1 00:00:03,840 --> 00:00:11,760 Speaker 1: It's that time. Time time, time lucking load. The Michael 2 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:22,560 Speaker 1: Barry Show is on the air. It's looking into Mica week. 3 00:00:23,040 --> 00:00:24,480 Speaker 2: Gotta feed a beard. 4 00:00:24,680 --> 00:00:28,160 Speaker 3: I don't plan to shave, and it's you the thing, 5 00:00:28,360 --> 00:00:32,519 Speaker 3: but I just gotta see I'm doing all right. 6 00:00:33,640 --> 00:00:39,840 Speaker 1: We'll im make me support me. It's feeding verdictue. That's 7 00:00:39,920 --> 00:00:44,760 Speaker 1: a true. It's either drinking, no drug and just snool. 8 00:00:45,440 --> 00:00:46,760 Speaker 2: Just turn at right. 9 00:00:47,920 --> 00:00:52,520 Speaker 3: It's a great dead be I know it sounds still 10 00:00:52,720 --> 00:00:54,920 Speaker 3: shining in a close eyes. 11 00:00:55,080 --> 00:00:57,240 Speaker 1: It's hard times. 12 00:00:56,880 --> 00:00:57,840 Speaker 2: In the neighborhood. 13 00:00:58,560 --> 00:01:13,360 Speaker 1: But why can't everything Well, that's it. 14 00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:16,640 Speaker 4: No more football for seven months because I had to 15 00:01:16,680 --> 00:01:20,040 Speaker 4: figure out something else to do on Saturday and Sunday 16 00:01:20,080 --> 00:01:26,200 Speaker 4: that lay on the couch with the boys watching football games. 17 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:29,520 Speaker 1: Oh well, I guess it's that time. 18 00:01:31,640 --> 00:01:37,800 Speaker 3: Houston's Jalen Hurts of Channelview High School the first Houston 19 00:01:37,880 --> 00:01:41,679 Speaker 3: area player to ever be named Super Bowl MVP. 20 00:01:42,560 --> 00:01:44,560 Speaker 1: Remem about that see. 21 00:01:44,360 --> 00:01:46,919 Speaker 3: Eighth time a player from Texas has been named MVP 22 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:52,840 Speaker 3: of the Super Bowl. Patrick Holmes Mahomes, Patrick Mahomes from 23 00:01:52,880 --> 00:01:56,160 Speaker 3: White House. I think he won it twice three times. 24 00:01:56,840 --> 00:02:03,760 Speaker 3: Nick Foles from of course Austin, Wesley Drew Brees Austin Westlake, 25 00:02:04,680 --> 00:02:09,440 Speaker 3: Von Miller from De Soto and the last one Raman. 26 00:02:09,520 --> 00:02:11,360 Speaker 3: Let's see if you can guess this one. This is 27 00:02:11,560 --> 00:02:13,320 Speaker 3: one of my mom's favorite players. She was a big 28 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:18,440 Speaker 3: Cowboys fan in the seventies. Not Eric Dickerson, and he 29 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:23,760 Speaker 3: wasn't a cowboy. This player was from South Oak Cliff, 30 00:02:25,320 --> 00:02:27,960 Speaker 3: who's a defensive player for the Dallas Cowboys. 31 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:36,600 Speaker 1: You have no guesses. Uh huh, yeah. 32 00:02:35,360 --> 00:02:38,120 Speaker 3: Me, Me and Joe Green was the steeples and goofball. 33 00:02:40,520 --> 00:02:43,880 Speaker 3: Yeah there, you don't have any late seventies. Boy, you 34 00:02:43,880 --> 00:02:46,280 Speaker 3: didn't grow up in our household. It was Cowboys all 35 00:02:46,320 --> 00:02:51,920 Speaker 3: the time, and I hated the Cowboys. It was not 36 00:02:52,040 --> 00:02:58,200 Speaker 3: Hollywood Henderson, it was not Randy White, the Manster. It 37 00:02:58,320 --> 00:03:03,440 Speaker 3: was Harvey mart Harvey Martin was Super Bowl MVP. 38 00:03:03,639 --> 00:03:07,320 Speaker 1: I'm not sure what Super Bowl that was. I'm not certain. 39 00:03:07,919 --> 00:03:13,600 Speaker 3: City of New Orleans winning praise for their hosting hospitality 40 00:03:14,120 --> 00:03:18,800 Speaker 3: of the Super Bowl. Unfortunately, you've got to deal with heathens. 41 00:03:18,960 --> 00:03:21,000 Speaker 3: Not that the City of New Orleans is not adept 42 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:24,480 Speaker 3: at that. For the first time ever, it is believed 43 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:27,880 Speaker 3: the City of New Orleans greased the poles on Bourbon 44 00:03:27,919 --> 00:03:32,200 Speaker 3: Street to prevent Eagles fans in particular, from climbing them 45 00:03:32,320 --> 00:03:37,280 Speaker 3: in postgame celebrations. Fox twenty sixth, Philly with the story. 46 00:03:37,440 --> 00:03:40,960 Speaker 2: We do have some breaking news. This is not Broad Street, 47 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:44,440 Speaker 2: this is Bourbon Street. But take a look at this, guys, 48 00:03:44,920 --> 00:03:48,400 Speaker 2: you're gonna want to see this back in Philly. They 49 00:03:48,480 --> 00:03:52,120 Speaker 2: have greased the poles on Bourbon Street. Look at that. 50 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:57,240 Speaker 2: They're taking a queue from Philadelphia. They have officially greased 51 00:03:57,240 --> 00:04:02,320 Speaker 2: the poles here. These are antique street light poles. The 52 00:04:02,320 --> 00:04:06,440 Speaker 2: police say for the very first time they have greased 53 00:04:06,480 --> 00:04:12,400 Speaker 2: the poles on Bourbon Street. So maybe they're expecting something. 54 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:13,680 Speaker 1: Maybe they know something we don't. 55 00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:16,840 Speaker 2: But looks like a little bit of Broad Street has 56 00:04:16,880 --> 00:04:18,440 Speaker 2: been brought to Bourbon Street. 57 00:04:20,520 --> 00:04:22,320 Speaker 1: Yeah. That's something to be proud of, isn't it. 58 00:04:24,040 --> 00:04:27,240 Speaker 3: The hooliganism of your town, That is something to be 59 00:04:27,640 --> 00:04:28,080 Speaker 3: proud of. 60 00:04:28,680 --> 00:04:29,120 Speaker 1: Robert F. 61 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:32,680 Speaker 3: Kennedy, expected to be the next Health and Human Services Secretary, 62 00:04:33,520 --> 00:04:37,479 Speaker 3: tweeted yesterday Maha, which is make America healthy again tip 63 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:38,480 Speaker 3: of the day Ramon. 64 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:40,919 Speaker 1: He says, I can't say this enough. 65 00:04:41,880 --> 00:04:50,040 Speaker 3: Eat more beef, eat more eggs, drop the carbs, eliminate 66 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:56,360 Speaker 3: processed foods, cook with butter, cut the sugar, drink plenty 67 00:04:56,360 --> 00:05:00,480 Speaker 3: of water, twenty minutes of sunlight daily. 