1 00:00:03,800 --> 00:00:09,319 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. 2 00:00:11,400 --> 00:00:13,800 Speaker 2: Michael Vari show is on the air. 3 00:00:15,440 --> 00:00:20,279 Speaker 3: Mister President, you are the oldest president ever, pretty good shape, 4 00:00:20,720 --> 00:00:23,920 Speaker 3: which leads to my next question. You are more aware 5 00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:28,120 Speaker 3: of this than anyone. Some people ask whether you are 6 00:00:28,200 --> 00:00:32,040 Speaker 3: fit for the job, and when you hear that, I 7 00:00:32,159 --> 00:00:33,080 Speaker 3: wonder what you think? 8 00:00:34,120 --> 00:00:34,559 Speaker 2: Watch me. 9 00:00:35,080 --> 00:00:39,040 Speaker 4: The most difficult part about a meeting with President Biden 10 00:00:39,479 --> 00:00:44,760 Speaker 4: is preparing for it, because he is sharp, intensely probing, 11 00:00:45,080 --> 00:00:47,239 Speaker 4: and detail oriented and focused. 12 00:00:47,520 --> 00:00:49,680 Speaker 3: How would you say your mental focus is? 13 00:00:50,800 --> 00:00:53,880 Speaker 2: It's focused? The best way to get something done. 14 00:00:54,080 --> 00:00:57,040 Speaker 5: If you holds near and dear to you that you 15 00:00:58,520 --> 00:00:59,440 Speaker 5: like to be able. 16 00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:01,720 Speaker 2: To anyway, I. 17 00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:08,880 Speaker 6: Won't bid the news that if it build is getting you. Boy, 18 00:01:08,920 --> 00:01:10,959 Speaker 6: you just keep on you let me? 19 00:01:14,560 --> 00:01:15,680 Speaker 7: Do you use me? U? 20 00:01:20,760 --> 00:01:21,680 Speaker 8: Do you use me? 21 00:01:21,720 --> 00:01:23,680 Speaker 2: To start your tape right now? 22 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:26,440 Speaker 1: Because I'm about to tell you the truth and f 23 00:01:26,520 --> 00:01:28,559 Speaker 1: you if you can't handle the truth. 24 00:01:30,120 --> 00:01:38,280 Speaker 9: This version of Biden, intellectually, analytically is the best Biden ever, 25 00:01:38,959 --> 00:01:41,000 Speaker 9: not a close sucking and I've known him. 26 00:01:40,840 --> 00:01:43,759 Speaker 1: For years, the Presents have known him for fifty years. 27 00:01:44,319 --> 00:01:46,759 Speaker 1: If it weren't the truth, I wouldn't say it. 28 00:01:47,440 --> 00:01:48,960 Speaker 2: Of Putin's cryptocerca. 29 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:54,080 Speaker 5: Yeah, America is a nation that can be defined in 30 00:01:54,160 --> 00:01:58,200 Speaker 5: a single word. I was gonna put him to put 31 00:01:58,640 --> 00:02:03,400 Speaker 5: Los Angeles and uh and uh uh I want. 32 00:02:03,320 --> 00:02:07,600 Speaker 6: I join here, I said, rather if your own and 33 00:02:07,800 --> 00:02:10,639 Speaker 6: do you wish that you were in mass You who 34 00:02:11,639 --> 00:02:12,320 Speaker 6: just keep. 35 00:02:12,160 --> 00:02:13,360 Speaker 2: On you let me. 36 00:02:16,840 --> 00:02:18,040 Speaker 6: Until you give me a. 37 00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:28,680 Speaker 5: Until you here's what drives the driver in the states 38 00:02:29,600 --> 00:02:32,919 Speaker 5: that are affected. Here's what that you can do the drivers. 39 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:36,080 Speaker 5: We haven't been able to communicate it in a way 40 00:02:36,320 --> 00:02:40,000 Speaker 5: that is uhmt me say another way. 41 00:02:40,280 --> 00:02:41,680 Speaker 1: The doughters have all gone away. 42 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:42,840 Speaker 2: You know. 43 00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:47,160 Speaker 10: It's it's really incumbent on people that are around Joe 44 00:02:47,160 --> 00:02:51,600 Speaker 10: Biden to step up at this point and and and 45 00:02:51,720 --> 00:02:56,640 Speaker 10: help the president and help the man they love and 46 00:02:56,760 --> 00:03:01,800 Speaker 10: do the right thing. This is not going to This 47 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:05,240 Speaker 10: is not going to end well. If it continues to 48 00:03:05,360 --> 00:03:09,160 Speaker 10: drag out, I won't spend. 49 00:03:08,840 --> 00:03:13,280 Speaker 2: The news and it deal is good getting you you 50 00:03:13,600 --> 00:03:15,280 Speaker 2: just keep on you let me. 51 00:03:18,760 --> 00:03:19,680 Speaker 3: Do you use me? 52 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:26,560 Speaker 11: As part of the governmental investigation into Joe Biden's crimes, 53 00:03:26,639 --> 00:03:31,520 Speaker 11: which included, but were not limited to, Hunter Biden being 54 00:03:31,560 --> 00:03:34,600 Speaker 11: the bag man and kicking ten percent up to the 55 00:03:34,639 --> 00:03:38,040 Speaker 11: man above. Remember all this Tony Bobby Lensky. All of 56 00:03:38,080 --> 00:03:40,480 Speaker 11: this is out there. People forget because there were so 57 00:03:40,640 --> 00:03:44,520 Speaker 11: many things that happened when Her did the report. The 58 00:03:44,640 --> 00:03:48,200 Speaker 11: conclusion was that Joe Biden had committed a number of 59 00:03:48,280 --> 00:03:49,080 Speaker 11: crimes and. 60 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:50,080 Speaker 2: Should be charged. 61 00:03:50,920 --> 00:03:55,880 Speaker 11: However, that he did not recommend bringing charges because the 62 00:03:55,920 --> 00:03:57,640 Speaker 11: president was unfit. 63 00:03:58,720 --> 00:03:59,600 Speaker 2: To stand trial. 64 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:04,040 Speaker 11: And all of this came out long before he announced 65 00:04:04,080 --> 00:04:06,240 Speaker 11: he was stepping out of the race. He was still 66 00:04:06,320 --> 00:04:11,400 Speaker 11: running for president. So Democrats were saying, in one breath, Hey, 67 00:04:12,360 --> 00:04:18,760 Speaker 11: her didn't recommend charges, so Biden's been cleared. That was 68 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:22,000 Speaker 11: their narrative. Her did not recommend that charges be brought. 