1 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:11,399 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load until 2 00:00:11,520 --> 00:00:14,200 Speaker 1: Michael Varry Show is on the air. 3 00:00:17,079 --> 00:00:23,200 Speaker 2: And now a totally random week in review from the past. 4 00:00:23,480 --> 00:00:28,479 Speaker 2: Take a guess when this was. They say football is 5 00:00:28,560 --> 00:00:32,040 Speaker 2: king in Texas until the King of Country rolls in. 6 00:00:32,159 --> 00:00:34,000 Speaker 3: Yep, history was made here in Texas. 7 00:00:34,120 --> 00:00:37,319 Speaker 4: One hundred and ten thousand people who crammed into Texas A. 8 00:00:37,280 --> 00:00:40,840 Speaker 2: And M's Kyle Field last night to see country superstar 9 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:44,400 Speaker 2: George Strait. One hundred and ten thousand, nine hundred and 10 00:00:44,479 --> 00:00:47,440 Speaker 2: five fans were in attendance. All I can think is, 11 00:00:47,840 --> 00:00:52,400 Speaker 2: couldn't you just jam ninety five more people in there 12 00:00:52,440 --> 00:00:55,440 Speaker 2: and round it off at one hundred eleven and then 13 00:00:55,480 --> 00:00:58,840 Speaker 2: I figure, you know, probably at about one hundred three thousand, 14 00:00:58,880 --> 00:01:02,160 Speaker 2: two hundred and fourteen people They said, couldn't we cram 15 00:01:02,360 --> 00:01:04,640 Speaker 2: enough people in here to get to one hundred and 16 00:01:04,720 --> 00:01:08,520 Speaker 2: ten people. A now former City of Houston park ranger 17 00:01:08,720 --> 00:01:11,480 Speaker 2: used a threatening to arrest park goers unless they paid 18 00:01:11,520 --> 00:01:13,959 Speaker 2: him and allegedly forcing men to stray. 19 00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:16,560 Speaker 5: He approached a car with two men in it and 20 00:01:16,640 --> 00:01:19,080 Speaker 5: told them to get out. Made one of the victims 21 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:22,240 Speaker 5: stripped down naked and confessed to a crime which he 22 00:01:22,280 --> 00:01:25,479 Speaker 5: didn't commit, and allegedly told him he would take him 23 00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:27,720 Speaker 5: to jail if he didn't pay him money. 24 00:01:27,800 --> 00:01:31,280 Speaker 2: City of Houston Urban Root Rangers Urban Root Ranger victimized 25 00:01:31,280 --> 00:01:33,880 Speaker 2: his gay men enjoying Pride Month at Colin party. 26 00:01:34,880 --> 00:01:38,360 Speaker 3: In a family of martial arts instructors are being credited 27 00:01:38,680 --> 00:01:40,400 Speaker 3: with stopping an attempted rape. 28 00:01:40,520 --> 00:01:41,200 Speaker 6: Hurt screams. 29 00:01:41,319 --> 00:01:44,480 Speaker 5: It only took a moment for their dead grandmaster han 30 00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:47,560 Speaker 5: On to jump in. He grabbed the suspect and took 31 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:48,000 Speaker 5: him down. 32 00:01:48,120 --> 00:01:52,400 Speaker 2: You know, there's video of the On family walking in 33 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:55,520 Speaker 2: and discovering. I would love to imagine in my mind 34 00:01:55,760 --> 00:01:57,520 Speaker 2: the young kids come in and they put a couple 35 00:01:57,480 --> 00:02:01,760 Speaker 2: of rounds on and he's like a pinball. He's going back. 36 00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:09,440 Speaker 2: It is my thirty second wedding anniversary to Mundata Vencitation 37 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:13,960 Speaker 2: Run Barry No matter when I was eighteen, I never 38 00:02:14,120 --> 00:02:18,400 Speaker 2: expected to marry early. When you know this person loves 39 00:02:18,440 --> 00:02:21,200 Speaker 2: you as much as you love you, and in my case, 40 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:23,359 Speaker 2: that's a lot. You know, it's the. 41 00:02:23,320 --> 00:02:26,880 Speaker 7: One Cass. 42 00:02:27,919 --> 00:02:44,720 Speaker 8: After all es together, Goads, after all that been through. 43 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:51,520 Speaker 2: Well, my wedding anniversary is your giveaway. Not that you 44 00:02:51,560 --> 00:02:55,960 Speaker 2: would remember my wedding anniversary, except for the fact that 45 00:02:56,120 --> 00:03:00,920 Speaker 2: my brother's birthday and my wedding anniversary are on June teenth. 46 00:03:01,200 --> 00:03:05,320 Speaker 2: It's June nineteenth, and so this had to be the 47 00:03:05,360 --> 00:03:09,000 Speaker 2: week after that or the week of that. So that 48 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:18,239 Speaker 2: date that aired was June twenty first, having cousins through 49 00:03:18,320 --> 00:03:23,720 Speaker 2: my wife who are Indian first generation immigrants here, when 50 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:27,240 Speaker 2: we have visited them and they have children, there's not 51 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:30,520 Speaker 2: a day that goes by that there is not spelling 52 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:35,800 Speaker 2: bee prep. The mothers, many of whom work as engineers, 53 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:38,000 Speaker 2: and many of whom are stay at home if they've 54 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:42,120 Speaker 2: just come from India. I don't know who tells them 55 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:44,720 Speaker 2: to do this, but they tell them that you can 56 00:03:44,720 --> 00:03:46,520 Speaker 2: go to the United States. You might not can play 57 00:03:46,600 --> 00:03:51,240 Speaker 2: quarterback for North Shore or Westlake for South Lake Carol. 58 00:03:53,120 --> 00:03:58,800 Speaker 2: You may not be the low post on the basketball team, 59 00:03:59,640 --> 00:04:02,600 Speaker 2: but you can arrive in the United States and drill 60 00:04:02,840 --> 00:04:07,080 Speaker 2: on words and word patterns and stems, and you can 61 00:04:07,160 --> 00:04:10,400 Speaker 2: win your local and then eventually your regional in your 62 00:04:10,440 --> 00:04:14,200 Speaker 2: state and go to the national scripts spelling Bee competition. 