1 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:11,320 Speaker 1: It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. The 2 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:27,440 Speaker 1: Michael Varry Show is on the air, Kelly writes, with regardless, 3 00:00:27,440 --> 00:00:33,680 Speaker 1: straight dogs. It's all over Montgomery County too. These sleeves 4 00:00:33,720 --> 00:00:36,120 Speaker 1: bag illegals come in. They don't new to their pets, 5 00:00:36,120 --> 00:00:38,360 Speaker 1: they don't care for their pets, they don't feed their pets. 6 00:00:38,400 --> 00:00:40,440 Speaker 1: I live in the Woodlands and I have never seen 7 00:00:40,479 --> 00:00:44,199 Speaker 1: so many stray dogs posted on social media in all 8 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:49,320 Speaker 1: my life, far more than when I lived in Houston proper. 9 00:00:52,880 --> 00:00:56,720 Speaker 1: People feel uncomfortable talking about this, but there are cultural differences. 10 00:00:57,800 --> 00:01:00,840 Speaker 1: There are cultures around the world that eat dogs. It's 11 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:06,319 Speaker 1: a fact. And we have become so stupid in this 12 00:01:06,440 --> 00:01:11,679 Speaker 1: country that when you mention that, people affiliated with cultures 13 00:01:11,680 --> 00:01:15,679 Speaker 1: that eat dogs say it's very upsetting. You say this, 14 00:01:16,480 --> 00:01:20,200 Speaker 1: it's true, and it doesn't even have to be true. 15 00:01:20,440 --> 00:01:24,199 Speaker 1: You see, freedom of speech means the ability to say things, 16 00:01:24,840 --> 00:01:32,960 Speaker 1: even things that upset other people. But the strain that 17 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:40,760 Speaker 1: infected this culture is the desire to protect the offended, 18 00:01:42,200 --> 00:01:46,320 Speaker 1: and people will go to great lengths to protect who 19 00:01:46,400 --> 00:01:59,080 Speaker 1: they think are the offended, whether that's palestinians, murderers, pedophiles, weirdos, freaks, losers, layabouts. 20 00:02:00,440 --> 00:02:04,480 Speaker 1: They've decided that's some great thing for them to do. 21 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:09,880 Speaker 1: The top news story this morning as I started the show, 22 00:02:11,040 --> 00:02:20,200 Speaker 1: was that the CEO of United Healthcare was shot exiting 23 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:24,760 Speaker 1: the hotel that he was staying at this morning, just 24 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:31,799 Speaker 1: before seven am. The person who shot him was apparently 25 00:02:31,960 --> 00:02:39,240 Speaker 1: a white male who was wearing a black mask, who 26 00:02:39,320 --> 00:02:41,799 Speaker 1: was waiting on him in the lobby. So this does 27 00:02:41,840 --> 00:02:49,680 Speaker 1: not appear to be a random shooting snatch and grab. 28 00:02:50,840 --> 00:02:53,120 Speaker 1: He was waiting on him, He took nothing from him. 29 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:59,240 Speaker 1: He apparently shot to kill and did Brian Thompson, the 30 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:03,920 Speaker 1: CEO of United Healthcare, the largest healthcare company in America 31 00:03:03,960 --> 00:03:07,840 Speaker 1: one hundred and eighty nine billion dollars in revenues last year. 32 00:03:09,400 --> 00:03:12,560 Speaker 1: One of the things that's been pointed out could potentially 33 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:17,640 Speaker 1: be a reason that someone would have for wanting to 34 00:03:17,720 --> 00:03:22,520 Speaker 1: kill him, was it Brian Thompson had implemented a lot 35 00:03:22,600 --> 00:03:28,240 Speaker 1: of very stringent DEI requirements, and that there have been 36 00:03:28,280 --> 00:03:32,400 Speaker 1: white males who've been angry at the company for being 37 00:03:32,520 --> 00:03:38,440 Speaker 1: overlooked for job promotions as women and minorities were placed 38 00:03:38,560 --> 00:03:42,560 Speaker 1: into those positions, and a policy was stated as such 39 00:03:43,520 --> 00:03:47,600 Speaker 1: that could be could be a disgruntled employee. It could 40 00:03:47,640 --> 00:03:54,960 Speaker 1: also be a person whose healthcare claim was denied by United, 41 00:03:55,040 --> 00:03:57,280 Speaker 1: to be someone who's just tired of all the paperwork 42 00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:01,920 Speaker 1: having had a family member that they cared for. Anybody 43 00:04:01,960 --> 00:04:05,520 Speaker 1: who's cared for a family member with a chronic condition 44 00:04:06,280 --> 00:04:09,720 Speaker 1: that drags on for some period of time, it's impossible. 45 00:04:10,760 --> 00:04:12,800 Speaker 1: My wife handles all that, and thank god she does. 46 00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:18,960 Speaker 1: It's impossible to keep all the documentation straight. You get 47 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:21,039 Speaker 1: bills that say you don't need to pay this, but 48 00:04:21,080 --> 00:04:23,800 Speaker 1: this is a bill. You get bills that say pay 49 00:04:23,839 --> 00:04:26,320 Speaker 1: this and we'll see if the insurance company will pay it. 50 00:04:27,360 --> 00:04:29,719 Speaker 1: You get bills that you're not even sure. You get 51 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:33,680 Speaker 1: bills periods of time later you're not even sure. The 52 00:04:33,720 --> 00:04:37,240 Speaker 1: whole thing is an absolute and utter mess. And I 53 00:04:37,240 --> 00:04:44,080 Speaker 1: truly believe that the way you solve this problem you 54 00:04:44,160 --> 00:04:47,400 Speaker 1: got to phase it in, because you will create such 55 00:04:47,480 --> 00:04:51,200 Speaker 1: a kerfuffle overnight with people that are accustomed to the system, 56 00:04:51,240 --> 00:04:54,560 Speaker 1: bad as it is. This was the fear in the 57 00:04:54,600 --> 00:05:00,040 Speaker 1: Soviet Union when they began the transition away from the 58 00:05:00,080 --> 00:05:03,880 Speaker 1: old Stalinist style, was that as bad as the system was, 59 00:05:03,880 --> 00:05:07,640 Speaker 1: it gave comfort because people understood the system no matter 60 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:14,200 Speaker 1: how wretched a system is. People find comfort and security 61 00:05:14,279 --> 00:05:18,680 Speaker 1: in the consistency of it. So you can shatter that 62 00:05:19,200 --> 00:05:23,679 Speaker 1: and improve everything. But for a period of time people 63 00:05:23,720 --> 00:05:27,839 Speaker 1: feel untethered. They don't they don't know what to do 64 00:05:28,440 --> 00:05:34,000 Speaker 1: because they've grown to work within the labyrinth of you know, 65 00:05:34,120 --> 00:05:39,520 Speaker 1: a socialist system, for instance. It still strikes me that 66 00:05:39,560 --> 00:05:43,599 Speaker 1: the best way to go about this is that the 67 00:05:43,680 --> 00:05:49,240 Speaker 1: same way if you need automobile tires or food or 68 00:05:49,279 --> 00:05:52,080 Speaker 1: anything else. When you need a service, you go to 69 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:54,880 Speaker 1: the doctor and you pay for it. And when you 70 00:05:54,920 --> 00:05:57,120 Speaker 1: get to the doctor, just like at the restaurant, they 71 00:05:57,120 --> 00:06:01,600 Speaker 1: got the prices on the wall and you say, okay, 72 00:06:02,960 --> 00:06:05,320 Speaker 1: that's what it will cost. So when the doctor says 73 00:06:06,440 --> 00:06:08,560 Speaker 1: when you go in and the doctor says you need 74 00:06:09,360 --> 00:06:12,720 Speaker 1: this medicine, there would be a list on the wall 75 00:06:13,760 --> 00:06:16,320 Speaker 1: of what the pharmacy typically charges for that. Or you 76 00:06:16,320 --> 00:06:19,279 Speaker 1: could take your prescription and price shop there, and you 77 00:06:19,279 --> 00:06:22,920 Speaker 1: could price shop CVS versus Walgreens versus all the other companies. 78 00:06:23,839 --> 00:06:27,520 Speaker 1: The system is too sophisticated at present for outsiders to 79 00:06:27,560 --> 00:06:31,080 Speaker 1: penetrate it. That's a big barrier to entry. There are 80 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:33,680 Speaker 1: reasons the system is and remains the way it is 81 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:37,320 Speaker 1: today because if people had to pay for something out 82 00:06:37,360 --> 00:06:41,359 Speaker 1: of their own back pocket, well, people will say, when 83 00:06:41,400 --> 00:06:44,720 Speaker 1: I offer this solution, they'll say, but not everybody will 84 00:06:44,720 --> 00:06:47,080 Speaker 1: be able to pay for every procedure. Not everybody can 85 00:06:47,120 --> 00:06:49,800 Speaker 1: pay for every procedure now, But do you realize that 86 00:06:49,920 --> 00:06:54,200 Speaker 1: everybody pays something? Now? Do you realize how much is 87 00:06:54,240 --> 00:06:58,279 Speaker 1: being paid in versus what's getting out. It's as big 88 00:06:58,320 --> 00:07:02,600 Speaker 1: a scam as Social Security. But don't you dare suggest 89 00:07:02,839 --> 00:07:07,880 Speaker 1: that we reform Social Security because people believe I gotta 90 00:07:07,920 --> 00:07:10,600 Speaker 1: get mine. Do you understand that in the course of 91 00:07:10,600 --> 00:07:13,880 Speaker 1: your lifetime you will pay in far more than you 92 00:07:13,920 --> 00:07:18,200 Speaker 1: will ever take out, particularly when you adjust for the 93 00:07:18,240 --> 00:07:20,360 Speaker 1: time value of money over the course of your lifetime. 94 00:07:21,440 --> 00:07:24,840 Speaker 1: George W. Bush, to his credit, had actually begun the 95 00:07:24,880 --> 00:07:28,280 Speaker 1: process of talking through how to do that, and then 96 00:07:28,760 --> 00:07:32,760 Speaker 1: nine to eleven and nothing else could be done, which 97 00:07:32,800 --> 00:07:37,480 Speaker 1: will leave for another day. But imagine if you didn't imagine. 98 00:07:37,520 --> 00:07:42,320 Speaker 1: Milton Friedman said in his career his greatest regret was 99 00:07:42,360 --> 00:07:44,400 Speaker 1: when he worked for the government early in his career. 100 00:07:45,440 --> 00:07:48,800 Speaker 1: Automatic withholding is it was the worst thing we ever did. 101 00:07:48,840 --> 00:07:55,160 Speaker 1: We socialized social Security, and the reason was automatic withholding 102 00:07:55,560 --> 00:07:58,800 Speaker 1: was how you ensured if not one hundred percent certainty 103 00:07:59,400 --> 00:08:03,000 Speaker 1: of revenue election higher than you would if people had 104 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:05,720 Speaker 1: to every month make a payment, even if people intended 105 00:08:05,720 --> 00:08:09,520 Speaker 1: to make a payment. We forget right. But automatic withholding 106 00:08:10,360 --> 00:08:13,280 Speaker 1: meant that you would take it across the board. He 107 00:08:13,320 --> 00:08:15,320 Speaker 1: would take it every month. And he said, what I 108 00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:21,760 Speaker 1: did not calculate is that earners would not notice that 109 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:26,680 Speaker 1: the money was gone when it was gone, and they 110 00:08:26,720 --> 00:08:32,480 Speaker 1: would not therefore appreciate and protest against increases in withholdings 111 00:08:32,880 --> 00:08:36,319 Speaker 1: because they would grow accustomed to not having that withholding. 112 00:08:37,280 --> 00:08:40,200 Speaker 1: Fifty five percent of your earnings are gone to the 113 00:08:40,240 --> 00:08:44,960 Speaker 1: government before you ever spend them. Between Social Security, between 114 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:55,040 Speaker 1: income tax withholdings, property taxes, state taxes, sales taxes. Michael 115 00:08:55,040 --> 00:09:04,880 Speaker 1: Berry's show How You Doing This is Sharley c. 116 00:09:05,080 --> 00:09:08,600 Speaker 2: Liquor with Today's Moment of Literacy. 117 00:09:08,360 --> 00:09:11,240 Speaker 3: Curtis of the Michael Pberry Foundation. 118 00:09:12,400 --> 00:09:17,199 Speaker 2: Today episode is from Dreams of My Father by Monac 119 00:09:17,240 --> 00:09:22,120 Speaker 2: Obamoh My God. With Lolo, I had learned how to 120 00:09:22,160 --> 00:09:26,679 Speaker 2: eat small green chili peppers, robbed with dinal Taniel rice 121 00:09:26,960 --> 00:09:30,000 Speaker 2: and away from the dinner table, I was introduced to 122 00:09:30,160 --> 00:09:34,920 Speaker 2: dog meat, which was tough snake meat which was tougher 123 00:09:35,480 --> 00:09:38,000 Speaker 2: and roasted grasshopper. 124 00:09:37,559 --> 00:09:38,640 Speaker 1: Which was crunching. 125 00:09:38,960 --> 00:09:43,840 Speaker 3: Who said this Butarack Obama did, No, he did, yes, 126 00:09:43,960 --> 00:09:49,160 Speaker 3: he did, just we can. Like many Indonesians, Lolo had 127 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:51,800 Speaker 3: followed the brand of Islam that can make room for 128 00:09:51,840 --> 00:09:54,720 Speaker 3: the reminists of more ancient animis and Hindu faith. 