69 00:04:23,160 --> 00:04:30,040 Speaker 11: And technically what her said was he committed crimes, but 70 00:04:30,080 --> 00:04:33,720 Speaker 11: there's no point in prosecuting him. They took that and 71 00:04:33,760 --> 00:04:37,080 Speaker 11: then told the public, who isn't going to read the report, 72 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:39,200 Speaker 11: no point in bringing to no. No, they said not 73 00:04:39,240 --> 00:04:46,680 Speaker 11: to bring charges. Well, Adam Schiff from California made it 74 00:04:46,760 --> 00:04:51,080 Speaker 11: his business to rage at Robert Herr, a government official 75 00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:56,479 Speaker 11: doing his job, for daring to include an accurate assessment 76 00:04:56,600 --> 00:04:59,960 Speaker 11: of Joe Biden's mental decline, because it made them look 77 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:03,120 Speaker 11: bad that they're out campaigning for this guy in a 78 00:05:03,160 --> 00:05:08,320 Speaker 11: government report. Not a Republican not a conservative was saying, 79 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:13,599 Speaker 11: Joe Biden is in deep mental decline. And Adam Schiff 80 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:17,440 Speaker 11: goes after the man personally who wrote the report four 81 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:18,840 Speaker 11: or four remont what. 82 00:05:18,920 --> 00:05:20,360 Speaker 2: Is in the rules, mister Hurr. 83 00:05:20,440 --> 00:05:23,960 Speaker 12: What is in the rules is you don't gratuitously do 84 00:05:24,080 --> 00:05:27,719 Speaker 12: things to prejudice this subject of an investigation. When you're 85 00:05:27,760 --> 00:05:32,560 Speaker 12: declining to prosecute, you don't gratuitously add language that you'll 86 00:05:32,560 --> 00:05:35,400 Speaker 12: know will be useful in a political campaign. You were 87 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:39,479 Speaker 12: not born yesterday. You understood exactly what you were doing. 88 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:41,080 Speaker 2: It was a choice. 89 00:05:41,360 --> 00:05:44,120 Speaker 12: You certainly didn't have to include that language. You could 90 00:05:44,120 --> 00:05:46,200 Speaker 12: have said visa via the documents that were found in 91 00:05:46,200 --> 00:05:49,520 Speaker 12: the university. The president did not recall. There is nothing 92 00:05:49,520 --> 00:05:50,719 Speaker 12: more common you know this. 93 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:51,600 Speaker 2: I know this. 94 00:05:51,960 --> 00:05:54,400 Speaker 12: There is nothing more common with a witness of any 95 00:05:54,440 --> 00:05:57,200 Speaker 12: age when asked about events that are years old, to 96 00:05:57,240 --> 00:06:00,160 Speaker 12: say I do not recall. Indeed, they're instructed by their 97 00:06:00,160 --> 00:06:02,600 Speaker 12: attorney to do that if they have any question about it. 98 00:06:02,880 --> 00:06:05,839 Speaker 12: You understood that you made a choice that was a 99 00:06:05,839 --> 00:06:09,280 Speaker 12: political choice. It was the wrong choice, mister chairman. 100 00:06:09,360 --> 00:06:09,960 Speaker 8: I yield back. 101 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:10,960 Speaker 2: Tumen yields back. 102 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:14,320 Speaker 9: Jennifer Arizona did a special Council wish to respond to 103 00:06:14,320 --> 00:06:15,280 Speaker 9: that in final question. 104 00:06:15,279 --> 00:06:19,960 Speaker 13: Yes, Congressman, what you are suggesting is that I shape, sanitize, 105 00:06:21,160 --> 00:06:23,880 Speaker 13: omit portions of my reasoning and explanation of the Attorney 106 00:06:23,880 --> 00:06:25,159 Speaker 13: General for political reasons. 107 00:06:25,400 --> 00:06:27,520 Speaker 12: No, I suggest that you do not shape your poor 108 00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:28,600 Speaker 12: for political reasons. 109 00:06:29,440 --> 00:06:31,680 Speaker 13: Would not have a responsemen, that did not happen. 110 00:06:34,279 --> 00:06:39,440 Speaker 11: Well, let's go oddly enough to Van Jones clip number 111 00:06:39,480 --> 00:06:44,520 Speaker 11: six thirteen at CNN talking about the cancer, the decline, 112 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:45,039 Speaker 11: all of it. 113 00:06:46,839 --> 00:06:51,840 Speaker 6: Of course, this book is extraordinary. I don't care who 114 00:06:51,880 --> 00:06:55,400 Speaker 6: you are, left, right or otherwise, anybody who cares about 115 00:06:55,560 --> 00:06:59,600 Speaker 6: this country and about just the dynamics of power. This 116 00:06:59,760 --> 00:07:04,000 Speaker 6: is the Emperor's new clothes playing itself out in real time. 117 00:07:04,240 --> 00:07:08,120 Speaker 6: Everybody knew, but everyone was afraid to say, except for 118 00:07:08,160 --> 00:07:11,280 Speaker 6: Dave David Axelrod for two years, that something was wrong here. 119 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:15,520 Speaker 6: And so you know, yeah, I was shocked. I love 120 00:07:15,840 --> 00:07:17,360 Speaker 6: Joe Biden. I don't like him, I love him. I 121 00:07:17,360 --> 00:07:19,720 Speaker 6: got a chance to work with him when I was 122 00:07:19,760 --> 00:07:22,200 Speaker 6: a part of the Obama administration and loved him more 123 00:07:22,240 --> 00:07:25,280 Speaker 6: every day. I was shocked to see his condition when 124 00:07:25,280 --> 00:07:28,160 Speaker 6: he came out, and so was the world. And that 125 00:07:28,280 --> 00:07:29,960 Speaker 6: wasn't the first time he was in that condition. The 126 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:33,040 Speaker 6: book makes it very very clear there are people who 127 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:37,200 Speaker 6: knew and said nothing, and that is a crime against 128 00:07:37,240 --> 00:07:40,440 Speaker 6: this republic. And I think the Democrats are going to 129 00:07:40,520 --> 00:07:42,800 Speaker 6: pay for a long time for being a part of 130 00:07:42,840 --> 00:07:45,600 Speaker 6: what is now being revealed to be a massive cover up. 131 00:07:48,920 --> 00:07:52,840 Speaker 11: Why do that, Well, first of all, you're throwing a 132 00:07:52,880 --> 00:07:57,000 Speaker 11: bone to your boy, your colleague, Jake Tapper. Secondly, they 133 00:07:57,000 --> 00:08:03,680 Speaker 11: are now pushing away from the cancer of the Biden 134 00:08:03,720 --> 00:08:08,920 Speaker 11: presidency and all of the shame of the Biden presidency. 