1 00:00:05,480 --> 00:00:12,960 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load till 2 00:00:13,080 --> 00:00:15,480 Speaker 1: Michael Verie Show is on the air. 3 00:00:21,440 --> 00:00:28,520 Speaker 2: Hey, it's ramon about independence. Webster defines independence as the 4 00:00:28,600 --> 00:00:34,360 Speaker 2: fact or state of being independent, freedom from control, influence, support, aid, 5 00:00:34,560 --> 00:00:39,599 Speaker 2: or the like of others. Let us celebrate today Independence Day. 6 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:47,760 Speaker 2: You no doubt know the stories settlers on New Land, 7 00:00:47,920 --> 00:00:51,279 Speaker 2: angry at their tyrannical ruler ruling from far away, an 8 00:00:51,320 --> 00:00:56,360 Speaker 2: active defiance, a declaration of independence, fighting a bigger army 9 00:00:56,440 --> 00:01:00,240 Speaker 2: with a ragtag squad, a general who was quickly using 10 00:01:00,320 --> 00:01:04,319 Speaker 2: his troops to injury, disease, famine, and an uncertainty from 11 00:01:04,360 --> 00:01:07,200 Speaker 2: their troops who would wonder if their leader was one 12 00:01:07,319 --> 00:01:10,720 Speaker 2: worth following. And of course you remember the river crossing 13 00:01:10,840 --> 00:01:13,000 Speaker 2: in the final battle that won the war and changed 14 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:16,360 Speaker 2: the United States and her young history forever. Nothing I 15 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:19,080 Speaker 2: can say now will give those heroes the proper respect 16 00:01:19,520 --> 00:01:23,000 Speaker 2: or those stories their proper contexts. Those words are. 17 00:01:22,880 --> 00:01:23,440 Speaker 1: Just beyond me. 18 00:01:27,720 --> 00:01:32,880 Speaker 2: How must it have finally felt after losing battles, finally 19 00:01:33,319 --> 00:01:39,480 Speaker 2: miraculously winning and becoming your own country, gaining independence, able 20 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:43,440 Speaker 2: to govern your citizens as they see fit and not 21 00:01:43,760 --> 00:01:48,280 Speaker 2: by the hand of some distant ruler. Monuments would be 22 00:01:48,320 --> 00:01:52,960 Speaker 2: built so that generations would know these battles. Statues erected 23 00:01:53,360 --> 00:01:57,600 Speaker 2: so generations may be reminded of the soldier's greatness. And 24 00:01:57,720 --> 00:02:04,320 Speaker 2: a flag, a mighty fla whose existence represented defiance, pride, 25 00:02:04,640 --> 00:02:08,960 Speaker 2: and mostly its independence. And oh what a flag, the red, 26 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:16,080 Speaker 2: the white, the blue, and its lone star, representing the 27 00:02:16,120 --> 00:02:21,000 Speaker 2: Republic of Texas. See the United States story of freedom 28 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:23,960 Speaker 2: is a great and powerful story, arguably just as great 29 00:02:23,960 --> 00:02:26,480 Speaker 2: and powerful as the story of another band of ragtags 30 00:02:26,840 --> 00:02:30,720 Speaker 2: that fought and died for freedom. The general whose tactics 31 00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:34,440 Speaker 2: were doubted until that final victory, except this country would 32 00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:37,600 Speaker 2: be Texas. Sam Houston was losing his soldiers, not just 33 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:40,600 Speaker 2: to sickness and injury, but to doubt too. After retreating 34 00:02:40,600 --> 00:02:44,040 Speaker 2: past the Colorado River, many troops deserted. Finally, on April 35 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:47,120 Speaker 2: twenty first, the Battle of San Jacino was fought and 36 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:50,679 Speaker 2: won by the Texians in only eighteen minutes. When time 37 00:02:50,720 --> 00:02:53,920 Speaker 2: came to bring Texas into the United States, it entered 38 00:02:53,960 --> 00:02:56,639 Speaker 2: as the twenty eighth state in the Union. Given the 39 00:02:56,760 --> 00:02:59,760 Speaker 2: US more push west and upsetting Mexico so much that 40 00:02:59,800 --> 00:03:03,040 Speaker 2: they declared war on the United States. The US with 41 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:06,720 Speaker 2: Texas now in tow won that war and added an 42 00:03:06,760 --> 00:03:10,360 Speaker 2: additional five hundred and twenty five thousand square miles to 43 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:13,639 Speaker 2: the United States territory, including the land that makes up 44 00:03:13,680 --> 00:03:17,200 Speaker 2: all or part of present day Arizona in California, in 45 00:03:17,320 --> 00:03:22,400 Speaker 2: Colorado and Nevada, and New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. Our 46 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:26,800 Speaker 2: declaration of independence at Washington on the Brazas was declared 47 00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:30,880 Speaker 2: on March second, eighteen thirty six, one hundred and fifty 48 00:03:30,919 --> 00:03:33,960 Speaker 2: two days after the Battle of Gonzales, only four days 49 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:37,080 Speaker 2: before the fall of the Alamo, and fifty days before 50 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:41,480 Speaker 2: Texas ultimately won her independence at San Jacino, declaring her 51 00:03:41,520 --> 00:03:45,240 Speaker 2: independence and taking her independence in one month and nineteen 52 00:03:45,320 --> 00:03:50,120 Speaker 2: days later. Anyone from Texas would expect nothing less from Texas. 53 00:03:50,920 --> 00:03:55,920 Speaker 2: Happy Independence Day, Texans. God certainly has blessed us and 54 00:03:55,960 --> 00:03:58,680 Speaker 2: those of you not lucky enough to live in Texas. 55 00:03:59,560 --> 00:04:01,640 Speaker 2: Bless your hearts for texts. 56 00:04:03,920 --> 00:04:14,760 Speaker 3: Th word would never cross Man lifty Austin City, lived. 57 00:04:16,520 --> 00:04:18,599 Speaker 1: The stove. 