129 00:09:55,360 --> 00:09:58,040 Speaker 2: He explained that a man took on the powers of 130 00:09:58,120 --> 00:09:59,120 Speaker 2: whatever he ate. 131 00:10:00,240 --> 00:10:04,760 Speaker 4: You a four hundred pound can about litt. 132 00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:07,880 Speaker 3: Oh one day soon, he promised he would bring home 133 00:10:07,920 --> 00:10:11,199 Speaker 3: a piece of tiger meat for us to share. He 134 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:20,760 Speaker 3: be cat food, Yes, honey, big ass cat food. 135 00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:30,920 Speaker 1: My friend Freddy Aguilar, who is not a cardiologist, is 136 00:10:30,960 --> 00:10:37,160 Speaker 1: actually a prominent plastic surgeon, cosmetic surgeon, texted me and said, 137 00:10:37,240 --> 00:10:42,720 Speaker 1: what mac is talking about is valves. When he used 138 00:10:42,720 --> 00:10:46,000 Speaker 1: the word leaflets, I said that's what I thought. Well, 139 00:10:46,040 --> 00:10:49,840 Speaker 1: why did he keep saying leaf or leaflet? And he 140 00:10:49,920 --> 00:10:54,320 Speaker 1: said because older doctors explain it like that. The mitra 141 00:10:54,480 --> 00:10:58,400 Speaker 1: valve the aortic valve, they used to be called leaflets 142 00:10:58,800 --> 00:11:03,240 Speaker 1: as they are part of the overall valve. Mitrol has 143 00:11:03,320 --> 00:11:08,160 Speaker 1: two while the aortic has three. So that's what you 144 00:11:08,200 --> 00:11:13,920 Speaker 1: needed to know about mitral valves. Ramon the man arrested 145 00:11:13,960 --> 00:11:16,920 Speaker 1: for the drunk driving crash that killed a seven year 146 00:11:16,960 --> 00:11:21,800 Speaker 1: old girl in North Houston has ice holds on him 147 00:11:22,360 --> 00:11:26,000 Speaker 1: because he's not a US citizen. More disturbing is the 148 00:11:26,080 --> 00:11:30,400 Speaker 1: fact that he was sentenced in September for felony assault. 149 00:11:32,160 --> 00:11:33,800 Speaker 1: Why didn't they put an ice hold on him then? 150 00:11:34,480 --> 00:11:41,120 Speaker 1: After his conviction. Investigators say that at the crash scene, 151 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:47,319 Speaker 1: he got out and started taking pictures instead of rendering aid. 152 00:11:48,440 --> 00:11:51,440 Speaker 1: A seven year old little girl was killed. The story 153 00:11:51,440 --> 00:11:52,959 Speaker 1: from KHOU. 154 00:11:53,080 --> 00:11:55,160 Speaker 4: Forty one year old's old Gonzalez is being held on 155 00:11:55,200 --> 00:11:57,680 Speaker 4: a one hundred and fifty thousand dollars bond as the 156 00:11:57,720 --> 00:12:00,360 Speaker 4: family of seven year old Ivory Smith is the with 157 00:12:00,440 --> 00:12:04,520 Speaker 4: unimaginable grief after losing her now. Seven year old Ivory 158 00:12:04,559 --> 00:12:07,120 Speaker 4: Smith was killed on Sunday morning while riding in the 159 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:09,720 Speaker 4: backseat of her mother's car as they were heading home. 160 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:13,920 Speaker 4: Investigators say forty one year old Gonzales was intoxicated and 161 00:12:14,040 --> 00:12:16,800 Speaker 4: ran through a red light, te boning Ivory and her 162 00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:20,560 Speaker 4: mother near North Beamo Road and North sam Houston Parkway. 163 00:12:20,920 --> 00:12:24,280 Speaker 4: Prosecutors say Gonzales then got out of the car and 164 00:12:24,360 --> 00:12:27,840 Speaker 4: started taking pictures of the scene without rendering any sort 165 00:12:27,920 --> 00:12:31,079 Speaker 4: of aid. We spoke with Ivory's family in court this morning, 166 00:12:31,120 --> 00:12:33,840 Speaker 4: who tells us they just want justice for Ivory and 167 00:12:33,880 --> 00:12:37,400 Speaker 4: they want stiffer penalties for people involved in these sorts 168 00:12:37,400 --> 00:12:38,040 Speaker 4: of crimes. 169 00:12:38,280 --> 00:12:40,320 Speaker 1: If convicted, it's. 170 00:12:40,200 --> 00:12:42,840 Speaker 5: Always the person that's drinking and driving, it gets to 171 00:12:42,920 --> 00:12:46,760 Speaker 5: walk away and then the families are left with you 172 00:12:46,760 --> 00:12:50,840 Speaker 5: know this, So definitely the laws need to change. We're 173 00:12:50,840 --> 00:12:54,400 Speaker 5: definitely worried he could flee. He has no conscience because 174 00:12:54,440 --> 00:12:57,800 Speaker 5: he got out and he didn't assist again. 175 00:12:57,840 --> 00:13:00,000 Speaker 4: Gonzalez's bond is set at one hundred and fifty thouves 176 00:13:00,080 --> 00:13:03,160 Speaker 4: than dollars, and should he postpond, the judge has revoked 177 00:13:03,160 --> 00:13:06,559 Speaker 4: his driving privileges and he must submit to alcohol monitoring. 178 00:13:06,880 --> 00:13:07,640 Speaker 1: He also has. 179 00:13:07,520 --> 00:13:11,920 Speaker 4: An icehold or Immigration Custody enforcement hold, since authorities say 180 00:13:11,960 --> 00:13:15,200 Speaker 4: he isn't a US citizen, so if he posts bond, 181 00:13:15,559 --> 00:13:18,800 Speaker 4: he would then be held in custody by ICE. 182 00:13:18,840 --> 00:13:19,000 Speaker 6: Now. 183 00:13:19,040 --> 00:13:21,680 Speaker 4: Gonzales is due back in court on February sixth, and 184 00:13:21,720 --> 00:13:24,600 Speaker 4: if convicted, could face anywhere from two to twenty years 185 00:13:24,840 --> 00:13:25,400 Speaker 4: in prison. 186 00:13:29,960 --> 00:13:35,000 Speaker 1: Awful. Another family member was severely injured in that and 187 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:38,000 Speaker 1: faces a long recovery. A second grade student at Klein 188 00:13:38,080 --> 00:13:45,560 Speaker 1: ISD's Clink Elementary School killed Hm. You know, she said, 189 00:13:45,600 --> 00:13:48,439 Speaker 1: and many people will the law needs to change. Actually, 190 00:13:48,520 --> 00:13:50,560 Speaker 1: don't need to change the law that. This is the 191 00:13:50,640 --> 00:13:54,360 Speaker 1: thing that is lost on people. It needs to be understood. 192 00:13:55,160 --> 00:13:58,000 Speaker 1: We have laws for all these We have laws for 193 00:13:58,040 --> 00:14:01,400 Speaker 1: everything we need to fix. You just have to enforce them. 194 00:14:02,120 --> 00:14:05,640 Speaker 1: As simple as that. You just have to enforce the 195 00:14:05,720 --> 00:14:07,600 Speaker 1: laws that we actually have. We don't need more gun 196 00:14:07,600 --> 00:14:16,640 Speaker 1: control laws. When you catch a felon with a gun, officers, 197 00:14:16,679 --> 00:14:22,720 Speaker 1: tell me if we just prosecuted and held every felon 198 00:14:22,800 --> 00:14:26,040 Speaker 1: we catch in possession of a weapon, they're not allowed 199 00:14:26,040 --> 00:14:28,920 Speaker 1: to be. That's a guy that's committing more crimes. If 200 00:14:28,960 --> 00:14:35,160 Speaker 1: you just held them, your crime rate would plummet, absolutely plummet. 