135 00:08:09,480 --> 00:08:12,200 Speaker 11: There are people who now see the writing on the 136 00:08:12,240 --> 00:08:15,440 Speaker 11: wall and they want to have futures in the media 137 00:08:15,520 --> 00:08:19,120 Speaker 11: and politics, and so now they're pushing Joe Biden and 138 00:08:19,240 --> 00:08:21,000 Speaker 11: his crew overboards so they. 139 00:08:20,880 --> 00:08:22,720 Speaker 2: Can survive Michael Berry's show. 140 00:08:26,280 --> 00:08:30,560 Speaker 11: So well, Lena Hidalgo wants to go to Paris, and 141 00:08:31,680 --> 00:08:34,839 Speaker 11: she wants you to pay for it. Since we're going 142 00:08:34,880 --> 00:08:39,280 Speaker 11: to be talking about gay Paris, Ramon, can you give 143 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:52,960 Speaker 11: me a music bed for this story? No, not Paris, Texas, 144 00:08:53,000 --> 00:09:01,360 Speaker 11: you goober. She could drive to Paris, Texas Paris friends, Yeah, 145 00:09:01,400 --> 00:09:11,040 Speaker 11: there we go. That's decidedly French. I'll take that, Okay, 146 00:09:12,679 --> 00:09:15,840 Speaker 11: Lena had Allgo tried to get twenty three thousand, three 147 00:09:15,920 --> 00:09:21,520 Speaker 11: hundred in your taxpayer money so she and a quote 148 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:29,120 Speaker 11: delegation could fly to Paris as Texas scorecards. Joseph Trimmer 149 00:09:29,200 --> 00:09:34,880 Speaker 11: reports the vote at Commissioner's Court failed after Lena Quote 150 00:09:35,400 --> 00:09:41,079 Speaker 11: attempted to conceal the destination from the public, citing security 151 00:09:41,160 --> 00:09:48,720 Speaker 11: concerns and political vitriol. She can't tell publicly that your 152 00:09:48,760 --> 00:09:51,520 Speaker 11: taxpayer money that she's going to use to go to 153 00:09:51,520 --> 00:09:55,400 Speaker 11: Paris is for her to go to Paris, because you'll 154 00:09:55,440 --> 00:09:58,480 Speaker 11: be angry about it. Therefore, she was going to hide it, 155 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:05,880 Speaker 11: Tremor reports Quote. According to Hudalgo's request, the delegation is 156 00:10:05,960 --> 00:10:09,480 Speaker 11: part of a collaboration between Greater Houston Partnership and RECE 157 00:10:09,600 --> 00:10:15,960 Speaker 11: University aimed at promoting economic development and attracting future investment 158 00:10:16,120 --> 00:10:20,440 Speaker 11: to the region. The event, scheduled for June eighth through 159 00:10:20,440 --> 00:10:26,280 Speaker 11: the fifteenth, is intended to showcase Harris County as a 160 00:10:26,360 --> 00:10:33,520 Speaker 11: hub for innovation and artificial intelligence. Nothing says Harris County's 161 00:10:33,720 --> 00:10:41,880 Speaker 11: got it together in innovation and artificial intelligence, like the 162 00:10:41,960 --> 00:10:46,000 Speaker 11: comandante sounding like Dora the Explorer with her shaky voice 163 00:10:46,240 --> 00:10:51,040 Speaker 11: straight out of the nutbind Hidalgo would lead the delegation. Oh, 164 00:10:51,120 --> 00:10:54,440 Speaker 11: she's going to lead it. Okay, that's great. Take me 165 00:10:54,520 --> 00:10:59,800 Speaker 11: to your leader. This is her, sir, and be accompanied 166 00:10:59,800 --> 00:11:04,920 Speaker 11: by three county employees once hotel rooms, flights, okay good. 167 00:11:05,480 --> 00:11:07,120 Speaker 2: Who would serve as her. 168 00:11:07,120 --> 00:11:11,480 Speaker 11: Staff during the trip, Well, yeah, somebody's got to fetch things. 169 00:11:12,160 --> 00:11:13,760 Speaker 2: You think this bitch getting. 170 00:11:13,559 --> 00:11:14,160 Speaker 1: Up on her own? 171 00:11:14,200 --> 00:11:15,160 Speaker 2: Who you think she is? 172 00:11:15,320 --> 00:11:19,600 Speaker 11: Hello? The request comes at a time when the county 173 00:11:19,640 --> 00:11:23,959 Speaker 11: is facing significant financial challenges, such as a reported one 174 00:11:24,040 --> 00:11:28,360 Speaker 11: hundred and twenty nine million dollar budget deficit. Earlier this month, 175 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:31,640 Speaker 11: hit Algo said in a heated meeting that the county 176 00:11:31,679 --> 00:11:36,000 Speaker 11: could not raise sheriff deputy pay despite a twenty four 177 00:11:36,040 --> 00:11:41,800 Speaker 11: thousand dollars per year salary gap with Houston Police Department officers, due. 178 00:11:41,559 --> 00:11:42,720 Speaker 2: To a lack of funds. 179 00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:47,040 Speaker 11: Critics of the proposed trip to France argue that it 180 00:11:47,120 --> 00:11:51,280 Speaker 11: sends the wrong message, you think amid the county's current 181 00:11:51,360 --> 00:11:55,880 Speaker 11: financial climate. Republican Commissioner Tom Ramsay, a vocal opponent of 182 00:11:55,920 --> 00:12:00,480 Speaker 11: the plan, told Texas Scorecard quote, I voted no last time, 183 00:12:00,920 --> 00:12:04,080 Speaker 11: and I'm voting no this time. There's no reason to 184 00:12:04,080 --> 00:12:07,360 Speaker 11: spend taxpayer dollars for Judge hid allgo and staff to 185 00:12:07,440 --> 00:12:10,680 Speaker 11: go on a junket. If the Greater Houston Partnership wanted 186 00:12:10,720 --> 00:12:14,599 Speaker 11: her to go, they should pay for it. 187 00:12:14,600 --> 00:12:15,680 Speaker 2: Seems reasonable to me. 188 00:12:17,720 --> 00:12:20,840 Speaker 11: Now that the county has rebuffed Lena's trip to Paris, 189 00:12:20,880 --> 00:12:24,040 Speaker 11: perhaps she and her husband should try to win a 190 00:12:24,080 --> 00:12:28,840 Speaker 11: trip on the wheel gondola ride through. 