1 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:09,280 Speaker 1: It's that time time time, time, luck and load. 2 00:00:11,080 --> 00:00:17,200 Speaker 2: The Michael vari Show is on the air, and now 3 00:00:17,400 --> 00:00:20,840 Speaker 2: a totally random weekend review from the past. Take a 4 00:00:20,840 --> 00:00:26,400 Speaker 2: guess when this was. I go into Text Mex restaurant 5 00:00:26,400 --> 00:00:28,040 Speaker 2: and it blows my mind wrong and they don't have 6 00:00:28,120 --> 00:00:29,960 Speaker 2: chips and sauce and you have to ask for it, 7 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:32,680 Speaker 2: and I'm like, by God, the Russians have won. A 8 00:00:32,760 --> 00:00:35,760 Speaker 2: good Text Mex experience is to walk in and there's 9 00:00:35,760 --> 00:00:39,479 Speaker 2: some guy who doesn't wait table. He's about four or eleven. 10 00:00:39,960 --> 00:00:43,800 Speaker 2: You sit down and he slides that basket of piping 11 00:00:43,880 --> 00:00:46,440 Speaker 2: hot tortilla chips in front of him. 12 00:00:46,479 --> 00:00:50,960 Speaker 3: Oh yang Man was stabbed at a mortuary in southwest Houston. 13 00:00:51,320 --> 00:00:51,680 Speaker 2: He said. 14 00:00:51,680 --> 00:00:54,320 Speaker 1: Beliefs say that he went to look for his mother's body, 15 00:00:54,360 --> 00:00:57,120 Speaker 1: only to find several others lying in the. 16 00:00:57,200 --> 00:01:00,560 Speaker 2: Open discover their deceased love. One was left deep closing 17 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:04,000 Speaker 2: in a room with no ac She described conditions as deplorable. 18 00:01:04,240 --> 00:01:08,840 Speaker 2: They have nets, they have boxes. A confrontation broke out 19 00:01:08,840 --> 00:01:11,920 Speaker 2: with a mortuary worker. Tamara's brother was stabbed and rushed 20 00:01:11,959 --> 00:01:13,679 Speaker 2: to the hospital. Did he go in the back and 21 00:01:13,720 --> 00:01:15,880 Speaker 2: get the night? Oh? Yeah, you wanna fight me? I'm 22 00:01:15,880 --> 00:01:18,200 Speaker 2: gonna stab you and guess what when you die, your 23 00:01:18,240 --> 00:01:20,920 Speaker 2: famili's punishment is, we're going to do the funeral. No, 24 00:01:21,040 --> 00:01:21,800 Speaker 2: not that too. 25 00:01:22,440 --> 00:01:25,319 Speaker 1: Kale King wipes away its year as she rides along 26 00:01:25,360 --> 00:01:29,000 Speaker 1: with Katie Kerry and four other fellow astronauts to the 27 00:01:29,080 --> 00:01:30,640 Speaker 1: launch pad for launch. 28 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:33,000 Speaker 3: Yeah, baby, go for launch. 29 00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:34,280 Speaker 2: My favors. 30 00:01:34,760 --> 00:01:36,759 Speaker 3: When I hear people say, oh, it's just a rich 31 00:01:36,800 --> 00:01:39,039 Speaker 3: people saying, you're not looking at the bigger picture of 32 00:01:39,080 --> 00:01:40,200 Speaker 3: what is happening here. 33 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:43,480 Speaker 2: The concept of being an astronaut. These guys were the 34 00:01:43,520 --> 00:01:46,360 Speaker 2: best of the best. They were mental giants, they were 35 00:01:46,440 --> 00:01:50,680 Speaker 2: physical giants. And now we've got this cosplay of Gail King. 36 00:01:51,120 --> 00:01:56,760 Speaker 2: Anything Yale King does is therefore necessarily not impressive. We're 37 00:01:56,800 --> 00:01:59,720 Speaker 2: the prize patrol of the publishers playing now, and we 38 00:01:59,720 --> 00:02:03,240 Speaker 2: could to prize you now. Publisher's clearing house, it's filing 39 00:02:03,240 --> 00:02:06,080 Speaker 2: for Chapter eleven bankruptcy protection. You know they were still 40 00:02:06,120 --> 00:02:11,040 Speaker 2: around that whole setup. Man, I'm slogging. My life's miserable, 41 00:02:11,040 --> 00:02:15,360 Speaker 2: but maybe I'll wait the publisher's in clearinger. Happy Easter. 42 00:02:25,800 --> 00:02:33,040 Speaker 2: Let me walk through paradise with you. Take my head 43 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:38,440 Speaker 2: and read April eighteenth, what's the date? Of erring, which 44 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:43,919 Speaker 2: means that would have been the week preceding April eighteenth. 45 00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:47,200 Speaker 2: A desperate farmer ran up to me and he said, 46 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:49,360 Speaker 2: I've got sixty eight sheep, Can you round them up 47 00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:59,359 Speaker 2: for me? I said, sure, seventy. Well, I used to 48 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:08,760 Speaker 2: be skeptic of chiropractors. Now I stand corrected. What do 49 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:14,800 Speaker 2: you call karate for people with one arm? I'm not 50 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:18,440 Speaker 2: gonna tell you, because that to be audi. The pervasive 51 00:03:18,520 --> 00:03:21,400 Speaker 2: culture of corruption at the City of Houston kPr C 52 00:03:21,600 --> 00:03:27,360 Speaker 2: TV's Amy Davis. You know, I think the best investigative 53 00:03:27,440 --> 00:03:31,600 Speaker 2: unit in town today is Channel two, Mario Diaz and 54 00:03:31,639 --> 00:03:36,280 Speaker 2: Amy in terms of the material we're getting. I don't 55 00:03:36,320 --> 00:03:42,320 Speaker 2: know who's at eleven these days. The Jennifer Renn is 56 00:03:42,360 --> 00:03:45,480 Speaker 2: not an eleven issue she used to be at two, 57 00:03:46,680 --> 00:03:52,240 Speaker 2: or her finance wherever she is, is worthy of investigation. No, 58 00:03:52,520 --> 00:03:56,360 Speaker 2: the Channel eleven used to have Jeremy Ragalski. I don't 59 00:03:56,360 --> 00:03:58,720 Speaker 2: watch local news anymore. So what I know of the 60 00:03:58,720 --> 00:04:00,680 Speaker 2: local news is what Chad poll for us to use 61 00:04:00,720 --> 00:04:03,720 Speaker 2: the next day. They used to have Jeremy Rogowski, and 62 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:05,600 Speaker 2: they used to have what's our what's our buddy's name 63 00:04:05,640 --> 00:04:11,520 Speaker 2: that found the Elbert wood deal, skinny fella. He's also 64 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:13,720 Speaker 2: the one that sent us the uh huh no no, 65 00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:19,360 Speaker 2: Ted Olbert was Channel thirteen audios, mofo. Uh, what's our 66 00:04:19,400 --> 00:04:23,640 Speaker 2: buddy's name, Skinny skinny fella? He went to the DA's office. 