68 00:05:01,279 --> 00:05:03,000 Speaker 1: Check back with me in thirty days. 69 00:05:03,080 --> 00:05:06,880 Speaker 3: Your body will thank you MAHA, which is of course 70 00:05:06,920 --> 00:05:12,320 Speaker 3: a take off from Mega Make America Healthy Again. I 71 00:05:12,360 --> 00:05:17,240 Speaker 3: bring that up because I found it interesting looking at 72 00:05:17,279 --> 00:05:22,920 Speaker 3: the advertisements during the Super Bowl and you figure who's 73 00:05:22,960 --> 00:05:27,720 Speaker 3: got the money to spend? You know, when we started, 74 00:05:28,880 --> 00:05:31,920 Speaker 3: I would have to talk about what the goofball program 75 00:05:31,960 --> 00:05:33,640 Speaker 3: director at the time would tell me to talk about it, 76 00:05:33,640 --> 00:05:35,720 Speaker 3: even if I didn't want to. So you would come 77 00:05:35,720 --> 00:05:38,680 Speaker 3: in on daylight today and he would say, talk about 78 00:05:38,800 --> 00:05:41,640 Speaker 3: the Super Bowl ads and the this and the this 79 00:05:41,760 --> 00:05:44,200 Speaker 3: and the this, because he didn't care anything about politics. 80 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:48,080 Speaker 3: It was just kind of whatever you could string together 81 00:05:48,240 --> 00:05:52,400 Speaker 3: to keep people somewhat entertained until your shift was over. 82 00:05:52,520 --> 00:05:55,880 Speaker 3: And I hated it, but it did make me start 83 00:05:55,920 --> 00:06:00,160 Speaker 3: looking at the advertisements in a different way. And one 84 00:06:00,160 --> 00:06:06,040 Speaker 3: of the things that hit me was how big and 85 00:06:06,080 --> 00:06:15,279 Speaker 3: how powerful retail consumer good products are. Because you're thinking 86 00:06:15,279 --> 00:06:19,599 Speaker 3: to yourself, well, who's going to send a message to 87 00:06:19,760 --> 00:06:23,400 Speaker 3: me at this time that they're willing to spend that 88 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:27,320 Speaker 3: amount of money, And you realize the people willing and 89 00:06:27,440 --> 00:06:31,080 Speaker 3: able to spend that amount of money are mostly retail 90 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:39,039 Speaker 3: consumer goods. And it's interesting because like Doritos, think about 91 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:42,600 Speaker 3: how many doritos you got to sell, Think about how 92 00:06:42,600 --> 00:06:46,719 Speaker 3: many doritos they do sell. But when you think about 93 00:06:46,760 --> 00:06:51,359 Speaker 3: the products, the retail consumer good products in this country, 94 00:06:51,960 --> 00:06:56,760 Speaker 3: particularly food rel kind of food based, because it's questionable 95 00:06:56,760 --> 00:07:01,320 Speaker 3: whether it's food at all, and you think about how 96 00:07:01,400 --> 00:07:06,040 Speaker 3: they've changed over the last twenty five years, and eventually 97 00:07:06,080 --> 00:07:10,280 Speaker 3: Americans have wisened up to that. Think about what a 98 00:07:10,440 --> 00:07:14,560 Speaker 3: sea change it's going to be for those people, because 99 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:21,120 Speaker 3: if the everyday American starts making minor adjustments in what 100 00:07:21,320 --> 00:07:27,000 Speaker 3: they eat and alternatives to what's available on the shelves 101 00:07:27,120 --> 00:07:31,920 Speaker 3: at the grocery store, talking about hundreds of billions of 102 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:39,280 Speaker 3: dollars between processed foods alone fast food and what they've 103 00:07:39,480 --> 00:07:42,520 Speaker 3: you know, changing to you don't change to beef tallow. 104 00:07:42,920 --> 00:07:45,400 Speaker 3: Somebody is now saying that they're cooking with beef tallow. 105 00:07:46,040 --> 00:07:48,440 Speaker 3: Do you know who that is? I know it's I 106 00:07:48,520 --> 00:07:56,560 Speaker 3: see you, Okay, some some restaurant, uh Shake Shack, Shake Shack, 107 00:07:57,120 --> 00:08:01,480 Speaker 3: That's exactly right, that's Danny Meyer. Shake has announced that 108 00:08:01,520 --> 00:08:04,080 Speaker 3: they are cooking with beef tallow. Does it make a difference. 109 00:08:04,120 --> 00:08:07,920 Speaker 3: I don't know. I think that that adding salads for 110 00:08:08,040 --> 00:08:10,720 Speaker 3: burger joints was one of those things they did to 111 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:13,600 Speaker 3: keep from being criticized. I'd be interested to know how 112 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:17,520 Speaker 3: many salads they actually sell. But if people actually made 113 00:08:17,680 --> 00:08:20,520 Speaker 3: a few basic changes, you realized it would cripple these industries. 114 00:08:20,720 --> 00:08:22,000 Speaker 1: With his finger on. 115 00:08:21,920 --> 00:08:26,720 Speaker 3: The pulse, the king uting continues on the Michael Berry show. 116 00:08:28,840 --> 00:08:31,600 Speaker 1: Well, the one all. 117 00:08:31,520 --> 00:08:41,760 Speaker 3: The times check, that's a second, Oh that's dumb. Well, 118 00:08:41,800 --> 00:08:44,480 Speaker 3: apparently steak and shake got people's attention on the beef 119 00:08:44,520 --> 00:08:49,320 Speaker 3: tallow because I opened my emails and every email. 120 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:51,320 Speaker 1: Was it steak in shake, not shake shack. It's staking shake, 121 00:08:51,400 --> 00:08:54,400 Speaker 1: steak in shak. No, you're right, you're right. I was wrong. 122 00:08:54,760 --> 00:09:00,240 Speaker 3: I admitt a few news headlines. Trump flew dec voy 123 00:09:00,360 --> 00:09:07,520 Speaker 3: jet amid Iran assassination fears. A little pissant country like 124 00:09:07,679 --> 00:09:12,120 Speaker 3: Iran should not be able to saber rattle the greatest 125 00:09:12,200 --> 00:09:15,200 Speaker 3: nation on earth. But if you think about how much 126 00:09:15,240 --> 00:09:20,800 Speaker 3: money Obama and Biden handed them to enable to empower 127 00:09:20,880 --> 00:09:28,120 Speaker 3: to finance their terrorism. Trump directs Treasury secretary to stop 128 00:09:28,240 --> 00:09:32,320 Speaker 3: producing new pennies. President Trump has directed to Treasury Secretary 129 00:09:32,320 --> 00:09:35,960 Speaker 3: Scott Besson to stop producing new pennies. It has been 130 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:38,880 Speaker 3: the case, I forget it's probably twenty years, maybe longer, 131 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:44,520 Speaker 3: that it costs more to create, to print, to mint 132 00:09:44,760 --> 00:09:49,920 Speaker 3: a penny than a penny is actually worth on the market. 133 00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:52,240 Speaker 3: How many pennies do you have on your person right now? 134 00:09:53,160 --> 00:09:54,960 Speaker 3: How has it been since you carried a penny on 135 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:57,920 Speaker 3: your person? Do you carry you got that little coin 136 00:09:57,960 --> 00:10:00,000 Speaker 3: section in your truck? Do you carry any pennies in there? 