58 00:04:22,279 --> 00:04:34,080 Speaker 3: If one would be Texas, it made me the man 59 00:04:34,120 --> 00:04:35,800 Speaker 3: I am. 60 00:04:35,839 --> 00:04:41,440 Speaker 1: So Ramon knows that I love the humor to be found, 61 00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:45,880 Speaker 1: some of it unintentional in his family text group. So 62 00:04:45,960 --> 00:04:49,640 Speaker 1: he sends me a screenshot this morning, and the first 63 00:04:49,640 --> 00:04:53,159 Speaker 1: thing you see, because you're reading sort of backward on 64 00:04:53,160 --> 00:04:56,320 Speaker 1: on when when when texts? When text messages come in, 65 00:04:56,760 --> 00:04:59,240 Speaker 1: which is why you know what I hate. You know, 66 00:04:59,279 --> 00:05:02,080 Speaker 1: they've got the the heart you can put on or 67 00:05:02,120 --> 00:05:04,200 Speaker 1: the haha or the things that you can slap onto 68 00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:06,840 Speaker 1: somebody's message. I don't know why that doesn't come at 69 00:05:06,880 --> 00:05:10,039 Speaker 1: the end of a message. So if I tend to, 70 00:05:10,440 --> 00:05:13,479 Speaker 1: because I voiced a text, I tend to send messages 71 00:05:14,040 --> 00:05:16,479 Speaker 1: you know that are kind of diatribes, you know, lecturing 72 00:05:16,560 --> 00:05:20,720 Speaker 1: people or explaining some situation, sort of like the show 73 00:05:20,760 --> 00:05:23,479 Speaker 1: I'd go on too long, and then I get a 74 00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:26,480 Speaker 1: message that, oh they've responded, and you look and all 75 00:05:26,520 --> 00:05:28,560 Speaker 1: you see is no, they haven't. I still see the 76 00:05:28,560 --> 00:05:31,720 Speaker 1: message I sent, and so you scroll up to see 77 00:05:31,720 --> 00:05:35,280 Speaker 1: that they go ha or a heart. Well, I didn't 78 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:37,760 Speaker 1: need that. Is that is that proof of life? I mean, 79 00:05:37,839 --> 00:05:41,200 Speaker 1: is that their acknowledgment that I received it. I don't 80 00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:45,320 Speaker 1: understand that the systems are pretty fail safe at this point. 81 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:48,480 Speaker 1: If I send a text, I assume it got there. 82 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:50,800 Speaker 1: If it doesn't, I get a little you know, xy 83 00:05:50,880 --> 00:05:53,000 Speaker 1: thing or whatever. You don't need to tell me you 84 00:05:53,080 --> 00:05:56,600 Speaker 1: got my text, because then that just makes too many 85 00:05:56,600 --> 00:05:59,359 Speaker 1: text messages for no good reason. I'll assume if I 86 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:02,479 Speaker 1: send it, you got it. Anyway, So he sends me 87 00:06:03,760 --> 00:06:07,600 Speaker 1: this screenshot of the text message that he and his 88 00:06:07,640 --> 00:06:11,320 Speaker 1: sisters and his parents are on. And you remember, it 89 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:14,320 Speaker 1: was a screenshot that his dad was looking for the 90 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:17,640 Speaker 1: Viny sausages. He couldn't find the Vienny sausages. Which after 91 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:21,200 Speaker 1: all of that, it turned out they were actually on 92 00:06:21,320 --> 00:06:23,919 Speaker 1: the shelf. He just didn't see them. It was awesome. 93 00:06:24,440 --> 00:06:28,679 Speaker 1: So anyway, it was quote, take delight in the Lord, 94 00:06:29,320 --> 00:06:31,599 Speaker 1: and he will give you the desires of your heart. 95 00:06:32,920 --> 00:06:35,240 Speaker 1: But the way it came up on Ramon's screen is 96 00:06:35,279 --> 00:06:38,800 Speaker 1: that's all you saw. Ramone thought, oh, mighty soul, his 97 00:06:38,880 --> 00:06:44,520 Speaker 1: sister has sent a Bible verse today, all right, So 98 00:06:44,560 --> 00:06:49,520 Speaker 1: he scrolls up to see, you know what the context was, 99 00:06:49,920 --> 00:06:51,800 Speaker 1: take delight in the Lord, and he will give you 100 00:06:51,880 --> 00:06:55,320 Speaker 1: the desires of your heart. And when he scrolled up, 101 00:06:55,880 --> 00:06:58,680 Speaker 1: the thing that was the desire of her heart that 102 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:01,000 Speaker 1: you should take delight in the lo that he might 103 00:07:01,120 --> 00:07:07,560 Speaker 1: give you was bluebell banana fudge, a new flavor. You 104 00:07:07,640 --> 00:07:14,080 Speaker 1: remember the You remember the was it a fudgebomb. What 105 00:07:14,160 --> 00:07:18,240 Speaker 1: was it called? That was chocolate on both ends and 106 00:07:18,320 --> 00:07:23,720 Speaker 1: banana in the middle. I think that was approximately eighty 107 00:07:23,760 --> 00:07:28,760 Speaker 1: three percent of my calories in seventh grade. Oh man, 108 00:07:30,640 --> 00:07:34,680 Speaker 1: are you intending to convey that this is a religious experience? Spiritual? 109 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:39,080 Speaker 1: If you will. It's a good day. People are going 110 00:07:39,600 --> 00:07:45,400 Speaker 1: it Friday. No, it's memories of fudgebomb Day. And that's 111 00:07:45,760 --> 00:07:48,920 Speaker 1: maybe better than Friday. You know, I hadn't seen people 112 00:07:48,920 --> 00:07:50,960 Speaker 1: in a long time. I'm actually looking forward to seeing 113 00:07:50,960 --> 00:07:54,720 Speaker 1: people at three o'clock today. But Bert, I wrote Bert 114 00:07:54,720 --> 00:07:58,200 Speaker 1: a nasty note. Last night. He asked me, he said, hey, 115 00:07:58,200 --> 00:08:00,840 Speaker 1: if you can get me a orange jumpsuit and crocs 116 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:05,280 Speaker 1: like I wore in jail, i'll wear it. I said, 117 00:08:05,440 --> 00:08:08,960 Speaker 1: what's mighty nice of you? Okay, And about three more 118 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:11,640 Speaker 1: times he asked me that. And ye, man, I'm gonna 119 00:08:11,640 --> 00:08:15,000 Speaker 1: tell you. Getting my dad moved into the assistant living facility, 120 00:08:15,280 --> 00:08:17,280 Speaker 1: getting him settled in, and all the stress I have 121 00:08:17,360 --> 00:08:19,280 Speaker 1: in the worry is he gonna fit in? And so 122 00:08:19,320 --> 00:08:20,200 Speaker 1: I just blew up on. 123 00:08:20,200 --> 00:08:23,360 Speaker 4: Burton, Burton, come in whatever you want. 124 00:08:23,400 --> 00:08:25,800 Speaker 1: I got no time for you. And then I felt bad, 125 00:08:25,840 --> 00:08:27,240 Speaker 1: so I had to post a fight and get it 126 00:08:27,280 --> 00:08:29,960 Speaker 1: for him. I had a lot going on the mong 127 00:08:30,160 --> 00:08:45,800 Speaker 1: Michael Barry Show. We were talking about Rick Perry, and 128 00:08:45,880 --> 00:08:49,000 Speaker 1: I was saying that if you know Rick Perry, you 129 00:08:49,120 --> 00:08:53,120 Speaker 1: cannot help, but like the guy. And that's hard for 130 00:08:53,160 --> 00:08:55,640 Speaker 1: people to believe, because when someone is in politics, you 131 00:08:55,760 --> 00:08:58,800 Speaker 1: think of them only as the political person you see 132 00:08:58,920 --> 00:09:03,920 Speaker 1: broadcast on media. But even Democrats, and he started life 133 00:09:03,960 --> 00:09:06,320 Speaker 1: as a Democrat, but that's when a lot of people 134 00:09:06,640 --> 00:09:10,800 Speaker 1: were Democrats. When the party changed