1 00:00:04,320 --> 00:00:09,800 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. 2 00:00:11,640 --> 00:00:14,320 Speaker 2: So Michael Verie Show is on the air. 3 00:00:16,880 --> 00:00:19,360 Speaker 3: As a guy who was spent thirty four years deporting 4 00:00:19,400 --> 00:00:23,000 Speaker 3: the illegal aliens, I got a message to the mands 5 00:00:23,040 --> 00:00:25,560 Speaker 3: of illegal aliens that Joe Biden's released in our country 6 00:00:25,600 --> 00:00:28,920 Speaker 3: and violation of federal law. You better start packing now 7 00:00:34,840 --> 00:00:38,920 Speaker 3: your damn right, because. 8 00:00:38,680 --> 00:00:39,480 Speaker 2: You are going home. 9 00:00:41,760 --> 00:00:44,560 Speaker 4: We have seen one estimate that says it would cost 10 00:00:44,720 --> 00:00:49,680 Speaker 4: eighty eight billion dollars to deport a million people a year. 11 00:00:50,960 --> 00:00:52,080 Speaker 2: I don't know if it's accurate or not. 12 00:00:53,159 --> 00:00:55,440 Speaker 4: Is that what American taxpayers should expect? 13 00:00:55,920 --> 00:00:57,600 Speaker 2: What price do you put on a national security? Is 14 00:00:57,640 --> 00:00:58,760 Speaker 2: that worth it? 15 00:00:58,800 --> 00:01:01,520 Speaker 4: Is there a way to carry out mass deportation without 16 00:01:01,560 --> 00:01:02,720 Speaker 4: separating families? 17 00:01:04,040 --> 00:01:07,440 Speaker 2: Of course, families can be deported together. 18 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:22,319 Speaker 5: And I want to send a message to everybody who's 19 00:01:22,360 --> 00:01:25,959 Speaker 5: in this country illegally. While you've heard from Kamala Harris 20 00:01:25,959 --> 00:01:28,160 Speaker 5: that she's going to give you free Medicare benefits and 21 00:01:28,440 --> 00:01:30,880 Speaker 5: free healthcare benefits, She's going to give you free housing 22 00:01:30,920 --> 00:01:35,040 Speaker 5: benefits paid for by American taxpayers. Donald Trump's gonna win 23 00:01:35,080 --> 00:01:40,320 Speaker 5: the White House. We all believe that, right. So our 24 00:01:40,440 --> 00:01:43,840 Speaker 5: message to illegal aliens who are in this country without 25 00:01:43,920 --> 00:01:45,800 Speaker 5: the consent of the American people. 26 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:47,400 Speaker 2: Is you got four. 27 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:49,080 Speaker 5: Months pack your backs because you're going home. 28 00:02:32,680 --> 00:02:36,960 Speaker 6: A friend's wife escaped birth, had a C section, and 29 00:02:36,960 --> 00:02:42,200 Speaker 6: it's always the discussion now doctors, it's a I guess 30 00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:43,720 Speaker 6: I I'm cynical. 31 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:49,320 Speaker 2: You kind of have to be realistic. Maybe friends, I've 32 00:02:49,320 --> 00:02:53,320 Speaker 2: had a baby and the doctor said, uh, we need 33 00:02:53,680 --> 00:02:57,240 Speaker 2: we need to schedule this. Y schedule Wait, why are 34 00:02:58,080 --> 00:03:01,520 Speaker 2: why are we scheduling it? Whatever happened to the idea 35 00:03:01,520 --> 00:03:06,600 Speaker 2: of having a baby. Well, if they just said, hey, look, 36 00:03:07,440 --> 00:03:10,720 Speaker 2: I've been practicing medicine for twenty years. I don't want 37 00:03:10,720 --> 00:03:12,639 Speaker 2: to be You're gonna up having this baby. Two o'clock 38 00:03:12,639 --> 00:03:14,960 Speaker 2: in the morning, that's what happens. And I'm on the 39 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:17,359 Speaker 2: phone trying to get a little more shut eye, and 40 00:03:17,760 --> 00:03:20,440 Speaker 2: you're screaming and hollering, and she's screaming and hollering, and 41 00:03:20,440 --> 00:03:23,000 Speaker 2: you all want me up here at the hospital, and 42 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:26,200 Speaker 2: I'm telling you, you know, check how dilated it is. 43 00:03:26,240 --> 00:03:29,040 Speaker 2: And you're freaking out and trying to do your lama's 44 00:03:29,080 --> 00:03:32,000 Speaker 2: breathing and grab your bags, all the bags you packed, 45 00:03:32,040 --> 00:03:35,800 Speaker 2: and she's screaming, and you're screaming because she's screaming in 46 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:38,200 Speaker 2: and let's just not do that. Let's go in and 47 00:03:38,200 --> 00:03:41,600 Speaker 2: have a procedure, you know, like everything else, and we'll 48 00:03:41,640 --> 00:03:46,200 Speaker 2: come out with a baby. Okay, all right. If it 49 00:03:46,320 --> 00:03:49,480 Speaker 2: reminds me that as a kid, I thought the word 50 00:03:49,640 --> 00:03:53,640 Speaker 2: cesarean started with the letter S. You'd think it would, right, 51 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:55,880 Speaker 2: And I remember I went and looked it up in 52 00:03:55,920 --> 00:04:06,720 Speaker 2: the dictionary and it was in the C section. Remo, 53 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:09,520 Speaker 2: what do a tick in the Eiffel Tower have in common? 54 00:04:10,440 --> 00:04:18,560 Speaker 2: There are both parasites. I took the batteries out of 55 00:04:18,560 --> 00:04:23,120 Speaker 2: the carbon monoxide alarm. The loud beeping was giving me 56 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:30,000 Speaker 2: a headache and making me feel sick and dizzy. Yesterday 57 00:04:30,040 --> 00:04:34,880 Speaker 2: we came into the studio. Chad had prepped a particular 58 00:04:34,960 --> 00:04:41,560 Speaker 2: story of note that a small barbecue joined black owned 59 00:04:41,560 --> 00:04:47,800 Speaker 2: in a predominantly black part of town called Jacob's Jacs 60 00:04:48,560 --> 00:04:55,000 Speaker 2: Barbecue had been hit by thieves yet again, multiple times, 61 00:04:55,480 --> 00:04:58,480 Speaker 2: two times in a matter of a few days, at 62 00:04:58,560 --> 00:05:01,720 Speaker 2: least three times in a slightly longer period of time. 63 00:05:01,760 --> 00:05:05,800 Speaker 2: Pretty frustrating, and the fellow told the story that he 64 00:05:05,880 --> 00:05:08,800 Speaker 2: lost twelve hundred dollars worth of barbecue. They stole his barbecue. 65 00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:12,799 Speaker 2: So we got him on the phone. Jim Mud tracked 66 00:05:12,839 --> 00:05:15,520 Speaker 2: him down. His wife got him on the phone, and 67 00:05:16,320 --> 00:05:22,039 Speaker 2: he told his story. And the longer we talked, the 68 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:25,359 Speaker 2: more we felt for this fellow. You know, he's just 69 00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:28,320 Speaker 2: trying to make it. And it turns out his daughter, Amaya, 70 00:05:28,440 --> 00:05:31,599 Speaker 2: just graduated from college and she works at the restaurant, 71 00:05:32,760 --> 00:05:37,599 Speaker 2: and wife, Martha's from here. He was from here, moved 72 00:05:37,640 --> 00:05:42,000 Speaker 2: away and came back, and we decided we're going to 73 00:05:42,080 --> 00:05:43,880 Speaker 2: raise a little money for him. So we put in 74 00:05:43,920 --> 00:05:47,000 Speaker 2: a thousand to seed the thing, and I thought to myself, 75 00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:49,800 Speaker 2: we may get three. That'd be good. We get three thousand, 76 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:52,839 Speaker 2: and we will use that to feed the police officers 77 00:05:52,839 --> 00:05:54,719 Speaker 2: in the area, because that'll do some good, get some 78 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:56,919 Speaker 2: officers in the store. It turns out the officers like 79 00:05:57,040 --> 00:06:01,680 Speaker 2: that place already. They stopped by there on their patrols, 80 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:05,960 Speaker 2: and we ended up raising five We delivered three of 81 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:08,200 Speaker 2: it yesterday, but the other two thousand has Some of 82 00:06:08,240 --> 00:06:10,480 Speaker 2: it's already been delivered in. Others of it have been mailed. 