137 00:10:01,080 --> 00:10:01,120 Speaker 2: No? 138 00:10:03,320 --> 00:10:05,120 Speaker 3: It's it's interesting because it's kind of a death of 139 00:10:05,160 --> 00:10:08,800 Speaker 3: an era, but that death has been decades into making 140 00:10:08,840 --> 00:10:14,720 Speaker 3: My grandfather or overalls. He wear a white shirt and 141 00:10:14,800 --> 00:10:18,120 Speaker 3: just basic white T shirt and then overalls underneath it, 142 00:10:18,160 --> 00:10:21,040 Speaker 3: and that was kind of his standard attire. And he 143 00:10:21,080 --> 00:10:23,280 Speaker 3: would always he had the you know, those things had 144 00:10:23,400 --> 00:10:26,280 Speaker 3: deep pockets. He was a big man, big burley guy, 145 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:29,880 Speaker 3: and he would when he was waiting on something or 146 00:10:29,920 --> 00:10:33,559 Speaker 3: stand talking, he would jangle the things in there. And 147 00:10:34,080 --> 00:10:37,839 Speaker 3: if you walked into his bedroom after he came home 148 00:10:38,480 --> 00:10:40,360 Speaker 3: and he would take everything out of there. It was 149 00:10:40,440 --> 00:10:42,320 Speaker 3: just like like in the movies where they you know, 150 00:10:42,400 --> 00:10:44,319 Speaker 3: dig their hands into the gold and lift it up. 151 00:10:44,960 --> 00:10:45,800 Speaker 1: He would drop all. 152 00:10:45,880 --> 00:10:51,800 Speaker 3: There were watches and knives and pennies and quarters and 153 00:10:51,840 --> 00:10:54,240 Speaker 3: dimes and silver doll I mean, it was a little 154 00:10:54,240 --> 00:10:55,679 Speaker 3: bit of everything. 155 00:10:56,040 --> 00:10:57,280 Speaker 1: But it is, you know it is. 156 00:10:58,920 --> 00:11:00,760 Speaker 3: It's one of those things that needed to be done 157 00:11:01,200 --> 00:11:04,280 Speaker 3: and nobody would do it. Court blocks Trump from deporting 158 00:11:04,360 --> 00:11:09,120 Speaker 3: dangerous illegal aliens to Guantanamo Bay, which brings me to 159 00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:11,360 Speaker 3: an issue that many of you are going to have 160 00:11:11,440 --> 00:11:14,920 Speaker 3: to cope with, and that is our system has a 161 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:16,439 Speaker 3: series of checks and balances. 162 00:11:17,400 --> 00:11:21,120 Speaker 1: We use them not enough. They use them aggressively. 163 00:11:21,920 --> 00:11:25,800 Speaker 3: Everything Trump does, the Democrats are going to fight even 164 00:11:26,480 --> 00:11:29,560 Speaker 3: if what Trump has done appears to you to be 165 00:11:30,160 --> 00:11:33,680 Speaker 3: the best thing for our country. And if you find 166 00:11:33,720 --> 00:11:37,920 Speaker 3: yourself constantly frustrated that the Left is going to try 167 00:11:37,960 --> 00:11:40,720 Speaker 3: to thwart him, you're not going to make these four years. 168 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:43,640 Speaker 3: And by the way, these are a glorious four years. 169 00:11:44,679 --> 00:11:48,600 Speaker 3: This is a wonderful time. Enjoy it. But you've got 170 00:11:48,640 --> 00:11:52,240 Speaker 3: to stop thinking that somehow the left is going to go. 171 00:11:52,320 --> 00:11:54,640 Speaker 3: You know what, you guys were right, I mean, y'all 172 00:11:54,679 --> 00:11:59,680 Speaker 3: were right. I'm with you that you're absolutely right. Taylor's 173 00:12:00,640 --> 00:12:06,480 Speaker 3: booed during Super Bowl at the If you didn't watch 174 00:12:06,520 --> 00:12:11,439 Speaker 3: the game, The takeaway is this they introduced during the 175 00:12:11,559 --> 00:12:17,880 Speaker 3: national anthem. They introduced Taylor Swift and people bowed very 176 00:12:17,880 --> 00:12:22,000 Speaker 3: awkward for her. And then they introduced President Trump and 177 00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:27,760 Speaker 3: there was a roar, I mean a roar for our president. 178 00:12:27,880 --> 00:12:32,760 Speaker 3: It was quite interesting to see uh NFL fans hate 179 00:12:32,800 --> 00:12:35,440 Speaker 3: the new Fox score bug debuted at Super Bowl. 180 00:12:35,480 --> 00:12:37,600 Speaker 1: Do you see that? I didn't like that either had 181 00:12:37,600 --> 00:12:39,280 Speaker 1: to keep looking for how much time was left. 182 00:12:39,360 --> 00:12:41,840 Speaker 3: I'm one of those people that obsessively wants to know 183 00:12:41,920 --> 00:12:43,840 Speaker 3: how much time we have left in the quarter and 184 00:12:43,880 --> 00:12:45,400 Speaker 3: how many seconds on the. 185 00:12:44,880 --> 00:12:51,400 Speaker 1: On the on the oh heill, my brain's not processing part. 186 00:12:51,640 --> 00:12:53,360 Speaker 1: Huh play clock. 187 00:12:53,600 --> 00:12:55,360 Speaker 3: Yes, I want to know how much times left on 188 00:12:55,400 --> 00:12:57,240 Speaker 3: the play clock, and I'd have to keep searching for it. 189 00:12:57,960 --> 00:13:03,600 Speaker 3: Musk alleges public funds fraud of one billion dollars per week. 190 00:13:05,640 --> 00:13:10,000 Speaker 3: The fraud that has been exposed pales in comparison to 191 00:13:10,040 --> 00:13:11,600 Speaker 3: the fraud that is lurking. 192 00:13:12,880 --> 00:13:14,200 Speaker 1: US AID. 193 00:13:15,320 --> 00:13:21,120 Speaker 3: Funding newspapers in our own country, funding the opposition to 194 00:13:21,400 --> 00:13:27,080 Speaker 3: administrations they don't like abroad, funding all sorts of programs. 195 00:13:27,080 --> 00:13:30,440 Speaker 3: We've got leaders of other countries now stepping forward, feeling 196 00:13:30,480 --> 00:13:36,880 Speaker 3: safe now now that what was the guy's name. He 197 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:41,880 Speaker 3: was an English broadcaster and he had hundreds of children. 198 00:13:41,920 --> 00:13:45,280 Speaker 3: He's a pedophile that he had diddled over the years, 199 00:13:45,640 --> 00:13:48,760 Speaker 3: you know what I'm talking about. And once he died, 200 00:13:49,080 --> 00:13:51,840 Speaker 3: all these people came forward. And it's sort of like 201 00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:55,480 Speaker 3: the Trump presidency has ushered in an era where people 202 00:13:55,559 --> 00:13:58,760 Speaker 3: feel comfortable talking about these things. You've got world leaders 203 00:13:58,800 --> 00:14:03,600 Speaker 3: now saying that in order to accept the USAID funds, 204 00:14:04,120 --> 00:14:06,720 Speaker 3: you had to have transgender this, and you had to 205 00:14:06,720 --> 00:14:09,160 Speaker 3: do all this wacky stuff. And they didn't like it, 206 00:14:09,760 --> 00:14:11,839 Speaker 3: but they took it because they wanted billions of dollars 207 00:14:12,520 --> 00:14:16,880 Speaker 3: when you just take Usaid. And then next he's taken 208 00:14:16,880 --> 00:14:21,600 Speaker 3: on the Pentagon. Do you realize how many billion dollars 209 00:14:22,040 --> 00:14:26,120 Speaker 3: are wasted at the Pentagon? I don't because the scale 210 00:14:26,480 --> 00:14:29,880 Speaker 3: there's a bigger opportunity for fraud, and it's going to 211 00:14:30,280 --> 00:14:32,320 Speaker 3: be enough to turn your stomach. 