in the early eighties, 135 00:09:10,960 --> 00:09:14,680 Speaker 1: they changed Phil Graham, who was at least considered a 136 00:09:14,760 --> 00:09:19,400 Speaker 1: very conservative Republican, started life as a Democrat, switched to 137 00:09:19,480 --> 00:09:24,440 Speaker 1: eighty four to run for powers seat. But anyway, I 138 00:09:24,520 --> 00:09:26,760 Speaker 1: was talking about Rick Perry being very charming on a 139 00:09:26,800 --> 00:09:29,080 Speaker 1: personal level, and anybody who knows him would tell you 140 00:09:29,120 --> 00:09:32,960 Speaker 1: that you can't help, but like the guy would be 141 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:35,959 Speaker 1: the phrase I would use. And I was talking to 142 00:09:35,960 --> 00:09:40,920 Speaker 1: Steve Elkington yesterday, the golfer ELK and it's always fun 143 00:09:41,040 --> 00:09:44,640 Speaker 1: to hear stories about the tour and his time on 144 00:09:44,679 --> 00:09:48,160 Speaker 1: the tour and tiger stories and read couple's stories and 145 00:09:48,240 --> 00:09:52,480 Speaker 1: all these different stories that he's got. And I had 146 00:09:52,480 --> 00:09:55,480 Speaker 1: never asked him about John Day, and I said, I 147 00:09:55,480 --> 00:09:58,280 Speaker 1: don't remember if I asked you about daily, but what's 148 00:09:58,320 --> 00:10:02,240 Speaker 1: your thought on him? He said, you can't help, but 149 00:10:02,480 --> 00:10:05,360 Speaker 1: like the guy. And I said, you know what's funny 150 00:10:05,920 --> 00:10:08,800 Speaker 1: is I don't bother to have an emotion toward very 151 00:10:08,800 --> 00:10:11,520 Speaker 1: many public people because you don't know, you don't really 152 00:10:11,559 --> 00:10:15,640 Speaker 1: know them, You just know the image that's broadcast. And 153 00:10:16,240 --> 00:10:19,440 Speaker 1: I think it's odd to But for some reason, I 154 00:10:19,559 --> 00:10:23,240 Speaker 1: really really like John Daly like I would have. I 155 00:10:23,240 --> 00:10:26,600 Speaker 1: would love to hang out with him. I would love to, 156 00:10:27,160 --> 00:10:30,640 Speaker 1: you know, banter with him. I'd carry the dude's bags 157 00:10:30,679 --> 00:10:33,160 Speaker 1: on the golf course. I just think he's he puts 158 00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:37,800 Speaker 1: off good energy. And he said, everything you think you 159 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:44,400 Speaker 1: know about him, every single thing that you expect of him, 160 00:10:45,640 --> 00:10:53,439 Speaker 1: is him. He's really that person. Nobody doesn't love John Daly. 161 00:10:53,800 --> 00:10:56,960 Speaker 1: He said, if he beats you in a tournament, you 162 00:10:57,000 --> 00:10:59,000 Speaker 1: weren't mad at him. You were happy for John Daly. 163 00:10:59,720 --> 00:11:02,880 Speaker 1: If he if he if he shoots you know, three 164 00:11:02,920 --> 00:11:06,200 Speaker 1: below you that day, if you know he can out 165 00:11:06,280 --> 00:11:10,560 Speaker 1: drive you, he said, if he passes out, you know, 166 00:11:10,720 --> 00:11:14,040 Speaker 1: on on the on the seventh, you just wake him 167 00:11:14,120 --> 00:11:16,880 Speaker 1: up and finished around. You don't. You don't care. You're 168 00:11:16,960 --> 00:11:19,959 Speaker 1: not mad. You don't go oh daily drunk again, he's fat. 169 00:11:19,960 --> 00:11:22,040 Speaker 1: We got this. No matter what he does. You just 170 00:11:22,280 --> 00:11:26,440 Speaker 1: love the guy. And that made me happy because I didn't. 171 00:11:26,480 --> 00:11:29,240 Speaker 1: I didn't want that veil to be pierced. Let me 172 00:11:29,320 --> 00:11:34,559 Speaker 1: check into the mail bag Ramon Jennifer rights Zar. Next 173 00:11:34,559 --> 00:11:38,720 Speaker 1: time you're in San Antonio, try the Hotel Contessa. It's 174 00:11:38,760 --> 00:11:41,360 Speaker 1: at the end of the river Walk, nice and quiet. 175 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:45,640 Speaker 1: All the rooms are spacious, and it's beautiful, especially at Christmas. 176 00:11:45,960 --> 00:11:49,240 Speaker 1: It's been my favorite place to stay for years. My 177 00:11:49,320 --> 00:11:51,880 Speaker 1: husband and I took our son to the Missions in January. 178 00:11:52,080 --> 00:12:00,600 Speaker 1: Great family trip. Jennifer Varner Fred writes, used to be 179 00:12:00,720 --> 00:12:04,559 Speaker 1: a nice hotel on the river walk, the Pelasio del Rio. 180 00:12:05,440 --> 00:12:07,719 Speaker 1: My wife and I decided to spend our honeymoon in 181 00:12:07,760 --> 00:12:11,880 Speaker 1: San anton Many recommended the Pelasio del Rio, so I 182 00:12:11,960 --> 00:12:16,080 Speaker 1: called him. Told the agent it was our honeymoon. He 183 00:12:16,120 --> 00:12:18,080 Speaker 1: asked if we wanted a room on the street side 184 00:12:18,160 --> 00:12:21,320 Speaker 1: or the riverside. How much for the riverside? I asked 185 00:12:21,640 --> 00:12:25,439 Speaker 1: ten dollars more, I said, I'll do it. Turns out 186 00:12:25,440 --> 00:12:28,880 Speaker 1: our room was on about the eighty sixth floor. Our 187 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:31,600 Speaker 1: room had a balcony. The only way we could have 188 00:12:31,640 --> 00:12:34,360 Speaker 1: even seen the river is if one of us hung 189 00:12:34,400 --> 00:12:37,840 Speaker 1: over the balcony while the other held us by the ankles. Marketing, 190 00:12:38,080 --> 00:12:42,440 Speaker 1: it's a wonderful thing. Fred Richmond and Willis. His name 191 00:12:42,480 --> 00:12:48,319 Speaker 1: is Fred Richmond, but he's in Willis. That's like George 192 00:12:48,400 --> 00:12:52,120 Speaker 1: Dodge who drives a Ford. Russelly Barro loves to say that. 193 00:12:54,520 --> 00:12:58,240 Speaker 1: John writes. A few years ago, Rick Trevino was playing 194 00:12:58,280 --> 00:13:01,480 Speaker 1: Tumbleweeds in Houston. Did you ever go to THEUS? I 195 00:13:01,520 --> 00:13:06,040 Speaker 1: saw David allen Coe at Tumbleweeds. It was in a dark, 196 00:13:06,160 --> 00:13:08,240 Speaker 1: dark time for him. This was a long time ago, 197 00:13:08,320 --> 00:13:10,240 Speaker 1: LEVI I good and I went out there. Man, I 198 00:13:10,280 --> 00:13:18,720 Speaker 1: bet you this was early two thousands and Tumbleweeds was 199 00:13:19,559 --> 00:13:21,520 Speaker 1: it was. It was a I don't want to say 200 00:13:21,559 --> 00:13:24,520 Speaker 1: it was a rough crowd, but let's just say there 201 00:13:24,600 --> 00:13:28,680 Speaker 1: wasn't anybody wearing a sports coat, and and it was 202 00:13:28,720 --> 00:13:32,959 Speaker 1: an odd venue for music anyway. It was really more 203 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:35,000 Speaker 1: of a bar where he put somebody on a stage 204 00:13:36,320 --> 00:13:40,439 Speaker 1: and he goes up on the stage. I don't I 205 00:13:40,440 --> 