201 00:14:37,360 --> 00:14:41,600 Speaker 1: The mother of the Edna High School cheerleader murdered last 202 00:14:41,680 --> 00:14:45,840 Speaker 1: year by an illegal alien stalker says that the system 203 00:14:45,920 --> 00:14:49,920 Speaker 1: failed this mother or failed her daughter twice by allowing 204 00:14:49,920 --> 00:14:52,040 Speaker 1: the illegal alien in the country in the first time, 205 00:14:52,920 --> 00:14:55,560 Speaker 1: and now the trial has been delayed for several months 206 00:14:55,560 --> 00:15:00,720 Speaker 1: as she's forced to wait for justice for the murderer 207 00:15:00,840 --> 00:15:01,640 Speaker 1: of her daughter. 208 00:15:01,720 --> 00:15:05,560 Speaker 7: The story from khou I first met Jackie Medina two 209 00:15:05,680 --> 00:15:08,880 Speaker 7: days after she found her daughter Elizabeth dead in a bathtub. 210 00:15:09,760 --> 00:15:12,160 Speaker 8: A mother should never go through what I went through. 211 00:15:12,400 --> 00:15:15,920 Speaker 7: A year later, she says, the vivacious cheerleader's sheer presence 212 00:15:16,240 --> 00:15:18,160 Speaker 7: is among the things she misses the most. 213 00:15:18,280 --> 00:15:23,280 Speaker 8: Her smile, her laves everything. 214 00:15:23,720 --> 00:15:26,560 Speaker 7: Police say sixteen year old Elizabeth was fatally stabbed in 215 00:15:26,560 --> 00:15:29,800 Speaker 7: the family's home at the Cottonwood Apartments. Twenty four year 216 00:15:29,800 --> 00:15:34,000 Speaker 7: old Rafael Romero, who exhibited stalking like behavior before the crime, 217 00:15:34,080 --> 00:15:37,800 Speaker 7: according to court documents, was later arrested in Schulenberg. He 218 00:15:37,920 --> 00:15:40,320 Speaker 7: was supposed to go on trial for capital murder this 219 00:15:40,360 --> 00:15:43,480 Speaker 7: week back in Edna, but it was postponed until at 220 00:15:43,560 --> 00:15:44,480 Speaker 7: least February. 221 00:15:44,960 --> 00:15:46,800 Speaker 8: I was basically the shot. 222 00:15:47,880 --> 00:15:52,040 Speaker 7: Heartbroken, Medina says she has mixed emotions about attending the trial, 223 00:15:52,440 --> 00:15:54,560 Speaker 7: though it's something she feels obligated to. 224 00:15:54,520 --> 00:16:00,360 Speaker 8: Doding details that you know, mothers don't want to here, 225 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:04,280 Speaker 8: but expecting answers that I've been waiting for. 226 00:16:04,480 --> 00:16:08,240 Speaker 7: She believes stricter laws might have prevented Romero, an a 227 00:16:08,320 --> 00:16:11,800 Speaker 7: legal immigrant from Mexico, from ever crossing paths with her daughter. 228 00:16:11,880 --> 00:16:15,120 Speaker 8: I just feel very disappointed in the system now. 229 00:16:15,160 --> 00:16:18,960 Speaker 7: She just hopes the system eventually delivers the justice Elizabeth 230 00:16:18,960 --> 00:16:22,240 Speaker 7: deserves and wants no less than the death penalty for 231 00:16:22,320 --> 00:16:23,240 Speaker 7: her accused killer. 232 00:16:23,400 --> 00:16:25,720 Speaker 8: So it would have been me years back, I would 233 00:16:25,720 --> 00:16:29,960 Speaker 8: say to leave them in jail. But when it happens 234 00:16:29,960 --> 00:16:33,840 Speaker 8: to you, as being a mother, and this happens to 235 00:16:33,880 --> 00:16:36,960 Speaker 8: your daughter, you want the max, you want the worst, 236 00:16:37,560 --> 00:16:39,720 Speaker 8: because he had no mercy on my daughter, so why 237 00:16:39,760 --> 00:16:40,920 Speaker 8: should I have any on him. 238 00:16:41,640 --> 00:16:45,320 Speaker 7: I'm told reasons for this trial delay, including Romero's defense 239 00:16:45,360 --> 00:16:48,640 Speaker 7: team filing motions in the case, also the need for 240 00:16:49,080 --> 00:16:52,920 Speaker 7: more time to review a mountain of discovery materials. I 241 00:16:52,960 --> 00:16:55,560 Speaker 7: did reach out to Romero's attorney, whose office is down 242 00:16:55,600 --> 00:16:57,440 Speaker 7: in Corpus, but have not heard back. 243 00:16:57,840 --> 00:17:02,040 Speaker 1: Convict him and just like the raging pit bulls roaming 244 00:17:02,120 --> 00:17:04,440 Speaker 1: through Colony Ridge, take him out in the yard, put 245 00:17:04,480 --> 00:17:07,040 Speaker 1: a bullet in him, put him down like the rabid 246 00:17:07,080 --> 00:17:09,600 Speaker 1: dog that he is. We told you the story about 247 00:17:09,680 --> 00:17:14,240 Speaker 1: Catherine Hudson, Harris County Precinc Five deputy, who was working 248 00:17:14,280 --> 00:17:19,639 Speaker 1: an extra job her little daughter, eight year old child Casey, 249 00:17:20,200 --> 00:17:22,919 Speaker 1: in the backseat of her car asleep early that morning 250 00:17:23,840 --> 00:17:28,439 Speaker 1: when a driver crashed into them, into the two of 251 00:17:28,480 --> 00:17:31,240 Speaker 1: them and killed the mother and the daughter His name 252 00:17:31,280 --> 00:17:37,159 Speaker 1: was Jose Alvareto. Alvarado's twenty three years old. He was impaired, 253 00:17:37,800 --> 00:17:40,480 Speaker 1: so apparently he was drunk. The car burst into fire, 254 00:17:40,600 --> 00:17:45,359 Speaker 1: into flame. He also ran into a text dot box 255 00:17:45,440 --> 00:17:51,600 Speaker 1: truck and that burst into flames. One detail I got 256 00:17:51,640 --> 00:17:55,200 Speaker 1: wrong was that she did work for Constable Ted Heap, 257 00:17:56,040 --> 00:17:58,639 Speaker 1: and she did work for Precinct five. But she was 258 00:17:58,720 --> 00:18:01,280 Speaker 1: not a new deputy. That's what I had been told 259 00:18:01,280 --> 00:18:04,360 Speaker 1: by an officer on the scene. She was an eighteen 260 00:18:04,440 --> 00:18:07,800 Speaker 1: year veteran. She had actually transferred to the Civil Division 261 00:18:08,960 --> 00:18:11,439 Speaker 1: off patrol so that she could spend more time. She 262 00:18:11,480 --> 00:18:14,359 Speaker 1: was a single mother with her daughter. Her daughter, Casey, 263 00:18:14,440 --> 00:18:19,320 Speaker 1: was a second grade student at Turlington Elementary School in Waller, ISD. 264 00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:23,200 Speaker 1: You know, as a cultural matter, if you notice how 265 00:18:23,200 --> 00:18:26,400 Speaker 1: many drunk driving killings there are, it's more often than 266 00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:34,760 Speaker 1: not hispanic Michael Barry Show, come on, let's open the 267 00:18:34,760 --> 00:18:37,240 Speaker 1: phone lines for the people. We haven't had many calls 268 00:18:37,240 --> 00:18:40,159 Speaker 1: this week because we've had so much to cover, but 269 00:18:40,200 --> 00:18:42,239 Speaker 1: we will open them now. Seven one, three, nine, nine, 270 00:18:42,359 --> 00:18:50,280 Speaker 1: nine one thousand. News report yesterday that Southwest Airlines would 271 00:18:50,359 --> 00:19:00,040 Speaker 1: be doing away with their DEI department and policies and 272 00:19:00,160 --> 00:19:04,520 Speaker 1: I will say it again, well, this is a reason 273 00:19:04,560 --> 00:19:13,080 Speaker 1: to rejoice. You've got to understand how that department grew 274 00:19:13,320 --> 00:19:18,040 Speaker 1: within your company and how those policies were formulated and implemented. 