63 00:04:15,080 --> 00:04:19,080 Speaker 2: It's a big deal, but they do it in much 64 00:04:19,160 --> 00:04:22,720 Speaker 2: the same way. What was the guy's name, Ramona was 65 00:04:22,760 --> 00:04:25,600 Speaker 2: a defensive lineman. He's a white guy. I think he 66 00:04:25,680 --> 00:04:29,080 Speaker 2: was Hispanic. And the story goes that when he got 67 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:33,440 Speaker 2: the call that he'd been drafted by the Cowboys, he 68 00:04:33,480 --> 00:04:36,120 Speaker 2: was in the weight room and at the time he 69 00:04:36,240 --> 00:04:39,080 Speaker 2: was the strongest lineman in the entire NFL. It's like 70 00:04:39,160 --> 00:04:43,800 Speaker 2: Nunez or Nuno or new I cannot remember his name. 71 00:04:43,800 --> 00:04:46,680 Speaker 2: My brother loved this story. But this guy, he ended 72 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:50,480 Speaker 2: up not turning out to be as great an NFL 73 00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:54,560 Speaker 2: player as they had hoped, because it was sort of 74 00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:57,680 Speaker 2: like Willie Gault had blazing speed but couldn't catch the ball. 75 00:04:59,080 --> 00:05:02,400 Speaker 2: This guy had had the tools. But I say all 76 00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:06,400 Speaker 2: of this to say the spelling Bee competition, if you 77 00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:09,520 Speaker 2: actually look at it, half the kids there and named Sunjay. 78 00:05:09,880 --> 00:05:12,760 Speaker 2: It's every one of those Indians, every one of them's 79 00:05:12,760 --> 00:05:15,040 Speaker 2: in it. They just don't let white kids in. And 80 00:05:15,680 --> 00:05:21,159 Speaker 2: it's one of those things that you know, the star 81 00:05:21,360 --> 00:05:25,240 Speaker 2: basketball player, especially in high school, was probably blessed with 82 00:05:25,279 --> 00:05:28,200 Speaker 2: some level of height that he had nothing to do with. Right, 83 00:05:28,240 --> 00:05:31,800 Speaker 2: there's your occasional muggsy bogues who can play beyond their 84 00:05:31,839 --> 00:05:35,280 Speaker 2: height limitation. But the first thing is you got to 85 00:05:35,320 --> 00:05:37,520 Speaker 2: have a certain amount of size, and this is true 86 00:05:37,560 --> 00:05:40,440 Speaker 2: in football and even in baseball. You've got a certain 87 00:05:40,560 --> 00:05:44,280 Speaker 2: natural amount of size, but beyond that, you just got 88 00:05:44,320 --> 00:05:47,719 Speaker 2: to put in the hours. And this is true of 89 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:50,680 Speaker 2: every skill set, whether it's playing the violin of the guitar, 90 00:05:52,480 --> 00:05:56,880 Speaker 2: running track, you've got to put in the hours, and 91 00:05:56,960 --> 00:06:02,080 Speaker 2: these Indian kids do. It's what they do. After your 92 00:06:02,240 --> 00:06:05,560 Speaker 2: homework and all that, then you start drilling on words, 93 00:06:05,560 --> 00:06:09,400 Speaker 2: and that's why they do so so darn well well. 94 00:06:09,440 --> 00:06:14,880 Speaker 2: A little side note, these scripts spelling be the Merriam 95 00:06:14,920 --> 00:06:19,320 Speaker 2: Webster Unabridged Dictionary, which is kind of the definitive American 96 00:06:19,480 --> 00:06:25,719 Speaker 2: English dictionary. They have now accepted for the scripts spelling 97 00:06:25,760 --> 00:06:34,159 Speaker 2: bee an alternate spelling for the word women wom y 98 00:06:34,360 --> 00:06:38,599 Speaker 2: in The reason that's important is that comes from this 99 00:06:38,720 --> 00:06:42,320 Speaker 2: group of angry women who don't want to be women. 100 00:06:42,400 --> 00:06:45,240 Speaker 2: These are the women who constantly bitch that they menstruate, 101 00:06:45,880 --> 00:06:47,760 Speaker 2: that they are the ones that have to give birth, 102 00:06:48,240 --> 00:06:50,440 Speaker 2: that they hate men, but they want to be men. 103 00:06:50,760 --> 00:06:52,640 Speaker 2: What it really comes down, they want to be men, 104 00:06:53,440 --> 00:06:56,080 Speaker 2: and they're angry about the fact that they're not men, 105 00:06:56,360 --> 00:07:01,560 Speaker 2: and so they changed the name the spelling of women 106 00:07:01,680 --> 00:07:05,360 Speaker 2: to take out the men at the end. So it's 107 00:07:05,560 --> 00:07:09,600 Speaker 2: w M y N instead of emmy n. At the conclusion, 108 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:13,760 Speaker 2: who really cares except scripts has decided that if Webster 109 00:07:13,880 --> 00:07:17,360 Speaker 2: Unabridged Dictionary is going to allow that spelling, then so 110 00:07:17,440 --> 00:07:20,760 Speaker 2: too will they. If they really wanted to go walk, 111 00:07:20,840 --> 00:07:23,360 Speaker 2: they should honor she Jack's legacy and add vulnable to 112 00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:26,160 Speaker 2: the competition. Since we're just making words up, remember that 113 00:07:26,280 --> 00:07:34,280 Speaker 2: interview vulnerable vulnerable noun meaning one who lives off the government. 114 00:07:34,280 --> 00:07:36,960 Speaker 4: Here it is in the sentence, we cannot leave the 115 00:07:37,040 --> 00:07:40,000 Speaker 4: vulnerable along the streets and highways of despair. 116 00:07:40,640 --> 00:07:51,640 Speaker 9: Vulnerable now and lange your fortune ebonics, ebonicsble, vulnerable now. 117 00:07:54,080 --> 00:07:55,760 Speaker 2: Vulnerable vulnerable. 118 00:07:57,120 --> 00:08:00,720 Speaker 4: We cannot leave the vulnerable along the street and highways 119 00:08:00,720 --> 00:08:01,280 Speaker 4: of despair. 120 00:08:01,800 --> 00:08:04,520 Speaker 1: We must be able to ensure. 121 00:08:05,240 --> 00:08:12,480 Speaker 9: Vulnerable vulnerable now w u n n A bile I 122 00:08:12,520 --> 00:08:17,160 Speaker 9: may not be pronouncing correctly. It's vulnerable, vulnerable, vulnerable, vulnerable 123 00:08:17,680 --> 00:08:20,000 Speaker 9: now one more time. 124 00:08:20,080 --> 00:08:23,480 Speaker 4: We cannot leave the vulnerable along the streets and highways 125 00:08:23,520 --> 00:08:24,040 Speaker 4: of despair. 126 00:08:26,920 --> 00:08:31,400 Speaker 9: Have the definition against one who lives off the charity 127 00:08:31,440 --> 00:08:35,280 Speaker 9: of the government, but resents the people who pay the bills. 128 00:08:36,679 --> 00:08:37,199 Speaker 2: Vulnerable. 129 00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:41,960 Speaker 4: We cannot leave the vulnerable along the streets and highways 130 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:42,520 Speaker 4: of despair. 