00:13:42,760 Speaker 1: don't remember if he had a band behind him or not, 206 00:13:43,440 --> 00:13:47,640 Speaker 1: but he's wearing pink high tops and he'd gotten really, 207 00:13:47,679 --> 00:13:51,000 Speaker 1: really fat, and this was long before his RCC show, 208 00:13:51,160 --> 00:13:54,800 Speaker 1: but pink high tops and he's got ear rings that 209 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:56,640 Speaker 1: you know, he loved the ear rings that hang away 210 00:13:56,720 --> 00:13:59,640 Speaker 1: down and he's playing his flying v that night, his 211 00:13:59,679 --> 00:14:04,720 Speaker 1: guitar and he's hammered and stoned and everything else, and 212 00:14:05,080 --> 00:14:09,720 Speaker 1: you're getting the full on David allen Coe experience. And 213 00:14:09,800 --> 00:14:11,840 Speaker 1: all he wanted to talk about was Kid Rock. And 214 00:14:11,920 --> 00:14:14,040 Speaker 1: if you know anything about David allen Cole, you know 215 00:14:14,320 --> 00:14:19,640 Speaker 1: that he claims Kid Rock as his child and they're buds, 216 00:14:20,160 --> 00:14:24,800 Speaker 1: so this father's son, you know whatever. Anyway, that's the 217 00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:28,600 Speaker 1: only time I ever been to Tumbleweeds. And anyway, a 218 00:14:28,600 --> 00:14:32,680 Speaker 1: few years back, Rick Travino was playing Tumbleweeds in Houston. 219 00:14:33,360 --> 00:14:35,920 Speaker 1: Josh Fuller played that show as well as Rush Creek. 220 00:14:37,520 --> 00:14:40,360 Speaker 1: Who sits in Who's drummer? Who sit in? Drummer? Is 221 00:14:40,400 --> 00:14:42,240 Speaker 1: my friend? The reason I was there? Who's also Josh's 222 00:14:42,240 --> 00:14:46,160 Speaker 1: former drummer DJ. That's the young young man yesterday, thirteen 223 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:49,440 Speaker 1: year old who was deputized. DJ was there in a 224 00:14:49,520 --> 00:14:53,200 Speaker 1: tiny Harris County Sheriff's Department uniform and he received his 225 00:14:53,280 --> 00:14:56,520 Speaker 1: badge that day. He had a gun belt with a 226 00:14:56,560 --> 00:14:59,400 Speaker 1: toy gun and everything. I thought it was really cool 227 00:14:59,440 --> 00:15:01,240 Speaker 1: at that time, but I just assumed he would have 228 00:15:01,280 --> 00:15:04,840 Speaker 1: passed by. Now shows what the power of positive thinking 229 00:15:04,880 --> 00:15:09,480 Speaker 1: can do. Way to go DJ from John Carter, the professor, 230 00:15:09,840 --> 00:15:14,280 Speaker 1: founding member of the RCC. RCC is back on the market, 231 00:15:14,320 --> 00:15:18,560 Speaker 1: by the way. So I sold the RCC to Well 232 00:15:18,640 --> 00:15:22,280 Speaker 1: the dirt well the facility anyway, not the business to 233 00:15:22,440 --> 00:15:27,000 Speaker 1: Bobby Orr who leased it to the group that does 234 00:15:28,520 --> 00:15:32,800 Speaker 1: Prospect Park. And I don't know what went wrong. I 235 00:15:32,840 --> 00:15:36,680 Speaker 1: don't I never asked what went wrong because they they've 236 00:15:36,720 --> 00:15:39,600 Speaker 1: done very well in some of their other locations. It's 237 00:15:39,640 --> 00:15:43,920 Speaker 1: sort of like a Black Hooters or a Black Twin Peaks, 238 00:15:45,320 --> 00:15:48,440 Speaker 1: and the model seems to work. I've looked at their 239 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:51,960 Speaker 1: liquor sales before and they're very, very good at what 240 00:15:52,040 --> 00:15:56,760 Speaker 1: they do. I don't know why that didn't work. Yeah, No, 241 00:15:57,280 --> 00:15:59,640 Speaker 1: I had no idea. I was gonna go to Kate. 242 00:15:59,720 --> 00:16:02,480 Speaker 1: I guess we have a moment. We should open the 243 00:16:02,480 --> 00:16:05,760 Speaker 1: phone lines for a moment. Seven one three nine nine 244 00:16:05,840 --> 00:16:08,680 Speaker 1: nine one thousand. Seven one three nine nine nine one 245 00:16:08,720 --> 00:16:28,040 Speaker 1: thousand The Michael Barry Show see My Bride level, you know, 246 00:16:28,160 --> 00:16:36,960 Speaker 1: talking about Ramon's family text group and my wife years 247 00:16:36,960 --> 00:16:40,520 Speaker 1: ago started a family text group of just the four 248 00:16:40,560 --> 00:16:48,160 Speaker 1: of us, me, her and our two boys. And my 249 00:16:48,240 --> 00:16:52,240 Speaker 1: wife is not a typical woman. She's not a big textor, 250 00:16:53,440 --> 00:16:57,560 Speaker 1: and my kids are not textures. So I thought this 251 00:16:57,640 --> 00:17:04,520 Speaker 1: is gonna die on the vines. We but whatever, and 252 00:17:04,560 --> 00:17:06,760 Speaker 1: she said, well, when they get older, we'll have them 253 00:17:06,800 --> 00:17:09,520 Speaker 1: in the habit At least we're all communicating one way 254 00:17:09,560 --> 00:17:12,240 Speaker 1: or another, because they won't always live under our roof. Well, 255 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:15,800 Speaker 1: that can't happen, but turns out it does, right, So 256 00:17:15,880 --> 00:17:18,640 Speaker 1: here we are. It's the best thing she ever did, 257 00:17:18,640 --> 00:17:22,520 Speaker 1: the foresight to do that, the foresight to understand that 258 00:17:22,680 --> 00:17:26,640 Speaker 1: this is how So every night, whoever goes to bed 259 00:17:26,680 --> 00:17:31,080 Speaker 1: first says good night all. My wife will say good 260 00:17:31,160 --> 00:17:33,639 Speaker 1: night boys, love you all, and then she'll give each 261 00:17:33,680 --> 00:17:37,920 Speaker 1: one of us a compliment. But occasionally. Last night, Michael 262 00:17:37,960 --> 00:17:39,359 Speaker 1: had had a long he'd been up all night the 263 00:17:39,440 --> 00:17:42,199 Speaker 1: night before with a project at school, so he was 264 00:17:42,200 --> 00:17:44,359 Speaker 1: going to bed and it was like eight o'clock, and 265 00:17:44,400 --> 00:17:47,520 Speaker 1: so it was like, good night, all exhausted from the day. 266 00:17:48,119 --> 00:17:52,000 Speaker 1: I hope everybody's good whatever, And then we all chime in, 267 00:17:52,960 --> 00:17:56,240 Speaker 1: and I say that because now I don't think I'm 268 00:17:56,280 --> 00:17:59,200 Speaker 1: the perfect parent. Far from it. My wife does more 269 00:17:59,200 --> 00:18:01,720 Speaker 1: of the parenting than I I do, which seems to 270 00:18:01,720 --> 00:18:03,600 Speaker 1: be a theme in my life. Everybody else does all 271 00:18:03,600 --> 00:18:07,040 Speaker 1: the work and I get the credit. But in any case, oh, 272 00:18:07,080 --> 00:18:10,480 Speaker 1: you didn't ding that. In any case, that's my suggestion 273 00:18:10,680 --> 00:18:14,359 Speaker 1: to you if you have, if you have family all 274 00:18:14,480 --> 00:18:17,879 Speaker 1: under one roof, is to establish that connection. That's not 275 00:18:17,960 --> 00:18:21,440 Speaker 1: a put every joke that you see all day, it's 276 00:18:21,640 --> 00:18:24,840 Speaker 1: you know, be respectful of people's time. But it also 277 00:18:25,520 --> 00:18:30,040 Speaker 1: forces you to communicate in a way that you otherwise 278 00:18:30,440 --> 00:18:37,280 Speaker 1: would not. Yeah, my dad being an assistant living facility, 279 00:18:37,440 --> 00:18:41,440 Speaker 1: now I can get by there since Monday, we're only 280 00:18:41,440 --> 00:18:43,640 Speaker 1: on Thursday, but I'm able to see him at least 281 00:18:43,640 --> 00:18:47,560 Speaker 1: twice a day. And that is a treat because he's 282 00:18:47,600 --> 00:18:50,960 Speaker 1: not a Texter, and you know, i'd call him every 283 00:18:51,040 --> 00:18:53,119 Speaker 1: day during the middle of the day and I just 284 00:18:53,200 --> 00:18:55,440 Speaker 1: kind of set my clock by that. I just think 285 00:18:55,480 --> 00:18:59,439 Speaker 1: it's healthy to have even if it's a very brief conversation. 