191 00:12:30,240 --> 00:12:40,600 Speaker 14: Yeah, let's let's check your geography knowledge. What country do 192 00:12:40,640 --> 00:12:45,040 Speaker 14: you think we're sending you to Paris? 193 00:12:46,559 --> 00:12:56,880 Speaker 2: Friends? Do we still get in? Apparently you know your husband? 194 00:12:56,880 --> 00:13:07,800 Speaker 11: Well, that's sad, that is just sad. Ramon thinks that 195 00:13:07,920 --> 00:13:11,280 Speaker 11: Lena wants to be with like minded Jerry Lewis lovers 196 00:13:11,280 --> 00:13:14,920 Speaker 11: in Paris. So he has pulled a little Jerry Lewis 197 00:13:14,960 --> 00:13:19,319 Speaker 11: and uh Dean Martin stand up. And for my money, 198 00:13:19,640 --> 00:13:22,960 Speaker 11: there's never a bad time for some Jerry Lewis and 199 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:24,080 Speaker 11: Dean Martin stand up. 200 00:13:24,160 --> 00:13:26,240 Speaker 2: So fire away, Romon, go ahead. 201 00:13:28,679 --> 00:13:31,480 Speaker 7: It's time the old time rate to sit down. 202 00:13:33,480 --> 00:13:34,880 Speaker 4: If you had one more head, you can have a 203 00:13:34,920 --> 00:13:38,320 Speaker 4: wonderful rock garden you can start at all the time, a. 204 00:13:40,440 --> 00:13:41,960 Speaker 7: Lot of terrific. 205 00:13:43,520 --> 00:13:44,080 Speaker 8: Crin tub. 206 00:13:44,160 --> 00:13:46,000 Speaker 2: And you don't think I'll get dirty? Did you mean 207 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:47,280 Speaker 2: about the guy? 208 00:13:48,280 --> 00:13:48,319 Speaker 7: No? 209 00:13:48,520 --> 00:13:48,800 Speaker 5: Listen. 210 00:13:49,400 --> 00:13:51,040 Speaker 4: I think that we should do a number. 211 00:13:53,080 --> 00:13:54,120 Speaker 13: La la la la la. 212 00:13:57,280 --> 00:13:57,679 Speaker 7: Lorla. 213 00:13:57,760 --> 00:13:58,160 Speaker 2: What do you do? 214 00:13:58,240 --> 00:14:03,120 Speaker 13: Drink the labels la la la, Hey. 215 00:14:06,640 --> 00:14:14,760 Speaker 7: With her right down, with baby, Nay everybody, Hey, Hey, 216 00:14:14,960 --> 00:14:28,000 Speaker 7: alway the time, my name everybody. 217 00:14:26,400 --> 00:14:29,720 Speaker 11: You know, it's it's funny. Because our audience is very 218 00:14:29,760 --> 00:14:35,800 Speaker 11: broad in age, geography, experiences all that. I will invariably 219 00:14:35,800 --> 00:14:38,400 Speaker 11: get an email today from somebody else say that that 220 00:14:38,800 --> 00:14:40,560 Speaker 11: comedy thing or whatever you thought it was, that was 221 00:14:40,640 --> 00:14:43,040 Speaker 11: stupid and it went on too long and it was dumb, 222 00:14:43,040 --> 00:14:43,760 Speaker 11: and please. 223 00:14:43,480 --> 00:14:44,040 Speaker 2: Don't do that. 224 00:14:45,520 --> 00:14:49,720 Speaker 11: And I'll get ten emails from little old ladies named 225 00:14:49,720 --> 00:14:53,240 Speaker 11: Gertrude and Myrtle who will say thank you for playing that. 226 00:14:53,840 --> 00:14:58,720 Speaker 11: Jerry Lewis my husband, and I would cackle to Jerry 227 00:14:58,800 --> 00:15:02,840 Speaker 11: Lewis and Ian Martin. It was the best darned thing. 228 00:15:03,520 --> 00:15:06,560 Speaker 11: It was so increaible. That just brought me back. I 229 00:15:06,600 --> 00:15:10,000 Speaker 11: lost my husband five years ago, and that just brought 230 00:15:10,080 --> 00:15:13,560 Speaker 11: me back to a very good time. What might also 231 00:15:13,600 --> 00:15:17,680 Speaker 11: bring you back to a very good time? Nineteen sixty two, 232 00:15:17,800 --> 00:15:19,720 Speaker 11: and you talk about a cover up, how about the 233 00:15:19,760 --> 00:15:22,560 Speaker 11: fact that John F. Kennedy was bunking the same woman 234 00:15:22,640 --> 00:15:26,440 Speaker 11: his dad was three months before her death, Marilyn Monroe 235 00:15:26,440 --> 00:15:30,520 Speaker 11: made one of her last public appearances at President John F. 236 00:15:30,600 --> 00:15:33,840 Speaker 11: Kennedy's forty fifth birthday celebration on this day in nineteen 237 00:15:33,920 --> 00:15:38,760 Speaker 11: sixty two, where she famously and breathlessly sang Happy Birthday, 238 00:15:38,840 --> 00:15:52,920 Speaker 11: mister President, in his honor the late Marilyn Monroe. 239 00:15:48,680 --> 00:16:18,320 Speaker 8: To Happy Birthday Aday, mister President. Happy by mister Resident, 240 00:16:20,280 --> 00:16:28,160 Speaker 8: for all the things you've done the battle such as run, Michael. 241 00:16:27,840 --> 00:16:35,320 Speaker 14: Barrison, Michael Varry show. 242 00:16:35,600 --> 00:16:41,760 Speaker 11: A Harris County government that has raised taxes spent us 243 00:16:41,800 --> 00:16:48,640 Speaker 11: into a deficit is about to lose on Moss sheriff's deputies. 244 00:16:50,040 --> 00:16:57,440 Speaker 11: The pay increase for HPD officers is going to kick 245 00:16:57,480 --> 00:17:02,040 Speaker 11: in and you're going to have share deputies. The entry 246 00:17:02,080 --> 00:17:08,639 Speaker 11: level position is a twenty four thousand dollars disparity, and 247 00:17:08,760 --> 00:17:14,520 Speaker 11: you're going to have sheriff's deputies jumping ship. Loads of 248 00:17:14,600 --> 00:17:18,800 Speaker 11: sheriff's deputies are going to jump ship. HPD is going 249 00:17:18,800 --> 00:17:22,240 Speaker 11: to have the pick of the litter, and Harris County 250 00:17:22,640 --> 00:17:25,560 Speaker 11: is going to be short deputies. 251 00:17:26,520 --> 00:17:27,880 Speaker 2: When they already need more. 252 00:17:30,040 --> 00:17:35,160 Speaker 11: You've got you've got the county judge who's handed over 253 00:17:35,200 --> 00:17:38,040 Speaker 11: all the administrative office to what a twenty four million 254 00:17:38,119 --> 00:17:42,679 Speaker 11: dollar Rodney set up an administrative office so she wouldn't 255 00:17:42,720 --> 00:17:46,399 Speaker 11: have to do anything, and she's trying to take trips 256 00:17:46,400 --> 00:17:53,399 Speaker 11: to Paris. These junkets need to all be stopped. I 257 00:17:53,440 --> 00:17:59,640 Speaker 11: am a believer that most business travel is absolutely wasteful, 258 00:18:01,280 --> 00:18:05,600 Speaker 11: absolutely wasteful when you consider the amount of time and 259 00:18:05,720 --> 00:18:11,440 Speaker 11: money lost if you have a productive employee. There are 260 00:18:11,560 --> 00:18:17,679 Speaker 11: people who are road warriors, and they have been for 261 00:18:17,720 --> 00:18:20,840 Speaker 11: so long they don't question any of it. It goes 262 00:18:20,880 --> 00:18:25,840 Speaker 11: back to my basic premise about meetings. Most meetings are unnecessary. 