83 00:06:10,480 --> 00:06:13,560 Speaker 2: And we know the folks. It's mostly show sponsors who've 84 00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:16,400 Speaker 2: written the checks, and we know when they say they're 85 00:06:16,440 --> 00:06:19,520 Speaker 2: doing something, they're doing something. So it ends up being 86 00:06:19,560 --> 00:06:21,960 Speaker 2: it'll be well over five with the last few that 87 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:25,200 Speaker 2: I heard of last night in this morning, and they 88 00:06:25,240 --> 00:06:29,479 Speaker 2: did sixteen hundred dollars at lunch yesterday and we had 89 00:06:29,880 --> 00:06:32,040 Speaker 2: between ten and twenty people I can't remember how many, 90 00:06:32,080 --> 00:06:35,919 Speaker 2: because Emily handled it who wanted to a Zell account 91 00:06:35,960 --> 00:06:40,760 Speaker 2: so they could send money. So Paul Jacobs started the 92 00:06:40,839 --> 00:06:43,720 Speaker 2: day frustrated with all that was going on, and when 93 00:06:43,720 --> 00:06:45,320 Speaker 2: his head at the pillar last night, I know he 94 00:06:45,320 --> 00:06:49,000 Speaker 2: felt blessed. And I know he noticed that people care 95 00:06:50,080 --> 00:06:55,279 Speaker 2: about being a victim of crime and people care about 96 00:06:55,839 --> 00:07:01,440 Speaker 2: you running a small business. We did some good and 97 00:07:01,480 --> 00:07:03,320 Speaker 2: we did that because of all of you, and I 98 00:07:03,360 --> 00:07:06,400 Speaker 2: appreciate you for that. I wish you all could have 99 00:07:06,560 --> 00:07:09,720 Speaker 2: enjoyed the moment when we left, when he took my 100 00:07:09,800 --> 00:07:14,200 Speaker 2: hand right hand in hand, left hand on my left 101 00:07:14,200 --> 00:07:19,960 Speaker 2: shoulder and said, mister Barry, this was a huge blessing 102 00:07:20,040 --> 00:07:23,040 Speaker 2: to me and my family and quit eating all my barbecue. 103 00:07:23,080 --> 00:07:28,600 Speaker 2: That's true, but but y'all made that happen, and those 104 00:07:28,600 --> 00:07:31,280 Speaker 2: are the moments that those are those are special moments. 105 00:07:32,160 --> 00:07:35,840 Speaker 2: So one of the stories that touched me was we 106 00:07:35,920 --> 00:07:38,000 Speaker 2: decided that the money that we spent, there would be 107 00:07:38,240 --> 00:07:41,960 Speaker 2: an expense account for officers to go and eat, not 108 00:07:42,040 --> 00:07:47,560 Speaker 2: free on our behalf and on your behalf. And so 109 00:07:48,440 --> 00:07:50,840 Speaker 2: I got emails from several people, and I wanted to 110 00:07:50,880 --> 00:07:54,480 Speaker 2: bundle the checks as much as I could. So Ty 111 00:07:54,520 --> 00:07:56,560 Speaker 2: Strickland lives up in Cyprus, and he picked up a 112 00:07:56,640 --> 00:08:00,160 Speaker 2: check from Ben Barlow with Barlow Hervey contractor. One of 113 00:08:00,160 --> 00:08:02,240 Speaker 2: the checks he's picking up from Joe Slovachik, a friend 114 00:08:02,240 --> 00:08:05,640 Speaker 2: of mine who's the lawyer Tina Bartley. His secretary wrote 115 00:08:05,640 --> 00:08:08,680 Speaker 2: an extra two hundred herself because the food was going 116 00:08:08,760 --> 00:08:11,800 Speaker 2: to police officers. And I thought, and that's just cool. 117 00:08:11,920 --> 00:08:16,080 Speaker 2: People are cream they really are. Everyone listens to Michael 118 00:08:16,160 --> 00:08:28,640 Speaker 2: Berry show Lucky Stop. Harris County's government really is such 119 00:08:28,680 --> 00:08:36,360 Speaker 2: a mess. Right now. Here's just one more example. Lena Hidalgo, 120 00:08:36,440 --> 00:08:44,200 Speaker 2: the absolutely crazy Nutty County judge, was late for Harris 121 00:08:44,200 --> 00:08:51,359 Speaker 2: County meeting this week. Harris County Commission's Court meeting. Adrian Garcia, 122 00:08:52,160 --> 00:08:56,640 Speaker 2: a Democrat. They used to be buddy buddy, but he's 123 00:08:56,640 --> 00:09:01,920 Speaker 2: had it with her. He starts the meeting with her. 124 00:09:02,559 --> 00:09:05,120 Speaker 2: So I'm guessing Rodney must have picked up the phone 125 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:07,920 Speaker 2: and called her and said, get in here fast, you're 126 00:09:07,960 --> 00:09:13,520 Speaker 2: going to do stuff. So she comes bounding in and 127 00:09:13,720 --> 00:09:17,280 Speaker 2: with that crazy tone in her voice, starts in on 128 00:09:17,360 --> 00:09:21,240 Speaker 2: things and again has a little melt. Now like a child, 129 00:09:21,640 --> 00:09:24,520 Speaker 2: she really is, like the little girl who's my party? 130 00:09:24,520 --> 00:09:26,040 Speaker 2: And I'll cry if I want to. I want to 131 00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:30,320 Speaker 2: dress up like princess today. Uh, but it's finals. What 132 00:09:30,320 --> 00:09:32,439 Speaker 2: do you do? I want to a princess. I'm a prentess. 133 00:09:34,440 --> 00:09:36,440 Speaker 2: In her mind, it makes all the sense in the world. 134 00:09:37,280 --> 00:09:40,560 Speaker 2: She was installed there so that Rodney could control her. 135 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:42,960 Speaker 2: I don't know if he knew she was nuts already, 136 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:47,200 Speaker 2: but she was a Hispanic female. Uh, not unattractive, it 137 00:09:47,240 --> 00:09:49,480 Speaker 2: would be she speaks Spanish. It would be perfect. It 138 00:09:49,480 --> 00:09:52,120 Speaker 2: would be a great story nationwide. Rodney could use this story, 139 00:09:52,160 --> 00:09:54,560 Speaker 2: and he has, and he got her elected, and they 140 00:09:54,640 --> 00:09:56,679 Speaker 2: cheated in the next election and they got her reelected. 141 00:09:57,360 --> 00:09:59,719 Speaker 2: Now she's had some pretty serious criminal problems in the 142 00:09:59,800 --> 00:10:03,680 Speaker 2: meeting time, but so far, so good, because at the 143 00:10:03,760 --> 00:10:07,160 Speaker 2: end of the day, very very infrequently is anyone actually 144 00:10:07,160 --> 00:10:10,960 Speaker 2: prosecuted and sent away. Mostly there might be an announcement, 145 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:16,000 Speaker 2: there's an investigation, but really very little ever happens. So 146 00:10:16,080 --> 00:10:18,520 Speaker 2: here is that meeting, and this is how dysfunctional Harrison 147 00:10:18,559 --> 00:10:22,680 Speaker 2: County quotas. It's Adrian Garcia presiding. He's taken over the chair. 