39,240 Speaker 4: the largest jackpot in state history, a massive violation of 419 00:24:39,280 --> 00:24:43,960 Speaker 4: state law, apparently with the knowledge of the lottery vendor officials. 420 00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:48,320 Speaker 4: So we keep hearing there was this scandal at the lottery. 421 00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:51,080 Speaker 4: Can you explain what happened there? 422 00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:56,159 Speaker 8: Yeah, they were using My understanding is there was somebody 423 00:24:56,400 --> 00:25:01,679 Speaker 8: in some foreign citizen who was buying literally millions of 424 00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:04,760 Speaker 8: dollars worth of lottery tickets, which you're not supposed to 425 00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:05,399 Speaker 8: be able to do. 426 00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:06,440 Speaker 1: He was using. 427 00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:12,120 Speaker 8: Runners or remote remote purchase lottery services to obtain them, 428 00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:15,840 Speaker 8: which is supposed to be impermissible and against the law. 429 00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:18,520 Speaker 8: The lottery services aren't supposed to be doing that, but 430 00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:22,119 Speaker 8: they're doing it anyway. My understanding is that the lottery 431 00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:26,159 Speaker 8: commissioner has possibly gone to Mexico and is unavailable for 432 00:25:26,280 --> 00:25:33,399 Speaker 8: commet It appears to be totally rife with corruption. This 433 00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:38,120 Speaker 8: isn't what I think the Texas taxpayers bargained for when 434 00:25:38,160 --> 00:25:42,399 Speaker 8: they allowed it to be created. Certainly hasn't achieved the 435 00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:47,280 Speaker 8: desired end of helping fund our public schools. My understanding 436 00:25:47,320 --> 00:25:50,880 Speaker 8: is it also is supposed to fund veterans organizations, which 437 00:25:50,880 --> 00:25:56,359 Speaker 8: it in part does. But man government is not good 438 00:25:56,800 --> 00:26:01,640 Speaker 8: at running and monitoring systems like this. They're just they're 439 00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:04,840 Speaker 8: not not qualified they're not competent to do it, and 440 00:26:04,920 --> 00:26:06,800 Speaker 8: yet we've done it year after year after year. 441 00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:10,080 Speaker 1: We need to get out of lottery. It's altogether money. 442 00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:14,320 Speaker 4: We can't have gambling in Texas because it violates God's 443 00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:18,920 Speaker 4: ordinances and leads to corruption unless the state handles it, 444 00:26:19,320 --> 00:26:23,040 Speaker 4: in which case it's the most corrupt form of gambling possible. 445 00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:26,760 Speaker 4: So help me understand how the scheme works. So let's 446 00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:28,720 Speaker 4: say there's one hundred million dollars. 447 00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:31,879 Speaker 1: Lottery. What do you call it? 448 00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:34,879 Speaker 4: The price that's up for grabs? Is it the case 449 00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:38,159 Speaker 4: that keeps rolling? Is he buying up all the tickets 450 00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:39,880 Speaker 4: because there's only going to be ten million this round, 451 00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:41,720 Speaker 4: and so the real profit is the earlier rounds that 452 00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:42,480 Speaker 4: didn't have a winner. 453 00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:43,320 Speaker 1: How does that work? 454 00:26:43,359 --> 00:26:45,520 Speaker 4: Because if you spend millions of dollars, how do you 455 00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:46,879 Speaker 4: even know you're getting the right ticket? 456 00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:52,480 Speaker 8: I think you're just it's pure mathematics. You're buying every 457 00:26:52,520 --> 00:26:54,840 Speaker 8: possible permutation of the successful outcome. 458 00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:57,119 Speaker 4: Okay, So you don't do that on the first round. 459 00:26:57,560 --> 00:27:00,840 Speaker 4: You do it after it builds and there are fewer 460 00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:04,399 Speaker 4: tickets sold for that round or dollars sold than there 461 00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:07,439 Speaker 4: are the overall prize it's pretty clever. I saw a 462 00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:09,760 Speaker 4: thing Dan Patrick did. It was his own video. He 463 00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:12,040 Speaker 4: made it himself. He went over to the place and 464 00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:15,560 Speaker 4: he showed the front of the place was like a 465 00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:18,520 Speaker 4: cell phone store and the back of the place was 466 00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:22,560 Speaker 4: a lottery store or vice versa. And apparently, the way 467 00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:24,840 