131 00:08:45,920 --> 00:08:46,800 Speaker 5: Vu n a. 132 00:08:46,880 --> 00:08:52,120 Speaker 9: Bl very close. One of the toughest words. It's vu 133 00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:54,160 Speaker 9: in n a bl e. 134 00:08:56,400 --> 00:09:00,800 Speaker 10: Now like tonight, tonight when you need to escape from 135 00:09:00,840 --> 00:09:02,280 Speaker 10: the every day escape? 136 00:09:02,320 --> 00:09:03,600 Speaker 2: Does Michael Barry jo. 137 00:09:05,520 --> 00:09:07,800 Speaker 6: You that you took a piece of favorite from that 138 00:09:07,840 --> 00:09:11,720 Speaker 6: woman regarding uh something that was old. I don't can 139 00:09:11,760 --> 00:09:12,280 Speaker 6: tell where is it? 140 00:09:12,320 --> 00:09:12,440 Speaker 8: What? 141 00:09:12,440 --> 00:09:14,080 Speaker 6: What big were good helping. 142 00:09:14,040 --> 00:09:17,000 Speaker 3: Call from you? I'll have to call and took it 143 00:09:17,080 --> 00:09:18,800 Speaker 3: up what I sorted out to take. 144 00:09:22,080 --> 00:09:24,120 Speaker 6: I don't want you to really the thing. I want 145 00:09:24,120 --> 00:09:26,240 Speaker 6: you to have a brain. I want you to have 146 00:09:26,280 --> 00:09:27,680 Speaker 6: read it. I want you to be hung from it. It 147 00:09:27,760 --> 00:09:29,400 Speaker 6: was such and such state. That's what I want you. 148 00:09:29,720 --> 00:09:31,400 Speaker 6: That's the kind of staff that I want to have. 149 00:09:31,920 --> 00:09:44,880 Speaker 7: So, my love, there's so many ways I want to say. 150 00:09:45,360 --> 00:09:48,040 Speaker 6: Something stupid other man did it and you and I 151 00:09:48,080 --> 00:09:50,480 Speaker 6: don't have the information. Nobody sent me the information I 152 00:09:50,520 --> 00:09:55,240 Speaker 6: need to ensure my very schedule and uh you know 153 00:09:55,360 --> 00:09:58,440 Speaker 6: if a Google did it? Have did it? Space did it? 154 00:09:58,920 --> 00:10:02,200 Speaker 6: And nobody knows what thing in my office? Okay, nothing. 155 00:10:03,080 --> 00:10:05,719 Speaker 6: I gave it to you. Your job was to get 156 00:10:05,720 --> 00:10:08,400 Speaker 6: it on the calendar imprinted in your brain. Wants send 157 00:10:08,400 --> 00:10:10,840 Speaker 6: me the information back thing comes from it. I made 158 00:10:10,840 --> 00:10:13,280 Speaker 6: sure that the old white duck and teal event that 159 00:10:13,320 --> 00:10:16,360 Speaker 6: you gave me for so and so date at seven 160 00:10:16,640 --> 00:10:20,520 Speaker 6: is on the county, not to sph Jerome happened. Okay, 161 00:10:20,679 --> 00:10:22,600 Speaker 6: So when I called Jerome, feed on me, sitt up 162 00:10:22,640 --> 00:10:25,199 Speaker 6: there like a fat ass, just an idiot talking about 163 00:10:25,640 --> 00:10:30,840 Speaker 6: what he doesn't know. Dank both of y'all up, appause 164 00:10:30,880 --> 00:10:34,040 Speaker 6: it work. I could have an ass put together chol 165 00:10:34,520 --> 00:10:37,400 Speaker 6: big as children need to be. The idiots serve no 166 00:10:38,040 --> 00:10:42,160 Speaker 6: perfect hey managing nobody. Nobody's respecting them, Nobody giving about 167 00:10:42,160 --> 00:10:46,280 Speaker 6: what you're doing. And you ain't doing brand. And this 168 00:10:46,320 --> 00:10:49,040 Speaker 6: is an example of a d I gave it to 169 00:10:49,120 --> 00:10:51,000 Speaker 6: Jerome and this is not child's work. 170 00:10:52,679 --> 00:11:01,600 Speaker 2: God may such a sure name a wing of the 171 00:11:01,600 --> 00:11:06,160 Speaker 2: airport after her. Nothing will tell every person who flies 172 00:11:06,160 --> 00:11:12,000 Speaker 2: into Houston what a horrible decline this city has gone into. 173 00:11:12,840 --> 00:11:19,760 Speaker 2: Quite like naming Sheila Jackson Lee terminal. Can you imagine, 174 00:11:20,280 --> 00:11:24,280 Speaker 2: my goodness? Yesterday, to begin the show, we had a 175 00:11:24,280 --> 00:11:28,160 Speaker 2: call from a fellow named John. Turns out his name 176 00:11:28,240 --> 00:11:32,000 Speaker 2: is John Plaster. No, that's the time. And I would 177 00:11:32,080 --> 00:11:35,120 Speaker 2: later get an email from a listener who said the 178 00:11:35,160 --> 00:11:38,839 Speaker 2: fellow who called from Huffman. He was my baseball coach 179 00:11:39,280 --> 00:11:43,640 Speaker 2: growing up. Prince of a man, fantastic man. I knew 180 00:11:43,679 --> 00:11:46,439 Speaker 2: the voice when I heard the voice, and he said, Huffman, 181 00:11:47,400 --> 00:11:49,880 Speaker 2: just so you know, that's a that's a wonderful human being, 182 00:11:49,920 --> 00:11:54,680 Speaker 2: a great mentor what John called in kind of gravelly voice. 183 00:11:54,880 --> 00:12:00,920 Speaker 2: Maybe Ramon has that call and he said, he's you 184 00:12:00,960 --> 00:12:04,320 Speaker 2: don't want to track it down. He said, I just 185 00:12:04,360 --> 00:12:07,920 Speaker 2: want to brag about HPD for a minute. Okay, good 186 00:12:08,040 --> 00:12:12,200 Speaker 2: what you got? And he said, well, I got the call. 187 00:12:12,240 --> 00:12:15,080 Speaker 2: I got a call this morning from my son that 188 00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:18,760 Speaker 2: he had gotten a call from just gotten a call 189 00:12:18,760 --> 00:12:22,640 Speaker 2: from HPD at seven o'clock in the morning and they said, hey, 190 00:12:22,679 --> 00:12:27,200 Speaker 2: do you own this truck And he said no, that's 191 00:12:27,200 --> 00:12:29,920 Speaker 2: my dad's truck. And they said, well, we've recovered it. 192 00:12:30,840 --> 00:12:33,720 Speaker 2: And he said, it's not stolen and they said, yeah 193 00:12:33,920 --> 00:12:38,199 Speaker 2: it is. So he calls his dad, there's your truck 194 00:12:38,200 --> 00:12:42,400 Speaker 2: out front. Come to think of it, it's not. He said, 195 00:12:42,440 --> 00:12:47,080 Speaker 2: what's been stolen? But they've recovered it. Well, how in 196 00:12:47,120 --> 00:12:52,360 Speaker 2: the world does that happen? So HPD was very helpful 197 00:12:52,400 --> 00:12:55,440 Speaker 2: to me because I wanted to thank these guys off 198 00:12:55,480 --> 00:12:58,920 Speaker 2: the air. I don't have authority to say their names, 199 00:12:59,080 --> 00:13:03,920 Speaker 2: although I think I did yesterday, which which is Rivera 200 00:13:04,160 --> 00:13:10,679 Speaker 2: and Warez. But I managed to track them down and 201 00:13:10,679 --> 