148 00:10:23,120 --> 00:10:26,040 Speaker 2: And then you'll hear her come bounding in motion. 149 00:10:25,920 --> 00:10:30,440 Speaker 7: To direct County Administration to work with all court offices 150 00:10:30,600 --> 00:10:33,160 Speaker 7: and return on May eighth with a revised job description 151 00:10:33,280 --> 00:10:39,280 Speaker 7: specific to the interim county administrators. 152 00:10:40,440 --> 00:10:42,800 Speaker 2: Can I come back in all right? Well I don't. 153 00:10:42,880 --> 00:10:46,040 Speaker 7: I mean it would be nice to to be. 154 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:48,600 Speaker 2: Able to participate as well. So let me. I just 155 00:10:48,640 --> 00:10:50,440 Speaker 2: got here. I mean, who called? 156 00:10:51,080 --> 00:10:51,480 Speaker 1: It wasn't me. 157 00:10:51,840 --> 00:10:55,120 Speaker 8: We're just going to just I don't understand emotion was 158 00:10:55,120 --> 00:10:59,120 Speaker 8: made by commission to direct kind of I don't understand 159 00:10:59,160 --> 00:11:01,120 Speaker 8: why why I was called to order without me. 160 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:02,920 Speaker 2: We were told that you were not coming back on 161 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:06,319 Speaker 2: so that. 162 00:11:06,120 --> 00:11:08,439 Speaker 8: I did because you had said that ten o'clock was 163 00:11:08,480 --> 00:11:09,640 Speaker 8: the time that you needed to be gone. 164 00:11:10,440 --> 00:11:12,040 Speaker 9: I said, I'll catch you guys on the other I'll 165 00:11:12,080 --> 00:11:13,000 Speaker 9: catch you guys on the other side. 166 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:14,560 Speaker 2: I said, I'll read the emotion. 167 00:11:15,040 --> 00:11:16,679 Speaker 4: And and we'll go over the flight is so late 168 00:11:16,679 --> 00:11:20,200 Speaker 4: because there's a storm, and then I certainly would have 169 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:20,680 Speaker 4: the furst. 170 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:25,880 Speaker 2: I can make a motion to bring item back up. 171 00:11:25,920 --> 00:11:29,040 Speaker 9: Whenever you check with your staff to confirm. 172 00:11:29,360 --> 00:11:34,000 Speaker 2: Right there, what you're watching is Rodney. These are all Democrats. 173 00:11:34,080 --> 00:11:36,520 Speaker 2: Ramsey's not speaking here. Ramsey's the only Republican down there. 174 00:11:37,240 --> 00:11:40,880 Speaker 2: These are all Democrats, and Rodney's trying to regain control 175 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:44,120 Speaker 2: because look, he's got this slush fund here, he's got 176 00:11:44,120 --> 00:11:47,600 Speaker 2: this this honey hole, and he needs them to stop. 177 00:11:47,880 --> 00:11:51,559 Speaker 2: The Internacene fighting is drawing attention. People are gonna look, 178 00:11:52,160 --> 00:11:55,200 Speaker 2: we're gonna end up with federal investigators. We're gonna end 179 00:11:55,280 --> 00:11:59,360 Speaker 2: up with We've got folks out there, Charles Blaine, Bob showed, 180 00:11:59,440 --> 00:12:02,440 Speaker 2: Marissay Hanson, we got all Holly Hansen writing for the text. 181 00:12:02,640 --> 00:12:05,720 Speaker 2: You get all these people out there and they're poking around, 182 00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:07,800 Speaker 2: and y'all are going to end up exposing what's going 183 00:12:07,840 --> 00:12:10,760 Speaker 2: on down here. When you start that fire, we're all 184 00:12:10,800 --> 00:12:13,920 Speaker 2: gonna get burned. Uh. He's having to deal with her 185 00:12:14,200 --> 00:12:17,200 Speaker 2: her mental health problems. Judge. You know, we'll bring it 186 00:12:17,240 --> 00:12:19,440 Speaker 2: back up, and he's trying to tamp it all down 187 00:12:19,520 --> 00:12:22,400 Speaker 2: because he's the godfather. You guys, come on now, don't 188 00:12:22,480 --> 00:12:27,000 Speaker 2: give the citizens or or the Republicans, or you don't 189 00:12:27,040 --> 00:12:34,520 Speaker 2: give them any insight into what's going on. Guys, come on, Judge. 190 00:12:34,480 --> 00:12:36,600 Speaker 4: I can make a motion to bring item back up 191 00:12:36,720 --> 00:12:40,400 Speaker 4: whenever you check with your staff to confirm that you're 192 00:12:40,440 --> 00:12:41,240 Speaker 4: there or not there. 193 00:12:41,600 --> 00:12:43,199 Speaker 7: So would you like me to read it? 194 00:12:43,480 --> 00:12:43,719 Speaker 3: Read it? 195 00:12:43,800 --> 00:12:45,240 Speaker 8: Judge? 196 00:12:45,440 --> 00:12:47,760 Speaker 7: Okay, So motion to a point Jesse Dickerman to the 197 00:12:47,840 --> 00:12:52,160 Speaker 7: role of interim Commy Administrator and budget Officer effective. Did 198 00:12:52,240 --> 00:12:52,760 Speaker 7: we lose your. 199 00:12:52,760 --> 00:13:01,520 Speaker 8: Judge, she's gone off camera, Judge, yes, just for you. 200 00:13:01,520 --> 00:13:02,280 Speaker 9: Tune your camera on. 201 00:13:02,600 --> 00:13:04,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm working on it. 202 00:13:04,120 --> 00:13:05,120 Speaker 8: Can you guys see me? 203 00:13:05,600 --> 00:13:07,160 Speaker 7: We can see you if you will. 204 00:13:09,480 --> 00:13:11,359 Speaker 2: I don't think I'll have the looks. 205 00:13:12,720 --> 00:13:20,720 Speaker 8: Option to direct the Interim County Administrator that they develop 206 00:13:20,800 --> 00:13:23,600 Speaker 8: and execute their plan to dissolve the Office of Countyministration 207 00:13:23,679 --> 00:13:26,400 Speaker 8: by September thirtieth. The plan should include an assessment of 208 00:13:26,440 --> 00:13:29,640 Speaker 8: functions existing within OC eight and recommendations of where those 209 00:13:29,679 --> 00:13:33,120 Speaker 8: functions should be moved, whether they be placed in other departments, 210 00:13:33,120 --> 00:13:37,239 Speaker 8: including joined with existing functions in other departments to reduce duplication, 211 00:13:37,600 --> 00:13:40,160 Speaker 8: or whether they should exist in one or more departments. 212 00:13:40,360 --> 00:13:42,920 Speaker 8: The report should be transmitted to Commission's court offices by 213 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:43,640 Speaker 8: June sixth. 214 00:13:44,440 --> 00:13:49,880 Speaker 2: Second motion by Commissioner Garcia, Second by Commissioner Ramsey all 215 00:13:49,920 --> 00:14:01,880 Speaker 2: in favor in your post. No, I'm a post motion fills. Now. 216 00:14:01,920 --> 00:14:06,120 Speaker 2: What happened there, so you know, is Rodney created a 217 00:14:06,160 --> 00:14:12,000 Speaker 2: county administrator. It has always been the case that the 218 00:14:12,040 --> 00:14:14,720 Speaker 2: county judge, which is not really a judge, that's just 219 00:14:14,760 --> 00:14:16,559 Speaker 2: a term used in Texas. It's not a person that 220 00:14:16,600 --> 00:14:20,720 Speaker 2: wears a robe and passes guilt or innocence or has trials. 