67 00:04:24,440 --> 00:04:26,400 Speaker 2: But I'm sure he's probably not there anymore because he 68 00:04:26,440 --> 00:04:29,360 Speaker 2: was there under Kim Ogg. What happened to him? What 69 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:32,640 Speaker 2: was his name? Skinny little fella, kind of bald headed, 70 00:04:32,920 --> 00:04:38,840 Speaker 2: great guy, journalist, journalist? What was his darn name? I'm 71 00:04:38,839 --> 00:04:44,080 Speaker 2: gonna tell you in just a second. It's very compelling radio. 72 00:04:44,120 --> 00:04:46,599 Speaker 2: While I sit and try to think of a person's name. 73 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:50,840 Speaker 2: It's on the top of my It's on the tip 74 00:04:50,839 --> 00:04:54,839 Speaker 2: of my tongue. Damn it. Channel third. Who's doing investigative 75 00:04:54,880 --> 00:04:58,960 Speaker 2: work at thirteen these days? Do you know it's not 76 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:01,840 Speaker 2: Wayne dolta Fino? Although I'll tell you something. I can 77 00:05:01,880 --> 00:05:04,120 Speaker 2: go over to do Ta Fino's site and just watch 78 00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:07,599 Speaker 2: about five in a row, get my fix. He's he does. 79 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:10,640 Speaker 2: He gets the storytelling angle of it all. He gets 80 00:05:10,920 --> 00:05:13,039 Speaker 2: he gets the story telling. How much you figure he 81 00:05:13,080 --> 00:05:16,119 Speaker 2: makes doing that? I bet he makes a pretty good coin. 82 00:05:16,480 --> 00:05:19,360 Speaker 2: What do you think? I don't know he's got a 83 00:05:19,839 --> 00:05:23,279 Speaker 2: I know he's got a big crew. See, poor people 84 00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:25,960 Speaker 2: judge other people's income by how many employees you got 85 00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:30,159 Speaker 2: and whether you got a nice office. That's a dumb 86 00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:33,159 Speaker 2: way to that's a dumb way to judge. But that's 87 00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:37,960 Speaker 2: how we judge. He does some good videos, though. You 88 00:05:38,040 --> 00:05:39,520 Speaker 2: do it, man, I'll tee what. When I was on 89 00:05:39,600 --> 00:05:44,640 Speaker 2: city council, it's a horseshoe shape deal. And when dontcha 90 00:05:44,720 --> 00:05:48,000 Speaker 2: Fino would come walking in, he'd have this really really 91 00:05:48,080 --> 00:05:50,680 Speaker 2: mischievous smile on his face because he was about to 92 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:54,279 Speaker 2: burn somebody. And I knew I missed your self righteous. 93 00:05:54,440 --> 00:05:57,279 Speaker 2: That went out of my way not to do anything wrong. 94 00:05:57,720 --> 00:05:59,400 Speaker 2: So I just sit there and watch. I knew I 95 00:05:59,440 --> 00:06:01,919 Speaker 2: wasn't in trouble. But there were people that would go 96 00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:05,479 Speaker 2: to squirming and and there's a there's a door to 97 00:06:05,600 --> 00:06:07,719 Speaker 2: the back, and there's like a cloakroom in the back, 98 00:06:07,839 --> 00:06:09,280 Speaker 2: and that's where you go out there and talk about 99 00:06:09,320 --> 00:06:12,480 Speaker 2: all the crazies and but that's where the restroom was. 100 00:06:13,200 --> 00:06:14,960 Speaker 2: So I'd sit out there and watch, and I'd try 101 00:06:14,960 --> 00:06:16,799 Speaker 2: to figure out who he was gonna nail this week. 102 00:06:17,560 --> 00:06:20,040 Speaker 2: And uh, sometimes you go in the back and then 103 00:06:20,200 --> 00:06:22,400 Speaker 2: be debating. Well, I think he's you know, he called 104 00:06:22,760 --> 00:06:25,000 Speaker 2: his staff, called my staff, and they wanted to know this, 105 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:28,440 Speaker 2: this or this, And it was always fascinating to watch because, 106 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:31,160 Speaker 2: uh it was it was waiting for the other shoe 107 00:06:31,200 --> 00:06:35,200 Speaker 2: to drop, because Dolfino had shown up at city council 108 00:06:35,320 --> 00:06:40,680 Speaker 2: and somebody was going to be in trouble. Jeff McShann, Yes, 109 00:06:40,720 --> 00:06:45,160 Speaker 2: how'd you find it? Somebody called, probably Jeff mcschan. I 110 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:48,640 Speaker 2: want to make sure he got his due. He was 111 00:06:48,680 --> 00:06:51,680 Speaker 2: whose roommate? Is that true? Where'd they go to college? 112 00:06:52,680 --> 00:07:00,280 Speaker 2: His roommate for four years in college? Roommate? Roommate is 113 00:07:00,320 --> 00:07:02,560 Speaker 2: a good dude. I wonder where he ask his roommate 114 00:07:02,600 --> 00:07:06,760 Speaker 2: where he is now? I'm wondering what he's doing now. No, 115 00:07:07,240 --> 00:07:08,800 Speaker 2: I'm saying that because I know he went to the 116 00:07:08,880 --> 00:07:11,760 Speaker 2: DA's office. He left Channel leven went to the day's office. 117 00:07:11,960 --> 00:07:14,320 Speaker 2: I don't know what happened when Kim oug left. I 118 00:07:14,320 --> 00:07:17,560 Speaker 2: think he was still there when she left. The one 119 00:07:17,560 --> 00:07:20,600 Speaker 2: I always liked was Phil Archer. Phil Archer was one 120 00:07:20,640 --> 00:07:24,480 Speaker 2: funny dude. Because Phil Archer, I think Phil Archer watched 121 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:26,760 Speaker 2: a bunch of movies about being a journalist and he 122 00:07:26,920 --> 00:07:29,720 Speaker 2: just cosplayed being a journalist. Phil Archer would walk in 123 00:07:29,960 --> 00:07:31,640 Speaker 2: and there was a little there was a little media 124 00:07:31,720 --> 00:07:34,600 Speaker 2: desk right next to where I sat. Phil Arch would 125 00:07:34,600 --> 00:07:35,840 Speaker 2: walk in, he'd be sitting there and we'd be in 126 00:07:35,840 --> 00:07:37,840 Speaker 2: the middle of the meeting. His phone would go off 127 00:07:37,920 --> 00:07:39,960 Speaker 2: and he'd I think he was half hard a hearing too, 128 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:42,600 Speaker 2: because he was older by this time. He'd put it up. Yeah, 129 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:46,400 Speaker 2: but I'm not saying, counsel. No, I've not done anything. 