00:13:12,680 Speaker 2: have a good conversation with each of them. And here's 202 00:13:12,720 --> 00:13:18,880 Speaker 2: what happened. What happened was these two are out and 203 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:21,760 Speaker 2: instead of eating doughnuts or goofing all, or taking the 204 00:13:21,840 --> 00:13:23,840 Speaker 2: nap or doing any number of other things that an 205 00:13:23,880 --> 00:13:28,600 Speaker 2: officer could do, these two decide, well, if we're gonna 206 00:13:28,640 --> 00:13:32,000 Speaker 2: have badges, let's go do something with them. So they 207 00:13:32,040 --> 00:13:34,240 Speaker 2: decide they're going to go to a spot which is 208 00:13:34,280 --> 00:13:40,520 Speaker 2: a common drop for stolen vehicles. They go rolling up 209 00:13:40,920 --> 00:13:45,200 Speaker 2: and there's two vehicles there, two trucks. One of them 210 00:13:45,240 --> 00:13:49,120 Speaker 2: they run the plate it's been called in stolen. All right, 211 00:13:49,160 --> 00:13:51,120 Speaker 2: well we're going to be able to recover these people's truck. 212 00:13:51,400 --> 00:13:56,520 Speaker 2: That's a good thing. The other one, it doesn't show 213 00:13:56,600 --> 00:14:03,959 Speaker 2: up as stolen, but it's based in Huffman. They go, 214 00:14:04,120 --> 00:14:07,080 Speaker 2: there's no way that vehicle is left out here with 215 00:14:07,200 --> 00:14:09,720 Speaker 2: nowhere that you could have parked and gone to, no 216 00:14:09,840 --> 00:14:15,040 Speaker 2: reason for it to be here. Huh, you don't have 217 00:14:15,040 --> 00:14:16,160 Speaker 2: to play it just yet. I just want to see 218 00:14:16,160 --> 00:14:18,120 Speaker 2: if you can find it give us just a little 219 00:14:18,120 --> 00:14:21,080 Speaker 2: bit of the beginning so people can remember what he sounds. Anyway, 220 00:14:21,120 --> 00:14:22,160 Speaker 2: I'm sorry, John interrupted. 221 00:14:22,160 --> 00:14:26,000 Speaker 3: Go ahead, sir, I just like to comment on the 222 00:14:26,040 --> 00:14:29,760 Speaker 3: Houston Police Department. I had a truck that I've had 223 00:14:29,760 --> 00:14:32,000 Speaker 3: for twenty five years. I put it out for sale 224 00:14:32,080 --> 00:14:35,320 Speaker 3: on the side of my house and husband and he 225 00:14:35,440 --> 00:14:37,640 Speaker 3: got stolen. Now this got a. 226 00:14:37,600 --> 00:14:40,080 Speaker 2: Million Maybe they were just going for a test drive. 227 00:14:41,080 --> 00:14:43,840 Speaker 2: Fast forward at the end when he tells this scene's 228 00:14:43,880 --> 00:14:46,640 Speaker 2: got one point one million miles and it's pristine, and 229 00:14:46,680 --> 00:14:48,280 Speaker 2: he gives all the details on it. I mean, he 230 00:14:48,320 --> 00:14:53,880 Speaker 2: goes into a sell on this thing anyway. So they 231 00:14:54,440 --> 00:14:57,000 Speaker 2: they say, well it's it doesn't come back with a 232 00:14:57,080 --> 00:15:03,120 Speaker 2: hit as stolen. So they go digging in and they 233 00:15:03,160 --> 00:15:07,200 Speaker 2: find a business card in there. They call that business card, Hey, 234 00:15:07,280 --> 00:15:11,640 Speaker 2: is this your truck? And the business card was for 235 00:15:11,720 --> 00:15:16,240 Speaker 2: the son of John Plaster, the owner, and then of 236 00:15:16,240 --> 00:15:18,520 Speaker 2: course he connected to the dad and he got his 237 00:15:18,560 --> 00:15:22,200 Speaker 2: truck back. That might not seem like that big a deal, 238 00:15:22,240 --> 00:15:26,360 Speaker 2: but that's a big deal. That's two guys with an 239 00:15:26,520 --> 00:15:32,520 Speaker 2: enterprising sense of let's go out and proactively find things 240 00:15:32,520 --> 00:15:35,480 Speaker 2: that are wrong and make them right. I think that's 241 00:15:35,520 --> 00:15:40,239 Speaker 2: pretty cool. So I had an assistant chief. 242 00:15:41,680 --> 00:15:46,600 Speaker 3: Call no idea, no nobody ever, no good. I mean, 243 00:15:46,640 --> 00:15:48,960 Speaker 3: it has a million, one hundred thousand miles on it 244 00:15:49,680 --> 00:15:51,880 Speaker 3: and it is as christine as the day I drove 245 00:15:51,920 --> 00:15:52,120 Speaker 3: it off. 246 00:15:52,160 --> 00:15:53,840 Speaker 2: What is the making model of the truck. 247 00:15:55,360 --> 00:15:58,480 Speaker 3: It's a Dodge three point fifty ram extended cab with 248 00:15:58,560 --> 00:16:01,240 Speaker 3: a five point nine diesel on five state. 249 00:16:04,360 --> 00:16:09,280 Speaker 2: I like that guy. So anyway, an assistant chief and 250 00:16:09,320 --> 00:16:14,040 Speaker 2: a captain called NOI Diaz the chief and say, hey, 251 00:16:14,280 --> 00:16:16,080 Speaker 2: you know, Michael wants to reach out to these guys 252 00:16:16,240 --> 00:16:20,240 Speaker 2: or you okay if he does this, And he said, 253 00:16:20,920 --> 00:16:26,440 Speaker 2: any time we have an officer that does something becoming 254 00:16:26,560 --> 00:16:29,960 Speaker 2: of an officer that shines a positive light on our department, 255 00:16:30,080 --> 00:16:33,800 Speaker 2: goes above and beyond, you tell him he can always 256 00:16:34,080 --> 00:16:37,520 Speaker 2: talk about that and we'll help him do it. Now 257 00:16:37,520 --> 00:16:40,280 Speaker 2: that you might say to yourself, well, that's of course 258 00:16:40,280 --> 00:16:43,280 Speaker 2: you do that, that has not been the case in 259 00:16:43,320 --> 00:16:47,080 Speaker 2: the past. It has typically been the case that they 260 00:16:47,160 --> 00:16:50,720 Speaker 2: hide because they're so worried chief all the way down 261 00:16:50,920 --> 00:16:53,400 Speaker 2: that somebody's going to get in trouble for something, and 262 00:16:53,480 --> 00:16:56,640 Speaker 2: they don't see any reason to promote anything good because 263 00:16:56,680 --> 00:17:01,320 Speaker 2: it just brings bad things on you. Well, no idea 264 00:17:01,320 --> 00:17:05,919 Speaker 2: as the chief he came from, Katie. It's only a 265 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:08,560 Speaker 2: year in and not even a full year. I don't 266 00:17:08,600 --> 00:17:10,880 Speaker 2: want to curse the guy, but I have to give 267 00:17:10,920 --> 00:17:13,960 Speaker 2: you the year in review, and that is that the 268 00:17:14,200 --> 00:17:18,520 Speaker 2: officers who have interacted with this man have said, this 269 00:17:18,600 --> 00:17:20,720 Speaker 2: is the best chief we've had in a very long time. 270 00:17:21,640 --> 00:17:25,160 Speaker 2: And he has a line he uses, which is, I'm 271 00:17:25,240 --> 00:17:28,560 Speaker 2: just a peon down at twelve hundred Travis. The department 272 00:17:29,200 --> 00:17:30,959 Speaker 2: is the men and women that are out on the streets. 