286 00:19:00,119 --> 00:19:04,520 Speaker 1: It's healthy to have a proof of life, and it 287 00:19:04,640 --> 00:19:08,200 Speaker 1: doesn't have to be a conversation communication every single day. 288 00:19:08,280 --> 00:19:12,520 Speaker 1: I think that's healthy. Let's go to Kate. We'll start 289 00:19:12,520 --> 00:19:14,640 Speaker 1: into the calls. Kate, you're on the Michael Berry Show. 290 00:19:14,640 --> 00:19:19,840 Speaker 4: Go ahead, hey, Michael. When you were discussing earlier in 291 00:19:19,880 --> 00:19:23,560 Speaker 4: the show about you being our elon, I think it's 292 00:19:23,560 --> 00:19:29,400 Speaker 4: a brilliant idea because we need that fiscal responsibility in 293 00:19:29,480 --> 00:19:34,480 Speaker 4: all of our governments local, county, state, and federal. And 294 00:19:34,880 --> 00:19:37,840 Speaker 4: I think a forensic audit, which is dieting the eyes 295 00:19:37,920 --> 00:19:40,680 Speaker 4: and crossing the t's, is what we need throughout all 296 00:19:40,680 --> 00:19:44,280 Speaker 4: of our departments in every county and state because it 297 00:19:44,320 --> 00:19:48,520 Speaker 4: will be fiscal responsibility you and everyone else. I know 298 00:19:49,440 --> 00:19:52,480 Speaker 4: that we have to live within a budget, a monthly budget, 299 00:19:52,520 --> 00:19:54,040 Speaker 4: So why not our governments? 300 00:19:55,080 --> 00:19:59,120 Speaker 5: Why not our governments? What do I do right now? 301 00:19:59,160 --> 00:20:00,399 Speaker 5: I'm just a homemade her. 302 00:20:02,720 --> 00:20:05,400 Speaker 1: What is your background? Well, I, uh, you're very right. 303 00:20:05,560 --> 00:20:09,480 Speaker 5: I volunteer for thank you. I volunteer for the for 304 00:20:09,560 --> 00:20:13,680 Speaker 5: our local elections. I do like voting and stuff like that. 305 00:20:14,080 --> 00:20:18,240 Speaker 5: My husband's like a presiding judge. I've been an alternate judge, 306 00:20:18,280 --> 00:20:20,520 Speaker 5: but you know, it's been kind of getting sticky for 307 00:20:20,560 --> 00:20:21,600 Speaker 5: the last couple of months. 308 00:20:21,600 --> 00:20:22,760 Speaker 1: And did you go to college? 309 00:20:22,840 --> 00:20:26,160 Speaker 5: Pissed off? Did I go to college? I did take 310 00:20:26,200 --> 00:20:29,040 Speaker 5: some college? Yes, yes, I was. 311 00:20:29,040 --> 00:20:32,920 Speaker 1: Your strongest What was your strongest subject matter? 312 00:20:34,560 --> 00:20:38,320 Speaker 5: Strongest subject? Uh, probably saving money. 313 00:20:39,200 --> 00:20:40,359 Speaker 1: You know what I was about to tell you. 314 00:20:40,520 --> 00:20:41,800 Speaker 5: I think I am a tightwad. 315 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:44,800 Speaker 1: I think you would. I think your skill set would 316 00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:47,520 Speaker 1: make for a great accountant. I can tell that you 317 00:20:47,720 --> 00:20:51,400 Speaker 1: like the ledger to balance. I do. 318 00:20:51,560 --> 00:20:54,600 Speaker 5: I do because it's just you know my uh, you know, 319 00:20:54,640 --> 00:20:57,400 Speaker 5: my sister Brenda up in South Dakota is where she lives. 320 00:20:57,440 --> 00:21:00,159 Speaker 5: She has to work. Uh, she's working the in the 321 00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:02,920 Speaker 5: office and remotely right now because my brother in law 322 00:21:02,960 --> 00:21:08,520 Speaker 5: is fighting aesopagail cancer. So she has a spreadsheet sheet 323 00:21:08,600 --> 00:21:12,280 Speaker 5: copies and paste every single task that that she does, 324 00:21:12,920 --> 00:21:16,800 Speaker 5: you know, within the office. Because management efficiency, you should 325 00:21:16,840 --> 00:21:20,639 Speaker 5: do that every week anyway. It should be you know, 326 00:21:20,680 --> 00:21:22,960 Speaker 5: a no brainer thing. It should be a habit and 327 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:27,760 Speaker 5: it's a good one. So you know, she reports, Yeah, 328 00:21:27,800 --> 00:21:31,359 Speaker 5: she reports back weekly in emails to her manager editor. 329 00:21:31,920 --> 00:21:36,040 Speaker 5: She's been there over twenty years. So the job she 330 00:21:36,160 --> 00:21:38,720 Speaker 5: probably does a job of three people. It's the it's 331 00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:41,640 Speaker 5: the jack of all trades that is great. That makes 332 00:21:41,680 --> 00:21:44,560 Speaker 5: a great employee if they have the willingness to do 333 00:21:44,640 --> 00:21:48,879 Speaker 5: other jobs and makes them more valuable. The work ethic 334 00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:52,520 Speaker 5: is severely depressed in most of our young people today. 335 00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:56,520 Speaker 5: It just seems that way management efficiency is the key. 336 00:21:57,320 --> 00:22:01,320 Speaker 5: It's the key to a successful institution, knowing where every 337 00:22:01,480 --> 00:22:03,000 Speaker 5: single dollar is going. 338 00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:05,840 Speaker 1: I like the way you think, Kate. I like the 339 00:22:05,840 --> 00:22:07,520 Speaker 1: way you think. Thank you for the call, sweetheart. Let 340 00:22:07,560 --> 00:22:09,240 Speaker 1: me get some of these other folks on here. Jonathan, 341 00:22:09,320 --> 00:22:10,440 Speaker 1: you're on the Michael Berry Show. 342 00:22:12,359 --> 00:22:15,560 Speaker 6: Yes, sir, I actually I grew up listening to you 343 00:22:15,640 --> 00:22:19,240 Speaker 6: with my father in the truck whenever we were going hunting. 344 00:22:19,560 --> 00:22:21,639 Speaker 6: I'm now a little bit older and me and my 345 00:22:21,640 --> 00:22:23,680 Speaker 6: brother listen to you every day on the way to work. 346 00:22:24,280 --> 00:22:27,280 Speaker 6: And this is a question that's been bothering me for years. 