130 00:07:46,560 --> 00:07:49,200 Speaker 2: And we can all hear him, right, everybody hearing. Clear's day. 131 00:07:49,240 --> 00:07:53,400 Speaker 2: It's deadly quiet, and we just stopped talking. No circle jark, 132 00:07:53,800 --> 00:07:56,320 Speaker 2: you know, going around. You know, everybody's congratulating each other 133 00:07:56,360 --> 00:08:02,960 Speaker 2: and Phil, we're right here. He was so cranky, just 134 00:08:03,160 --> 00:08:09,000 Speaker 2: awesomely cranky, and never in a good movie. He'd have 135 00:08:09,040 --> 00:08:10,720 Speaker 2: his cup of coffee. He looked like you just smoked 136 00:08:10,760 --> 00:08:12,360 Speaker 2: a cigarette out front of him, know if he smoke, 137 00:08:12,680 --> 00:08:15,840 Speaker 2: But that was what I imagined an old grizzled journalist should 138 00:08:15,840 --> 00:08:19,880 Speaker 2: be like. Now they're just sitting here congratulating each other. Yeah, 139 00:08:19,880 --> 00:08:21,680 Speaker 2: I see if he wrap something up and get back. 140 00:08:25,240 --> 00:08:32,280 Speaker 2: But about Thornton, is uh, his father, well, his wife 141 00:08:32,360 --> 00:08:36,719 Speaker 2: actually ex wife, that hot blonde says you know it's 142 00:08:36,760 --> 00:08:39,160 Speaker 2: not right. Your dad's at this old hotel that's a 143 00:08:39,720 --> 00:08:42,920 Speaker 2: old folks home. He doesn't have many sunsets left. He 144 00:08:42,960 --> 00:08:45,079 Speaker 2: just sits out and stairs at So we're going to 145 00:08:45,120 --> 00:08:48,600 Speaker 2: bring him here live with us. So they go get 146 00:08:48,679 --> 00:08:52,360 Speaker 2: him and he's sitting out back and Bill about Thornton 147 00:08:52,480 --> 00:08:56,000 Speaker 2: is leaving for the day to go into the drama 148 00:08:56,080 --> 00:08:59,319 Speaker 2: that his daily life, and he says, you know you 149 00:08:59,480 --> 00:09:02,000 Speaker 2: sit out here. So what I want to do? He said, well, 150 00:09:02,080 --> 00:09:05,720 Speaker 2: you just watch a TV show like The View, And 151 00:09:05,760 --> 00:09:09,720 Speaker 2: so his dad, played by Sam Elliott, says, I don't 152 00:09:09,760 --> 00:09:13,320 Speaker 2: know what the View is? What's that? And Tommy, which 153 00:09:13,320 --> 00:09:16,880 Speaker 2: is Billy Bob Thornton's character, says, he explains it thusly, 154 00:09:17,080 --> 00:09:21,760 Speaker 2: quote a bunch of pissed off millionaires bitching about how 155 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:26,360 Speaker 2: they hate millionaires and Trump and men and you and 156 00:09:26,360 --> 00:09:28,920 Speaker 2: me and everybody else. They got to be up there 157 00:09:28,960 --> 00:09:33,240 Speaker 2: ass about it's pretty funny. Is that great writing or what? 158 00:09:34,200 --> 00:09:37,360 Speaker 2: Here's this guy that works like a dog all day 159 00:09:37,400 --> 00:09:39,880 Speaker 2: every day. So he's cynical about everything. He's got to 160 00:09:39,960 --> 00:09:43,360 Speaker 2: drive for words and drive the Midland and drive Odessa. 161 00:09:44,160 --> 00:09:47,200 Speaker 2: Stuff's blowing up, people getting killed, drama, his kid's trying 162 00:09:47,200 --> 00:09:49,920 Speaker 2: to marry this one. It's all, you know. His wife's 163 00:09:49,920 --> 00:09:52,080 Speaker 2: trying to host these fancy dinners and he just wants 164 00:09:52,080 --> 00:09:55,720 Speaker 2: to come home. So he goes to the patch it 165 00:09:55,760 --> 00:09:58,320 Speaker 2: has a beer, just have a moment of peace and quiet. 166 00:09:58,720 --> 00:10:03,240 Speaker 2: The company's bankrupt. Yeah, I watched the view, dad. What's 167 00:10:03,280 --> 00:10:08,360 Speaker 2: the view? A bunch of pissed off millionaires bitching about 168 00:10:08,400 --> 00:10:10,520 Speaker 2: how much they hate million I'm sorry, A bunch of 169 00:10:10,559 --> 00:10:14,439 Speaker 2: pissed off millionaires bitching about how much they hate millionaires 170 00:10:14,920 --> 00:10:18,360 Speaker 2: and Trump and men and you and me and everybody else. 171 00:10:18,400 --> 00:10:20,640 Speaker 2: They got to be up there ass about. It's pretty funny. 172 00:10:21,480 --> 00:10:25,320 Speaker 2: That's classy, right there. Have you seen women? It's good? 173 00:10:25,360 --> 00:10:27,520 Speaker 2: You see any of it at all? Oh my goodness, 174 00:10:27,760 --> 00:10:30,840 Speaker 2: it's fantastic. I love it. I'll have to hear about 175 00:10:30,840 --> 00:10:34,679 Speaker 2: it from some repressed lady that'll say, oh my god, 176 00:10:34,679 --> 00:10:37,520 Speaker 2: I can't well. Ay, those women are so salati. They're fine. 177 00:10:37,600 --> 00:10:39,160 Speaker 2: I don't care what you say. They're nice to look 178 00:10:39,200 --> 00:10:41,760 Speaker 2: at fellas like to look at pretty women. I don't care. 179 00:10:42,520 --> 00:10:46,840 Speaker 2: Apparently that's sinful or awful or whatever else. They're sexy 180 00:10:46,880 --> 00:10:49,079 Speaker 2: as all get out. And any guy who doesn't admit 181 00:10:49,160 --> 00:10:53,480 Speaker 2: that uh is lying. Michael taff has declared for the 182 00:10:53,559 --> 00:10:57,360 Speaker 2: NFL draft. Well that ain't worth a damn but you 183 00:10:57,400 --> 00:10:59,160 Speaker 2: know what, good for you, buddy, you earned it. I 184 00:10:59,160 --> 00:11:03,199 Speaker 2: hope you get a big payday, a big what plush 185 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:08,680 Speaker 2: protections number sixteen? Yeah? I think his dad played I 186 00:11:08,720 --> 00:11:10,400 Speaker 2: know his dad played college ball. I think his dad 187 00:11:10,400 --> 00:11:13,760 Speaker 2: played pro ball as well. What's that? Yeah? You declare? 188 00:11:13,920 --> 00:11:17,360 Speaker 2: Ramon has declared, well, what's your height? Weight? What you're 189 00:11:17,400 --> 00:11:22,000 Speaker 2: looking at? Six foot? Well you ain't six foot, diego Povia? 190 00:11:22,040 --> 00:11:25,360 Speaker 2: You maybe five point ten? What's your weight right now? 191 00:11:25,640 --> 00:11:29,320 Speaker 2: Two forty? You are two twenty? Off season? You're not 192 00:11:29,360 --> 00:11:31,440 Speaker 2: on your fighting weight? Okay? All right? The pound a 193 00:11:31,480 --> 00:11:33,240 Speaker 2: pound here that down here is not bad? Eight ain't 194 00:11:33,240 --> 00:11:35,800 Speaker 2: three eighty? How about that? Yeah? Slim down? All right? 195 00:11:35,840 --> 00:11:38,600 Speaker 2: Off season? Yeah, if it's third and a mile, we 196 00:11:38,600 --> 00:11:40,839 Speaker 2: won't give it to him. Okay, and then, uh, what 197 00:11:41,120 --> 00:11:43,079 Speaker 2: are your what are your vitals? What's your forty time? 198 00:11:43,120 --> 00:11:46,160 Speaker 2: Would you guess? Jump pretty high? You a good article? Okay? 199 00:11:46,160 --> 00:11:50,160 Speaker 2: What about your forty time? What would you say for that? Eventually? Okay? Yeah, 200 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:54,840 Speaker 2: I like that, that's good. What is forty time? Eventually? Okay? 201 00:11:54,840 --> 00:11:56,599 Speaker 2: All right I like that. How about your bench? What 202 00:11:57,160 --> 00:12:01,000 Speaker 2: do you wait? Oh, wouldn't one? Okay? All right? And 203 00:12:02,040 --> 00:12:06,000 Speaker 2: how about your dead lift? What do you got on now? Yeah? Yeah, 204 00:12:06,720 --> 00:12:09,400 Speaker 2: acuse secrets? Okay, all right? Were you O line or 205 00:12:09,440 --> 00:12:11,640 Speaker 2: D line for the sting of rease? You did both? 206 00:12:11,640 --> 00:12:15,360 Speaker 2: You were too too okay, but yeah, okay. How many 207 00:12:15,400 --> 00:12:18,680 Speaker 2: wins did y'all have your senior year? You don't remember? 