273 00:17:33,480 --> 00:17:38,080 Speaker 2: I can't tell you how cutting edge, how unique, how rare, 274 00:17:38,240 --> 00:17:41,880 Speaker 2: how special it is that a police chief at HPD 275 00:17:42,080 --> 00:17:45,399 Speaker 2: feels that way. Lee P. Brown used to have multiple 276 00:17:45,640 --> 00:17:51,280 Speaker 2: security officers, officers, police officers driving him around. We've had 277 00:17:51,359 --> 00:17:57,800 Speaker 2: recent chiefs who had three three HPD vehicles. Well, you 278 00:17:57,840 --> 00:17:59,520 Speaker 2: can only ride around and one at a time, you 279 00:17:59,600 --> 00:18:04,040 Speaker 2: do the man. This guy came in with the idea, Hey, look, 280 00:18:04,200 --> 00:18:08,960 Speaker 2: I've established my career. I ain't out to act a fool. 281 00:18:09,400 --> 00:18:13,720 Speaker 2: I'm here to help the officers soft crimes and prevent crimes. 282 00:18:13,760 --> 00:18:16,119 Speaker 2: And so I got to give no idea as a 283 00:18:16,160 --> 00:18:19,520 Speaker 2: good review. And those two officers, Wow, that's that's fantastic. 284 00:18:20,119 --> 00:18:23,200 Speaker 1: Do the watermelon crawl and listen to the tsar of talk, 285 00:18:23,400 --> 00:18:27,040 Speaker 1: my buddy Michael Berry. 286 00:18:31,160 --> 00:18:35,240 Speaker 11: Girl, look here, I honest to God, love a black 287 00:18:35,320 --> 00:18:40,160 Speaker 11: woman who got some sense. I love me some Barbara 288 00:18:40,400 --> 00:18:44,879 Speaker 11: Jordan and so many other women. But this she the 289 00:18:45,119 --> 00:18:49,399 Speaker 11: Jackson Lee myke, God, she got out there. You remember 290 00:18:49,440 --> 00:18:52,040 Speaker 11: when memo used to say, for God's. 291 00:18:51,680 --> 00:18:55,320 Speaker 10: Sake, don't show your ass, and by that she meant 292 00:18:55,440 --> 00:18:58,679 Speaker 10: don't get out there and barrass yourself and make a 293 00:18:58,680 --> 00:19:03,359 Speaker 10: fool at yourself. But nobody sit that memorandum that Sheila 294 00:19:03,480 --> 00:19:07,720 Speaker 10: Jackson or else they did. They got fired because she 295 00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:10,359 Speaker 10: had the nerve to go out there and talk about 296 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:15,520 Speaker 10: the Moon is made the gas, and it's a planet 297 00:19:15,640 --> 00:19:20,480 Speaker 10: which is more manageable than some of these other planets 298 00:19:20,520 --> 00:19:26,480 Speaker 10: such as the Sun. You talk about a capitulary ignorance, 299 00:19:26,800 --> 00:19:32,320 Speaker 10: that is just it. She makes everybody who is ignorant 300 00:19:32,520 --> 00:19:37,760 Speaker 10: look even more ignorant. And that's not easy because trust me, 301 00:19:37,880 --> 00:19:41,439 Speaker 10: I spent my life being ignorant. But to have an 302 00:19:41,480 --> 00:19:48,080 Speaker 10: actual congressional representative who is more ignorant than I am, girl, 303 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:51,400 Speaker 10: come on, now, she. 304 00:19:51,480 --> 00:19:55,720 Speaker 11: Got to hire somebody to do some behind it because, 305 00:19:56,760 --> 00:19:59,480 Speaker 11: oh what she said, We're gonna lead you out by 306 00:19:59,520 --> 00:20:04,280 Speaker 11: the arm, because you're gonna be blind. The blind meeting 307 00:20:04,280 --> 00:20:08,080 Speaker 11: the blind said Lord Jesus a man, And now back 308 00:20:08,119 --> 00:20:09,359 Speaker 11: to the Maccabar show. 309 00:20:09,440 --> 00:20:12,960 Speaker 10: Hi, y'all there, and tell you mama, I'm so sorry 310 00:20:12,960 --> 00:20:14,960 Speaker 10: I hadn't gotten in touch with her, but I'm gonna 311 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:16,480 Speaker 10: call us soon by favor. 312 00:20:19,880 --> 00:20:24,240 Speaker 2: Joe Biden's had only one thing on his public schedule today, 313 00:20:24,320 --> 00:20:29,120 Speaker 2: which is the daily briefing. The rumor is he doesn't 314 00:20:29,160 --> 00:20:32,920 Speaker 2: actually go to that, but they state that he was briefed. 315 00:20:34,200 --> 00:20:38,800 Speaker 2: No way to know. He and Jill are traveling to Wilmington, 316 00:20:38,960 --> 00:20:46,159 Speaker 2: Delaware this morning, arriving and presuming getting presumably getting some 317 00:20:46,200 --> 00:20:50,200 Speaker 2: more beach time there, we shall see retail sales data 318 00:20:50,840 --> 00:20:56,760 Speaker 2: for November scheduled to be released this morning. In fact, 319 00:20:56,880 --> 00:21:00,640 Speaker 2: that should have just been released. The Federal Reserve due 320 00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:05,040 Speaker 2: to begin its two day rate setting meeting. The expectation 321 00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:08,440 Speaker 2: is that there will be the third in a row 322 00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:15,680 Speaker 2: rate cut, and that that would mean probably no more 323 00:21:16,240 --> 00:21:20,199 Speaker 2: for a little while longer. As you know, when you 324 00:21:20,359 --> 00:21:25,679 Speaker 2: lower the interest rates that makes it easier to borrow money. 325 00:21:26,160 --> 00:21:29,920 Speaker 2: It means the cost of the money is less, and 326 00:21:29,960 --> 00:21:32,560 Speaker 2: when people can borrow more money, they can buy more things. 327 00:21:33,160 --> 00:21:36,520 Speaker 2: And the things they buy that they borrow for are 328 00:21:36,800 --> 00:21:41,120 Speaker 2: homes and cars, and so there is the expectation that 329 00:21:41,119 --> 00:21:44,960 Speaker 2: that will pick up in earnest. Our friend mattress Mac 330 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:52,000 Speaker 2: will tell you that furniture sales mirror and trail home sales. 