347 00:22:27,800 --> 00:22:33,000 Speaker 6: Your intro and I'll take the same song the pump. 348 00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:34,560 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's called CEC. 349 00:22:36,920 --> 00:22:37,960 Speaker 6: Is that Elvis Presley? 350 00:22:39,119 --> 00:22:41,960 Speaker 1: H Yeah, that was the That was well, he didn't 351 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:44,320 Speaker 1: write it. We don't know who wrote it. It's it's 352 00:22:44,359 --> 00:22:48,680 Speaker 1: an old American standard, but there's no one attributed to it. 353 00:22:49,280 --> 00:22:53,440 Speaker 1: But that was Elvis's intro music. He would come out 354 00:22:53,480 --> 00:22:56,280 Speaker 1: to c c ryder, but it was a kind of 355 00:22:56,320 --> 00:22:59,560 Speaker 1: a running joke. The band would start cc ryder and 356 00:22:59,600 --> 00:23:02,040 Speaker 1: it was not uncommon for him to spend ten minutes 357 00:23:02,119 --> 00:23:05,600 Speaker 1: or more in the back talking to some pretty woman 358 00:23:05,920 --> 00:23:09,560 Speaker 1: or some fan or singing gospel or whatever else, and 359 00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:12,280 Speaker 1: he wouldn't come on stage, so they'd have to have 360 00:23:12,359 --> 00:23:18,280 Speaker 1: to loop the musical intro until he came out. And 361 00:23:18,359 --> 00:23:21,560 Speaker 1: then when he came out, the crowd would go would roar, 362 00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:26,040 Speaker 1: and he might walk around and you know, reach down 363 00:23:26,040 --> 00:23:28,040 Speaker 1: and touch the hands of the ladies, and he may 364 00:23:28,119 --> 00:23:30,200 Speaker 1: do that for another five minutes, and then he would 365 00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:32,360 Speaker 1: come out and he would say, oh see see see writer, 366 00:23:32,560 --> 00:23:34,200 Speaker 1: and he would start into the song and they would 367 00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:37,720 Speaker 1: amp up the energy a little bit more. And then 368 00:23:37,760 --> 00:23:41,800 Speaker 1: when he opened when he opened his show in Las Vegas, 369 00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:44,359 Speaker 1: it was a lot of pressure because he was going 370 00:23:44,440 --> 00:23:47,639 Speaker 1: to be doing this residency and he had kind of 371 00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:54,639 Speaker 1: lost the sixties to movies, which which is disappointing because 372 00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:57,960 Speaker 1: none of those movies, well almost none of those movies 373 00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:01,400 Speaker 1: are worth watching other than and if you're a nut 374 00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:03,560 Speaker 1: for Elvis and you like to see but they're they're 375 00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:07,920 Speaker 1: they're trite. Uh, they're they're plug and play there. It's 376 00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:11,000 Speaker 1: a waste of his talents, right, and so they're gonna 377 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:14,440 Speaker 1: we're gonna bring him back to being a great musician. 378 00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:18,440 Speaker 1: And performer, which he's the greatest performer of all time, 379 00:24:19,359 --> 00:24:24,200 Speaker 1: and they are they are considering what to do and 380 00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:27,360 Speaker 1: and the move, Uh what's the guy's name who decides 381 00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:29,320 Speaker 1: what he's going to enter to? And he sees two 382 00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:31,920 Speaker 1: thousand and one of Space Odyssey in the theater, which 383 00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:34,720 Speaker 1: had just come out, and he makes that. So you 384 00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:37,159 Speaker 1: start with that and go into C. C. Rider. And 385 00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:38,639 Speaker 1: I always said, as a kid, I don't know what 386 00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:40,399 Speaker 1: I'm gonna do on stage, but I'm gonna be on 387 00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:43,280 Speaker 1: stage and I'm gonna enter to Elvis's music for Here 388 00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:58,560 Speaker 1: we Are? Then ever came back, as is this one 389 00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:06,639 Speaker 1: where Ray Benson recites letter Fast forward and see A. 390 00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:14,400 Speaker 1: Sleep at the Wheel did a song where Ray Benson 391 00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:18,160 Speaker 1: recites Travis's letter and a listener just reminded me of that. 392 00:25:19,520 --> 00:25:19,920 Speaker 6: Mm hmm. 393 00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:25,240 Speaker 1: They said, remember the Alamo, they said, Sleep at the 394 00:25:25,240 --> 00:25:28,600 Speaker 1: Wheel did a version of Remember the Alamo. They said, 395 00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:31,520 Speaker 1: thank you for playing Cashes, Johnny Cashes, Remember the Alamo. A. 396 00:25:31,560 --> 00:25:34,359 Speaker 1: Sleep at the Wheel did a cover where Ray Benson 397 00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:38,480 Speaker 1: recites Travis's letter, Why are you so mad at our listeners? 398 00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:41,920 Speaker 1: Would y'all please do me a favor and never ever 399 00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:45,879 Speaker 1: ever call the show and say to Ramone when he 400 00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:48,080 Speaker 1: says what's your name? He said, Bob, what do you 401 00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:49,560 Speaker 1: want to talk about? And you go, oh, I don't 402 00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:51,760 Speaker 1: want to go on the air. Just tell Michael that 403 00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:56,280 Speaker 1: for whatever reason, And I've never understood that sets Ramon off, 404 00:25:56,640 --> 00:25:58,600 Speaker 1: which means I have to deal with a grumpy Ramon. 