212 00:14:32,400 --> 00:14:34,120 Speaker 1: And you know what they're gonna do, is this how 213 00:14:34,160 --> 00:14:34,800 Speaker 1: this game works. 214 00:14:35,920 --> 00:14:38,640 Speaker 3: They're going to roll the John Boltons and a bunch 215 00:14:38,680 --> 00:14:43,480 Speaker 3: of retired generals who are useless, if not downright fraudsters, 216 00:14:44,160 --> 00:14:46,800 Speaker 3: and they work for all the little think tanks, and 217 00:14:46,840 --> 00:14:49,240 Speaker 3: the think tanks were funded by the defense industry by 218 00:14:49,240 --> 00:14:51,880 Speaker 3: the people who sell overpriced products to the government. 219 00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:52,880 Speaker 1: This is all. 220 00:14:52,960 --> 00:14:56,320 Speaker 3: There's a circularity to all of this. And these these 221 00:14:56,360 --> 00:14:59,400 Speaker 3: defense companies pay the think tank. The think tank puts 222 00:14:59,400 --> 00:15:01,760 Speaker 3: a guy on got all the brass on and then 223 00:15:02,160 --> 00:15:05,760 Speaker 3: and then they book him on Fox and everywhere else. 224 00:15:06,280 --> 00:15:08,400 Speaker 3: And you're gonna get a bunch of guys who are gonna. 225 00:15:08,160 --> 00:15:10,560 Speaker 1: Go, yeah, I have a three star, two star, I'm 226 00:15:10,560 --> 00:15:11,440 Speaker 1: on this. I'm gonna that. 227 00:15:11,920 --> 00:15:16,160 Speaker 3: And what Trump is doing is making our nation unsafe. Well, 228 00:15:16,240 --> 00:15:18,880 Speaker 3: how how is it the case that's spending hundreds of 229 00:15:18,880 --> 00:15:23,240 Speaker 3: millions of dollars on overpriced coffee and coffee cups? How 230 00:15:23,280 --> 00:15:27,200 Speaker 3: did that make our nation safe? Do you think that 231 00:15:27,240 --> 00:15:30,400 Speaker 3: the soldiers in the field, the marines in the field, 232 00:15:30,800 --> 00:15:34,520 Speaker 3: the sailors on our ships, the airmen. Do you think 233 00:15:35,120 --> 00:15:39,040 Speaker 3: that the quality of sushi they're eating back at the 234 00:15:39,080 --> 00:15:43,560 Speaker 3: Pentagon is making us safer? Because it's not. But again, 235 00:15:43,720 --> 00:15:46,320 Speaker 3: this is the human shield. This is this is the 236 00:15:46,360 --> 00:15:50,640 Speaker 3: way these people position these things. The screeching at usaid 237 00:15:51,280 --> 00:15:54,280 Speaker 3: is poor children in third world countries will starve to death. 238 00:15:55,120 --> 00:15:58,200 Speaker 3: Less than one percent of the money spent was on 239 00:15:58,320 --> 00:16:00,720 Speaker 3: poor children in third world countries. 240 00:16:02,520 --> 00:16:06,320 Speaker 2: Trump Cartland to Walmany and all Greek cities in between. 241 00:16:08,320 --> 00:16:16,880 Speaker 1: The Michael Berry Show is nichwide. Will I nevervent. 242 00:16:19,560 --> 00:16:24,200 Speaker 3: Jimmy Savills his name that was that was a pedophile 243 00:16:25,120 --> 00:16:27,240 Speaker 3: and doing it in broad daylight. It was one of 244 00:16:27,320 --> 00:16:29,480 Speaker 3: those things that nobody wanted to talk about, but everybody 245 00:16:29,600 --> 00:16:33,240 Speaker 3: knew they were murmurings. They made a documentary about him, 246 00:16:33,240 --> 00:16:35,320 Speaker 3: and they they brought it up, and he was so 247 00:16:35,400 --> 00:16:41,480 Speaker 3: uncomfortable about the whole thing. Jeffrey Wrights are you were 248 00:16:41,520 --> 00:16:45,280 Speaker 3: talking about minor changes we can make living in chronic 249 00:16:45,360 --> 00:16:48,880 Speaker 3: pain and dredging through the complex and exhausting world of 250 00:16:48,920 --> 00:16:52,280 Speaker 3: pain management in America. I decided to make a few 251 00:16:52,400 --> 00:16:56,600 Speaker 3: changes to see if living cleaner would help. Six months ago, 252 00:16:56,640 --> 00:17:00,400 Speaker 3: I quit smoking and began eating healthier. No fast food, 253 00:17:00,440 --> 00:17:04,560 Speaker 3: no processed food, no box nor packaged food, no sugary drinks. 254 00:17:05,200 --> 00:17:08,439 Speaker 3: Thirty days ago, I gave up alcohol. I was a 255 00:17:08,520 --> 00:17:12,320 Speaker 3: daily drinker white wine and a lot of it. Though 256 00:17:12,359 --> 00:17:15,239 Speaker 3: I know results take time. To date, there has been 257 00:17:15,359 --> 00:17:18,600 Speaker 3: zero improvement in my pain levels, but I have dropped 258 00:17:18,640 --> 00:17:21,800 Speaker 3: twenty pounds and I've lowered my blood pressure by forty points. 259 00:17:22,359 --> 00:17:26,720 Speaker 1: So I guess that's when Mike writes. 260 00:17:27,880 --> 00:17:32,040 Speaker 3: Greasing the Poles is an annual celebration in the French 261 00:17:32,119 --> 00:17:37,400 Speaker 3: Quarter on the Friday before Fat Tuesday. They don't typically 262 00:17:37,520 --> 00:17:44,680 Speaker 3: grease utility poles, just balcony poles. My wife and I 263 00:17:44,760 --> 00:17:49,639 Speaker 3: took her elderly aunt and uncle to New Orleans for 264 00:17:49,800 --> 00:17:54,800 Speaker 3: Southern Decadence years ago because her son, Roger was starting 265 00:17:54,960 --> 00:18:00,359 Speaker 3: college at Tulane, and I think that was the they 266 00:18:00,359 --> 00:18:02,400 Speaker 3: were greasing the polls and it was a little awkward 267 00:18:02,560 --> 00:18:08,320 Speaker 3: for older Indians to see this out out in the 268 00:18:08,359 --> 00:18:09,280 Speaker 3: middle of the road. 269 00:18:09,400 --> 00:18:16,480 Speaker 1: I was asked if I would pass along this information, and. 270 00:18:16,400 --> 00:18:19,800 Speaker 3: Get asked to pass along a lot of information, and 271 00:18:20,280 --> 00:18:22,760 Speaker 3: I generally don't do it because otherwise we'd sound like 272 00:18:22,800 --> 00:18:26,760 Speaker 3: a community bulletin board. But this one I'm going to do, 273 00:18:27,520 --> 00:18:30,639 Speaker 3: and that is it's an email from the Harris County 274 00:18:30,760 --> 00:18:33,760 Speaker 3: Republican Party, but all the local parties will be doing 275 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:36,520 Speaker 3: this says if you ever thought about running for a 276 00:18:36,520 --> 00:18:42,720 Speaker 3: position on the ballot, come learn more judicial candidate informational session. 