331 00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:55,480 Speaker 2: When people are buying new homes, they want to move 332 00:21:55,520 --> 00:21:59,480 Speaker 2: a hole a house full of furniture in there. When 333 00:21:59,480 --> 00:22:02,560 Speaker 2: they're not buying new homes, they're not as keen to 334 00:22:02,640 --> 00:22:06,439 Speaker 2: go buy a house full of furniture. So obviously he 335 00:22:06,480 --> 00:22:09,959 Speaker 2: would like to see interest rates drop and homes starts, 336 00:22:10,320 --> 00:22:17,400 Speaker 2: homes start changing hands as well. The Kurdish officials are 337 00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:22,960 Speaker 2: urging President elect Donald Trump to push Turkey not to 338 00:22:23,040 --> 00:22:26,240 Speaker 2: send more troops across the border to establish de facto 339 00:22:26,320 --> 00:22:32,000 Speaker 2: control over Kurdish territory in Syria. You're going to hear 340 00:22:32,160 --> 00:22:37,800 Speaker 2: about Syria a lot in the coming months, because with 341 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:46,320 Speaker 2: the collapse of Syria, you've got organizations like al Qaeda 342 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:51,639 Speaker 2: that want to establish control. You have Israel that is 343 00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:54,760 Speaker 2: trying to grab some land as a buffer between what 344 00:22:54,920 --> 00:22:57,960 Speaker 2: they know is going to happen there. You've got the 345 00:22:58,080 --> 00:23:03,000 Speaker 2: Kurds interested in their portion of land they feel they 346 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:06,280 Speaker 2: are owed, and of course the Turks, which are not 347 00:23:06,359 --> 00:23:14,200 Speaker 2: to be overlooked. There was a situation typical where CNN 348 00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:21,719 Speaker 2: filmed one of their reporters going in Clarissa Ward and 349 00:23:21,760 --> 00:23:27,680 Speaker 2: there's a man in a prison cell and they say 350 00:23:27,720 --> 00:23:31,760 Speaker 2: he's been kept here for three months and he's been 351 00:23:31,920 --> 00:23:39,160 Speaker 2: tortured and this is terrible, this poor man, And Clarissa 352 00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:42,160 Speaker 2: Wards said when she went in there, he clutched her 353 00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:43,840 Speaker 2: hand and he just. 354 00:23:43,960 --> 00:23:45,760 Speaker 1: Wanted to be free. 355 00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:50,480 Speaker 2: Freedom is all he wanted. He had been tortured by 356 00:23:50,520 --> 00:23:57,080 Speaker 2: the Assade regime. It was terrible. Oh my goodness, that 357 00:23:57,320 --> 00:24:00,000 Speaker 2: was the worst they ever look at this poor man, 358 00:24:00,119 --> 00:24:07,320 Speaker 2: what he's been through. Well, it turned out, I don't know. 359 00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:11,320 Speaker 2: Maybe you might have noticed that he was dressed too 360 00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:16,320 Speaker 2: well to have been in a prison sale for three months, 361 00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:25,920 Speaker 2: that his fingernails were manicured, that he was extraordinarily well fed. Yeah, 362 00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:29,959 Speaker 2: it wasn't real hard to figure out this man hasn't 363 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:35,280 Speaker 2: been tortured in this cell for three months and starved 364 00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:40,240 Speaker 2: of food. So CNN does this story. They have freed 365 00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:44,840 Speaker 2: this prisoner, and the video went viral and oh my goodness, 366 00:24:45,320 --> 00:24:51,560 Speaker 2: what assad had done to this man? And now and 367 00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:57,119 Speaker 2: now he's been freed. Well, actually, now it has emerged 368 00:24:58,160 --> 00:25:04,679 Speaker 2: he wasn't a prisoner, he hadn't been tortured. Quite the opposite. 369 00:25:04,840 --> 00:25:10,200 Speaker 2: He was a member of the regime who himself had 370 00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:15,840 Speaker 2: been torturing prisoners in that country. This was like in 371 00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:19,600 Speaker 2: a movie where this guy puts on the uniform of 372 00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:23,600 Speaker 2: the opposite side and becomes a victim overnight. And there's 373 00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:29,240 Speaker 2: claressa Ward and CNN running the story steadily, look at 374 00:25:29,280 --> 00:25:34,080 Speaker 2: how they have freed this man who had been tortured, 375 00:25:34,119 --> 00:25:38,080 Speaker 2: when in fact it's the equivalent of going into Nazi 376 00:25:38,080 --> 00:25:45,200 Speaker 2: Germany and some Nazi officer throwing on the rags of 377 00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:50,800 Speaker 2: the Jewish concentration camp victims and saying he had been tortured, 378 00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:54,240 Speaker 2: when in fact quite the opposite. We'll play that story 379 00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:57,760 Speaker 2: for you coming up, CNN making fools of themselves again. 380 00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:04,280 Speaker 7: Is Sylvester Turner the mayor and a human being? 381 00:26:04,560 --> 00:26:06,680 Speaker 10: Voila Michael Bettyshow. 382 00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:14,520 Speaker 2: The Biden administration will provide a fifteen billion dollar low 383 00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:20,040 Speaker 2: interest loan commitment to California Utility PG and E. 384 00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:22,000 Speaker 3: For what. 385 00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:29,240 Speaker 2: Projects aimed at fighting the effects of climate change and 386 00:26:29,440 --> 00:26:39,680 Speaker 2: improving the electrical grid. The federal government has been bailing 387 00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:45,359 Speaker 2: out the bad policies of California for far too long. 388 00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:49,600 Speaker 2: And where have we heard the name PG and E. 389 00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:55,480 Speaker 2: Why that's the utility from which the current head of 390 00:26:55,560 --> 00:27:00,159 Speaker 2: Centerpoint hails and all the things you saw. Oh, I 391 00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:04,760 Speaker 2: was Center Point here, he was