208 00:12:19,200 --> 00:12:23,079 Speaker 2: Was it any? And it was? Okay? Two years later? 209 00:12:23,120 --> 00:12:24,720 Speaker 2: You want state? So once they got rid of you, 210 00:12:25,480 --> 00:12:30,080 Speaker 2: once they got rid of the dead weight they is 211 00:12:30,080 --> 00:12:32,800 Speaker 2: that true? Your senior year you dumped football, the one 212 00:12:32,880 --> 00:12:34,840 Speaker 2: year you could have had some glory, and you choose band. 213 00:12:34,840 --> 00:12:36,560 Speaker 2: What was your instrm? You were on the drum, weren't you? 214 00:12:36,640 --> 00:12:38,720 Speaker 2: They always put the big boy on the drum. Hey, 215 00:12:38,720 --> 00:12:41,160 Speaker 2: you're fat? You do the drum? Wait a second? What 216 00:12:42,600 --> 00:12:45,000 Speaker 2: you could carry it? Yeah? Okay, you already carried enough weight. 217 00:12:45,200 --> 00:12:47,360 Speaker 2: Like here, here's another one. You had the big one 218 00:12:47,360 --> 00:12:51,920 Speaker 2: to boom boom boom. Oh you're on the xylophone, ain't it. 219 00:12:52,640 --> 00:12:54,079 Speaker 2: I know I'm not making fun of you. I think 220 00:12:54,120 --> 00:12:56,520 Speaker 2: that's cool. That. Good on you, Good on you. What 221 00:12:56,559 --> 00:12:58,360 Speaker 2: do you call that? Is that the snare, the big, 222 00:12:58,440 --> 00:13:01,880 Speaker 2: the big, the based. Okay, that always felt like it 223 00:13:01,920 --> 00:13:04,000 Speaker 2: would be fun, right at first, the ba boom boom 224 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:06,320 Speaker 2: and you're coming in everybody. That's the one thing everybody 225 00:13:06,320 --> 00:13:08,680 Speaker 2: in the whole stadium can hear. Ba boom boom boom. 226 00:13:08,720 --> 00:13:10,800 Speaker 2: But it seems like after all that'd get real old. 227 00:13:11,760 --> 00:13:14,280 Speaker 2: And then when the band is at rest, there's always 228 00:13:14,320 --> 00:13:17,240 Speaker 2: that guy over and he's holding it up. Yeah. When 229 00:13:17,240 --> 00:13:19,800 Speaker 2: I was in high school, we had something went through 230 00:13:19,840 --> 00:13:22,840 Speaker 2: the band. I'd never seen this before. They decided they 231 00:13:22,840 --> 00:13:25,800 Speaker 2: were going to start passing out, and so the principal 232 00:13:26,160 --> 00:13:28,600 Speaker 2: had a like a meeting after the third or fourth 233 00:13:28,640 --> 00:13:30,640 Speaker 2: game because we had members of the band that would 234 00:13:30,640 --> 00:13:33,880 Speaker 2: pass out and it was becoming a huge distraction. And 235 00:13:34,720 --> 00:13:36,400 Speaker 2: is that yeah, I guess because they locked their knees 236 00:13:36,520 --> 00:13:38,240 Speaker 2: or it became a cool thing to do or something. 237 00:13:38,320 --> 00:13:40,960 Speaker 2: Give them some water or something. How about y'all, y'all 238 00:13:41,040 --> 00:13:44,319 Speaker 2: not go out there if you're going to do that. Ramon, 239 00:13:44,360 --> 00:13:46,439 Speaker 2: are you a show band guy or you a military 240 00:13:46,480 --> 00:13:50,800 Speaker 2: band guy? Show band me too? Oh, Ocean of Soul 241 00:13:50,840 --> 00:13:52,600 Speaker 2: is something else. You're not just saying that because they're black. 242 00:13:53,440 --> 00:13:57,880 Speaker 2: My goodness alive. That is that's something to behold. The 243 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:02,000 Speaker 2: halftime show of the T s U Band. Forget the 244 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:05,200 Speaker 2: football team, that is a show. They stopped fighting in 245 00:14:05,240 --> 00:14:07,160 Speaker 2: the stands during halftime to watch it. That's how good 246 00:14:07,160 --> 00:14:09,960 Speaker 2: they are. That's true. If there's a fight or whatever, 247 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:13,599 Speaker 2: they're like, hold on, hope own. The band's about to 248 00:14:13,640 --> 00:14:17,000 Speaker 2: go on, and that band will show out. I always 249 00:14:17,080 --> 00:14:18,960 Speaker 2: like my brother was in band, so we would always 250 00:14:18,960 --> 00:14:21,400 Speaker 2: go to the band competitions, and I actually enjoyed it 251 00:14:21,600 --> 00:14:24,400 Speaker 2: even though it was always hot. That's what I mostly 252 00:14:24,400 --> 00:14:26,800 Speaker 2: remember about being a kid is everything was hot all time. 253 00:14:27,440 --> 00:14:31,920 Speaker 2: And Orangefield had a show band and my brother always 254 00:14:31,920 --> 00:14:33,640 Speaker 2: had a solo so we were very proud of him. 255 00:14:34,160 --> 00:14:38,600 Speaker 2: And they did. You'll never walk Alone one time and 256 00:14:38,640 --> 00:14:42,200 Speaker 2: there he is a he's a trumpet teer and he's 257 00:14:42,280 --> 00:14:46,640 Speaker 2: wrapping it off. But the military bands the first time 258 00:14:46,680 --> 00:14:49,760 Speaker 2: you see him like a really good one. Even today, 259 00:14:49,800 --> 00:14:53,240 Speaker 2: if I see a college universe here watch A and M. 260 00:14:53,560 --> 00:14:56,480 Speaker 2: That's something else, man, that's who that is top tier 261 00:14:56,600 --> 00:15:04,920 Speaker 2: right there, Michael Barry's shows. I'm trying to figure out 262 00:15:07,040 --> 00:15:12,360 Speaker 2: why Taff announced for the draft. If he is a 263 00:15:12,400 --> 00:15:17,800 Speaker 2: red shirt senior and Chad posited, maybe he has an 264 00:15:17,840 --> 00:15:21,760 Speaker 2: extra year of eligibility because of the COVID season, because 265 00:15:21,760 --> 00:15:24,640 Speaker 2: there are guys who qualified for that. I don't know, 266 00:15:24,640 --> 00:15:29,360 Speaker 2: it's just a guess somebody out there knows. No, don't 267 00:15:29,360 --> 00:15:31,560 Speaker 2: call Matt Thomas, he won't know. That's not his area 268 00:15:31,560 --> 00:15:39,440 Speaker 2: of expertise. But pretty impressive run for the kid from 269 00:15:39,800 --> 00:15:44,840 Speaker 2: walk on from was it Westlake to All American, I'd 270 00:15:44,880 --> 00:15:47,640 Speaker 2: say that's a pretty big deal. I'd say that that's 271 00:15:47,640 --> 00:15:52,880 Speaker 2: a pretty good run. Did you know his dad? His 272 00:15:53,080 --> 00:16:00,280 Speaker 2: dad used to be a law partner of Tony Busby. Yeah. Story, 273 00:16:01,040 --> 00:16:05,120 Speaker 2: and he went to Austin Westlake and walked on to 274 00:16:07,600 --> 00:16:15,040 Speaker 2: University of Texas. No small deal and obviously now an 275 00:16:15,240 --> 00:16:21,320 Speaker 2: NFL prospect, smart player too. But Chad's theory and maybe 276 00:16:21,400 --> 00:16:24,720 Speaker 2: something to this, well, I don't know why they would 277 00:16:24,760 --> 00:16:28,520 Speaker 2: announce that he's declaring for the draft if he is 278 00:16:29,120 --> 00:16:32,320 Speaker 2: a senior with no eligibility left anyway, unless he has 279 00:16:32,360 --> 00:16:34,560 Speaker 2: an extra year of eligibility, and so this is his 280 00:16:34,640 --> 00:16:37,800 Speaker 2: way of telling the team, go recruit somebody for my position. 