263 00:18:26,560 --> 00:18:30,119 Speaker 11: Do you want to buy my product that I'm selling? 264 00:18:31,720 --> 00:18:31,920 Speaker 2: Now? 265 00:18:31,920 --> 00:18:34,040 Speaker 11: There is something to be said for a human connection. 266 00:18:34,280 --> 00:18:36,400 Speaker 11: I get that, and there are people who make a difference. 267 00:18:37,480 --> 00:18:42,800 Speaker 11: But so many meetings that are regularly called scheduled meetings 268 00:18:42,880 --> 00:18:46,680 Speaker 11: at the same time every week, and boy, you ought 269 00:18:46,680 --> 00:18:48,280 Speaker 11: to see it in the government realm. 270 00:18:48,560 --> 00:18:49,840 Speaker 2: It is bad. 271 00:18:50,320 --> 00:18:55,359 Speaker 11: The Houston Galveston Area Council, the Commission on this there 272 00:18:55,440 --> 00:18:58,400 Speaker 11: is a standing meeting, and I'm sure you have these 273 00:18:58,480 --> 00:19:02,600 Speaker 11: at your offices. I'm company has them every Tuesday morning 274 00:19:02,640 --> 00:19:05,040 Speaker 11: at nine o'clock and. 275 00:19:04,960 --> 00:19:06,320 Speaker 2: You pull everybody together. 276 00:19:07,240 --> 00:19:11,840 Speaker 11: So let's say the operations, Let's say the CEO or 277 00:19:11,880 --> 00:19:17,480 Speaker 11: the head of your office pulls everybody in on whatever 278 00:19:17,520 --> 00:19:22,320 Speaker 11: that day is, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday of every week, and 279 00:19:22,359 --> 00:19:25,960 Speaker 11: they all come in and they say, we need more 280 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:30,880 Speaker 11: sales and more revenues. And you've got all your salesmen 281 00:19:32,080 --> 00:19:36,560 Speaker 11: sitting around in the room going, well, I can't sell 282 00:19:36,640 --> 00:19:40,359 Speaker 11: on Tuesday morning because I have to be in this meeting. 283 00:19:42,200 --> 00:19:47,280 Speaker 11: And you've got all of this time tied up in 284 00:19:47,680 --> 00:19:53,480 Speaker 11: the preparation of the presentations and the listening to the presentations. 285 00:19:53,960 --> 00:19:54,640 Speaker 2: And this is. 286 00:19:54,920 --> 00:19:57,960 Speaker 11: Every company I've ever seen. Every when they get to 287 00:19:57,960 --> 00:20:01,600 Speaker 11: a certain size, you know who doesn't do that. Small 288 00:20:01,640 --> 00:20:08,560 Speaker 11: shops lean small shops because the more people you add, 289 00:20:08,640 --> 00:20:14,159 Speaker 11: at some point you reach a layer where if a 290 00:20:14,200 --> 00:20:19,520 Speaker 11: person died or went missing, it would not affect the operations, 291 00:20:19,640 --> 00:20:27,239 Speaker 11: revenue efficiency, success of the company. And companies grow and 292 00:20:27,280 --> 00:20:29,679 Speaker 11: you don't notice you have so much overlap and so 293 00:20:29,760 --> 00:20:32,840 Speaker 11: much fat built into them that you end up with 294 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:36,840 Speaker 11: people who really have nothing to do, and they don't 295 00:20:36,840 --> 00:20:39,800 Speaker 11: want anybody to know that, so they call meetings, They 296 00:20:39,840 --> 00:20:43,520 Speaker 11: schedule meetings. When I was at city council, I could 297 00:20:43,520 --> 00:20:47,720 Speaker 11: not believe the number of meetings that would be held. 298 00:20:48,880 --> 00:20:51,160 Speaker 11: Well if there's nothing on the agenda. Nobody can admit 299 00:20:51,320 --> 00:20:55,560 Speaker 11: we're not really doing anything here. So they create things 300 00:20:55,920 --> 00:21:02,280 Speaker 11: for the meetings, and the meeting lasts. It starts with 301 00:21:02,359 --> 00:21:04,960 Speaker 11: every good, every good, and then you go it a 302 00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:07,680 Speaker 11: little bit into the meeting, and then you talk about 303 00:21:07,720 --> 00:21:09,520 Speaker 11: what's going to happen in the next meeting. Maybe you 304 00:21:09,600 --> 00:21:13,000 Speaker 11: recap what was at the last meeting. It's the most 305 00:21:13,359 --> 00:21:15,720 Speaker 11: inefficient thing imaginable. 306 00:21:17,359 --> 00:21:19,879 Speaker 2: And I don't know that Zoom meetings are any better. 307 00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:24,359 Speaker 11: Remember the old conference calls which turned into the Zoom meeting, 308 00:21:25,480 --> 00:21:27,640 Speaker 11: and so you would log in there was the same 309 00:21:27,880 --> 00:21:29,800 Speaker 11: I can't remember the name of it all. Some of 310 00:21:29,800 --> 00:21:34,560 Speaker 11: you will know it. It looks like a boomerang, except 311 00:21:34,600 --> 00:21:37,360 Speaker 11: it's a three pronged like a Chinese star. And they'd 312 00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:39,359 Speaker 11: put it in the middle of the conference room and 313 00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:41,280 Speaker 11: so your people would be there, and maybe if like 314 00:21:41,320 --> 00:21:43,639 Speaker 11: at a law firm, you'd have other offices and they 315 00:21:43,640 --> 00:21:46,960 Speaker 11: would all be all be on there, and so you'd 316 00:21:46,960 --> 00:21:48,919 Speaker 11: start it. Now, it's the same thing with Zoom. You 317 00:21:48,920 --> 00:21:50,959 Speaker 11: just have a video element and it goes like this, 318 00:21:52,119 --> 00:21:55,760 Speaker 11: All right, guys, we got a couple of people missing. Well, 319 00:21:55,840 --> 00:21:56,800 Speaker 11: let's go ahead and get started. 