221 00:14:20,960 --> 00:14:23,520 Speaker 2: The county judge is basically the county mayor. It's always 222 00:14:23,520 --> 00:14:28,760 Speaker 2: been the case. So Rodney installs Lenna Hidalgo, and with 223 00:14:28,840 --> 00:14:31,480 Speaker 2: each passing moment he figures out new ways to perfect 224 00:14:31,480 --> 00:14:35,560 Speaker 2: his scheme. And he figured out, we've got to get 225 00:14:35,600 --> 00:14:39,720 Speaker 2: power away from these county commissioners because they're trying to 226 00:14:39,760 --> 00:14:43,040 Speaker 2: meddle in the county's business. Imagine that they're the county commissioners. 227 00:14:43,840 --> 00:14:47,240 Speaker 2: I need a person I can control who's a full 228 00:14:47,320 --> 00:14:53,800 Speaker 2: time bureaucrat. So they create the county administrator's office, and 229 00:14:53,880 --> 00:14:56,880 Speaker 2: that person costs. That office costs millions and millions of 230 00:14:56,920 --> 00:15:00,920 Speaker 2: dollars to duplicate what's already done. But it's sort of 231 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:05,520 Speaker 2: like when Barack Obama created czars and he had people 232 00:15:05,920 --> 00:15:08,200 Speaker 2: like Van Jones that he couldn't get through the Senate 233 00:15:08,240 --> 00:15:13,080 Speaker 2: because they had criminal convictions and open problems in their lives. 234 00:15:13,360 --> 00:15:15,320 Speaker 2: So he would just announce this is the czar of 235 00:15:15,720 --> 00:15:20,680 Speaker 2: bizar of that. So Rodney created the County Administrator office 236 00:15:21,360 --> 00:15:24,080 Speaker 2: to be the person everything would be done there, and 237 00:15:24,120 --> 00:15:26,440 Speaker 2: he would control that person and they would report only 238 00:15:26,480 --> 00:15:30,000 Speaker 2: to him. So this was a vote to prevent the 239 00:15:30,120 --> 00:15:35,120 Speaker 2: replacement of the last county administrator. Scandal plagued, but it 240 00:15:35,240 --> 00:15:39,480 Speaker 2: only had the two votes Adrian Garcia, which is really 241 00:15:39,520 --> 00:15:44,400 Speaker 2: an few to Rodney, and mostly Lena and Tom Ramsey 242 00:15:45,320 --> 00:15:49,480 Speaker 2: and then Leslie Brioni's who you'll remember. They placed there 243 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:52,000 Speaker 2: because they can control her. They tried to put her 244 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:56,960 Speaker 2: in a court position. She and Rodney and Lena go 245 00:15:57,080 --> 00:16:00,880 Speaker 2: against it. Oh, it is so disfunct. His finger on 246 00:16:00,920 --> 00:16:05,760 Speaker 2: the pulse. The Kitting team continues on the Michael Berry Show. 247 00:16:10,840 --> 00:16:15,920 Speaker 2: She consued me clever little stuff all the time. One 248 00:16:15,960 --> 00:16:21,040 Speaker 2: of them was those short piece It said confused. I've 249 00:16:21,040 --> 00:16:24,160 Speaker 2: become confused when I hear the word service used with 250 00:16:24,200 --> 00:16:32,760 Speaker 2: these agencies internal revenue service, US Postal service, Cable TV service, 251 00:16:33,520 --> 00:16:40,400 Speaker 2: civil service, federal state, city and public service, customer service. 252 00:16:41,240 --> 00:16:44,080 Speaker 2: This is not what I thought servicemant. But today I 253 00:16:44,120 --> 00:16:46,400 Speaker 2: overheard two farmers talking and one of them said he 254 00:16:46,400 --> 00:16:49,760 Speaker 2: had bought a bull to service his cows. Bam, it 255 00:16:49,800 --> 00:16:52,880 Speaker 2: all came into focus. Now I understand what all those 256 00:16:52,920 --> 00:16:57,120 Speaker 2: agencies are doing to us. That's kind of one of 257 00:16:57,200 --> 00:17:00,440 Speaker 2: those things you get ramon that The subject line is 258 00:17:00,560 --> 00:17:04,560 Speaker 2: FW colon space, FW colon space, FW colon space, FW 259 00:17:04,680 --> 00:17:09,440 Speaker 2: colon space, and it might end at the at the 260 00:17:09,520 --> 00:17:12,119 Speaker 2: On the backside of it, it might end with a 261 00:17:12,840 --> 00:17:17,000 Speaker 2: Now you probably won't forward this, she don't love America 262 00:17:17,640 --> 00:17:22,159 Speaker 2: or Jesus nor nothing good, but a few of you 263 00:17:22,200 --> 00:17:26,560 Speaker 2: will because you're good people. Usually something like that on 264 00:17:26,600 --> 00:17:29,239 Speaker 2: the back end. Usually something like that on the back end. 265 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:35,920 Speaker 2: So you know, oh no, no, let me, let me get 266 00:17:35,920 --> 00:17:37,880 Speaker 2: to something else first. Let me get to something else first. 267 00:17:39,119 --> 00:17:42,679 Speaker 2: That eighty five Chicago Bears team. I'm sure some of 268 00:17:42,720 --> 00:17:48,320 Speaker 2: you remember that eighty five Chicago Bears team and whether 269 00:17:48,560 --> 00:17:50,679 Speaker 2: you were a Bears fan. I wasn't, but you couldn't 270 00:17:50,680 --> 00:17:53,439 Speaker 2: help but fall in love with that team. There was 271 00:17:55,040 --> 00:18:00,280 Speaker 2: there was something amazing about it. And Mike did has 272 00:18:00,280 --> 00:18:05,320 Speaker 2: said the toughest player he ever coached on was on 273 00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:11,199 Speaker 2: that team, and that was Steve McMichael. He's born in 274 00:18:11,200 --> 00:18:14,439 Speaker 2: Houston in sixty He was born in Houston. He was 275 00:18:14,480 --> 00:18:19,160 Speaker 2: sixty seven years old, went to Freer High School, went 276 00:18:19,200 --> 00:18:23,199 Speaker 2: to the University of Texas. He was drafted by the 277 00:18:23,240 --> 00:18:28,640 Speaker 2: New England Patriots and his dream was over. After one year, 278 00:18:29,160 --> 00:18:33,560 Speaker 2: he was cut. He wasn't good enough to play for 279 00:18:34,240 --> 00:18:36,359 Speaker 2: what was at that time a middling team, but with 280 00:18:36,400 --> 00:18:39,959 Speaker 2: a very good quarterback Steve Grogan. After one season they 281 00:18:40,040 --> 00:18:44,520 Speaker 2: cut him. Chicago picks him up as a free agent. 282 00:18:45,600 --> 00:18:48,119 Speaker 2: He would go on to a Hall of Fame plus 283 00:18:48,160 --> 00:18:53,160 Speaker 2: plus plus career. The guy could have played in any era. 284 00:18:55,760 --> 00:18:59,760 Speaker 2: One of the toughest human beings in life. People describe 285 00:18:59,800 --> 00:19:06,560 Speaker 2: him as and he has suffered for years with als. 286 00:19:07,240 --> 00:19:10,879 Speaker 2: He just passed away the last couple of days. Was 287 00:19:10,880 --> 00:19:13,000 Speaker 2: he sixty seven. I think he's number was sixty seven. 288 00:19:14,080 --> 00:19:23,919 Speaker 2: Just interesting because as tough as Mango was, you know, 289 00:19:24,320 --> 00:19:30,160 Speaker 2: I've known men who were extraordinarily tough and seemingly invincible. 290 00:19:31,560 --> 00:19:34,360 Speaker 2: The blow they could take in the ring on the field, 291 00:19:34,520 --> 00:19:40,800 Speaker 2: in life, the ability to persevere through horrible things in life, 292 00:19:41,680 --> 00:19:45,280 Speaker 2: and then when that darn body goes and there's nothing 293 00:19:45,320 --> 00:19:48,280 Speaker 2: they can do about it. It's tough. It's tough to work, 294 00:19:48,480 --> 00:19:51,439 Speaker 2: especially somebody who has been so tough and so strong. 