Speaker 4: the license works, you're not supposed to be able to 468 00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:27,720 Speaker 4: do that. But it seemed to suggest that that was 469 00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:29,600 Speaker 4: one of the violators. Was that one, and I guess 470 00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:32,720 Speaker 4: that's who won it. 471 00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:37,000 Speaker 8: It's certainly the source of the individual ticket, but not 472 00:27:37,080 --> 00:27:43,480 Speaker 8: the only participant in the scheme. And what really bothers 473 00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:46,560 Speaker 8: me and I think should bother your listeners, is we 474 00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:49,880 Speaker 8: know all this is going on. There's no dispute about it. 475 00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:53,720 Speaker 8: There's no dispute that the environment is corrupt, and yet 476 00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:57,800 Speaker 8: the discussion in the legislature is about reforming it, not 477 00:27:57,960 --> 00:28:03,440 Speaker 8: removing it. This is how addicted government is to your 478 00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:06,400 Speaker 8: money and making sure that it gets to the right 479 00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:11,040 Speaker 8: government program or assist these people and their special interest. 480 00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:14,960 Speaker 8: This is this is not what most people think they're 481 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:16,960 Speaker 8: signing up for when they run for office. 482 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:21,000 Speaker 4: You're a student of Texas political history. I don't know 483 00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:25,400 Speaker 4: if you remember the name Ben Barnes. Sure Ben Barnes 484 00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:31,080 Speaker 4: was in the sixties and early seventies on a projection 485 00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:32,720 Speaker 4: to be president. 486 00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:35,200 Speaker 1: He was the guy. He knew everybody. 487 00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:39,640 Speaker 4: He was the Golden Child, he was the Democrat star, 488 00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:43,960 Speaker 4: and he knew from his early early from lateeen in 489 00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:49,720 Speaker 4: early twenties years. Somehow Ben Barnes ended up with some 490 00:28:49,760 --> 00:28:54,800 Speaker 4: sort of controlling interest, either officially or unofficially in the 491 00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:58,680 Speaker 4: lottery and got into some pretty serious problems that he 492 00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:01,880 Speaker 4: was in some way stealing money or steering money. The 493 00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:04,520 Speaker 4: whole thing is an absolute and utter scam. It's an 494 00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:07,680 Speaker 4: utter scam, and I think it probably always has been. 495 00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:10,400 Speaker 4: When we get back to the issue of property taxes, 496 00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:12,480 Speaker 4: and I'm telling you something I know you've heard a 497 00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:14,120 Speaker 4: hundred times, but I just want to say it so 498 00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:16,320 Speaker 4: people hear me say it, because I think it feels 499 00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:18,560 Speaker 4: better to know that somebody cares or that people realize. 500 00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:22,400 Speaker 4: The number one issue I hear from people that I 501 00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:25,080 Speaker 4: talk to face to face, if I'm at a cocktail 502 00:29:25,120 --> 00:29:28,000 Speaker 4: party or wherever else is property taxes. And it is 503 00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:31,560 Speaker 4: across the board what property taxes have done, how they 504 00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:34,800 Speaker 4: have shot up, and it never ends, and so people 505 00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:38,160 Speaker 4: will say things like I paid off all my debts 506 00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:40,520 Speaker 4: and I retired, and then all of a sudden, there's 507 00:29:40,520 --> 00:29:43,520 Speaker 4: this creeping property I have to have a job to 508 00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:46,520 Speaker 4: pay my property taxes to the state for a house 509 00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:50,040 Speaker 4: that I own, and there's seemingly no end in sight. 510 00:29:50,440 --> 00:29:53,240 Speaker 4: And I don't get the sense that Republicans in Austin 511 00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:57,400 Speaker 4: give a damn that they will occasionally pay lip service 512 00:29:57,440 --> 00:29:59,840 Speaker 4: to it, but by and large it is not on 513 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:01,080 Speaker 4: the agenda at all. 514 00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:03,040 Speaker 1: Is that fair to say? 515 00:30:03,760 --> 00:30:07,320 Speaker 8: Here's what everybody who listens to your show needs to understand. 