involved with there. I 392 00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:08,159 Speaker 2: was looking for a report I read this morning. I 393 00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:10,440 Speaker 2: thought it was from Wall Street Journal. It might have 394 00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:13,040 Speaker 2: been from Investors Business Daily. I'll find it at some 395 00:27:13,119 --> 00:27:17,000 Speaker 2: point on the state of the German economy, which is 396 00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:24,560 Speaker 2: in collapse. Automaking is in an extreme slump. Volkswagen is 397 00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:29,920 Speaker 2: having all sorts of problems, And just on an anecdotal basis, 398 00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:34,280 Speaker 2: who do you know that's bought a Volkswagen of late? 399 00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:37,560 Speaker 2: I mean, there was a time my first car was 400 00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:43,040 Speaker 2: a Volkswagen. My first car was a Volkswagen Rabbit, had 401 00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:45,800 Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty thousand miles on it when we 402 00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:50,919 Speaker 2: bought it, little four speed, simple little car. It's a 403 00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:55,040 Speaker 2: diesel engine. And when it was cold, which fortunately very 404 00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:57,680 Speaker 2: very rarely was in Orange, you'd have to go out 405 00:27:57,720 --> 00:28:01,200 Speaker 2: and turn on the turn it on for a moment 406 00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:04,080 Speaker 2: and let the glow plugs heat up and it was 407 00:28:04,119 --> 00:28:06,480 Speaker 2: a little tough to get started in the cold weather. 408 00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:11,879 Speaker 2: But that little car got me everywhere I needed to 409 00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:15,840 Speaker 2: go and did everything I needed it to do. And 410 00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:19,119 Speaker 2: then I had a little Dodge Daytona when I was 411 00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:23,240 Speaker 2: in college, and I had a law professor by the 412 00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:25,320 Speaker 2: name of Stephen Huber. He was a law professor at 413 00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:28,359 Speaker 2: University of Houston, and he was married to a friend 414 00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:30,960 Speaker 2: of ours who had been the student body president before 415 00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:36,840 Speaker 2: me at University of Houston, named Wendy Trocty, and he 416 00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:39,360 Speaker 2: encouraged me not to go off to the University of 417 00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:43,040 Speaker 2: Texas School of Law because it would be hard on 418 00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:46,600 Speaker 2: this young marriage with Nandita, and she had already started 419 00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:50,400 Speaker 2: at Uhe because we were both at UH, and he 420 00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:52,880 Speaker 2: had taught at UT Law School as well as then 421 00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:56,600 Speaker 2: being a full time professor at UH, and he urged 422 00:28:56,640 --> 00:28:58,720 Speaker 2: me not to go off to college go off to 423 00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:01,440 Speaker 2: law school there, but it was where I wanted to go, 424 00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:04,080 Speaker 2: and so I did what I was going to do. 425 00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:09,720 Speaker 2: And they asked to meet with us before I started 426 00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:13,280 Speaker 2: law school, and I thought, well, he's going to scold 427 00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:16,280 Speaker 2: me that I didn't take his advice. And when we met. 428 00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:20,360 Speaker 2: He gave me his car, which was a nineteen eighty 429 00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:25,840 Speaker 2: five Volkswagen Golf, and bought himself. I don't know something else. 430 00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:30,280 Speaker 2: He literally just gave me his car so that I 431 00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:32,720 Speaker 2: would have a vehicle to go back and forth from 432 00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:35,320 Speaker 2: Austin to Houston. What do you think about? How awesome 433 00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:39,560 Speaker 2: that is? What a d who does that? Right? That's 434 00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:44,240 Speaker 2: what he did. Never forgotten it to this day. Stephen K. Hubert, 435 00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:45,920 Speaker 2: he was a professor at the law school. I don't 436 00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:47,440 Speaker 2: know if he still is. I kept up with him 437 00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:53,560 Speaker 2: up until a couple of years ago. But wonderful, wonderful man. Anyway. 438 00:29:54,280 --> 00:29:56,560 Speaker 2: So I had those two Volkswagens, only two Volkswagens I 439 00:29:56,560 --> 00:29:59,280 Speaker 2: ever owned. I owned some Mercedes over the years. But 440 00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:03,320 Speaker 2: the Volkswagen brand got into a whole lot of trouble 441 00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:07,760 Speaker 2: because they wrapped themselves, they cloaked themselves into the global 442 00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:16,360 Speaker 2: warming bull and they got busted lying about their environmental numbers. 