281 00:16:38,720 --> 00:16:41,960 Speaker 2: But Ramon pointed out at the end of the last game, 282 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:45,400 Speaker 2: he was sitting down at the end of the end 283 00:16:45,480 --> 00:16:47,600 Speaker 2: zone and they were sitting there. I can't remember who 284 00:16:47,600 --> 00:16:50,920 Speaker 2: he's with, and they were taking it in. The announcer said, 285 00:16:51,160 --> 00:16:54,200 Speaker 2: this is the last time he'll be in this stadium. 286 00:16:54,520 --> 00:16:56,800 Speaker 2: He's just taking it all in. And that was the 287 00:16:56,840 --> 00:16:59,200 Speaker 2: Aggie game and they went out with the win over 288 00:16:59,240 --> 00:17:03,080 Speaker 2: the Aggies, which for him, obviously you'd rather make the playoffs, 289 00:17:03,200 --> 00:17:05,199 Speaker 2: but that would be a feather in his cap. He 290 00:17:05,200 --> 00:17:09,280 Speaker 2: would be happy about that. Speaking of great University of 291 00:17:09,320 --> 00:17:14,760 Speaker 2: Texas Longhorns B Jean Robinson eighth pick after the twenty 292 00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:22,240 Speaker 2: two season Doak Walker Award Absolute stud Before I play 293 00:17:22,320 --> 00:17:29,600 Speaker 2: this clip, were too keen to cancel people for saying 294 00:17:29,640 --> 00:17:32,720 Speaker 2: things that happened to be true. So let me ask 295 00:17:32,800 --> 00:17:36,800 Speaker 2: you this. In your neighborhood, wherever you grew up, whenever 296 00:17:36,880 --> 00:17:40,800 Speaker 2: you grew up years in the past, did you have 297 00:17:40,880 --> 00:17:43,800 Speaker 2: a game where you would take a football, although it 298 00:17:43,800 --> 00:17:45,719 Speaker 2: didn't actually have to be a football, could have been 299 00:17:45,720 --> 00:17:48,919 Speaker 2: any kind of ball. The football was where it originated, 300 00:17:49,400 --> 00:17:51,840 Speaker 2: and you would hand the ball or you would have 301 00:17:51,880 --> 00:17:55,879 Speaker 2: the balls. Whoever grabbed the ball would run and it 302 00:17:55,920 --> 00:17:58,480 Speaker 2: didn't require a lot of organization because whoever had the ball, 303 00:17:59,160 --> 00:18:06,639 Speaker 2: everyone else would tackle him. And the most common name 304 00:18:07,320 --> 00:18:10,440 Speaker 2: for that game, and then once he was tackled, he 305 00:18:10,520 --> 00:18:12,280 Speaker 2: threw the ball up whoever got it. Then they began 306 00:18:12,400 --> 00:18:14,560 Speaker 2: to run and it would just carry on until the 307 00:18:14,640 --> 00:18:17,120 Speaker 2: last person was so exhausted they couldn't stand up. Right. 308 00:18:18,560 --> 00:18:22,280 Speaker 2: What did you call that game? I can tell you 309 00:18:23,040 --> 00:18:26,160 Speaker 2: across the country what I suspect the number one name 310 00:18:26,400 --> 00:18:33,679 Speaker 2: for that game was well Vijon was On was On 311 00:18:33,880 --> 00:18:37,359 Speaker 2: after he had a monster game. He was asked after 312 00:18:37,400 --> 00:18:43,720 Speaker 2: the game Thursday Night Football. He described it as like 313 00:18:44,080 --> 00:18:48,080 Speaker 2: that game. Here's the moment you had when he threw 314 00:18:48,119 --> 00:19:05,639 Speaker 2: it to smear the queer. Okay, if that is offensive 315 00:19:05,800 --> 00:19:09,120 Speaker 2: to someone, First of all, I don't think the word 316 00:19:09,200 --> 00:19:11,760 Speaker 2: queer is actually offensive to anyone. I think the people. 317 00:19:12,240 --> 00:19:15,640 Speaker 2: The problem is, there are people who try to make 318 00:19:15,680 --> 00:19:21,320 Speaker 2: a name for themselves by creating a tense moment, and 319 00:19:21,640 --> 00:19:25,000 Speaker 2: the Internet makes this much worse. They just run around 320 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:28,040 Speaker 2: trying to cancel people, trying to create this drama. Hey, 321 00:19:28,080 --> 00:19:31,840 Speaker 2: so and so said this over here because the doings 322 00:19:32,040 --> 00:19:36,200 Speaker 2: of the real world are not interesting enough. They want 323 00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:38,200 Speaker 2: to be the moment. They want to be the one 324 00:19:38,240 --> 00:19:43,159 Speaker 2: who caught someone saying something bad. Was Bjon Robinson in 325 00:19:43,320 --> 00:19:52,080 Speaker 2: some way insulting things insulting homosexuals. No, he wasn't. By 326 00:19:52,080 --> 00:19:55,720 Speaker 2: the way, he's black, so stop being racist. That is 327 00:19:55,760 --> 00:19:59,959 Speaker 2: a term that was widely used and I don't need 328 00:20:01,359 --> 00:20:04,920 Speaker 2: I don't even think anybody meant it to be an 329 00:20:04,920 --> 00:20:08,040 Speaker 2: insulting term. We could ask gay Dave, but gay Dave's 330 00:20:08,080 --> 00:20:11,680 Speaker 2: not offended by anything ever, but he could pass muster 331 00:20:11,800 --> 00:20:15,000 Speaker 2: on it. So anyway, that's what kids in the seventies 332 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:19,040 Speaker 2: and eighties called the term. I saw somebody post on 333 00:20:19,160 --> 00:20:23,880 Speaker 2: a sports feed like Tiger Droppings or one of those, 334 00:20:23,920 --> 00:20:25,600 Speaker 2: and said, what did y'all call this? And there was 335 00:20:25,640 --> 00:20:27,760 Speaker 2: a video of it, and smear the queer was the 336 00:20:27,840 --> 00:20:32,920 Speaker 2: number one reference to it, and number two was kill 337 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:36,119 Speaker 2: the man or something else, and that was also used 338 00:20:36,240 --> 00:20:42,639 Speaker 2: pretty pretty commonly. Okay, all right, so maybe people won't 339 00:20:42,680 --> 00:20:46,399 Speaker 2: call it that in the future. Although anyway, so b 340 00:20:46,560 --> 00:20:51,240 Speaker 2: Jon Robinson issues an apology as if he's done something 341 00:20:51,400 --> 00:20:59,200 Speaker 2: horrible for using the term as it was used back then. Whatever, Well, anyway, 342 00:20:59,200 --> 00:21:01,080 Speaker 2: that's all we're going to talk about. That. That's just 343 00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:05,159 Speaker 2: absolutely stupid, speaking of far left nut jobs that just 344 00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:07,439 Speaker 2: want to be upset over everybody. Let's check in with 345 00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:12,320 Speaker 2: our boy, Timmy wats On this week's podcast, Timmy. 