295 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:55,960 Speaker 2: The story from CBS Chicago, where he is a legend 296 00:19:56,840 --> 00:19:58,520 Speaker 2: see my Goo. 297 00:20:00,200 --> 00:20:03,200 Speaker 1: Michaels before he was the larger than live Steve Mango. 298 00:20:03,280 --> 00:20:05,840 Speaker 1: McMichael known for his dominance on the football field for 299 00:20:05,880 --> 00:20:08,560 Speaker 1: the Bears and as many endeavors off of it. McMichael 300 00:20:08,680 --> 00:20:11,119 Speaker 1: was a six sports standout in high school in Texas, 301 00:20:11,160 --> 00:20:14,320 Speaker 1: where he would also play his college ball. McMichael joined 302 00:20:14,320 --> 00:20:16,680 Speaker 1: the Bears in nineteen eighty one, signing with him after 303 00:20:16,720 --> 00:20:19,200 Speaker 1: the team that drafted him, New England, released him after 304 00:20:19,280 --> 00:20:20,040 Speaker 1: just one season. 305 00:20:20,200 --> 00:20:22,440 Speaker 2: I think our defensive lines is the best defensive line 306 00:20:22,440 --> 00:20:23,120 Speaker 2: in pro football. 307 00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:24,879 Speaker 1: He would go on to become a key part of 308 00:20:24,920 --> 00:20:27,440 Speaker 1: what is widely regarded as one of the best defenses 309 00:20:27,440 --> 00:20:30,280 Speaker 1: in NFL history. In nineteen eighty five, the first of 310 00:20:30,320 --> 00:20:33,240 Speaker 1: three straight All Pro seasons at defensive tackle, he helped 311 00:20:33,320 --> 00:20:35,840 Speaker 1: lead the Bears to their only Super Bowl title, recording 312 00:20:35,880 --> 00:20:39,480 Speaker 1: a sack in Super Bowl twenty. McMichael would play thirteen 313 00:20:39,560 --> 00:20:41,879 Speaker 1: seasons with the Bears from nineteen eighty one to nineteen 314 00:20:41,960 --> 00:20:44,679 Speaker 1: ninety three and ranked second only to Richard denn in 315 00:20:44,680 --> 00:20:47,399 Speaker 1: team history with ninety two and a half sacks. A 316 00:20:47,440 --> 00:20:50,720 Speaker 1: part of six Division championship teams, McMichael was a two 317 00:20:50,760 --> 00:20:51,800 Speaker 1: time first team All Pro. 318 00:20:51,920 --> 00:20:54,200 Speaker 2: I'm much rather play against an older guy like Montana 319 00:20:54,240 --> 00:20:56,320 Speaker 2: that goes down when you breathe on him. 320 00:20:57,320 --> 00:21:00,000 Speaker 1: McMichael retired after the nineteen ninety four season, but was 321 00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:02,719 Speaker 1: far from being done in the spotlight. He appeared briefly 322 00:21:02,760 --> 00:21:05,960 Speaker 1: with WWF before going on to wrestle and commentate for 323 00:21:06,040 --> 00:21:10,200 Speaker 1: World Championship Wrestling for five years. McMichael's post career pursuits 324 00:21:10,240 --> 00:21:13,680 Speaker 1: also included a run for mayor in Romeoville and coaching 325 00:21:13,680 --> 00:21:17,160 Speaker 1: the Indoor Football League team, the Chicago Slaughter and don't worry, 326 00:21:17,240 --> 00:21:17,720 Speaker 1: I'll have it. 327 00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:20,720 Speaker 3: I'll have some speaks without home played umpire every game. 328 00:21:21,240 --> 00:21:23,560 Speaker 1: And he was famously ejected from a Cubs game in 329 00:21:23,560 --> 00:21:26,840 Speaker 1: two thousand and one by homeplate umpire Angel Hernandez, who 330 00:21:26,920 --> 00:21:29,720 Speaker 1: didn't care for Mango calling him out before singing take 331 00:21:29,760 --> 00:21:32,480 Speaker 1: me out to the ballgame. In twenty twenty one, McMichael 332 00:21:32,480 --> 00:21:35,600 Speaker 1: revealed he was battling als. Three years later, along with 333 00:21:35,680 --> 00:21:38,440 Speaker 1: family and friends who had four years pushed for it, 334 00:21:38,560 --> 00:21:41,840 Speaker 1: celebrated McMichael getting elected to the Pro Football Hall of 335 00:21:41,840 --> 00:21:44,520 Speaker 1: Fame es your baby forever. 336 00:21:47,560 --> 00:21:54,760 Speaker 2: I've now known maybe ten people to die of ALS. 337 00:21:55,480 --> 00:21:58,200 Speaker 2: Dying of ALS is not the worst part. It's living 338 00:21:58,200 --> 00:22:10,240 Speaker 2: with it. It's a horrible, horrible, horrible thing. Yeah, just seeing 339 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:14,840 Speaker 2: what somebody goes through. We had a show sponsor who 340 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:22,520 Speaker 2: just absolutely loved us, and then was Sam Fortenberry and 341 00:22:22,119 --> 00:22:26,760 Speaker 2: he owned Southern Front Door. And once he got the 342 00:22:26,800 --> 00:22:30,880 Speaker 2: early diagnosis, he took his top guy, who was also 343 00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:35,359 Speaker 2: a family man, much younger, hard working, and he brought 344 00:22:35,400 --> 00:22:38,200 Speaker 2: him in and said, look, you want to buy this business. 345 00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:41,080 Speaker 2: Guy said, I don't think I can. I mean, I'm 346 00:22:41,119 --> 00:22:43,440 Speaker 2: just a lotally employee. He said, well, I'm going to 347 00:22:43,480 --> 00:22:44,879 Speaker 2: make it work for you. I want this business to 348 00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:48,600 Speaker 2: live on. And he did, and that fellow, his wife 349 00:22:48,640 --> 00:22:51,719 Speaker 2: and his adult kids, they all now run this business. 350 00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:56,960 Speaker 2: It's been over ten years since then. But watching Sam, 351 00:22:57,880 --> 00:22:59,639 Speaker 2: this was a guy who'd been a cop and then 352 00:22:59,680 --> 00:23:03,080 Speaker 2: he'd his Southern Front Door. We're still with the show 353 00:23:03,119 --> 00:23:07,520 Speaker 2: to this day and that's been almost twenty years. And 354 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:09,800 Speaker 2: he'd been a cop and he started this business. He 355 00:23:09,880 --> 00:23:12,680 Speaker 2: worked all the time and he hadn't taken time for 356 00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:15,720 Speaker 2: himself and his wife Susan to really, you know, vacation, 357 00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:18,439 Speaker 2: and they didn't live large. It just worked. And so 358 00:23:18,560 --> 00:23:21,920 Speaker 2: he got the diagnosis and they got an RV, got 359 00:23:21,920 --> 00:23:24,520 Speaker 2: it retro fitted, and while he could still move around 360 00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:28,280 Speaker 2: a little bit, they went and toured the country in 361 00:23:28,320 --> 00:23:31,040 Speaker 2: an RV. I don't know how many young people have 362 00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:34,960 Speaker 2: that dream, but for my parents generation, that was the dream. 