320 00:21:56,880 --> 00:21:57,160 Speaker 2: Us. 321 00:21:57,000 --> 00:22:00,720 Speaker 11: It's five minutes past. I don't know where Linda is. 322 00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:01,600 Speaker 2: Uh? 323 00:22:01,640 --> 00:22:03,959 Speaker 11: And Tom is he out? Guys, you don't know if 324 00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:06,840 Speaker 11: he's out this week. Okay, well let's go ahead and 325 00:22:06,880 --> 00:22:08,040 Speaker 11: I'm gonna go ahead and get a started. 326 00:22:08,080 --> 00:22:10,640 Speaker 2: Okay. Uh, first of all, thank you all for. 327 00:22:10,560 --> 00:22:12,600 Speaker 11: Being here, because you know, you need to thank them 328 00:22:12,640 --> 00:22:14,760 Speaker 11: because people otherwise the meeting would be over and people 329 00:22:14,760 --> 00:22:17,840 Speaker 11: would think, hmm, I don't think he's appreciative that I 330 00:22:17,920 --> 00:22:19,560 Speaker 11: was here. Oh no, no, no, he did say thank 331 00:22:19,560 --> 00:22:22,239 Speaker 11: you for being here. Okay, So we've thanked everybody for 332 00:22:22,280 --> 00:22:25,320 Speaker 11: being here, and okay, all right. In about two minutes 333 00:22:25,480 --> 00:22:29,840 Speaker 11: into the presentation, here comes Linda. 334 00:22:30,040 --> 00:22:33,160 Speaker 2: Hey, guys, who is it? Is that Linda? Linda you want? Yeah? Hey, 335 00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:33,800 Speaker 2: sorry about that? 336 00:22:33,840 --> 00:22:34,119 Speaker 8: Guys? 337 00:22:34,160 --> 00:22:37,920 Speaker 2: Who man traffic? And I this is crazy? 338 00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:38,480 Speaker 7: Uh? 339 00:22:38,560 --> 00:22:41,919 Speaker 11: Sorry guys, Uh, how are we doing? Yeah, no problem, 340 00:22:42,160 --> 00:22:43,880 Speaker 11: let me just catch you up what we've been doing. 341 00:22:44,359 --> 00:22:48,119 Speaker 11: So now we spend five minutes catching Linda up, whereupon 342 00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:49,800 Speaker 11: Tom shows up. 343 00:22:51,920 --> 00:22:52,960 Speaker 2: Who's that? Who's there? 344 00:22:53,160 --> 00:22:53,400 Speaker 11: Hey? 345 00:22:53,480 --> 00:22:55,360 Speaker 2: It's Tom? Tom's that you? Yeah? 346 00:22:55,400 --> 00:22:55,600 Speaker 11: Hey? 347 00:22:55,800 --> 00:22:57,720 Speaker 2: Sorry? I sorry. I thought the. 348 00:22:57,680 --> 00:23:01,800 Speaker 11: Meeting was at eleven fifteen, not ten. I am so sorry, guys. 349 00:23:02,160 --> 00:23:04,240 Speaker 11: I apologize to you go ahead on without me. 350 00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:04,840 Speaker 2: I'm here. 351 00:23:05,040 --> 00:23:07,120 Speaker 11: I'll catch you up later. No, no, no, just catch 352 00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:10,560 Speaker 11: you up on what we're doing. Then we repeat. So 353 00:23:10,680 --> 00:23:14,560 Speaker 11: we're thirty forty five minutes into the meeting. We've never 354 00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:23,720 Speaker 11: actually accomplished anything. Nothing. Then Sam wants to speak, but 355 00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:27,920 Speaker 11: Sam's muted. So Sam is being very animated, and somebody 356 00:23:27,960 --> 00:23:29,560 Speaker 11: they Sam, you're muted. 357 00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:31,760 Speaker 2: You got it? Oh okay, Wait. 358 00:23:32,359 --> 00:23:35,880 Speaker 11: Nothing gets done on these damn meetings. And I don't 359 00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:39,440 Speaker 11: know about you. I don't remember things. It's not Joe 360 00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:43,960 Speaker 11: Biden bad. But if I say we're gonna you're deliverables 361 00:23:44,040 --> 00:23:47,200 Speaker 11: or Thursday at three o'clock, So why not take the time, 362 00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:51,480 Speaker 11: write an email and move on. Almost every phone call 363 00:23:52,080 --> 00:23:53,560 Speaker 11: should have been a name. 364 00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:58,800 Speaker 2: Of Michael Berry show. 365 00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:00,800 Speaker 13: Well. 366 00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:03,479 Speaker 11: Unfortunately we lost him in two thousand and two at 367 00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:08,200 Speaker 11: only sixty two years old. But Milton Simms Newberry Junior 368 00:24:08,359 --> 00:24:12,480 Speaker 11: was born on this day in nineteen forty. He came 369 00:24:12,520 --> 00:24:16,119 Speaker 11: to be known as Mickey Newberry, and he wrote that 370 00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:22,080 Speaker 11: song and a number of others. He was mentioned in Lukenbach, 371 00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:29,080 Speaker 11: Texas with the line between Hank Williams Payne songs Newberry's 372 00:24:29,119 --> 00:24:35,480 Speaker 11: train songs. He would go on to be the Songwriters 373 00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:41,399 Speaker 11: Hall of Fame, arguably, arguably let me not, let me 374 00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:45,240 Speaker 11: not get carried away in nineteen sixty eight. At one 375 00:24:45,320 --> 00:24:50,520 Speaker 11: time he had four top five songs across four charts 376 00:24:51,359 --> 00:24:53,560 Speaker 11: that had never been done before, and it's never been 377 00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:59,760 Speaker 11: done again. It's an incredible, incredible career and another story 378 00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:06,240 Speaker 11: of an incredible Houstonian. You know, we've talked about doing 379 00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:10,600 Speaker 11: a Houston Hall of Fame and it should be done. 380 00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:14,160 Speaker 11: I mean, it should absolutely be done. There was there 381 00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:17,200 Speaker 11: was an effort. I think it stalled a few years ago. 382 00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:19,000 Speaker 