277 00:18:43,480 --> 00:18:46,480 Speaker 3: Over seventy judicial races are on the ballot in twenty 278 00:18:46,520 --> 00:18:49,200 Speaker 3: twenty six. If you've ever considered running for judge, this 279 00:18:49,280 --> 00:18:54,280 Speaker 3: session is for you. Saturday February twenty second, from ten to. 280 00:18:54,240 --> 00:18:55,479 Speaker 1: Eleven thirty am. 281 00:18:56,440 --> 00:18:59,040 Speaker 3: You're not going to remember that, and you're not going 282 00:18:59,080 --> 00:19:02,000 Speaker 3: to email me in and me break go break down 283 00:19:02,080 --> 00:19:03,720 Speaker 3: the time and send it to you. You'll have to 284 00:19:03,760 --> 00:19:06,280 Speaker 3: go to your party Harris County or whatever your party's 285 00:19:06,520 --> 00:19:10,679 Speaker 3: website is and do a little work. My thought on 286 00:19:10,760 --> 00:19:14,679 Speaker 3: that is, if you're willing to spend enough time to 287 00:19:14,760 --> 00:19:20,120 Speaker 3: go figure out when the candidate information meeting is, you're 288 00:19:20,160 --> 00:19:23,360 Speaker 3: already on the right track to being a candidate. Many 289 00:19:23,480 --> 00:19:26,800 Speaker 3: people will kind of him in hall and say, you know, 290 00:19:26,840 --> 00:19:27,520 Speaker 3: should I run? 291 00:19:27,760 --> 00:19:30,960 Speaker 1: When is it? What do I do? How do I 292 00:19:30,960 --> 00:19:32,920 Speaker 1: If you can't figure that out on your own. 293 00:19:33,359 --> 00:19:37,119 Speaker 3: You're wasting somebody else's space, and you're contesting a primary 294 00:19:37,280 --> 00:19:39,280 Speaker 3: for somebody that's willing to work hard to do it. 295 00:19:40,160 --> 00:19:45,160 Speaker 3: But we need more people who are good people, who 296 00:19:45,160 --> 00:19:48,639 Speaker 3: are smart, people, who are hard working people, but mostly 297 00:19:49,359 --> 00:19:52,080 Speaker 3: who share our values to run for office. 298 00:19:53,680 --> 00:19:56,800 Speaker 1: And don't let anybody tell you that you're not up 299 00:19:56,840 --> 00:19:57,320 Speaker 1: for the task. 300 00:19:58,440 --> 00:20:01,080 Speaker 3: I've spent a lot of time in my life around 301 00:20:01,160 --> 00:20:03,919 Speaker 3: elected officials, and I can tell you, almost to a person, 302 00:20:04,640 --> 00:20:09,439 Speaker 3: they're no different than the average person. Now I'm not 303 00:20:09,600 --> 00:20:13,000 Speaker 3: saying they're one of the people climbing the poles in Philadelphia. 304 00:20:13,680 --> 00:20:17,840 Speaker 3: That's a bunch of hooligans and goofballs. But your average 305 00:20:17,920 --> 00:20:23,000 Speaker 3: person that runs a small business that does most any 306 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:27,520 Speaker 3: other thing is more than capable of holding these positions 307 00:20:27,520 --> 00:20:29,879 Speaker 3: and doing a good job, and that could be you. 308 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:37,880 Speaker 3: One of the problems is that because press coverage determines 309 00:20:38,920 --> 00:20:43,040 Speaker 3: interest in races, by the time there is press coverage 310 00:20:43,400 --> 00:20:46,959 Speaker 3: to run for office, the window has closed, the filing 311 00:20:47,040 --> 00:20:51,840 Speaker 3: date has passed, and once that happens, ah, shoot, I 312 00:20:51,920 --> 00:20:57,440 Speaker 3: should have yes, that is right. The planning and execution 313 00:20:58,320 --> 00:21:03,320 Speaker 3: that goes in torunrunning for an office starts when nobody's 314 00:21:03,480 --> 00:21:06,520 Speaker 3: thinking about it, and that is the great advantage. 315 00:21:07,320 --> 00:21:10,880 Speaker 1: The kinds of people who run for office are talking 316 00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:16,000 Speaker 1: about planning, organizing, running for office when nobody else is 317 00:21:16,040 --> 00:21:20,360 Speaker 1: thinking about it. My first election was November of two 318 00:21:20,359 --> 00:21:25,720 Speaker 1: thousand and one. The two year cycle it's now four 319 00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:28,199 Speaker 1: years for city council. Back then it was two. The 320 00:21:28,280 --> 00:21:29,720 Speaker 1: two year cycle back. 321 00:21:29,560 --> 00:21:35,399 Speaker 3: In those days meant that the election in nineteen ninety 322 00:21:35,480 --> 00:21:40,919 Speaker 3: nine for Houston City Council finished the November election and 323 00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:44,240 Speaker 3: then in December. Some of you will remember Lee Brown 324 00:21:44,880 --> 00:21:49,680 Speaker 3: had served two years, sorry, four years, he'd beat Rob 325 00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:53,560 Speaker 3: Mossbacker in nineteen ninety seven, he had token opposition in 326 00:21:53,640 --> 00:21:57,960 Speaker 3: ninety nine. In yeah, ninety nine and sorry, he beat 327 00:21:58,040 --> 00:22:03,200 Speaker 3: Rob Mossbacker. So he's up for his third term. And 328 00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:10,520 Speaker 3: so Lee Brown is being challenged by Orlando Sanchez, hotly 329 00:22:10,560 --> 00:22:11,400 Speaker 3: contested race. 330 00:22:11,920 --> 00:22:14,040 Speaker 1: People did not like Lee Brown, but. 331 00:22:13,920 --> 00:22:17,600 Speaker 3: It's hard to dislodge a sitting income up because they 332 00:22:17,640 --> 00:22:21,119 Speaker 3: have all the financial advantage. So Orlando Sanchez, who was 333 00:22:21,119 --> 00:22:25,560 Speaker 3: on city council the time, runs for mayor. The fire 334 00:22:25,640 --> 00:22:29,680 Speaker 3: department had been off of parody with the police department, 335 00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:31,240 Speaker 3: so they were furious for good reason. 336 00:22:32,320 --> 00:22:34,240 Speaker 1: And then nine to eleven happens. 337 00:22:34,680 --> 00:22:38,720 Speaker 3: You could not have planned it better for Orlando Sanchez 338 00:22:39,280 --> 00:22:43,960 Speaker 3: that at the early November election, just before the early 339 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:47,240 Speaker 3: November election, you have nine to eleven happened. 340 00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:51,800 Speaker 1: No, that would be one, that would be O one. 341 00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:53,359 Speaker 1: I'm getting ahead of myself. 342 00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:58,600 Speaker 3: Well, in any case, ninety nine in ninety nine, Lee 343 00:22:58,640 --> 00:22:59,880 Speaker 3: Brown has token opposition. 