363 00:23:35,400 --> 00:23:37,480 Speaker 2: You know, you put in your forty years at the plant, 364 00:23:37,520 --> 00:23:39,800 Speaker 2: you get an RV and you load it up. You 365 00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:42,080 Speaker 2: and mama and y'all drive around the country, arguing at 366 00:23:42,080 --> 00:23:45,399 Speaker 2: each other and saying, huh, what what is that? Well, 367 00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:48,080 Speaker 2: if you look at a map, well, I don't look 368 00:23:48,119 --> 00:23:49,840 Speaker 2: at a map. I know where I tend go. You 369 00:23:49,880 --> 00:23:53,040 Speaker 2: know that's the dream, right, And so he did that 370 00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:57,119 Speaker 2: and they would send photos, and I went with Robert Rees, 371 00:23:57,480 --> 00:23:59,560 Speaker 2: who was his sales rep and really more of a 372 00:23:59,560 --> 00:24:02,760 Speaker 2: relationship manager and friend to them. We went to see 373 00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:06,640 Speaker 2: him a couple of weeks before he passed, and I'd 374 00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:09,320 Speaker 2: never seen somebody so deep in the throes of als. 375 00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:13,120 Speaker 2: But it's horrible because you basically die by complete atrophy. 376 00:24:14,119 --> 00:24:17,240 Speaker 2: And he said, I'm a very lucky man. My wife. 377 00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:20,720 Speaker 2: My wife gives me bourbon every day, and he knew 378 00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:22,439 Speaker 2: I loved bourbon, and he wanted me to take some 379 00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:26,520 Speaker 2: of his bourbon. And I said, well, Sam, that can't 380 00:24:26,520 --> 00:24:30,439 Speaker 2: help you. I mean, you're doing bourbon. You could barely 381 00:24:30,560 --> 00:24:32,160 Speaker 2: move the inside of your throat. And he said, what's 382 00:24:32,160 --> 00:24:34,600 Speaker 2: it going to do? Kill me? He's a good man 383 00:24:35,520 --> 00:24:37,400 Speaker 2: at als. That's a bad thing. I wish we could 384 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:40,439 Speaker 2: figure that one out. That's a bad bade. The Michael 385 00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:47,840 Speaker 2: Berry Show is nichewide mango. McMichael was number seventy six, 386 00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:52,480 Speaker 2: not sixty seven. I transposed his numbers in my mind. 387 00:24:53,760 --> 00:24:56,240 Speaker 2: The boy he was. He was a feat of human nature, 388 00:24:56,320 --> 00:25:01,240 Speaker 2: was he not? Oh okay, we've got Paul Paul Jacob 389 00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:04,480 Speaker 2: the Third, the owner of Jacob's Barbecue on the line. 390 00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:09,400 Speaker 2: Welcome sir, Good morning, sir. I sure did enjoy getting 391 00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:10,560 Speaker 2: to meet you and your family. 392 00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:13,520 Speaker 1: Sir. 393 00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:16,960 Speaker 9: It was the feelings are mutual. Likewise, thank you so 394 00:25:17,080 --> 00:25:21,600 Speaker 9: much for mister Barry for pouring into our business the 395 00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:24,879 Speaker 9: way that she did. I always feel safe around the 396 00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:28,680 Speaker 9: man and women are blue, so that was a plus 397 00:25:29,359 --> 00:25:30,119 Speaker 9: to be a part of. 398 00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:37,240 Speaker 2: Thank you so much. Well, I can tell you that 399 00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:43,119 Speaker 2: I went home last night. Ramona and I were both 400 00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:45,000 Speaker 2: saying that we don't. We don't get out and do 401 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:47,520 Speaker 2: as many things as we used to because the show 402 00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:55,600 Speaker 2: takes so much more out of us. But it was 403 00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:57,560 Speaker 2: as much joy for us as it was for you. 404 00:25:58,080 --> 00:25:59,880 Speaker 2: Let me just say that, and I wish you the best. 405 00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:02,400 Speaker 2: We went and looked at the at the new location 406 00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:06,440 Speaker 2: that you're looking at doing, and we could only see 407 00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:11,040 Speaker 2: through the glass, but it looked really, really perfect for 408 00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:15,000 Speaker 2: what you're doing. And yeah, I hope that works out 409 00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:19,080 Speaker 2: for you. The one at Beltway eight, I think that's 410 00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:21,680 Speaker 2: a good location. It's easy to get to, it's easy 411 00:26:21,760 --> 00:26:24,920 Speaker 2: to tell people where you are. Has a full bar there. 412 00:26:25,119 --> 00:26:26,720 Speaker 2: I mean, doesn't look like you'd need to do much 413 00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:28,720 Speaker 2: if anything. Just walk in and put a new sign 414 00:26:28,760 --> 00:26:29,160 Speaker 2: out front. 415 00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:33,400 Speaker 9: Yeah, that's pretty much what the owner of the building said. 416 00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:36,280 Speaker 9: He said, everything is in there that we need to 417 00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:41,880 Speaker 9: do and and yeah, it's ready to go. Like you said, 418 00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:44,800 Speaker 9: just put the sign on the building. Oh I'm thinking 419 00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:47,240 Speaker 9: about making that decision versus the one at the property 420 00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:47,879 Speaker 9: cross the street. 421 00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:50,359 Speaker 2: For sure, I would do that if you you got 422 00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:52,960 Speaker 2: a lot more traffic going by there, and that's easy 423 00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:55,560 Speaker 2: to tell somebody just come to the corner of belt 424 00:26:55,600 --> 00:26:58,520 Speaker 2: way eight and two eighty eight. There's RV parking, cans 425 00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:02,439 Speaker 2: RV parking. I think it's a Chevron's unrelated. This has 426 00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:03,680 Speaker 2: nothing to do with whether you should do it or not. 427 00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:07,720 Speaker 2: But Ramona and I we walked the building, We watched 428 00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:09,480 Speaker 2: the parking lot. We was seeing who was coming in 429 00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:11,240 Speaker 2: and out. We went and looked into glass and all 430 00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:14,280 Speaker 2: that sort of stuff, and so I went in to 431 00:27:14,359 --> 00:27:17,400 Speaker 2: get us I wanted, I asked Ramone because Ramone drinks 432 00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:19,840 Speaker 2: diet pepsi or he was yesterday, which I thought was weird. 