275 00:19:19,960 --> 00:19:24,720 Speaker 1: You can't simply say, hey, guys, we had a fraud 276 00:19:24,760 --> 00:19:30,760 Speaker 1: department that was committing fraud. We've decided that our fraud department, 277 00:19:30,760 --> 00:19:32,600 Speaker 1: we're going to go ahead, after these all these years, 278 00:19:32,640 --> 00:19:37,360 Speaker 1: we're going to close it down. Okay, well wait, wait 279 00:19:37,400 --> 00:19:43,520 Speaker 1: a minute, good, good, good to know. But how'd you 280 00:19:43,560 --> 00:19:48,040 Speaker 1: have a fraud department in the first place? Who suggested 281 00:19:48,080 --> 00:19:52,760 Speaker 1: you have a fraud department? Who said, yeah, that's a 282 00:19:52,800 --> 00:19:58,080 Speaker 1: good idea. Who said, hey, Bob, you're going to be 283 00:19:58,080 --> 00:20:03,160 Speaker 1: in charge of the fraud department. Why did Bob accept? 284 00:20:04,680 --> 00:20:07,560 Speaker 1: Who else did Bob recruit into the fraud department? How 285 00:20:07,600 --> 00:20:11,280 Speaker 1: long did they operate? How did you allow them to operate? 286 00:20:11,840 --> 00:20:15,200 Speaker 1: Did they report back on how the fraud was going. 287 00:20:17,440 --> 00:20:21,000 Speaker 1: You can't simply say, right way, we were doing this 288 00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:26,359 Speaker 1: really really dumb thing. Now we're not going to do 289 00:20:26,359 --> 00:20:32,280 Speaker 1: it anymore. As a shareholder, we have the right to 290 00:20:32,359 --> 00:20:36,520 Speaker 1: know why did you do that? What'd you think you 291 00:20:36,560 --> 00:20:39,639 Speaker 1: were accomplishing? Because this is where you would start to 292 00:20:39,640 --> 00:20:44,199 Speaker 1: get to what's important, which is what people claimed they 293 00:20:44,200 --> 00:20:47,439 Speaker 1: were trying to accomplish, or who they were afraid of, 294 00:20:49,880 --> 00:20:53,600 Speaker 1: or why they did these things because they suspected that 295 00:20:53,600 --> 00:20:57,880 Speaker 1: that would keep them from being intact. No company needs 296 00:20:57,880 --> 00:21:07,639 Speaker 1: a DEID department, university, no nothing, diversity, equity and inclusion. 297 00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:15,920 Speaker 1: Why is diversity valuable? Shatter that myth right now? Why 298 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:21,200 Speaker 1: is diversity? Why does diversity matter? Let's take the United 299 00:21:21,280 --> 00:21:24,200 Speaker 1: Kingdom that was primarily white, that was a very safe 300 00:21:24,520 --> 00:21:31,280 Speaker 1: country for centuries. All of a sudden you introduced these 301 00:21:31,359 --> 00:21:37,359 Speaker 1: Middle Eastern refuge supposed refugees, and you started watching crime 302 00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:40,679 Speaker 1: go up, knifings go up, sexual attacks go up. Did 303 00:21:40,760 --> 00:21:45,800 Speaker 1: that improve things? Were you better because of it? The 304 00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:51,520 Speaker 1: country is rife with riots now. Diversity is not necessarily 305 00:21:51,560 --> 00:21:57,720 Speaker 1: an improvement on anything. Would the NBA be better if 306 00:21:57,720 --> 00:22:03,840 Speaker 1: you injected more Asian Americans into it? Would college football 307 00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:06,879 Speaker 1: be better if you put girls out on the field, 308 00:22:07,400 --> 00:22:12,119 Speaker 1: because we don't have any right now, you cannot buy 309 00:22:12,600 --> 00:22:20,160 Speaker 1: the myth diversity will naturally occur in nature of its 310 00:22:20,160 --> 00:22:24,800 Speaker 1: own accord to the extent that it needs to. But 311 00:22:24,920 --> 00:22:28,199 Speaker 1: when you buy the premise that diversity is somehow in 312 00:22:28,240 --> 00:22:31,920 Speaker 1: and of itself a good thing. You have lost the war, 313 00:22:33,720 --> 00:22:36,199 Speaker 1: and not just some war for white people or for 314 00:22:36,320 --> 00:22:43,359 Speaker 1: your own best interest, but for opportunity, for fairness, for openness. 315 00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:46,640 Speaker 1: There's a study that was commissioned by the United States 316 00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:50,480 Speaker 1: government that was hidden that is now emerging that showed 317 00:22:51,359 --> 00:22:54,239 Speaker 1: that all of this talk about diversity and equity and 318 00:22:54,280 --> 00:23:02,399 Speaker 1: inclusion actually led to greater ranker, more anger, more outbursts, 319 00:23:02,800 --> 00:23:06,359 Speaker 1: more violence, and not just against the people who are 320 00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:11,679 Speaker 1: the victims, white males, for instance. It encouraged people with 321 00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:17,600 Speaker 1: bad tendencies to indulge those tendencies. When you give ilhan 322 00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:21,679 Speaker 1: Omar and AOC and Lena Hidalgo and Rodney Ellis and 323 00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:27,320 Speaker 1: Sheila jacksually, when you give those people a microphone and 324 00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:30,800 Speaker 1: say spill it all out, say what you think, you 325 00:23:31,040 --> 00:23:35,719 Speaker 1: encourage and embolden them, and they just get worse and 326 00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:41,879 Speaker 1: worse and worse the more you platform them. Lamont on 327 00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:47,520 Speaker 1: the black Line, you're up, sir, Yes, I want to 328 00:23:47,560 --> 00:23:50,440 Speaker 1: talk about Michael I'm good, sir, Go ahead. 