346 00:21:12,040 --> 00:21:20,280 Speaker 3: Wolf, Timmy Walston, It's the Timmy Walt PODCASHO, Hello America, 347 00:21:20,960 --> 00:21:22,720 Speaker 3: it's your boy, Timmy Walls. 348 00:21:22,960 --> 00:21:26,800 Speaker 2: And boy am I in a tiffy? So listen. 349 00:21:26,880 --> 00:21:29,439 Speaker 1: It's the holiday season, and of course I'm in my element, 350 00:21:29,560 --> 00:21:33,800 Speaker 1: snacking on some walnuts, drinking my wastle, watching the Hallmark Channel, 351 00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:36,320 Speaker 1: and then I flip over to my favorite sport like 352 00:21:36,359 --> 00:21:39,119 Speaker 1: the old ball coach tends to do, and that's football. 353 00:21:40,040 --> 00:21:42,760 Speaker 2: But did you see this? Yeah, I'm looking at you, 354 00:21:43,320 --> 00:21:44,600 Speaker 2: Bjeon Robinson. 355 00:21:44,840 --> 00:21:47,080 Speaker 1: Santa Claus is coming to town, and he's got a 356 00:21:47,119 --> 00:21:49,400 Speaker 1: big o' lump of coal and your giant stocking. 357 00:21:49,480 --> 00:21:52,200 Speaker 2: Mister. Yeah, did he have a big game? Check? Was 358 00:21:52,240 --> 00:21:54,600 Speaker 2: he player of the game? Check? And did he say 359 00:21:54,680 --> 00:21:58,320 Speaker 2: something that rubbed me the wrong way? Well? Check, check check. 360 00:21:58,720 --> 00:22:02,119 Speaker 1: Listen, Bjeon, a big, bad, beautiful football player. But what 361 00:22:02,240 --> 00:22:04,280 Speaker 1: you said makes as much sense as a penny at 362 00:22:04,280 --> 00:22:08,359 Speaker 1: the grocery store. Everybody knows. The NFL doesn't smear it queer, 363 00:22:08,760 --> 00:22:14,320 Speaker 1: they embrace it. Don't believe me. Roll the tape dicks 364 00:22:14,359 --> 00:22:15,760 Speaker 1: get so much needed blow. 365 00:22:16,359 --> 00:22:18,920 Speaker 2: Or cushion for the pushing they say. They always say 366 00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:22,600 Speaker 2: that about you. Mark. He is a thick wide receiver 367 00:22:23,280 --> 00:22:27,040 Speaker 2: who is powerful from the waist down. Everybody loves sticking 368 00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:30,040 Speaker 2: around the league. Jeff's Saturday loved the double tap. He 369 00:22:30,119 --> 00:22:33,879 Speaker 2: loved me constantly spiking him right. Oh, that's a big load. 370 00:22:34,640 --> 00:22:39,119 Speaker 2: Tyron Williams, he beats cocks deepest penetration of the night. 371 00:22:39,520 --> 00:22:41,080 Speaker 2: Needed too thrusts to get it in. 372 00:22:41,359 --> 00:22:43,040 Speaker 1: That's how I do it, too, like a chain around 373 00:22:43,080 --> 00:22:43,840 Speaker 1: the back of my neck. 374 00:22:44,520 --> 00:22:45,800 Speaker 2: That's exactly how I do it. 375 00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:50,920 Speaker 1: Like Shane, you are bo seebe Jean told you Ruth 376 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:51,960 Speaker 1: is in the banana pudding. 377 00:22:52,080 --> 00:22:54,720 Speaker 2: Whoop, gotta run love. Actually, he's about to come on. 378 00:22:54,960 --> 00:22:55,640 Speaker 2: That's my fave. 379 00:22:56,200 --> 00:22:58,719 Speaker 1: Merry Christmas, everybody, I feel it. 380 00:22:59,320 --> 00:23:00,199 Speaker 2: I'm bak the. 381 00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:07,360 Speaker 1: Quarterus W twenty five package and you get it all 382 00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:09,800 Speaker 1: fiberglass hood with air grabbing scoop. 383 00:23:10,080 --> 00:23:14,680 Speaker 2: Mit the Michael Berry fucking hood. Bens Shunsmobile escaped from 384 00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:23,800 Speaker 2: the ordinary going over the moons draft stock. Bobby Crumpley says, 385 00:23:23,840 --> 00:23:26,080 Speaker 2: does Ramon have a high motor? The NFL seems to 386 00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:29,760 Speaker 2: like that. We should call at Zerlin and have him 387 00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:36,520 Speaker 2: review tape of you. That'd be as sec man. You know, 388 00:23:36,640 --> 00:23:38,640 Speaker 2: I've never I told him one time. I said, Lince, 389 00:23:38,680 --> 00:23:43,240 Speaker 2: I don't get you. You got the second best impersonation 390 00:23:43,400 --> 00:23:46,920 Speaker 2: in town. You got the second best character on Houston 391 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:51,920 Speaker 2: radio behind Shirley Cue Lickor, and you don't do it. 392 00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:56,360 Speaker 2: I will never understand. Why hide your light under a bushel? 393 00:23:56,440 --> 00:23:59,760 Speaker 2: That was good? What was it Coxslaughter? What was first? 394 00:24:00,119 --> 00:24:04,280 Speaker 2: The guy's first name, Tom doctor Tom Man. That was 395 00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:09,359 Speaker 2: a character right there. Joe Flanagan says, Jay Ray is 396 00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:14,320 Speaker 2: indeed the traffic beauty trollope. Traffic trollope at Channel eleven. 397 00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:18,640 Speaker 2: Trollope's a good thing. I guess I watch her and 398 00:24:18,720 --> 00:24:21,639 Speaker 2: that smoking hot blonde Cheetah Craft every morning before I 399 00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:25,320 Speaker 2: get out of bed. Somebody else said she's at Channel 400 00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:27,800 Speaker 2: eleven as well, so I guess she is in fact 401 00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:31,159 Speaker 2: at Channel eleven. Will have to take their word for that. 402 00:24:32,119 --> 00:24:35,640 Speaker 2: The pervasive culture of corruption at the City of Houston. 