344 00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:03,639 Speaker 1: There aren't any real interesting races on the ballot. 345 00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:07,439 Speaker 3: Two weeks after the election, I've already started forming my 346 00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:11,879 Speaker 3: team for two years out for my campaign. And Julie Mason, 347 00:23:11,920 --> 00:23:14,960 Speaker 3: who's still a political reporter or commentator in DC. 348 00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:17,600 Speaker 1: Was the political reporter for the Houston Chronicle. 349 00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:22,119 Speaker 3: And she calls me and says, oh, there's a story 350 00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:23,760 Speaker 3: that you're running for city council. 351 00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:26,399 Speaker 1: Who are you? So I told her who I was. 352 00:23:27,080 --> 00:23:29,000 Speaker 3: She had some kind of smarmy comment that I was 353 00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:31,359 Speaker 3: kind of full of myself or proud of myself. 354 00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:33,199 Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean if I'm not, who will be? 355 00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:38,840 Speaker 3: And she said, how do you You're running citywide and 356 00:23:38,880 --> 00:23:43,480 Speaker 3: you're a Republican. The Republican's never won citywide. I said, okay, 357 00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:47,399 Speaker 3: and it was. The seat was known as Sheila Jackson 358 00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:50,439 Speaker 3: Lee's seat, not officially, but that's what everyone knew it as. 359 00:23:50,480 --> 00:23:52,400 Speaker 1: When I would go and meet with lobbyists. 360 00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:56,240 Speaker 3: They would say, at Sheila Jackson Lee's seat, at a minimum, 361 00:23:56,760 --> 00:24:00,400 Speaker 3: that is a black seat. And I would say, hmm, 362 00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:04,440 Speaker 3: that doesn't sound like the Houston spirit to me. She said, 363 00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:06,280 Speaker 3: how are you going to get your name out? And 364 00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:08,240 Speaker 3: I said, I'm going to raise five hundred thousand dollars. 365 00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:11,280 Speaker 3: Nobody ever raised five hundred thousand dollars At that point, 366 00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:14,040 Speaker 3: Gordon Kwan had raised four hundred and that was unheard of. 367 00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:19,280 Speaker 3: So when she wrote the article about you know, people 368 00:24:19,320 --> 00:24:22,040 Speaker 3: are starting to talk about the next two year cycle. 369 00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:24,840 Speaker 3: This person, this person, and you know this person's going 370 00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:26,159 Speaker 3: to move off and run for Congress. 371 00:24:26,240 --> 00:24:28,320 Speaker 1: This person's going to do this, this person's going to 372 00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:28,600 Speaker 1: do this. 373 00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:33,560 Speaker 3: And a newcomer named Michael Barry says he'll raise five 374 00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:37,920 Speaker 3: hundred thousand dollars a princely sum, suggesting I couldn't do it, Eli, 375 00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:40,280 Speaker 3: I did o Lian Chad. 376 00:24:40,080 --> 00:24:45,960 Speaker 1: N Aloha very show. 377 00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:03,680 Speaker 3: Talking about spare pennies, Laura writes, in nineteen eighty, my 378 00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:06,920 Speaker 3: high school boyfriend and I cashed in our coin jar, 379 00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:11,520 Speaker 3: a big glass water cooler bottle that we'd been throwing 380 00:25:11,520 --> 00:25:14,119 Speaker 3: our spare chains through high school, and had about four 381 00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:17,160 Speaker 3: hundred dollars in coins, with about fifty percent of it 382 00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:20,639 Speaker 3: being pennies. We invested it in the stock market in 383 00:25:20,680 --> 00:25:24,159 Speaker 3: the stock of my dad's refinery company in Galena Park, Pasadena, 384 00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:27,720 Speaker 3: Glena Park slash past the Pasadena In a year and 385 00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:31,000 Speaker 3: one month, our value had doubled. We cashed it in 386 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:32,879 Speaker 3: for about eight hundred and fifty dollars and noted that 387 00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:35,360 Speaker 3: it was a long term gain, less owed to government 388 00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:37,840 Speaker 3: for capital gains. We were twenty and twenty one years old. 389 00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:41,280 Speaker 3: We were married in November of eighty two. In this 390 00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:45,520 Speaker 3: penny fund paid for our honeymoon in Acapulco, a big 391 00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:48,639 Speaker 3: trip for two high school grass from Glena Park. I 392 00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:51,320 Speaker 3: still collect loose change and cash it in and will 393 00:25:51,359 --> 00:25:55,640 Speaker 3: either donate it to a special charity like Bags Day 394 00:25:55,680 --> 00:25:58,760 Speaker 3: One Bags which benefits foster children in foster care or 395 00:25:58,840 --> 00:26:01,159 Speaker 3: Camp Hope, or I give it to someone with a 396 00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:04,160 Speaker 3: great or urgent need. I also save every ten dollar 397 00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:07,159 Speaker 3: bill I receive for change. You don't get many tens 398 00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:10,199 Speaker 3: lots of fives, so saving the tens doesn't break my 399 00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:12,959 Speaker 3: cash spending fund money fund. When it gets to one 400 00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:15,080 Speaker 3: thousand dollars or more, it's time to do the same 401 00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:17,520 Speaker 3: or to fund something special my husband and I've been 402 00:26:17,560 --> 00:26:20,920 Speaker 3: wanting to do. But don't spoil ourselves with more than that. 403 00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:25,520 Speaker 3: It's the charity gift. Have a great day, Laura Hillsmeyer Manse. 