405 00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:03,880 Speaker 1: Does it upset me, Michael? That's funny? Okay? So here 406 00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:07,320 Speaker 1: this is a paradox in my world since it was 407 00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:10,240 Speaker 1: a confession time. So a guy emails in and he 408 00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:14,159 Speaker 1: says the subject line John Daily and san Intone. All right, 409 00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:17,040 Speaker 1: you have my attention. I've spent an entire day with 410 00:26:17,119 --> 00:26:20,399 Speaker 1: John Daly and I have many stories about San Antone 411 00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:23,320 Speaker 1: as I am from there, and I have forgotten more 412 00:26:23,359 --> 00:26:26,040 Speaker 1: about music than you will ever know. If you have 413 00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:28,720 Speaker 1: me on your show, you will not be sorry. The 414 00:26:28,760 --> 00:26:32,680 Speaker 1: paradox is people who think they would be great as 415 00:26:32,720 --> 00:26:37,640 Speaker 1: a guest on the show always end up being terrible, 416 00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:43,800 Speaker 1: And people who are so shy to call in, you know, 417 00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:50,160 Speaker 1: a little old lady with the shake key voice will 418 00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:53,080 Speaker 1: end up being the best guest. And she didn't want 419 00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:55,399 Speaker 1: to call in. I just wanted to just say this, 420 00:26:55,440 --> 00:26:57,440 Speaker 1: one of this little one little thing and let me off, 421 00:26:57,720 --> 00:27:00,479 Speaker 1: and she, like everybody in the audience, just wants to 422 00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:03,159 Speaker 1: wrap her up and give her the biggest hug. And 423 00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:05,639 Speaker 1: you get the guy who thinks he's going to be 424 00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:09,639 Speaker 1: so good because he's so clever, and he bombs. It 425 00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:14,840 Speaker 1: just absolutely bombs. And that's the paradox, because the person 426 00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:17,639 Speaker 1: who desperately wants to be on because everybody's going to 427 00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:20,919 Speaker 1: think he's great, it ends up being terrible. But if 428 00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:25,000 Speaker 1: you can coax, it's usually a little old lady. If 429 00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:27,960 Speaker 1: you can get Beverly who's eighty seven years old to 430 00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:31,560 Speaker 1: call in and then sheat hell unser sorry, you don't 431 00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:34,280 Speaker 1: want to let her go. And I feel the energy 432 00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:40,240 Speaker 1: of all of our show, the people out there listening, engaging. 433 00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:44,639 Speaker 1: I feel them leaning in and just wanting to hug 434 00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:48,000 Speaker 1: her and love on her and eat her blueberry pie 435 00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:52,560 Speaker 1: and hear her tell stories about skinny dipping. You know, 436 00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:56,920 Speaker 1: Chance McLean heritage film. One of the things of him 437 00:27:56,960 --> 00:27:58,879 Speaker 1: doing these heritage films is a lot of the people 438 00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:00,920 Speaker 1: are much older and they're telling you their life story. 439 00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:03,800 Speaker 1: And he'll call me and he'll say, my goodness, I 440 00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:07,440 Speaker 1: had this woman today. She's ninety two years old. He said, 441 00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:09,680 Speaker 1: it's just like you say, when they tell stories about 442 00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:12,879 Speaker 1: their youth, they go back to their youth. And what 443 00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:16,680 Speaker 1: transformed before me was a ninety two year old little 444 00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:21,400 Speaker 1: withered woman and she was talking about skinny dipping when 445 00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:24,720 Speaker 1: she was seventeen in the river and you know, keeping 446 00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:27,719 Speaker 1: her parents from knowing that she was skinny dipping. And 447 00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:29,760 Speaker 1: a boy came up and there were three of the 448 00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:32,800 Speaker 1: girls and he he, and he said, Michael, it was 449 00:28:33,080 --> 00:28:36,600 Speaker 1: crazy because in her mind's eyes, she went back to 450 00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:39,520 Speaker 1: that moment and it was so beautiful and we captured it, 451 00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:43,080 Speaker 1: and I just yeah, So that's the paradox of the 452 00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:46,520 Speaker 1: of the phone call. Let's see, Jeff, you're on the 453 00:28:46,560 --> 00:28:47,280 Speaker 1: Michael Berry Show. 454 00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:53,959 Speaker 7: Go ahead, sir, Hey Michael. So, I know we're talking 455 00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:58,400 Speaker 7: a lot about San Antonio and the Alamo, but I mean, 456 00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:01,800 Speaker 7: we just finished up a corporate conference that we had 457 00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:05,200 Speaker 7: in San Antonio and I'm leaving out today. We have 458 00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:10,040 Speaker 7: three days and three nights there and it's been probably 459 00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:14,640 Speaker 7: fifteen years since I've been to the river Walk and 460 00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:18,520 Speaker 7: it has changed quite a bit for the better and 461 00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:21,680 Speaker 7: well for the worse. I mean, it's a lot the 462 00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:25,920 Speaker 7: same as you know, sixth Street in Austin or I'm 463 00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:33,280 Speaker 7: not sure about downtown Dallas or