403 00:24:36,080 --> 00:24:39,560 Speaker 2: kPr C TV's Amy Davis digs into the credit card 404 00:24:39,600 --> 00:24:43,359 Speaker 2: statements of city council members and finds that Edward Pollard 405 00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:48,520 Speaker 2: and Tiffany Thomas think that they're somehow rock stars on 406 00:24:48,560 --> 00:24:53,720 Speaker 2: the taxpayer's dollars. kPr C TV with the story free. 407 00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:58,040 Speaker 4: Turkeys for families in a league a much needed gift 408 00:24:58,080 --> 00:24:59,280 Speaker 4: at the end of a rough year. 409 00:24:59,560 --> 00:25:01,719 Speaker 2: We are a little bit behind on rent. We had 410 00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:05,120 Speaker 2: the only pay half because we still had some purchase leave. 411 00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:07,680 Speaker 5: And no family should have to worry about a holiday 412 00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:08,880 Speaker 5: meal as certainly not. 413 00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:09,639 Speaker 2: On the West Side. 414 00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:12,720 Speaker 4: Council Member Tiffany Thomas spread the word about this Turkey 415 00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:16,200 Speaker 4: drive she helped organize for District F, but she wasn't 416 00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:18,760 Speaker 4: as eager to talk with two investigates about charges she 417 00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:21,760 Speaker 4: racked up on her city issued credit card forty five, 418 00:25:22,359 --> 00:25:24,800 Speaker 4: nine hundred and eighty one dollars in twenty twenty four, 419 00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:27,679 Speaker 4: more than any other council member, and she's leading the 420 00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:29,240 Speaker 4: pack in twenty five as well. 421 00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:30,719 Speaker 2: So what's she buying? 422 00:25:31,119 --> 00:25:34,560 Speaker 4: Twenty five percent of her charges paid for travel ten 423 00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:37,879 Speaker 4: flights in twenty twenty four and six between January and 424 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:42,919 Speaker 4: July of this year DC Tampa, Cleveland, New Orleans, Mexico City, 425 00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:45,320 Speaker 4: and we noticed this charge for a flight to the 426 00:25:45,320 --> 00:25:49,240 Speaker 4: Bahamas and a stay at the Atlantis Bahamas Resort in July. 427 00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:54,359 Speaker 4: Thomas told me she canceled the trip because Hurricane Barrel 428 00:25:54,440 --> 00:25:57,520 Speaker 4: hit days earlier. She didn't want to leave Houston, while 429 00:25:57,600 --> 00:26:00,159 Speaker 4: most of her district was still in the dark. But 430 00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:04,240 Speaker 4: what city business did Thomas have in the Bahamas? By phone, 431 00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:06,960 Speaker 4: she told me she was asked to speak at a conference, 432 00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:10,160 Speaker 4: but she couldn't remember who was hosting it. This helped 433 00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:13,200 Speaker 4: jogger memory. Prairieview A and M held its forty sixth 434 00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:17,560 Speaker 4: annual alumni convention at the Atlantis Bahamas Resort. Thomas teaches 435 00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:21,360 Speaker 4: at Prairieview, and when she wasn't flying, she was smiling. 436 00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:24,800 Speaker 4: City purchase card statements show Councilmember Thomas paid dots in 437 00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:28,879 Speaker 4: photography thirty eight times from twenty three through twenty five. 438 00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:32,720 Speaker 4: This year, she paid another photographer sixteen hundred dollars a 439 00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:35,960 Speaker 4: total of nearly ten grand for pictures and videos. When 440 00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:38,320 Speaker 4: we asked her about the charges, she emailed that she 441 00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:42,919 Speaker 4: invests in photography services to ensure residents can see their tax. 442 00:26:42,720 --> 00:26:43,560 Speaker 2: Dollars at work. 443 00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:48,639 Speaker 4: Separately, her communications manager emailed Councilmember Thomas did not travel 444 00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:51,600 Speaker 4: to the Bahamas due to a natural disaster. Although the 445 00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:55,000 Speaker 4: flight was booked, it was later reimbursed. At this point, 446 00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:58,200 Speaker 4: we will no longer entertain additional scrutiny of line item 447 00:26:58,240 --> 00:27:02,000 Speaker 4: expenses based on the unfound perception that council member Thomas 448 00:27:02,080 --> 00:27:03,000 Speaker 4: lacks integrity. 449 00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:05,440 Speaker 5: This is the taxpayer's money and they have the right 450 00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:07,560 Speaker 5: to know how it's spent and why it's being spent. 451 00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:11,000 Speaker 4: Peter Cohling teaches public budgeting at the University of Houston 452 00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:12,520 Speaker 4: Hobby School of Public Affairs. 453 00:27:12,760 --> 00:27:17,480 Speaker 5: Transparency, transparency, transparency. If you're going to give people flexibility 454 00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:20,919 Speaker 5: in what they're spending, I think the other side of 455 00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:22,840 Speaker 5: that coin is transparency. 456 00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:25,360 Speaker 4: One thing that's very clear in these credit card statements 457 00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:28,919 Speaker 4: is the dramatic difference and how little some city council 458 00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:30,840 Speaker 4: members spend compared to their counterparts. 459 00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:32,639 Speaker 2: But we just try to be really good stewards of 460 00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:33,479 Speaker 2: our tax dollars. 