404 00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:31,639 Speaker 3: That's a good story. There is a story in the 405 00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:36,240 Speaker 3: Wall Street Journal today about It's entitled It's an editorial. 406 00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:39,000 Speaker 1: New Jersey reaps the Wind again. 407 00:26:40,080 --> 00:26:44,080 Speaker 3: Shell has backed out of a wind energy project despite 408 00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:53,200 Speaker 3: huge subsidies. It's finally coming to pass. It only required 409 00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:57,840 Speaker 3: the passage of time. The solar projects are pulling back, 410 00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:01,440 Speaker 3: the wind projects are pulling back. None of them were 411 00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:05,679 Speaker 3: market based projects, none of them, not one. It was 412 00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:09,440 Speaker 3: never the case that it made good financial sense based 413 00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:14,200 Speaker 3: on the production of energy to spend money on wind 414 00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:21,280 Speaker 3: or solar. Deals only made sense because of the artificial 415 00:27:22,119 --> 00:27:24,399 Speaker 3: input of government subsidies. 416 00:27:25,359 --> 00:27:29,040 Speaker 1: No one wanted it. The deals were being driven by 417 00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:29,640 Speaker 1: the subsidy. 418 00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:34,040 Speaker 3: When you end the subsidy, you end the deals, and 419 00:27:34,080 --> 00:27:36,800 Speaker 3: in this case there were subsidies still available. 420 00:27:37,119 --> 00:27:38,680 Speaker 1: But they see the riding on the wall. 421 00:27:39,760 --> 00:27:44,000 Speaker 3: Shel sees that the long term impact of wind on 422 00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:48,480 Speaker 3: the production of energy is negligible. And by the way, 423 00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:52,320 Speaker 3: Tea Boone Pickens with his foolish ass pushing that crap 424 00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:55,679 Speaker 3: all over Texas. How many people have to drive the 425 00:27:55,760 --> 00:28:00,359 Speaker 3: beautiful planes of Texas and see those stupid windmills that 426 00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:05,320 Speaker 3: have caused nothing but problems, Nothing but problems. But the 427 00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:07,639 Speaker 3: Wall Street Journal has another editorial which I don't care for, 428 00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:09,560 Speaker 3: and it says. 429 00:28:09,359 --> 00:28:11,760 Speaker 1: Afghan allies in the dock. 430 00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:17,959 Speaker 3: Trump's refugee order blocks those who helped the US mission. 431 00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:23,200 Speaker 3: This is like saying that all the usaid money goes 432 00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:24,560 Speaker 3: to poor third world children. 433 00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:29,360 Speaker 1: This is like saying that the reason you. 434 00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:33,480 Speaker 3: Can't outlaw abortion is women are going to die if 435 00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:34,600 Speaker 3: they can't have an abortion. 436 00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:39,520 Speaker 1: And you have all these women who were brutally raped and. 437 00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:42,760 Speaker 3: Didn't realize they were pregnant until two hours before they're 438 00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:44,959 Speaker 3: giving birth, and if you don't let them have an abortion, 439 00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:47,200 Speaker 3: they're going to die. And that's how they pitch it, 440 00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:49,800 Speaker 3: and they even find someone to claim that's their situation 441 00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:53,280 Speaker 3: and that's why we can't have abortion. This is exactly 442 00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:57,360 Speaker 3: what they do with things like this. They say, these 443 00:28:57,400 --> 00:29:03,120 Speaker 3: people in Afghanistan, they helped our men, our service members, 444 00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:05,720 Speaker 3: they helped them, and we can't turn. 445 00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:06,320 Speaker 1: Our back on them. 446 00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:10,240 Speaker 3: Twenty years from now, we'll be importing Afghans and they'll 447 00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:13,440 Speaker 3: be telling us can't turn our back on them. Well, 448 00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:17,320 Speaker 3: first of all, in almost every one of these cases, 449 00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:19,440 Speaker 3: you don't know if that person helped us or harmed us. 450 00:29:20,320 --> 00:29:21,600 Speaker 1: Number one. 451 00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:24,280 Speaker 3: Number two, I don't think we bear the responsibility when 452 00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:28,320 Speaker 3: we go into a country to repatriate the people in 453 00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:31,600 Speaker 3: that country who help us while we're there in this country. 