329 00:23:52,280 --> 00:23:55,160 Speaker 6: I want to talk about Joe Biden and the pardon. 330 00:23:56,920 --> 00:24:01,160 Speaker 6: The pardon on the surfacely didn't care about it. That's 331 00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:04,760 Speaker 6: common sense to me. You know, if if my kid 332 00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:08,400 Speaker 6: did a victim less crime or a victimist low level 333 00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:11,880 Speaker 6: crime and I was in for to, you know, get 334 00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:14,560 Speaker 6: them free, I would do the same thing. But it's 335 00:24:14,920 --> 00:24:18,080 Speaker 6: it's completely different with Biden. It's completely different with Biden. 336 00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:21,760 Speaker 6: He's a freaking hypocrite. He's a freaking hypocrite. And the 337 00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:25,920 Speaker 6: reason I say that is the nineteen nineteen Prime build. 338 00:24:26,359 --> 00:24:28,080 Speaker 6: He was the author of that. And a lot of 339 00:24:28,119 --> 00:24:31,560 Speaker 6: people are not drawing this connection he put He put 340 00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:33,720 Speaker 6: a lot of you know, I'm not gonna say black 341 00:24:33,760 --> 00:24:35,960 Speaker 6: and brown people. He put a lot of people in 342 00:24:36,119 --> 00:24:37,080 Speaker 6: jail for doing No. 343 00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:40,359 Speaker 1: They're black and brown. They are, they are factually they 344 00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:42,240 Speaker 1: are black and brown, mostly black. 345 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:49,000 Speaker 9: Okay, But I think it's hypocritically for him to do 346 00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:52,879 Speaker 9: that when his son has done the same thing that 347 00:24:53,040 --> 00:24:54,920 Speaker 9: he puts them in jail for. Right now, I know 348 00:24:55,040 --> 00:24:57,480 Speaker 9: that that's not the cases that are I guessing, but 349 00:24:57,920 --> 00:25:01,399 Speaker 9: he gave him pardins. He gave them like a blanket 350 00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:05,000 Speaker 9: party for the things that he might have done. I 351 00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:09,280 Speaker 9: think it's real. I think it's real. Bad man, It's 352 00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:11,119 Speaker 9: kind of it's. 353 00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:15,400 Speaker 6: Kind of sad. I don't even know what to say 354 00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:15,960 Speaker 6: at this point. 355 00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:19,200 Speaker 9: Because I just look at that you put all of 356 00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:21,080 Speaker 9: those people in jail for the same strup that your 357 00:25:21,119 --> 00:25:23,040 Speaker 9: son is doing it, and you don't have a problem 358 00:25:23,119 --> 00:25:25,120 Speaker 9: with it. You don't have a problem with it at all. 359 00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:26,000 Speaker 9: That's all I have. 360 00:25:26,119 --> 00:25:30,360 Speaker 1: Michael Well settlement, thank you, But I want to be clear. 361 00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:37,639 Speaker 1: His crimes were not victimist. Hunter's biggest crimes and the 362 00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:41,040 Speaker 1: biggest scandal they're pulling off is making people think that 363 00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:46,240 Speaker 1: his crimes were doing drugs. Hunter's biggest crimes were taking 364 00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:53,640 Speaker 1: money from the Chinese, Ukrainians and Russians and directing national 365 00:25:53,760 --> 00:25:56,639 Speaker 1: policy and billions of your dollars and affecting our country. 366 00:25:56,720 --> 00:25:59,920 Speaker 1: That is treason and it should not be the case 367 00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:03,080 Speaker 1: that every father gets to pardon their son just because 368 00:26:03,119 --> 00:26:10,680 Speaker 1: their president. Absolutely not. Greg Fountain, you are on the 369 00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:15,560 Speaker 1: Michael Berry Show. Welcome sir, Good morning, sir. How are you? 370 00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:18,240 Speaker 1: Did you give both names as a kind of a 371 00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:19,359 Speaker 1: name drop? 372 00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:23,880 Speaker 10: You know, I was hoping to get a dang out 373 00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:25,800 Speaker 10: of it, but oh what I did? There? 374 00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:32,000 Speaker 1: You go, Ramona, you know Greg Fountain, you do well? Okay, 375 00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:34,719 Speaker 1: he did work my brother very good. Did he tell 376 00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:39,480 Speaker 1: you that or you actually remember that? Wow? I'm impressed well. 377 00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:42,320 Speaker 1: Greg Fountain worked with my brother in law enforcement for many, 378 00:26:42,359 --> 00:26:46,240 Speaker 1: many many years. Greg Fountain is, how is who I 379 00:26:46,359 --> 00:26:49,840 Speaker 1: first met Tracy bird with in the mid two thousand late, 380 00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:53,359 Speaker 1: I don't know, ten, twenty, ten, eleven, twelve, somewhere around there. 381 00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:59,359 Speaker 1: And now I believe he has a real estate practice 382 00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:02,520 Speaker 1: in Crystal Beach? Is that correct? 383 00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:07,080 Speaker 10: Yes, sir, sweeze through the state if I worked from 384 00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:09,840 Speaker 10: my brother in law and his business partner Lands Bradley. 