433 00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:22,520 Speaker 2: So I go to go in and I said, what 434 00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:25,560 Speaker 2: do you want? Said whatever, just a diet drink. I said, okay, 435 00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:29,800 Speaker 2: you want to diet coke, you want to diet pepsi. 436 00:27:30,359 --> 00:27:33,040 Speaker 2: She doesn't matter. And I thought that was a weird. 437 00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:35,160 Speaker 2: How can you not have a choice in that? I said, 438 00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:36,880 Speaker 2: all right, you want to diet coke or coke zero 439 00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:39,159 Speaker 2: because this is the two different flavors based on the 440 00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:41,960 Speaker 2: new coke versus the Classico. It doesn't matter. So I 441 00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:44,359 Speaker 2: brought a Coke zero and a diet coke and I 442 00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:46,760 Speaker 2: sat him on the console and he said, which one 443 00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:48,440 Speaker 2: do you want? I said, whichever one you don't want. 444 00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:50,600 Speaker 2: I want to see which one you'll pick, and he 445 00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:53,200 Speaker 2: could not care less. And I found that to be 446 00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:56,160 Speaker 2: the weirdest thing ever. I mean, that just felt weird. 447 00:27:56,480 --> 00:27:57,720 Speaker 2: But anyway, I tell you that, I tell you this. 448 00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:01,359 Speaker 2: I go in there and I go with my I 449 00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:04,760 Speaker 2: have my coke zeros, and I go walking up there. 450 00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:07,199 Speaker 2: Indian or Pakistani guy behind the counter, because that's all 451 00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:09,840 Speaker 2: that's the only people that don't gas stations anymore. And 452 00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:13,000 Speaker 2: he's kind of real quiet, and I go walking up 453 00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:16,359 Speaker 2: there with him. But there's a middle high life, you know, 454 00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:20,160 Speaker 2: the old fashioned the champagne of beers, if you will, 455 00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:22,920 Speaker 2: and it's very aggressively playing. He's got one of these, 456 00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:25,800 Speaker 2: it's like the old bank tellers. He's got one of these, 457 00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:28,159 Speaker 2: just a hole that you can look through to see him, 458 00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:29,879 Speaker 2: and then he can close it and you have to 459 00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:32,000 Speaker 2: slide the money underneath there. But it's open at this 460 00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:34,320 Speaker 2: point because we're not under attack, or at least we 461 00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:36,399 Speaker 2: don't think we are. The middle of high life is 462 00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:39,080 Speaker 2: in the middle of that whole, very aggressively placed. So 463 00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:41,160 Speaker 2: I go walking up there. I don't notice the midder 464 00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:43,240 Speaker 2: high life, so I'm not sure, But then I do 465 00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:46,280 Speaker 2: I'm not sure whether to put my coke zero down 466 00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:48,960 Speaker 2: or not, so because I and then I realized there's 467 00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:52,320 Speaker 2: this white dude and he could be fifty or he 468 00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:54,880 Speaker 2: could be eighty. There's a lot of miles on there. 469 00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:59,040 Speaker 2: And it turns out he's tweaking. He's at the he's 470 00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:02,640 Speaker 2: at the sunglasses area, trying to decide what he's going 471 00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:05,240 Speaker 2: to do with his sunglasses. He's got his middle high 472 00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:08,120 Speaker 2: life in the middle. I'm looking at the clerk, he's 473 00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:11,440 Speaker 2: looking at me. We're looking back at him. Because the 474 00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:13,960 Speaker 2: transaction is wrung up for four fifty seven, so I 475 00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:16,440 Speaker 2: can't just step in the middle of the transaction, so 476 00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:18,520 Speaker 2: I don't know what's going on for He sat there 477 00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:20,120 Speaker 2: for about a minute, and I wished I could have 478 00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:23,880 Speaker 2: filmed it, because he was on something some kind of bad. 479 00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:26,160 Speaker 2: I mean, he was, you know, that kind of real 480 00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:30,120 Speaker 2: jerky and all that and real weather blondish kind of 481 00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:33,640 Speaker 2: stringy hair. And I sat there for a minute and 482 00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:36,640 Speaker 2: then I asked the guy. I said, Uh, what do 483 00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:38,200 Speaker 2: I need to do here? He said, oh, you know, 484 00:29:38,280 --> 00:29:39,840 Speaker 2: you just go ahead and pay for it. So he 485 00:29:39,960 --> 00:29:41,680 Speaker 2: scanned my stuff, and I'm thinking that dude's going to 486 00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:44,320 Speaker 2: come and shank me for interrupting his transaction. So I 487 00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:46,720 Speaker 2: took my diet coach and we went outside, and Ramona 488 00:29:46,760 --> 00:29:48,719 Speaker 2: and I sat out there for a while. And then 489 00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:51,080 Speaker 2: another woman who was a much younger version of him. 490 00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:53,960 Speaker 2: She could have just gotten out of prison. She's a 491 00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:56,240 Speaker 2: white woman. She got a bunch of tattoos. And she 492 00:29:56,520 --> 00:29:58,480 Speaker 2: comes out, I guess of the restroom. So maybe he 493 00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:00,840 Speaker 2: was waiting on her. He'd already paid for it. Unclear. 