454 00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:33,320 Speaker 1: I don't believe we do. 455 00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:37,400 Speaker 3: And third, do you know how many terrorists we have 456 00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:41,800 Speaker 3: on American soil? Who were here sold to us on 457 00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:46,400 Speaker 3: the premise that that's the people who helped our service 458 00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:51,400 Speaker 3: members while they're there. Our service members have fond memories 459 00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:55,360 Speaker 3: of people who saved their lives. Who doesn't know the 460 00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:59,800 Speaker 3: story and loan survivor where Marcus has crawled practically to 461 00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:04,959 Speaker 3: death and this guy takes him and drags him back 462 00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:07,000 Speaker 3: to his village and the village defends him. 463 00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:09,680 Speaker 1: And that's what's. 464 00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:13,600 Speaker 3: Used a case like that to pitch bringing the Taliban, 465 00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:17,960 Speaker 3: Isis and every other terrorist to this country. That isn't 466 00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:23,000 Speaker 3: the person who helped our men. This is what happens 467 00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:27,680 Speaker 3: when you entangle yourself in other people's wars where you 468 00:30:27,760 --> 00:30:32,840 Speaker 3: have no business being. The number of Iraqis, Afghanis, and 469 00:30:33,080 --> 00:30:35,920 Speaker 3: in all sorts of other places that we have had 470 00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:38,400 Speaker 3: to bring into this country or felt like we had 471 00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:41,560 Speaker 3: to have, we don't have to do that. Why don't 472 00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:45,080 Speaker 3: we help them rebuild their own country. Why don't we 473 00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:51,120 Speaker 3: send some people to teach them engineering and commerce and 474 00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:56,360 Speaker 3: logistics instead of importing those people here? Because that is 475 00:30:56,400 --> 00:31:02,880 Speaker 3: a long term fool's errand absolutely positively long term fools 476 00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:07,600 Speaker 3: Errand I want to shift years for a second, because 477 00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:10,520 Speaker 3: I had a friend in the restaurant business, tell me 478 00:31:10,520 --> 00:31:15,280 Speaker 3: they were broken into I have been asking friends around 479 00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:18,440 Speaker 3: the region how their business is, how did you close 480 00:31:18,520 --> 00:31:21,920 Speaker 3: twenty twenty four and how does that compare to years before? 481 00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:27,360 Speaker 3: And almost everybody was down in twenty twenty four election year. 482 00:31:28,320 --> 00:31:32,800 Speaker 3: People are scared to spend money, consumers especially scared to 483 00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:34,720 Speaker 3: spend money because if we had four more years of 484 00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:37,840 Speaker 3: the Democrats were holding we're hoarding our cash. Remember that 485 00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:40,800 Speaker 3: Dave Chappelle's seen where he's holding the cash on his chest. 486 00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:47,200 Speaker 3: People were scared. They were absolutely horrified that we were 487 00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:49,760 Speaker 3: going to have four more years of this, and those 488 00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:53,120 Speaker 3: four years had taken such a toll. 489 00:31:53,280 --> 00:31:58,280 Speaker 1: It's not just the restaurant business. Retail. Retail has absolutely suffered. 490 00:31:58,360 --> 00:32:03,520 Speaker 3: And the problem is going to be that until interest 491 00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:09,000 Speaker 3: rates are pushed lower and we're not the fat is 492 00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:12,760 Speaker 3: saying they're not going to do that, although oftentimes that's 493 00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:16,000 Speaker 3: the opposite of what they end up doing. Interest rates 494 00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:18,560 Speaker 3: being what they are now, it's not just it's not 495 00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:21,480 Speaker 3: just homes, it's automobiles. 496 00:32:22,120 --> 00:32:24,160 Speaker 1: I mean, people go into gallery. 497 00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:28,000 Speaker 3: Furniture by a house full of furniture and they finance that. Now, 498 00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:32,280 Speaker 3: we would love for people to walk in and pay cash. 499 00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:37,000 Speaker 3: But that ship has sailed. The exuberance of the American 500 00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:43,560 Speaker 3: consumer and the high flying American economy was predicated for 501 00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:44,720 Speaker 3: quite some time. 502 00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:50,000 Speaker 1: On borrowing, and people tell me. 503 00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:55,280 Speaker 3: In every industry, in every single industry, that these interest 504 00:32:55,360 --> 00:32:58,240 Speaker 3: rates make it impossible, and that it's not going to 505 00:32:58,280 --> 00:33:01,120 Speaker 3: be until we see those interest it's get down below 506 00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:04,160 Speaker 3: five that we're going to see the economic boom, which 507 00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:07,640 Speaker 3: is frustrating for Trump because he's doing all the right 508 00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:11,560 Speaker 3: things and cutting the spending will go a long way. 509 00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:14,600 Speaker 1: In fact that long term that's the most important thing. 510 00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:17,200 Speaker 3: But in the short term, if we don't see interest 511 00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:20,200 Speaker 3: rates drop, you're going to hear the Democrats be able 512 00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:21,560 Speaker 3: to say that the economy is 513 00:33:21,560 --> 00:33:24,360 Speaker 1: Not rebounding, and to some extent they'll be right.