11: I think the Houston Press may have been behind it, 383 00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:25,159 Speaker 11: and Gene Watson was in the inaugural crowd. I have 384 00:25:25,280 --> 00:25:29,399 Speaker 11: been sore over the issue of Pete Rose in the 385 00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:34,320 Speaker 11: Hall of Fame for quite some time, and folks that 386 00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:36,560 Speaker 11: know me and know how much this mattered to me 387 00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:38,639 Speaker 11: thought that I would be happy last week with the 388 00:25:38,680 --> 00:25:43,399 Speaker 11: news that Major League Baseball had determined that twenty seven 389 00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:50,000 Speaker 11: players who are deceased would be eligible again for Major 390 00:25:50,040 --> 00:25:53,040 Speaker 11: League Baseball since their no longer life shoeless Joe Jackson 391 00:25:53,280 --> 00:25:56,920 Speaker 11: being one of them, and of course Pete Rose, which 392 00:25:56,920 --> 00:25:58,600 Speaker 11: would mean that Pete Rose could go into the Hall 393 00:25:58,600 --> 00:25:59,960 Speaker 11: of Fame as early as twenty twenty eight. 394 00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:03,520 Speaker 2: And what made me very angry about that. 395 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:09,080 Speaker 11: Is that you're basically saying, we know Pete Rose needs 396 00:26:09,119 --> 00:26:11,040 Speaker 11: to be in the Hall of Fame. He has the 397 00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:15,439 Speaker 11: most hits all time, the longevity that he displayed. He 398 00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:19,679 Speaker 11: is the batter equivalent of Nolan Ryan on the pitching 399 00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:31,159 Speaker 11: mount switch hitting, playing, coaching, winning, the intensity of Charlie Hustle. 400 00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:34,560 Speaker 11: What he brought to the game. It is entertainment. It's 401 00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:38,920 Speaker 11: important to never forget that it is entertainment. And we 402 00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:43,040 Speaker 11: were entertained to answer the Russell quote, question, crow question. 403 00:26:43,119 --> 00:26:46,240 Speaker 11: We were entertained. Did he make a mistake, Sure, a 404 00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:50,560 Speaker 11: lot of people do. Was he punished? Absolutely? And he 405 00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:54,680 Speaker 11: could have been honored. He could have been honored while 406 00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:58,479 Speaker 11: he was still alive. I don't think anybody doubts that 407 00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:03,359 Speaker 11: he was punished sufficiently. But the coup de gras is 408 00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:07,800 Speaker 11: you wait till the man dies. He's had Trump call 409 00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:11,600 Speaker 11: for him to be inducted. He's called in every friendship 410 00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:14,399 Speaker 11: with every player he ever knew, from Johnny Bench to 411 00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:18,639 Speaker 11: George Foster to you name it. Nope, they won't let 412 00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:23,320 Speaker 11: him in. He lives a full, long life, obsessed with 413 00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:26,080 Speaker 11: getting in the Hall of Fame. It meant the world 414 00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:27,120 Speaker 11: to him. 415 00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:29,280 Speaker 2: He lived for baseball. 416 00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:33,400 Speaker 11: He said one time that he would walk through Hell 417 00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:39,160 Speaker 11: in a gasoline suit to play baseball. He loved the game, 418 00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:44,760 Speaker 11: and not until he's dead could his accomplishments be honored 419 00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:47,760 Speaker 11: in the Hall of Fame. So the statement is very clear. 420 00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:52,400 Speaker 11: We all want to enjoy honoring your body of work. 421 00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:56,560 Speaker 11: We just want to make sure that you don't enjoy 422 00:27:57,280 --> 00:27:59,080 Speaker 11: that moment that. 423 00:27:59,119 --> 00:28:00,600 Speaker 2: Everybody else us. 424 00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:05,040 Speaker 11: So we will benefit from your career because there'll be 425 00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:08,320 Speaker 11: a resurgence of interest in the Hall of Fame. There 426 00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:11,600 Speaker 11: will be a resurgence of interest in Cincinnati Red's lore 427 00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:16,840 Speaker 11: in baseball from particularly the seventies, and we all want 428 00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:19,160 Speaker 11: to benefit from that which they will. Dollars will be made, 429 00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:22,359 Speaker 11: glory will be had. We just don't want you in 430 00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:27,679 Speaker 11: any way to get to enjoy a moment of the 431 00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:31,480 Speaker 11: reminiscence of your career. We have to wait until you're 432 00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:35,919 Speaker 11: dead for all of us to do that. And I 433 00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:39,840 