385 00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:13,639 Speaker 10: And but you know I was raised kind of Navan R. 386 00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:14,359 Speaker 1: Johnson is. 387 00:27:15,920 --> 00:27:18,560 Speaker 10: You know, we weren't dirt for but my dad worked 388 00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:22,720 Speaker 10: in the oil field paid so security paid our taxes 389 00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:26,399 Speaker 10: and I worked in the oil patch myself before getting 390 00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:30,119 Speaker 10: into law enforcement. And you know the work ethics we 391 00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:34,040 Speaker 10: were taught people. Our age is to work hard and 392 00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:39,760 Speaker 10: you can make something of yourself. And to see the 393 00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:42,359 Speaker 10: point you made earlier about the amount of taxes we 394 00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:46,800 Speaker 10: paid as well as Social Security that goes to individuals 395 00:27:46,840 --> 00:27:50,720 Speaker 10: that have never paid into it. And it's just disheartening 396 00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:54,760 Speaker 10: to people black, white, brown, whatever color, that get up 397 00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:58,159 Speaker 10: and go to work every day. You know, in my 398 00:27:58,320 --> 00:28:02,600 Speaker 10: real estate career, it's seven days a week if you 399 00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:06,600 Speaker 10: want to be successful, you know that. And people think 400 00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:09,680 Speaker 10: if you make money, then it was given to you. 401 00:28:09,880 --> 00:28:10,440 Speaker 1: But it's not. 402 00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:13,880 Speaker 10: If you go to work every day and to see 403 00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:18,800 Speaker 10: the waste and abuse that has gone on for decades, 404 00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:22,560 Speaker 10: and it's ridiculous, and I'm hoping that those can do 405 00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:23,359 Speaker 10: something about. 406 00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:30,480 Speaker 1: It's terribly frustrating because a man should keep what he earns, 407 00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:34,200 Speaker 1: what he produces, what he creates. And I think we 408 00:28:34,359 --> 00:28:37,480 Speaker 1: all have the idea that we're willing to pitch in 409 00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:40,240 Speaker 1: for the things that help us do what we do. 410 00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:43,520 Speaker 1: We're all willing to pitch in for the nationalsifs. We're 411 00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:47,760 Speaker 1: all willing to pitch in for roads to the extent 412 00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:50,040 Speaker 1: that we need him. We're all willing to pitch in 413 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:56,480 Speaker 1: even charitably, for things that fall through the cracks, you know, 414 00:28:56,640 --> 00:28:59,800 Speaker 1: the widow woman whose son goes off to war, or 415 00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:04,600 Speaker 1: the situation where someone loses their job. All of this 416 00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:08,840 Speaker 1: within reason. Add to that the money that we tie 417 00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:11,680 Speaker 1: to the church for various reasons, and the charitable work 418 00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:14,240 Speaker 1: that's done for that. Add to that the charitable work 419 00:29:14,280 --> 00:29:19,440 Speaker 1: we each do individually on our own time, with our 420 00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:24,280 Speaker 1: own time. It is perverse, however, to take money from 421 00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:27,160 Speaker 1: the citizenry in the way that it is done, and 422 00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:31,120 Speaker 1: for folks to have tolerated it for this long, for 423 00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:34,760 Speaker 1: folks to believe that this is what is natural and normal, 424 00:29:35,520 --> 00:29:37,000 Speaker 1: and to carve around the edges. I'll tell you the 425 00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:41,600 Speaker 1: one that gets me. People will say, I don't want 426 00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:45,760 Speaker 1: my money sent to Ukraine. We could spend that money 427 00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:51,200 Speaker 1: instead on And I realize at that moment we've lost 428 00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:56,040 Speaker 1: this thing. When you find out that we have wasted 429 00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:04,400 Speaker 1: your taxpayer dollars, people will say, well, always say, don't 430 00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:06,560 Speaker 1: I don't believe we should spend our we should send 431 00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:08,320 Speaker 1: our money to this country. I don't believe we should 432 00:30:08,320 --> 00:30:12,520 Speaker 1: spend it on this ridiculous project, on this bailout, on 433 00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:16,320 Speaker 1: this subsidy, on this bribe, on this Instead, we could 434 00:30:16,360 --> 00:30:20,360 Speaker 1: spend it on No, that money should have never been 435 00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:24,280 Speaker 1: taken from the taxpayer in the first place. If Americans 436 00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:32,280 Speaker 1: understood the extent to which they struggle, because that which 437 00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:37,280 Speaker 1: they earn is taken from them and sent into this pool, 438 00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:40,960 Speaker 1: they would demand it that money be sent back and 439 00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:46,040 Speaker 1: lower those taxes. And it can be changed. It is doable. 