494 00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:04,440 Speaker 2: I need some details. But they come out and they 495 00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:06,960 Speaker 2: get into an old trail blazer, remember the old Chevy 496 00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:09,560 Speaker 2: trailblazer in the eighties when they went smaller with it 497 00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:12,600 Speaker 2: by the mid the nighties. And she they got the 498 00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:14,800 Speaker 2: windows down, there's no ac it's not that hot at 499 00:30:14,800 --> 00:30:17,360 Speaker 2: that point. She gets in the driver's seat and he 500 00:30:17,520 --> 00:30:20,120 Speaker 2: comes around and gets in the passenger seat, and they 501 00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:22,680 Speaker 2: drove off. And I had so many questions, Paul, so 502 00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:28,080 Speaker 2: many questions. So I got a message that you were 503 00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:30,960 Speaker 2: extending the free barbecue because we have more than enough 504 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:33,920 Speaker 2: to pay for yesterday to police officers who come by today. 505 00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:37,320 Speaker 2: Is that correct? That is correct, sir. 506 00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:41,680 Speaker 9: Let's take care of these officers, these people that service. 507 00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:43,680 Speaker 9: Let's take care of them. I love. 508 00:30:43,960 --> 00:30:47,360 Speaker 2: Sorry, well that's first class, you know. I spoke to 509 00:30:47,440 --> 00:30:52,560 Speaker 2: some of those officers yesterday. Fontineau, cute little light scan 510 00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:57,040 Speaker 2: black girl from Louisiana, Lopez one with the beer bald head, 511 00:30:57,560 --> 00:31:02,280 Speaker 2: Montgomery who looks like Marcel Wiley, and then uh, I 512 00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:06,000 Speaker 2: can't remember the the other guy's name. But it was 513 00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:10,040 Speaker 2: surprising because they had all been sent because Southwest. The 514 00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:13,320 Speaker 2: captain at Southwest had told him, hey, uh, Michael Barry's 515 00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:17,520 Speaker 2: doing something, you know, go by there. And so they, 516 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:20,520 Speaker 2: all of them when you weren't there, were saying, yeah, 517 00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:22,120 Speaker 2: we love this place. We come here all the time. 518 00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:24,000 Speaker 2: We want to support him. He does it, he does 519 00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:26,800 Speaker 2: a great job. I thought, well, that's really nice. That's 520 00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:30,400 Speaker 2: very nice. I enjoyed meeting Amaya, your daughter, and Christian 521 00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:34,000 Speaker 2: and I can't remember the other girls named the cute 522 00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:41,480 Speaker 2: little girl with the with the big eyelashes. Oh uh oh, Jaden, Yeah, hey, 523 00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:44,480 Speaker 2: we had a moment. We had a cultural moment because 524 00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:48,200 Speaker 2: I said, what's your name? She said, Jaden. She's fluttering 525 00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:50,760 Speaker 2: those eyes like wind is moving because those eyelashes or so, 526 00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:53,080 Speaker 2: the wind is moving and it's like a fan was 527 00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:55,120 Speaker 2: on me in India they call it a Punkah. It's 528 00:31:55,120 --> 00:31:58,080 Speaker 2: these big things they had taxed and the air was moving. 529 00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:01,240 Speaker 2: It was the butterfly effect. And I said, Jaden, I said, 530 00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:04,200 Speaker 2: is that with the why or without? She said, oh, 531 00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:07,120 Speaker 2: it's with the why. I said, okay, go on and 532 00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:10,600 Speaker 2: I said, uh so j y d e n. She 533 00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:14,400 Speaker 2: said no, like that was the dumbest thing ever. She said, 534 00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:18,920 Speaker 2: j A d y n. Well, of course, I mean, 535 00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:21,960 Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, why wouldn't it be j A d 536 00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:26,960 Speaker 2: y n. That was my moment. I did have a 537 00:32:27,080 --> 00:32:30,520 Speaker 2: nice conversation with you, with your wife Martha, by the way, 538 00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:34,760 Speaker 2: that nice fellow Omar with South Texas Construction they're going 539 00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:40,880 Speaker 2: to fabricate a solution for your gate and uh somebody 540 00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:42,960 Speaker 2: else told me they wanted to do something for it. Well, 541 00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:45,920 Speaker 2: you're living a dream, y'all. Are working your butts off. 542 00:32:47,080 --> 00:32:50,240 Speaker 2: You're gonna make it. And I'm proud of you, and 543 00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:54,080 Speaker 2: I hope that you woke up today more optimistic than 544 00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:58,440 Speaker 2: ever and saw that people really care, because yeah, it's cool, 545 00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:01,160 Speaker 2: it's cool. I'm god, I had to know you. Paul Jacob, 546 00:33:01,360 --> 00:33:01,760 Speaker 2: the third 547 00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:05,680 Speaker 3: H