Houston, but good grief, 464 00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:38,960 Speaker 7: the homeless people have just kind of taken over. Yeah, 465 00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:39,920 Speaker 7: it's kind of sad. 466 00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:44,240 Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, it's interesting downtown Austin has had that, 467 00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:49,520 Speaker 1: this explosion in homelessness. It's part of it is the 468 00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:59,000 Speaker 1: manifestation of liberal politics on display the decay because it's built, 469 00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:09,440 Speaker 1: it's crime, it's disease, and it's unsightly. And and the 470 00:30:09,480 --> 00:30:13,960 Speaker 1: white liberal mind, and this really is where this comes from. 471 00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:21,600 Speaker 1: The white liberal mind is very uncomfortable confronting difficulty, and 472 00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:23,840 Speaker 1: so there it's it's sort of like, you know, they're 473 00:30:23,840 --> 00:30:25,840 Speaker 1: sitting in a room going, what's the most perverse thing 474 00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:28,840 Speaker 1: we can imagine. Let's talk little boys into chopping their 475 00:30:28,840 --> 00:30:32,360 Speaker 1: wieners off and becoming girls, and let's start them as 476 00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:34,960 Speaker 1: early as we can. And that's why you see these 477 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:38,720 Speaker 1: women and you know they're they're filming their their two 478 00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:43,120 Speaker 1: year old and they go, my son, which you must 479 00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:46,120 Speaker 1: now call my daughter, has decided he's a girl. He 480 00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:50,080 Speaker 1: very much identifies as a girl. Your son is still 481 00:30:50,120 --> 00:30:53,440 Speaker 1: sucking his thumb and eating his boogers. He has identified 482 00:30:53,480 --> 00:30:58,040 Speaker 1: as anything other than hungry or sleepy. That's all he's 483 00:30:58,120 --> 00:31:01,520 Speaker 1: learned to adent. He's not even potty trained yet, what 484 00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:06,200 Speaker 1: are you talking about? So the white liberal mind cannot 485 00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:11,720 Speaker 1: confront the idea that we do not want people living 486 00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:18,000 Speaker 1: in public spaces, and homelessness has always been intellectually, ideologically 487 00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:23,239 Speaker 1: a very difficult issue for me, because the libertarian in 488 00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:28,760 Speaker 1: me says, public space. Who are we to say you 489 00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:32,400 Speaker 1: can't be on the public space longer than X amount 490 00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:36,719 Speaker 1: of time? But intuitively, you understand when you pull up 491 00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:41,600 Speaker 1: to an intersection and some guy has basically taken up 492 00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:44,800 Speaker 1: residents there and he's just all laid out and he's 493 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:49,120 Speaker 1: passed out, and he's pissed everywhere, and it smells of it, 494 00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:52,480 Speaker 1: and you gets some and you go, Okay, there's got 495 00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:55,080 Speaker 1: to be a better way. We've got to figure out 496 00:31:55,160 --> 00:31:58,880 Speaker 1: a way, and it's going to confront some unpleasantries to do. 497 00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:02,600 Speaker 1: So it just it and that that's not going to 498 00:32:02,640 --> 00:32:06,520 Speaker 1: be an easy thing to deal with. Jason and Aiken, 499 00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:10,640 Speaker 1: South Carolina right Zarrow. When my son played baseball for 500 00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:14,160 Speaker 1: UIW in San Antono, we would stay on the riverwalk 501 00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:17,400 Speaker 1: at the Drury End, the former bank building across from 502 00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:20,400 Speaker 1: the San Fernando Cathedral so we could watch the Saga 503 00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:24,160 Speaker 1: light show that is displayed at night on the cathedral. 504 00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:28,480 Speaker 1: I've never seen you seen it as one of those hotels. 505 00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:32,600 Speaker 1: I remember. You know that cheesy riverwalk tour you take 506 00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:35,400 Speaker 1: on that boat. I love that. I would love to 507 00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:38,400 Speaker 1: be that riverboat captain one time to do the tour. 508 00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:41,520 Speaker 1: I would love that so much. And you get one. 509 00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:45,200 Speaker 1: You get some guy that is a you know our lady. 510 00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:47,880 Speaker 1: That's the Daughters of the Republic, somebody that really loves 511 00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:50,280 Speaker 1: the history. But I remember the story on the hotel 512 00:32:50,320 --> 00:32:52,760 Speaker 1: they built in a year. Can you remember this one 513 00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:55,360 Speaker 1: of those hotels, real tall hotels. They built that thing 514 00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:57,880 Speaker 1: in a year and it's on the side of the 515 00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:00,520 Speaker 1: riverwalk and it goes. I can't remember. Some out there. 516 00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:03,320 Speaker 1: We got a smart audience. Somebody can email me and 517 00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:07,240 Speaker 1: tell me. But it's staggering that they did in a year. Hell, 518 00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:09,560 Speaker 1: we can't get a street repaved in Houston in a year.