440 00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:48,760 Speaker 1: Let me see if I can find this. I saw 441 00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:52,760 Speaker 1: a stat in the Wall Street journalists Morning, Idaho. Listen 442 00:30:52,840 --> 00:30:54,720 Speaker 1: to this. This is from an editorial in the Wall 443 00:30:54,720 --> 00:31:00,720 Speaker 1: Street Journalists warn Idaho has proved deregulation is possible. The 444 00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:05,080 Speaker 1: state repealed and revised its Administrative Rules Code through a 445 00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:09,800 Speaker 1: sunset review process in twenty nineteen. The results from on 446 00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:15,520 Speaker 1: were dramatic. Since then, ninety five percent of state regulations 447 00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:19,840 Speaker 1: have been eliminated or simplified. And read that again. Since then, 448 00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:24,640 Speaker 1: in five years, ninety five percent of state regulations have 449 00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:30,080 Speaker 1: been eliminated or simplified. This guy didn't fall. Most regulations, 450 00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:34,200 Speaker 1: when subject to genuine scrutiny, failed to justify their existence. 451 00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:38,280 Speaker 1: The federal government should learn from Idaho's success. The result 452 00:31:38,320 --> 00:31:41,040 Speaker 1: would be a regulatory system that is leaner, more efficient, 453 00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:44,960 Speaker 1: and responsive to twenty first century needs. Can you go 454 00:31:45,080 --> 00:31:52,000 Speaker 1: back to Fountain for a minute, Greg, Yes, what is 455 00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:57,560 Speaker 1: going on right now in Crystal Beach? What is the 456 00:31:57,640 --> 00:31:59,959 Speaker 1: real estate market? What are we seeing there right now? 457 00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:05,560 Speaker 10: Well, a lot of people that bought in twenty one 458 00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:09,800 Speaker 10: and twenty two, you know, the height of the market. 459 00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:13,760 Speaker 10: Everything across the state and the nation went crazy, and 460 00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:19,120 Speaker 10: people came in and were buying investment properties and some 461 00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:23,600 Speaker 10: people were using you know, inaccurate data to see what 462 00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:28,720 Speaker 10: a rental property would bring in, and for that time 463 00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:33,000 Speaker 10: they weren't overpaying. But with the market saturation and seven 464 00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:37,080 Speaker 10: percent interest, you know, the difference in a four hundred 465 00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:40,160 Speaker 10: thousand dollars thirty year note at three percent is about 466 00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:41,600 Speaker 10: thirteen hundred. 467 00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:43,920 Speaker 1: And fifty a month, and it went up. 468 00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:48,680 Speaker 10: To twenty one fifty, another eight hundred dollars a month 469 00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:52,080 Speaker 10: at seven percent in interest, and people just couldn't afford. 470 00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:56,440 Speaker 10: So it's starting to level out now and I think 471 00:32:57,080 --> 00:33:01,600 Speaker 10: you're starting to see the economy. People see that light 472 00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:05,800 Speaker 10: at the end of the tunnel starting January twentieth, and 473 00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:08,720 Speaker 10: I think buyers are going to come back out and 474 00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:11,840 Speaker 10: be ready to have that second home that they've wanted 475 00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:14,000 Speaker 10: all their life, you know, a place for the family 476 00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:16,960 Speaker 10: to gather. And you know, we didn't shut down during 477 00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:19,520 Speaker 10: COVID in Crystal Beach and that's one of the things 478 00:33:19,560 --> 00:33:22,960 Speaker 10: that pushed our market the way it did on the 479 00:33:23,040 --> 00:33:24,160 Speaker 10: Oliver Peninsula. 480 00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:26,600 Speaker 6: But you know, I'm heading back from. 481 00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:30,000 Speaker 10: South Texas right now. I've been deer hunting and everywhere 482 00:33:30,120 --> 00:33:33,720 Speaker 10: you look you can even see the oil fill work 483 00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:37,000 Speaker 10: over rigs getting ready and things like that. Because they 484 00:33:37,160 --> 00:33:38,960 Speaker 10: know the economy is going to get better. 485 00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:39,840 Speaker 9: Yeah, and. 486 00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:44,479 Speaker 10: So goes the old patch, goes the rest of the country. 487 00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:49,280 Speaker 1: That's good country. Wisdom from great Fountain right there. I 488 00:33:49,520 --> 00:33:52,200 Speaker 1: like that as well, said you get anything down there. 489 00:33:54,440 --> 00:33:57,680 Speaker 10: Yeah. My son killed a nice management buck and a 490 00:33:57,800 --> 00:34:01,160 Speaker 10: dough and we had quality time together. He's thirty, but 491 00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:04,440 Speaker 10: you know what, he's still my son and I enjoy 492 00:34:04,560 --> 00:34:05,200 Speaker 10: time with him. 493 00:34:05,360 --> 00:34:12,080 Speaker 1: Of course. What's his full name, Kyle Ale Fountain. Good 494 00:34:12,120 --> 00:34:17,120 Speaker 1: for Kyle, Thank you, Greg Fountain, Thank you, my friend. 495 00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:17,600 Speaker 1: Take care