Speaker 11: made a statement that these halls of fame are made 434 00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:42,040 Speaker 11: up with the kind of people who themselves would never 435 00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:45,400 Speaker 11: be in a Hall of fame, whether that's people in 436 00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:50,800 Speaker 11: an industry who see themselves as the gatekeeper of their 437 00:28:50,960 --> 00:28:54,520 Speaker 11: little industry or their little industry Hall of fame all 438 00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:58,520 Speaker 11: the way up to professional sports. I mean the Country 439 00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:02,960 Speaker 11: Music Hall of Fame. Let's Williams Junior in for this year. 440 00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:07,400 Speaker 11: So I talked about the fact that that's wrong. I mean, 441 00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:10,440 Speaker 11: he's one of the all time greats. Leaving aside his 442 00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:13,440 Speaker 11: name and who his father was, it's one of the 443 00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:20,280 Speaker 11: all time greats. Chart success, influence, pop culture influence, musical influence, 444 00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:24,640 Speaker 11: the style he brought to music and how it moved forward, 445 00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:31,000 Speaker 11: his importance to the genre, his longevity as a performer, singer, entertainer, 446 00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:34,960 Speaker 11: all of that, all of that makes him a first 447 00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:38,520 Speaker 11: ballot Hall of Famer, up there with anyone who up there, 448 00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:43,440 Speaker 11: just behind the George Joneses and the Merle Haggards, especially 449 00:29:43,520 --> 00:29:46,040 Speaker 11: because he wrote all his own stuff and he wrote 450 00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:49,480 Speaker 11: stuff that other people covered. So I was talking about 451 00:29:49,480 --> 00:29:52,240 Speaker 11: that years ago, and we were pushing that he should 452 00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:53,440 Speaker 11: be in, he should be and he should be in. 453 00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:55,840 Speaker 11: And I got emails from people in the industry in 454 00:29:55,920 --> 00:29:59,240 Speaker 11: Nashville and they said, Hey, just so you know, you 455 00:29:59,240 --> 00:30:01,640 Speaker 11: can waste you can save your time. You're wasting your energy. 456 00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:04,640 Speaker 11: Hank Waves Junior is not in the Hall of Fame 457 00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:10,160 Speaker 11: because he's an ass. Has nothing to do with chart 458 00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:14,160 Speaker 11: success or popularity or longevity. Everybody knows he would be 459 00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:17,880 Speaker 11: in on that basis. He's an ass. And I hear 460 00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:21,000 Speaker 11: people say this all the time. I had a email 461 00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:24,040 Speaker 11: me over the weekend lay off the Pete Rose thing. 462 00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:28,200 Speaker 11: He was a really really bad guy. He was an 463 00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:32,560 Speaker 11: unpleasant person. Do you go to any hall of fame 464 00:30:33,600 --> 00:30:36,320 Speaker 11: and walk in the door and go, yep, there's old 465 00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:39,240 Speaker 11: so and so. He was a really nice guy, really nice. 466 00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:43,040 Speaker 11: Oh and there's old so and so he was really 467 00:30:43,120 --> 00:30:46,960 Speaker 11: nice too. You don't know if some famous person is 468 00:30:47,120 --> 00:30:50,880 Speaker 11: nice or isn't nice. You only know if you have 469 00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:53,320 Speaker 11: an interaction and they don't sign an autograph because they're 470 00:30:53,360 --> 00:30:56,320 Speaker 11: not in a good mood, or they had a divorce 471 00:30:56,320 --> 00:30:58,400 Speaker 11: and you don't know what went on behind closed doors. 472 00:30:59,320 --> 00:31:02,520 Speaker 11: The point is that these halls of fame don't recognize 473 00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:08,600 Speaker 11: the greatest contributor to their art, sport, entertainment. They recognize 474 00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:11,960 Speaker 11: what a few chosen gatekeeper choose to do. This is 475 00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:17,240 Speaker 11: like at the livestock showing rodeo barbecue tent. The guys 476 00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:19,400 Speaker 11: who have the tents, and they like to make a 477 00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:21,680 Speaker 11: big deal that nobody can get in their tent, and 478 00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:24,040 Speaker 11: then they invite you because you're supposed to be because 479 00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:25,400 Speaker 11: it's more exclusive. 480 00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:27,520 Speaker 2: That seems silly, doesn't it. 481 00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:31,520 Speaker 11: I mean, some of the best tents out there have 482 00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:33,840 Speaker 11: no security outfront, and people walk in and out and 483 00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:36,120 Speaker 11: they're welcoming people, and that's the spirit of the rodeo.