461 00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:36,959 Speaker 4: For district, A council member Amy Peck charged just two thousand, 462 00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:40,000 Speaker 4: six hundred and ninety nine dollars for all of twenty 463 00:27:40,040 --> 00:27:42,600 Speaker 4: twenty four. We just try to do as much as 464 00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:45,600 Speaker 4: we can with less. We ask other departments to do 465 00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:48,359 Speaker 4: the same, so it's important that we do that as well. 466 00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:51,240 Speaker 4: Pax says she doesn't use tax dollars to travel, and 467 00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:53,960 Speaker 4: she needs to fly somewhere to represent her district. She 468 00:27:54,119 --> 00:27:58,320 Speaker 4: uses campaign funds instead. Other council members who didn't charge 469 00:27:58,359 --> 00:28:02,760 Speaker 4: any flights in twenty four council member Abbie Kaman, Sally Alcorn, 470 00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:06,720 Speaker 4: and Julian Ramirez. The most frequent flyer on City Council 471 00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:10,160 Speaker 4: is District Jay's Edward Pollard. Half of the thirty two 472 00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:14,120 Speaker 4: thousand dollars he charged last year paid for travel twelve 473 00:28:14,119 --> 00:28:17,520 Speaker 4: flights to d C, New York, Tampa, and a trip 474 00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:20,200 Speaker 4: to Guatemala for himself and his chief of staff. 475 00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:24,359 Speaker 5: Sometimes you even go overseas to attract business and investment 476 00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:27,280 Speaker 5: and all of that, I think as a reasonable expense, 477 00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:29,400 Speaker 5: you know, make sure you're doing it for the right reasons, 478 00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:31,600 Speaker 5: not just a junket exactly. 479 00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:34,320 Speaker 4: Pollard wouldn't talk with me for this story. His chief 480 00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:36,960 Speaker 4: of staff told me the trip to Guatemala was approved 481 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:40,520 Speaker 4: in twenty three under Mayor Sylvester Turner for travel. In 482 00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:44,120 Speaker 4: twenty four, Pollard posted pictures of the trip on social media, 483 00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:48,120 Speaker 4: writing that he was developing relationships with the leadership at Guatemala. 484 00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:49,720 Speaker 2: Constituents are torn. 485 00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:52,680 Speaker 4: These flights are not benefiting our community at all. 486 00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:55,760 Speaker 2: Is it ILLEGALP it's not illegal, then I don't see 487 00:28:55,800 --> 00:28:57,479 Speaker 2: an issue as long as it's not you know, on 488 00:28:57,520 --> 00:28:59,840 Speaker 2: her personal time to go on vacations or displays or 489 00:28:59,840 --> 00:29:05,360 Speaker 2: something like that. I wouldn't see anything wrong with it. Oh, 490 00:29:05,440 --> 00:29:10,320 Speaker 2: and you get the government you deserve. Why pay for 491 00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:15,800 Speaker 2: any travel using city dollars. There's nobody that believes that 492 00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:21,520 Speaker 2: there is a city councilman flying to Guatemala negotiating trade 493 00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:27,400 Speaker 2: deals to come to Houston. Really, there's a Guatemalan company 494 00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:33,719 Speaker 2: out there, and they're going, well, let's see. Hm. You know, 495 00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:37,720 Speaker 2: we're a powerhouse company, got the world at our feet. 496 00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:43,600 Speaker 2: Not sure where we're going to invest our billions. We're 497 00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:50,719 Speaker 2: thinking because of Chinese automation, might go there in cheap labor. 498 00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:57,000 Speaker 2: The Japanese have some really impressive systems, might go there. 499 00:29:58,240 --> 00:30:02,720 Speaker 2: There is the German precision instrumentation. We're looking at that. 500 00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:08,560 Speaker 2: But there's also the city of Houston, because we're talking 501 00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:13,440 Speaker 2: to a city councilman there and he's telling us that 502 00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:16,400 Speaker 2: what he can do, you know, as a city councilman 503 00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:20,280 Speaker 2: and all. He's going to come down here with his 504 00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:23,200 Speaker 2: chief of staff and we're going to really devote some 505 00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:26,080 Speaker 2: time to hearing what he has to say, because I 506 00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:31,280 Speaker 2: suspect he has a really good understanding of what's going on. 507 00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:36,479 Speaker 2: By the same token members of Congress should not be 508 00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:40,000 Speaker 2: able to trade stock period endo story. There is no 509 00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:44,040 Speaker 2: doubt that you have inside information, as inside information is 510 00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:48,040 Speaker 2: defined by the Securities in Exchange Commission. When you go 511 00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:51,040 Speaker 2: into public life, it's like going to the priesthood. You 512 00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:54,240 Speaker 2: don't get to trade stock. If you want to trade stock, 513 00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:56,800 Speaker 2: you want to be a stock trader, be a stock trader. 514 00:30:57,240 --> 00:30:59,520 Speaker 2: If you want to have public information that the public 515 00:30:59,520 --> 00:31:02,880 Speaker 2: does not have access to, then you don't trade stops periods. 516 00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:04,280 Speaker 2: Then we don't have to argue over it.