516 00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:11,280 Speaker 8: You are going to see state representatives. And I'm aware 517 00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:14,320 Speaker 8: of this because I'm the one I'm actually getting copies 518 00:30:14,320 --> 00:30:17,600 Speaker 8: of these talking points. The Republicans who really do not 519 00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:21,840 Speaker 8: care about meaningful property tax relief are going to be 520 00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:24,560 Speaker 8: sending out messaging to you saying they just passed a 521 00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:29,680 Speaker 8: budget that that secures fifty one billion dollars in property 522 00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:33,960 Speaker 8: tax relief. Here's the thing, it's a complete lie. It's 523 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:38,920 Speaker 8: an absolute fabrication. And here's what they're doing. They're calculating 524 00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:43,240 Speaker 8: cumulatively all the money that has been contributed to property 525 00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:45,840 Speaker 8: tax relief ever over time that is now built into 526 00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:49,000 Speaker 8: the budget and is permanent unless you remove it, and 527 00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:52,680 Speaker 8: then they're doubling it for the biennium. Are you tracking 528 00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:55,880 Speaker 8: with me? So they're going to so the sales pitch 529 00:30:56,120 --> 00:30:58,920 Speaker 8: back on to you is yes, I know you're getting 530 00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:01,960 Speaker 8: a property tax ill that doesn't seem to be going down. 531 00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:04,800 Speaker 8: But don't believe the evidence of your eyes and ears. 532 00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:09,360 Speaker 8: Listen to me, your your duly elected state representative, and 533 00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:12,840 Speaker 8: believe that we have truly worked on solving the problem 534 00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:19,800 Speaker 8: super hard. Well, this is truly a corrupt environment of Republicans. 535 00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:22,520 Speaker 4: I mean, the Democrats are who they are. The problem 536 00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:26,480 Speaker 4: is that they have they control the Republican Party. When 537 00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:30,760 Speaker 4: Dustin Burroughs was chosen as drunk Dade's replacement, who was 538 00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:33,680 Speaker 4: basically just drunk data all over again, what was the 539 00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:35,840 Speaker 4: point of you know, throwing drunk data out if you're 540 00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:39,160 Speaker 4: just can replace him with Dustin Burrows. But once that happened, 541 00:31:39,560 --> 00:31:44,680 Speaker 4: the state reps in Houston that voted with the that 542 00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:47,760 Speaker 4: were there were more Democrats than Republicans in this thing, 543 00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:50,280 Speaker 4: they voted with the Republican with the Democrats to put 544 00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:54,160 Speaker 4: the Democrats choice in as speaker. And when that happened, 545 00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:57,400 Speaker 4: I got the text that everybody else did. That was 546 00:31:57,440 --> 00:32:00,840 Speaker 4: the same package text. They just replaced the picture from 547 00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:04,560 Speaker 4: the lobbyists and consultants in Austin on what a conservative 548 00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:06,880 Speaker 4: choice they had made, and what a great job Sam 549 00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:09,200 Speaker 4: Harlst had done, and what a great job Will Metcalf 550 00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:11,720 Speaker 4: had done, and what a great job Lacey Hull had done. 551 00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:16,280 Speaker 4: And it's so cynical, and I have to say it's frustrating. 552 00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:19,880 Speaker 4: It's debilitating because good people are out here working their 553 00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:23,200 Speaker 4: tails off and for that nonsense to happen and for 554 00:32:23,280 --> 00:32:26,720 Speaker 4: us to have to fight against them, it's frustrating. I 555 00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:29,360 Speaker 4: filibustered your time, Mitch a little, but I appreciate you listening, 556 00:32:29,360 --> 00:32:29,720 Speaker 4: my man. 557 00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:33,160 Speaker 8: God bless you. Go and see if you're state rep 558 00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:34,800 Speaker 8: voted for SB won the budget. 559 00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:36,000 Speaker 1: Thank you, brother. 560 00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:41,520 Speaker 4: It's not really good talk radio fundamentals to have somebody 561 00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:45,240 Speaker 4: on and then you answer all of the questions yourself. 562 00:32:45,280 --> 00:32:45,920 Speaker 1: And I just did