443 00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:20,600 Speaker 2: And I don't know that they recovered from that. I 444 00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:22,680 Speaker 2: think they make good cars. You were owned a VW. 445 00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:24,560 Speaker 2: I think they make good cars. I think they make 446 00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:27,240 Speaker 2: very solid cars. I just don't really see a space 447 00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:31,080 Speaker 2: for them today. You know, you think about the brands, 448 00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:39,520 Speaker 2: so many people I know are Ford or Chevy, and 449 00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:45,120 Speaker 2: now Dodge has made such a run in the last 450 00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:49,200 Speaker 2: ten years that they've made themselves a competitor, especially with 451 00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:52,920 Speaker 2: the ram truck. I mean, how many people now drive 452 00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:55,640 Speaker 2: a ram truck. So when you take that off the 453 00:30:55,640 --> 00:31:00,840 Speaker 2: table and then you take the suv between the tahoe, 454 00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:08,560 Speaker 2: the suburban, the explorer, then the number of vehicles you 455 00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:13,560 Speaker 2: have left to choose from, I mean, it narrows it dramatically. Anyway, 456 00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:18,480 Speaker 2: the German economy is suffering on multiple levels. Their steelmaker 457 00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:25,240 Speaker 2: THESISN group is apparently struggling, their manufacturing is struggling. Everything 458 00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:31,080 Speaker 2: about Germany is struggling. And what you may not know 459 00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:35,000 Speaker 2: is that Germany has had the problem we've had with 460 00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:43,479 Speaker 2: allowing a wide open border of Middle Eastern aliens coming 461 00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:46,440 Speaker 2: into the country. An alien is a legal term, just 462 00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:52,240 Speaker 2: in case you're wondering Middle Eastern aliens. They call themselves refugees, 463 00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:55,600 Speaker 2: but they're aliens to the country coming into the country. 464 00:31:56,440 --> 00:31:59,640 Speaker 2: And it's to the point that it has created a 465 00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:04,280 Speaker 2: social welfare problem, it has created a crime problem, it 466 00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:08,840 Speaker 2: has created a tourism problem. The same is true in Paris. 467 00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:14,360 Speaker 2: The same is true in England. Tourism in Europe has 468 00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:20,400 Speaker 2: been dramatically affected by the immigration patterns they have permitted 469 00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:28,280 Speaker 2: to where Englishmen are no longer the dominant culture in London. 470 00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:31,560 Speaker 2: And I'll be the one guy in America to say, 471 00:32:31,640 --> 00:32:35,680 Speaker 2: if I wanted to go to Syria, or if I 472 00:32:35,760 --> 00:32:39,240 Speaker 2: wanted to go to Jordan, I would go to Jordan. 473 00:32:40,080 --> 00:32:42,000 Speaker 2: I don't want to go to Jordan and call it London. 474 00:32:43,160 --> 00:32:47,960 Speaker 2: I find the English culture charming, I find the French 475 00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:55,280 Speaker 2: culture charming. I find Germany in its own way quaint, quirky, 476 00:32:55,560 --> 00:33:01,520 Speaker 2: stiff as it is charming. But what has happened to 477 00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:05,760 Speaker 2: those cultures is a change in what the streets look like, 478 00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:11,600 Speaker 2: what the crime rate looks like, the way things work, 479 00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:14,320 Speaker 2: and you know what it's you know what it's resulted 480 00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:23,720 Speaker 2: in is a boon in tourism to Japan, to Singapore, 481 00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:28,960 Speaker 2: to law and order clean countries. Everybody I talked to 482 00:33:29,560 --> 00:33:32,960 Speaker 2: who's been to Japan in the last year talks about 483 00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:36,560 Speaker 2: how clean it is, talks about how efficient it is, 484 00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:41,760 Speaker 2: especially first time visitors who've never been before. They all 485 00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:44,560 Speaker 2: talk about, you've been to Japan, rom Mom, I have 486 00:33:44,760 --> 00:33:47,000 Speaker 2: never been to Japan always wanted to go to Japan. 487 00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:52,280 Speaker 2: I've been fascinated with Japan since the study of World 488 00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:55,560 Speaker 2: War Two, but particularly because it's easy to remember. In 489 00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:59,080 Speaker 2: the eighties we were so we weren't worried about China arrested, 490 00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:02,120 Speaker 2: were worried about the Japanese. The Japanese were making everything, 491 00:34:02,160 --> 00:34:04,160 Speaker 2: and they were going to overtake us, which didn't happen. 492 00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:06,480 Speaker 2: They ended up having a lost decade which turned into two. 493 00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:10,560 Speaker 2: But it turns out nobody loves America like the Japanese. 494 00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:14,000 Speaker 2: They love our music, they love our whiskeys, they love 495 00:34:14,080 --> 00:34:19,320 Speaker 2: our baseball, they love our movies. Japan loves America.